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At the dealership, partaking of the free WiFi. Today Show on the HDTV in the waiting area--the resolution does no one any favors, male or female. The thin layer of special make-up is as obvious as the skin of oil on water. Orange pancake. We either get used to real aging skin on real people, or take the plunge into the dodgy end of the tech pool and CGI all our programs, news included. Obliterate reality. Make everyone 25, firm and line-free. In black spandex, swinging onto the set on one of those special Lara Croft/James Bond rigs where the line is so thin you wonder how in hell anyone can get a grip.

And now, Jedi exercise routines. Not kidding. They're outside, in spandex, dueling for fitness.

Morning TV is bizarre.

UPDATE: Matt Lauer in Jedi regalia. Some things are just wrong.

Lucky I have the laptop and the earphones. Peter Murphy. "Cuts You Up." Better than political ads. Yes, it's primary season in Illinois. Like road construction, it never ends.

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At the dealership, partaking of the free WiFi. Today Show on the HDTV in the waiting area--the resolution does no one any favors, male or female. The thin layer of special make-up is as obvious as the skin of oil on water. Orange pancake. We either get used to real aging skin on real people, or take the plunge into the dodgy end of the tech pool and CGI all our programs, news included. Obliterate reality. Make everyone 25, firm and line-free. In black spandex, swinging onto the set on one of those special Lara Croft/James Bond rigs where the line is so thin you wonder how in hell anyone can get a grip.

And now, Jedi exercise routines. Not kidding. They're outside, in spandex, dueling for fitness.

Morning TV is bizarre.

UPDATE: Matt Lauer in Jedi regalia. Some things are just wrong.

Lucky I have the laptop and the earphones. Peter Murphy. "Cuts You Up." Better than political ads. Yes, it's primary season in Illinois. Like road construction, it never ends.

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Kuro's preventive maintenance completed. Along with the oil/filter change and tire rotation, he had a new air filter and license tag light bulbs installed. Everything else is A-OK.

It's hard to explain how much of a relief this is for me. Until I bought Harrison, at age 39, I had always driven hand-me-down cars. Beaters. They would behave for a year or two, then stuff would start going wrong, often without warning. Worst thing I recall was when Bonnie, the '81 Bonneville, threw a tie rod one afternoon while Dad was driving it. I had just driven her that morning.

Anyway, after eleven years, I am still adjusting to the fact that I am driving a car in which everything works. No warning lights. No weirdness. Let it continue, because Kuro just went past 54K miles this morning, and I would like him to make it to over 100K.

Clarification: Kuro will be 7 in April. Harrison was the 11-year old/bought brand new. But all his buttons and switches still worked, too.

Warm outside, about 50F. Sunny. The snow is melting. Backyard is getting nice and mushy, though there is still some snow. Rain tomorrow.

Dinner--some kind of baked fish roll-up.

Watching Aida on the Food Channel. Someday I want a kitchen like the ones on the cooking shows.

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Kuro's preventive maintenance completed. Along with the oil/filter change and tire rotation, he had a new air filter and license tag light bulbs installed. Everything else is A-OK.

It's hard to explain how much of a relief this is for me. Until I bought Harrison, at age 39, I had always driven hand-me-down cars. Beaters. They would behave for a year or two, then stuff would start going wrong, often without warning. Worst thing I recall was when Bonnie, the '81 Bonneville, threw a tie rod one afternoon while Dad was driving it. I had just driven her that morning.

Anyway, after eleven years, I am still adjusting to the fact that I am driving a car in which everything works. No warning lights. No weirdness. Let it continue, because Kuro just went past 54K miles this morning, and I would like him to make it to over 100K.

Clarification: Kuro will be 7 in April. Harrison was the 11-year old/bought brand new. But all his buttons and switches still worked, too.

Warm outside, about 50F. Sunny. The snow is melting. Backyard is getting nice and mushy, though there is still some snow. Rain tomorrow.

Dinner--some kind of baked fish roll-up.

Watching Aida on the Food Channel. Someday I want a kitchen like the ones on the cooking shows.

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My word, this fish is bizarre:

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head.

The things at the front of its head that look like eyes are actually nostrils. The green bodies inside its head are the eyes.

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My word, this fish is bizarre:

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head.

The things at the front of its head that look like eyes are actually nostrils. The green bodies inside its head are the eyes.