Author: gee

Distractions

I learned to drive a car on a 1962 Ford. It had power windows, power steering and brakes. A 3 speed automatic transmission, AM radio and no seat belts. It was my fathers car… and all these years later I still think of my father when I go looking at new cars. My father had a pet peeve…. he did not want his car to have a decal from the dealer on it. It was free advertisement for the dealer… and unless the dealer was willing to lower the cost of the vehicle to keep its decal on the car… why have it.

I find dealers will not lower the price to keep their decal on the car… but always point out it help’s ID the car when I come in for service…. helps them make a living… why not display a dealer decal… Just following a family tradition I say…

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1919 National No. 3

Cheap way to feel better…

I typed this post on a 1962 Royal Futura… the same year that Duke Ellington recorded an album with Coleman Hawkins. I have found that listening to this recording and typing on a typewriter lifts my mood.

I will also add I listened to Duke Ellington with Count Basie… and found on the INTERNET a 1969 video of Johnny Hodges playing “Black Butterfly” and he was smiling… I had forgotten how easy it is to be amused… to become captured in the sound’s and mood of great performances of good music…

1962 Royal Futura 800

The problem with logic…

My problem is that I keep following the logic of the words being used today…. this leads me to roads that seem full of distrust, division and hurt. My mind wants a path to communication, trust, uplift and hope. Yet when I think about what my thoughts say… it seems I am not just making an observation, but perhaps pulling back the curtain words hide. Or… I am just putting words on paper to see what prints!!

1974 Smith Corona Galaxie XII