What are you doing today? (besides shopping)

Got the 352k mile truck through the state inspection again. Good for another 2 yrs. Goal now is to at least make 400k miles.

Made in the USA baby!

Side note for car people: the Evaporative emissions drive cycle doesn't need to complete to pass inspection. Other tests such as EGR, Oxygen sensor, Oxygen heater, misfire, etc. do need to complete and pass their drive cycles.

A drive cycle emission test is a special test drive designed to allow a vehicle's onboard diagnostic (OBD-II) system to run self-tests, or "readiness monitors," to confirm that emissions system repairs were successful and that the systems are functioning correctly.

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House, yard and garden stuff. Can I catch up?
"Office" tasks. Payments to be made and phone calls to make

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/22/2025 04:14PM by prince.
Still wrestling getting my 4 classes for fall semester up and running in the school's LMS (Learning Management System.)

And in the final stages of revamping an online education environment I maintain for the non-profit I'm with.

Have synthesizers, will travel...
New week, new effort.

Track online minutes & figure out how to change and/or reduce them.

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
I'm paying my portion of govt. taxes today...

...so that I can have my govt. control the border according to existing laws, define that a woman is one of only two sexes, clean up our cities, impose tariffs on countries fairly, reduce unnecessary bureaucratic burdens, and project a strong presence of peace throughout the world. Happy to contribute to such improvements.
Staying up late to revel in cool, rainy evening. Love this!

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
This is the 51st season of SNL. What. It seemed like better news than the latest school shooting. And, it prevents a wee diatribe about the warping of Matthew (... suffer the children and hinder them not... does not mean make them suffer and die!)

Ahem.

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)


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Regarding the school incident...

...and what isn't readily reported by the biased media; the accused (who committed suicide) was known by the parents to have mental health issues and identified as trans. The parents were divorced. The parents are not cooperating at this time. A condo in SW FL, owned by one or both parents was entered by FBI.

The only way to help prevent such incidents is to address the root cause, mental illness. Thinking, for example, that there are more than two human sexes defined by nature is not helping.

Denver Shooter - Trans
Aberdeen Shooter - Trans
Nashville Shooter - Trans
Georgia Shooter - Trans
Philadelphia Shooter - Trans
Iowa Shooter - Gender Fluid
Uvalde Shooter - Trans
Colorado Shooter - Trans
Minnesota Shooter - Trans

Transgenderism is not a civil rights movement; it’s a social engineering experiment.

The time for discourse is over. The solution is obvious: It’s time to bring back the asylums and lock up the mentally ill. During the peak of America’s asylum era crime plunged to all time lows. If asylums are coupled with extended prison time for repeat offenders, crime nearly disappears.

@Shop-et-al wrote:

This is the 51st season of SNL. What. It seemed like better news than the latest school shooting. And, it prevents a wee diatribe about the warping of Matthew (... suffer the children and hinder them not... does not mean make them suffer and die!)

Ahem.


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I'll be home today, cooking, prepping food for our big extended family Labor Day picnic we're having tomorrow....we do ours on Sunday and those who have to go back to work on Tuesday, truly do get Monday for chilling and relaxing. Food, badminton, horseshoes, corn hole, sangria....it's a fun fest.
Hiking for the third day this week. Golfed 3 days. Garden is suffering.

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
Several loads of laundry, and changing out two sets of blinds in our living room. Cooking up some bone-in ribeyes later for supper.
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