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2018 Year in Review: Driving

Doing a series of Year in Review posts…in this first post, I am going over my Driving Year in Review. This is courtesy of Automatic. Automatic makes a device that hooks into your car’s diagnostic port. I have the Classic version, which pairs with your phone over bluetooth. I’m not sure how long they’ll continue to support it as they discontinued my device some years ago.

According to their stats, in 2018…

15.4 Days behind the wheel
9254 Miles Driven
Longest trip was 127 miles
Average 1.4 hours per weekday
Average fuel economy 27.6 mpg

I spent the month of August out of the country, so I only used the car 11 months of the year.

Tomorrow is ten years since US Airways 1549 made an emergency landing on the Hudson River. The miraculous confluence of circumstances that resulted in a plane full of passengers surviving such a situation is amazing. I could talk about that for a long while, but the first thought that came to me as I pondered it tonight was the first pictures being posted on Twitter.

The “Miracle on the Hudson” was the first event I recall noticing how the news was coming from Twitter. Twitter at that point felt new, open…encouraging of developers to build on top of it as a platform. It was when I realized that real time reliable information could be delivered to me as it was happening. It changed things for my perception.

It is now 10 years later, and people are looking for a way to recapture that, in the same way people look to recapture the old neighborhood when it changes.

Checked into U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Preclearance

Welcome to America

Finally got a direct GPS fix as I am next to the window. Let’s see how Indigenous for Android passes Altitude.

Checked into Terminal 5

Heading home on EI105, Dublin to JFK.

Checked into Departures

Checked into Dublin Airport (DUB)

Nearly there… preparing to descend.

Heading to Dublin on EI104.

Checked into Aer Lingus Lounge

Bookmarked 97-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor, Spy, And Heavy Metal Singer Is Ready To Rock You (jewishweek.timesofisrael.com)

In the sunset of an adventurous and unconventional life, Vienna-born Inge Ginsberg declaims her ‘divinely inspired’ poems — backed by a death metal band

Listened Nowhere to Go But Up from Mary Poppins Returns

Life's a balloon…

Seemed appropriate.

Checked into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL)

All good things must come to an end

Went to see Mary Poppins Returns last night. I haven’t been to a movie theater in a while. The critics had mixed reviews about the sequel. I think that anything people waited 54 years for has trouble living up to their imagination. But the people who made it clearly were trying to honor the spirit of the original. It is definitely worth a look.