ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

A girl graduating high school next week will come home from the beach later today and find that while she was out, her parents found and bought her a car. I no longer have a spare car taking up space in my driveway. The loan I got for the new EV will soon have a large payment made, to reduce the balance.
A good day for all of us, I think.

@actuallyautistic

An etiquette question:
How do people feel about posts in here being boosted? If I understand the whole Mastodon thing, boosting it puts it in front of anyone who follows my (as an example) posts and boosts. Many of them aren't associated with this #ActuallyAutistic mob. Is that OK? Is that a faux pas? I don't know what to think.

Well, my car was supposed to be repaired and delivered back to me last Tuesday, then last Friday, then yesterday, but good news! Someone finally unlocked it and opened the door! Maybe they'll start working on it now.

The number of Teslas parked at the vacant building near my work keeps going up. They now fill the parking lot, and they're parking them on the lawn. A mix of brand new and used. I'm at a complete loss why they're doing this, unless it's to create artificial scarcity at the dealerships.

@actuallyautistic

The hyperfocus thing can be a real benefit. I restored a 1978 Mercedes 450SL - a car I knew nothing about, except it was cute, and I wanted it. By the time I was done I was the forum subject matter expert for the Bosch D-Jetronic mechanical fuel injection system, the suspension, and the vacuum system (door locks, HVAC, a bunch of stuff).

#ActuallyAutistic

Plan B.

Success!

I'm mounting an EV charger in the garage. I had it marked, measured, leveled, the drill in hand and ready to go through the wall. Just before I pulled the trigger I mentally went through everything one last time.

Oh, wait. Yeah. That spot, just above the plug the electrician installed? That's where the main electrical panel for the house sits. Yeah, drilling through the wall there may not be the best path for continued health. Time for Plan B.

So today was busy, after the last week was busy. Took my 4 mile walk, took hubs over to get his old car detailed, did the Costco run, got home in time for lunch, walked over to Lowes and back, went to pick up the freshly detailed old car, stop for photos of same, list the old car for sale. Now a movie. Tomorrow I install (why the Lowes run) the charger for the new EV we bought, to replace old car.
I'm pooped.

#Busy #Tired

For those who don't already know, this is how a crow says "Human! It is time to deliver the roasted nut mix!"
#Birds #Crows #Corvids

OK, sorta pumped, because they published my Letter To The Editor the day after I sent it.
#Pronouns #Trans

I went upstairs to put clothes in the washer and dryer, and when I got back saw that Little Man had decided it's his chair now. I guess I'll have to sit somewhere else.

#DogsOfMastodon

From the days when History channel was still doing the job of educating, the series Life After People is now on YouTube. A wealth of information on how fragile our infrastructure is, along with how resilient nature can be.
#Nature #Environment

Things I've had on my office door corkboard forever, because they tickle me:

#OfficeHumor #Poe #OfficeHumour

I'm having sort of a Santa Clarita Diet day, today.

"I know you're worried that I'm going to kill someone, but look at all the people I *haven't* killed! Literally everyone in the world, except three people."

The moment when you're reading a magazine and you want to go to the next page, but the magazine has locked up or something, because tapping the edge of the page isn't working. And then you realize it's a paper magazine, so it doesn't care if you tap the edge of the page.

Woohoo! We broke the 60 barrier yesterday!
😁
#Solar #GreenEnergy

This building has been vacant for years. The county sheriff department uses it for training personnel and dogs. This morning the parking lot has a kajillion* Teslas in it, for no known reason.

*Kajillion is an estimated number.

How am I? I'm optimal. All functions are operating within normal parameters.

#Fitness

My ring says I'm having a really good day. I don't know if I have the energy to argue with my ring. It usually wins.

I think I hit my goal today.
#Fitness #Exercise