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Andrew Cross, known to a half-million YT subscribers as "Desert Drifter" for his videos exploring remote regions of the desert Southwest, on foot, died March 4. His death came shortly after being disconnected from life-support, following a traumatic brain injury sustained when his vehicle was hit by a drunk driver a month earlier. He was a cool guy, stopped in traffic, minding his own business. Make the most of every minute. You just never know...

Clean your feet and other bits that are prone to stinking.

Some few years back, somebody gave me a bunch of B&D rechargeable-battery tools. I thought it was a nice score until I tried to actually use them. Pretend "tools", from my perspective. Decades ago the brand made decent stuff. Typical. Buy the name, cheapen the product as much as possible while "offshoring" production, run it into the ground. Happily for me, most of my 30 to 50 year-old US-made tools still work fine. EDIT: Somehow, we need to break the popular illusion that cheap offshore-made goods are actually worth buying. You don't always get what you pay for, but you ALWAYS pay for what you get. Quality costs more.

"Carburettor" means a magic metal thingy with irrational demons living in it to most of today's "mechanics", but few of 'em ever really understood the theory, operation, and tuning of carbs anyway.

Relatives who are greedy crooks will steal from you just as quick as from anybody else.

Show me the way out of this nightmare.

Life choices made early on without sufficient thought can have lifelong negative consequences, so think before you jump, kiddies.

Bank rules require them to report certain cash transactions to the gubmint.

Morning would be easier to deal with if it came in the afternoon.

Hypocrisy. You have to be pretty stupid...and devoid of self-awareness...to chastise other people for what you do yourself.

Dress for success.

Paper the news was printed on was useful for a variety of applications but tended to leave black deposits behind, and it's a moot point anyway now that nobody can read.

Yup, I'll be watching too. Should be a real treat to see what you do with the chrome on the rear fins. I expect impeccable craftsmanship, as usual.

Sorry your dad's wife was in such a hurry. Kinda looks to me that if somebody really cared about him she'd want the best possible disposition of the things he loved in life. I keep making those stupid assumptions about people. Sadly, the world doesn't usually work that way. Great idea about doing a commemorative 4-4-0 display on that piece of rail. Something like this...? EDIT: Since it wouldn't need to run, here's a pretty good starting point. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335886866503?_skw=ho+scale+4-4-0+steam+locomotives&itmmeta

Pretty cool. You really have to look hard to see any baby 'Bird in that.

Cars have been brought me much pleasure and profit, and have also been the bane of my existence.

Clock slime is good to lube the hair on your tongue after licking furries.

Going out to get the groceries, I heard the hoot-owl who seems to come around every spring and fall.

Skipped both breakfast and lunch today, running on lard.

"See Spot turn green as he moulders in the grave" said the Dracula Valley Elementary School reading primer.

"Lives with spiders up her nose" is what they used to say about my old aunty Grimm.

"Blow The Man Down" is an old sea shanty.

"Re-railed" is what ultimately happened to some of those tank cars that went astray in Palestine, Ohio some time back.

Rambling in a vintage Rambler that has fold-down seats might be an interesting way to spend part of retirement, and a sure way to get noticed by law enforcement wherever you stopped to get 40 winks. Postie be hanged, I quit.

Having spent a large part of my professional life designing and engineering and fabricating stuff that was not only functional, but also easily serviceable, I just don't get it. Good thing I'll be dead soon, eh? EDIT: The guy in the vid demonstrates that the bulbs can be accessed in literally seconds by going through the fender liners, so 'splain to me why the factory "service data" doesn't reflect that? Intentional ripoff of the owner by the factory department that prepared the data (to justify insanely inflated dealer labor prices), or just total incompetence? It's one or the other.