What's on your mind today?

[Anne D.]

Here a prestigious college professor tells us about things we need to know.

I suspected as much.

[Dark Lightning]

Gotta love The Onion!

[Tank]

That cheered me up. The Onion not the Asmo's parking problem.

[Asmodean]

The Asmo suspects Tank over yonder *point* of secretly pointing and laughing at The Asmo's misfortune.

...Nah. It doesn't really displease me overmuch either. That's why we have insurance. It's just a shame that you'll get towed in a heartbeat for "bothering nothing and no-one," yet be allowed to remain parked in the bloody exit lane of a parking garage for a double-digit number of hours.

Still, parking is a part of the Universe and the Universe cares nothing for fairness... So why would parking, right?

[The Asmo wanders off to wallow in nihilism]

[The Magic Pudding..]

It was time for my car to have its annual registration check so wife booked it in for a check and a service. 
She has faith in mechanical services, I'm a bit of doubter, I used to do it, back in the day. 
It's only a couple of hundred and you get a stamp in your book...  I don't mind not doing it.
So I drop it in at 9am, anything of concern? The breaks respond to pumping, maybe a bleed?
Have we got it all day?
Errrrrr
We might have it ready by 1pm
Off on my walk, I've got my long sleeve Star Trek style sun repelling top, proper hat, blockouted legs and a hiking pole even though the terrain's mundane.   A bumbag, water but no camera, I hope I don't see anything too wonderful. 
It's a hot day but there's a strong Nth Easter sea breeze, no clouds just blue.
I'm wearing blue or Green or some hue tinted polarized prescription sunglasses  so I see things much nicer than then they really are.  It's a falling tide in the estuary and it's doing that thing water and sand does, shallows, gradations of colour, Bora Bora looks enticing in the pics, but home has it's moments.
Whtie caps on the sea, a kite surfer, that looks,,, difficult.
Walk for about an hour, lie on some nice grass in some thick shade.
Jasper Fforde isn't bad, he isn't Pratchet or Adams though, and I'm not 1980s me either.
I do like Thursday Next, hopefully she'll get her bloke back and Macbeth can go back where he belongs.

Walk back and there is an interesting, not too shy lizard on the path, but I've snapped lots of lizards, it's OK.  There was a sea gull hovering, windy day, just hanging there, there was a single dolphin but it wasn't being particularly spectacular so I don't regret the no camera decision.
Loaf about under another tree.

We changed brake fluid because it was crap and did bleed...
Oil change, $350, that's OK, I have a firm break peddle now but I remain a doubter.

[Anne D.]

Functional brakes are always a plus 

[Tank]

Functional brakes are always a plus 

You're so right! I changed the front pads on my car many years ago when money was tight. I didn't pump the breaks after I had done it. I near caused and accident when I tried to break and nothing happened the first time I used them! Nearly crapped myself as well. Not good.