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This may come in handy for getting past those stupid automated voice prompts when you call… any company these days.

"Underpromise, Overdeliver" is something I try to do. If I say something will be done in two weeks, I try to get it done in one week. And so forth. The concept seems lost on some of the custom builders we've asked to look at our game room project and to provide an estimate. I […]

Look, it's a Volkswagen Vibe! Or a VW Matrix, if you're more the Toyota type. In other VW news, the $100k, 12-cylinder Phaeton is done in the U.S. market. VW has only sold about 700 so far this year.

The most incredible yo-yo work I've ever seen.

Today as I was running a very quick errand - a task that takes two to three minutes - I considered leaving the car running. People do this all the time, like when they want to run inside their house to grab the coupon they forgot or their cell phone or whatever, or when they […]

One spring, oh, about 10 or 11 years ago, I bought a 20 oz. Coke from the vending machine at Lake View Country Club. I looked under the cap and saw that I won a free 20 oz. Coke - yay! I used the lid to get my free Coke and won another! The cycle […]

The Amazing Race is, this year, a family affair. Teams of siblings or parents and offspring are competing in the 11,000-mile race. The first show aired this week, and as part of the introduction, the camera zoomed around some boats and focused on the various families. A voiceover would say "The Aiello Family, a father […]

I don't know if I'd call this funny. Did the guy's head hit the rear of the truck? Near that latch? Sure looks like blood. If so, definitely not funny.

Someone called in today to a radio show I was listening to and said, and I quote: I think that the whole thing in New Orleans, all the death and destruction, that's God's way of getting us back for causing all that death and destruction over in Iraq and Afghanistan. If Georgie Dubya were as […]

The Touareg is now licensed. It's got my "IACAS" plates and Carey is awaiting her "IAEJB" plates for the Aztek. It was cheaper to transfer IACAS to the VW and order new plates for the Aztek than to order new plates for the VW and switch them when they arrived. Cheaper by about $80. Sales […]

It's raining, it's raining, it's raining! It's really really raining! Yay! Hallelujah! I think the last time it rained here, the calendar said "July." If it rained in August (prior to last night), you wouldn't know it by me. Lake View is in the worst condition I've ever seen it and I've mowed my lawn […]

For Matt, my favorite Touareg picture: Not my car, obviously, just a Touareg in a field. It's larger than you see here, so feel free to look here.

I started a thread on one of the VW forums (right here, since I was curious where it was too) asking people what their "favorite little things" are, and my own list (the extended version) is below. First, some general notes. Manual The manual is rather amusing. It's obviously a translation, because some of the […]

For Ron, who thought the "Touareg" was "a computer thing," so he "ignored all those posts" and then prepared a speech about how I was a bad, greedy American for buying a Hummer… 🙂 The Touareg looks pretty nifty from the front - part SUV, part car, and not very "truck-like" at all. I like […]

The process is a bit more complicated than I had hoped: Buy car (in Ohio, in this case). Wait about four weeks for an Ohio title (from Ohio). Take OH title, vehicle, driver's license, proof of insurance to notary. Convert title to PA title. Pay taxes and buy license plates (custom or otherwise). Wait for […]