14 thoughts on “November 17, 2024: Extended Version”

    1. I'm planning to watch them all again with my daughters between Christmas and New Year. I took them to all three films in the theater as they came out so it's a bonding thing for us.

    1. We are fortunate that our kids both love the movies enough to sit through the extended versions. Probably once per year we will take a full day and just watch them all back to back to back. I think I have seen each movie at least 15 times.

  1. I finished reading the peperoncino The Hobbit about a week ago. I'd read it when I was a kid but had forgotten nearly everything, so it was fun to find out what happened right along with him. And it's a good one to read aloud.

  2. Younger Daughter was complaining about some hesitation and near stalling when coming to a stop in her Outback. Based on the symptoms two things seemed possible - a dirty throttle body or a bad torque converter. The former is about a fifteen dollar fix with a can of solvent cleaner and a gasket, the latter somewhere between $1800 and $2400. So I took off the throttle body and it was caked in carbon on the back side. Cleaned it up real good, put it back together and we took it for a long test drive. I'm pretty sure the problem is solved and the transmission is fine. Knock on wood.

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