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Nightly Ramble: Of Re-runs And Slowruns

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It’s nice to see that we started getting notice from the search engines.  The global reports that my “Gopher” system runs every night, are starting to tell me that there are a number of links in Google, already, and my hitcounter says they’re starting to get traffic.  Still, given the number of years that the other site was up, it’s going to be some time before those old links disappear…. and the confusion can’t be helping.

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It’s 55° outside right now.  I can’t help but think we’re going to get some extraordinarily cold weather sometime in January to make up for this.

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Leave it to that little twerp, David Duke, to go to Iran, and tell them what they want hear; there was no gas chambers at NAZI camps. [1] I suppose we can list him among the useful idiots.

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Sometime in the last six months, and I’m not exactly sure when, my wife has become addicted to watching “America’s funniest home videos” reruns.  I’ve watched a few of them to0, and yes some of them cause serious opportunities for chuckling.  Some of them. THe first time you see them. But after a certain point, you begin to perceive that most of their fare, is the three B’s.  … Baby Barf, Ballshots, and Backside bumpers. If mindless entertainment is what they’re after, they’ve succeeded.

Having said this, I’m quite sure I will find a pillow and a blanket on the couch this evening. Or, better yet, in the garage.

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I’m not an overly aggressive driver.  I certainly don’t mind going fast, and Bitsbox does exactly that , easily. But, even I have my limits.  They were tested today, by a left lane roadblock. The two worst drivers in the world, in my opinion, are right lane obsessives, and left lane road blocks.

The right lane obsessive is of the type that will come off a left lane feeder ramp , and within the next 50ft. cut over six lanes at a 45° angle to get to the right lane because he’s not going to go very fast.  Invariably, he or she driving a sandstone colored Buick.  Probably a Century.  (Sad, they really are nice vehicles…but without fail, they’re under-driven by about 90%) In which vehicle, he will then occupy the right lane for the next 62 miles, with the left hand turn signal on.  The bullets usually playing in the left lane will be playing the “is he coming out, or not” game, for all that time… and the result is a line of traffic in BOTH lanes, that the state police can never quite figure out.

The left lane road block is invariably the same type of individual, who doesn’t give a damn what lane they’re in.  They will drive in 54mph, in the left hand lane, (White knuckled grip at ten and twelve, which is invariably well over the brim of the hat they’ll be wearing) with the right hand turn signal on, creating the same effect.  If after twenty miles of this abuse you go around either type of driver, and you look up in the mirror as you go by, you’ll notice a shaking fist out the window, and some of the more daring ones will include an upraised middle finger in the gesture…. As if you, not they, are the problem.

I swear, by all that is drivable, that these two types of individuals, are the basis for 50% of the traffic accidents on the highways today.  Where excessive speed is concerned around these individuals, it is invariably because the persons behind such an individual, finally lost their temper , looking at the “ask me about my grandchildren” bumper sticker.

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