"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives." - Samuel Johnson

It didn't rain here until late afternoon, just like they promised. After the coffee shop this morning I went to work on the truck. Before lunch: getting the differential filled up with gear oil and her rear end back on the ground. In my garage that would have taken less than an hour, but with the truck outside on dirt it took over two.
After lunch I got the bad radiator out and the new one installed. I didn't get it filled up; that will wait until I can start the truck and get the coolant circulating. But with those two jobs completed I *should* only have little punch list items before the truck is road worthy.

And in case you were curious, or even if you weren't, this is what happens when a radiator shop in AZ welds up a $375 radiator incorrectly so that the bottom of the core is too close to the fan blades. And in that battle between blade and core the blade will win. You'll know that by the coolant flying out of the bottom of the thing.


I've very rarely regretted what I didn't say. I tell myself "Just shut up" a lot, too often after the fact.

I saw this pic on Facebook this morning with a post from one mom to another that said, "Let's do this with our kids next year." I had several thoughts:

• These are homeschool moms. Yep. And after clicking through to read the article I learned that the gal who came up with it also home schools.
• It shows how little I know about chemistry that I can't think of any benefit for memorizing the Table of Periodic Elements. I've never thought, "If only I knew where cadmium fell on the Table." (Is cadmium even an element? Now that I think about it, isn't that those chocolate eggs they put out at Easter?)
• Why do they keep adding new elements? I read recently about two or three new elements created in the lab that were going on the Table. I thought they were things that existed in nature, not that got created by some guy in a lab coat.

What do old people mean when they say, "I'm living on a fixed income" and say it like that's some kind of special restriction or burden. Unless someone works on commission isn't everyone on a fixed income? When I was a pastor or a professor my income was fixed; I got the same amount every month. Now I'm on Social Security and...I get the same amount every month. It's lower, but I don't hear old people say, "I live on less income." 

Sometimes I got a raise, an increase of a certain percentage. Works the same way with SS if the COL goes up. 

I've never understood that phrase.