Mom and I had an “adventure” last night. We were taking the new used truck to town to pick up the other truck that had been in the shop. About 3 miles out the engine on this new used truck overheated to the point that we could smell it starting to burn off coolant. So we ended up on a backroad trying to slowly limp the thing home.
Unfortunately the engine wouldn’t cool down enough to go further than a tenth of a mile. So eventually we called a tow to have it taken to the place we were going anyway. I’m giving you the short version of events, but this took hours to get done while we both end up really needing to use the restroom. I also left the house in my house shorts because it was supposed to take an hour to get all of this done. So I’m getting very cold as we wait.
Part of the problem is that Google makes searching for local services extremely difficult now that they’ve updated search with AI. Other search engines just aren’t very good at having updated information, so in the end we had to call the police to see if they could tell us what towing services actually exist now.
Basically Google ran everyone out of the market and has now abandoned their position as leader because they don’t have to fight anyone. It’s been like this for a while but this really drove home the real world issues it causes when you have a functional monopoly in a marketplace. Google’s claws are sunk so deep into modern life that they’ve ruined many aspects of it via lack of care and greed.
Anyway we eventually got to town, got the other truck and left the other one to get repaired whenever they can get to it. We also didn’t soil ourselves, so that was a nice bonus. I did scare the guy in the walmart bathroom who was ahead of me when I came in looking like a wild haired lunatic in shorts and a tshirt. That will teach me to leave the house unprepared again.
The funny thing is that I wouldn’t normally do that but mom has gotten in the habit of telling me I don’t need a coat when I try to bring one on a nice day and I let myself get complacent because of it. Ultimately it was my choice not to go prepared though.
That’s about all I can say about what’s going on in my life without getting in trouble, so I’ll leave it at that. I hope you all have a nice Monday and will return on Wednesday to see where this new thing is gonna go. Until then, let’s go, Ghostbusters!

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