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I am not currently in the market for a new car. Let's start by saying that.

(Yes, I know that I said the other day that I was not buying a new computer and I am waiting for one last part to show up to be able to assemble my new computer. A car is not a computer. The criteria for buying one are completely different. Shush.)

Anyway, I like to know what car I would go out and buy if I needed to replace my car today. I have only had that happen once in my life (so far) and that was over 30 years ago, but it is good to keep up on my research so that I'm ready just in case.

I have a 2016 Ford Edge with about 42K miles on it, because I don't drive nearly as much now that I work from home. I can drive this car for a long time if nothing catastrophic happens. Or if one of the kids needs a car (*needs*, not *wants*), I could give the Edge to them and buy a new car for Dad.

I like my Edge a lot. I wish it were a hybrid, but that wasn't an option. I could replace it with another new Edge, except Ford has discontinued the Edge, except in China. Since I am not in China, that is not extremely helpful. The Lincoln twin of the Edge, the Lincoln Nautilus, is still available, but is decked out in 42 frufru ways and priced to match. The "choice of smell" dispenser is particularly choice.

There is no other Ford that suits me, which means that it is time to investigate other manufacturers.

Now, part of the problem in buying a car is that -- aside from being fat -- most of my height is in my torso, which means that I do not generally fit in cars that have a moon roof, because my head is now meeting the roof in an unpleasant way. In most models of car, there is no space to give for a moon roof. Heck, in a lot of models of car, there's just no space for my head. I remember trying to get in and out of a Chevy Impala a few years back. That was an experience. A Tesla would be cool, but getting in under that roof line on a regular basis is simply not going to happen, as I discovered once when I had a chance to test drive one.

One of the leading candidates has been the Toyota Highlander. I'd probably fit pretty well in that and although the third row would spend most of its life folded down, there are occasions when it would be useful. And there's a hybrid model.

Highlanders, however, are in ludicrously short supply. You pretty much have to buy one sight unseen to get it. The pricing is right in line with the supply. I have stock in Toyota, so I suppose I should congratulate management on their supply chain management, but it's sort of annoying when you're looking at buying one. And if I needed one *today*, getting one would be a crap shoot.

Also, I would have to check if I can drive one with a moon roof. I can't manage it in a Sienna, which is a bad sign. And no moon roof means that you are buying at the bottom of the line, which is better for price, but not as good for features. As I get older, I discover that there are upgraded features that I like to have in a car that don't show up in the base models.

I went to Texas Roadhouse for lunch over the weekend and as I was pulling out of the lot, I noticed an unusual looking car, which meant it was time to find out what it was. It turns out that it is a new Hyundai Santa Fe, which they redesigned last year, copying pretty much everything they could from a Range Rover. I got to ride in my brother's Range Rover when I was visiting down in Texas this year. It is a nice car. It is also an *expensive* car.

(I enjoy visiting Mitch, but it is *amazing* how I head home with an urge to spend money because of the various cool things I've seen. :) )

Anyway, I checked the specs last night on line and found that the headroom with a moon roof was supposed to be the same as the headroom in my Edge. That looked promising. And the Santa Fe is a hybrid, gets good mileage, and is a good bit cheaper than either a Range Rover or a Nautilus. Or even the hard-to-get Highlander.

I saw that our local Hyundai dealer had a good supply of Santa Fes in stock and was about five minutes away from where I had lunch, so I drove over today and got a chance to sit in one of them.

I fit.

And the cabin is pretty well outfitted. I'd have to see how it drives.

But it's a good target car.

I am, however, only shopping, because I like my Ford Edge.

Stop snickering.
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This is not an immediate problem, but it is a problem that I may have a year plus from now, so naturally, I am choosing to worry about it now.

In May 2025, if everything goes according to plan, K will graduate from high school and will start college. At that point, it may be really helpful if she has access to her own car, depending on where she is going to college, which is something that is still on the list of things that we don't know about.

Now, if K needs a car, I could buy her a used car. Or I could pass her my Ford Edge, which will be about seven years old with low mileage and which (as my dad used to say) will surround the child with plenty of steel.

At which point I could buy myself a new car. (Aha!) All things being equal, what I'd really like to buy is a hybrid Ford Edge. But by that time, there will still not be a hybrid Ford Edge. In fact, it looks like there will not be a Ford Edge at all, as the model is supposed to be discontinued. Exactly why Ford is doing this is unclear, as the number of Edges that I see on the road in the Chicago area is huge. But here we are.

So what I'd like to have is a small hybrid SUV with no moonroof (because I don't fit in cars with a moonroof) which is bigger than a Ford Escape, because the Escape will not hold enough cargo and passengers once a guitar is involved. Right now, the contender would be a hybrid Toyota Highlander.

But maybe there's something I haven't found yet.

Or maybe there will be something in 2025. Who knows?

The only thing that is certain is that this discussion will make Gretchen crazy.
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As soon as we both are dressed and ready, Gretchen and I will head out to Indianapolis to recover the repaired minivan. We are greatly looking forward to being a two-car family again. :)
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We are hoping to get the minivan back from the body shop this week. In the meantime, we keep shuffling around with the single car. Today, this meant that Gretchen and I went out for lunch. Then I dropped her off for her PT appointment, went home, picked up K, dropped her off for driving lessons, went back and picked up Gretchen from PT, and then went back home to work.

Normally, Gretchen would be doing the majority of this driving. I am developing increasing sympathy for her complaints of spending all of her time in the car...
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Apparently, I misunderstood the repair shop. If things go according to plan, we will get the van back in two weeks.

Ah, well.
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I had hopes of getting the van back tomorrow, but, unless we get a call early in the morning, that won't be happening. Of course, an early morning call remains possible and we are prepared to drop everything and drive south to recover the van. We'll see.

I had plans to take the Edge in to take care of a couple of minor recalls right after Marcon, but that hasn't happened since it has been the only car and you don't take the only car to the shop for recalls unless the car is massively unsafe when you don't do them. When I get the van back, this is going to get taken care of.

Meanwhile, today some spammer decided to forge my email address as the source of his bogus Netflix email with the result that I got all of the bounce messages from the addresses that no longer worked, along with three angry emails from people who didn't realize that spammers forge email addresses in the headers. Oh, joy.

Ah, well. Let's see what happens tomorrow.

Maybe I'll get a call to come pick up the van. :)
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Let's start with the bottom line, which is the important thing. All of the human beings involved are fine.

The new minivan is not. On the way back from Marcon, we stopped to grab dinner with the Midkiffs, drop off their kids (who were in the other vehicle), and grab dinner. The restaurant was lovely, but the kitchen was clearly having some problems, so dinner ran quite long, and it was dusk and moving into dark by the time we got on the road. We were going to take SR 38 north to get back to I-65, because that's a much faster way to go.

And it is. If you do not hit a deer crossing the road.

The deer was small and caught the front and right bumper. It continued and was probably ok. The van, not so much. It went into safe mode and I crawled along until I could find a place to pull over, flashers on. Randy (the other vehicle in the dinner party that was heading north) realized it was us, stopped, and came over to take a look. The radiator was clearly leaking fluid, so the van was going nowhere far tonight. I limped it back to the Midkiffs. We agreed that K could go home with Randy and Leah's party, while I would stay behind, as it appeared that the local Chrysler dealership service department was open on Monday and could possibly fix the radiator so I could get home for the required body work.

I called my insurance claims department. They also told me that I had coverage for a rental car from Enterprise, which was likely to be a very good thing, and they set up things so I could pick up a car in the area if I needed it to drive home.

The problem was that between the two of us, all of the information exchanged ended up being incorrect.

The dealership service department was closed for Memorial Day, so there was no question of getting the van repaired on Monday, but we had already arranged to have it towed there and had nowhere better to take it, because I couldn't call the insurance company to update the claim, because the updating claim department was closed for the night. I made an appointment with them using their automated phone robot for a callback at 9:15 AM in the hope of figuring out what to do.

They didn't call because (Greek chorus) It Was Memorial Day.

Ok, the van is at the dealership. They are going to look at it on Tuesday, but I am not going to hang around until Tuesday. Let's get the rental car that I have been promised from Enterprise.

That cannot be done because they are closed. (Greek chorus) It Was Memorial Day.

We recognized the night before that things were FUBAR when I couldn't get hold of the claims department for a second time, and I tentatively asked and Jen agreed that they already figured that there was some substantial chance that they would need to get me home. I *greatly* appreciated this.

So I headed north with Jen in her van. She agreed to drive 2/3 of the distance and meet up with Gretchen in Hobart, Indiana, just north of Merrillville. The conversation was good, the traffic was a mess, but we eventually arrived at a well-known McDonald's, had some lunch, swapped luggage, and I reclaimed my car from Gretchen. We also ended up handing off a box full of DVDs and other things that might be of interest to Jen's grandnieces, who are the right age for the things in the box, unlike all of the other children in our circle, so that was a very good thing.

I am *very* grateful for the place to stay last night and the ride home and that no one was hurt.

Tomorrow, I expect that I am going to start receiving and making a great many phone calls, as neither I nor the van are where the insurance company expects us to be.

And I'm going to have to see about getting a car for Gretchen to drive...
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It turns out that I can look at my daily energy usage from ComEd with my smartphone. What I see when I look at that is that my energy usage has gone up by around $3 / day starting a week ago yesterday, which is (by no coincidence) when the new plug-in hybrid van arrived at the house and started being plugged in to recharge.

So for about the current cost of a gallon of gas each day, we're getting a hypothetical 31 miles of electric range. Overall, this is a good thing.
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We -- ok, I -- ended up making a Culver's run this evening to pick up food for the kids. Since my car was out on the driveway and covered in snow/sleet/whatever in a thin crust, I suggested that I wanted to take Gretchen's new van on this mission. She was fine with this, as long as it meant that she didn't have to go.

This gave me an opportunity to drive the van in functional hybrid mode for the first time, since it had been completely discharged on the trip home. It was interesting, but not really any different from having the gasoline engine running full time, which is mostly what I expected. But it was fun watching the little lights on the dash count down...

It's becoming apparent that I'm going to want to get a 240V charger once things sort out. Even sitting overnight won't put a full charge on the van unless it is an extremely long overnight. And what I see is that our overnights are not that long. :)

In other technology news, some time ago I bought a register fan for K's room with the intent of installing it there to improve the air circulation so that the room isn't freezing in winter. Then I couldn't get her to do it. But the weather recently turned cold and the fan was installed by K while I wasn't paying attention. I am told that the room is warmer now, so those of you who wanted to know if this would help can now know that the answer is "Yes".

This is probably a good thing, because the first gas bill of the almost-winter season arrived today and it was annoyingly high. Since it hasn't been that cold yet, I'm thinking that we are going to need to make sure that the doors stay closed, no matter what Ruby the Dog might prefer.
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Gretchen got to drive the new van today and is getting used to it.

On the other hand, I have *got* to get the other side of the garage cleaned out, because parking a minivan in front of the steps down into the garage turns out not to be our best choice. Things are just a *bit* tight.

I will see how much cooperation I can get this weekend.
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It is almost five years to the day since I bought my Ford Edge. There is now a newer car in the family, as we have traded in Gretchen's minivan for a new Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid Touring L.

I got to drive the car home from the dealership and then to dinner tonight, so Gretchen's maiden voyage will be tomorrow morning taking Julie to school. By then, the hybrid battery should be mostly charged up, as I have parked her car in my spot in the garage so that she has access to power.

I am now *strongly* incented to get the other side of the garage cleaned out. Maybe this weekend...
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Today, we will explain why Bill and Gretchen failed in their attempt to buy a new minivan this evening.

The current minivan contenders are the Toyota Sienna and the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid. Both of these are hybrids, but the latter is a plug-in hybrid, which qualifies it for a $7500 Federal tax credit. In what is almost certainly not a coincidence, that is almost exactly the price difference between the hybrid and non-hybrid models.

Aside from the Sienna not qualifying for a tax credit and not being able to soak up electrons from a wall socket, there is also the problem that everything except the base trim line is ordered with a sunroof. There are some options on the mid-line trim that I would be willing to pay for, but since I do not actually fit in a van with a sunroof (all of my height being in my torso), I cannot get them in a minivan that I can drive in any sensible fashion.

This is not totally disqualifying when looking for a Sienna. The fact that none are actually available, however, is more of a problem.

The Pacifica Hybrid's lowest trim line is actually one trim line up from the bottom for the Pacifica line, so it has the features that I generally want and it is possible to find these without a sunroof. Also, dealers have Pacifica Hybrids in stock.

There is a dealer not too far from our home whose name rhymes with "Stapleton" that has, in the past, advertised some decent discounts on minivans. That's where I went for a test drive two years ago, early in pandemic season. Sadly, Gretchen was not ready to buy a new minivan then, so we didn't. But I periodically poke their website to see what's happening there.

When I poked their website a few days ago, they were advertising new Pacifica Hybrid minivans at an "ePrice" that was a bit less than 10% off MSRP. In the current environment, that's a good looking price, as the best I've seen anywhere else is about 5% off MSRP. A lot of the dealers aren't discounting at all or are discounting by the amount of the $750 Chrysler financing rebate.

After discussing this with Gretchen this afternoon and doing some research, we decided to see if it was time to buy a new minivan. TLDR; no, apparently not.

I sent a request for today's price to the dealership and got a call back from a nice young woman who confirmed that the only rebate included in the quoted price was the $750 Chrysler financing rebate. Having determined that, I made an appointment for Gretchen and I to go in for a test drive this evening.

The fellow who was helping us at the dealership was not the person who we'd booked an appointment with, but he was a nice enough guy. It turned out that they had at least one more Pacifica Hybrid that was available in a different color at $300 / $600 more than the gray and black vans on the website. We did a test drive around the lot with the gray van, which handled well. (We could have driven further, but Gretchen did not want to leave the lot in an unfamiliar neighborhood at night, which I sympathize with.)

Back in we went to discuss terms. I explained that if the third minivan cost $300 more than the other, I would be willing to pay that for the color that we liked better, but otherwise, we could just get one of the others. He said that shouldn't be a problem.

And then he came back with paperwork which instead of including a discount -- or even the $750 Chrysler financing rebate -- had a market adjustment upward of $10,000 in price. We were also getting slightly low-balled on the trade-in of the old van, although maybe not by a lot.

I then pulled out the piece of paper from my pocket with the information that I had carefully copied from the website that indicated that they were discounting these vans, not marking them up. Fun and games followed.

I signed a more-or-less offer to buy a minivan for the advertised price. He took it in and the next "manager" came out and started explaining about market scarcity and such.

I asked for my key back and we left to get dinner.

When we got home, there was a message on my answering machine asking me to call back. I got a fellow who explained how we didn't qualify for the ePrice on line, even though the woman that I had spoken to when making the appointment had said that we did. And these vans are in short supply.

I suggested that he should sell the van to someone who needed to buy a van today. I also noted that this made me feel better about not buying the van two years ago for the excellent on-line price, because I apparently wouldn't have gotten it at that price then either.

And that was that.

So Bill and Gretchen have yet to buy a new van.

On the other hand, since we cleaned out the van before going to the dealership, the interior is now in much better shape. :)
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Today's plan involved assorted Midkiffs and Ropers meeting assorted Romans at the Bristol Renaissance Faire. Jen had originally thought to leave directly from Bristol, but I suggested to her that she had expressed some concern about leaving her harp in a hot car for multiple hours and that stopping back at our house to load it up would only add a small amount of time to the adventure while removing the need to worry about the harp. She thought that sounded quite reasonable and so we set out with three people in my car and four in Jen's, heading over to the local McDonald's to grab some drinks and such on the way out.

After we pulled through the drive-through, I got a call from Jen. Her driver's side window had fallen and couldn't get up, although it was making some remarkable noises while trying. I suggested that we drive back to my house and sort this out. Clearly, it might be possible to tape up her window with plastic or something, but it was high on the list of not very satisfactory solutions. I asked if I could call up our local mechanic and see if he could look at it and Jen said to go ahead. He was able to take the van in, so we dropped it off over there for repairs.

I was thinking that we could take my car and Gretchen's van up to Bristol and she could find a way to get to Jen's car when it was done, but Gretchen pointed out that her minivan would actually carry seven, which was the number of people that we needed to take, so I ended up driving her van up there with everyone in it, which was a far better plan than I had had in mind.

It was a miserably hot day at Bristol except when a breeze came through. The breezes were wonderful. Had they been constant, I would have been *much* cooler.

But everyone had fun running around, shopping, firing/throwing various weapons, and watching shows. I drank a *lot* of water. :)

My mechanic was able to fix the window, so Jen and the assorted Midkiffs were able to proceed home with a working window, which was a substantial improvement over the alternative.

And they have reported in as safely home, so we can all go to sleep now.

It was a fun couple of days. We'll have to do it again some time.
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Got up early today for softball practice. The second half was a scrimmage with one of the other local teams, which was a good learning experience for everyone.

Ordered a new garbage disposal from Home Depot. Went to pick it up and discovered that they had canceled the order, because it was out of stock. They had called the home phone while I was out to tell us this instead of sending an email; then when I went to check status on the email it said that *I* had canceled the order. I suggested -- in my capacity as a customer and a professional programmer -- that the UI for this left something to be desired. I went to check and there were none of this disposal on the shelf, so I ended up buying a more expensive one after determining that I wasn't about to get one cheaper anywhere else. Ah, well.

Yesterday, I checked online and found that the minivan that I have been stalking is back on sale again, the rebates having returned. Gretchen still isn't up for replacing the current minivan, so this was simply a matter of keeping current. In a no-doubt totally unrelated event, last night I dreamed that our current minivan had broken down and was venting steam through the *roof*.

The batteries in the children have completely worn out and they are both asleep as far as I can tell.

Must be time to go to bed. :)

A Day Late

Feb. 4th, 2021 09:29 pm
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I seem to be running a day behind on my after-action reports here. I will try to do better.

Yesterday's annoying news arrived when I set out to go out to lunch with Gretchen: the driver's side seatbelt sensor in the van is not working correctly and believes that the seat belt is not fastened even when it clearly is. This, in and of itself, would not be a major problem.

The constant chiming of the bell to tell us that Gretchen is in imminent danger, however, is pretty much intolerable. Especially because it is lying. We did not go to lunch in the van, because I would have gone mad from the bells.

Unfortunately, this repair requires a trip to the dealership, which means it cannot be done until Tuesday, when they have time to look at it. In the meantime, Gretchen has discovered that you can sometimes get it to stop chiming by buckling up before starting the van.

And sometimes, you can't.

Ding, ding, ding.
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Today, Gretchen and I got complete physicals, which we have not had in a while. I'm heading back tomorrow, as they want to run a quick ultrasound to check something and the folks who do that will be there, so best to get it taken care of ASAP.

This afternoon, I went out to take a look at the new Toyota Sienna. The current minivan is getting a little long in the tooth and it's time to be doing my research. Part of this was getting some measurements that you just can't get on any known website, so I took a tape measure along with me. It turns out that in standard position, it is 56 inches from the back of the second seat to the end of the loadable area in the cargo hold. This is an important number to know, because the van is very, very full when the whole dealer table and family are off for a trip. A smaller space would be problematic.

The space behind the second seats in the current van is 53 inches. I believe that will pass. :)

The Sienna drove well in a brief test drive. Sadly, *every* trim line above the base comes with a standard moonroof which takes enough headroom that I would end up with my head in the ceiling. So no fancy options for us if we're in a Sienna.

And these are things I needed to know.
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The phone rang at 5 AM this morning to let us know that school had been canceled. We appreciated the notice, although we might have appreciated the sleep more. :)

Katie woke up on schedule and proceeded to get ready for school, having slept through the phone call. When we eventually became cognizant of this, we let her know that school had been canceled. Being awake already, she took advantage of the extra time to watch more anime. Julie was still sound asleep.

School or not, I had a dentist's appointment for a cleaning first thing this morning, so I had to get up and get there through the snow-covered and partially plowed streets. They were running a little late, but my 10:30 meeting was canceled, so that was good. My *noon* meeting, however, got moved to 11 AM, which made life a bit more exciting.

See, the girls had been invited over to a friend's house. I was supposed to deliver them before noon, except now I had a meeting in that hour. And I wanted to get Gretchen's car out of the driveway so that I could use the snowblower to clear the five-plus inches of snow a bit more easily.

It happened that Gretchen's car needed to take a trip to the shop. It's seven years old and on the original battery. I had noticed last weekend that it had once been *slightly* reluctant to start. (Not *very* reluctant -- just a bit of hesitation.) And I suspected that replacing the battery before the -25 degree predicted cold arrived on Wednesday would be an excellent career move.

So I called home, told Gretchen to call the shop and see if they could check the battery and change the oil, and that she could take the car there while I took the girls off to their friends house. This was executed with all of the precision and none of the planning of the D-Day invasion, which is pretty much par for the course when I say, "I've got it!" and recite a lunatic plan like this. But the girls went off to play, the car went off to the shop, I picked up Gretchen and then dialed into the meeting from the car only a few minutes late, so we're going to call this a success.

After the meeting, I cleared the driveway and Gretchen and I went out for a nice quiet lunch.

The shop eventually reported that the 750 amp battery was delivering an impressive 340 amps. Since the van requires 300 amps to start, the battery was toast. (This was the technical term that they used when reporting back to us.) So we have a nice new battery now.

Everyone is now home (including the van). We have had a tiny amount of freezing rain and snow since I cleared the driveway, which is making life more entertaining.

Later tonight, I will go hit the grocery store and pick up anything else we think we need for the next couple of days.

But now, it is time for dinner.

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Aug. 13th, 2018 03:51 pm
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I went out to my car to go get lunch and discovered that the left rear tire was completely flat. Apparently, I picked up a railroad spike and the tire is completely unrepairable.

So now I am getting a new tire.

Oh, joy.
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All this talk about Ford discontinuing their sedan line causes me to remember that I owe you all a report on my Ford Edge, which is now a bit over four months old with 2000 miles on it.

Mostly, I like it. The thing to remember about the Edge is that it is really just a tall Fusion (or Mondeo, if you're from Europe). As such, it gets about the same mileage that the Fusion would get -- just a little bit less due to the extra weight.

The big advantage is that I sit up high and have headroom. I'm an outlier in terms of my body shape, because all of my height is in my torso, so headroom is always at a premium for me. Even with an Edge, I don't dare think about their "Panoramic Vista Roof", because it takes away an inch or two of headroom that I must have. This also knocks pretty much all of the Japanese and Korean cars off my list of possibilities. I would like to be able to get into and out of the car without fighting with the roof line.

(One of the worst experiences I had was getting into the front passenger seat of a late model rental Camaro at a science-fiction convention I was at. I thought I was going to have to remove my head, hand it to the driver, and then reattach it after getting through the door.)

But the car handles like a small peppy sedan. It has a turning radius that is not measured in miles. It is just a tall car that I step up to get into instead of trying to fold up to get into.

And I admit that I have been enamored of this particular form factor since I first saw it on an Infiniti not too long after I bought my old Ford Five Hundred. It just took a while to be able to (vaguely) justify buying a new car. :)

The things that are most difficult to get used to are the push-to-start and grab-and-unlock features of the car which mean that the key never needs to leave my pocket. I have finally started to get used to leaving it there. This is only occasionally a problem when I am sliding under the steering wheel and the panic button contacts the wheel in such a way as to set off the alarm. Oops.

The Sync 3 system works tolerably well with one exception. It takes a bit more work than I might prefer to switch sources from one radio band to another. I suppose they just want me to leave it set to Sirius. :)

The exception is that the contacts list from my LG G5 phone seems to not get picked up all of the time by the Sync 3 system. This means that when I say "Call Gretchen", it doesn't. Most of the time. Except when it sort of randomly decides to work. This random behavior makes me crazy.

Note that I have already been through all of the steps that should cause this to work, including giving access to the list to the Sync 3 system via Bluetooth. It simply doesn't work.

Unless it does.

I can, however, call Gretchen by saying "Dial" and reciting the digits of her phone number.

*sigh*

So far, this is the worst problem I have with the car.

I can live with it.
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The entertaining thing about parking the new car is -- not surprisingly! -- figuring out how to get it in and out of the garage. The Edge is built on the same basic platform as the Fusion; it's just a good bit taller. And the Fusion is a smaller car than the old Five Hundred. So it is actually a bit easier to get in and out of the garage, or at least it will be once I get used to exactly where the fenders are.

At the moment, my objective is not to scrape anything. :)

There's also a problem with the garage itself, as the mark on the floor that I use to gauge when I'm far enough into the garage to stop is currently obscured by junk. The solution to that is to clean up the junk. If we can clean up all of the junk, Gretchen can park her car in the garage again.

There is, however, a lot of junk to clean up.

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