Robert Hall

Yeah, the stupid f*ckers that are in the KY bourbon industry all voted for Trump, and now they are whining about the tariffs destroying their business. F them, they got what they voted for. Same with the whiny-ass Midwestern farmers that voted for Trump. You reap what you sow..

The black SUV in the last pic is a Rolls Royce Cullinan...definitely a Hollywood bling wagon for people with too much plastic surgery and money...maybe a Kardashian or Kardashian-adjacent. That 80s Riv convertible is sweet as is the silver '62 Impala.

I'll never forget the times I've gone across the pond on BA 747s...or on trips to Hawaii where I walked through the open air concourses and they were parked close by, where I could see them relatively up close and huuuuge...love those bigguns.

Would be cool if Cadillac would build a CT5 V series wagon...

As far as modern wagons go, I found the recent Volvo V90 quite attractive.

It's too garish visually, IMO. The RS6 in a solid blue looks much better to me..

My Cadillac dealer sent me a holiday card...hmmm...a bit of a glaring error on the front...

That green Genesis wagon is gorgeous... would love to see a Cadillac sport wagon again.

With cars, I do like dark metallic gray on luxury sedans and sports cars, esp with red interiors (I love red interiors—so uncommon today)… but those light battleship grays and matte grays…ugh.

One of my sister’s friends has gone overboard with white. Both her Michigan lake house and Florida house are all white inside, walls, kitchen, white carpet, white furniture, white trim, white dog…a bit much IMO.

I can see black/gray thing being popular in the PNW with it's preponderance of gray skies and cloudy days (which I see a lot of here in Cleveland). Colorful is out with cars also--all the boring whites, blacks and grays with black wheels, black out trim, etc that is so trendy and so boring... Maybe it is part of the overall gloom and doom pop cultural themes of the current era..zombies and post apocalyptic themes are everywhere.. I had my dark and gloomy phase in my early to mid 20s in the 90s with college and grad school beneath gray gloomy NE Ohio and SE Michigan skies, listening to a lot of goth, industrial, metal and grunge music.. But I still liked colorful cars like my red Mustang.

Yeah, I like natural woods where possible..not too dark and gloomy. Brick or stonework around fireplaces (not painted!)... the whole paint everything shades of gray or black aesthetic is so not me. I also don't like everything bright white..the hospital aesthetic isn't for me either. Or austere unfinished concrete walls..I've seen that in some modern design houses, hideous IMO.

I can't stand gray or black trim or wall paint inside (or outside) a house... gray has been trendy for at least a decade, and black has been getting more popular in recent years. Yeeech..

Speaking of end of year hardware buys, upgraded my home office w/ a Dell 32 inch HDR 4K monitor...thinking of rotating one of my 24 inch Dell monitors vertically for email and Slack. I have one 24 inch Dell w/ my Mac Mini, may hook a 2nd 24 inch to it if I rotate the other vertically.

My sister has thought about wintering there..she's doing 6 weeks in Myrtle Beach next year, her 4th year down there. Not as warm as Florida, but an easier/shorter drive from Cleveland.

I haven’t been there since I went to Disney for my high school grad night in 1988. Never cared for central Florida, but always will like the Keys and Miami/Miami Beach. Haven’t spent much time in the rest of the state other than St Augustine and Daytona Beach which I liked. I want to go to Amelia Island for the Concours de Elegance.

MAGATs love the big pickups, though, especially in red states like Texass...can't see that changing anytime soon..they aren't going to switch to EVs.

Interesting that a couple top people at Tesla quit this week, the manager or lead engineer for the Cybertruck and one of the other appliances left.

First snow of the season today. Never got above 32F. Sun came out and got some graupel this afternoon. Snowing again this evening…

Expecting some Lake Effect snow tonight into tomorrow and Tuesday. Tuesday is a holiday, odd to have a day off in early mid week like that.

Walked out to check the mail and noticed the neighbors down the street have a full driveway…judging by the red balloon, either a kid’s party or an ‘IT’ watch party or both. What made me laugh is it’s all white, silver, gray or black CUVs. The predictable American suburban consumers…

Heh heh..I've done a couple of those quizzes... got New York one time, Massachusetts another time...both would be fine for me.

Speaking of ‘Dead EVs’, I heard on a couple different podcasts that Ford was considering dropping the Lightning, sales are tanking? Overpriced and overhyped…

Yeah, small terriers make me happy.

I grew up with cats and dogs, we had 'barn cats' that lived in the barn and they'd come around the house occasionally. We had mostly big dogs when I was growing up (German Shepherds from age 7 onward, Doberman Pinchers when I was very little), and a Miniature Schnauzer when I was very little. Decades later, my sister had a pair of Siamese cats that got along well with her pair of West Highland White Terriers. Spending time with her in AZ got me into small terrier breeds--from the Westies to a Silky and an Australian Terrier to a series of Yorkies, with inexplicably a Chi mix and 2 more Australian Terriers over the last ~17 years.