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“Have you ever been in love? . . . Horrible, isn’t it? . . . It makes you so vulnerable. . . . It opens your heart & it means someone can get inside & mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it, They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, & then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out & leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like “maybe we should just be friends” . . . turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. . . . It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love. (from Sandman) ” — Neil Gaiman

This is not a martyr pity party personality thing, just that sometimes the world needs to back off. I am a weird, aloof, obscure , badly timed woman who has surface character flaws and too many to count below the surface character flaws so ….I don’t know what to say…At least I’m consistently inconsistent.

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The Locomobile steam car at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa is described as “circa 1901″. I have a feeling it might be an early 1902 model. It is chassis number 555 and has the Stanhope type two body with the ogee shaped front, rather than the flat upright dashboard. The Locomobile was [...]

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you know sometimes

that’s all there is to say

Henry Seth Taylor (1833-1887) built Canada’s first self-propelled buggy in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada in 1867. The buggy took seven years to build. The boiler was wood-fired and operated at 60lbs pressure. The four wheeled single seat open carriage had tiller steering and carried the water tank over the front axle. Here is a view [...]

I have been part of a writers’ group in the virtual world SecondLife for some time, and last year was asked if I’d like to submit something for the literary journal SLiterary. The deadline was only a few days away, but I had been toying with an idea for a novel for some time and [...]

You can never truly know what love is until you have had your heart broken and even then the interpretation is somewhat lacking. But maybe Nietzsche said it best:

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

It looks like many other 1920s cars, but this one would meet the most severe emissions controls. Steam cars are like that. The 1921 Stanley tourer at the Ottawa Science and Technology museum is in excellent condition - and is in good hands to stay that way. Although Stanley was the most commercially successful steam car, [...]