There are some great tips in this substantial list of ways to maintain your car. Some are damn obvious, such as changing your oil regularly, following the break-in period guidelines. Other suggestions though, aren’t as obvious.

I tried the one tip about putting your car in neutral while at traffic lights. I wonder though if all that shifting from drive to neutral and back trades wear and tear in one place for wear and tear in another, though the shift may be an easier or cheaper repair.

75 Tips to Keep Your Car in Top-Notch Condition

Here’s a great collection of some of the recent best on Flickr. I love a lot of these shots, and am slightly jealous of the photographers’ collective talent.

Flickr Interestingness

I woke up this morning with ten hours of sleep behind me, fully rested. But I’m tired.

I’m tired of people being difficult and mean to each other. I’m tired of seeing good people being treated poorly. I’m tired of disorganization and having to do things multiple times because of the disorganization and the lack of the planning. I’m tired of the thought, “a lack of planning on your part, does not constitute and emergency on my part” popping into my head. But most of all, I’m just tired of people failing to recognize that they’re part of the problem.