well, no, i suppose that's not entirely accurate. in retrospect it does feel a bit much to refer to this post as being any sort of "festival", look you see. i am, however, running out of ideas as to what to call this kind of post, which ties in quite nicely with how i am pretty much bereft of anything further to write on this particular subject.
once more, then, or yet again (if you prefer) i went to a car wash. this was, since i am sans car myself, very much in the vehicle which verk provide. quite likely that, of late, i have not visited such a facility so often as they would like, for they do have a (perfectly reasonable) expectation that i, the ostensible custodian of it, keep it "neat and tidy". the mandate for that extends to "clean". strangely it has been a struggle to get this (cleaning it done), but further musings on that in a bit so as to pad this out.
yes, as you can see above (probably), i elected to use the medium (if not forum) of VHS mode for this account. i do rather like my (paid for) VHS camera thing on the phone. if we are honest the image quality is no worse than the standard camera on the rather flawed Samsung A14 phone. a peculiar thought has struck me. should this blog somehow still be accessible (or exist) 100 years (or so) from now, when i shall truly be long gone, i wonder if someone shall stumble across it and declare moi if not the "best" then the most prolific, overt VHS and Commodore 4 mode artist (or similar) of this era.
it took longer, and this is the padding out bit, than you may think to find an armed and fully operational car wash to get the vehicle cleaned and be able to present it all. for about a month or so, towards the early aspects of this year (2025) each such facility was "closed" or unavailable. you would not think that all that much could go wrong with a car wash, but i was reliably informed that the "pipes" had become frozen on at least one, presumably down to the adverse weather what we gone done had. perhaps, maybe, i could have addressed this by the procurement of a bucket and taken to the task with some hot, soapy water and a rudimentary cloth, but i did not.
some rather striking VHS mode video above, then. that is indeed the left hand side of the windscreen being all soaped up and cleansed by them magnificent big, floppy wet blue soft brush things. maybe it isn't the single most exciting video ever made but i have the peculiar sense that it is satisfactory.
for further padding out i decided to do one of them "google" things to see if one was able to take one of them fancy "electric" cars through a car wash. apparently the answer is yes. showing that all of this "AI" business is still quite far from sending naked Austrians from the future to study phone books it was so that it, they or whatever (google) thought i would also wish to know if you can take an electric car on a ferry. yes, you can, but not if the battery is all busted, or gone f****d. my basic understanding of these electric cars is that if the battery is busted they don't work. it would take some ludicrously eccentric wealth for one to have an electric car taken on a flatbed truck (for they are too heavy to tow) to a dock so as to argue to be allowed to deposit it on a ferry, but such people exist. apparently you can't charge one of them electric cars on a ferry either, so perhaps just don't bother.
there's an image (for clarification yes, in VHS mode) of the left hand side of the windscreen being washed. if for some reason you were interested in this but had no interest whatsoever in watching the video i provided of such, you are very welcome indeed.
looking at the vehicle just now and it perhaps would benefit from another visit to a car wash quite soon, as it has that dirty, dark streak thing on the go from rain, bits of "wintry mix" further rain and driving through a range of puddles formed in the flaws of our magnificent road system. however, for this week i am on leave (if not holiday) so such pursuits will have to just jolly well wait. and even then it depends on me being able to find a functional car wash. for all i know they are now presently closed because the unbearable heat of (ostensibly) spring has caused the pipes to expand.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
