It’s Monday. A quick note to thank everyone who sent their condolences last Friday. It was nice hearing from so many of you. Thanks for all the kind words and support.

My weekend was pretty low key. Spent Saturday with my Mom. And Sunday the girlfriend and I took a drive down to central Illinois to spend the day with her family. We got back home just in time to watch the Oscars. I missed the Nascar race in Phoenix, but they’ll have another race out there at the end of the season. And that was it, the weekend was over.

The next couple days will involve more family obligations. On the positive side, at least it’s supposed to warm up significantly over the next several days. That’ll be nice.

-keep

It’s Friday. Well, damn. I have an aunt that was recently diagnosed with cancer. Here it is just a couple months later and she’s in hospice care, unconscious, and struggling to breathe. Her children and family are all now in town for what will likely be her final twenty-four hours. Sadly, we wait. And as I type this, we just got the call that she has passed. It’s hard to believe that it all happened so quickly.

Fuck. That’s all for me today.

-keep

Keep, I know you’ve heard this before, but thanks for all the hard work. I hope you will accept my lady for your amateur Fridays. Thanks and lets keep names out of it. -Anonymous

It’s Thursday. Dodge officially revealed the new redesigned Charger yesterday and they did it with a 10 minute cringeworthy video that stars CEO Tim Kuniskis. In the video, Kuniskis uses the new Charger to travel back in time to meet the Dodge brothers in Detroit 1910. This is where it gets cheesy. For some reason Kuniskis is there to convince the Dodge brothers to continue making cars—which doesn’t make any sense because they obviously already exist in the future. Kuniskis takes the brothers on a drive-through-time sequence where he talks about their cars being under attack by regulators and how they need to fight the system to produce modern electric hybrid muscle cars. I don’t quite get that because other manufacturers have already been making high-performance electric and hybrid cars, many of which fully capable of matching and outperforming what Dodge has specified.

Anyway, all the cheese aside, I think the styling of the new Charger looks unfinished and lacking character. Compared to the current model, it looks too rounded-out and less aggressive. That’s just my opinion, go ahead and check out the video and see what you think.

-keep