I drove Andrej Bauer's car

[dr4b]

Well, so now it's Kevin Watkins's car, but still. After dinner tonight, we went around the Morewood lot for a bit, and after it was obvious it was too crowded for me to feel comfortable in, we went to Edgewood. There's a nice big deserted section of the Edgewood Towne Centre lot, and so I practiced driving stick around the back of it. Clutch in, gearshift to 1, brake off, accelerate on, ease off clutch, ease off accelerator, drive, clutch in, break on, stop. Clutch in, brake off, accelerate on, ease off clutch, SPUTTER SPUTTER SPUTTER SPUTTER STALL. Repeat until there was more of the "drive" and less of the "SPUTTER SPUTTER SPUTTER" stuff. Kevin is a real sweetie and was very encouraging the whole time I was sitting there being frustrated about not knowing how to start the car without it being jerky or stalling. But I got it a little better eventually. I even got into second gear once or twice. Whee.

Aside from that, today was blah. I played some DDR and stuff in the afternoon, and we had dinner at Tasty's, and I hung out in the lounge before dinner.

Comments

[cellio]

Congratulations! It sounds like you got past "SPUTTER SPUTTER STALL" a lot more quickly than I did when I learned.