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I'm about three fifths of the way expanding my notes into text in the first Erevain chapter.  I'll probably have to break it for the Nikkano flashback, and even after I get everything expanded, I should do a severe editing pass.  This is a monster, and I need to get as many emotional cues in as I can.  I'll miss a lot, and they won't nearly be enough, but I'd rather let you review something in good shape.

Get a separate scraper and snow   brush--they work better.

Keep at least one spare bottle of washer fluid in the car and know where the fill is under the hood.  If you can find a bottle of the concentrate (hard to find) use it to reinforce the stuff that's been sitting in the car all summer and losing alcohol.  Otherwise run the tank down and refill, then run some of it up into the lines.  There are few bummers like having your washer lines frozen.

I suggest a shovel for the trunk.  Not a snow shovel; they're too big for digging close around your car.  Not a spade either.  Look for a true shovel, with sides.  Know that 'mud and snow' radials are not as good as true snow tires.

It doesn't hurt to get your battery load-tested, either.

Lawyers are never DRT.  It has to be taken before a judge.  And I am that careful sort of guy who won't do any such damage.

I'd pushed the test question down on the stack, too.  Grumble.  I've got paperwork still coming in over Mom's death.

It is that website.   You should be brought to item 2739 (that's the last part of the URL).   Go down to the fifth paragraph, beginning '(Ponders)'.  What she said about Gaudy Night.

That's got the ZF 9-speed tranny.  I just did a little reading.  Seems it can give you delays on certain downshifts, specifically those that involve disengaging and re-engaging the dog clutch.  I also have to see if I can get print copies of some of the 'animated' diagrams on the Wiki-P page.  They move too durn fast.  4 planetaries (two nested) with multilayer friction clutches and brakes, plus the dog clutches.  Compact design that requires taking power off a gear on the side rather than via an output shaft.  Weight: a little under 200 lb (86 kg mass).  Seems like it's used on everything from Fiat/Dodge to Land Rover.

Let me know how you like it.

On the coast, the thermal mass of the ocean moderates the extremes of winter and summer.  But yeah, it will get cool.  For safety, keep a couple of cheap blankets in the car trunk.  They'll also protect your knees when you go to change tires.

Buy good wiper blades.  The AANCO junk that gas stations have sold for years is just that--junk.  Car makers have been going to beam blades, and for replacements you can try Bosch.  They cost, but they'll last a couple of years and they keep working.

Modern car engines heat up fast to meet emission-control cold-start mandates.  In all but subzero weather you'll have useful heating in a mile or so.  Unfortunately, the Pinhead branch of the Federal Government has mandated that you can't have recirc and defrost at the same time, which means that when there is heavy wet snow falling just under freezing, you have to keep you windshield clear by taking cold outside air, cooling it further with the air conditioner (which will be on when you have the defroster on) and hoping your engine and heater core are big enough to get the defrost air warm enough.  Unless your driving a Caddy or a Bentley, they won't be big enough.  (And forget about it with a battery car.)

Hmm.  According to Weather.com, you shouldn't go below 50 degrees Farenheit for the next 24 hours.  That's not so bad.  It was close to 80 around here two days ago but with Himmicane Joachim lounging about, we're in the 60s here, going to the low 50s over the weekend, with plenty of rain to upset the end of the baseball regular season ... when there's no time for makeup games.

And I've got a ticket for the Pepsi Porch on Saturday, in about the least desirable corner.  It's the only part of the Porch that's under any overhang.  That will be a chillin' game.

Hope this isn't your new thread.

Further thought on my Dictates review: Are you getting Alda lined up in the teaze-Taz alignment?  What about Jaylene?  Tazar is used to working with her as one of the Wolves.  Their axis has to be effective.

You mean Genius Loci?  Like this (and the subsequent page)?

You had to spoil the mood, C.   Okay, if you can take the sort of magic that occurs in modest amounts in better fantasy, Seabrass has a good one going.  I've got one in an early stage, with a lot of parts scattered under two book headings.  Some of it really needs work, other parts are almost passable.  Amy_s has a wonderful group of linked novels in various (but very good) conditions.  It does involves attacks from The Three Hells and a few coarse imprecations (which Amy is removing) about a god's glowing manhood.

Why not read a few chapters that are on display here, see what you like, and see what other reviewers have said, and what you can  contribute?

It is polite, upon receiving a review, to reciprocate if you can, so in doing reviews you are inviting reviewers, too.

Amy, I'll reply to your review this afternoon.