I have this 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe that I like very much. This is my third Santa Fe and I have really no complaint or problem with the car. Except...
In all my previous cars together and I had about 15 or eighteen never had so much troubles with the tires as I have with this brand.
Low tire pressure, or punctures caused by street use.
On this car I had to replace about three tires. Naturally none of the warranties cover any of the costs. The more recent one is that when the temperature drops drastically tire or tires lose pressure. When I complain they tell me it is normal because temperature change brings about changes in the tire pressure.
Baloney, I say! None of my previous cars ever had that kind of problem and I have been living in the same area for over 50 years. The tire that came with the car is Continental brand. Either it is a lousy brand or the workmanship how they are placed on the wheels is mediocre at best.
Right now my low pressure light is on and I really don't know which of the four tires is low. Right now it is snowing and I can not even go to the gas station to check it out but tomorrow I'll have to do something about it.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
Sunday
God forbid we should have a nice and quiet day. If nothing happens the news media will stir up things and create panic. Now they are doing it with the weather.
In the past few days we are having real cold days and nights. Last night was single digit that lasted into mid morning. So what do the weather forecasters do? They show something that is called wind chill factor that was about -30 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, what good that kind of information is worth? We know it is cold and we know what it feels like. We don't need to be told what it feels like. It feels like cold!
Something else.
Last night my wife and I went out to dinner. Went to a lovely place where the dinner was just great. We also met some friends who were there and we spent a good 45 minutes talking with them. The dinner was buffet style with lobster, shrimp, lox and other different types of good food along with dessert. Overall we spent almost three hours there and had a great time.
Last year this same place gave a single rose to every woman guest. That nice touch was missing this time. Maybe it was an economy thing that they had to cut the roses.
In the past few days we are having real cold days and nights. Last night was single digit that lasted into mid morning. So what do the weather forecasters do? They show something that is called wind chill factor that was about -30 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, what good that kind of information is worth? We know it is cold and we know what it feels like. We don't need to be told what it feels like. It feels like cold!
Something else.
Last night my wife and I went out to dinner. Went to a lovely place where the dinner was just great. We also met some friends who were there and we spent a good 45 minutes talking with them. The dinner was buffet style with lobster, shrimp, lox and other different types of good food along with dessert. Overall we spent almost three hours there and had a great time.
Last year this same place gave a single rose to every woman guest. That nice touch was missing this time. Maybe it was an economy thing that they had to cut the roses.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Saturday
Today is erev St. Valentine's Day and we started to celebrate. We are not celebrating the St. Valentine's day massacre but the day of love and appreciation. It is Saturday, things are quiet and we decided to show our love a day sooner!
That said here is what we did so far: we gave each other lots of kisses, we gave each other beautiful greeting cards, my wife bought me chocolate covered marzipan and a bottle of slivovic, we gave Abigail a box of chocolate and a little teddy bear. I feel bad because all I gave my lovely wife was a card. But tonight we are going out to dinner to a very nice place where we celebrated our first Valentine's Day together last year.
I hope today's dinner will turn out as nice as it did last year.
Abigail is sad. She knows what Valentine's Day means and she is sad because she has no boyfriend who would buy her gifts. She wants to be cherished and appreciated and all this from the family just don't cut it. She knows a thirteen year old boy who seem to like her but he is small in stature, weighs about 72 pounds and no way will qualify as a boyfriend.
Besides, it was explained to her that at this age she is too young to have a boyfriend and don't despair time will come when there will be boyfriends.
That said here is what we did so far: we gave each other lots of kisses, we gave each other beautiful greeting cards, my wife bought me chocolate covered marzipan and a bottle of slivovic, we gave Abigail a box of chocolate and a little teddy bear. I feel bad because all I gave my lovely wife was a card. But tonight we are going out to dinner to a very nice place where we celebrated our first Valentine's Day together last year.
I hope today's dinner will turn out as nice as it did last year.
Abigail is sad. She knows what Valentine's Day means and she is sad because she has no boyfriend who would buy her gifts. She wants to be cherished and appreciated and all this from the family just don't cut it. She knows a thirteen year old boy who seem to like her but he is small in stature, weighs about 72 pounds and no way will qualify as a boyfriend.
Besides, it was explained to her that at this age she is too young to have a boyfriend and don't despair time will come when there will be boyfriends.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Friday
It is amazing how one can have a full day and it be totally without any results. That was the kind of day we had.
After I dropped Abigail off at the school my wife and I headed out to Brooklyn to meet her son. The three of us went to breakfast and after that I went to get a haircut. Now, that turned out good.
The haircut was so exhausting that after that we stopped at a neighborhood pastry shop for a "bite". It was a good "bite".
After all the bitings we went to the storage place where we and sonny keep stuff. Actually he only keeps his motorcycle that he brought up from Florida there. Being winter and the roads as they are he decided not to ride his bike here for now so we keep it in our storage compartment.
He wanted to se if it still runs so we took it out to the street but unfortunately after several tries the engine just didn't start. Understandingly, he was pretty upset about it. Now these bike are electric starts and don't have the old fashioned kick start. That might have solved the problem but as it is now he plans to take it apart and take a serious look at it.
After the storage we went to pick up Abigail and drove out to Brooklyn to take so home. Being about four o'clock we hit major traffic and the usual 25 minute ride took almost an hour. Fortunately the home bound traffic was shorter. It took only 53 minutes.
Once we got home my wife decided that we should go down to the corner and buy some lottery tickets. We did. But the store is a 99cents discount store and we also bought a few other household things.
On the way back home we started calculating how much what we bought should have cost and halfway home we realized we were overcharged. Back to the store where they admitted their mistakes and gave back the eight dollars we overpaid.
All this back and forth walking in about 20 degree cold. Very refreshing but who needs it?
After I dropped Abigail off at the school my wife and I headed out to Brooklyn to meet her son. The three of us went to breakfast and after that I went to get a haircut. Now, that turned out good.
The haircut was so exhausting that after that we stopped at a neighborhood pastry shop for a "bite". It was a good "bite".
After all the bitings we went to the storage place where we and sonny keep stuff. Actually he only keeps his motorcycle that he brought up from Florida there. Being winter and the roads as they are he decided not to ride his bike here for now so we keep it in our storage compartment.
He wanted to se if it still runs so we took it out to the street but unfortunately after several tries the engine just didn't start. Understandingly, he was pretty upset about it. Now these bike are electric starts and don't have the old fashioned kick start. That might have solved the problem but as it is now he plans to take it apart and take a serious look at it.
After the storage we went to pick up Abigail and drove out to Brooklyn to take so home. Being about four o'clock we hit major traffic and the usual 25 minute ride took almost an hour. Fortunately the home bound traffic was shorter. It took only 53 minutes.
Once we got home my wife decided that we should go down to the corner and buy some lottery tickets. We did. But the store is a 99cents discount store and we also bought a few other household things.
On the way back home we started calculating how much what we bought should have cost and halfway home we realized we were overcharged. Back to the store where they admitted their mistakes and gave back the eight dollars we overpaid.
All this back and forth walking in about 20 degree cold. Very refreshing but who needs it?
Friday, February 12, 2016
Politicking
This past Tuesday was the New Hampshire Primary for this year's presidential candidates. Lacking anything substantial on TV we watched MSNBC that reported all day and night long about the election results. I have to admit it was extremely boring. These reporters talk non-stop day and night but have nothing worthwhile to say.
They literarily and repeatedly take the candidates apart. They analyze everything post-mortem and basically everything they say has tabloidish value.
We watched but we were only interested in the final numbers that came about 9 p.m.
Now that the New Hampshire show is over and all the candidates swore how much they all loved New Hampshire probably none will ever return to that state. Except maybe Bernie Sanders who represents the state in the Senate.
These people promise the world, lie through their teeth just to get the votes. But this is politics and I don't believe they are different in other countries.
When being a politician is a career honesty goes out the window. It is not an accident that most of the politicians are lawyers. As such they know exactly how to circumvent the law and how to get away with stuff.
It is a rare being who just plainly feels that he or she just wants to help people to have a better life. As peculiar as it sounds, Donald Trump might just be such a person.
They literarily and repeatedly take the candidates apart. They analyze everything post-mortem and basically everything they say has tabloidish value.
We watched but we were only interested in the final numbers that came about 9 p.m.
Now that the New Hampshire show is over and all the candidates swore how much they all loved New Hampshire probably none will ever return to that state. Except maybe Bernie Sanders who represents the state in the Senate.
These people promise the world, lie through their teeth just to get the votes. But this is politics and I don't believe they are different in other countries.
When being a politician is a career honesty goes out the window. It is not an accident that most of the politicians are lawyers. As such they know exactly how to circumvent the law and how to get away with stuff.
It is a rare being who just plainly feels that he or she just wants to help people to have a better life. As peculiar as it sounds, Donald Trump might just be such a person.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Wednesday
Today is Ash Wednesday. This is the beginning of Lent and 40 days from today is Palm Sunday and that is a week before Easter. The religious meaning of this day is that Jesus fasted in the desert for 40 days. Good Christians also get the mark of the cross placed on their forehead by a priest with ashes.
When I used to work there was a Catholic church next to our building and I saw people lining up early in the morning waiting to see the priest. I also noticed that some people were convinced the the bigger was the mark the better Christians they were. Consequently, some people walked around with a huge ash spots on their foreheads.
Because of this special day New York City suspended alternate parking because there was no street cleaning today. Now, this is idiotic.
Unless the Sanitation Department is so religious that they observe Ash Wednesday I really can not imagine that anybody was. The Pope probably didn't work today but then I don't think he work much anyway.
Where I am living now across from us is a major Catholic high school. Over there business was as usual. They didn't get a day off but the street cleaners did.
When I used to work there was a Catholic church next to our building and I saw people lining up early in the morning waiting to see the priest. I also noticed that some people were convinced the the bigger was the mark the better Christians they were. Consequently, some people walked around with a huge ash spots on their foreheads.
Because of this special day New York City suspended alternate parking because there was no street cleaning today. Now, this is idiotic.
Unless the Sanitation Department is so religious that they observe Ash Wednesday I really can not imagine that anybody was. The Pope probably didn't work today but then I don't think he work much anyway.
Where I am living now across from us is a major Catholic high school. Over there business was as usual. They didn't get a day off but the street cleaners did.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Tuesday
Today is Tuesday and we had a very busy day. First thing this morning after taking Abigail to school we went to the gym for a "little" workout. Haven't been there for a while and it was overdue. We did it and it felt really good.
The afternoon was spent dealing with banks.
One of the major rule in a good marriage is having joint bank accounts. Since my wife and I both led separate lives until our wedding we both had multiple accounts in different financial institutions. Combining those indicate confidence and trust in one and other. We have been doing these for a while now but there are some accounts that have to be combined in person while some others can be done on the Internet.
Some institutions are easy while some are real hardnosed. Today we had the "luck" picking the hardnosed ones. We spent an enormous time in one bank setting up a joint bank account and at home we spent over an hour setting up the electronic version of the same account.
It is a darned good thing that we really have nothing else to do in life but worry about these.
I also started to collect backup data and information in preparation of the 2015 income tax filing. Hallelujah, I'm very excited about this.
The afternoon was spent dealing with banks.
One of the major rule in a good marriage is having joint bank accounts. Since my wife and I both led separate lives until our wedding we both had multiple accounts in different financial institutions. Combining those indicate confidence and trust in one and other. We have been doing these for a while now but there are some accounts that have to be combined in person while some others can be done on the Internet.
Some institutions are easy while some are real hardnosed. Today we had the "luck" picking the hardnosed ones. We spent an enormous time in one bank setting up a joint bank account and at home we spent over an hour setting up the electronic version of the same account.
It is a darned good thing that we really have nothing else to do in life but worry about these.
I also started to collect backup data and information in preparation of the 2015 income tax filing. Hallelujah, I'm very excited about this.
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