Posts Tagged ‘driving’

Brain Dump 01

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants, WordPress

One of my goals for this year is to write more here; so while I don’t have a sin­gle idea that feels wor­thy of a full post, here’s a dump of var­i­ous things float­ing around/through my skull today. Is today stu­pid dri­ving day or some­thing? I’ll grant I left for work a few min­utes later than […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 19, 2012

Winter Weather Driving Tips

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Given the num­ber of intellectually-challenged per­sons I had to drive around to get home over lunch today1, I fig­ured it was long past time to write up my best win­ter weather dri­ving tips. If the weather looks worse than you feel com­fort­able dri­ving in, then don’t.  Stay home and save the rest of us some headaches. […]

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Read more | Comments (3) | Jan 12, 2009

People need to learn to drive!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

I don’t know if it’s because I was extra-tired & cranky this morn­ing but it seemed like every­body for­got the basic safety rules of the road today. Let’s start with the bicy­clist who cut me off. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for shar­ing the road and I know cycling myself, but I also know […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 17, 2006

Trying to lose my business?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Back in April, we bought a new car from Carousel Motors. And until yes­ter­day, it’s been great. I let me explain… Yes­ter­day, I went home for my lunch hour. When my time was up, I went down to the car to get back to work. The car unlocked and started up with­out any prob­lems. What […]

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Read more | Comments (5) | Jun 20, 2006

Daaaaang, that’s loaded!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Today, I have to travel to my company’s home office to teach a class. The day before I’m sup­posed to drive over I find I’ve got a voice mail. As I do 99.9999% of my job either via emails, IMs or F2F, this in itself was extremely odd. Then I lis­tened to the mes­sage and […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 26, 2006

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