290. Encore Thoughts

I also bought some new walkie-talkies for our family beach trip, forgetting that we have walkie-talkies already.

I bought these, and I was excited to go and use them.

Four seconds into opening these things, It's like, you know, we'll just use them on the beach trip.

OK, we have one, but maybe we'll get some new nice ones and and and then I'll return them afterwards.

I can't even do that.

I don't know where these things went.

This is not a big place, but I have lost the walkie talkies in my own home.

And I don't know if you can imagine how inconvenient that is, because if I only lost one, I could radio and I could find it.

But you lose two of them.

I have no way of calling into Siri or Alexa or whoever is supposed to pick up the phone on these things.

There's no emergency broadcast.

I guess maybe I could buy a second pair of walkie-talkies and just hope to be on the right channel, and maybe I could find them through there.

But it's a pretty silly problem to have, and they're lost.

And I think the whole goal of having the walkie-talkies is to not get lost in the woods, that you can channel, that you can...

You know, radio for help.

And if you got lost in my own humble dojo, there would be no escape.

So we shall see.

We shall see.

I did manage to fix my car this morning, though.

All right.

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the coil pack was going out again.

I think we just got some faulty spark plugs or I don't know.

It could be a fuel link.

It could be a temperature thing.

I don't know.