I'm still trying to find an acceptable solution to the wet nose, fogged lenses situation that winter brings when trying to wear a face mask in temperatures low enough to cause one's breath to condense. I haven't looked up the incidence of e. coli on surfaces other than restrooms, but it might give me some indication of how efficacious masks are...
On the automobile front, I got the lug bolt out of my front wheel on the Geo the hard way... I had to take it to a machine shop... (which meant pulling the hub... lots of skinned knuckles for someone....) pressed the bearing out then removed the broken stud, and replaced it... Was wishing for unfettered access to a FADOL machine tool, as I threatened to cut channels so that I wouldn't face that problem again... Probably as soon as I can find something in the AWD category that I can afford the Geo goes on the market. I've sort of decided that for the time I've driven it I over paid... But then what I didn't know was: 1. It had over sized aftermarket rims on it... 2. Rims required oversized (difficult to find [more on this latter]) lug nuts....
3. Lug bolts are 10! mm (tiny) and require only inch pounds of torque....
4. Back to difficult lug nuts, 10 mm bolts originally come with a tiny acorn nut that can easily pull through after-market rims. Thus need to have oversized (on the outside) nuts... This also means they are even easier to over-torque (reason for one bolt breaking)
Other assorted but not overwhelming (without the lug-nut problem) mechanical issues that one might expect in a seriously down market car of the age of the Geo...
Writing (what you hoped to hear) nothing to post here, but working on something I may attempt to take commercial... We shall see when I get more than a few hundred words done on it. The up side? If I can find all of it, I have a handwritten manuscript that I'm reworking that is in excess of 200,000 words... Even finding part of the manuscript will help.... :) Which I've done... But the part I found is the middle!