Yanmar Tractor re-assembly

 "Every hour be firmly resolved... to accomplish the work at hand with fitting and unaffected dignity, goodwill, freedom, and justice.

Banish from your thoughts all other considerations.

This is possible if you perform each act as if it were your last, rejecting every frivolous distraction, every denial of the rule of reason, every pretentious gesture, vain show, and whining complaint against the decrees of fate.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life?  Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more." - Marcus Aurelius

Replacing a Mercedes ML320 oxygen sensor

 "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus

Chilling out with the snow melt

 "The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts." - Marcus Aurelius

The difference

 "Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy.  Their continual attention to others' behavior shows how they are boring." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sea Story #1

 "While we wait for life, life passes." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Neat Christmas gifts...

 "You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.  Don't expect to encourage good deeds in people conscious of your misdeeds." Gaius Musonius Rufus

Compressor Stall on Industrial Turbines

 "Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, of insincerity or the desire for something which has to be veiled or hidden." - Marcus Aurelius

More darkness, corrected. Plus Air Compressor Parts!

 "I laugh at those who think they can damage me.  They do not know who I am, the do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live." - Epictetus

OMG Omicron is making employees quit!

 "The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.  Skillful captains gain their reputation from storms and tempests." - Epictetus