The Pragmatic Perspective

Zoe's latest interest is listening to children's story tapes on my old Sony Walkman. She listens to music on a little, old MP3 player she has; of course she's used to jamming in the living room to the ipod. Yesterday, she wanted a story to listen to. The only ones I could think of were these old tapes I still had from my childhood. I pulled them out of storage, got out the Walkman, and gave her a few instructions about how tapes/tape players work. She has been carrying that thing around ever since! It is amusing to see how much enjoyment she gets out of this "new" technology available to her! Ha-ha!!!

Here's the new vehicle. A 2005 Honda Element. I have wanted one of these for 3 years, but it wasn't in the cards until now. We decided to get something more functional, yet still economical in fuel usage. This showed up in town a couple months back, and the like-new interior and exterior, along with a fair price, sold us. The mileage was higher, but on a Honda we aren't too concerned. (We once had a Civic past 300,000 miles). The rear doors are suicide doors that only open if the front is open. The lack of a center post makes it possible to put something quite large in through the doors. The rear seats can fold up to each side wall, or be removed, or lay flat. My favorite feature- NO CARPET! Motor vehicles should never have the stuff; it's impossible to keep clean! I can wipe this out whenever the sturdy urethane mat needs it. The rear "skylight" is a neat addition; and the sound system is AWESOME! There's even a subwoofer-crazy! A back hatch is very ha...