Dreams

I’m starting to get this blog into shape again. The transition to hugo was never fully complete, and I didn’t fully get the publishing workflow setup. The Blogger-to-jekyll script did scrape the comments into their own posts, but they didn’t actually get segregated and so many of my posts with comments just became the comments posts. I still don’t fully have the hang of the << ref >> syntax, but I’m getting there. Zed has been a joy thus far. I’m fully off of VS Code and I don’t see compelling reasons to go back as it has MCP integrations of its own. ...

There’s a market out there for old, efficient cars. And somebody is going to figure-out how to fill it. Let’s face it, cars used to be more efficient: The Honda CRX HF from 1990 was rated at 50mpg, and was a simple, dead-reliable transportation appliance. Cars also used to be less expensive and less complicated. Here’s the secret–new cars can’t be made like cars from 20 years ago. Regulations won’t allow it. Today, you must have airbags, side impact beams, stability control, etc. ...

Thought about this on the way in today…things I’d like to do before I die (yeah, alot of them are car-related, so I’d better do them before they outlaw the internal combustion engine…) * Watch the 24 Hours of Daytona * Attend the Skip Barber Racing school. * (Re)Build an engine from scratch * Do the Classical Grand Tour: Rome, Florence, Venice, Athens. * Visit Paris (France, not Kentucky…) * Have a ride in an aerobatic airplane/fighter jet. * Attend the Grand Prix of Monaco * Go sailing in the Carribean. (No Hurricanes, please!) * Learn to play piano * Go to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. * Visit Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Gettysburg. * Learn Spanish (seems like a must nowadays…) * Learn Greek. * Read: St. Augustine, Plato, Martin Luther, John Locke * Run a 10k * Write a poem for each of my kids * Contribute *something* to greater society that has my name on it… ...