09:09 – It was 14F (-10C) when I took Colin out the first time this morning, with a windchill below 0F. Even he didn’t want to stay out long. The high today is to be about freezing, with tonight again down in the low to mid-teens.
We made a lot of progress yesterday on getting the unfinished basement area set up to build kits. One large built-in shelving unit now holds bins of chemical bottles, about 120 of them, all alphabetized and ready to pick and pack from. The floor area is generally cleared and ready to set up work tables. We’ll get more preparation done down there today.
I’ve been reading a lot of news articles about Obama taking more steps toward confiscating guns. I don’t think he’ll attempt to confiscate guns. He’s a stupid man, but not so stupid that he doesn’t understand that he doesn’t have the resources to do that. Who would do the actual confiscating? State and local LE? Good luck with that. In the first place, many state and local LE personnel sympathize with the gun owners because they’re gun owners themselves and would oppose any further infringements on the 2nd Amendment, let alone outright confiscation. In the second place, if domestics are dangerous for cops to deal with, imagine how much more dangerous gun confiscations would be. We’d end up with a whole lot of dead gun owners, but also a whole lot of dead cops. Obama might order federal LE to do the confiscations, but there aren’t enough of them to make any real difference. And they have families, too. The military? Good luck with that. Many of them are Oath Keepers, either explicitly or as sympathizers. I think it’s unlikely that our military would undertake a wholesale gross violation of our Constitutional rights. And again, they have families, too. Hell, Obama’s own SS bodyguard are sworn to uphold the Constitution. They might turn on him, and he must know that. So I don’t see any widespread gun confiscations happening any time soon.
“We’ll get more preparation done down there today.”
-great time to make any changes to your workflow to make it easier, and support a greater volume of sales. Take a few minutes to consider any changes rather than just recreating what you had. I know that’s quickest and easiest, but as your volume increases and small savings will add up. Good businesses do this all the time. One thing they do is locate all tools needed right at the machines, even though it means having duplicates, which might have application for you, if you are keeping some things in central locations.
“State and local LE? Good luck with that.”
-California is ALREADY confiscating guns. It’s currently voluntary for those under mental health orders, but the infrastructure is in place. The State never seems to have any trouble finding willing collaborators. Surely the Japanese didn’t drive themselves to the camps in California?
“And they have families, too. ”
-which is what makes them vulnerable. Ruby Ridge happened. Waco happened. Hell, Kent State happened. Most of the biggest victims won’t be living in big cities, they’ll be out in the suburbs and rural areas. That means media won’t care and cell phone video will be sparse. .gov will be able to spin the seizures as public safety, anti-terror, or simple criminal enforcement. The gen pop won’t care.
“So I don’t see any widespread gun confiscations happening any time soon.”
-they are the masters of incrementalism. Who in the 80’s would have thought that a pejorative term “political correctness” would become an enshrined GOAL? Enforced by statute? By the time it’s widespread, it will be routine and unremarkable.
They’ll come for the hard to defend first. Wife beaters, perverts, mentally ill, old, politically vulnerable. It’ll be a raid here, a raid there. The definition of who is raidable will get wider and wider. “The public” will become inured to it. The media will stop reporting it. And we’ll have lost without it ever getting to the ‘tipping point.’
nick
My big question regarding Barry Obuttwad’s gun Executive disOrder: How is he going to enforce it (or any other “regulation” for that matter) with his homies in the hood?
@dadcooks,
he won’t be. just like he isn’t now.
Laws are aimed at the law-abiding, which here means predominantly white middle America. Rights and freedoms are continually restricted for white middle America, while they are expanded for the 12% minority of blacks, and for predominantly poor (and overwhelmingly illegal) hispanics.
In my community illegal alien hispanics are entitled to free meals for their kids. Free education for their kids. Free or heavily subsidized housing for themselves and their kids. They are free from taxation. They don’t need to fear arrest for drunk driving. They don’t need to fear punishment for their crimes, as they can leave and return under a different identity.
Whites in my community on the other hand pay for our own food and housing. We have to pay taxes. We pay for our kids to attend private schools or for additional learning to make up for the poor quality of the taxpayer supported public schools (largely as a result of a huge influx of non-english speakers from primitive cultures). Our culture, by and large, shuns those who have broken the law. There are significant social and economic penalties for breaking the law. We are tightly bound to our identities, having been tracked from birth thru school records, employment records, credit reports, and health records.
yes there are areas where all those negative things apply to whites. Those areas are the EXCEPTION rather than the rule. And it doesn’t make any of what I’ve written less true.
nick
@nick – my observation here too.
Came across this in my RSS reader this morning, a glimpse of the future:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/5/10712686/hyundai-augmented-reality-owners-manual-video-ar-ces-2016
If you’ve got $600 burning a hole in your pocket you might want to add this to your go-bag: http://gizmodo.com/buy-flirs-tiny-new-thermal-camera-if-you-want-to-spy-on-1751102120
Under Obuttwad’s directive, even the Social Security Admin can dictate who can get a gun. Sick, lame, lazy? Forget it! Even includes the “unknown condition” clause so the gummint can basical take from whoever they want at any time.
Interesting … north of the border the only thing carried in the news (well CBC :-), is that Obama is forcing all gun sellers to run background checks … and making it easier for the authorities(?) to do mental health background checks on potetnial gun buyers. No mention of any confiscations, potential or otherwise.
@ron, they already run background checks for every sale thru a licensed dealer, and that includes most gun show sales (involving someone with a table as they are mostly dealers) and all internet sales.
You can buy Joe Blow’s musket on gunbroker.com but to actually receive it, it must be delivered thru an FFL (Federal Firearms License) holder, who does the transfer paperwork and the background check.
Private sales do not require a BG check or paperwork. There MAY be some people exploiting this to sell guns as a business without getting a FFL, but no one has shown any real data that I’m aware of. There are plenty of people doing this with CARS and most states have a regulation that if you sell more than X cars in a year you must get licensed as a dealer. This is mainly to protect the consumer and cover them with ‘lemon laws.’ There is no equivalent for gun sales, nor should there be.
Their end game is always confiscation. The major players in the ‘gun control’ movement have admitted as much. Without confiscation, none of the rest of their agenda actually does anything at all to REDUCE the number of guns in people’s hands. Almost all guns sold are still working if they’ve had any care at all, so there could be a complete ban on any new sales and there would still be 3 guns for every US household. Of course they’re not that evenly distributed.
The mental health thing should TERRIFY people. Every totalitarian regime has used declarations of ‘mental illness’ to justify horrific crimes against their people. Making it easier for .gov to see people’s mental health records or ANY medical records, has vast and broad implications and enables oppression and tyranny.
The wording of the 2nd Amendment is simple and clear. The founding fathers have stated in many places that the words of the Constitution are intended to have their plain meanings, and that any man should be able to read and understand them. It’s the only one that explicitly states that it “shall not be infringed.” It certainly doesn’t say “unless someone says you’re crazy” or “unless you are going thru a divorce” or “unless we think your skin’s the wrong color.”
We’ve already compromised too much, with restrictions on ownership, where and when purchases can be made, what things can look like, how many of what thing you can have, and on down the list.
nick
“We’ve already compromised too much, with restrictions on ownership, where and when purchases can be made, what things can look like, how many of what thing you can have, and on down the list.”
Exactly. Under the ol’ give ’em an inch and they’ll take a mile theory. Incrementalism writ large, just as they’ve done with the wunnerful Sexual Revolution, from abortion-on-demand-no-apology to wholesale slaughter of infants that makes Herod look like a damn piker. From “civil unions” to “gay marriage” and on to incest, pedophilia (man-boy-love), bestiality (marrying your pet), and eventually necrophilia (“who are we to judge?”, but OTOH, what about “consent?”)
Peeps might think I’m crazy, but who would have thought half a century ago we’d have all this commie pervert shit now? They’ve taken us without firing a fucking shot.
As for firearms, just the stuff they’ve been able to accomplish against us since the 1960s is amazing when you line it all up chronologically. And they’ve NEVER STOPPED.
I have a Curio & Relic license so we’ll see if I hear or see anything in the next few months about that. Meanwhile OFD is taking additional steps.
Blue skies and in the single digits here; we are told it’s gonna rise up into the 30s again this week and then go even higher to “unseasonably” warm temps. Fine by us; our burner shut itself off in the middle of the night for some mysterious reason and we woke up to 41 F this morning. Got it cranking again along with the stove and it’s now 66 in here, lol. Tee-shirt temp.
So I don’t see any widespread gun confiscations happening any time soon.
Obola is a lawyer and thinks about things legally rather than in actual specifics such as rights and ownership. His ploy is to tighten the gun laws so much that it is very easy to break one and become a criminal.
Obola does not realize that when you make everyone a criminal, the whole system collapses in on itself. We have so many laws that we are well on our way there already.
“That’s why u don’t hunt wit earmuffs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjguSbK4mjw
Sorry if I posted this already.
Ok, what is the best 60″ tv under $1,000 ?
I went to Sam’s Club and Costco last weekend and did not see anything that lights my fire. I will probably go back and buy the 60″ LG under $1,000.
Vizio is the biggest seller, but has some very real privacy issues.
Any smart tv is going to have issues.
Stick with a name brand, from this decade, ie NOT RCA, Westinghouse, GE, etc.
Does it have the inputs you need? Do 3d? adaptive backlight? What are the features you want?
Keep in mind that it will probably fail in a couple of years. Usually capacitors in the power supply.
nick
@lynn,
look at Fry’s too, esp their online purchase, in store pickup….
nick
frys.com
Along those lines, what is the best 35-40″ computer monitor? This will be for my attic workshop space, running Fedora, for firearms and radio stuff, mainly a lotta .pdf files and Toob videos, with a decent sound system. I wanna be able to see details while I work on stuff a few feet away.
OpimpDaddy on TV weeping about guns, guns, guns. MSM squeeing over it.
Bought a 32″ HiSense smart TV. The back light went out just short of 15 months with a 1 year warranty. Called their 800 number hoping they might do something. SOL. It was a decent TV otherwise.
Have a 50″ and 32″ Westinghouse. Both work well and so far so good. Both over 3 years. Neither are smart TVs.
Have a four year old 32″ Samsung and a new one. Both are excellent. I’ve always been a Samsung fan especially for monitors. Only one monitor ever failed and I put a lot out there. Still have some 15″ ten year old ones working every day.
LG is okay as far as I know but I’ll stick with Samsung any day.
Oh and no modern TV is worth repairing (well mostly).
_City Escape: A Stranded Novel_ by Theresa Shaver
http://www.amazon.com/City-Escape-A-Stranded-Novel/dp/1497435897/
Book number four of a four book series. The author doubts that there will be a fifth book but, one never knows. Young adult apocalyptic series in trade paperback (Amazon POD book, 254 pages). Warning, this is not a child series as there is rape, murder, and extreme violence throughout the story line.
A group of 26 Canadian teenagers and their four chaperones get stranded in Disneyland after the USA is EMP’d. Five teenagers go home to Alberta over land, five teenagers went by sea, nine arrived home. This is the story of the remaining kids and their chaperones. Who, lose one chaperone (pacemaker killed by the EMP) and two boys run off the day of the EMP while they are returning to their hotel. They return to Disneyland and spend the next six months in the tunnels under Disneyland with many other stranded people before setting out for Alberta on bicycles.
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (113 reviews)
LG is okay as far as I know but I’ll stick with Samsung any day.
I’ve had four Samsumng LCD and LED computer monitors fail in the last couple of years so I am sour on them. I own around twenty Samsung monitors at the office though. My Dad has a 65 inch Samsung plasma tv that he loves though.
Oh and no modern TV is worth repairing (well mostly).
I tried to get my Sony tv repaired about 10+ years. The repair lasted about a week or so. Definitely not even worth the hassle, I should have bought a new tv to start with.
Wow, talk about beating a dead horse:
http://www.osnews.com/story/28933/Blue_Lion_new_OS_2_distribution_due_2016
what is the best 35-40″ computer monitor
I have actually heard really good things about DELL.
I’m guessing your Samsung monitors were out of their usual 3 year warranty. That’s been the other thing about them, customer service. When I had a 19′ crt monitor go out they shipped a replacement to the nearest UPS store. When it came in I took the old one down there and exchanged it out of the box. They packed the old one and sent it back. Bet they still do that.
Mr. Ray knows FLASHLIGHTS and otherwise seems fairly reliable most of the time, lol, so I kinda trust his hearing on things Dell. Will look into them when I’m ready.
This Obola creep whining about guns and threatening more Exec Orders accordingly could get really interesting soon, esp. in light of Feds rolling in on that caper out in Oregon, I heard.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/malheur-a-reader-sends/#comments
otherwise seems fairly reliable most of the time
I do show up for work when I am supposed so I guess that makes me reliable.
Son has a couple of DELL monitors and they are very nice. Clear, sharp, and good colors. Not a scientific evaluation by any stretch, but good enough for me. My next monitor will be a DELL monitor. I don’t know who makes them for DELL and don’t really care. There are probably only a couple of manufacturers anyway of the major components and everyone else just reskins them.
“Clear, sharp, and good colors. Not a scientific evaluation by any stretch, but good enough for me. My next monitor will be a DELL monitor.”
Well, dagnabit, good enuff for ol’ OFD, too! Thanks, Mr. Ray! You’re alright; I don’t care what they say.
And here’s more info/intel on Shithead’s latest gambit to destroy the Second Amendment:
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/eos/#comments
If it’s technology and Costco does not sell it I will not buy it (Costco has a wider selection online, but returns go to the store).
BTW, managed to fix the “broken” on / off button on two of my Fenix E21 flashlights. The on / off button on the end of the flashlight would not stay on which is a real pain when walking a couple of miles with streetlights every 300 foot or so.
Turned out the Fenix E21 battery cap / on / off button has a loose inner cap on it. To fix it, all I had to do is get a small screwdriver and rotate the inner cap counter clockwise about a half turn. Voila!, the on / off button works again.
Well Costco does have good customer service but the lines can sometimes negate that. I know they take returns but would they honor a manufacture’s 36 month warranty on say a 30 month old monitor?
Dell has always been a mixed bag as far as I’m concerned. Had a set of two 19″ Dells 4:3 DVI in a dental surgery fail at almost the same time after about 2 years. Replaced with pair of Acer 24″ 16:9 driven by HDMI. So far so good. 3D xrays need lots of resolution. Had good luck with Acer too(just not as long term) and the price is low.
And I’m an Amazon guy nowadays.
And my Acer C720 Chromebook. Great little machine to tote around. Had it since May 14. Long battery life, very readable and only $200 at the time.
“2016 Prediction #1 — Beginning of the end for engineering workstations”
http://www.cringely.com/2016/01/05/2016-prediction-1-beginning-of-the-end-for-engineering-workstations/
“A year ago the cloud (pick a cloud, any cloud) was all CPUs and no GPUs. And since engineering workstations have come to be highly dependent on GPUs, that meant the cloud was no threat. But that’s all changed. Amazon already claims to be able to support three million GPU workstation seats in its cloud and I suspect that next week at CES we’ll see AWS competitors like Microsoft and others announce significant cloud GPU investments for which they’ll want to find customers.”
Gaming is moving into the cloud?
OpimpDaddy on TV weeping about guns, guns, guns. MSM squeeing over it.
The tears of a clown.
I’m guessing your Samsung monitors were out of their usual 3 year warranty.
Two of them were in warranty period. The first time, I sent the 24″ widescreen LCD in and it came back with new problem. I sent it back again and it came back with the original problem. The second monitor I just went and threw away as it was easier to replace with an LG monitor.
I’ll take Cringely prediction for what it’s worth, and what it’s worth should be calibrated to his less-than-stellar accuracy rate over the past 20 years that I’ve been paying attention. But hey, he’s gotta be better than Gartner’s record, right?
Isn’t Gartner a wholly owned subsidiary of M$?
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MrAtoz wrote:
“OpimpDaddy on TV weeping about guns, guns, guns. MSM squeeing over it.”
Now see what you’ve done, you horrible insensitive gun nuts? You’ve made a grown man cry.
Surrender your guns now! They’re dangerous and might be misused. And they’re not needed – the police are here to protect you.
For years I have bought Samsung monitors exclusively. Only one has failed, after plenty of use.
My TV is a 40″ Sony, no problems so far, it’s 6-7 years old.
Saint Jerry Coyne has the right idea:
“What to do with the armed thugs occupying a wildlife refuge in Oregon?”
“My solution: starve ’em out. Cut off the roads, cut off the water and electricity, and surround the compound. Eventually they’ll either capitulate or, if they’re stupid enough, come out firing. If there’s one principle of US democracy, it’s that nobody is above the law.”
Yeah right, Jerry. He was gloating recently about how the last gun shop in SF was shut down by the city making it impossible for them to trade.
I hope they draft him to go smoke out those nasty libertarians in Oregon.
See – here’s the thing. They’re not laws. They’re regulations with the force of law. Congress never approved those regulations, and the president never signed them.
Sorry – that sort of bugs me. A lot. Wish the founders had added a clause “And if Congress don’t pass it, and it ain’t signed by the president, ain’t nobody gotta pay it no mind.” Grrr.
A couple weeks after I notice that there aren’t any mass casualty kits sized for kids, there is this:
“The need for better pediatric emergency supplies has also become more pressing as the perceived domestic risk for exposure to chemical, biologic and radiologic agents has increased, noted Dr. Steven Krug, a researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and chair of the AAP Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council.
‘Disasters will continue to occur,’ Krug said by email. ‘We therefore need to be prepared and we need to be able to better weather the storm.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3386455/US-lack-resources-aid-affected-CHILDREN-event-natural-disaster-report-says.html
nick
Hell of a performance…
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/i-would-check-that-podium-for-a-raw-onion-tantaros-criticizes-obamas-tearful-address/
My TV is a 40″ Sony, no problems so far, it’s 6-7 years old
I had a Sony 46″ that died after three years. Friend has the same TV that is still going strong seven years later.
My opinion is someone is going to get a lemon no matter which brand you purchase. Just choose a brand that will stand behind the TV and has a good warranty. And don’t be shocked if the TV dies 38 seconds past the warranty.
The good companies don’t treat the warranty as an absolute. Many will make accommodations for close calls. Helps when the call center isn’t in Bombay.
“I hope they draft him to go smoke out those nasty libertarians in Oregon.”
Well Jerry’s a Brit, isn’t he? They’re mostly used to constantly knuckling under and doffing their hats to royalty and the State. It must be scary for him to witness real citizens standing up and fighting back. Though, as the Western Rifle Shooter guy and Kenny Rogers say, you got to know when to hold ’em and fold ’em. No reason at this point for anyone to get hurt or killed over some Fed building in the middle of nowhere.
The latest bumf is that face-saving alternatives could be employed soon, hopefully without anyone being arrested and jailed.
I highly recommend that TVs be on a good voltage regulating pure sine wave UPS. I have never (knock on wood) had a non-tube TV “die” that was on one. Keeping a TV dust free and well ventilated also helps.
Right now my oldest TV is a 30″ CRT Philips 1080P. I’d have to look up how old but it was before HDMI connectors came on anything other than the most high-end sets. It runs at least 12 hours a day.
I have 4 Samsung flatscreen monitor/tvs (2-27″ 2-30″) that are from 2 to 7 years old. Three are used as monitors on computers and one just as a TV. (Yes, I got them at Costco.) They have been rock solid. I have a bias towards Samsung and the family has used Samsung Smartphones since the Vibrant (2010). We are currently using the S3 but will probably get the S7 this summer.
“Well Jerry’s a Brit, isn’t he?”
Um, no. Born in St Louis, Mo, currently lives in Chicago. He’s a lunatic fringe liberal.
medium wave wrote:
“OpimpDaddy on TV weeping about guns, guns, guns. MSM squeeing over it.
The tears of a clown.”
Oh, how cynical! 🙂
“Who can doubt that Obama’s emotion is real? This is, after all, a man who teared up during Aretha Franklin’s performance of “Natural Woman” at last year’s Kennedy Honors!” (Jerry Coyne)
I may be lucky, but have lived all over the US and never plugged my TVs into a UPS. They’ve never failed before warranty. Usually years after and not worth repairing as new tech blew them away.
My opinion is someone is going to get a lemon no matter which brand you purchase. Just choose a brand that will stand behind the TV and has a good warranty. And don’t be shocked if the TV dies 38 seconds past the warranty.
Since all of the modern TVs are really computers running Linux, one wonders if anyone would be bold enough to put a hard death date in the system.
Costco put their 60″ LG on sale today for $730.
http://www.costco.com/LG-60%22-Class-%2859.5%22-Diag.%29-1080P-Smart-LED-LCD-TV-60LF6090.product.100213461.html
We may have a candidate.
My other TVs are a 26 inch widescreen Philips LCD and 46 inch Sony single scan LCD. The Sony is 6 or 7 years old and works fine in the den. The new tv is for the new game room (man cave) that we built last year and are slowly moving into.
I’d guess they know LG will have a new model selling at that price point. After all, CES is going on.
Modern led or lcd based tvs/monitors have only 3 boards in them. A power supply, usually generic, an input board, and a driver board. Sometimes someone combines boards or outboards the PSU. Plasmas are a different story.
What fails is the PSU, either bad caps or overvoltage kills the caps or regulator.
Very rarely the driver or inverter for the backlight fails, but that has specific symptoms and is easy to diagnose.
Outside of a surge or lighting strike on an input, the input board rarely fails.
Most tvs, the psu board is $35 or you can re-cap for about $13. That is definitely worth fixing if the tv is otherwise ok. Takes about 1/2 hour if you are methodical. Even if it doesn’t work, you only risked an hour and $35 to save hundreds. I’ve done a bunch. Some psus are so bad, and so widely used, the recap kits are available on ebay. Almost always, the power board is available on ebay or with a google search.
nick
Oddly enough, fuses are rarely blown, but if they are, there is usually a very good reason and it’s not easily repaired–board swap time.
I’d guess they know LG will have a new model selling at that price point. After all, CES is going on.
Are you talking about the the $950 price or the $730 price. Note that the $730 price is for stock on hand.
I would definitely put a UPS on any TIVO or other DVR. They really don’t like to be short cycled, which happens often when the power blinks or goes out more than once.
nick
Very rarely the driver or inverter for the backlight fails
That is what first failed on my Sony. Backlights were dim on one side until the set warmed up. When I got my new Samsung I took the old TV to church to use as a broadcast monitor in another room. Now it is really bad and the display is nothing but lines until the unit has been on for 15 minutes. Even then the screen is horrible but is good enough to know I have a broadcast signal confirmation in another room.
The Hisense that went out on me was the backlight. Hold a flashlight up to it and you can see the picture. So it’s the power to the driver or the driver board or the backlight panel itself. No idea how to tell which however. I could fix it myself as long as it’s not the panel. Oh well, cheap chinese brand to begin with.
I don’t know if LG will have a new one or not. Just guessing. Maybe this year’s model will have fins.
Ah, my bad again; I must be thinking of someone else, some online Brit pundit or other. So Coyne is actually a Murkan libtard, that explains a lot.
My 8 year old 42″ LG works just fine and it only cost me $20. Back then my nephew was selling raffle tickets to support his little league team ($5 each, 5 for $20) and, like a good uncle, I bought 5. I considered it money spent on a worthy cause. I won the top prize. Woo hoo!
Most things coming out of the PRC are garbage. As I am careful to inform my wife with some regularity.
Most things coming out of the PRC are garbage. As I am careful to inform my wife with some regularity.
This is the wife from China, right? Dude, you are living on the edge.
Life is groovy on the edge, man.
My wife is a 5’10” 180 lb. Irish redhead. Who knows the guns. Also has a bad temper sometimes. And like most womyn, is crazy as a loon. And a summa cum laude space cadet graduate of Starfleet Academy.
Life on the edge…
Gaming is moving into the cloud?
Nope. There are engineering compute systems that are masses of GPUs talking to a conventional computer – the GPUs are great at doing vector operations. Someone ported, IIRC, NASTRAN (a finite element analysis program for structural analysis) to an array of 1024 Playstations and it compared favorably to a Cray or IBM supercomputer. And was much cheaper.
It was possible to do this because the first Playstations could run Linux and all you needed was a good FORTRAN compiler that could use the GPU vector mode.
“And a summa cum laude space cadet graduate of Starfleet Academy.”
Not to mention her daughter… 🙂
medium wave wrote:
“OpimpDaddy on TV weeping about guns, guns, guns. MSM squeeing over it.
The tears of a clown.”
Oh, how cynical! 🙂
Yeah, I probably should send Smokey Robinson an apology. 🙂