Is the Engine Supposed to Look Like That?

Have been continually busy in the Alzheimer's cockpit but I took a minute today to glance out the window and noticed that the presidential election is a year away and Pakistan is collapsing and outside my window it's November 5th and the leaves are still green.

Some of these things should not be.

I'd really better start paying attention -- before this turns into one of those "controlled flight into terrain" episodes that you sometimes hear about...