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Random truth for Monday. Not just in Politics...

Per the birthday list, today is NINETY EIGHT REGENCY's birthday. Have a great day, Landis, and keep cool down there by the Gulf!

So much sad in the world....something happy for the moment.

Even love the color and stance of this one!

Too nice for the HD lot. This euro trash is fine for picking up bags of mulch tho :

I miss going to coffeehouses. There was a really good one in downtown Ann Arbor and one in Colorado Springs that I spent a lot of time in my 20s-early 30s inhabiting. The Ann Arbor one I would hang out at with other PhD students to study and talk, and the one in Colorado Springs I hung out at with several friends I worked with at 3 different companies, we spent a lot of time coding and planning there back in the dot.com era...

I think it's great that coffeehouse culture has become a part of Americana. And it's not only chains like (cough). It's so many independents that have rounded out the scene. There's good coffee, good tea, some food, a place to read, a place to work on a laptop, and usually a relaxing vibe. You can't beat it. This is one thing we've really done right in the New Millennium.

One of my favorie jets, I love four engine birds... I plan to do a good bit this fall.

Last week I saw a Lincoln Mark V with a personalized plate with something like "79 MARK V." It appeared in excellent condition. Nice to see something of that vintage still on the road.

^ I knew about the sloped nose used on the ‘76-77 fastback coupes, but didn’t realize the 4dr was available with it. Fascinating. I wonder if there was a wagon with that nose also?

I was on the freeway, so couldn't take a photo. We should all be scanning our surroundings and rear view mirrors when we drive. (I know ... I am not your mother.) So, earlier today, I saw this unusual front grille a ways back in my rear view mirror. It was one of the less popular mid-'70s Cutlasses with a sloped front ... a Cutlass S. I expected it to be a coupe and have the triangular window and a fastback rear back lite. Not. It was a sedan. That was rare. It was in really good condition. With the cursive lettering in the back, it was a '76 and not a '77. As it pulled away from me (possibly a 350 V8), it had a rear sway bar. It was almost exactly like the one in this photo: What were they thinking? Who'd be taking this car with wheel covers and whitewalls into some rugged Western canyon?

‘55 Chevy in the parking lot at Marblehead Lighthouse on Lake Erie. Also saw a sharp purple '57 Bel Air 2dr ht on the road, a gorgeous red '64 Bonneville convertible top down rolling along, a white w/ blue stripes '04-05 Ford GT, and a very clean red w/ red interior '87-89 Mustang GT convertible.

Saw this derelict ‘70s Fiat Spider on a transporter today..

College towns tend to have good indie ones, and which are usually funky and frumpy. People in that demographic don't want to go to Starbucks unless they don't have other options.

Need to go camping……

I found this a couple of days ago. It becomes a great video when this beautiful airplane lands and you can see all 4 thrust reversers in action. These things were a big deal in just coming from Madrid to New York, Miami, Chicago, and Los Angeles during the summer. It was an even bigger deal for these bigger Airbus planes to routinely go from Spain to Central America, Brazil, Buenos Aires, and Santiago de Chile. This plane (the 600 version) was a little bit longer than the 747-400. However, the latest 747-800 has reclaimed that distinction. I flew on this one summer, with the U.S. service provided by American, and picking it up in Chicago on the outbound and returning on the long flight to LAX. This is an incredible machine, with a more comfortable 2-4-2 seating arrangement and those 4 big engines providing the power. As they are being retired, I realize how much I will miss the Airbus 340.

Guess this means their God cannot heal everything!

I edited the above post to re-post Rawlings... I didnt feel comfortable with the so called joke I posted earlier... It wasnt THAT funny and it certainly wasnt proper. It was racist in nature, and I am NOT racist. It didnt have a place in here. So out it went!

> Incest! < That’s not incest, it’s a xenophobic aversion to multi-cultural diversity. ?