Category: Yelling at clouds (Page 2 of 2)

My truck has a butt-scratch alarm.

Sure, Sparky is probably being detected as a passenger, and the alarm is a ‘Fasten your seatbelt’ command.

My fancy digital instrument doesn’t tell me why the alarm is sounding or provide a way for me to clear it.  That’s why I shot the video, to see if I was missing something.

Sparky has been on plenty of car rides in this truck, and we haven’t had this issue.  It’s frustrating.

My Tacoma is trying to piss me off.

My Tacoma is a doctrinaire prick.  Or it’s being maliciously complaint because it harbors a grudge for some reason.

On our drive to Elyria, I wanted to switch to a different audiobook.  The audiobook app on my phone responded with:

“The library function cannot be accessed while…”

I didn’t try to display the rest of that sentence because some attention should be given to driving, but it probably ended with “driving”.

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If the planet of the apes built a basilica

When I saw the Sagrada Familia basilica being built in Barcelona, it seemed very planet-of-the-ape-y. 

It was designed by Gaudi, and has an organic look that I really like.  This was in 1991, and since it was being built by Spaniards with private donations, I doubted it would ever be done.

Now it is finished, mostly, and there is a Lego Sagrada Familia kit for $799.  It looks horrible.

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