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That evening/morning train ride west through Minnesota/North Dakota is nice. Pretty quiet compared through the plains. I really enjoyed that leg of the tip. We did Amtrak round trip from Minot to Chicago about a decade ago. It gets quite a lot busier as you get closer to Chicago. I’m glad to hear things are going well, and you got a quick reset at home.

I was at an outlet mall area in a fancy area of Richmond BC, there were 5 cyber trucks in the various parking lots. Those trucks seemed to attract a fairly narrow range of clients.

I kind of think it was standard. They advertised to the cult of personality that it was innovative. Most wouldn’t know it was already done several times before. I bet they kind of needed to as well - that truck has a long wheelbase.

Musk: “A quarter million a year is a reasonable guess, and it might be 500,000.” Reality: ~70,800 U.S. sales over almost three years, with at least 1,279 going to SpaceX in a single quarter. Musk Promised price: $39,900. Announced production price: $60,990 minimum (RWD model never actually offered), with the vehicles initially available to buyers costing roughly $100,000+. Most sold were $80k+, double the original promises (hopes).

In the western Canadain oil and gas industry, back in parking is pretty much 100% mandatory for “safety” reasons. The arguments for/against it have never been satisfactorily explained to me. I see an argument for back in in the winter, as your windows are much more likely to be clear, vs being parked for a long period of time.

They are probably coming out of the other end of the same factory. The packaging and plastic is the easy/low cost part to fake I guess. I heard an interesting thing about counterfeit stuff - it has to be high enough value to make a margin/cover the risk. That’s why they make fake Rolex’s but not fake Timex watches. So you are more safe buying the cheaper version - Probably they don’t make fake Ryobi or Harbour Freight stuff! *edit - nevermind my Ryobi comment, a quick search indicates there is counterfeit stuff all over the interwebs.

Did you have to deal with the Van Buren boys at the port? (Haha, Seinfeld reference) I didn’t know there were 9370’s with an IH logo on the hood pull - cool!

Times change - Tom Green has a YouTube channel where he hobby farms, now laid back and putting around on his tractor. Not the Tom Green I recall from my youth. I hadn’t ever seen a B-250. It seems to be a British built IH that was imported into Eastern Canada.

You and your wife will be in my thoughts, Dale. Wishing her a successful surgery, a smooth recovery, and lasting relief from the pain she’s been dealing with. From what you’ve shared about your family’s health challenges over the years, the strength and resilience of your family is truly inspiring.

Was at the Badlands last night.

I don’t think the automatic 10speeds are for performance/capacity, I think they are for marginal paper gains in fuel efficiency.

Birthday suits are much more affordable.

This thread has turned into a “posting while laid-up with the gout” for me, haha.

Yeah it’s pretty wild to think these seem to be doomed engines, when 15yrs ago a 6.0LS would do 250,000miles+, with relative ease. It’s sort of a story of a bunch of issues stacking up on each other. I do wonder - if a new engine was put together surgically clean, would it still fail prematurely? My gut says it probably will? Also the internet has a way of amplifying these issues, but I think this one is real.