Ace-Garageguy

Four score and seven years ago, I was possibly an earlier incarnation.

Mood rings have been replaced with AI-driven necklaces that glow different colors depending on your mental state.

Holding crustaceans isn't as much fun as juggling them, or wearing them on your lapel, from which came the old song "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean".

Excellent...but I've encountered very few women who could fully grasp the concept (as in if I'm not doing something SHE thinks I should be doing, I'm wasting my time). I've often wondered how so many women seem to think they're automatically the boss. I'm NOT bashing women, but I'd have to assume the bossy ones were Daddy's little Princess who could do no wrong, and grew up thinkin they should ALWAYS get their own way. Just a theory...

"Confusion among the shrimp called 'jumbo' is even worse" said this little fella.

Pretty exciting here...I got a tube of Tamiya white putty. The old one has hardened into a tube-shaped rock.

And at least my Chia Pet is actually alive...sorta.

Agreed. I built one a couple hundred years ago when it was new too. Can make a beautiful model.

Yeah...and I love the expression on the woman's face like "this is so AMAZING!!!! We've really invented something as new as the first wheel here!!!!"

My ferocious feral miniature tiger Tigger, as friendly as a housecat raised indoors, always runs to greet my truck when I come home, then rubs all over my legs and tries to trip me on the stairs, wants to be scratched and petted while he purrs happily, but refuses to come inside on even the coldest nights so far. Trusting humans is OK, but only so far. I get it.

I bought a bodged glooey builtup of this old kit for $3, and decided to restore and upgrade it. It looked pretty good at first glance, like the original builder did a decent job with minimal liquid cement, but when I got it home it became apparent that somewhere along the line somebody else got to it and decided it needed to be "repaired" using half a tube of gloo to reattach what must have come loose. Kinda common when resellers get some of these things and can't leave well enough alone, and fail to realize an actual modeler would vastly prefer to have a bag of loose parts than something fused into a solid mass. Yeah, you can buy a brand new one for around $20, but I really enjoy saving nasty messes for some odd reason. Not too bad, right? Ah, but then when I really got to looking at it and the reality started to show through...as usual what started out to be a quick little job has turned into a major rework. Oh well. It's fun to me, so no complaints. Disassembly commences. The fact that some of it came apart very easily with no damage is due to the original builder going easy on the solvent cement. Just enough to hold things in place while it sat there. But somebody later with a heavy squeeze-paw "fixed" everything.

I hadn't touched a car model in months, maybe because I'm immersed in two full-scale car projects that seem to be dragging on forever. Anyway, I've been back at the model bench a little for several days running, working on restoring / upgrading a badly bodged small HO scale building I bought for $3 that most people would probably have thrown away...especially considering you can sometimes find a perfect NOS kit for less than $20 including shipping. Having a creative break from the car thing seems to be kinda what I needed, and as I'd really rather save junk than start with new kits (as much of my car modeling can attest to), I'm having some fun with it. Glad you enjoy a little train diversion too.

They refer to their company as Salvinos JR on their own website... https://salvinosjrmodels.com/pages/about-us

So...y'all were worried about AI and robots replacing you in your jobs? Well, pets need to be learning new skillsets to stay relevant too:

Ants in your nose are no fun, even if they're covered in chocolate.