💭 ' and part of me knows

 💭 - ........... what you're thinking ' Yes, the thought balloon emoji

the lyrics are ' the Alan Parsons Project ' from their hit  " Eye in the Sky "
' I am the maker of rules .... ' sounds conspiratorial, eh ?

The day is off colour dull, boding rain. Guessing warm and humid, ah, but will it improve.

So, whatcha doin'. as in  ' Run around Sue ' ........ Tommy Shondelle ?
lunch is dim sum and then try to fix a day tank for a 1965 Mercury 9.9 HP engine.
We used 2, 9.9 s on L Chemung back then. In 2005, I gave the motor and an aluminum 14 ft to A. That guy.

A fixes up the aluminum and gets the motor cleaned out and running. However, all is not hunky - dorey ' in Mercuryland. 

Lat season, the 9.9, basically said ' do you know how old I am ? '
And balked at starting - sort of ran - but no.
Somehow, A. gets a friend to tinker w/ the 9.9 [ purely as a favour b/c there is no economic sense in fooling w/ it ]. 
Well, it runs. And then screams ' I need gas !!!! '
Our job is to hopefully, get a knew gas connecting line and fitting to correct the gas supply problem.
Logically, you should be thinking along the lines of flogging a dead horse etc. In our defence, a new 9.9 is in the $ 3500 - 37 range. I bought my first car for that

Oh, the sun popped out and went and hid again

How did it go ? the follow up

Rain - buckets and then buckets

Gas problem re: outboard. E Z P Z - everyone but me saw the problem. And thats good b/c I was clueless today

Fix : buy a new gas tank that comes w/ fittings. Total cost was $ 85
Now, come on ... who solves problems for $ 85

A needed to run by Costco - ' do you want to come ? ' Sure

Alright, $ 141 later we are out of Costco     Eek !
Now, several items were health related e.g. fibre drink and eye wipes
Cheese assortment, crackers and salmon are for entertaining Sunday.
Just need to explain the $ 12 grapefrut segments [ they looked cute ], the mega size nachos mix [ real bargain there ] and 8 packs of cookies in the fmily size container. Oh well.

Life, what can I say
well, Lou did or whatever his name was at Central Marine