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Spying Screens

One of the screens I always display on my dashboard shows the miles per hour in digital form. It also so happens to display the amount of gas remaining in terms of miles. Whenever I’ve filled the tank, it always says 288 miles as the “Distance to Empty”. But this most recent fill-up, the number was different.

It was 301 miles this time. That was weird. Did I get more gas in the tank?

But then at the end of my drive yesterday, when I turned off the car, this info came up:

My car has been calculating my miles per gallon all this time. I must’ve been driving in a more fuel-efficient way lately. But how weird that previously it was so consistently 288 miles that I memorized the number. Interesting…

2 responses to “Spying Screens”

  1. Carol says:

    Of all the data on your screens, the one that caught my eye most was “57 degrees”. We’ve barely been above freezing here since the new year opened.

  2. Lauren says:

    That is one smart car!

    I don’t understand run-out-of gas calculating. I went to Costco on Sunday (for some of that sweet, sweet Costco gas) and other errands. The car said I had 25 miles left of gas, and Costco is 32 miles away. I put in a gallon of garbage gas to get there, and it calculated that I only drove 18 miles worth of gas. I don’t get it.

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Faux Flowers

Beth gave me a LEGO set for Christmas. It’s a chrysanthemum. I put it together yesterday.

It’s so pretty 🙂 There are other flower sets. I think I might be in trouble…

Tasty Treats

I have two pictures in my phone I want to share. The first one is from Thursday. I helped ride herd during PE, and saw that the PE teacher had left a candy bar by her things:

Corn flakes? Ha! I’ve never seen that before. And now I want to taste it…

The other picture is from yesterday. Our Admissions Counselor put a whole bunch of foods in the teacher lunch room.

The sign talks about being stuck inside, so the food is all stick-shaped or sticky. Ha! What a fun theme!

Many Messages

The fires continue to burn. Many schools were closed yesterday because of the smoke. My school was far enough away from things that the air was good enough for being inside. Still, we stayed inside for recess, and only went outside when necessary.

After school, the middle school teachers were meeting, when our phones all went off and displayed this message:

Evacuate? Gather your loved ones? Holy cats! But we were so far away from the fires! Was this real? We all started searching for more information…

About fifteen minutes later, another message came:

And a few minutes later, another:

It was a false alarm. Whew! It reminded me of the missile alert from when I was in Hawaii. I told my co-worker about it, and got a little emotional. I think this false alarm triggered me. How interesting…

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