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i am planning a little get-together for tomorrow evening. i know, right? i mean, ace is not known for being a party planner. remember that fête in honor of elvis's Big Move? that one turned out well. and mini-me's sweet 16? yeah, that one was stellar. in my defense, this one tomorrow is not technically a party. but still, i am pondering how many people i need to get committed to showing up that it would be enough that they won't notice i am not there.


double-lane drive-thrus which are attended by one person are completely wack. an example of unwack is like at the bank where they have multiple lanes with multiple tellers officiating the administration of the lanework. at the pharmacy, they have one tech on the drive-thru, but they have 2 lanes. invariably, someone jumps line. today, there were three cars on line when i arrived, so i pulled in behind the last one. seems only right. i mean, those people have been waiting, i can wait. but then mr littlewhitecar pictured here popped into the right-hand lane. what the?? what you see here shows only one SUV in front of me b/c the car in front of that SUV has already been serviced and driven away and the van in back of that SUV got disgusted after being line-jumped by mr littlewhitecar, and the van drove away. yes, i failed to get a Good Picture of the event. still, i am fairly certain you are with me here, yes? i blame mr littlewhitecar for being a toad, but i blame the engineers - cranes, not trains - of these things for being completely wacked out.

speaking of engineers - trains, not cranes - i saw one such today in his natural habitat. i was on the viaduct peering over (well protected by a chest-high wall structure) at the train travelling below, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a man in the cockpit of the train. i waved. he waved back! i made the universal honk-honk gesture. he honked his honker! hooonk -- hooonnnnk! simply fabulous. used to be the honkers were called whistles, but that one didn't seem very whistly to me today.