"I read part of it all the way through." - Samuel Goldwyn

I read a headline on USAToday.com: "Coach to acquire Kate Spade for $2.4 billion."
Turns out Coach has nothing to do with athletic teams or a 90's sitcom, and Kate Spade isn't a pop singer, or even a person.
Life is getting too complicated. The good news: this isn't a story about human trafficking.

Did you read the story about the unmanned U.S. military plane that just returned from a flight that lasted two years?! News like that makes me wonder. If it was, as they say, a secret mission, why do we know about it now? Why would the military tell us anything about it now?
How did they refuel it? And if it didn't need refueling how can I get that technology into my Kia?
If our military can do this kind of thing what else are they doing that we don't know about?

I had a horrible night with a coughing fit that lasted from midnight until 12:45 when I decided it was OK to re-dose 15 minutes early. I was about ready to go out to sleep in the car so my coughing didn't keep Pam awake, but this morning she said she slept through it. I do not know how.

Aside from goat chores I spent the day working on Sally, focusing on the passenger door. On a '66 Mustang the door card is only that center section with the chrome strip around the perimeter; the rest is painted metal. My card was trashed, so I took it off. Then I lubed and aligned the window regulator, adjusted the stops for travel up and down, cleaned, taped off and painted the metal surrounding the card with the correct factory color black, and then put it all back together with a new card and a new arm rest to replace the badly cracked one. Looks very good, the window goes up and down smoothly, and the freshly lubricated latch works as it should.

It seemed like every task I tackled on the truck turned into a problem - I'd hit some kind of snag and/or have to come up with some make-do solution. Sally is refreshingly cooperative, compliant. That sure makes restoration a lot more fun.

We watched another BBC detective show on PBS last night that we'd recorded over the weekend. "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries." Again, very different from anything our side of the pond produces and much better IMO. (Pam agrees) No sex, almost no violence, just an interesting and fairly cerebral solving of a crime. I think we're now up to four or five different versions, each a little different and each almost always better than anything on the major network or cable channels.

I understand that manufacturers need to update the OS of their digital devices from time to time. What I don't like as a new interface that sends me hunting for things I could find instantaneously before the update.
And why can't a given program - Gmail, Chrome, Facebook, etc. - look the same across devices.
Am I a grumpy old man?