I think your car is trying to tell you it misses the open road. Poor fella.

Glad you made it home safe higgs

Hell, I miss the open road. 2 months or so pretty much fully off work (yeah, I did do some work while away, but really just answering e-mails and directing traffic sort of stuff) and this having to be back in the office is fucking harsh man.

I was so grumpy on Monday and Tuesday this week that I purposely lay low and avoided my family as I couldn't be trusted to play nice.

Post travel blues.

#metoo

The trouble with cars these days is they are so complicated if something goes wrong more often than not you are fucked. Lift the bonnet and if its not something immediately obvious then what chance do you have of sorting any fixes out yourself?

Compare that to the 2003 40hp 2 stroke outboard engine we have on our tinnie. If there is ever anything wrong with it it will always, always be fuel related and damn simple. We hadn't taken it out in a year and the son decides he wants to go scurfing with his mates, so tries to start it. He gets it running after a lot of effort (no auto-start here - we are cranking the pull cord old-school-style) and it sounds shit and is puffing out a metric shit-tonne of black smoke. So he jumps onto youtube and sees that cleaning the carby isn't any big deal and so takes the carby off, gives it a clean, puts new fresh fuel in and that's it - boat running perfectly, mates happy little campers doing donuts on the Swan River all day last Saturday.

I do miss my Dad's old V8 Ford Marquis. Back in the day (and here I mean the late 80s) if the car was having trouble starting when cold all it took was to open the bonnet and give a squirt of brake cleaner spray straight down the carby air-intake. It would fire up straight away after that and once warmed up would go forever (or at least 100kms on a full tank!). That was the one single mechanical thing my Dad taught me. He was literally proud that he never once got that car's oil changed and it still kept on chugging.

I may slip a quick in and out of Toronto for a BJ game.

How many blowjobs do you usually give in a typical game? Have you ever been benched for sub-par fellatio?

bammer gets ejacted every game for excessive toothiness

So many

The kid and I are tagging along with the wife for a work trip at a resort in Phoenix mid March. Could use some warm temps.

We got invited to Taos for Spring Break. Hoping to get a couple of hikes in.

We’re in Palm Springs via Las Vegas (Death Valley National Park) for Spring Break. Seeing Tay Tay on the 25th to kick things off.

Also, just finishing planning our trip to Italy in June. Two weeks in Rome, Positano, and Taormina. It’ll either be fantastic or a complete shit show. Can’t wait.

I would love to hear/read about this when you return. We're going to Europe for our 10 year, and we're trying to decide what cities we'd like to hit. My BiL and his wife recently got back from London, Paris, and Rome, and absolutely loved Rome.

Just looking at options.

That sounds incredible.

i'm really looking forward to it. we're doing a helicopter tour of the hoover dam and grand canyon. pray for us.

I will.

Some of my favorite eating ever was in Taos. Can’t imagine many of those spots survived Covid but it’s really an affordable culinary gem

We've opted to politely back out of the Taos trip, and have planned our own trip to the Grand Canyon, and whatever things we can get into.

I'm stoked. Desert Spring Break.

I don't remember anything specific about food in Taos since we went there for a day trip. Everything is green chile this and that. However, in Santa Fe, where we were staying, we went to this place, https://www.paper-dosa.com/

It was delicious.

so ive not felt well at the last few days..probably from the stress of upcoming stuff...anyway we flew back to California yesterday..I have literally flown probably 1 million miles in my life..turbulence has never bothered me and ive been in some good ones..we flew threw that atomospheric river yesterday and man was the last half just horrible...already having a bad stomach at the time and used 2 barf bags..first time ever in. my life I ralphed on a plane...