I noticed my car's odometer says I've driven about 3600 km since I bought it. That's about 88 km/day on average. Not bad for a guy who walks to work and lives next to a Safeway.

On the subject of car ownership, I still need to get one of those scraper/brush things. For those in warmer climates who aren't familiar with vehicle ownership in the frozen north, these are essential tools. They have a hard plastic blade on one end for scraping ice off your windshield and a brush on the other end for brushing off snow when it covers your car. It's the sort of thing that I never think about until I need to use it, like when we stopped for ice cream in Red Deer on the way back from Canmore last week in the middle of a snow storm.

On the plus side, I forgot to pay the apartment building people for my parking spot this month and I haven't heard anything about it. I'm curious to see if they track those at all or if they just rely on the honour system.