Clean hubcaps

There's just something that feels right about shiny clean hubcaps. And clean aluminum rims. And there's just something that seems fundamentally flawed with regular steel rims and no hubcaps. If there's one hubcap missing on a car it just goes into your brain that there's something not right. If all the hubcaps are missing and there's just four steel rims on there it just seems like something really bad has happened to that car. Maybe nothing bad has happened. Maybe the hubcaps just got old and dingy and the person thought what's the point of having these hubcaps on here anyway I just threw them away. It just looks wrong. The shiny clean hubcaps just gives the whole car a lift. But it seems that keeping aluminum rims clean is somewhat of a challenge. You get them shining shiny and sparkling and just 50 miles down the road if you look at them closely you'll see there's already some Road Grime on there. Now they make some stuff that you can spray on there by hand. it just sort of runs off onto the ground. It pretty well takes off the top layer of grime. but who wants to be jumping out of their car or remembering every hundred miles to hop out Hairspray the rims? So if you wash them off say once a month it still feels pretty shiny for about a week.  a car wash will get off most of the crime but it seems like some human intervention is required to really make them shine.

Truck stop Diner

Many years ago several of us were commuting back and forth on the freeway out in the country. There was a truck stop Diner that had a great reputation for local food. So one day we pulled in there for lunch. For some reason we had gotten off early that day. So we start pulling up to the place and you can see that it's an older place. it was built back in the 50s. It has a gigantic gravel parking lot big enough for maybe a hundred semis or more. There are no semis but only a few cars up close to the restaurant. The restaurant looks a little rundown but not dilapidated. It's a single-story building it looks like it was originally built maybe small and then added onto over the years. We went inside. There were two dining rooms or that's what it appeared. The one dining room was up front; it was smaller and close to the kitchen. The back dining room was dark there was a doorway that led back to it and looked huge, like maybe a hundred truckers could sit back there. There are few people in the restaurant besides us. I think we mostly ordered burgers. they were like those burgers that you cook in your backyard delicious flame-broiled and thick. So there are some flies buzzing around and between the back room, which was huge and dark, and the front room, which is where everyone was eating. there was a doorway mentioned earlier. Tacked to the top of the doorway were three fly strips. Fly strips are paper strips that look like tape but they're super sticky. When a fly lands on them the Fly is stuck and eventually dies a horrible death as all flies should. Now maybe that's too harsh after all flies are created by God and God is merciful maybe I'm not putting on a good Christian attitude there. Maybe they should die quickly and mercifully just like I want to die. One of the people that was eating with us asked the waitress why are the fly strips stuck between that room and this room instead of over the front door? The waitress answered without thinking, we don't want any flies to go back there.

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Dr Martens

I had a pair of Doc Martens for about 15 years. My wife urged me to get them at Nordstroms. They were always a little smug because they were one size too small but they were wide enough. One of them had a small defect but it was at the top and didn't get worse over time. They were fantastic. Well it seemed like a good time to get a new pair. There is one small problem though. I only want a pair made in England. It is not acceptable to have a pair made in Vietnam Japan China Australia the United States Mexico or anywhere else. Actually they were invented by a German, so why aren't they manufactured in Germany?
Another problem is getting the size and width of a particular model of the shoe that you want at any given time. It seems like they only have extra wide in a few models and generally not in the shoes that I want. Well we Soldier on. Haha. Get it?

Girls

Girls are just like anybody else only more so.

Money

Have we talked about money? The classic definition of money is "a medium of Exchange". 

But just like 

beer is so much more than just a breakfast drink

money is so much more than just a medium of Exchange. 

After all beer and the love of beer is not the root of all evil.

The Vanishing West

The western United States was a unique place in history. There are green fertile Rivers there are scorching hot deserts there are  fourteen thousand foot Peak mountains. And in one spot there's  a beautiful Pine Forest surrounded by desolate desert for 100 miles in all Directions. It has death valley, the great salt lake and lake Tahoe. Some of the best wines on Earth ARe produced here and in some places prostitution is legal. The first train track connecting the east coast to the West Coast was finished in 1869 in Utah. The horse was still largely the main mode of transportation until the early 1900s. It was a beautiful place and quite often a lonely and Deadly Place. My grandfather told of a cowboy who was caught in a hail storm. He and his horse were killed. That was a little over a hundred years ago. It seems like a thousand years removed.