"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Franklin P. Jones

Got this from my brother today. Truth.

We've been married almost 45 years. I've only been me, and we've only been us, so I can't say what it's like for most, or any others. I just knowI'm not very good being by myself.

If you have the opportunity to buy anything from Lowe's labeled "Project Source," don't. Especially if it's track lighting.
After the electrician wired in the 3-way switches (I would never have figured that out!) the track lights worked; OK, two of the four worked. I knew it wasn't an electrical problem because they all get powered off the same track and it clearly worked. After messing with one of them for too long I discovered that if I got it in just the right position it would come on...until I touched the last one. Then they all went out.
They're all working now. One of them isn't aimed quite like I want but I'm not touching it again. I'll learn to live with this rather than spend another hour playing light show.
The next step in Fred's rehab is to get rid of all the boxes with stuff that's been moved from the second bedroom to the chicken coop to Fred. Some of it will get tossed and the rest will have to find a permanent storage place. That's going to be tricky. I don't see myself using a compression gauge again, but it seems wrong to just toss it. I've got more than a few things like that, items left from restoring 100-year old houses and 50-year old cars.
Wanna come pick through what I have?

I have an insurmountable problem with Hillary as a potential president. Her views on social and economic issues are way too liberal (is progressive the preferred term now?) for me. I feel strongly that the unborn deserve full care and protection, that a free market system, though not without problems that require safeguards, is by far the best course, and that the nuclear ,"traditional" family forms the base for any stable culture. I can easily agree with key Democratic principles, like equal pay for equal work and the necessary role of society in helping to care for the truly disabled, whether the problem is physical or mental. But government is not the solution to every problem, and the more centralized the power the greater the risk for the intrusion and abuse of that power.
Hillary Clinton's has made her guiding principles clear, and I cannot agree with most of them.

I have an insurmountable problem with Donald as a potential president. I don't know what his principles are, unless personal advancement counts. In the past he has supported Democratic candidates, including some of the same people he now opposes. He explains those financial contributions as expedient from a business standpoint. He has supported a woman's right to an abortion under any circumstances, a position he abandoned in 2011, about the same time he began exploring a run for president as a Republican. That's also the point when he changed his position on gun control. In his 2000 book "The America We Deserve" he advocated for a single-payer health plan, but now calls for the repeal of Obamacare. I could go on, but do an internet search for "Trump changing views" if you haven't already noticed that pattern.
Donald Trump supports whatever advances his personal standing, serves his ego. If that requires a 180 degree shift he'll make that change. "The Art of the Deal" seems to include saying whatever works best in the present situation. If expediency in the pursuit of self advancement is the greatest good I can't know what I'll be getting in return for my vote. How can I know what Trump 6.3 will be, or what positions he'll take?

Yeah, I've got a problem.