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Boy, that phrase has taken on a new meaning around here.
When we bought this house, we didn’t know until we were driving through West-by-god-Virginia that we were purchasing a house in the 100-yr flood zone. (Gee, thanks for the warning, assholes.) Given the type of loan, flood insurance would be mandatory — there goes about [...]

First, our garage as it was, for the first year or so of living here:

Then we moved one of the kitchen base cabinets out to the garage…which eventually became my workshop area and general dump-everything space. Sigh.
After that hell-realization of my garage/workshop having been intruded-violated-theived, I began a furious double-reason attack on the space. [...]

Actually, my dream car shouldn’t be too far off in the future: four-cylinder hybrid BMW. Preferably convertible.
The BMW element is solely because of the rear-wheel drive aspect, which I threatened TD I’d explain, because to have true duoistic tendencies, a certain level of gearheaded skill is required. Obviously one must first love machines — [...]

Let’s start with an older engine (less intricacy) and assume you’re sitting behind the wheel, key in the ignition, and you’re starting the car. The other reason for the ‘older car’ explaination is that a) it’s the kind I know, and b) a lot of stuff now is controlled by computer. This is what’s happening, [...]