85th percentile was the correct answer when I took the PE exam in Colorado back in 1983. So, your memory is correct.

I long thought (and still do) that the law makers from the east coast who thought that the 55 mph speed limit was a great idea should have been sentenced to driving I-80 across Nevada at 55 mph. 410 miles, IIRC. There was a reason there was no speed limit in Nevada. And, even in the 1970s Nevada just gave you a $10 ticket for "wasting natural resources". Montana wrote their law implementing 55 mph so that when the feds rescinded the 55 mph idiocy the Montana speed limits went back to what they were before the feds got involved. Their current speed limits came along later on.

RAID 1 (Mirroring) is nothing new. We used it when I worked for Tandem Computers back in the 1980s and early 1990s. It offers you a level of fault tolerance. If a drive went down you would operate off the other while the failed unit was replaced without shutting the system down. "Revive" was used to bring the new drive up to the contents of the drive that didn't fail. Of course, the Tandem systems took that even farther by having two disc controllers "talk" to the drives, so a disc controller failure didn't shut you down. And, each controller was talking to two processors. Again, fault tolerance. Any part could be replaced without shutting the system down. Does this work for a PC? No way, you couldn't afford it and it really isn't necessary. But, if you needed a system whose availability is 24/7/365, it was a great way to go.

Now, I have a box that is RAID 5. Great, except there still is a single point of failure, and it died and seems to be made of "unobtainium". The power supply. The box is many years old, so I've got 4 256 GB SATA drives that are useless to me. Oh well, not like they're new or anything like that.

My point is that nothing is failure proof. Back ups and more backups. At least one of which needs to be off site. What happens if they are all local and your house burns down? Am I paranoid? Perhaps, but Carbonite has bailed me out when a laptop was infected by a malware program that encrypted my photographs. I still don't know how that malware got installed, but having an offsite backup was priceless that day.

I've used Costco a couple of times for printing and have no complaints at all. The quality has been just fine. Prints on paper and prints on canvas. I'll use them again.

There are a great many good suggestions and warnings here. 1 week will only allow you to scratch the surface of our corner of paradise. I grew up in Pullman (eastern Washington, 70 miles south of Spokane, home of Washington State University). Palouse falls will take a full day from Seattle due to the time required to get there, enjoy and return to Seattle. Plus, remember that it is a state park and you will need a pass to park there. My wife shared a video someone shot in the past few days from a boat looking up and the tremendous volume of water going over the falls right now. Impressive.

Oil leaks are a feature. The cars were self-lubricating, you never had to worry about external rust.

And my Jeep doesn't leak, it's just marking its territory!

I had an MG Midget about 35 years ago. You did not walk up to that car without a wrench or screwdriver in your hand. I saw the title of this thread and immediately thought of Lucas.

There was a shop in Santa Clara back then that specialized in older MGs. Primarily TCs, TDs, etc. They had a bumper sticker that I should have bought and put on the Midget. "I'll have you know that the parts falling off this car are of the highest British quality!"

It's been at least 20 years since I visited Duxford. The US museum was still under construction. Have fun, I'm jealous.

I use an 18-135 mm lens on my Canon T5i at the local airshow (KOLM) each June. It works well for me and avoids needing to carry a second lens. The only challenge I have is maintaining focus when shooting a plane in the air. Keep whatever you carry and use light. It's a long day.

Ha! Our last cat (had to put him to sleep last September when he was 17 1/2) was firmly convinced that it was his house. He just shared it with us. And my wife is wearing a sweatshirt today that shows a very contented looking cat and what is claimed to be an old British proverb - "To a cat, all things belong to cats"

My dad was a veterinarian and taught small animal surgery at WSU years ago. I missed the free vet care for our pets when my wife and I graduated and moved out of town. I feel your pain. Pets are more than just pets, they are family.

We were in that area 10 years ago. My Sony A100 was my primary camera at the time, but I brought an older Olympus C740 P&S as a backup. This wound up being a lifesaver as the short lens (18-55mm IIRC) had a failure of its focus mechanism while at Masada. For the rest of the trip i kept my long lens (55-250 mm) on the Sony body and shot shoter lens pictures with the Olympus. Its 10x optical zoom was great and it saved the day for the rest of the trip. A backup is critical.

Same story here, but mine started in the 70s.

I lost my dad to Pancreatic Cancer 10 years ago. He lived about 18 months after the diagnosis. Surgery, chemo and radiation. Thought he had it beat and then complications set in. He was 82 when he died.

I hope Alex beats the odds.

Kodachrome II (and then 25) was what I used when I first shot slides in 1971. Took 10 35 exposure rolls and my dad's Kodak 35 and Weston Master II light meter when our high school band went to Europe that summer. Those slides still look great today. The commercial slides I bought on that trip, on the other hand, don't look so good. Not shot with Kodachrome and they've faded over the years. I shot a few rolls of Ektakrome over the years and never liked the green cast in the slides. It's one advantage back in the late 70s was it was faster, so I shot a roll in a cave in Nevada on a trip. Other than that, Kodachrome all the way in my Minolta SRT-102.

Yup. Been there. The water taxis are very convenient.

I didn't know you could do that. Thanks.