"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do." - Joe Walsh

How did he get there??

I've never been accused of sentimentality. Pam will tell you the word romantic isn't a great fit. OK, maybe curmudgeon has been used on occasion - especially toward the end of December. (Andy Rooney made a pretty successful career out of curmudgeon.)
But this is one of the nicest stories I've read in a long time. (The holding hands part, not the part where they're dead.)

I wasn't happy with the whole throttle assembly. Parts were missing, others were badly worn. Today's mail brought $10 worth of parts and I now have a completely new system, from pedal to linkage to cable to return spring to clamp. For that matter, because I have a freshly rebuilt carb everything from the sole of my shoe to the intake manifold will be new. Doesn't mean it will work, but it's new. (The skills of the installer are always a potential issue.)

You know that plastic lid on top of the coffee pot for a countertop coffee maker? Did you know that having that lid in place is essential to the proper operation of the coffee maker? Turns out that absent the proper placement of that lid the coffee does not go into the pot.
Oh, the things a husband learns when his wife is visiting her mother. (And she doesn't even drink coffee.)

I downloaded Google Chrome this morning. So far I like it. I miss some of Safari's features but it was the appetite of all those clever extras that ate up memory. So far the color wheel of death has disappeared. I suppose if I added memory Safari would work fine but the cost/benefit ratio doesn't work. This machine does everything else just fine.
Chrome is even faster than Firefox, still offers tabbed browsing, and unlike Firefox, responds to the finger swipes that make navigating on a Mac so easy.

Brain Bender

Rangers in six. Sorry, Albert.

Here's a map of Greece. Note the location of Corinth, located on what is called the Peloponnese, as in The Peloponnesian Wars. That little peninsula of land is separated from the main part of Greece by what is now a very narrow canal that was dug so ships could be pulled through. That's because the seas around the south of the Peloponnese are notoriously rough.

In the first century several unsuccessful attempts had been made to dig that canal through what was already a deep natural fault line, a canyon. With their limited engineering skills and equipment all they could manage was a long ditch deeper than the natural fault but not down to sea level. So they laid logs across the ditch and dragged ships over the logs, like roller bearings. But even that was better than sailing around the south of the peninsula, and as a result Corinth was, in effect, a port city. It was this strange bit of geology and human design that made the NT city of Corinth a place where sailors and merchants from all over the world lived, each bringing the worst of their respective cultures.