Yanmar 155D Tractor update

 "Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those that are to come.

Existence flows past us like a river:  The 'what' is in constant flux, the 'why' has a thousand variations

Nothing is stable, not even what's right here.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see

So it would take an idiot to feel self-importance or distress.  Or any indignation either.

As if the things that irritate us lasted." - Marcus Aurelius

Institutional Failure

 "Small-minded people blame others.  Average people blame themselves.  The wise see all blame as foolishness."

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Don't say you weren't warned...

 "So you must match time's swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Subaru nuts, bolts, and rust

 "Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day - especially death - and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess." - Epictetus

Telstar

 If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct it.  If it be a lie, laugh at it." - Epictetus

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 "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Dispatch, pilot vs. operator, and leaks

 "Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.  Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you.  Sanity means tying it to your own actions." - Marcus Aurelius