Friday's Dispatch

This was a balloon snowman that was made nearly a year ago last winter in an IHOP.

• Sometimes after the work day I want to go home and stress-sleep to get the night over with so I can start the next day and just... get that days beating over with.
• I would like to get at least a hundred and seventy thousand miles out of my present truck and it would not break my heart to go 200,000.
• If I get 170K good miles out of it I will preemptively put a new transmission in it and rebuild the front end and then squeeze every mile I can out of it.
• About 289000 miles is still my personal world's record for all time best miles on a vehicle.
• That was a great car. It was a 1993? Suburban. Aside from being possibly slightly tired; it ran basically as good the day I sold it as the day I bought it.
• The silver medal went to my Camaro which I think I got 270 something? thousand miles out of it.
• It was knocking and smoking a little bit by then though. One of my ex wives was driving it by then. She called and told me that the engine started knocking on the way home. I asked her what she did for it. She replied, Well first thing I did was turn the stereo up. There was not hardly a drop of oil in it but yeah it would still run.

  

  Laundry detergent bottles seem oddly way over built for their purpose.

• It is definitely on my list to do some camping this fall.
• My phones voice recognition has started working like a champ. It is eerie.
• It has me all figured out. This I think is literally true as in- I just had to choose from the proferred alternatives when it just wasn't getting me the first say, 3 to 4 times. Then it started working like a champ.
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• It is August 23rd 2017 and so far- so bad for President Trumps presidency.
• If I were a national level Republican politician if not terrified- I would be very aware of how quiet President Obama has been.