Welcome to L-36.com
Introduction
Spring of 2023 brings many changes to L-36.com. Let me tell you about a few of them. First off is the new look. This main page will be where I share the latest goings. It will be more of a blog or maybe just ramblings. It will no longer be teasers to articles as it has been. Whatever it is, it will evolve and at this point could go in any of several directions. Articles that used to be linked here can all be found under the "Article" tab. The old home page is linked in the index at the top. That said, here is what is going on.Ads
The site is supported with ads but in the transition to Google auto ads, there were too many. I have reduced the number of auto ads quite a lot and eliminated most of the manual ones. I hope you appreciate the change.Weather

Manuals
The manual pages switched from presenting a pdf to showing images of the pages several years ago to make the pages readable on phones. The images auto scale where the pdf files extended beyond the page borders which caused Google to downgrade the rankings due to mobile incompatibility. But that made it inconvenient to go through the manual as you needed to constantly click "Next". The new manual layout has all the pages one after the other. If this doesn't work for you, let me know but hopefully everyone has enough bandwidth these days that it will work. It seems to work really well in my and others testing.PHP 8.1
The ISP this site runs on has indicated that there is a new version of PHP and that we need to upgrade. This upgrade has been both frustrating and rewarding. Frustrating because it completely broke the site so I had to quickly switch back. The transition is taking many weeks and countless hours of work. I switched the site to php 8.1 on 5/1/2023. Rewarding because it has caused a close examination of many of the pages and these changes have led so some feature improvements and general cleanup. Frustrating because I have had to make edits to and test about 1,000 files. So far I have had only two crashes since the transition. The site had a few million visits while I was doing pre switch testing and all errors had been fixed. Yet with just the right user data a page went down. My apologizes if that was you. If you see any page that is not working the way you think it should, please leave a comment.Hackers
A note to hackers. L-36.com does not use MySQL or any other database manager. We do not store any user data. There is nothing here for you to break into. Yet we get hundreds of attempts some of which pollute storage with garbage. Some of the php 8.1 upgrade is aimed at filtering out this garbage. We try and block bad actors and have hundreds of ip addressed with denied access in the .htaccess file. Every page starts with a filter for hackers. Put "SELECT" in the URL and you will be blocked. Trust me. If you accidentally get blocked, just fill out the comment form and let me know and I will unblock you.What's up with Papoose?


The forst is from more than 20 years ago. The second one is from a race in 2022 which we won by 2 minutes, 17 seconds.
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