FTR, the recipe I used for today's proof of concept coffee popsicle:

3T water 2t sugar 1t instant espresso

Bring to a boil, whisk together. Add

1T cream

Whisk. Refrigerate until cool. Pour in molds. Freeze. Yum.

Going forward, I plan on using cold-brewed coffee concentrate and I will experiment with Splenda, but pretty much keep the proportions the same. Well, probably go up to a full 1/4 C of coffee concentrate, the 3T version was a little scant in the mold.

Fella's a good boy dealing with a lot of change. He forgot he was afraid of me a couple of times, that was nice! Walter is now sacked out on his own doggy bed.

However, despite ND having owned two keyless cars, a quick random look at car features didn't show any mandatory keyless models (you can get Focus with or without) or that many with even the option. Keys may have an expiry date, but being mortal and being dying are two different nuances.

I'm pretty certain that the entire BMW product line is now keyless, they just use the transponder, at the lowest end you have to dock it, but not use it like a key.

The entire Prius line uses transponders.

Most Chrysler products (Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge) use a hybrid. There is no actual key, but you still put it into a slot and turn it like a key. Some of them are moving towards keyless and start buttons.

Kia and Hyundai both offer keyless push button start as an option on most of their product lines.

Those are the ones I know off the top of my head.

Ok, why are all my favorite story programs (The Signal, Snap Judgement) making me bawl today?

Just finished part one of margarita-fueled cleaning. I find this amusing to do once it gets to the point in the seasons where I work up a sweat. Sadly, part 2 comes tomorrow morning, and that's a little early for me to hit the sauce, even for cleaning. Especially since so much shit didn't get done today, despite my best efforts.

I have succeeded in achieving no litterboxes on the first floor. Hopefully, I can get it down to just one upstairs, since I don't currently have any protest poopers, that I know of, but proceeding slowly.

Eating market asparagus and shiitakes that I added a smidge of red wine to when sautee-ing the 'shrooms. Tastier than last week!

On to the next task...

If you have to dock the transponder, I don't consider it keyless. I mean, it's not a traditional key but if I can't leave it in my purse, it's not keyless.

Mom just got a new Prius and is very pleased. I just lent her one of my iPods because she's travelling for the next ten days, driving and can't figure out where her audiobooks of all of the Harry Potters are and I have them on it. Totally love the integration. Except I think I might have just lost custody of my iPod. And a cord because hers was making the audio stutter. I should maybe go price some refurbished ones for her. And find one of my spare cords because it's one of my charging areas that I use almost daily. Still, I am a tech god to her *and* hooked her up with Harry Potter, so go me.

I have succeeded in achieving no litterboxes on the first floor. Hopefully, I can get it down to just one upstairs, since I don't currently have any protest poopers, that I know of, but proceeding slowly.

Nice!

I have two boxes and one cat but she's had zero litterbox issues here and they're side-by-side (one World's Best and one non-clumping clay) so we're keeping them.

It is so smoky outside. If this is one of the fires I know about, it's very bad. If it's one I don't know about, it's also bad because our fire crews are already spread way too thin battling awful conditions.

So by your tally, ND, one company has killed the key. I still feel comfortable that although the key will not survive, the steering wheel is just making it look like less of an outlier by virtue of utter confusion. It's not dying like the CD player is dying (and I think it's easy to over-estimate the number of people who are handy with non-CD music purchasing--my parents will likely drive keyless cars before they play MP3s in a car without extensive lessons--they don't own MP3s anywhere, on anything, right now). If Prius is the only company that doesn't have a shove something in and turn it option anywhere on the menu, we're not that far along. Everyone knows Priuses are spaceships with wheels.

It would be interesting to see what the take up rate is on the keyless option on cars that offer it. I know that most of the Focus and Fiesta models I have had as loaners have it. I believe only the absolute base model uses a key.

I also wonder what percentage of models offer it. Jetta's my go to calibration, and it seems to have been an option since 2012.

The Tesla Model S only comes keyless, I think.

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I love my keyless Focus. But once I rented a keyed Focus and every time I got in I would try to press the nonexistent Start button

My car still has only a tape deck. I no longer have any tapes.

I know I'm in for a real shock when I have to replace this car. Which, I should start test driving things, so I'm not completely clueless. I know me. I will not preemptively replace said car before I hit a repair estimate that leads me to replace it. Which will mean a rental while I shop. Would be so much better if I had an idea what I wanted to replace it with. Things have changed quite a bit in the last 13 years (well, 16, if you count the car vintage.) Moreso than what had changed from '88-2000 (I bought my '88 sentra in 95 or so?)