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Stef Schrader

@hoonofthe.day
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She of the Puffalumps. Eater of Nuclear Tacos. Porsche Cayenne and Zündapp Janus stan. Texan living in CT. Autos reporter for Consumer Reports. All opinions here are my own, not my employer's. Parshtreon: puffalump.de

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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 01/10/2026
I have a lot left, too, and I think it's my excuse to make tacos (or eat chunks in front of the fridge).
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 01/10/2026
I should just carry around fresh cilantro and queso fresco to make everything better. Put it on my pasta. Put it on my tacos. Put it on my sad bank account. Put it on your grouchy uncle. Put it on the 2026 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Woodland. Put it on the yard. Everywhere. It makes everything better.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 25/09/2026
¡SÍ! (lol that screenshot is how I found this)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 25/09/2026
Ha, you're not the only one to think this, apparently. ...which is how I learned of the SEIS leches cake. SEIS. HOW CAN WE FIT MORE MILKS IN THE CAKE? Is it POSSIBLE?
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 23/09/2026
bro, there are four milks in the cake now *cuatro* leches (props to Lexus for making a cake-shaped indent to prevent any leches from spilling on the way home)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 22/09/2026
There's no way around the salsa, though: it's bad. Watery tomato sauce kind of bad. Makes the mild jarred stuff seem spicy. Not many chunks of vegetables or peppers. Is Connecticut like deep east Texas where you need to ask for the good hot salsa? Please advise.
Mazatlán's watery salsa.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 22/09/2026
Also, I'm extremely glad I'm no longer as much of a hater when it comes to food touching. Not ideal! Note to self: ask for the charro beans in a separate bowl. The beans are the star here, though. The charro beans are fantastic, as is the free bean dip that outshines the salsa served alongside it.
Chips and BEAN DIP?!? that came out before my dinner.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 22/09/2026
YOU'RE NOT AT JARDIN CORONA ANYMORE, BUDDY. THE CHARRO BEANS HAVE ESCAPED CONTAINMENT.
Chicken enchiladas suizas with double charro beans at Mazatlán in Windsor Locks.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 22/09/2026
Trying Every Bowl of Queso Around Hartford, Round Six: Mazatlán in Windsor Locks. WE ARE SO BACK! I CAN EAT CHIPS AGAIN! Wisdom teeth FTL. Anyway, it's white Easy Melt with an occasional but insignificent tang from too-few peppers in the mix. I wish there was more tang and peppers breaking it up.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 22/09/2026
I forgot to eat food today beyond a couple of meat sticks and a Thunderbird bar. The Mexican joint by the airport says they have enchiladas suizas. Let's attempt this.
A note to self posted from Jardin Corona in Austin to find good enchiladas suizas in Connecticut.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 22/09/2026
I might not starve to death after all, folks. I can have chips again.
Mazatlan's chips and BEAN DIP??? The salsa is watery and disappointing, but this bean dip is fabulous.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 20/09/2026
That's not how the engine should sit. Also, at least one axle has ceased to be. (Mazda3 1-2 in Stock FWD, though. It pulled the full Colin Chapman by breaking after the finish.)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 19/09/2026
further skidplate testing was required (I can't quit hitting cones)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 19/09/2026
Go birds? Rally Chicken brought a friend.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 19/09/2026
Ground a bit rough for a tent? Sleep in the race car! Hatchbacks FTW.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/09/2026
Ahem, some of us moved up the Little Tikes racing series ladder. (It was even the correct color, too!)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 09/09/2026
🤞🤞🤞
not my photo, definitely ny Mazda3 (a grey, big-grin-generation hatchback kicking up dirt)

Photo credit: someone on the New England Rally Facebutt group
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 07/09/2026
just trying to make it through all of this crap
Me, holding a paddle above my head while sitting in a blue and white kayak. There is a prominent brown line across the side of the kayak that reaches nearly up to the hole I'm sitting in, likely due to someone poking the bottom of the inlet...or pooping. Maybe pooping? I did not see a bridge with the Dave Matthews Band tour bus nearby, though.

Photo credit: Steve Harrell
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 06/09/2026
The perfect back porch DOES exist! via www.zillow.com/homedetails/...?
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 04/09/2026
"This is where it hurts." screenshot via www.consumerreports.org/cars/driving...
Screenshot from the Talking Cars episode on the Ineos Grenadier, where I (woman in black shirt, left) describe how horse bits work.

(My jaw doesn't let me do this right now because it's still borked from getting all four wisdom teeth removed at once. I am in pain. This sucks.)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 04/09/2026
lol WUT (I have never lived in Delaware)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 03/09/2026
At least the bruises from my wisdom tooth surgery are symmetrical, I guess, and I've been moving up to firmer cheeses! Hooray for cheese.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 28/08/2026
Not sure whose face is puffier: the Puffalumps or mine.
Me, a white woman with brown hair wearing a black shirt, with a swollen jawline from just having two wisdom teeth completely removed and two wisdom teeth partially removed via coronectomy. I am holding up two of my puffiest Puffalumps for comparison: Puff (white bunny, left) and Bob (blue bunny, right). My left hand still has the blue bandage they put over the IV drips that knocked me out for the procedure.Me (brunette wearing a black shirt with a jawline swollen from wisdom teeth surgery, right) holding a white Puffalump unicorn (left).
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 27/08/2026
Also, the listing agent deserves endless mockery for a) advertising it for the lot value and b) doing an absolute hack photo editing job on the listing that added a tan metal roof, brick that extends through the wood at the base of the roofline, and a window that doesn't exist in my old closet.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 24/08/2026
Friendship RESTORED with Mazda3: I found (and yanked) the fun-killing fuse, let a guy codrive my car for day two after his broke down, and just missed out on first place because I hit more cones than said codriver. Good weekend.
The grey 2010 Mazda3 rallycross beater in line for the start.A cone I dragged along for an entire run peeking out from under the car.The offending blue 40-amp traction control fuse, now appropriately marked with a frowny face and NO for next time.Rally Chicken, a yellow Puffalump chick with brown eyes, a pink beak and pink feet, looks up from the right at the wine glass I got as the second-place trophy, which has the Northeast Region SCCA's logo outlined in green.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/08/2026
RALLY CHICKEN SPOTTED! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwfN...
Me wearing a blue VW beanie, a magenta puffer jacket and black pants, holding onto Rally Chicken (a yellow Puffalump chick) for dear life because the winds were extra high. I'm holding up my phone to film the car that's filming me back at Cow Pasture, an open, flattish rock field near the top of Mt. Washington.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/08/2026
bok bok, that's a blurry little birdie being held onto for dear life because parachute material and mountain winds are a dangerous mix lol
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/08/2026
Had too much fun watching the Mt. Washington hillclimb. It's a fun crowd of car people, hikers, and car people who hike. Apparently I'm good luck if anyone needs to set an all-time hillclimb record, too. I'm two-for-two between this Subaru and the ID.R at Pikes Peak, haha. Scott Speed was cookin'.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/08/2026
1th?! Excuse me, according to @theautopian.bsky.social, we're 1rd. Get it right, weirdos.
Headline on https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/elections/2026-connecticut-primary-election-live-updates/3761904/ -- 

NBC News Decision Desk projects Luke Bronin as winning the 1th District House race Democratic Primary

    U.S. House District 1 Democratic Primary

    50.9% expected vote in

    Source: NBC News Decision Desk
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 08/08/2026
Rally Chicken now has a motto thanks to @steveharrellrally.bsky.social: "puff on regardless." I think we will, little Puffalump.
a yellow Puffalump chicken roosting in the center console of a Toyota Crown Signia
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 07/08/2026
bonus work pet, who is one swell stuffed swine
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 07/08/2026
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 06/08/2026
My last Central Market tortilla from the stash. 😭 It seemed fitting to stuff it full of eggs, peppers, onions and cheese to make a breakfast taco.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 04/08/2026
gotta say, a tent in the rain with the Puffalump is one of the most relaxing places ever to be
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 03/08/2026
IT IS THE AGE OF THEO THE SOFT.* [*sleepytime with my snuggly wittle puffy bunny buddy]
Theo Bunny, a blue Puffalump rabbit, inside a dark tent
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 03/08/2026
I did remember the Puffalump bunny, though. (Theo)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 02/08/2026
Using the Rivian R1S as intended: driving into the Berkshires hauling camping gear, a bicycle, and enough IPA to out-bitter Sir Jeppson of Malört.
I should get a bike rack.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 01/08/2026
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 01/08/2026
I'm getting too damn many election flyers in my mailbox. Can I get them to stop? I did a double-take at this one coming from a "Count on Connecticut" PAC based out of, kid you not, a random house in San Antonio. Buddy, that hacked-off shrub deserves more of your attention than my mailbox.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 31/07/2026
New goal: stick a boat in Mianus.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 31/07/2026
Extremely Fluffy Bunny, Eater of Souls-coded art on the coffee shop window. Of course the bunny wants to play with explosives.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 27/07/2026
Practicing my most useful skill: keeping pool water out of my beer.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 20/07/2026
New Haven, CT. 💀 It's almost like being back on the west coast without the joys of more salmon.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 17/07/2026
Heh, someone got both of the poster puffs for the Easter Puffalumps: ebay.io/m/Qer6ow
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 16/07/2026
I love going to physical therapy to stretch out my hunched-over back only to leave in a garbage car whose headrests lean so aggressively forward that I feel like Mr. Burns. There is no comfortable position for the CX-5's stupid headrest. I accidentally yanked it all the way out trying to find one.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 15/07/2026
pretty sure my disintegrating tooth was two-thirds lead amalgam given the CHUNK the dentist removed (plus the bits that already fell out)
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/07/2026
Texan orders extra toast, gets it. [Sickos.gif, yes ha ha yes]
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/07/2026
Screenshot of a man on TV in prayer with the subtitle, "Jesus, I've seen what you've done for Providence, and I want that for Hartford."
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/07/2026
Definitely jealous of the Peoples Cheese Club idea over in Providence. They had a little cheese festival with free cheese samples from a few different shops and creameries yesterday, but their standard meetings are all just "show up with cheese to share, and enjoy."
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 12/07/2026
Get the fun color.
Saabvertible street-parked in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, in metallic lime green.
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