14 March, 2018
A month or so back, my 16-year-old daughter had another car accident. This was her second within a six month period, as a consequence of which I tool her car away (for the second time) and this time also took her off my insurance (before the insurance company likely dropped her themselves) – which really […]
Tags: car, driving, insurance
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18 September, 2016
So, although – as I suspected – switching to a new, subdued gray car from a bright yellow one has significantly reduced the number of speeding tickets I get (none in the two years I’ve had it, vs. one a year in the yellow car), it does seem to have increased the number of people […]
Tags: car, driving, police
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21 February, 2016
Well, I guess it was inevitable, but I finally earned myself another traffic ticket. This is almost 3 years after my last ticket, which is a personal record, so I guess I can’t complain. But, surprise, surprise, it wasn’t for speeding! Which itself is a minor miracle, as I was going 85 mph as I […]
Tags: car, commuting, driving, police
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14 September, 2014
So I finally bought myself a new car. And a new, new car at that; it had exactly 2 miles on the clock when I bought it. This is the first car (out of 9) that I’ve bought that wasn’t pre-owned. It will probably also be the only new car I buy, as I intend […]
Tags: car, driving, police, Sirius
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12 January, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I was at Reliant Stadium for a football game. This weekend I was back at the same venue for an entirely different type of ‘sporting’ event – a monster truck rally. This is actually my fourth or fifth, but I hasten to add that it has always been for the […]
Tags: driving, events
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29 June, 2008
After four months on my new project, I finally got the chance to travel beyond my cubicle. All the way to our refinery at ‘beautiful’ Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We’re implementing (among other things) a new dock management system, and I had to go and train some of the users on how to use it. The […]
Tags: driving, food, safety, travel
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6 December, 2007
So last week, coming back from the Black Angels gig, I got pulled over by the police. I shouldn’t be surprised – I seem to average one ticket a year, and I’d made it to December (actually, November 30th) without getting a ticket so it was about time. What was a surprise is that this […]
Tags: driving, police
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11 May, 2007
This commute is killing me. A couple of nights ago it took me an hour and 40 minutes to get home from work. For a 20-mile journey, on a single stretch of motorway – the infamous I-10 (a.k.a. the Katy Freeway). That’s an average of 12 mph – which just shows that the police are […]
Tags: commuting, driving, police
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3 May, 2006
OK, I’ve now been in Belgium for over a year, so I think I’m qualified to make a few comments without being dismissed as a ‘newbie’ who needs to learn to adapt. There are some aspects of driving in Belgium that I just can’t adapt to. Three of them, in fact: (1) Giving way to […]
Tags: Belgium, driving
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9 March, 2006
My car sprang a fairly serious oil leak (to the point where it was getting through oil faster than petrol, and I was leaving a trail all down the road). I’d noticed the oil light flashing on and off when I drove into work on Friday morning. So I topped it up with a gallon […]
Tags: car, driving, paranoia, police
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