I'm looking forward to my next trip across Switzerland and Germany in a car that requires (Y) rated tyres, which will be driven to its limits by a couple of friends when we arrive a our destination. My job is to get them there and back as fast as is legal.

In Switzerland speed limits are strict and penalties are very high. There's a zero-tolerance policy against speeding (including confiscation of cars for extreme violations).

Different in Germany, no general speed limit, but a 'recommended speed' (Richtgeschwindigkeit) of 130 km/h which is a legal term. If you drive faster on motorways you will always be partially responsible if an accident occurs. The judge decides based on objective facts (traffic density, time of day, weather conditions... what speed is still responsible). So it's not easy to define what "as fast as is legal" means on the German Autobahn.

That's why we should have speed limits like (almost) everywhere else in Europe: 130 km/h. What the gun laws mean to Americans is the Autobahn for Germans: "Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger" (free driving for free citizens). Unresponsible, idiotic. But not even the Greens in our current government dare to change that.

In Switzerland speed limits are strict and penalties are very high. There's a zero-tolerance policy against speeding (including confiscation of cars for extreme violations).

Hence the last thing I said "As fast as is legal".
On a previous trip to Switzerland I had an interesting conversation with a police officer who couldn't understand how any car could come out of a low speed limit area then pass him at 125kph in such a short distance. So we had to demonstrate the brutal performance of the car concerned. He was more than a little surprised, as I passed the 130 sign I just blipped the throttle a bit and again past him at 125, but it could so easily have been nearer 160 if I'd kept the power on for a couple more seconds.

Oh, and there are some sections of the German Autobahn network with speed limits, so even there one has to be alert to the speed limit.

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Bob Smith
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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Winning on a P.O.E.T.S. Day morning before it gets hot and then wet.

It's coffee time after another good sleep.

Cheers.

I agree with you Rob. A lot of vehicles today can do naught to 96 in a few seconds.
Finally warm enough to open up the windows in my flat to air it out with fresh outside air.

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Hail and rain and new rivers and floods all around. 'Tis well into Biblical descriptions!

And I'm still in bewilderment of the insane lazy attitudes we're fighting against. There seems to be a fatal attitude of "things will fix themselves"...

Totally no sense of interest or responsibility or good care...

All very hard work to keep things working...

Gained some assistance for the afternoon which was a godsend. Shame only for the afternoon, but the extra effort worked wonders.


And now is a good escape for a beer!

(Still keeping off the shovel food and all is well... With me at least!)

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Did they work for Boeing in a past job?

I talked to AAA this morning and considering I got a Quote for less elsewhere and the fact that I've been a Customer of AAA for 6 years, I was able to renegotiate my coverage, but then I made them aware that I have NO credit cards, my bank account has a $0.00 balance and that until the 1st I have no money, my food is in the fridge or in a freezer or on the shelf, and except for a blood test at Lab Corp I don't need to drive anywhere until March 5th. Plus all the increases and decreases I've gone thru or that will happen here, water going up $10.00 a month, trash went up $13.62 a month, rent going up $30.00 a month, internet going up(acp ending in May?) $30.00, Calfresh going down $142.00 a month... Not even enough for soda and corn chips...

On the 1st AAA gets $93.61, after that AAA and me gets to work on coverage to more closely match the quote. AAA was going to Cancel on 02/24/2024 cause of non payment of the membership and the fee, I was broke, I also told them the SSA sees payday lending as income, so I could not borrow my way out...

On Friday a Nurse is coming here.

Labcorp only stays open until 3pm around here, the Doctor wanted some blood tests done.

I was very sleepy today, so no Labcorp today.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Did they work for Boeing in a past job?

I know they haven't but you could wonder!

And onwards for my last morning to suffer...


I wonder if an evangelical could be hired to stir them unto some new height of fervor?...

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We've reached a very steamy 28C here as the weather around the region starts to become unstable again.

Cheers.

Did they work for Boeing in a past job?

I know they haven't but you could wonder!

And onwards for my last morning to suffer...


I wonder if an evangelical could be hired to stir them unto some new height of fervor?...

Sorry but my grandpa is out of reach and his number has been disconnected. Last seen he was 82 years old.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Partly sunny 7C.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

A beautiful sunny bright morning and...

By 'eck this lot are slow and grumpy.

I do wonder if they're all suffering a hangover every morning from the night before!..


Now to conjure up another magical blast of Positivitum!!

(I need to see this job done and be away ASAP!!!)

Hopefully I won't be trapped by the widespread random patchy flooding there is sploshing around here...

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Well I off to bed before today becomes tomorrow.

Cheers.

TGIF! Looks like a great day. 43F with a high of 61. No rain until next week.

I thought it never rains in California........

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I thought it never rains in California........

don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours.

Sunshine still and I'm soon to make my escape!!!


Hopefully things are running more smoothly here than when I arrived a few days ago...

Or... How soon will the Operatives fall down into their lazy 'shortcuts' into failures...

Here's hoping for the better...

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Posting on an overcast Saturday in the highlands as we continue to wait for all this rain that the experts reckon is coming.

We kicked off here at 17C (felt like 18C) with 27C being expected along with our continuing threat of showers, rain and storms, that usually don't turn up of late.

Anyhow it must be coffee time.

Cheers.

Posting after having donated a vial of blood and brought home a container for some liquid, so the Doctor can see what makes me go tick, tick, tick.

I tried sport mode near home, though if there is a difference between ECO and Sport modes, I can't tell as they are both pretty darned QUICK.

Also I learned I can equip my car with four 15x6 rims and four 195/55R15 tires front and rear, the stock rear rims are 15x6.5 which can't be mounted up front without a 5mm spacer.

Getting 2 stock front 15x6 rims might cost me $361.37 or so, and that doesn't include tires, 4 Firestone 195's will cost me $462.84, plus $72 for mounting.
But what's $896.21 at Walmart for the four 195's?
Then I'll have 4 rims and tires that can be rotated and at least one other person is doing this.

Why the wider rim in back?
It can't be weight related as 185's support 1047lbs ea and 195's support 1135lbs ea, the 2015-2016 battery adds 474lbs, the 2015 Chevy Spark 2LT EV weighs 2866.01lbs, The LFP EV battery in 2014 weighs 560lbs.
My guess is marketing thought "it would make the car look beefier".

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Well I think that I have everything ready now just in case all that rain in the forecast actually gets here after 3.5hrs out in this steamy atmosphere, it's now 25C (feels like 27C) while that sun isn't shining any brighter through this cloud cover.

I watered and fertilised my crops in the wicking tubs, carboarded the base of another of my composting bays and wired an old security screen door across those last 2 small bays to keep Dog out, then I went and did some pruning (almost filling the garbage bin again) so that I can at least mow right up to its trunk again, but there still a bit more to do there as well as again pruning my Lady Banks climbing rose away from my shed and solar panels. It never ends.

Anyhow I'm just getting my last coffee of the morning in as I cool down and dry out.

Cheers.