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Still alive, sleeping allot, taking my pain meds and watching a little TV when not sleeping. Sorry I did not get to posting a story on the Huge Kia reveal at the LA Auto Show or the Reveal on the Hyundai Ioniq 9. Will tey to get caught up once I am not sleeping so much. Right now only on my cell phone.

Argh. This is a question I almost want to avoid. The A380 is incredible. Yes, I had a roundtrip through AA on British. They have a small economy section at the back, upstairs. Then I flew a one way from Italy to New York-JFK on an Emirates "fifth freedom" flight segment. They have economy taking the entire main level, with none upstairs. Economy seats are a little wider on the A380 ... definitely on Emirates, at least. It was an outstanding flight because of that. On British, I paid for an economy seat upstairs and the curvature of the exterior translates into windows that are too sloped and with an odd and bigger void in between the cabin and the exterior. I will be sitting downstairs if there is a future flight on one. The 747-8 isn't as comfortable in economy because the seats are traditional economy width. I feel more comfortable in one because I know it. It's also much more photogenic all the way around. You feel good when it pulls up to the gate and you see that beautiful and proportioned machine through the big glass windows. The humidification is good on both planes. It's really sad that no more passenger quadjets are being produced. It's easier to get onto an A380 if Europe bound (British, Lufthansa, Emirates, and others via connections, with Air France holding back). For a 747-8, Lufthansa is the only choice and I am grateful to them for that.

My car has a supposed 525 mile highway crusing range on a full tank (19.5 gallons). I haven't fully tested that since I tend to fill up at 1/2 tank when on road trips..but I have recorded averages of 29.5 and 30 mpg on road trips, which is pretty good for a comfortable 4200lb AWD sedan..

I really find this stand quite attractive. Would probably do well for my Stereo equipment.

Boeing is screwing itself.... Car makers are going to have a rough go of it

Wild 1950's design, not sure if I sent this before.

I own everything that I want to own that is imported at the moment. The two big ticket (moderately) items that I wanted (set of speakers, and a bandsaw) bought used at a great price. Other than a stylus from Japan (Nagaoka) for my turntable, I doubt I buy much that is imported. I own a ton of clothes. See, if I could figure out which knee is bad, I would be happy. About the time the left one heals up, the right one starts getting sore. Sounds like it is a great year to hike, listen to music, and do woodworking. I have a huge stack of lumber, 800 LP albums, and several pair of hiking boots. The entire thing is an operation in stupidity. Cutting federal jobs, and Social Security/Medicare will have adverse affects as well. I don't want to get into politics. Done being invested in it at this point. Want to retire to Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, El Salvador, Uruguay, Portugal or Spain. Living for the day I can hike every day rather than work.

I need to live multiple lives. Always wanted to do drag racing, but got into autocross and SCCCA stuff instead. So if I could go back and live again, one future/alternate live would be lived a quarter of a mile at a time. America has become an idiocracy. “I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark