Home from Nightshift, stopped on the way and bought a bike rack to attach to the bullbar attachment, and also an attachment to attach to daughter's woman's bicycle so it can attach to the bike rack...and a tow-ball wrench/spanner thing so that I can attach the bike rack attachment to the bullbar... It's quite complex to be a bloke. We think and suffer deeply about this stuff. Still a couple of hours to be awake to go and pick up Dear One from work, come home, then get some sleep. A tall bottle of Guinness Extra Stout in the fridge as the usual 6 hour sedative. I was thinking about cars...I never really liked them much after about 1965...much more interested in motorbikes for decades. The current car, the 2015 Nissan D22 working blokes 4WD Navara dual cab ute is the most expensive car I've had in my life...just under $30,000 AU dollars...and that was on a very serious end of the marque 'run-out' sale...so about $15-20,000 less than an equivalent Hi-Tech Toyota Hi Lux or Ford Ranger dooded-up one...and the D22 included a bullbar, twin batteries, spotlights, towbar, roofracks, tonneau cover, etc. The D-22 model hasn't changed, I think, since 2003 by the look of it...a better engine now, but everything else is pretty old school...it has a real cigarette lighter, 4 ashtrays and a 6 disc CD player...odd, yes. The speakers are awful so brings it all back to reality. The thing is that I really do like it after about 6 months...I really do like everything about it...it doesn't go fast, the brakes aren't magnificent, it steers like a cow, the seats are pretty standard Nissan uncomfortable, it's noisy, it's basically a truck...but somehow it's an honest vehicle in some way. Genuine olde worlde Japanese technology made in Bangkok. It's got an efficient 2.5 common rail turbo diesel engine and blows black smoke on strong acceleration as they all do. It's only done about 5,000 kilometres. As I've mentioned before, I don't like things in cars ...warning, reversing, overtaking alarms that go 'beep'. Only the car horn should go beep...and the Nissan is very good in this way. I don't like tv entertainment 'screens' etc and the Nissan doesn't have any. What it does have is a massive air-conditioner which is just wonderful....ambient 45C temp to 16C in about 5 minutes. No Volvo or Honda can do that. Looking back, I haven't owned many cars, and no very expensive ones at all...and most very second hand...but as I get some free time I will post an 'apples & oranges comparison' of them....from the 1965 Austin Westminster A105 with the twin SU carbies and the Borg-Warner shift, the benign and silent Wolseley 24/80, an immensely fun Honda Acty Van, a couple of magnificent Daihatsus, a tediously boring Subaru Impreza R, a high flying Volvo SSRI sports coupe, a very good Mazda Boss big-tray ute, a VW 1500 Beetle, a Holden Kingswood Station Wagon, & one of the first Honda Civics. As things stand, I'm really happy with the current Nissan Navara Dual Cab Ute...basically because it's so simple and honest, it works, and spare parts are dirt cheap...because the line has been in production for so long up til last year without changes...and the airconditioner, as mentioned, is like something from heaven....and the whole 2015 thing almost at a 2003 price. The only cars left that I'd like to actually own, but don't need to and won't are: 1: a 1990 Subaru Brumby Ag-Quip Ute with bullbar and winch... 2: ...hmmm, nothing else. As for motorcycles I'd like to have, but won't ever get, and don't expect to...there's only 2...a 2003 Moto Guzzi Le Mans Bon-homme VII in silver, green, brown and red...I forget the special name but I'll post a youtube video of one starting up...what a treat of sound...Ah yes! The Moto Guzzi Le Mans Tenni...magnificent... and one of the new BMW street bikes...an R Nine T...they look good. Both are twin cylinders, the BM donk is horizontal, the Guzzi's engine is at that odd Italian Lake Como 45 degree angle. To ever have to choose between the two...I'd go for the old Guzzi. They're related too, both designs had their inception during the time when Hitler and Mussolini dreamed together of a United Europe...A European Union...what a strange dream of bizarre madmen that was...