Ace-Garageguy

"Together forever 'til death do us part" is what I signed up for, but the ladies involved apparently didn't...much to my dismay.

Good representation requires your attorney to be very well grounded in applicable law, capable of reading and understanding complex documents, and an innate strength of character so he'll keep going when the battle becomes more than just filing papers and making mumbling court appearances.

Results similar to what the firm of Ditcher, Quick, and Hyde achieves are what you really want from your legal representation.

Stock market fluctuations causing widespread panic and news and social media hysteria. You don't lose actual money if you don't sell. It'll be back.

"Altogether, in the" is an expression meaning devoid of clothing, like Gort, who went everywhere in nothing but his metallic skin.

Kids need role models, and they'll find someone's behavior to copy, one way or another.

Fake or not, that's a beautiful car.

Nice work. Interior colors look great with the bronze. I always loved that thing, and really hoped Chrysler would build it in limited production, like they did with the Viper.

Congrats. That's quite a score. Envy envy.

Good outcomes don't result from endless dithering and indecision and posturing and empty promises.

Back to the past is where I'd like to go; the way things are going, I don't have a great deal of confidence in the future.

Turtle is as turtle doves.

Emblem dem ded foke sos day don rott to fast.

Looking like a good build. I think that particular OBS Chevy is the last really good looking pickup GM built. Clean styling, nothing forced or gimicky, just a truck that isn't stoopid huge, is at the right height to actually work out of, and isn't trying to be a luxo ride. I must like 'em. I have 2 real ones, a '92 extended cab Silverado and an '89 GMC longbed fleet stripper.

Thank you sir. Found a NOS copy in the States, it's on the way.

Thanks. Found a "like new" copy, it's on the way.

Pleased that some prices in my most-frequented grocery store are down, with the sliced ham I currently favor for lunch sandwiches down by almost $1 a pound, and a dozen large eggs down to $4.50.

"Counts" is what one of the sub-apps running in our brains does, and it's the subject of an interesting look into neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth's work with people who've lost their number sense in his book What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math.

...IIRC, the old Modelhaus 1/25 "medium duty" truck wheel/tire set molds were pulled from a 1/32 or 1/35 big truck set that looked pretty good, and scaled out to 17.5" in 1/25.

I think it's a pretty cool color. Clear it, call it "dusty rose metallic", and you're golden.

Not much in the way of irkage yet today, but I have to go out for a bit, so give it time...

Them others is s'posed to taste like pork, hence a cannibal name for human is "long pig".

After the big cold front went through, it's clear and cooler again, 60F high w/ 40% humidity today (had been in the 80s daytime). 30s forecast tonight, kinda cold here for this late in the year. Pretty decent forecast rest of the week, high 70 and sunny Sunday, so either a hike or a trip to the Savoy car museum.

Cool. I want to do some hand-laid dual gauge for the heavy engine and car shops down in the "flatlands".

3 lots of NOS HOn3 "craftsman" kits and pretty decent builtups. For those who may not know, HOn3 is HO scale, but the equipment represents 3-foot narrow gauge in the real world (USA standard gauge is 4 feet 8 1/2 inches, though standard HO track is not exactly to scale). I was surprised to see how spendy HOn3 stuff is these days, so when the opportunity came up to acquire a good number of kits and RTRs at well under half market value, I jumped. My layout plan calls for narrow gauge mining, drilling, and logging operations in the hills, feeding sawmills, crude oil tanks, and ore loaders that are served by standard-gauge railroads as well. Narrow gauge equipment usually has a lot of "character", making it great fun to represent kinda funky backwoods short-lines operating on a shoestring, using full-scale "kitbashed" rolling stock.