Ace-Garageguy

"Labouring" on Labor Day pretty much marks you as a ferriner (if somebody didn't know the location of Winnipeg).

"Retired" is what I'd intended to be at 67, but years later, I'm still working full time.

Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland has some real beauties. Check with the owner Norm to see if he might send parts to the Great Frozen North in first-class mail envelopes. EDIT: He has no website, so you'll either need to call him on the phone, or write for a current catalog with an order form in it. Here's more info: https://modelcar.show/articles/replicasandminiaturesofmaryland

Acetate models from the 1950s or early '60s have almost all warped beyond recognition, or crumbled to dust,

Goal setting at the beginning of each day or work session helps to make make bite-sized, easily manageable pieces of even the biggest elephant.

"Players" is the common name of the cigarette brand that sponsored the JPS Lotus F1 team.

End participation here I may, as it seems beyond the capability of several players to understand and employ the linguistic term "sentence", and thereby trample heedlessly on the rules of the game.

While you have a valid point, of course, digression in any human conversation is inevitable. It's also inevitable that digressions will involve closely related topics, which these are. The common thread is that, globally, we have "leadership" that's never made an honest buck by working for it, probably don't understand how electricity is generated anyway, how an ICE engine functions, or much of anything related to food production, but are intent on telling all the rest of us that we need to completely rethink our approach to transportation, turn our heat off in the winter and our AC off in the summer, and prepare to eat bugs because sheep and cows pollute too much...all in the name of "Saving the Planet". But do you really think the folks trying to shove this baloney (bug-based, of course) down our throats are going to be giving up their personal jets, limos, caviar, steaks, and 24/7 indoor climate control? Think again.

"Eagles have wings to fly" is a sentence; "Wings of Eagles" is not, so try to figure out what "One Sentence Game" means.

Sentence was passed on the habitual rule-breaker.

Nah. The UN thinks you should be getting ready to eat bugs: https://thenewamerican.com/un-let-them-eat-bugs/ "As such, according to the UN study, “alternative solutions” to conventional livestock and feed sources “urgently need to be found.” The consumption of insects — formally known as “entomophagy” — “therefore contributes positively to the environment and to health and livelihoods,” the UN FAO said in its report. It claimed, among other things, that there are numerous “environmental benefits” to rearing insects for food — especially if the bugs are fed human and animal waste. Among the potential benefits: reduced “greenhouse gases” and fewer resources needed to produce insect-based food." "Of course, the UN knows the idea of eating bugs sounds repulsive to most Westerners — it admits as much in the report. The global body and its proponents, though, already have a plan to deal with that. In the UN FAO report, created in partnership with Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the planetary body outlined a giant propaganda campaign that would include “tailored media communication strategies and educational programs that address the disgust factor.”

Crayons are tasty, but hard to digest.

Pass/fail school grading systems discourage the pursuit of excellence, while encouraging mediocrity.

Very nice. Those are wildly underrated cars, and are a vast technical improvement over the previous generation, with great brakes and handling, and clean, timeless styling. Nice other thing...now that they're out of emissions requirements in many locations, the reliable old Chevy smallblock will happily pony up enough additional power to make it as fast as it looks.

Actually, the way things are going, civilization may be a passing fad. Unless people who do know something replace all the leaders who think they know everything, a lot of what used to be the "developed" world is going to be shivering in the dark, eating their bugs raw.

Beautiful work, as always. What's the story on the individual kit sources?

"Day two" is a term used to describe a production car with relatively simple, bolt-on mods performed shortly after delivery.

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Energy costs in Europe and Great Britain are through the roof across the board. Something like 80% of homes in GB are heated with gas, and there's very real concern there won't be enough to get them through the winter, and if it's available, it'll cost close to 4X what it was last year. The entirely unrealistic rush to de-fossilize and de-nuclearize the energy sector, and a dependence on foreign sources, is about to bite many of the world's "experts" in the butt. Gee, I hate to say "I told you so"...

I don't envy you that one. HVAC work was hardly service-friendly on those, particularly anything under-dash. You will likely use every swear word in your vocabulary before it's over.

Subject yourself to honest self-criticism and introspection; it may not solve all your problems, but it will certainly help to understand why you might be having similar ones repeatedly.

I like it. Realistically faded and varnish-peeling look to the wood, too.

"Out of sight, out of mind" is a behavioral flaw that tends to let important things deteriorate completely out of conscious control, and is a flaw I know personally only too well.

"Feels" outrank thinking and reasoning and facts and reality among one segment of society.

I really wonder if American air travel will ever return to pre-bat-flu efficiency. It's been pretty annoying since 9-11 anyway, another case of a small group of fools ruining things for as many people as they possibly can.