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== Diary ==
== Diary ==
=== Old Green ===
[[File:Old Green.jpg|link=Green (tractor) (nonfiction)|thumb|[[Green (tractor) (nonfiction)|Old Green]].]]
I bought "Green (tractor) (nonfiction)|Old Green]]" via Craigslist. What a tractor! And I got it at a great price – the only problem was making the seller take my second half-payment, he kept wanting to tell me tractor stories …
Update: Literally. I must have stood there for eight, nine minutes, with $1500 cash in my hand, making “Yup, here’s the money, got this rental trailer, time’s a-tickin” sounds while the seller kept rhapsodizing … oh, he loved that tractor.
It worked out okay, the seller did eventually take my money, which he said is going towards a larger machine, a backhoe.
Still, Old Green is the cutest beast I ever did see, with lots of attachments (not shown here), so I can’t blame the guy for getting misty-eyed.
* [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/anatomy-of-a-rental-phishing-scam/170289/14 Post] @ Boing Boing


=== Replacing numeracy with sarcasm endumbens us all ===
=== Replacing numeracy with sarcasm endumbens us all ===

Latest revision as of 05:48, 20 September 2020

Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday April 30, 2020.

Diary

Old Green

I bought "Green (tractor) (nonfiction)|Old Green]]" via Craigslist. What a tractor! And I got it at a great price – the only problem was making the seller take my second half-payment, he kept wanting to tell me tractor stories …

Update: Literally. I must have stood there for eight, nine minutes, with $1500 cash in my hand, making “Yup, here’s the money, got this rental trailer, time’s a-tickin” sounds while the seller kept rhapsodizing … oh, he loved that tractor.

It worked out okay, the seller did eventually take my money, which he said is going towards a larger machine, a backhoe.

Still, Old Green is the cutest beast I ever did see, with lots of attachments (not shown here), so I can’t blame the guy for getting misty-eyed.

Replacing numeracy with sarcasm endumbens us all

Please: I am on your side politically, but replacing numeracy with sarcasm endumbens us all.

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