I can’t go on yet. Been to a meeting in a suburb an hour from home. My back and strained/injured groin just aren’t coping with the drivers’ seat in my mother’s car. I’m 10 minutes from home and in agony.

@kdfrawg With the previous car I often encountered a shuddering clutch. This was dud to a slightly warped flywheel, not worth fixing until time to replace the clutch itself. This is cos you have to dismantle ½ the engine to get at it. I could usually get around the shudder by having another go at the clutch, it would bite on an unwarped section.

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The car is ready for pickup. Not enough time today so I’ll get it tomorrow.

Manuals tend to be at least $1500 cheaper than autos when new.

Yesterday I tried to load a 3.02 GB macOS Combo updater onto my SanDisk iXpand USB flash drive only to be told it was to big for the drive’s format. It’s a multi-system thing & has to be FAT32 to work properly. So I used another Mac-formatted drive.

I'm on an author's email/newsletter list. He's just made two short stories available to list members who can sign in & download them.
For the Kindle Paperwhite, he supplied a bookhip.com link which you enter in the device's "experimental browser." Then tap once on the image on screen to initiate the download.

It's not sinking in. On the 3rd Wed of each month, the Men's Shed group has a BBQ lunch: sausages, egg, bacon & hash browns get cooked up. I can't handle sausages, have to slum it with 30-day aged scotch fillet steak.

There's always some sausages left over. Invariably one older fellow takes 6 or so home for his dog.
This is despite the fact that when a dog eats a sausage it's the equivalent of 3.5 hamburgers (with buns) consumed by a human.

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@kdfrawg No problems on a 2014 Air or 2017 iMac

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@kdfrawg It's probably cheaper than sending it back on a tow truck.

@kdfrawg No change. The same level of insurance for the newer vehicle was actually some $50 cheaper than for the old one, despite the disparity in insured value. The newer car has over twice the insured value of the dead one. I opted to pay for unlimited hire car use in the event of a claim. I'm lucky I have my mother's car to use this time around: she's too infirm to drive now.