Friday, November 21, 2025

41,000 miles

 The GLI turned 41,000 on Sunday, November 16!


It wass a gorgeous fall night, clear and cold, and Enzo and I were heading back from Chicago.  It had been a pretty long day, it was jet black dark, and Enzo was reclined in the passenger seat, sleeping peacefully.  

Every time I drive the car, I'm continually impressed by just how fundamentally good of a car it is.  Powerful, comfortable, efficient, and good at just gliding down the road.  On the winter tires, there is such a surplus of power that I don't really use much more than one third of the throttle.  I've been paying attention to boost usage, and find myself using about 50% of the total boost the car can produce.

The real question is, why were only Enzo and I in Chicago?  Well, we took a day trip to visit my new nephmews:


Enzo was in ecstasy and being able to play with the tiny creatures.  The kittens are so young that they still have spiky kitten fur - truly babies.  You don't get a sense of it when Enzo is holding them, but they weigh about 2 pounds each, and are smaller than my hand:


Kittens are so small for such a short period of time.  It's easy to forget when most of their lives, they're living in their full-sized bodies:



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