Took a daytrip to Kentucky yesterday.  It perpetually mystifies me the way that Moonshine's Sony sound system will play some cuts from the keydrives I have, but not all of them.  Really I wish I knew how to remedy this issue.

Just south of Corbin, Kentucky on Highway 25E, at the used car dealership named Slusher's, there is a Chevy Astro van painted up as Scooby-Doo's "Mystery Machine" in all its quasi-hippie glory. I didn't stop to see whether it was for sale, or if so what the asking price is, when I went by there Sunday.

Today was almost a KiffieScopeTM-worthy adventure, but I'll have to wait till I get my own computer back to be comfortable about writing it. But some paths were quicker than others...and I went nowhere. Somewhat slowly. I needed better actionable intelligence.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 1, 2009 The coming week will have something to offend and agitate everyone -- except you. Whines and moans and yelps will ring out across the land, even as you're emanating poise and aplomb. You may be tempted to brazenly exploit everyone's vulnerability and seize control of your corner of the world, but I ( Read more... )

Had an idea overnight to put lady's old antenna underneath the new one on the mast and splice the coax lines, so we'd somehow get the signals from one or the other. We tried it. Didn't work ( Read more... )

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Yes, day-trip is done. And I may go back again next Monday ( Read more... )

Road trip to Kentucky.

Moonshine: Vroom!

What to talk about...

* Sent a letter and some goodies to Sempai Mike.

* Saw my DVD of Ramrod To Emden the other day. It's an okay documentary, but not up to the level of Thunderbolt or the original Memphis Belle* Spent a good part of yesterday cutting the clicky bases off my collection of Mechwarrior: Dark Age miniatures, so I could repaint/ ( Read more... )

Buddy Stanley and I were at Leisure Time Hobbies in Corbin today...

They have piles of old plastic model kits, most from the past dozen years or so.

Stanley was amused at the Nineties-vintage reissues of the old MPC Gigantics dioramas, in which they show bigger than life critters in menacing poses among urban scenery and props ( Read more... )