Taking a Long Weekend

Need to, I have so much house stuff happening, like this.

Basically, I’m turning a 3-season house into a 4-one.

Did this to my kitchen today, and then had the ceiling cut out, so the insulation guys can access everywhere.

And I have _got_ to order furniture.

My love of minimalism is working against me, because it’s now almost a month of still living with nothing, sleeping on an air mattress, hi from my trunk.

Plus one thousand other things I won’t bore you with.  Have a big meeting Friday about an upcoming event I haven’t told you about, and a bunch of security posts I haven’t had required laser-beam focus to write, everything is still normal over at the newspaper, that’s all I know for now the end.

Have a great weekend TTY Monday.

 

 

Touring the Ford F150 Factory

It was a rare opportunity that photos were permitted while touring Ford’s assembly plan in Dearborn, Michigan.

Where the F150s come from.

Natural light streams in through skylights, and there are no uniforms – employees can wear whatever they wish.

There are 1,000 workers on the floor at any time, and the place runs 24-hours/day.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

There are robots workers too, and the two that install windshields even have names – Bumper and Blinker. 

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Summer Beers Tonight

Instead of blogging.

Hard to remember it’s the vacation months, of account of my frozen fingers typing this wtf.

TTYT, till then, here I am driving.

Hi hi.

 

 

 

Driving an MX-5 on a GoKart Track in Atlanta

This was a surprise stop along the 2014 Mazda Adventure Rally.

I’m driving a 2014 Mazda MX-5 on the gokart track, at the Atlanta Motorsports Park.

This is basically my first track time.

This kart track has more changes in elevation than any other track in the world, including one that’s 43 ft.

More photos of the track here.

Here’s the whole rally blogged: #MazdaRally, and there’s links there to my newspaper stuff there.

Until this trip, I thought the Miata was a princess-y car, nope. It loves off-roading?! Huh.

 

 

Beast Mode All Day

Auto. Writing. Machine. Love the beast mode feeling.

And after I hit publish that’s it for work till Monday. Look at me learning to have a more balanced life.

Now look how Canadian I look.

Look so Canadian

All I want to do this weekend is manual labour, really.

I like it because it’s so opposite of what I do… scrub sweep polish, see results instantly. Because you could blog yourself into oblivion.

Measure 10 times, buy 1 time.

And I’m going to mess around with this, it’s an OBDII port reader.

And take the Chrysler 200 for a destination-less drive.

Like this.

First flowers of the new house! This week’s flowers.

Thank you K xo, and for driving so far too.

But right now, I’m going to drink beers with the boys. I’ll toast you.

Have a great weekend, TTY Monday.