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After a weekend of having the Traverse back home where she belongs with a brand new transmission (and a new serpentine belt and oxygen sensor aft of the catalytic converter) and not doing anything particularly exciting to the transmission to test what passes for my luck, today's mission of stopping by Sam Jones BBQ and then Sam's Club after dropping Katie off at school seemed simple enough. I should have known everything was going to…

The very nasty weather predicted for today got to be a bit more exciting than we planned when the phone started going nuts with the raucous emergency alert sound indicating that a tornado warning had been issued for our area. One of the nice things about no longer using the satellite dish is that the signal is no longer susceptible to rain fade so over to WRAL we go to see Mike Maze doing the…

Oh, Carl! One could dare to dream but your estimate is off by an order of magnitude! Well, the estimate of what the bill is likely to come to but the estimate of what will be left over is depressingly much closer to the reality of it. I just got the lovely news from the garage that the Traverse's transmission decided it has had enough of converting torques and moving the rest of that SUV…

Hands down, one of my favourite stand-up comedians is Gabriel Iglesias who is better known by his nickname "Fluffy" which is where he ranked himself on his "Six Levels of Fatness": Big Healthy Husky Fluffy DAMN! OH HELL NO! All it takes is one picture and I think you can see where he and I would have a very definite thing in common. (I was talking about a mutual love of food fool! What did…

Did you ever have a conversation with someone that you were absolutely certain as to which way that conversation would go and how it would end? As in no doubts whatsover! And then it goes in a completely different direction than you had imagined possible? Yeah, me too! :) This tale actually started a couple of weeks earlier when I started noticing some hesitation in the Traverse whenever I'd put my foot down. After considering…