Postcard from the Edge

• I haven't done one of these bullet point "Random Thoughts" style posts in a while. Thought I'd remedy that today.
• One Day At a Time's Bonnie Franklin has passed away due to complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 69. 
• AMC ran Airport and Airport 1975 back to back this morning. They should have stopped making those movies right there.
• Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) had an interesting career in those films. He went from Chief A&P mechanic to Airline CEO to "corporate liason" to Concorde pilot. All in the span of 9 years. He was also the only character to be in all of the Airport films.
• Gordon Keith has a very interesting column in today's Dallas Morning News. Unusually deep stuff coming from The Great Gordo. h/t Bag of Nothing
• I seem to have a knack for finding outdated parts prices online. Last month I bought a set of air springs and a set of high performance brakes for my F350. I paid over $100 less for each of them than current market pricing.  They also immediately changed the prices online after my purchase.
• Somebody in charge of updating websites is very unhappy with me, I'm sure.
• I conned my number crunching little sister into doing my taxes this year. She can squeeze two nickles together and make a dollar fall out. I told her "I got the looks, you got the brains". She agreed to do them anyway.
• She explained that I had been going about my recordkeeping completely wrong. Hey, it made sense to me.
• Houston, we have a problem.
• And finally... There may be some good news because of the sequester.