mellowtigger | ye olde rust bucket

It's nearly time for my annual "by the numbers" post. I needed my car mileage for the year so I can add gasoline to my carbon footprint, and that's when I realized I didn't post my car pictures when I gave it up.

Here are photos from where it sat at the mechanic shop, after the tow there, after the gummed up engine refused to run. The side view includes only one of the two bullet holes. I replaced the driver's door after police ruined it collecting the bullet from the frame. It was a good lesson, though, that a car door can stop a typical bullet. I used that knowledge when I ducked down from the gas station shooting a few years later... which was just a block or two from the homicide a few days ago. Yeah, there's a reason I call my home the #WarzoneInMinneapolis. My car bore the damage from its adventures here. It's very different from what it looked like in 2013, when I bought it used. For the record, the mileage at time of death was: 131,384.

So stay tuned for the annual review. I finished my taxes yesterday, so now I just need to compile all of the data into a blog post.