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Thoughts Before Bed.

I tend to anthropomorphize my every day objects, such as Cheyenne and Click. This leads me to kind of fall in love with them. I cried hard when I lost Cheyenne. And now I may be losing Click soon.

I know none of this is true, but I think she knows I'm planning to trade her in. Today, while we were first beginning the roadtrip, she decided she didn't like starting. That's the first time that had happened in a long long time. Then anytime I had to go in reverse (which happens a lot in the backwoods, because there's no room to turn around), she made a terrible growling sound.

I told her that she wasn't sounding to well, and we might have to go home. Then I put in a reverse gear and heard the growling noise again and then "CLANG!" And suddenly it was all better, no problem at all.

I got some gas, which I had to turn my car off for, and when I turned the key, she started right up. She wanted to drive some more. So we did.

And when I turned the wrong way and began going up a 4x4 trail that was rough and downright dangerous, she had no problems traversing the road (Although my steering to make sure we didn't bottom out or get caught in a rut probably helped). And when the road got chunky rough to the point I was worried about the tires and damaging my skid plate, she was just fine with it all.

Now I kinda don't want to give her away for the truck. She really does things she shouldn't, and does them well. She got her name by driving on a freaking lake-bed to a sand bar with an old ghost town on it, for cryin' out loud.

And she kinda seems to like it.

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Help Me Dr Internet:

Looking for the name of a celebrity special that was on HBO or Showtime in the 1980s where celebrities dressed up as vegetables and ran an obstacle course. I believe it was some kind of charity event.

AND WE HAVE AN ANSWER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ZMC8cV3to

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The Power of Words:

Drive into Easton to get some gas and test my car's starter. The one in town was 10 cents cheaper per gallon, and as I pulled in, I saw a sign out front: "Congrats 2020 Grads. We're open again! All Lives Matter."

I drove to the other gas station where it was more expensive.

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Been watching this series all this week and am fascinated by it. It's just this one guy going out a camping at different locales, making food, and then going home. Often it's with an ice-hut tent, but he made one of his own our of corrugated plastic, and sometimes he makes a quinzee. One time he spent eight weeks camping. In winter. In Canada.

It really looks like a lot of fun, and while I'm not a big camper myself, I think it's fascinating to me because camping would allow me to just get out of the house, while still being safe from Covid. All alone in the woods for a few days.

I know a place with a great view, and internet access...I have a couple of solar batteries...who knows? Maybe I'll go out and camp.

But probably not. I'll just watch Steve do it.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSnqXeK94-iNmwqGO__eJ5g