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Today we celebrate the birthday of Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev, born in 1837. He was a mathematician.

Yesterday's Gospel reading was one of those monumental yawners that's best left unremembered. Our Deacon In Training did the sermon, an excellent one, in 7 minutes and 23 seconds. Verily indeed, she's destined for greatness!

And then it was time to do an oil change in Priscilla the Prius. Into the garage. Out come the ramps. Drive car onto ramps. Oops! Nose end of car hits ramps before wheels do! No can change oil. I guess we gotta let Bayside Toyota do our oil changes for us.

Back in the 1950's, a consortium of General Motors, the Society of Automotive Engineers, Cornell University, and a number of other notable institutions developed a set dimensional standards for cars. Thereupon, all manufacturers of consumer's home auto maintenance products, such as drive-up ramps, manufactured their stuff in accordance with those standards.

Since then, automobile engineers have discovered that lower air resistance and better gas mileage can be obtained if the nose end of the car sticks a long ways out and hangs close to the ground. The Toyota Prius has taken that to such an extreme that drive-up ramps won't work.

Oh well, can't win 'em all.

And so today is Monday, the day of sadness for Wage Slaves but just another nice day for us retired old geezers. The Wondrous Weather Website is promising us a great one.

Happy Monday!

OrneryPest