Black Out

Last evening, before I went out.

By the way, the power came on minutes later and in area fashion, from the left of the screen view a car speedily roared onto the road from the by-pass, then had to hit the breaks with the emergency vehicles in the way. My thought was that certain people here do not care, rain, snow, no power, less power=no change in driving approach.

The colour black

0 to 250 miles per hour in approximately 20 seconds

Koenigsegg-Regera

While my SUV was in the garage, another customer showed me a story in the Popular Mechanics magazine...website hijacked by abusive advertisements, so not cited, in regard to a Swedish, Hybrid sports car that can travel from 0 to 250 miles per hour in approximately 20 seconds.

Auto Blog: Brandon Turkus Feb 29th 2016

Cited

'...And while the world is still recovering from the news that Bugatti will sell a nearly 1,500-horsepower car, there's a group of Swedes that would very much like to remind you that they're capable of screwing together a high-speed monster.

Of course we're talking about Koenigsegg. The Swedish outfit has just announced a duo of models for Geneva that should draw at least a few worried glances from the folks at Molsheim. At the head of the class is the production-spec Regera, which was first shown at last year's Geneva show. Now, the company has confirmed the plug-in-hybrid rocket ship will weigh just 3,505 pounds and have a claimed output of over 1,500 horsepower. As a reference, the new Bugatti Chiron has 1,478 hp but weighs nearly 1,000 lbs more than this Koenigsegg.

Despite this difference, though, the Regera's stats aren't quite as monstrous – 62 miles per hour takes 2.8 seconds to the Chiron's 2.5-second spring. But the low weight and excess power allows the Swede to catch up and pass Bugatti's finest on the high end. The Koenigsegg hits 124 mph in 6.6 seconds compared to the Bug's 6.5-second time. But the Regera monsters the Chiron to 186 mph. The Bugatti takes 13.5 seconds to hit that loony speed, while the Koenigsegg does the deed in a frightening 10.9 seconds. Think about that – the Regera is 2.6 seconds faster to 186. That's scary speed and it gets scarier. Koenigsegg has built a car that will go from zero to 248 mph in 20 seconds. Twenty seconds!'

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Prediction:

I would sort of enjoy sitting in the car with a professional driver achieving 0-250 miles per hour in approximately twenty seconds....once.

Then terror would outweigh fascination.

I would not eat lunch prior to the drive. If I am going to travel that fast I should be in an aircraft.

Baptism by Ice

According to You Tube this is some kind of Christian church in Russia.
Masih Brothers

Russia: Google+Beautiful Earth

The scale is intimidated?

Jeff Jenkins 2009

Busy day, I just drove back from Vancouver, then soon I am out to Richmond, then out to Mission, then home.

I am keeping up with my plant and fish based diet, in treatment of sleep apnea effects.

I do not notice much of a difference in the mirror, but over the last few years I have had to tighten my belts to avoid public embarrassment. I asked the gentlemen at the leather store to 'punch' holes in all my belts so I could wear them and my pants tighter.

He was not Bruce Lee...

Of course I buy new smaller clothes.

Last night at Bible study a leader was convinced I had lost twenty pounds since he saw me before Christmas.

John Wee's kind Mother told John (paraphrased) that she could not believe how much weight I have lost between the dinners that she had kindly asked me to.

The funny thing is that the scale rarely changes...

I can use the 30 and 50 dumbbells and thin out but I seem to replace fat with muscle.

I can jog up in my loft for 45 minutes; I can prayer walk for an hour, and I thin out but I replace fat with muscle.

I can work out with martial arts weapons and knives and thin out, but the weight stays about the same.

Perhaps I am so macho, the scale is intimidated and no matter how many plants I eat, or exercise I do, the scale refuses to drop the number insisting I am a Kingpin. Does the scale reason I will be insulted by a smaller number?

This is reading a little bit too much like Chuck Norris or Mr. T jokes, but I am not famous.