"You can always tell a real friend. When you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." - Lawrence J Peter

That employee is telling them they can't use the drive-through. I know that from experience. Once on one of my bike trips I tied using the drive-through rather than leave my bike with all its gear sitting outside while I went to the counter. So I got off my bike and walked through that lane. I was the only one there but the guy at the window told me he still couldn't take my order; regs prohibited it. ONLY vehicles. When I asked him why he had no answer.
Typical of so many rules.

I've come across some really disturbing things from the news media lately. Earlier in the week the Today Show did a segment on advice from "experts" on sleeping through the night and they gave a short list of things you should never EVER do if you want to sleep through the night. One was obvious - don't check your cell phone.
But you should also not get up to go to the bathroom. The experts say that just the act of sitting up causes your brain to go into wake mode and makes it very difficult to get back to sleep. So you should just wait for the urge to pass.
I tried taking their advice. Somebody needs to tell them that a soaked bed ALSO makes it difficult to get back to sleep!

Then this morning USAToday.com had an article about the number of states closing their freeway rest stops because of budget issues.
So now I gotta drive for hours at a time sitting in a soaked seat???

Hey, nobody forces you to come here and read this.

There's this guy who has a YouTube channel where he explains how various parts of your car work. I've watched a few of them and they can be interesting. He goes to a junk yard and gets the relevant pieces off a car, takes them back to his workshop, and takes them apart to show how it all works. The one on windshield wipers was especially enlightening.
Today I watched one on brakes, from the pedal to the wheels. This one was not good, and I think he knew it. Part of the problem was that hydraulics are just this side of witchcraft and involve mysterious dynamics that allow force to be applied at one end of a tube (line) through the movement of a piston, come out the other end of that tube (line) against a bigger piston, and push with greater force that was applied at the front. Huh??
Yeah, he missed with this one.

I had a 7 a.m. video appointment this morning which meant a drive into Starbucks because our satellite internet connection won't support streaming. And that meant giving the goats their morning grain and alfalfa ration at 5:30 instead of 7:30. I'm not sure they're a fan of still-dark feedings, but the lure of grain overrides even that issue.

On the drive in I thought about the recently departed truck. I spent almost three years and more money than I want to know rebuilding Every. Single. Part. of that truck. I had too many headaches, well beyond its theft on the trip from AZ to OR just this side of completion. So why am I sorry to see it gone and more money than I prayed for in my pocket?
I guess I was proud of the final product and now won't get to drive it around town and have people admire it.
Pride of Life right there.

I tackled the first significant job on Sally today, replacing the front shock abosrbers. It took an hour to figure the best way to get it up on jack stands and the wheels off. I did the left front shock first and discovered that the old one had totally failed and had no resistance at all. The right front took one quarter the time because I knew what would work and what wouldn't. One of the mounting bolts for the shock tower is stripped and beyond repair short of a spot weld, something I can't do. But the way the thing is laid out I don't think it's critical. It was, after all, like that before I started.
I'm curious to see if I notice any difference with new shocks when I drive Sally, probably Monday.

This old WA guy was happy to see Gonzaga win. Now, can the Ducks pull it off?
Oh, the tension.