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  1. donavannj
    February 18th, 2012 11:07 PM
    donavannj
    I drive one of my parents' 3 cars they own. They have a '98 Ford Windstar (the thing is very old and isn't in the best of shape outside or in - had to pay to replace the transmission last February out of my own pocket), a 2003 Ford Escape (about 130,000 miles on it), and a 2002 Chevy Suburban (about 140,000 miles on it - we bought it used 5 years ago). My brother, due to it having the lowest insurance costs in the event he manages to get in a crash, drives the Windstar most often, though that used to be primarily mine when he didn't have his license. I primarily drive the Windstar if it's available (since my parents would like someone who actually pays attention to how it's running to drive it every once in a while), but lately I've been driving either the Escape or the Suburban (because my parents have confidence in my driving skills - I've been licensed for 3 1/2 years now and I've been driving for 6 1/4 years since I got my permit). I'm saving up for something of my own, though, since the Windstar won't be around for more than 5 years most likely, if we're lucky.
  2. donavannj
    February 18th, 2012 8:46 PM
    donavannj
    I don't either. Except when the major highways go through a town.

    Slamming on your brakes is also rough on your car, too.
  3. donavannj
    February 18th, 2012 7:42 PM
    donavannj
    55 is perfectly fine. If you were going too slow (as in, maybe 10 miles under) you might be at risk of causing an accident due to an inattentive driver behind you not noticing you soon enough. You usually want to go whatever the speed limit is on a highway, otherwise you're doing the same thing as the drivers who speed (recklessly endangering other drivers due to not going the same speed as other traffic).

    There are lots of illegal ones they apparently do (and I've seen a lot of drivers do some of these). One of those is rolling through a stop sign (illegal, but a freaking lot of people do it). Another is over-inflating their tires (safety hazard because of risk of having a blown tire and causing an accident). If you slow down enough for a stoplight that you know is rarely red, you may be able to not have to come to a complete stop before the light changes back to green, thus saving you some fuel costs since your engine won't have to pull you from a dead stop.
  4. Sammi
    February 18th, 2012 6:29 PM
    Sammi
    Yeah, I imagine that's really hard if there's a lot of applicants.

    Cars are just a pain. You have to pay for them, and insurance, and gas, and maintenance...
  5. donavannj
    February 18th, 2012 5:46 PM
    donavannj
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermiling

    A lot of the stuff they practice is unsafe, but the core stuff that EVERYONE should do is keep within the speed limit (since most cars have an optimum fuel-efficiency peak at about 40MPH, and it kind of rockets downhill when going any faster than that, especially over 60 MPH) and slow down well before a stoplight/stop sign that is changing from green to red instead of slamming on the brakes right at the intersection (but not too early or too slow, as that is also unsafe). Also, keep your tires properly inflated, but don't over-inflate them. That's a safety risk (you could easily blow a tire if it's over-inflated) and also wears the tires down very fast.
  6. Alice
    February 18th, 2012 5:45 PM
    Alice
    It worked on my end. It says I had you blocked for some reason? How is that possible. lol
  7. Alice
    February 18th, 2012 5:39 PM
    Alice
    Oh wait, I'm stupid. I just restarted the program and it was saved in the login box. lol

    Anyway, mine is: [email protected]
  8. Alice
    February 18th, 2012 5:38 PM
    Alice
    How do I figure out which email I used? haha
  9. butterbiscuit
    February 18th, 2012 5:23 PM
    butterbiscuit
    Well, not really. It's going to take a while to work up the money anyway, so I'll just wait until then to browse around. Prices will have changed by then, so I don't wanna count my chickens before they hatch. (If I'm using that expression right... xD)
  10. donavannj
    February 18th, 2012 5:19 PM
    donavannj
    It helps me half-heartedly experiment with hyper-miling (I have to rush to places far too often for me to be able to practice hyper-miling all the time).

    I ran a lot of errands for my parents in high school. I also had to drive to the largest town in my county for my first class of the day my senior year (it was a computer class at a vo-tech school).
  11. butterbiscuit
    February 18th, 2012 4:55 PM
    butterbiscuit
    School, lots of busy little occasions, and I'm trying to work up money to get a laptop that's not five years old. xD
  12. donavannj
    February 18th, 2012 4:44 PM
    donavannj
    I like them. Good for fuel economy since you don't always have to stop at one.

    I get around to the various downtowns since a) the libraries of each city are in them, b) in many towns, the main roads run through downtown (one of the only towns where that isn't the case is mine, but my town's downtown is the biggest in terms of city blocks taken up), c) the various government centers are in downtowns of these towns, and d) the downtown areas of these towns have interesting places in them, such as video game shops and libraries.
  13. donavannj
    February 18th, 2012 4:22 PM
    donavannj
    My town had a single roundabout (by the high school) when I had my permit (really helped traffic keep moving over there since the middle school is right behind the high school from the main roads), and I also helped my grandmother move one day by driving over 150 miles in a single day (from my house to her apartment to her new house really far away and then back again) in a Chevy Suburban with my dad as my passenger.

    Most towns in my county have quaint yet interesting downtowns. There are a lot of interesting shops in my town's downtown area. Though to go to any hobby shops, we do have to leave the county (but barely have to go more than a mile over the county line to find one).
  14. donavannj
    February 18th, 2012 3:18 PM
    donavannj
    I learned to drive one while I still had my permit.

    The three biggest towns all have a Target. Being on the edge of suburbia means that the one in the town furthest from here (the second biggest) is the least busy of the three because there are 4 other Target stores within 10 miles of it. Two have a hospital (which has its headquaters and main campus in my town). The largest is the county seat. Though only the three towns in the east of the county have bus service into the metro area.
  15. Charizard★
    February 18th, 2012 12:54 PM
    Charizard★
    Subiendo paredes los dos.

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Posted May 16th, 2014 at 9:12 AM by -Jared- Comments 0
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So I am house sitting now! A friend of the family is on vacation for two months so I am house sitting for them! I get to be by myself (or with my boyfriend, when he gets here) and it'll be awesome haha. I have already set up my computer and our room, and right now I am just chilling with the dog. :P

I have been looking forward to this for a couple months so I am pumped that is is finally happening. :)

Posted May 7th, 2014 at 10:20 AM by -Jared- Comments 0
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This. This is what I am talking about. So freaking pumped.

Posted April 26th, 2013 at 6:27 PM by -Jared- Comments 2
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Alright, so I was talking with my vicar yesterday and she mentioned how she journals, and how she journals every day and how she was taught that she should write three whole pages every day. Now that seems a bit ambitious to me, but I figured I can adapt it to something more fun and accessible. So I am gonna try to write a blog entry every day (or other day since my schedule is wonky.) I will try to be entertaining for you all but this will likely be more along the lines of just venting or complaining...

Posted April 21st, 2013 at 1:48 PM by -Jared- Comments 5
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So, it has been a while PC. Quite a long while, really. So I have a lot of stuff that I would probably have blogged about had I been active, and I kinda want to share them, but I am just gonna relegate them to bullet points for now. Also, forgive me if some of this stuff is stuff you already know because I can't remember where exactly I left off with all of you.

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