"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." - Benjamin Franklin

The good news: 2019 doesn't have to follow the course set by the first day of the year.
It's never too early for a turn around.

The bookmobile is up to $1,600. The listing now includes pics of the underside and the engine and those aren't doing anything to quell my urge to snag this. With less than 24 hours left in the auction I may have to stay away from the internet for the rest of this day and half of tomorrow.

Maybe this is like the kid who bugs his parents for a puppy and after a week of pestering says, "OK, can I get a new bike?"
A new dash pad and radio for Sally?

On the CBS evening news tonight they did a story on the storm system moving across the country that dumped snow in Tucson AZ today. The map graphic on the screen behind the weather guy showed "Ice Accretion" totals for the panhandle of Texas.
Accretion??
I looked it up. It means a buildup that happens through the accumulation of successive layers.
OK. But wouldn't accumulation or totals have worked better?
On New Year's Day the third string is brought in to do the news so Jeff Glor and whoever comes next can sit on the beach in the Bahamas. Now we know what happens as a result: a guy trying to impress us with words like accretion.

I mentioned in a recent post (last night? I honestly don't remember) that I have a sermon in my head that looks at the Greek verb dokimadzo. When thinking about ways to illustrate its meaning I thought back to a TV commercial for Hanes underwear.
"It doesn't say 'Hanes' until I say it says 'Hanes.'"
The internet is amazing and I found three commercials from that series on You Tube. I also learned that ad campaign ran during the 80's (ugh) and was known as the "Inspector 12" campaign. All Hanes underwear goes through eleven inspections and then has to be OK'd by Inspector 12.
And as evidence of just how far back that was the men's underwear in the ads was whitey tighties.
Oh, and Inspector 12, Polly Rowles, died in 2001 at age 87 in New Hampshire.

It got down to 27 last night and it was 50 in MoHo when I got up this morning. Tonight we're headed to 28 tonight so it's gonna get cold in here again. We've had a low and slow fire going all day to keep it in the upper 60s.
Its time for coffee and snickerdoodles. Just before I go to bed I'll load up the wood stove and shut down the damper hoping that when I get up there will be just enough coals left to get the fire going again without starting over.
We'll see.