…was at a local Burger King with my daughter, eating a cheese burger. Noticed a guy pull in, in rather a hurry. He got out of his truck carrying a bag. I immediately knew they had messed up his order. And they had. A few minutes later, I saw another… Continue Reading Fast Food Driving
What happens when one invents a word to replace two others? Apparently in the noughties and early teens of the 2000’s, we take a step back in our linguistics, and dispose of the new term. There’s a word for for went, gone, go, and goes (etc.) missing. The word is… Continue Reading Went, Gone, Go, or Goes Missing VS Disappeared
…what if I was there all day with a replica ‘helmet’ / ‘hat’ / ‘head dress’? What if there was a web site that had a bunch of products? The head dress, T-Shirts, etc.?
First, the problem, then a question, followed by a bit of context… During the month of December 2017, almost three quarters of the days Bel-Air was selling Duraflame logs, a ‘No Burn Day’ had been declared. So how come the Raley’s company is allowing their Bel-Air grocery stores to not… Continue Reading Spare the Air
The Admission I environmentally profiled someone today. I’ve never done anything like that before. The Back Story I had just finished some major repairs on a Volkswagen Tiguan engine and I began hearing things. No, not voices, but subtle noises coming from the engine. I’ve certainly heard the engine… Continue Reading Environmental Profiling
…but first, a Digression If you’ve worked on cars as far back as the 1980s or 1990s there were several publishers for service manuals. Among many publishers like Chilton, Haynes, and Clymer, Robert Bentley Publishers was at the very top in terms of quality. Size too. Thickness, length, and width. … Continue Reading Adventures with a 2010 Volkswagen Tiguan S ( 2.0 l 16V TSI Turbo Charged EA888 Engine Family Generation 1 – Part III
I’m actually writing this after having disassembled and cleaned everything. And I was right. It was a broken valve spring on cylinder #2. I was also quite satisfied with myself on correctly diagnosing the issue, but that didn’t last long, because this wasn’t a customers car, it was ours. I… Continue Reading Adventures with a 2010 Volkswagen Tiguan S ( 2.0 l 16V TSI Turbo Charged EA888 Engine Family Generation 1 – Part II
Preface I am creating a KickStarter project. I’ve never done this before and I don’t know exactly what to do, but I also know that I’ll figure it out. So here goes. To understand why I’m starting this project, please read this. The Beginning It’s really not that big of… Continue Reading KickStarter; The Adventure Begins
Origins of the Story (context is always important to understanding a story) I just had an evening of frustration dealing with a major update (Windows 10 “Fall Creator’s Update”, essentially Service Pack 4) on a computer that went completely pear shaped. In brief, I discovered that the update ‘broke’ an… Continue Reading Classic Shell and KickStarter