It's a mystery

Recently Google added Austin to its controversial "Street View" - the feature that not only shows you a map of your selected address - it lets you see the buildings, houses, and (especially in the downtown areas) even people. Of course, being curious, I immediately entered our address, only to find that Google doesn't know where we live. They think we are located some 56 street numbers up the way. But with a little navigation, I was able to locate our house.


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From this view, it's easy to come up with the approximate date that the Street View Crew drove down our street; late December or early January. If you zoom in you can see the little Santa that Julie gave us Christmas standing in the front flower bed. And from the shadows you can tell that it is early morning.

Now here's the mystery. What on earth was the car doing parked headed out on Mom's side of the driveway? I have absolutely no recollection of parking like that. Occasionally we will back in on my side of the drive to load something, or park the car in the drive to make room in the garage to do something. We had not been out and about that day - the light above the garage is still on (you have to navigate to see that). I know that we didn't leave the car out all night - this was during the rash of auto window shootings. And the garbage can is out beside the house. What were we doing?

It's a mystery.