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Daniel

23:16

Ask Different Questions. We don't like these ones.

Jason Salaz

Argyle Marionette

23:36

goood luck with the debate everyone

Daniel

Hi @NathanGreenstein

Nathan Greenstein

@Daniel Hi

And hello to mr Argyle as well.

Daniel

So no debate for you?

You will be missed.

Nathan Greenstein

fraid not :(

Daniel

Time zones are a pain.

Nathan Greenstein

23:39

Well, not so much that as something popping up

Drivers Ed...

Daniel

Ah. I remember it well.

I hope you don't have a snowstorm like I did.

(Does it snow out where you live?)

Nathan Greenstein

We already had our Drivers Ed snowstorm, actually!

It doesn't snow a lot, but we got some this year.

Daniel

Ah, well if that's done, it only gets easier :)

The other day I was driving down a road, and realized that it was the first road I drove on during drivers ed.

An odd circumstance, having in the past few years just moved back to my hometown.

Nathan Greenstein

Wow, that's pretty cool

Daniel

Best wishes!

Nathan Greenstein

23:41

Thanks

Good luck in the town hall chat!

Looking back over my responses from last year...... They're a little embarrassing.

Daniel

Thanks. I'm looking forward to asking a question, and hearing answers, and I hope I can say something reasonably clear when asked.

Nathan Greenstein

I'm sure you'll do well.

You've been plenty clear in this chat room

Daniel

Good.

I hate making typos.

(Of course I managed to misspell "typos" but caught it before I hit return)

Jason Salaz

It snowed last night -> this morning/afternoon.

Daniel

Yeah, but you're in the mountains, no?

Jason Salaz

23:45

above 6000 feet!

Daniel

We had a few flakes today. Amazingly little this winter.

Jason Salaz

We got a ton of snow last thursday all the way through saturday.

Nathan Greenstein

Seattle doesn't get a lot of snow, but people freak out when we get any at all.

Daniel

The first time I visited Denver, I discovered that I had asthma. The thin air combined with some sort of pollen in the air to which I was allergic made breathing very difficult.

Jason Salaz

ouch

Daniel

23:46

Little snow, and it's so far north. What a crazy world we live in.

Jason Salaz

Is that technically asthma?

Daniel

Two different things. But when combined, nasty.

So I don't exactly have fond memories of Colorado.

Jason Salaz

Argyle Marionette

@Daniel Breathing is overrated.

Jason Salaz

Well, I'll never expect a visit from you then!

Nathan Greenstein

23:48

I was ~6 months old the last time I visited CO. I had some kind of altitude sickness, apparently.

I don't remember it, but my parents sure do.

Daniel

Actually, my wife and kids all want to take a road trip out west this summer. Don't know what we'll work out, but we've got family in Winter Park.

(Don't know where that is, though)

Nathan, sounds like your trip was as fun as mine. But I was in sixth grade.

Not six months.

Jason Salaz

I'll never expect a visit from you either, Nathan!

Nathan Greenstein

Actually, I've been to the mountains since and been fine.

Baby Nathan had ear tube problems

Jason Salaz

ahhhhh

Daniel

I was about to ask how learning to drive was in the mountains, but I suppose Seattle isn't exactly mountainous.

Nathan Greenstein

23:51

Very hilly though.

Kinda like mini-mountains, I guess.

Daniel

I found driving to be much easier once I learned to drive a stick shift. For whatever reason, I find it much harder to drive an automatic well.

I know people think it should be the opposite.

Seattle is hilly? I wouldn't have guessed.

Nathan Greenstein

I'd really like to learn stick, but my parents both have automatics.

@Daniel Yeah, very hilly.

Jason Salaz

/me can drive manual transmission vehicles.

My first two were.

My current car is not :<.

Daniel

My new car is.

My car of 12 years died last month.

Jason Salaz

yeesh

Daniel

23:53

Replaced it with a Fiat 500. Love it.

Amazingly, so do the kids, despite the back seat having almost no room in it.

Jason Salaz

that's because they kids, not teens :)

Daniel

They were the ones who lobbied so hard for this one. They thought a 2-door would be cozier.

Who knew.

@NathanGreenstein Do you have to parallel park as part of a driving test?

I still hate that.

Nathan Greenstein

Yeah, we have to do that.

Daniel

(but it's a lot easier in my tiny Fiat)

Nathan Greenstein

We also have to back around a corner, which seems silly.

Do you ever have to do that in real life?

Daniel

23:57

OK, you have the harder evening ahead of you. We just have to answer questions on chat.

Nathan Greenstein

Actually, tonight's just a class, not a test. Thankfully

Daniel

Well, I do to get out of my garage on a regular basis.

Nathan Greenstein

Ah, do you back out?

Daniel

If I went forward, I'd go through a wall :-)

(not recommended)

Nathan Greenstein

Haha, there is that

Jason Salaz

23:58

I never took a driving test.

Daniel

Ours wasn't too intimidating. It wasn't a single test, but they had to check off that we had done various things during the class.

Jason Salaz

Not the course-style one. The high school parking lot my driving school used was all torn up for repairs/resurfacing during my schooling.

So the teacher just signed off on everyone's certificate whateverthehecks.

Daniel

Nice.

Nathan Greenstein

Haha, lucky

Daniel

So that's the real reason to avoid Colorado

Jason Salaz

23:59

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