In our last exciting episode you may recall that I was asked to come up with a variation of "my" paint scheme to fit an SD90MAC.  The first one rolled out of the paint shop of the rebuilder's shop in Kentucky this week, and I went down to have a look at it...

You may recall that I was not keen on the idea of putting the logo on the nose.  I felt the ( Read more... )

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I am sick!  An annual ritual of sorts.  Last Tuesday or so my head started to feel like a pint of mercury had collected underneath my brain and was sloshing around in there.  My head ached constantly, and every movement of my head caused a split-second of loss of balance  No nausea, no congestion, no sinus, no sneezing, no coughing, nothing else.  ( Read more... )

If I were to find myself with a fortune that would allow me to have servants working in my home, I would only request one thing from them every single day:

Freshly laundered bedsheets.  Every night.

One of my few indulgent luxuries.

My current domicile has all sorts of plant life encroached around it, ranging from things I simply don't know much about to things I have never seen before.  The two bushes that sit along the back edge of the backyard fall somewhere in between.  The first springtime I spent here, one lazy day I happened to glance through a window toward the ( Read more... )

Friday I made my last payment on the Jeepster.  Four years and about 100,000 miles later, from Taconite Harbor, MN to Pittsburgh, PA, from Marysville, KS to Guelph, ON.  Here's to four more years and another 100K miles.


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I. Dance.  Like.  This:

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I need to check out more stuff by King Geedorah.  I like what I'm hearing here and in other YouTubes.

Today's idle wandering landed me in a large bookstore.  One of the categories listed atop three sections of shelving intrigued me:  Christian Fiction.  What is "Christian fiction"?  Besides the bible?

I should have investigated further but the thought of how curious that was did not strike me until after I had left.