Good morning. Hello. How are you? #657
Wherein I curiously use subheads for perhaps the first time ever and not to particularly useful ends.
Good morning. Hello. How are you? I am good. Old houses are very creaky. You really do hear everything. Old houses with weird people living next door are even more creaky and noisy. I am such a country bumpkin.
Had a night in last night. Worked all day, had dinner, went on a walk, ran into Jussi on the wonderful Somerville Community Trail Man I Love That Thing (its technical name). The simple act of going on a walk and running into someone you know is so amazing, so wonderful. I mean, I guess to be fair we run into someone we know — one of our neighbors — on almost every walk we take in North Carolina, but it’s a whole other level when it’s an old friend. That was very nice.
It was Emma’s night for Jane bedtime and after that she went out and saw some lady friends for tacos. I was somewhat exhausted from seeing human friends every day for more than a week, so I enjoyed this night off. I watched the last two episodes of Halo. It really was shockingly better than it has any right to be.
Without further ado, I give you.
A list of what’s wrong with pretty much every EV
by Rick Webb
Polestar 2: Built on a traditional ICE body, so it has an unneeded transmission tunnel. A little small. Garbage Android Auto implementation for main infotainment screen. No 350 kWh fast charging. Hard to find in the NC area (but I can get one in DC).
Volvo C40: Much the same as the Polestar 2. Very bad site where you have to search by individual dealers and not a mile range. Google Android Auto problematic for iOS implementation. No 350 kWh fast charging.
Ioniq 5: Garbage joke of a frunk. Low (ish) range. Not a single version of the good trim level within 250 miles of my house (though there is one 15 miles from this Airbnb). The model with the highest range is only RWD.
Kia EV6: Same as the Ioniq 5 but even smaller. Why am I so obsessed with Frunks? I want a frunk so bad. One guy, once, in a YouTube mentioned bringing home your takeout without stinking up your car and I am obsessed.
Lucid Air: Mostly impossible to get. Expensive. Sedan. Ugly (to me).
Rivian R1T/R1S: Impossible to get. No fast charging. No CarPlay.
Tesla Model Y: No power lift gate wtf. Gotta go inside the car to open the frunk wtf. No CarPlay. BS Proprietary charging network. Elon Musk. Texas.
Ford F150 Lightning: Vaporware. Ford dealers suck. Expensive at the good trim levels. No 350 kWh fast charging
Ford Mustang Mach-E: Ford dealers suck. Door handles are a little funky. Weird dip when you get into the car. Not much towing capacity. Expensive. No 350 kWh fast charging.
Boy I have watched a lot of reviews. Still leaning toward a Mach-E, but man. It’s just not a good lineup. Part of the problem is I don’t know really what I want out of a car. I want it to look cool, I don’t really like mini SUVs or Crossovers, but I want it to be able to hold a ton of stuff, I want a bunch of range, I want it to solve the problems I have no of not being able to haul big shit from the hardware store, I want it to be cheap and easy to obtain but also cool. It is impossible to fulfill all of these needs. I do think someday I will probably buy a lightning so this one could be smaller, but, then, it can’t be so small that it doesn’t ultimately replace Emma’s CX-5. You cannot win. Also cars are decadent and horrible even when they’re EVs and I barely ever drive anyway so maybe I should let this whole thing go.
A public service announcement
by Rick Webb
Could you go get your cholesterol checked? For me? Please? I would greatly appreciate that. Also if you have a magic wand and can give me more good cholesterol, can you do that too? Why is my good cholesterol so permanently, perpetually shitty? It is ridiculous. Absolutely insane. Inject that stuff right into me please.
In other news
Oh god once you start using headers you can’t stop.
Also: I have had an uncomfortably stiff left leg for a couple months now. Like I am constantly stretching it out, like my hamstring is permanently shrunken or something. It doesn’t hurt, but it bothers me, constantly. It is not the leg that suffered the (absolutely insane, harrowing) mid-pandemic groin pull, it’s the other one, and there was a large gap between then and this situation that leads me to believe the to things are probably unrelated. I need to go see someone about this. A PT I guess? Some sort of “mobility” expert? Who is the person I should see first? My insurance does not require me to start with my PCP. Any advice is welcome, I am looking to you Emily Taylor, I don’t know why I am asking this way instead of texting you but hey I have content to produce here.
Okay well that’s all for today there’s a guy bugging me at work cuz I yesterday I ill-advisedly admitted on a call that I was up and working at this hour, which is true, but also the whole point is to be awake and left alone to get stuff done, but oh well, the damage is done. Shoegaze playlist for you today. So much good new shoegaze on here, I wonder if all these bands tour together and play together and stuff that would be so cool I wish I was a kid in a shoegaze band in 2022 instead of 1998 or so when there were no other shoegaze bands. Added a couple classics from the Boo Radleys cuz of that Exit Stage Left book and a Verve track because A Storm in Heaven is a timeless classic record and every time it comes on I think “daaamn this is a really good record why do I not listen to this more often these days.”
The EV I have my eye on (eventually) is the VW iD.4