Same here - I lower the seatbelt connector & crank up the seat height, and the seatbelt still migrates above-boobs instead of between-boobs. And I’m 5'7"!

This was the first time I’ve seen one of the roller derby blogs I used to follow crash into one of the car blogs I follow. What goes around, comes around - for wheel.

My mom missed having a sporty car with a manual transmission, so in the early 90s, she bought a used silver Fiero. The car had 2 seats & she had 3 kids, two of which were teenagers. I have so many memories of her driving my brother & I somewhere, with him sitting in the seat, with a seatbelt, and me crouching on the…

I had to do this once on a business trip - I had a bottle of wine, but no corkscrew. I used my shoe heel as a hammer & a hotel pen as a nail, and popped the cork into the bottle. I got the idea from Season 1 of House of Cards. It worked, but was way messier than ‘as seen on TV’.

Design peeve, more than car peeve: my friend just moved into a new-new neighborhood. The neighborhood designers put in roundabouts! That are also 4-way stops.

I forgot about Chipotle! Based on this not-sponsored post (nudge, nudge), I just ordered a burrito.

Serious question - what restaurant were you at in Austin when you got the news?

I stopped drinking for a while & kombucha was the best for social functions. A lot of bars in town here have it on tap, so it made going out more fun. If you bring your own somewhere, try to drink it out of a glass & not directly from the bottle - kombucha in the bottle usually smells pretty strong, but is lovely over…