Ace-Garageguy

Snack calories can really add up quick, and may make the difference between a successful fitness program and a permanent "I can't lose weight" jelly belly.

Snow makes everything seem clean and quiet.

Beautiful piece of model building.

Somewhere along the line I did measure it, though I've forgotten, but it is indeed somewhere between 1/18 and 1/20. Which makes it a great starting point for similarly shaped but larger "championship" cars of the period in 1/25 or 1/24. I'm pretty sure somebody on this board has built one. Just as an aside, I have a vacuum-formed kit of the 1941 Indy winner co-driven by Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose. The kit came to me with no packaging, so I don't know its maker, and the one-sheet line drawing of the real car that came with it doesn't specify scale, though it's clearly 1/24 or 1/25. The point is that held side by side, it looks very much like the old Monogram Midget body was the basis for the buck the vacuum shell halves were pulled from. I also have a built-up chrome-body model that appears to be a midget, but I've been unable to find any info on it to date (though I haven't tried very hard). EDIT: Found it.

Unlikely some things I was looking forward to will come to fruition...though anything is possible...but at this point I really don't care.

Beautiful so far.

"Him" is a word that can get you in a lot of trouble.

"Color inside the lines" is a skill that should be mastered, along with general eye-hand coordination, before one tries to create "great art", but that now seems to be an obsolete concept.

"Natural" is certainly an overused word in marketing, and I'd really like to see the plant that some things labeled as 'natural' come from. (A young Cheeto plant) (A mature Cheeto tree, below)

Sweet truck. Is there a build thread I missed?

OK. Got it.

Doctors and lawyers are frequently as logic- and reading-comprehension-challenged as a large segment of the populace, which is pretty scary if you consider all the implications.

Writing legibly is becoming a lost art, but has been for some time among MDs on prescriptions. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37308401/

"Subject to change without notice" is often part of the fine print.

Zebra costumes are popular with giraffes at Halloween, but they don't fool anybody.

I gotta try that.

Spaghetti with pesto made with basil from my micro greenhouse...

Museums don't hold much attraction for the phone-addicted.

HIM was a Finnish gothic rock band from Helsinki.

Free Willy !!!!!!

Bar is where I'm heading later this afternoon if the day keeps going the way it has so far.

Hershey bars cost 5 cents when I was a kid, and I think they've risen kinda faster than inflation.

Wash your hogs and they'll still stink as soon as they wallow in the pigpen.