http://blog.pearware.org/articles/2006/09.rss en-us 40 agile web development <p>Yesterday I sold the first new car I ever purchased, a silver 2002 Honda Accord to <a href="http://www.carmax.com">CarMax</a>. It&#8217;s always a little sad to lose something like that, but it isn&#8217;t bothering me. I hadn&#8217;t even driven it once over the past month. I was just sitting in my parent&#8217;s driveway doing its best impression of a bird&#8217;s outhouse. It was so unused, that I even had to jumpstart the car twice yesterday! Once at the house to get it going, and then again after I got gas (Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have left such little gas in the tank). I even told the appraiser to keep the car running for fear of it not starting back up!</p> <p>It had been at my parent&#8217;s house because nikki and I live downtown (Columbus, Ohio), and we only have one parking spot, which we use for our other car, a 2003 Honda Civic. It&#8217;s not bad only having one parking spot, because we only need one car. And that&#8217;s why I could sell the Accord. Now that I&#8217;m working from home and have a scooter, we just don&#8217;t need a second car.</p> <p>Downsizing was one of the advantages that we saw when deciding on living downtown. For most of my errands, taking the scooter, bicycle, or even walking suits my needs. It&#8217;s nice to not have to deal with the maintenance, gasoline, car insurance, registration, etc. It&#8217;s really amazing how much goes into owning a car. Oh yeah&#8230; it was also nice to get some money for it!</p> Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:50:00 -0500 urn:uuid:396d6861-3afb-46db-84e3-50aa11ab07e4 http://blog.pearware.org/articles/2006/09/08/end-of-an-era-sold-my-first-new-car#comments environment scooter car http://blog.pearware.org/articles/2006/09/08/end-of-an-era-sold-my-first-new-car