Chapbook

[sasha]

Like a lot of kids in his generation, my dad grew up tinkering under car hoods, and even got my mother to let him buy a 1931 Model A he kept in the garage to dismantle & reassemble on rainy weekends - I can only recall a few occasions when he actually took the thing out for a spin. The industry's increasing reliance on electronics and emission controls frustrated him, for the very reasons that the iPhone frustrates me - it challenged his mastery of the technology. I spent nearly a decade writing software professionally, and still write a lot of my own - but every time I try to give the phone another shot, it gives me the finger. Move over, Dad. I hear ya now.

I suspect that the same will happen to today's iPhone samurai. So let them have their laugh at us. Their kids will do it to them.

[saw]

My dad was a car guy as well
not tinkering so much or restoring
but making sure the car we had would run
brake jobs in driveway. new exhaust across
the street, where a culvert for rain water
created a ditch that would have to do
for a mechanics pit....

one day i came home from school
and there was a metal tripod standing on the lawn
and dad was lowering a new engine with chains
into the chasis with a friend from Bethlehem Steel
Charlie Sain was his name...and theyd help each other
on the bigger jobs.....he never ever went to a repair shop
he grew up on a farm where you have to know how to do... Everything