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Friday Night Catchup Hi Hi

Sorry for missing the last update here.

It was a lot of in-real-life stuff this week, the stuff that keeps the online part going (except email, so much email).  It’s a tough balance sometimes, between – making the life happen, and blogging about it.  I’m at the point where I’m genuinely ready for an assistant.  But I don’t yet make enough to pay someone, and I don’t like free, so sigh.

There’s so much to do here at KeriBlog,   Like, the 2 most basic funtions of a website, search and comments, don’t work here.  How bad is that, SO bad. This entire site needs to be rebuilt, I don’t know how to find the time, do I shut it down for a week and do it?  My stomach physically hurts sometimes about it #That’sBlogging.  I have the theme picked out, and a skeleton built, but porting it over is serious and ugh kay I’m done, thanks.

Now I’ll embed a bunch of photos from this week, no time to format.  I’ll catch you up this weekend, I have two articles to finish first.

Have a great Friday night!

xo Keri

 

PS – this is my latest ” OCDing Out To” song.  Anything I’ve written in the past week, has been to this on repeat.

 

 

Make More Eye Contact while Driving

Making more eye contact – as both a driver and pedestrian – makes safer roads.

Favourite line:

It’s easy to forget about the human manning the machine, when really, that’s the only thing we should be paying attention to.

And:

How simple was that to make someone happy?  A flick of the wrist.

Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

 

 

Driving a Honda Civic Si HFP at the Niagara Drive Centre

Honda Canada invited me to Niagara Falls to test drive their new Civic Si HFP – their “tuned out of the box” Civic.

They put me at the cutest country inn (see this blog post), and Thursday morning I walked outside to 6 of their HFPs.  There’s only 400 in Canada.

HFP –Honda Factory Performance.

Non-car nerds: the Honda Civic has, for years, been a “Top 5 cars to modify” because of its good, strong base.   

Their HFP package provides a ton of modifications direct from the factory, at half of what it would cost you to do it.

In the morning we toured through the country.

It was very scenic, and more nature than I’m used to.

That’s good photo-staging there; my driving partner Kanishka set it up.

We were a good team; neither of us turned on the radio (let’s listen to the engine), and he also hides from the sun (no sunroof never).

The afternoon was spent on the track.  

Which turned out to be an airport COME ON.

See the airplane top left? It was a yellow bi-plane from the 20s that starred in the Amelia Earhart movie.  Hello from shangri-la.  Needless to say, I was out of my head all day.

I’m certain the automotive journalists of Canada think I’m this loud and hyper girl… opposite, guys!  That was a dream-come-true day for me, so there was no containing that amount of joy.

I like to think that was one of the fastest times of the day.

I’m not competitive :|

The engine makes that good grrrRRR sound, which I like.  Yes I want the car to move when I hit it, but I also want to hear it.  When I had that red Civic two weeks ago, I was superfluously revving everywhere I went.

My instructor Daniel Morad, the first North American to win a heat race at the Formula BMW World Final in 2007 YES dude.

There’s Zach Spencer (white shirt), who travelled all the way from Vancouver, and is the host of Driving Television.

Welcome to my blog, Clare!  Read Clare’s National Post column here.

Now meet Shea Holbrook, 22 year old racing professional who races a Civic Si in the True Car racing series.  She’s doing amazing this season.

Just yesterday Shea climbed the podium TWICE in the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car division.  YES missy!

This is her mom Erin, and her dad was there too.  They’re the cutest family you ever met.

One of my favourite parts of the Civic, and

top 3 hazard buttons I’ve ever seen.

Big big fan of the hazard button. I used it three times during a 40 km highway drive yesterday.

I’ll make a video soon, to show you my technique.

Bottom line: I’m a fan of the Civic because it’s fun to drive.  It reminds you why you fell in love with driving in the first place.

Plus, it sticks to the road both in performance, and mechanically.

Then a trolley took us home.

Someone yelled, how fast have you got this thing up to? The driver yelled back, one time 90kmh! We cheered.

Thank you Honda, for one of the most fun driving experiences I’ve ever had.

UPDATE – July 31

Honda Canada just released their official video of the above day.  It’s well edited, and they had helicopters!

 

 

Took A Little Break from my Blog

Since Saturday.  Sometimes I just like to, sometimes I don’t feel like putting things online, so I don’t.

It always passes and I love it again, which is now.

So Hi!

Some things you missed… I dressed quietly like this, and randomly, was driven a lot.

One of My Top 5 Things to Do Ever – Sit cross-legged eating red candy while being driven around looking at stuff

A fancy BFF dinner.

I could have ordered pasta with squid ink. And look at that top menu item under “Chef’s Play”… sorry for the grainy photo, yes I did.

Went to another Hacks & Hackers event.  There was some ScribbleLive which is sick, that’s a great chat by Allison Martell about statistical data analysis, and remember that photo-incident in the Metro, and how well they handled it? This is Chris telling that story.

I remember that well, it was kinda like a “thing” on Twitter. Twitter was different back then.

There’s a huge conference coming up if you’re into online marketing anything… The Art of Marketing… March 7 at the MTCC.  I’ll tell ya more about it soon, but Guy Kawasaki, Gary Vee, it’s gonna be great.

Found that sword, put in car.

From February 2011

Pretty things from Valentine’s Day.

Which I still think is dumb…………. it just makes a lot of people feel bad.

Next video is likely, “The Trash Couture Photoshoot at an Airbase” (working title), TTYS!

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