Replaced the starter on the crappy old Subaru and now it starts. And restarts. Under $100 once I return the old one for the core charge.
I have this compulsion to keep vehicles and appliances running until I say they can die, but I have another compulsion to not set my checkbook on fire. So FU, old rustbucket, carry me around some more.
A TED LASSO ACTOR IS TALKING TO ME ON TWITTER AND ASDFGHJKL!!
(I need yet another lie-down.)
Are you a mechanical necromancer? A mechromancer, if you will?
Nah mostly I just object to my stuff telling me when to spend money. Iām still miffed that my washing machine has a cpu, I kept an old Kenmore running for 25 years by learning how to replace the clutch. YouTube rules.
I feel you! Honestly, I think the old top loaders did a better job. We, finally, after multiple fixes had to trash the old Maytag a couple years agoā¦ 
Clever but silly: a scheme for converting data (for example, a zip file of documents) into a video that looks like a rolling QR code, and storing it at YouTube. A terrible idea for many reasons, but definitely points awarded for creativity.
Reminds me of the old cassette tape drives they had way back when.
My Louisville City FC kicks off today and I am so BLEEPING EXCITED!
3pm kickoff and itās gonna be a breezy one. Pretty typical for this area.
I cannot WAIT!
Today is Christmas II!
Getting close to the end of spring training and baseball did a really good job with the new rules. The pitch clock has tightened up games enough that kids might actually start paying attention again. When I first moved to Atlanta I got to see a Greg Maddox complete game with 88 pitches: these games seem almost as brisk. Good stuff!
Iām having an unintentional-MST3K trip so far.
First off, I was here:
Then, out at dinner, I heard some funk on the radio, and started singing āIt was the third of September, a day Iāll always rememberā¦ā And those exact lyrics started 30 seconds later. 
Hey, welcome to the bay area! Enjoy the weather! 
I can now start putting weight on my foot! Everything is going well and I should be walking with just the boot within the next two weeks.
Iāll admit, not the greatest last couple of days for me.
Iām hauling the trash down this evening, and on the way back, I look straight up, and somehow, despite all the freaking light pollution around me, the sky above my head is crystal clear.
I say aloud, āAh, weāve got a half moon, weāve got Marsā¦holy Cleveland, is that Castor and Pollux??ā
I run back inside, grab the binoculars my dad got when he was stationed in Germany, and I have spent the last 20 minutes standing on my sidewalk cranked backwards looking up.
And I now feel a lot better. 
PS: Venus is being such a diva tonight, but thatās not anything newā¦
PPS: And I think I freaked out the Doordash guy delivering across the streetā¦
Are there two planets that are, like, right on top of each other right now?
It looked like that last night when the sky was clearā¦ even had a glow around it.
(Tonight itās snowing big fat fluffy flakes.)
There is a big lineup going on, but right now only a few are visible (Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, and Saturn are already at or below the horizon at sunset where I am). Mars and Venus are sure putting on a show. Uranus is above horizon too, but my binocs arenāt that strong. 
There arenāt right now. Mercury and Jupiter are quite close but as @LadyStarblade said, they set very shortly after sunset and Jupiter is pretty much gone for the next while. What direction were you looking and at what time of the night? I might be able to figure out what you were seeing.
In the western sky, maybe 30-35 degrees, shortly after 9 PM EST.
Mars was about that latitude (closer to 40 degrees) last night in the constellation Gemini, below the Moon. And Mars has a definite orange hue to it so if one of the objects you saw was orange-ish, it could have been Mars.
Itās the āright on top of each otherā thatās making me unsure because there are a number of stars that could be described that way, it depends on your skies.
If youāre a little off of due west, moving north, there are two stars in Auriga that are fairly bright and very close to each other. A little further and you might have Mirfak in Perseus and there are quite a few stars there.
If you want to try to identify it yourself, you could try using Stellarium. You can use it on a phone, but I like the larger viewing on the web version. 
But it does real time locations and you can zoom in and out quite nicely.
If you figure it out, I want to know. 
According to Stellarium it seems to be Venusā¦ but itās brighter than I can ever remember seeing it.
