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Danger!

 I have a thought about religion. Have you seen those billboards?“We need to talk.  God.” There are a whole bunch of them: "What Part of "Thou Shalt Not…" Didn’t You Understand?" – God “Follow Me”.  God.”“Tell the kids I love them.  God”"Big Bang Theory, You’ve Got To Be Kidding." – God I don’t know.  Maybe it’s a Southern U.S. thing. Anyway, here is my thought:  God is the all-knowing, all-powerful being, right?  Isn’t it a little presumptuous when we mere mortals choose to speak for this all-knowing all-powerful being (assuming that someone besides God paid for these billboards)?  Really, if an all powerful, all-knowing being had something to say, would it only tell a few people and have them make up clever billboards?  I’m thinking if it really wanted to be heard, it would take a more direct approach. I don’t know, maybe it would write a book.  Something unambiguous perhaps?  Knowing our proclivity for screwing things up, it wouldn’t try to communicate with us through riddles, would it?  
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Engine update

 They were getting screwy readouts when they plugged their computers into the outside ports on our motorhome.  Our motorhome kept shutting off their computer.  Today they bypassed all the connectors and plugged their computer directly into the engine.  The got a good reading.  They ran cut-out tests on all the injectors and they passed with flying colors.  That makes them think the problem is electrical.  There is a wire or harness somewhere that is misbehaving and making the engine cut-out.  They’ve gotten to this point by a process of elimination; negative evidence.  They’ve proved what it can’t be so they think they know what it is.  I figure we’ll know for sure when they strike positive evidence; when they pull out the broken smoking part.  Annie finally got her own golf cart today.  
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It’s time


It’s time for the annual can you find the Pauraque in this picture poll.

We spent the morning at Estero Llano Grande State Park and spotted this sleeping Common Pauraque on the ground while we there. Can you see him? He’s facing right towards us.


A little closer.


Closer.


This should do it.


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Cellphone communications

 First we got phones so we could talk to each other.  Then we got cellphones so we could talk to each other no matter where we were.  Then we got texting so we could talk to each other without actually talking to each other.  Then we got voice recognition so we don’t have to type our texts, we can just speak them into the phone and the phone types them for us. Which leaves us with…..a really slow disjointed phone call?  We dropped the motorhome off at Holt Cat this morning.  The mechanic that rode with me on the test drive felt the shudder, but couldn’t tell what was causing it.  Nothing abnormal showed up on the computer screen he was monitoring engine performance with, even while the engine was doing its shudder thing. We left the motorhome there for further study (and didn’t have to move into a motel).  They’re leaning toward an injector problem.  We put in all new injectors in connection with the engine rebuild, but that doesn’t mean one of the new ones wasn’t bad. We’ll see.