One From the 70’s, 80’s & 90’s Edition of SORT.
As of Monday, August 10, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Sport | Off-Road | Touring |
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| 1970 Volvo 1800E | 1986 Mercedes-Benz 280GE | 1994 BMW 850CSi |
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| Black with Red interior just says sports car. | Worth it, if just for that plaid interior. | See lasts week’s Touring car’s description… |
First of three songs that are almost all or mainly spoken word. This one is from Bruce Cockburn on the Cambodian self genocide and killing fields during the Khmer Rouge 1974-1978.
The rule for washing your hands is for you to do it for 20 seconds to thoroughly remove all the bad germs. Easy way to time this is to sing the Happy Birthday song, twice. I use a different method for timing it. I turn on the hot tap in the upstairs bathroom and when the water turns hot it has been 20 seconds…
Oh, and late to the game, I just picked up on the origin of COVID-19.
COronaVIrus Disease 2019….
We still get the local paper delivered to our house. It is a small town paper that publishes 4 times a week (down from 5 from when we first got here.) Most of the national news content in there is old by the time we get the paper and some of the local news as well, but we like supporting the local businesses. It is cool to know where the for sale open Houses are and who is having a Yard Sale, although we usually will only go to them if we can walk there. Plus, I’m old school in that I like to read my comics printed on a piece of paper I can hold in my hand. Donna likes it so she can do the crossword puzzle, the Jumble and & Little Words (sometimes I get to help.)
As with most newspapers, and practically anything, you occasionally get some random weird errors. Perhaps because of times we are going through now the errors seem a bit more frequent. Reprinting the same comics pages, puzzles or articles on consecutive days, announcing events on the day after they are available and mis-aligned color printing so that every picture seems fuzzy.
<━ This past Sunday’s we got a new error. The crossword puzzle was printed already filled in! Guess who had to scan the puzzle, erase every letter (about 450) and then hand number where the answers went for her. ━>
Because every week was there not a track focused car, I always had a very hard time narrowing down a daily driver and it was very hard to pick something to crush – Track, Daily Crush is dead.
Our current garage consists of a Mazda Miata for pleasure drives, the *sport* of carving of canyons and weekend getaways and a Mini Cooper for local errands, inclement weather transport and comfortable *touring*. We have made no secret that we need one more vehicle, a Jeep to advantage of all the *off-road* opportunities that Oregon has to offer, if we could get just one more garage bay.
So, welcome to the inaugural edition of Touring, Sport, Off-Road. Where I will pick a dream garage with something to substitute for the Mini and Miata, plus pick a nice vehicle for leaving the pavement in.
The First Edition of SORT.
As of Monday, August 10, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Sport | Off-Road | Touring |
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| Electric Porsche 356 Speedster Replica | 1978 Toyota Chinook 4×4 Conversion |
2007 Porsche Cayman 5-Speed |
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| With the stated range it will only be local canyons… | Not only ride off-road, but camp there too. | The quintessential tourer; fast, comfy. lots of space. |
Rufus Wainwright’s quintessential rendition of a quintessential Leonard Cohen’s song. Although, Jeff Buckely’s live version is pretty damn close, just for the sparse electric guitar…
