58\u00a0 bar falls 29.74\u00a0 10mph E\u00a0 dew-point 56\u00a0 Beltane, cloudy and raining<\/p>\n
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Since this has been and will be\u00a0a traveling month, I’ve been attentive to weather nation-wide.\u00a0 It’s amazing to sit here looking outside at my garden where the vegetables are slow to mature because of cool weather while the east, south and southwest have had hot hot hot.\u00a0 The red looked like a child had decided to color the U.S. by starting down the eastern seaboard and then moving along the bottom of the map, went up a state or two, then went on west.\u00a0 Red all the way.<\/p>\n
The automobile is my primary mode of transportation.\u00a0 Train second.\u00a0 Air a distant third and then only for speed or an impossible distance.\u00a0 The former is the reason for air to Texas in July, the latter found me in a plane for Hawai’i.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I travel by car, I pay attention to the Weather Channel like a pilot watches the isobars.\u00a0 It looks like my luck will be good.\u00a0 The very hot weather system seems ready to break up into more seasonal summer temps.\u00a0 I’m glad.<\/p>\n
Took the little red car into the dealer today for an oil change (they like me, they really really like me) and discovered that the head gasket seep has become a full fledged leak.\u00a0 That means a head gasket and head grinding when I return plus I have to check the oil every other gas stop.\u00a0 Even though I repaired my air conditioning after 5 years without it (kept thinking I’d get rid of the Celica, but it kept working.), the heat still makes travel uncomfortable and it does reduce gas mileage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u00a0 told Scott at Carlson Toyota I don’t begrudge the Celica few repairs at 240,000 miles.\u00a0 Still a hell of a lot cheaper than a new car and I get 30-32 mpg on the road.<\/p>\n
While we’re on the subject of mechanical devices, my computer now makes a reluctant noise when I boot up, as if it doesn’t want to get up yet.\u00a0 At first it made me think:\u00a0 Hard drive!\u00a0 Bad.\u00a0 Even though I back-up daily.\u00a0 Then, on the web I found that it’s probably not the hard drive, but the cooling system.\u00a0 Time for a little fresh air in the old computer case.\u00a0 I like this machine.\u00a0 It’s just right for my needs even though it is now 3 years old.\u00a0 Like the Celica I feel I may have it a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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