Not ridiculous if your foot hurts.
I miss driving stick. It's how I learned to drive and, to me, just more fun. Not enough to motivate me to buy a different car, though.
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Apr 21, 2014 6:01:47 am PDT #25770 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - Apr 21, 2014 6:03:27 am PDT #25771 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hoping I'm drawing migraine pain away from you, giving you some relief.
Aww, that's nice. Don't take it all on, though! I'm a trained professional on a closed track.
When does Elementary come back? I miss it.
Amy - Apr 21, 2014 6:05:10 am PDT #25772 of 30000
Because books.
I think I was supposed to see it coming that my unemployment just ran out, but I didn't. So ... that happened.
Tom Scola - Apr 21, 2014 6:06:40 am PDT #25773 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Connie Neil - Apr 21, 2014 6:32:56 am PDT #25774 of 30000
brillig
I can drive stick on the flat, but my world involves hills with inconvenient stop lights. I don't need the grief.
juliana - Apr 21, 2014 7:07:54 am PDT #25775 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I drive stick, in SF. I certainly don't judge those who would rather drive an automatic, but after riding a motorcycle for so long, I needed something to keep me grounded in the "we are driving now!" world. (I also learned how to drive in a manual '79 Volvo, aka a Swedish tank with no power steering. Driving a new automatic is way too relaxing for me.)
Steph L. - Apr 21, 2014 7:11:56 am PDT #25776 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Man, the internet is magic. I can track Tim's cousin in the Boston Marathon. Right now, he's run 30K in 1:59. Because he is the goddamn FLASH.
Last year he ran the marathon in 2:31 and finished 225th. Overall, not in his age bracket or whatever. I like to think that all you could see when he ran was comic-book "speed" lines, followed by the word WHOOSH!!!
The page I'm tracking him on shows his miles/hour at each split, and he's just getting faster as he goes. At 5K he was running 10.5 miles/hour, and at 30K he was running 8.3 miles/hour.
t edit Wait. I did that math totally backwards. Durrr. Still, 8.3 miles/hours ain't too shabby.
SUPERHERO.
lisah - Apr 21, 2014 7:28:56 am PDT #25777 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
My feelings are the same as ita's w/r/t driving stick. Why make things unnecessarily harder? I'd only learn at this point if we were going someplace and renting a car and the only option was to get a stick shift.
sumi - Apr 21, 2014 7:42:13 am PDT #25778 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Or if you were going on TAR.
lisah - Apr 21, 2014 7:46:05 am PDT #25779 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Exactly, sumi!!!!