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Something new for this blog: A review of a 13 episode series! This time, I am reviewing The Grand Tour Season 3.

The first two seasons were full of fun, amazing and sometimes cringy stuff, but the opening scene in season one still remains the best things I have ever seen!

So what does season 3 have in store for us? A bit of violence, a bit of speed and a LOT of momentum! Episode 1 opens up with the trio entering the tent, and Jeremy Clarkson presents a montage of what to expect over the next 13 weeks.

After that, it's time for the best thing ever: Three violent, screaming muscle cars: The Dodge Demon, the Ford Mustang RTR and the insane Hennessey Exorcist, which is a Chevrolet Camaro boosted to 1000 horsepower. The trio aims to find out which of the cars is the best one, and to some extend, which one is worth it the most at its given pricepoint. To figure that out, they take the cars to Motor City - Detroit!

After a series of tests, it's back to the tent, and on to conversation street. It's then time for a test drive of the McLaren Senna, which is such an amazing piece. That car is mad! It's then back to the test in Detroit, and the Demon has some surprisingly annoying features to it. What those features are, I will not spoil here, in case you want to see the episode for yourself

I really enjoyed the episode, and I really look forward to the next one in a weeks time!

The Grand Tour Season 3 is available now on Amazon Prime!

Yes I confess I was wrong. I realised it just after but couldn't apologize. I do it now.
My mind was playing games with me by assurances and reassurances that it was not that bad as she claimed and that she mistook and misunderstood me
But those mind games are crystally clear to me now. Yes for sure, I insulted her. I know it's too late 8 long years late.
She was so enthusiastic.She was so energetic and vibrant. I killed her innocent advances... I killed something precious within her. Yes I did How could I be that mean.
If you can forgive me... come lets play again.
I know you didn't stop playing chess after this mishap.

Just having some fun. No insults intended. I stand firmly in my delusion that this is a dating site. Have fun debating social injustices.

Sure, there are clued lady mechanics, and race car drivers. Recall that weeny worshiper Amelia Ehrhardt. But in my experience, there is a strong inverse correlation betwen just what women know about such things, and how jealously they guard related imagined perogatives. So, our brilliant graduare twins will need a vehicle for work or more schooling. Mind you, dad buys antique modes of transportation. Touring MC, head turning sports car, solid coastal sail cruisers, and so on. Cheap and do what is expected of them. A joy to maintain. But the girls' mom, Godess bless her, will have none of it. So my default suggestion is to get them hybrid Subaru station wagons---environmentally sound and long lived. Of course, as with most things, dad will pay for most of the bills. Mother dear is listening to the car salesman, lowest of occupations, who avers that while there may be a savings in gas, long term hybrid maintenance is very costly. What?!?! No timing belts, fewer oil and trans services, almost no brake jobs---and lots more. Hopefully, daughters won't be so falsely swayed. But the PC world isn't kind to such valid thinking, based on experience.

I started watching this show and it cheers me up every time. It's so silly and clever. It's so not PC. Lol I love it.

When you buy a vehicle at a dealer, they often issue a temporary tag until they can get the permanent tag issued. For years, I've heard people reference this as a 'paper tag'
The paper tag is usually good for 2-3 weeks giving enough time for the dealership to process the official tag or sticker to validate the new or existing tag.
Today, I found there is an official name for the paper tag... it's called a DRIVE-OUT TAG.

In the news, a man and woman in Memphis, Tennessee were arrested for creating fake drive-out tags. Police found 236 of them!

Memphis Police Department found printers, tags, plastic laminator machine, a rifle, handgun, bag of marijuana, digital scales.

Each were charged with 236 counts of forging evidence of title assignments.
Among that, a list of other charges ranging to drug paraphernalia and possession of a weapon.

The Shelby County Fugitive Task Force passed the tip to the Memphis Police Department who made the search and arrests.

Fraudulent drive-out tags...

It seems like just yesterday I was in my loft over on Bulldog Lane, walking distance from the University, and right across the street from both the football & baseball stadiums-- good times.
...At the precise moment 99 became double 0, locals celebrated the occasion with an Artillery bombardment of Epic scale.
...Here are just a few fun facts of fast living in Fam Friendly Fresno circa 98-01...
At 43 years the daydream became actual...
0600...06 March, 00....walk to restaurant , pick up L A Times en route [ .25 ]
10 am....Pepsi Johnny Quick baseball tournament begins.... purchase ticket..[ $5.
attend game...[ Maybe 45 people are in the park
...spark up a number/ Doobie....no One else notices
After 5 innings--- service a few pools { gotta pay bills, your reporter is $elf employed.
Return home...grip & feed cat [ his Chuckiness--
1:30 pm.... return to park, that same ticket gets me into the next game....buy hot dog & Pepsi $4ish.
Maybe 70 others are taking in the Action...
No one says or shouts, ' hey batter batter- swing batter!"...but you can actually hear what it is that is being said among the players.
Guess eYe should mention, First rate ballpark, Division 1 NCAA baseball.
The home team , Fresno State, plays their games at 6 pm...but I don't attend for reasons I will not explain.
Skip a couple daze, and the weather is chamber of commerce gorgeous... again I spend $5...and walk into the park ...Notre Dame vs. the team McBob forgot-- Vanderbilt perhaps...I'm consumed with nostalgia.
...30 years prior & in 2 summers, eYe see Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Joe Morgan & Rusty Staub @ the Houston Astrodome 68/69...) Even better times
....to be continued....if possible

He's been sentenced to 5 days in jail and 3 years of probation in DUI charges.
Happy now?



Right, not enough punishment.

I took him inside of me
Willingly
And now he will always be a part of me

Nothing grew except an experience
Willingly
And now that will always be a part of me

I don't know if I wish for
Amnesia or old memories
For the part that will always be a part of me

Jay Leno breaks the Bugatti Chiron speed record of 9.4 seconds doing a 1/4 mile in 9.247 seconds with the Tesla Model S Plaid. His record was short lived as later in the day, a Tesla driver does 9.234 breaking Leno's record for the title of the fastest production car.