I would expect all three to be back in service before too long. The rear ones look pretty decent, so I expect them to be back as soon as they get a spot at Altoona to shop them. At 432,000 pounds for the first locomotive alone, the beam never had much of a chance. The 3 locos weigh over 1.2 million pounds fully…

I can walk over to one, the other is a 30 minute drive during rush hour. The next one is about 25 minutes from that one. In NW Ohio and SE Mich, they aren’t hard to find, just look for the GMC truck places and Buick is there too..

My last 4 Dodge experiences, 2003 Ram 1500, 2008 Charger R/T, 2010 Challenger R/T, and 2018 Challenger Scat Pack experiences have been pretty pleasant. No real games being played, just the hardish sell on extended warranties. I was happy with the first 3 vehicles, and my present one is almost paid for and has had zero…

The cruise ship companies, in a lot of cases, are really terribly run. The problems some of their ships have is both scary and amusing. I’m a ham radio operator and I had a series of converter boxes that decoded a bunch of digital modes used on HF (High Frequency, AKA Shortwave). A lot of the stuff that could be…

If just one of these beef substitutes actually tasted like....meat, I would be on board. But none of them do, a lot of the ones I’ve tried have a very noticable green beanish aftertaste that is a total turnoff, at least to me. Maybe the lab grown will do what so far, the plant stuff fails at. I don’t hate all the…

A friend of mine had it done a long time ago and still has all kinds of problems from it. Halos, starbursts, etc, he drives with one eye at night. I had some probems with “rays” after cataract surgery, but it was solvable with the YAG laser and I have had no further problems. He’s going on 15 years of hassles with it…

Best car I drove this year:

I’m the opposite, Pepsi over anything, every drink. When I go someplace that has Coke, I usually just get iced tea. I do like Diet Coke better than Diet Pepsi, but that’s like the question, “What cancer would you prefer sir?” Pepsi Zero Sugar is the only diet soda/pop I actually like. At least like a little bit. Diet…

I’ve had a couple of really good experiences from dealers over the last...wow, it’s getting close to 50 years! The first was when I bought my first car in 1974. We went to a small town dealership about a half hour away from home. I had tried to get a ‘74 Challenger or ‘Cuda, but the good ones were gone, so I ended up…

When I started there on my birthday in ‘79, I wasn’t prepared for the freak show I was about to see. There was a flophouse “AAA Beds” about a block away, and 2 rescue missions, and another within walking distance, so we had more traffic of people from those 4 places alone, and most of the problems came not from the…

I couldn’t care less about coffee, and if chocolate went away, I wouldn’t be happy about it, but it wouldn’t devastate me. But rice? Wow, I don’t think I could or would want to live in a riceless world. 

They pulled the “Sandy” penny pony rides during Covid, but they are back. 

I do most of my shopping at a couple of different Meijer locations. At this point in time, grocery stores are Meijer, Kroger, and Wal-Mart. Meijer’s isn’t as cheap on some items as WM is, but the stores are a lot nicer, and they just kill Kroger on pricing. Some of their pretty much identical items are like half the…

I’m friends with 3 retired cops, and they all tell stories about crazy people they were stuck working with, but even they don’t have any idea how to “fix it” without getting rid of Qualified Immunity, both for cops and as importantly, prosecutors who “never saw” evidence that clears defendants. There was a case near…

All ketchup is garbage IMHO, sweet, or non sweet. It belongs in the trash.

I can’t believe a guy I know who has never had a single good word for any union, including the one he belongs to, is telling me that he is entirely on the rail worker’s side in this mess.

I would love to hear the GOP big shots in GA talk about why of all people, they would pick someone like Walker. Between his past actions, and his present mental problems, I can’t believe they couldn’t find anyone better as a candidate. But I really don’t understand the GOP at all anymore, not that I ever really did. 

There was a local guy who was a member of the John Birch Society, and about the biggest winger in the area that I ever heard of, at least back about 1980 or so. His kids were miserable, both ended up with drinking problems, only the daughter got through it, the son died of an alcohol and sleeping pill combo that…

That works too, but when I worked security at a dive Las Vegas casino, the tough ones who said anything like, “Do you know who I am?”, would collapse into a blubbering basket case when it didn’t save her from a trip to jail. But once in a while, you would get one that claimed connections, and did have them, and would…

Oh no no no no no! As my late mother said when she realized the feral cats she was feeding had a very big Skunk buddy with them. I hadn’t seen her move that fast in years. We lived in the “Skunk Triangle”, so it shouldn’t have been a huge surprise, as it’s known they hang around with cats. The local animal control was…