A visitor asked in the comments of a Learning to Drive post how things are going, so I’m taking that as a prompt to stop being so damn lazy and post an update about how I’m doing.
Lemme get the things I’m weary about out of the way first before I move onto the general positives.
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TrackbackHere I am reviewing an MP3 player. That doesn’t sound particularly special, but I never thought I’d buy an actual, dedicated audio player. Not because even tennis balls these days support audio playback, but because I don’t really care for music that much.
I do go through bouts of listening to music – loudly; typically vocal trance and that sort of thing. What’s changed is that I’ll be doing a lot of gym work at some point and I hate to chuck weights around without music blaring. Using this flimsy excuse, I decided to buy a new toy.
Let me just quickly mention something before I start. This review has the potential to be gigantic, so I’ve restrained myself somewhat. I’ve not really mentioned the company, the history of their players, and so on.
Comments rss TrackbackUpdate 1: Re-worded/wrote the ECA Stack section and added a new bit to it.
Update 2: Another update to the ECA Stack section.
Wow, jeez. What a morning. Nothing much happened, per sé, but I’m still feeling the effects of a particular experiment. More on that later in the post.
Comments rss TrackbackLesson seven was just driving around and ensuring I change down gears at the correct point on approaches to certain traffic features. Not sure why I kept trying to change gears earlier than I should – maybe I’m tying the gears to the car’s speed too much.
Lesson eight did more driving and I seemingly had gotten really good at it. Driving line is fine, stamping the accelerator more, etc. Then I did something really fucking stupid. In fact, twice, but only the first time was mind-blowingly dangerous.
Comments rss TrackbackI didn’t do separate posts for lessons five and six because they would’ve just been like lesson four. That, and doing a new post every time is becoming a bit “meh” as it’s the last thing I want to do after constantly concentrating and driving.
Comments rss TrackbackNervous. Anxious.
The way I was feeling, you’d think I was about to head into war. Screw trying to calm down, and instead jump nut-first into a bout of theory question and hazard perception binging.
I spent all morning going through various parts of my Driving Test Success
Next!
Comments rss TrackbackI’ve just finished my last lesson of the RapidPass beginner’s course. £50 for 6 hours, spread across four lessons as I opted to do them in 1.5 hour sessions. 1 hour simply isn’t enough, so I’d say go for 1.5-2 hours if you’re still deciding.
How did it go? Why, lemme start by saying “Holy bloody shit”.
Comments rss TrackbackThird lesson was done this morning. Got another in a few hours. How did it go?
Before I start, lemme recap on the previous instalments like a crap American reality show. It took me around 15-20 seconds to find the biting point each time due to how slow and cautious I was being with the clutch release. My feet flailed around while keeping both the clutch and gas at biting point when I looked around the car in preparation for moving off. I had to always look at the gears when changing; kept reaching for the handbrake as I kept thinking the gears were located there.
Comments rss TrackbackI had my second lesson yesterday, about 2.5hrs after my first. The main reason for this post is to fully explain the problem I’m having that I somewhat mentioned on Twitter. Oh, and I did a load of roundabouts and a couple of T-junctions in this lesson. But anyway, onto my post that is basically me having somewhat of a tantrum.
Comments rss TrackbackOh bejeezus. I’ve just had my first (1.5hr) driving lesson. Absolutely terrifying.
The car I’m learning in is a new, white diesel Fiesta. Other than hitting my knee getting in and out of the car on the steering column, it’s a nice car. My instructor was great, too.
Those two nice things didn’t stop me entering the panic zone an hour in, though, did they?
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