{"id":9016,"date":"2019-08-14T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=9016"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:43:22","slug":"there-are-advantages-to-driving-a-nice-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2019\/08\/14\/there-are-advantages-to-driving-a-nice-car\/","title":{"rendered":"There are advantages to driving a nice car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as it&rsquo;s under warranty!<\/p>\n<p>The most Obvious is that hey, It&rsquo;s a nice car&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When you have it in for service you usually get a nice loaner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If something goes wrong with the service&#8230; You get to keep the nice loaner until they get yours sorted out. It&rsquo;s no big deal unless you happen to be in the middle of a move. Then things get dicy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the situation I found myself in. My car needed a software update. Apparently, that didn&rsquo;t go so well. The irony isn&rsquo;t lost on me, since software has been my bread &amp; butter for a long time.If anyone is going to have something go wrong during a software update it&rsquo;s me.<\/p>\n<p>The dealership told me they&rsquo;d need my car for another day, they apologized and said they hoped this wouldn&rsquo;t be an inconvenience. &nbsp;Normally it wouldn&rsquo;t be. But I told them that I&rsquo;d planned to make a run with some moving boxes up to my house a hundred miles away and now my schedule would be thrown off. Bingo! No more milage limitation, and the loaner has greater cargo capacity, so I loaded it up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Boxes.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Boxes.jpg\" alt=\"Boxes\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/>I&rsquo;ve got most of the small goods out of the apartment now. Yippee! What&rsquo;s left at the apartment can end up in a storage container in the storage unit until I decide what to do next.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious exceptions would be kitchen &amp; bathroom items (very few), the bedding, the TV and some small electronic items.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; to find an inexpensive storage facility. That&rsquo;s proving to be a challenge, some of these storage units could easily be livable. A\/C, convenient bathroom, security, and most of all, peace and quiet. If I was willing to pay for it, I could have a place nice enough to use as a place to do some writing. My computer battery will last 10 hours and God knows, there&rsquo;d be few distractions.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee would be a problem though.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t need all that, I just need a place to store furniture and two small appliances.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s my mission today, secure storage and then down to the apartment and probably picking up the car. Then tossing more un-necessary stuff out of the apartment. After that it&rsquo;s reserving a truck and scheduling the move. If I do this right I&rsquo;ll be able to leave and never look back.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s something comforting about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as it&rsquo;s under warranty! The most Obvious is that hey, It&rsquo;s a nice car&#8230; When you have it in for service you usually get a nice loaner.&nbsp; If something goes wrong with the service&#8230; You get to keep the nice loaner until they get yours sorted out. It&rsquo;s no big deal unless you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2019\/08\/14\/there-are-advantages-to-driving-a-nice-car\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There are advantages to driving a nice car&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}