A Horse With No Name

With all of the ambient noise, good enough is good enough for an automotive audio system for me. For years I drove vintage muscle cars, service vans for work, and played with sports cars on the weekends. Fairly high ambient noise. The stock system in my Ranger does OKay with stringed instruments, I mostly listen to classical music when I drive. If I ever got a car like a Cadillac I would want a really premium audio system. However, I really want to buy a Wrangler or Bronco for my next car. Lots of places I want to explore with 4WD. Ambient noise level off the chart again, especially with all terrain or mud tires. YMMV. A little bit of bias, yes. I have no issue with Benz cars, they build some awesome stuff. I have issues with people being Benz fanboi's just for the sake of being a benz Fanboi. But I ahve the same issue with vintage Mopar guys, Jeep guys, diesel truck owners, Miata nerds, etc. Love what you want to love, but don't shove it down my throat. Same concept works really well for the three "toxic" subjects of sex, politics, and religion.

I buy Grado headphones. They are made in the USA by a company that has been owned by the same family since 1953. https://gradolabs.com/headphones I find I really enjoy listening to headphone music at times. Just me and music, nothing else.

I love McIntosh stuff....but it is pricy... I would take this over anything built in Asia or Europe. But funny... Yeah...not a Bose fan myself. That's the nice thing about home audio, 90 or 95 % of a really good system is available fairly readily. Very happy with how my home system sounds.

I love European architecture.

Unreal....

Pontiac with patina, Craigslist find... Neat pic, from ana rtistic standpoint.

Today....

From local Craigslist advert....

And was a nightamre to repair with the Hondas.... I love GM styling from the 60's, I had a great aunt who had a similar car from the Era. She almost lived to 100, and drove the car until 1995. She nwas born in 1897... You have 24 Foot rather than 24 inch dubs....would be perfect for the everglades, and with wheels that big you wouldn't have to worry about the Battery packs getting submerged. 24" vs 24'.... Gm had a lot of great ideas back in the day...

Cobra, you knew Shelby content was coming in somewhere, right?

The woodworker in me and the Carpenter in Balthy can appreciate this. Thankfully I ahve a couple of really good local places to buy lumber. Hurst Olds, for Olds hurst!

Interesting Wall... Available locally, this Era of Truck never looks bad... Pontiac love, in this case 65 GTO. Neat vintage picture...

I worry about all of the stuff going on in Florida, not just from a political standpoint. My 10 year old niece goes to school in Florida, she is in quarantine for 14 days because the girl next to her in class came down with a serious, serious case of covid. Hard times we live in, a lot of it self inflicted. But I really feel for my niece, not meant to be a political post. Just feel a lot of compassion for people in Florida right now. Just like Jimmy Carter tried to be Christ like and had his Borther Billy.... Neat Corvette model, some guys don't like Yellow cars, I do...

As a guy married to a gal from Western New York (Buffalo Suburb of West Senneca) I would agree on the Canada thing. Saw a gorgeous 70-72 Yellow olds cutty ragtop out on the road, thought of you... As an electrician, I fully appreciate this....given Davids love for Asian and Asian esque women, I think he will appreciate them also. Although the lady in green looks like she is maybe from Georgia and the lady in red looks like she is from Out west, maybe Colorado or something.

Given how reliable the old 3800 V6 is, this would make sense.

Now then....

SSR... Emiliano Achaval turned this. I love his work.

"Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy." ~Pema Chödrön Mike Allen, who I know from Facebook, built this. It is amazing! I love the model work and the picture.

I really liked the vibe of seattle when I was out there.... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/world/asia/maki-kaji-dead.html