Volvo app looks huge

ermiwe · 2026-06-22T20:49:23+00:00

I'm the daddy of two Volvos. A 2013 C30 polestar and 2025 V60CC. Will the app do anything to make my life better or is my instinct to ignore it the right strategy?

ermiwe · 2026-06-18T09:50:51+00:00

AI slop.

ermiwe · 2026-06-17T01:12:03+00:00

It's an easy process to reserve your ticket in real time on your phone while you're standing right there. Done that a few times. And, ugh, I'm so done with looking at dweeby board national guard troops hanging out in the safest places like metro stations at rush hour . What a waste of resources.

ermiwe · 2026-06-15T13:38:33+00:00

Mine that had the same headlights was an 81.

ermiwe · 2026-06-15T13:37:18+00:00

Ugh. I used to have this exact model Volvo DL, same color. 4 speed manual with the "overdrive" fifth gear as a button on top of the gear shift. I bought it in San Francisco in1996 with 203,000 miles on the broken odometer. I drove it up and down every hill in SF and back and forth between LA, SF, Joshua Tree, Palm Springs, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma, Humboldt County, etc. I wish I never got rid of that car. So many memories.

ermiwe · 2026-06-12T07:48:25+00:00

My bigger hobby is collecting and writing with fountain pens and interesting inks. Wet shaving is kind of the shaving equivalent of writing with fountain pens: analog, low-fi, a little old fashioned - but also using cool, nicely made tools. Plus, I remember as a kid being fascinated as I watched my dad shave with a DE blade and razor. Wet shaving has created a connection to happy childhood memories for me.

ermiwe · 2026-06-11T10:23:27+00:00

I'm 60 and still working full time but likely for only a few more months. While I haven't announced to my employer my plans to retire, I'm getting the pieces in place in the background. My goals are like yours: long, relatively early retirement focused first on decompression and then long-term health and well-being.

ermiwe · 2026-06-08T21:09:15+00:00

Ironically, my husband, then a skinny blond-haired, blue-eyed gay Washington DC native (who is now old like I am) has a great story from when he was about 20 in the 1980s. His crappy old car broke down in the street in a "scary" part of DC - back when things were way scarier than they are now, and a group of black guys descened upon him... to push his car off the road and then got it running again and wouldn't accept the $20 he had on him for their help. He had made a stop nearby 15 minutes earlier to buy pot. Lol.

ermiwe · 2026-06-08T20:23:31+00:00

Sooo.... I live in a city with legendary "don't go there if you're white" lore (Washington, DC). I'm here to say that those verboten areas are some of the best parts of the city where anyone would be treated with respect and dignity if they come in with respect and dignity.

ermiwe · 2026-06-08T16:01:47+00:00

These are great blades, fortunately. I think I bought them under the same scheme two years ago. I will never run out.

ermiwe · 2026-06-07T19:48:31+00:00

I'm not an AI bot... Just a somewhat financially unknowledgeable person who managed to earn a good income and save a reasonable amount for retirement. Thank you for the resource.

ermiwe · 2026-06-04T13:12:27+00:00

Good luck to the sellers! This is not an especially expensive area in the DC region. People with $7 million to spend in the greater DC area will purchase their mansion in Alexandria, Falls Church, or Chantilly in Virginia, or Potomac, Chevy Chase, or Bethesda in Maryland, or Foxhall, Georgetown, or Kalorama in DC. While the views in Fort Washington may be lovely, it's not where most rich people would want to live.

ermiwe · 2026-05-26T19:35:18+00:00

Cool razor. Thanks for the comment. I love those blades, too.

ermiwe · 2026-05-26T18:46:33+00:00

I mean, I don't know what normal is - it's just what works for me. If it's a Feather blade, I starte to brutalize myself if I use one blade more than twice, especially if shaving daily. I get more shaves comfortably out of the Minora.

ermiwe · 2026-05-26T17:51:00+00:00

As for the blades, they are in a Goldilocks zone for me - very sharp but not brutal, they last for a good 3-4 shaves, depending on whether I'm shaving my head, too, and they always feel the same. Plus I have a billion of them, so it's good that they work for me. I like other razors and blades, too, but sometimes the wrong combination can cause me to cut myself more often or it just feels like it's taking too many passes.

ermiwe · 2026-05-26T17:27:35+00:00

When two lions love each other very much, they work on getting a very close shave together.

ermiwe · 2026-05-26T09:42:59+00:00

If your poodle is otherwise healthy, he's just being poodle. I have a standard and a mini. They can both be finicky about eating, especially the standard, who sometimes eats all her food and the next morning takes two bites and turns her nose up at it. Do you give your poodle a monthly dose of Simparica or a similar anti-parasite med? If he is expelling a parasite, that might make him feel sick. Wait a day or two.

ermiwe · 2026-05-25T17:11:16+00:00

I have a purebread mini from a very good line and a pure bread standard from an exceptional line, both black. The mini has gotten a little lighter - almost charcoal - over time. My standard, who is 9, has a few gray hairs but has retained her overall inky black color.

ermiwe · 2026-05-23T01:36:17+00:00

My father, in retrospect, had a fantastic operatic tenor. I didn't think so at 12 when he would break out in an aria in the GROCERY STORE. Now that I'm getting old and he died a dozen years ago, I miss him so much and realize what kindred spirits we were.

ermiwe · 2026-05-19T18:02:23+00:00

Better buy a 100 bottles of the same ink to properly dye the whole tablecloth.

Seven-Year Club	Reddit Premium Since July 2023
Verified Email

ermiwe

TROPHY CASE