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Ya Know… Mother Nature you can be a real pain!

For the past four weeks, I’ve been having my car washed over the weekend.

And every single Sunday night it’s rained. Not the gully washing, rinse your car off kind of rain. It’s the misty congeal the pollen and dust in the air onto your car kind of rain.

So I get to have my car all nasty and streaky for the rest of the week.

Mother nature, Thanks for the rain… could I make a little request?

Could you hold off until midweek? Please?

I like the rain and all, but i’d like to get through at least a couple days in San Diego where I enjoy a clean vehicle.

It might even be nice to be able to drop the top on the way to work or on the way home.

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Gee it’s nice to have Income!

Unfortunately, I’ve got stuff breaking left and right, and all of it is expensive!

These devices were clearly just waiting until I could think about getting them repaired. I’m good with that, but I do wish they’d staggered their breakage a little more evenly.

On the plus side, everything held together really well, on the down side well … cash is going out as fast as the checks clear the bank!

cést la vie!

Tomorrow, Bits & Pieces of the car. While I’m at it, I’m going to get a quote for new tires and find out how much a new clutch is gonna cost me. Gotto start setting aside cash to cover those things. no complaints here, I’ve gotten absolutely great milage out of this set of tires, and over 100K on this clutch.

The clutch is original and thankfully I’ve not abused it. But nonetheless, these parts do eventually wear out. I might as well know what I’m looking at.

Tires, hey I know folks that go through tires faster than some people go through socks.

(That is not a hole in my sock… It’s additional ventilation!)

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3AM Working Schedule

OK, 

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At first it sounds brutal, but there are some advantages. 

1) No traffic!  Boy! Is that nice!

2) It was a cool night, and being able to move at freeway speeds made the commute really bearable.

3) Coming home, was OK even at noon. Once I got on the freeway it was a breeze. I was able to get to the bank, the first time in 4 weeks. 

The downside is that other people in the complex have normal lives and so it’s a bit noisy until about 10:30 so that makes it hard to sleep.  There is another issue, in that my system has always hated radical schedule changes, Today is no different, the last couple of hours at work were a bit uncomfortable. That too shall pass and it is… ahem.

I have to get to bed kinda early so i could in theory have an early dinner with friends but wouldn’t be able to party hardy 

Another problem is that as the Summer gets hotter, I’m going to have to run the A/C which will be a bit more expensive especially without a nest thermostat. Gotta see if the complex will let me install one.

Generally, I think I could get used to working the O’ Dark Thirty schedule. So after this mentoring thing is over, I’m probably going to request to stay on the graveyard schedule.

Hey I like the dark and it occurs to me that I could be writing for a couple of hours in the sun. While I might be working a Vampire schedule, I don’t have to worry about bursting into flames in the sun.

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Things will be even more off Kilter

New Job, New Schedule.

3:00AM to 12:00 PM So I will see the sun, but I won’t be seeing any TV (Daytime TV SUCKS!)  

Come to think of it that’s probably a good thing! At least I’ll be insulated from the antics of our so-called Presidential Candidates. 

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In the back of my head there’s all these klaxons and warning bells, about my finances and my life augering into the ground.

PULL UP! PULL UP! PULL UP!

There’s the rumor that a $2 premium per hour is paid for working the night shift.

I’m hungry enough to take advantage of it.

So there may be more blogs. I’ll be able to spend some time by the pool after I get home from work. On the other hand, I may be just so dog tired that I’m not up for writing.

Only time will tell.

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Old Television WOW!

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I’ve been watching ME.tv occasionally.

They have all the shows from my childhood.

Back in stone age we didn’t have the ability to record TV shows. So if you had family stuff and weren’t home at 8PM sharp you’d miss such classics as Lost In Space or Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

As a kid I looked forward to Lost in Space every week.

As an adult…

Lost in space

Is it me or were the Robinson family the absolute WORST drivers in the Universe? I mean how many times did they crash that poor ship?

My parents didn’t let me watch Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I know my Dad would watch it sometimes I can remember falling asleep hearing the theme song, and wondering what adventures I was missing.

Watching those shows today is almost painful.

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Their concept of computers, and radiation alone was uninformed to say the least. I can’t count the number of times Admiral Nelson was exposed to the Seaview’s core. With that much exposure he probably could have been the core.

The computer I’m writing this blog on, sits in my lap, has a processor board not much larger square, than a pack of cigarettes (of the time) and runs 6 hours on battery. 

Considering that these shows were being transmitted into space for 50 years, any planets with life capable of interpreting TV and radio within 50 light years must have put a big red “X” with a caption “Psychotic Apes, don’t go there,” on their maps of our star system. 

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As I’ve noted, The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 is one of my favorite movies. Not the new one, the original, with Michael Rennie. 

One of my favorite quotes is;

It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration.

I’ve often thought that it would be interesting if we received that message on every radio and TV on the planet.

It would certainly give us pause.

It would also answer a couple of questions.

We’re not alone, and we’re not likely to be visited.

None of which, decreases the guilty pleasure of seeing these shows from their imagined future.