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Ah … an afternoon grading 101 papers. What could be finer?
Well, a lot of things.
Most things, actually.
On the plus side, the papers are looking decent so far — not great, mostly Cs, but it’s early in the term. There’s time for things to get where they need to be ‘ere the end comes. [...]

Project LJ Stage 3: Enter the expensive. A series of fortunate events punches up my LJ timeline (items covered in detail below).
$1000 — T-Max EWI-10000 Winch.
$600 — Skid-row Nightcrawler Front Bumper.
$400 — Jeeperman Trail Skidz.
$375 — Smittybilt/Rugged Ridge Off-road Cargo Rack.
$200 — Rola Pursuit Cargo Carrier.
$300 — Jeeperman Rear Bumper.
$85 — T-Max Portable Air Compressor.
$70 [...]

3.2%
That’s the percentage of my 101 students (mostly “knobs” — i.e., freshmen) who followed the explicit written and oral instructions on how to turn in their papers to me today.
Three. Point. Two.
The other 96.8% just lost a full letter grade.
Plus, in my second 101 section this morning, a full 40% had lost or forgotten the [...]

Project LJ Stage 2: More quick, cheap fixes, plus a small bit of Jeep-style luxury (items covered in detail below).
$800 — Garmin Trail Guide.
$75 — Buchanan Precision Machine 1.5″ Seat Lift-kit.
$70 — Mopar’s Jeep Mud-flaps.
$50 — Skid-row Steering Box Skidplate.
$25 — Domelight Kill Switch, from Quadratec.
$16 — Stepshield Entry Guards.
$0 — Front Bumper End-cap [...]

Spent part of my weekend replacing the battery on the Stratus in hope that its starting problems are due to a dead cell and nothing more.
There are many reasons I’ve grown to dislike the vehicle, so I was surprised to get yet another: opening up the hood, I couldn’t find the battery. I could [...]

Mr. Pres(id)ent, thank you. Thank you for proving, once more, that any idiot can buy/steal/fool the electorate of this once-great country of ours.
Bull Moose, where have you gone?*
* My favorite Teddy Roosevelt moment… The presidential candidate for his newly formed Progressive Party, TR was shot on 14 October 1912 in Milwaukee, as he left [...]

Our non-Jeep car (not pictured) appears to be sputtering its way toward the premature death that awaits most American-made vehicles. It’s a Dodge Stratus, built in this century. But still it dies. Rust burdens its skin, and the innards are diseased. Sometimes the power locks work; sometimes they don’t. Sometimes the windows won’t open; sometimes [...]

Just to be sure things don’t bend too far into the medieval around here, I give thee …

Hotdamn. It just cracks me up when e says she’s uncomfortable with being rounded to the nearest tenth. (And if you don’t quite get the joke, check out Fourier’s proof that e is an irrational [...]

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