Wintertime

I can smell winter coming. It smells like a dead season. I got a new coat for this winter. I got it at a Himalayan store in Old Saybrook. Its wool and it was handmade in Nepal. I hope my goddam car makes it through the winter. Oh, if you ever get your lock frozen, hold your key in a flame and then try it again. That trick works with 'dead' pens too. I keep a pen in my car to keep track of mileage because I have another unfounded theory about something mundane. I think that keeping your mileage is like getting a routine check-up for your car. I know, the whole tune-up/oil change probably more analogous to a check-up, but hear me out. Here's what to do. You take down the mileage every time you get gas and then when you figure out your mileage later you make a graph and then you can see how your car is feeling. I don't know whether better or worse mileage is good or what not, but I like to think that it should remain consistent. I tend to think that worse mileage is bad. I should really find out what I'm doing more often. I confess, I just like to make graphs. Then I go around spewing data all over the place with no actual idea of what it means. I should probably do my mileage sometime soon. Then I will (maybe) post the results on here. My car gets the best mileage ever. I don't want to say how good because I don't want to jinx the latest numbers and have them be bad. It's a three cylinder though and I drive it a lot. I also get the oil change a lot. I love knowing that I have new oil. I and use that Slick 50 stuff that's 15 frickin' dollars. That stuff reminds me of rubber cement. Its very viscous. That's like penicillin for a car. Nothing can go wrong with it now. I wonder what penicillin actually does. I think it comes from mold. Sometimes you would be surprised what is in some things. Did you know that there is something radioactive inside of smoke detectors? I think its like Americaneum. Crazy that someone figured that in order to detect smoke you needed something radioactive. My dad always used to say, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." and I always tried to think of fireless smoke. It just doesn't happen. You can get like vapors or something if you mix the wrong two chemicals together like in a mad scientist laboratory, but its not really smoke. What if you did that old-school rubbing two sticks together and they started to smoke but there wasn't any fire yet. I'm sure there probably is some tiny microscopic fire going on because my dad is not usually wrong about anything. It would be nice to prove him wrong just once though.