The traditional rule is that you are not allowed to end a sentence in a preposition. No, not just you. No one is allowed to end a sentence in a preposition.
But people don’t care as much as they used to. Oops… People don’t care as much as they used to care.
There must be a compromise – a way to let people write the way they speak and still obey the rules of grammar.
I think I found the compromise: the postposition.
The postposition is a new part of speech that I am introducing.
It contains the same words as the preposition does, but its only use is to appear at the ends of sentences.
Thus, a person can end a sentence with whatever word he wants. If others complain about that sentence ending in a preposition, the speaker can defend himself by claiming the word he used did sound like a preposition but was actually a postposition. Therefore, he is allowed to end a sentence with it. Game over.
He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
Psalm 101:7
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Usually for a short time after I’ve just repaired or maintained something on our vehicle, I am amazed at the fact that so many cars are working. When you consider all the parts that have to work on their own, plus cooperate with each other, plus not wear out – it’s a wonder.
That thought first came into my mind after I replaced some part of the front suspension and got the car all put back together, then I realized I forgot to reinstall something I had to take off to get to the part I was replacing. It made me think how far I would have gotten until the vehicle did something to make me remember about that part. And it made me wonder what else I could have forgotten to reinstall. Or perhaps did install but not correctly.
Then I pass or get passed by some junker that’s in obviously much worse shape than my vehicle and I wonder how it’s driving along fairly well considering all that should be wrong with it. And I give them a wider berth than usual.
One of the things I never thought I’d pay for (or have an opinion about) is aftermarket lug nuts. But after the OEM lug nuts went bad, I didn’t have much of a choice. Now I’m sporting black lug nuts on silver wheels, because the only way to get chrome/silver lug nuts in the right size was to go with the capped style that caused the problem in the first place. Right now I have two sockets with lug nuts or caps stuck in them. The OEM style was open lug nuts with a cap over it to enclose it. Enclosed is good, but capped is bad because the cap eventually separates and deforms. The cap gets stuck inside your lug wrench, leaving you with no lug wrench and then a lug nuts that is too small for the lug wrench provided with the vehicle.
But I replaced them all with new lug nuts, so as soon as I force the jammed stuff out of my sockets, I can close that chapter of vehicle maintenance.
My nemesis at the moment is tires. Two of the vehicles are due for new tires, and the total is looking like it’s more than I paid for my last vehicle. But since one of the vehicles is supposed to be my main driver, I should just go ahead and get decent tires for it.
Side note: if you can’t get your pressure bleeder for the brake system to get above 5 psi, then you haven’t fixed all the leaks yet.
They saw it, then they were amazed; They were terrified, they fled in alarm.
Psalm 48:5
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I hope this is not a trend that is becoming popular, but the last hotel we stayed at had a sliding door for the bathroom door.
This is a bad idea for a couple of reasons.
The first is that it has gaps. The door has to keep a minimum distance away from the wall so that it slides smoothly, and they didn’t make it much larger than the doorway. So I heard giggling while I was changing my clothes and I heard Delta say “I can see you through the crack!”
The second is that the locking mechanism is weak. This isn’t necessarily a flaw of the style of door, but rather how this particular hotel chose to implement it. It was not mechanically robust and was already bent and dented, which was bad for a relatively new hotel.
When booking hotels from now on, if I don’t see photos of the bathroom doors I will have to ask, especially in Home2Suites.
And for those of you who are concerned that my ranting into the ether will have no effect, I already answered their survey so the hotel knows how I feel.
You shall make a screen for the doorway of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver.
Exodus 26:36
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I’m on spring break. No real content this week. I was going to discuss how Kentucky will let you get married younger than they’ll let you get a driver’s license, but they changed the law last year so now that’s no longer the case.
Why would I pick on Kentucky like that? Because we can drive the country from top to bottom (Canadian border to Miami) using I-75 and that’s the one state where my teen driver can’t drive because of their driving laws.
Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage”
Luke 20:34
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This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
