"You can only be young once, but you can always be immature." - Dave Barry

I watched a YouTube video about removing axles with a C-clip setup like I have. It's never a good thing when the guy doing the demo says, "Whatever you do, don't let this piece fall out."
Yeah, this is going to be fun.

My MacBook Pro is almost eight years old and in an accelerating death spiral. The power cable is held together with electrical tape, the second battery is dying which, the way a Mac is built, means the touch pad doesn't respond to clicks, the color wheel of death makes hourly appearances, and if I have more than two programs running at the same time they don't run.
Yesterday we went to the Mac store in Eugene to explore options and came home with a new MacBook Pro. It's not really new, it's a certified used machine one model back from the current unit, but $300 cheaper. It will do everything I need, has a new keyboard, battery, and top case, and twice the memory of my laptop. Now I have to figure out how to get all my data across. The store will do it but the wait time is five days. So I got an ethernet cable and some instructions I didn't understand. (Computer store people speak a foreign language that sounds a lot like English, but isn't.)

The refrigerator we got with MoHo is the loudest frig in. the. world. In a space as small as an 840 sq. ft. single wide that means turning up the TV every time it runs, and yelling "WHAT??" if that happens in the middle of a conversation. Because we hope to build our tiny house in the next couple of years we can't justify replacing this one, even with a used frig, but it has made me think that we'll pay attention to the noise level of the new one we'll get. Going down to 600 sq. ft. makes it that much more important.

Here's a pic of the truck in Barnette. I took it last Friday after it was unloaded from the AAA tow truck. I wondered how it would fit and the answer is "just barely."

And here's a pic of the truck up on jack stands ready for me to pull the axles tomorrow. By the time I got it to this point it was 3:30 and I was too tired to tackle a job way over my pay grade.
Yeah, I'm perfectly comfortable working underneath there, in what the forecast suggests will be a steady drizzle. Good times.

I got three walls of mi gallinero framed, with only the front wall with the door opening left to go. I'll be at Lowe's when they open at 6 a.m. tomorrow to get more 2x4's and the vinyl tiles for the floor. Then I'll tackle the roof framing.

I take three pills every morning and three more every night. One lowers my blood pressure (a.m. and p.m.), another lowers my cholesterol, one boosts my thyroid, the aspirin is supposed to reduce the risk of a heart attack, and ... I can't remember what the other one does. The cholesterol and bp meds keep those levels within recommended guidelines established by some important people somewhere.
Now that I'm on medicare and paying more for Rx I'm wondering anew if I really need those pills.

Our bodies are very different inside and out. Tall, short, narrow, wide, light, dark.... My family thinks I have a pretty amped-up metabolism, and Pam thinks it's totally unfair that I can eat as much and as often as I do without gaining significant weight while she looks at a picture of broccoli and puts on five pounds. I did 100 pull ups a day for several weeks and still looked like a skinny freak, while my younger son (who works out like an animal) is a hulk.

So why do those experts say my bp numbers have to be within a specific range? My lower number isn't supposed to be above 90, and when they discovered it consistently ran in the mid-90's they put me on a med. Because I had a blockage in one smaller artery they put in a stent and told me the normal cholesterol guidelines - a number below 100 - don't apply to me. I need to be below 60, and that requires a statin.

But what if my body does just fine with a bp of 140/93 and a cholesterol level of 104 (where it was before I started on meds)? I can outwork most 40-year olds, my weight is low, and except for that one incident, which seems to have been an electro-cardiac event, I've enjoyed good health. So why do I have to spend this much money on meds?
But wait! There's more!
Recent studies are saying the same thing. These decade-old guidelines turn out to be based on misconceptions and errors about everything from diet (whole milk is now OK) to cholesterol levels. Now there's evidence to say a low-fat diet may be counterproductive to overall health. So do I really need to be taking these meds??

Doctors and computer store staff have a lot in common.