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My clutch pedal has VANISHED!
Switching back and forth between driving manual and auto-tranny cars is sort of like learning to type on a Dvorak-layout keyboard which has been rigged to explode and blow your hands off if you make a typo.
Other interesting things I've discovered lately: capri pants (you know, those calf-length ones) fit me like normal pants. On the one hand, this makes buying pants much easier -- having a rather unusual (to be polite about it) waist-to-inseam ration has always made it hard to find pants that fit me in the waist without being way too long in the leg. On the other hand, it's embarrassing. But as long as capri pants continue to be in style, pants shopping just got a lot less challenging, at least so long as nobody notices the little telltale slits at the sides of the legs that mark them as capri pants.
Our house still hasn't burned down, though at times I'm despairing of actually managing to move into it before winter. The fire has now burned nearly 500,000 acres and has its own website located here to keep residents updated. The place the Fire Service maps have labeled as "Fox" (about 12 miles southwest of the fire) is approximately where our house is. (Fox is the name of the town, although it's unincorporated and has no actual legal status; it's part of Fairbanks.)
Other interesting things I've discovered lately: capri pants (you know, those calf-length ones) fit me like normal pants. On the one hand, this makes buying pants much easier -- having a rather unusual (to be polite about it) waist-to-inseam ration has always made it hard to find pants that fit me in the waist without being way too long in the leg. On the other hand, it's embarrassing. But as long as capri pants continue to be in style, pants shopping just got a lot less challenging, at least so long as nobody notices the little telltale slits at the sides of the legs that mark them as capri pants.
Our house still hasn't burned down, though at times I'm despairing of actually managing to move into it before winter. The fire has now burned nearly 500,000 acres and has its own website located here to keep residents updated. The place the Fire Service maps have labeled as "Fox" (about 12 miles southwest of the fire) is approximately where our house is. (Fox is the name of the town, although it's unincorporated and has no actual legal status; it's part of Fairbanks.)
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The length of time that a wildfire burns is totally variable. Sometimes they smolder along for months. But it's very rare for one to threaten inhabited areas for as long as this one has. Usually if a fire starts getting into subdivisions, they throw enough manpower at it to contain and extinguish it, or at least get it headed in a less dangerous direction. I can't remember a fire-threat situation lasting this long before.
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Your driving analogy makes me giggle. :P
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(Anonymous) 2004-07-26 01:00 am (UTC)(link)My wife and I both drive Mazda Proteges--they're about the only small cars with enough legroom for her. (She's 5'10", and it's all leg. She actually has the opposite problem that Layla does--all pants look like capris on her.)
Anyway, my car has a stick shift and hers has an automatic. I'm constantly fishing for the clutch when I drive her car. Fortunately, I've only stalled mine out once or twice by leaving it in gear when I come to a stop sign. I't pretty embarrasing when I do that, though.
"Acoustic" Rob Vines
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