Look before you leap, but be sure to leap after you look.

The Bachelor is against the proposed strikes against Syria, mainly because it will effectively preclude helping Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, etc., with the absorption of refugees, or addressing the problem of misplaced persons within Syria.  And just when I as the Mentor wrote this, Flaileef burst through the front door to proclaim that that is just not good enough.  How foolish would we ever be to believe he'd give us credit for taking a stance similar to his, we told him, and he went right back out the door again.

The Heir opened a letter from his dealership thanking him for choosing their place to take his car in for service, and offered to buy his car from him when he's "ready" to let go of it.  Looks like the Responsibility Age is still alive and well, and trying to interfere with the Heir's plans to get that analog radio in his present car, with classy reminiscent faceplates.  They must have known about it, and it can't be a coincidence.  The Heir has seen how ghastly today's new cars are, as they don't mind shoving down his throat a tabletized dash that is just as potentially lemony and Frinkian as that one high tech security house on the Simpsons that rises from its foundations to run down the street to safety, and then blows up halfway there.  Well at least the real humans won't burn quite as fast in there.

We in the Bachelor discovered that when Renderotica updated their web site, it broke the links to the girls' gallery pics.  We'll fix this when we get the chance.

The Bachelor will still be there, long after virulence itself stops going viral.  And we hope you enjoy the latest Bachelor episode as below!

Hey, well, guess what.  Because it's raining today and we can't get to the beach conformant with Carmen's preferred dress code, we found time at home to update for the new episode as follows:

The Bachelor's Non Essentials Economics Emphasis On The Kidnapping Victims In Cleveland. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

We're almost done with the upcoming episode, though it may take a week or so before it becomes available.

Looks like there's hope on the deco side of things for the Heir with the car radio after all.  He did an online search on a crafts side, and has concluded that in order to go authentic looking at least, he needs what are called texture sheets and foil tape.  Here's some stuff he found with the texture sheets: http://www.shadesofclay.com/products/Tools/Textures/Textures.htm.  He likes what he sees in set B and set D, grid-like and diamond-like designs from back in the post deco era when you saw maroon, French vanilla, and silver and chrome colors.  With chrome that's where the tape foil comes in.  He hasn't come across particular preferred avenues with the tape foil, but the following holds promise for him: http://m.michaels.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Michaels-Site/default/mProduct-Show?pid=sb4197&start=3&q=sheet, http://m.michaels.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Michaels-Site/default/mProduct-Show?pid=cp0503&start=9&q=sheet.  Heir doesn't want to look like he's endorsing one store or product line over another, but right now it's just this one site that's good at listing possible options for him.  That's helpful because you don't always want to schlep to a store just to think about ideas when you should be able to do so on a whim wherever you are.  Only now does the internet start allowing you to do that.  So even though the Heir needs to get and properly install the analog radio first, he sees the following color schemes for a frame: maroon, French vanilla, chrome.  And he sees the following for an inner faceplate: French vanilla, chrome, dull silver.  He would like for the frames and the faceplates to all be interchangeable with one another.  And the faceplates will all be of the textures he said he's attracted to.  Strange how he almost always rubs shoulders with young moms and the daughters at the shops when that's often the only viable avenue with the second pillar.  Oh, and he's also thinking of knob wells as well.

Another thing the Heir's thinking is that, if matching classy knobs to a simple and cheap analog radio for the car won't work, there's the possibility of at least using a classy bezel for the analog radio.  Aesthetically it'll make the radio look pretty good because the gray and silver bezel will contrast with the dark gray radio.  And you focus more on that than on how drab the radio is in and of itself.  The Heir's fantasizing that he could get a one size fits all type bezel, or one that fits most, and adjust the knob wells in the bezel to the width between either knob and the radio interface.  That is, if the knobs aren't overly close to begin with.  And then to have one or two other bezels with a different design each so that every year or so he can swap out for another of the bezels and keep the dash continue to look interesting.  It'll be really something if there were going to be a classiness revival in the country as a backlash against what could be perceived as the impersonal nature of high tech.  Maybe that's the balanced future we may want in terms of designs.  Good technology, but also simplicity of use, and warm and elegant aesthetics.

Heir's always thinking about how to do the impossible or the impractical or the outright puzzling, in order to best serve the second pillar while pursuing the third pillar.  His latest mental project: have classy looking knobs on that one analog tuning car stereo he's had his eye on.  Now why do you want to do that!?  Well, if you're the Bachelor, or just in the Bachelor, no answer should be necessary.  Heir's thinking that he might just have detachable caps on the stereo factory knobs, and then he can have a suite of three or four sets of classy looking caps, and then swap them out on a whim every month or so.  Heir's getting tired of always having to go DIY, but if you're in a narrow niche such as the Bachelor, DIY is almost inevitable.  Maybe it's different in Europe or Canada?

Heir's getting closer to getting back to listening to radio music in his car.  Both Luscious Fishborne and Yumeka suggested that he try out the freeform stations in the area, and he's thinking of alternating between one station at a time and his music player while on the road.  It'll take the pressure of him having to constantly update the "sand band" stations on his player, but since he just got started with including free tracks in the sand band from the genres of jazz, reggae and traditional, he doesn't believe freeform radio will entirely replace updating for those particular genres.  Also he anticipates still keeping his dance, classic soul and Grateful Dead stations up to date in his player.  He wants to have a music plan that's both simple and structured.  To a certain degree it depends on receptibility of the freeform stations on his current car radio, because he also has his eye on that analog car radio which he doesn't know whether it's as good as picking up stations as on his stock radio.  He now hates his stock radio for having a digital tuner, because this is now the analog revival era, Responsibility Age be damned!