Ace-Garageguy

Makes me think about building a steel-roofed steel garage with a 10,000 gallon rain-capture cistern and a couple of decent sixed pumps.

Novels about spies and crime and and science fiction and fantasy (like the Wheel of Time series) take my mind off the day's rampaging baloney and help me get to sleep.

I tried it eons ago, and so many people I didn't know (or care to) dumped their idiocy on my page, I quit very early on.

Pavement where black ice was a coupla days ago.

"For he's a jolly good fellow" they may have sung at his retirement dinner, but he's actually a grumpy old skinflint always crabbing about something.

Icing by USC is still my favorite polyester glazing putty.

Beta.

"Mind your manners" is a phrase that, these days, might as well be in Swahili.

Pea-emmed.

Pocket change won't even buy a candy bar these days.

Meme generators have been using AI-ish technology for some time, and it shows in some of the illogical and scrambled syntax.

"Not on my watch" said every pencil neck dwerble who wanted to sound like a tough guy after he heard it in a movie.

Which is pretty much my whole point. There is no GOOD reason to put everything in a car on the same network where one small failure can disable the entire vehicle. None, zero, period. Just like the oil-bath toothed "rubber" timing belts that are falling out of favor, it was embraced by the automotive industry, monkey-see, monkey-do, because it was new and different, and helped to ensure rapid unsupported system obsolescence and therefore lessened used-car usefulness, reliability, repairability, and value...not because it was more robust, cheaper, or lighter as is widely rebleated. And although a lot is written about "robustness" and "fault tolerance" and "wiring simplification", anyone working boots-on-the-ground in the post-warranty service end of the automobile industry knows this to be largely bull.

For every potential disaster, there are basic levels of preparedness that aren't difficult, and could make the difference between life and the alternative.

"Situations" have the potential to become disasters.