Hello all --

Been away for a time, but thought I'd pop in to remind everyone to check your windshield wiper fluid levels. I know, I know -- a fairly obvious thing, but because we've been having so much crummy winter weather lately, I'd somehow used mine up to a dangerously low level without realizing it. And of course, when did it give out completely? When I was on the highway, going 65 mph.

Fortunately, at the exact moment I had ZERO visibility due to filthy brown frozen slush, the truck in front of me signaled right (I could somehow just make out his tail-lights in the murk) and I cautiously followed him up the ramp and into a big box parking lot. I scraped off the windshield the best I could and then drove a block to a gas station to fill up the completely dry fluid reservoir.


A very humbling experience that I hope to never repeat.