Okay, the tool box is moved. All of 7-8 cm. The check station signs fit now. Actually, they fit before, but I wouldn't be able to get even a finger alongside to pull them out without opening the tailgate. Now there's plenty of room.

Was a whole lot easier doing it the first time in a warm garage, rather than outside in freshly fallen snow...

Get more distractions outdoors, though. Both the police chief and former mayor stopped by to see how I was doing.

And to ask about ground squirrels. And to let me know the owls are in town. (But we knew that already.)

But it's done. And the rig has its new shields, and the GPS is mounted. Still need to figure out where to put the fire extinguisher, flashlight charger and extra power points. And not sure about a spotlight. Made it through the past two trucks without needing one, so maybe not.

Masked heeler is still none too happy with the new rig.

For the record... the vise grips I was referring to were...

Vise Grips.

The originals. As in, the ones patented by Bill Petersen in 1934. Produced by Petersen Manufacturing Co. of Dewitt, Nebraska.

Yeah, I didn't know that either, but since I had them out again, I checked.

Just finished watching Senator Obama's speech in New Hampshire.

Good speaker, not as motivational as Bill Clinton was at this stage in his political career, but he said all the right things.

But hey, folks, let's not all get on the biofuels bandwagon as a campaign plank, okay?

It doesn't work.

Yes, you can make wonderful diesel fuel out of vegetable waste products. You can even grow corn to make fuel.

But it takes petroleum to grow corn, folks. More petroleum than you will save by creating the biofuel. It is an energy losing process.

Use it to convert waste into energy, sure. But sacrifice hundreds of square miles of arable farm land and open rangeland to grow fuel?

That is a long-term unsustainable solution.

Better to plant wind turbines and solar panels. (And they all have their environmental problems, too.)

So, for the second time in a half-year I finally found what I'd been seeking. After hours of internet time. And just as before, there was a surge of satisfaction.

Followed immediately, like the end of any hunt, with a touch of guilt. And disappointment, because now the search is over...

Yet another commercial for Dirt.

How many months have we been watching those?

Geez!

As the wife just now said, "That better be a really good show, for all the commercials we've been watching."

But, like so many others, I fear the amount of pre-release publicity may be inversely proportional to the quality of the show.

Just think, less than a month to go.

Before most the Dirt commercials go away.

Courteney looks good, though...

The masked heeler just put a noseprint on my screen, so I guess it is time to close this...