The Black Market - It's amazing what you can buy!

 "No man is so foolish as to desire war and not peace.  For in peace, children bring their parents to the graveyard.  In war, parents bring their children to the graveyard." - Herodotus

The Big Easy

 "But this I know: If all mankind were to take their troubles to the marketplace with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own." - Herodotus

1999 Subaru Legacy Engine Heater and Timer

"A society prospers when men plant trees whose shadows they will never rest in."  - Ancient Proverb

Half a Sunday

 "Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man." - Bertrand Russell

Quick update, late January 2024

 "The US policy toward the third world should be depopulation." - Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of State

After the cold, snow

"The poor tell us who we are, and the prophets tell us who we could be.  So we hide the poor and kill the prophets." - Philip Berrigan

Asteroids

 Pretty cool NASA interactive web page, showing all (known) asteroids orbiting the sun.

 Highly recommended if only for a brief visit!  https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home

Below:  Asteroid Ida, Imaged by the Galileo space probe in 1993, while on its way to Jupiter.

Life in the washing machine 'spin cycle'

 "It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron." - H. L. Mencken

Another nickel plating project

 "The things you need are few and easy to come by; but the things you imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied." - Epicurus

Goals for 2024

 "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau