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And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.<\/em>
\n –Jonah 2:10, KJV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He spake thus. When you see the 5.4L 3-valve V8:<\/p>\n

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That’s the thumbnail from this video<\/a>. Another, from the same guy<\/a>, reiterates. “I love this very beautiful old truck of mine. But please, please, if you value your sanity and financial health, don’t buy one”.<\/p>\n

A different voice says<\/a>, “I did it anyway and I’m glad”, but he had the twin advantages of only paying 20% of what’s being asked for the truck today in the first place, and doing the job in a world where ‘supply-chain issues’ were a theoretical construct for bored economists.<\/p>\n

It’s really kind of heartbreaking to walk away from this pretty thing. If I were a better capitalist, I would buy it anyway and ask even more for it–that cutthroat investment strategy I mentioned last night. But I don’t want to live like that.<\/p>\n

(Some more<\/a> bits<\/a> of leftover<\/a> research<\/a> you don’t actually<\/a> want to follow<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Soon, I hope, I will end up downshifting a model year or two and marrying something more like this Vegas hottie<\/a>. Or maybe an Asian girl named Tundra, or Titania.<\/p>\n

After that, the popup is a kind of rig that sits in the pickup bed, and drives around daily looking more or less just like a shell. But once you get it out there to the back of beyond, it pops up in seconds to something more like a tiny home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That has been, and remains, the vehicular and second-homey plan.<\/p>\n

There’s movement on the second brain front too, but that’s a topic for another show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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