Thinking Out Loud

Have you ever noticed that people with remote controls for their car do not lock their car until they have walked far enough away from it that a potential thief could open the door and let himself in?

Watch them. It’s really quite a ritual. Read the rest of this entry »

About two months ago, I mentioned my neighbour’s mysterious truck under the tarp.

Well, last weekend, the truck moved out of his back yard to the front street. At some point in time, I discovered that the truck belonged to a friend of my neighbour. The story is, that he bought the truck, but didn’t want his wife to know, because she had explicitly forbid him to buy a new truck. Read the rest of this entry »

Since it has been about 15 years since I bought a new (previously owned, but new to me) vehicle, I decided to go shopping the other day when it was raining and I couldn’t do some work in the yard. I needed a break anyway – you tend to lose the incentive after the second or third week.

I knew I wanted some sort of an SUV, or 4 wheel drive something or another. Like I said, it’s been a long time since I looked at cars, and I knew very little the last time, and a whole lot less this time. Read the rest of this entry »

My next door neighbour is kind of a strange little man. He probably would say the same thing about me on his blog, but I’m pretty sure it’s a safe bet he won’t, because he is just now contemplating the move to buying a CD player for his house. He has one CD for his truck, because it didn’t come with a cassette or 8-track. His daughter made it for him.

Don’t get me wrong – he’s a good neighbour, willing to lend a hand whenever it’s needed, and never afraid to share his opinion on almost anything.

I call him the lawn mower man. In a way, he’s almost like my father. You never can have too many lawn mowers. But that’s another story for another day Read the rest of this entry »