Project Countach

    It's with great sadness that I need to report that my dog Odie, died this past week. He had been suffering from seizures for only a couple of weeks. I first found him shaking on the couch one day and I had no idea what was happening to him. I then found him laying in the ditch next to the crawlspace door, panting and not able to move. After a few scans, we determined it was a brain tumor, but nothing out of the ordinary for a dog his age. The prognosis was 6-9 months originally. We got him stabilized with meds and things were fine for a week. My boys and I were on vacation when it happened, with the dog sitter frantically calling me after a long night of trying to keep him calm through another round of seizures. Since she is elderly, she wasn't able to lift him, and it was on Wednesday, so everyone she knew on her street were off to work. It was only after my son was able to call his Mom that she was able to finally get help. Kudos to my ex wife for traveling the 4...

Called in sick today with a flu. My back hurts from laying down, so I am just sitting here cold sweating and shivering on a chair instead. This is the boy's half-brother, who we were watching part-time while Anna's situation was going on, and her hubby scrambled to makes sense of it as well. I had a whole rant about what was going on and my personal issues in dealing with current frustrating life situations, but... Fuck it. Ain't nobody got time for that noise, and posting work opinions on social media now has a way of going viral and getting people fired. What a world we have created. I just wish I could take a month off from life and reset everything - including resetting future plans since there is no chance in hell the FAA will let me fly solo again, thanks to their 1960's policies on mental health, despite a flawless gold seal record, previously meeting master CFI qualification, and 20+ students now captains in various airlines around the world. Impossible to stop ...

I ask, in what world is it okay for a person to completely fuck up in all conceivable ways of being a parent for their kids, over and over again, including abandoning them by trying to take their own life, and still think they have any right to see them whenever they want to? And have the gall to say any change to the parenting plan, including enforcing mental health treatment, is going to be fought tooth and nail, which carries with it a risk of it going the other way. If it was me, I would have been handed my walking papers after just a snide comment. What a fucking world.

 Did a little bit of this and that this month. Mostly, I've been working on installing a new pellet stove in my Garage, which meant tearing out old crap and installing new crap. Kind of a PITA on the clearances to walls, but you can't beat $1 a day to heat the garage with easy start and shut off. I needed to put in a new outlet, but that is par for the course in this house anyway, so I took the opportunity to add a new one. On the car itself, I routed wires and finally bought all hardware adapters for the brake lines. I installed the EFI control module and located the fuel tank at the front. I am currently trying to think of were to put the radiator I have. The plan originally was to buy new tanks and cooling system, but I switched to trying to use what I already have first, at least to get the car running and moving. Later I can swap it all out if I want to. These first pics are from when I permanently bolted the rear suspension assembly to the frame right at the new year.   ...