six weeks to the gallon

[cellio]

I had an ophthalmologist appointment this morning -- previous one got cancelled because the pandemic was in full bloom then, so I was well overdue. (Everything is as expected, fortunately.) When I went out to the car I opened the glovebox to deposit a new insurance card and, out of curiosity, checked my logbook.¹

I last got gas in early March.

I do drive the car around the neighborhood every now and then; I've been told this is important for the brake rotors, which depend on regular friction to keep, I dunno, barnacles or something from building up. But I haven't really gone anywhere. My doctor's office is about seven miles from home, so by recent standards this was an expedition.

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¹ Yes, I keep a paper log for my car -- have since I bought my first car, having learned the habit from my father.²

² Having recently learned how to do footnotes in CommonMark, a flavor of Markdown I had not previously used, I instinctively tried it here. Nope. I don't know what Markdown flavor Dreamwidth uses, but here I need to use <sup> tags to do that.

Comments

[cellio]

I'm not dedicated enough to enter all my purchases in Quicken. I don't record purchase prices in my log, just date, mileage, and how much gas I put in. Also oil changes and other maintenance (date, mileage). The questions I usually want to answer are "when did I last...?" and "is my mileage (weather-adjusted) consistent?".

We've been working from home since March too. I've made two brief (Sunday) visits to the office for equipment -- once to get a better chair and once to replace a failing keyboard.

Bringing the contrabass home on the train must have been fun. It probably helped you maintain distance from other passengers, at least. :-)