Wasn't a terrible friday at all, phew. Saw my old orchestra teacher (in his new Miata hardtop ) while filling up at the Texaco gas station ($3.15/gal premium, ouch!), an average day at work and school.

Speaking of brakes, I'm still on my first set for the X3 which has almost 40k miles Wow I better wear them out before the maintenace expires....... And fln8tive, you know the BMW speedo always reads optimistic right? Still fast though, and its a good thing you've got tall gearing. 115mph in top gear is ~4750rpm in 5th IIRC for my X3, though more importantly 4th gear is 5500rpm at that speed because 5th is utterly useless for top speed accel. Heck, 4th isn't great up hills. Alas, its a 2.5 liter engine burdened with 4200lbs of SAV.......can't expect much. I wish I had a V8.