Ace-Garageguy

Thanks once again for the interest and comments. Always means a lot getting positive vibes from you too, Dennis, bein' a real-car builder an' all. EDIT: Engine, gearbox, and front suspension are on the bench. Photos within a couple days most likely.

Job performance doesn't seem to be much of a criterion for continued employment these days.

"Ladder" is what women used to call a "run" in a stocking.

Local Wednesday relief mail carrier. The fact is that just about everything in a box that gets here on a Wednesday is either mis-delivered, or there's some bogus marking like yesterday's "delivery attempted, no access". Odd that packages are normally left on my porch, which is accessible 24-7.The Wednesday relief mail carrier (the great regular guy's day off) either simply can't read, doesn't understand numbers, or won't get out of the truck.Delivery problems occur on average 3 times a month. I've complained in person and filed complaints with the Postmaster's office, to no avail. The local supervisor always makes excuses about the competence of this one driver. So...ummm...how does this moron keep his job?I'm on the way to the PO to see where it is. Most likely the regular carrier has it (though it hasn't be re-scanned out-for-delivery), and it will probably get here today. But I really have enough to do in my own life without having to back up a USPS slacker two or three times a month too.

Proclaim, do I, 'tis far better to have legitimate first-hand or in-depth knowledge on a variety of subjects and be branded a "know- it-all" by know-nothings (and smug, self-righteous, over-"educated" midwits whose "expertise" is one-dimensional or mostly derived from internet rebleatings) than to be one of the latter.

"Diplomat" is a job that often seems you get based on who you know, as opposed to what you know.

Mood enhancing substances can be physically addictive, and that includes naturally-occurring ones like endorphins, released during pleasurable activities. .

Freud had some interesting ideas and theories as to what makes people tick.

Before comes after bethree.

Yup, pretty much the universal problem. It's highly skilled work that doesn't pay great, as is resin casting well. Far as casting goes, you need to have a broad enough product line so that something's always selling if you want to even think about making a living at it. That takes a whole lot of up-front work in masters and molds, and after all that, the products you like may not have much market appeal. Then there's the growing problem of being unable to find help that has any kind of physical skills, or interest in learning any. But out of 330,000,000 people there's not even a few?

Love that somebody else dealt with the non-sequitur.

She sits right.

Mo' debinately.

"Checked in da mail" is something I hate to hear.

Diet and exercise have been shown to help control type-2 diabetes.

My "tool storage and organization" is a lot like military planning. Everything looks great until the battle actually starts, then rapidly goes all to jell.

Best suggestion yet...and you get the rest of the kit to boot, all for about $35, shipped to your door Original: Recent modified reissue:

Free the whales, and eat a peach.

Yup, not cheap. But quality of the parts I've bought from him justify the cost.

Money doesn't grow on trees, but the way some folks spend other folk's bucks, you'd never know it.

Them pigs ain't gonna turn theyselves into chops and bacon.

Thanks for the interest and comments, gennelmen.

Yup, what he said.