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Here's to hoping you had a good one!!!

This comment was posted today in response to a "no start" problem with a 1940s era Ford 9N farm tractor.

Another way to answer your question: air serves as a dialectric in the spark plug. High voltage (you DO know about the secondary on that coil, right?) causes the dialectric to break down, permitting current flow ( Read more... )

Prank Video via Lauren.

Hope you have a fantasticilicious birthday!

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An over zealous caretaker has put out pansies in the flowerboxes of the 3-story condo across the street.

It has snowed a couple of inches this morning. More expected on Saturday.

If I die before you
which is all but certain
then in the moment
before you will see me
become someone dead
in a transformation
as quick as a shooting star's
I will cross over into you
and ask you to carry
not only your own memories
but mine too until you
too lie down and erase us
both together into oblivion.

Galway Kinnell

Reflecting on the agonies of love, I was reminded of my first kiss. It was S&C freshman year.

I remember calling my parents the following morning, unable to contain my sobbing.

So much has changed since then, yet the fundamentals have remained the same.

Yay! Hope you're having a fantastic day. If we coulda we woulda drunk green beer witchya.

Love, ck