Robert Hall

That green Genesis wagon is gorgeous... would love to see a Cadillac sport wagon again.

With cars, I do like dark metallic gray on luxury sedans and sports cars, esp with red interiors (I love red interiors—so uncommon today)… but those light battleship grays and matte grays…ugh.

One of my sister’s friends has gone overboard with white. Both her Michigan lake house and Florida house are all white inside, walls, kitchen, white carpet, white furniture, white trim, white dog…a bit much IMO.

I can see black/gray thing being popular in the PNW with it's preponderance of gray skies and cloudy days (which I see a lot of here in Cleveland). Colorful is out with cars also--all the boring whites, blacks and grays with black wheels, black out trim, etc that is so trendy and so boring... Maybe it is part of the overall gloom and doom pop cultural themes of the current era..zombies and post apocalyptic themes are everywhere.. I had my dark and gloomy phase in my early to mid 20s in the 90s with college and grad school beneath gray gloomy NE Ohio and SE Michigan skies, listening to a lot of goth, industrial, metal and grunge music.. But I still liked colorful cars like my red Mustang.

Yeah, I like natural woods where possible..not too dark and gloomy. Brick or stonework around fireplaces (not painted!)... the whole paint everything shades of gray or black aesthetic is so not me. I also don't like everything bright white..the hospital aesthetic isn't for me either. Or austere unfinished concrete walls..I've seen that in some modern design houses, hideous IMO.

I can't stand gray or black trim or wall paint inside (or outside) a house... gray has been trendy for at least a decade, and black has been getting more popular in recent years. Yeeech..

Speaking of end of year hardware buys, upgraded my home office w/ a Dell 32 inch HDR 4K monitor...thinking of rotating one of my 24 inch Dell monitors vertically for email and Slack. I have one 24 inch Dell w/ my Mac Mini, may hook a 2nd 24 inch to it if I rotate the other vertically.

My sister has thought about wintering there..she's doing 6 weeks in Myrtle Beach next year, her 4th year down there. Not as warm as Florida, but an easier/shorter drive from Cleveland.

I haven’t been there since I went to Disney for my high school grad night in 1988. Never cared for central Florida, but always will like the Keys and Miami/Miami Beach. Haven’t spent much time in the rest of the state other than St Augustine and Daytona Beach which I liked. I want to go to Amelia Island for the Concours de Elegance.

MAGATs love the big pickups, though, especially in red states like Texass...can't see that changing anytime soon..they aren't going to switch to EVs.

Interesting that a couple top people at Tesla quit this week, the manager or lead engineer for the Cybertruck and one of the other appliances left.

First snow of the season today. Never got above 32F. Sun came out and got some graupel this afternoon. Snowing again this evening…

Expecting some Lake Effect snow tonight into tomorrow and Tuesday. Tuesday is a holiday, odd to have a day off in early mid week like that.

Walked out to check the mail and noticed the neighbors down the street have a full driveway…judging by the red balloon, either a kid’s party or an ‘IT’ watch party or both. What made me laugh is it’s all white, silver, gray or black CUVs. The predictable American suburban consumers…

Heh heh..I've done a couple of those quizzes... got New York one time, Massachusetts another time...both would be fine for me.

Speaking of ‘Dead EVs’, I heard on a couple different podcasts that Ford was considering dropping the Lightning, sales are tanking? Overpriced and overhyped…

Yeah, small terriers make me happy.

I grew up with cats and dogs, we had 'barn cats' that lived in the barn and they'd come around the house occasionally. We had mostly big dogs when I was growing up (German Shepherds from age 7 onward, Doberman Pinchers when I was very little), and a Miniature Schnauzer when I was very little. Decades later, my sister had a pair of Siamese cats that got along well with her pair of West Highland White Terriers. Spending time with her in AZ got me into small terrier breeds--from the Westies to a Silky and an Australian Terrier to a series of Yorkies, with inexplicably a Chi mix and 2 more Australian Terriers over the last ~17 years.

Gloomy rainy day makes me sleepy. Quiet afternoon in the home office, not much action today. Had a half day Amazon technology seminar/training yesterday and next Tuesday is a company holiday. Odd to have a day off that Is not a Monday or Friday.

I miss mid size or larger sedans, coupes and 4 seat convertibles.

The new Prelude sort of looks like a less sleek coupe version of the latest Prius. I like the styling.

It died.

Yes, it cleaned up nicely. In early June, Hill Valley Auto (the local shop that restored my '87 Mustang) had hauled all the vehicles to it's shop nearby and got most everything running for the auction in July, except for the V8 Explorer (locked up engine, rusted out frame) and Bronco II (rusted out broken frame).

He left behind 12 non-running cars and trucks also. I think I've discussed my 2022 adventure here in past threads..his death left quite a mess for my sister and I to deal with. He was a difficult person. Found the thread, MudFarmLife 2022. By the time of the auction in July 2022, I had driven an extra 10k miles going back and forth from home to the farm (90 miles each way, 4-5 times a week).

My late older brother was a motorcyclist, had several in the 70s and several accidents with a couple hospital stays then. He didn't ride for 20+ years until around 2000 he got back into it, had 8 non-running motorcycles (a 60s Honda, Suzukis, Kawasakis, and BMWs) when he died in 2022.