Ace-Garageguy

Art classes I took in college taught me some history, but much more importantly, how to use #11 X-Acto blades much more accurately than I'd ever done before.

"Perpetrator" is often shortened to "perp" in the tough-guy cop shows, lessun they're a callin' the wrong'un a "bad actor", but none of the cops I know talk that way.

Show me the money, and I'll show you a trail of corruption.

"Faster, faster; the lights are turnin' red..."

Publix has worked well for me over the years, as their frequent "buy one, get one free" pricing determines a large part of my weekly menu choices. I just got back in after spending $89.67...which would have been $36.96 MORE without the BOGO savings. That's pretty significant...and I eat quite well, quite healthy. My local store is only a mile away too, so I'll often walk if I don't need more than 20 pounds or so of stuff.

The wreckage was recovered, and the boat has been entirely rebuilt. The article below was posted in 2015. https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/13315884.behind-the-news-restoring-donald-campbells-bluebird/ Here's a video from the 50th anniversary of the crash.

System failures all across the electrical grid could be brought about by malicious hackers.

Real pretty...but now there's a new must-have on my list.

Monthly expenses could be reduced if I'd just go hungry more often, and I'd probably look better too.

Beautiful sunny day here today, and I saw the first robin of Spring. I'm trying not to let the fact that it had been smashed flat by a car dampen my enthusiasm.

Amazing. Also amazing...the Publix-brand lunchmeat I favor for workday sandwiches went from pushing $9 a pound down to under $7 again, about where it was in early 2021. However...HO scale code 83 Flextrack in 36" lengths has gone from about $7.50 a couple years back to pushing $12 today. So glad I don't like eating the track anymore.

Lives of celebrities are usually of little interest to those who have a strong sense of personal identity and purpose.

Nada flippin' thing...which is pretty consistent with every day for months...but I'm going to clean up the bench this AM, just in case...

"Clever" is a lever to help move obstacles in life.

Plausible alternate-reality-with-airplanes? Sign me up.

"Procrastinator" in the dictionary has a picture of me.

Eventually, we're all going to be food for worms.

Business as usual then, eh?

And resold for $10 for a pack of three as "scale fuel filters". PS: Not all diodes have a "glass envelope". PPS: Resistors have been used to represent fuel filters on model cars for decades too. Small carbon composition resistors (once very common and cheap) painted silver or another color, look close enough to aluminum-can or translucent-plastic fuel filters to pass quite nicely.

Sorry to hear that Carl. Hoping it goes away soon.

Funny...but to be fair, BOTH of the wheel-falling-off episodes have been older aircraft where design or manufacturing deficiencies would most likely have shown themselves much earlier. That's not to excuse the NEW aircraft failures of the MCAS system or the fuselage door-plug blowout, and the alarming number of manufacturing QA/QC and process issues the FAA is uncovering...but the wheel-excursion episodes appear to be, initially at least, symptoms of entirely different shortcomings, most probably maintenance-related...which is NOT Boeing's dog. Unfortunately, most of the news outlets staffed with people who know zip about aviation or engineering are more than content to lump everything that occurs with a Boeing product together under the same heading. EDIT: Anyone interested in taking a deeper dive into the MCAS mess from a couple years back, click here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

Decade after decade, general intelligence and average T-levels have been in decline.

USPS has apparently reorganized its "logistics" practices in my region. Though the packages I referenced above have now been scanned into the system, NONE of the items have been delivered yet, some going on two weeks from one state away, and two more seem to have fallen into endless loops of abysmal stupidity. Somebody explain to me how a package can go to the Atlanta distribution center (15 miles from my local PO, and where it used to take ONE DAY to get from there to my door), and travel back and forth to the WRONG TOWN 3 TIMES, and another one to A DIFFERENT WRONG TOWN TWICE so far. If any of these were from the same vendor, I'd suspect there was a problem with addressing, but they're ALL from different originating POs. I'm really impressed with the apparent now system-wide incompetence being demonstrated. EDIT: And to anyone who thinks I'm too critical...YOU try to make a living being dependent on timely delivery of parts and materials THAT ARE NOT AVAILABLE LOCALLY, and tell me how YOU like it when your stuff now routinely goes MIA.