Ace-Garageguy

One of the more annoying things in life you'll realize fully over time is that even if you're the good guy who's careful and responsible, you will always pay a significant price for what the idiot-lowest-common-denominators do. ILCDs are the reason many seemingly-unfair-and-unnecessarily-restrictive laws and policies are on the books.

Possible outcomes of any given situation are not always positive in reality.

Yes, but if you're considering using the kit engines as stand-ins for other displacement first-gen Pontiac OHV V8s, have no fear. The popular 326-389-421 engines are all outwardly visually identical, with only bolt-on parts being different appearance-wise from 1955-1981 Quoting Wikipee: Pontiac differed from other GM Divisions and most other manufacturers in producing only a single sized V8 casting, rather than adding a larger big block to its line-up. The external dimensions of all their V8s, from 326–455 cu in (5.3–7.5 L) were the same. EDIT: Though there some short-deck oddballs in later years, and the early engines featured "reverse cooling", the basic engines will interchange visually in 1/25 scale.

Time travel isn't for folks who can't deal with change.

PM'd...but It needs "FREE CANDY!!!" spray painted on the side...

Google probably knows way more about you than the gubmint does, and so many people seem to have no problem with that...or posting the most intimate and private info on social media. I really don't understand most things people seem to "think" most of the time.

Nothing worth carping about yet...but it's early.

Work is hard and sweaty and icky and in general should be avoided, so become a rich yootoob influencer.

Enthusiastic employees are nice, but competent employees will let you get more sleep.

Successful business owners often work many more hours than their employees.

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"Don't make this any harder than it has to be" he growled as he tightened his grip on a short length of rebar.

Yeah, this time of year my house usually starts to get overrun with the little ants that smell like formic acid when you squash them. I've found a non-toxic (to humans and pets) liquid bait containing boric acid that gets rid of them in a few days. It works better than anything else I've ever tried. This year, I've got the big black ants that are almost large enough to be pets. They go for the boric acid bait too (not all ant species will), and at the moment the house is pretty much ant free...but we're having a lot of rain, and that's usually when they get worse.

Tall chickens tell no tales.

"About 5 pounds" is the punchline to a silly joke that posits the question "what's a henway?".

Before everybody's phone had GPS and access to Mapquest and Google, it was much harder to find your way to Boldlygo than it is now.

Football-stuffed turducken gives another layer of chewy leathery goodness to Thanksgiving dinner.

Potatoes would have to be pretty big to be stuffed with a turducken.

School ain't what it used to were, speshly when it comes to teachin reedin and rytin and rithmetik and jograffy and spellin and syunse and stuff.

Day Tripper was a Beatles song.

Dreamers who never take the hard road to reality don't accomplish much of anything.

Plugging a few more holes on the exotics shelf. Never had a whole lot of interest in the flared and bewinged Countach, but I always liked the clean first production version. Read the reviews, then bought both the 1/24 Aoshima and Fujimi Enthusiast versions of the Lamborghini Countach LP400. At first glance, I slightly prefer the Aoshima kit. Interestingly, and contrary to the reviews, BOTH kit bodies appear to be very well-proportioned and are almost identical in form and line. There are things I like and dislike about both kits, so maybe what gets built as a stocker will be a best-of mashup, and the remaining parts will go to build some insane hot-rod.

Night used to be good for rest and sleep, but lately not so much.

Mooooooooo...

1/24 Testors (Fujimi) Ferrari Dino 246 GT. I had high hopes for this one, but when it came in, I immediately saw the roof was partially crushed and the body is warped from something pressing down on the box for a long time (absolutely could not have happened in shipping), and the windshield was broken into two pieces. Very disappointing. No biggie on the windshield as I can make a better one easily enough, but the roof and warp add an order of magnitude of difficulty to building it...if I even CAN save it. Waiting to hear back from the seller to see whether he'll make it right. Half the reason I bought it was to have a 246 (already have the 206 Pininfarina Competizione), and half was to get the transverse-mounted Dino engine to pull molds from, to put resin engines in several Lancia Scorpions. Ah well. Life.