The annoyance is not with the packaging. It is with our incompetence in opening it. BTW--the best seafood is mostly frozen onboard ship, vacuum sealed frozen, and sold in (ziploc-style) plastic...

We used to be big fans of This Old House. Now, most of the projects are high end gut jobs. They did a nice job rehabbing a house in central Detroit a couple of blocks from the house I was a baby in...

Most boomers are living on fixed incomes. While SS is adjusted with inflation, it has failed to keep up with the COL over time. Private pensions are still fairly common for boomers and they don't...

Even if no one loves you or depends on you--consider disability insurance. If you can get it.

I don't have you on ignore, I apologize for not remembering your post. Obviously you and probably other people have mentioned considering loved ones/dependents.

As far as partners, a lot depends...

Agree re FICA--tax every dollar of every type of income. As it is, it's a regressive tax.

Re govt incompetence--sure there are plenty of examples, but consider Medicare. Administrative costs are...

A lot of meat and fish now comes sealed with zero air space, which is great for quality but tough to open without cutting into the food.

The worst is when a package is supposedly designed to be...

I didn't say that, but it should be part of your equation. But then it's not surprising to hear a bunch of skiers think only of themselves. We're a selfish bunch.

I've taken my share of risk...

Not suggesting chastising anyone. Just that if there are people who love you, you might want to take their feelings into consideration when taking on risk. If no one loves you, have at it. (I'm not...

As it is LTCG tax stays the same whether inflation is 1%, 10%, or negative. If you want to keep it, index it. And while we're at it, let people with fixed income deduct the rate of inflation from...

I could save $3000/year by not buying passes and getting my exercise shoveling my driveway by hand, but I think I'll stick with skiing and paying a guy to plow.

I have yet to see anyone in this thread talk about anyone other than themselves--no mention of partners, parents, children, friends, people you owe money to. Not that I'm surprised.

Certainly time to tax capital gains as ordinary income and bring back brackets more like what we had in the 50's.

Detroit with a decent chance to sneak in if they can take two against the Habs. The other contenders have tougher games ahead. So they can lose in the first round. They don't look like a team that...

When I call the custodian of my 401K (Fidelity) the rep has to look up the rules because every corporation they handle has different rules for its retirees. And if I have to talk to more than one...

Much as I hate the crowds (although being retired I can usually avoid them except on midweek powder days) I'd hate to see prices raised to limit the number of people who buy passes. Skiing has...

I'd be preparing for a mass casualty event if I were you, if the last couple of pages are to be taken seriously.

And buttah--if you're going to keep at it, at least try to be a little more...

She's got 3 kids. WTF!!

Pizza place I used to deliver for--mom and pop place--they used to send me over to Krogers for Ragu when they ran out of spaghetti sauce.

Doc at our free financial planning seminar was whining about paying taxes. This ^^^ is what the CPA told him. I think she used nicer words, but yeah.


I get you were joking but the doc ^^^...

Nor do I want to.

And you wonder why people don't like you

It would be nice if there was a safe harbor--if you submit an accurate W4 and you're still underwithheld there'd be no penalty. Better yet eliminate all penalties as long as your taxes are paid in...

Yes--a lot of the unspoken rules of hockey are dumb.

As best as I can tell, no one wants to be the last WC in the East. Maybe they'll have to do the playoffs with 7 teams.

Heard on the radio--commentator describing the Pope's latest blurb as "outdated theology". No--- the whole idea of theology is outdated. Like astrology and alchemy.

The sites I link to most often--NYT and WAPO--both allow me to share 5 articles/month for free.

A lot of words to state the obvious.

Because hockey is a manly sport played by manly men. It's the Code. Name a sport that has more unwritten rules.

TGR head programmer: KMAGYOYO

same here

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I like the LVP stone patterns a lot better than the wood--they're not really trying to imitate anything natural the way the wood patterns are so it doesn't look artificial, it looks like natural...

Perpetual road construction annoys me. In Reno they spent years rebuilding 395 near I80, and a year after the finished it the started over. And after they finished that in a few more years they...

KQ--I was listening to a piece on NPR about the effect of music on dementia. The person had angry, agitated father with dementia but when she played music he had liked in the past--opera in his...

You're too young to hear the answer.

When my wife was a kid she and her brothers and sisters had to wash her stepfather's cars (yes, plural) every weekend. It is not a fond memory. I guess it depends on the spirit in which it's done...

I don't know what kind of vacuum you've been using but the newer vacuums make emptying them a trivial matter, although I haven't used any of the stick vacuums.

I keep waiting for a gap in the storms long enough to justify the effort. It's been a while. I'm amazed by the number of clean cars around Truckee.

" Buddy, when you're dead, you're a dead pecker-head"--John Prine, When I Get to Heaven

LOL

CR likes the Samsung Bespoke Jet if you want to spend $800. The best reasonably priced one is the Shark Stratos IZ862H at $400, then the Shark Vertex Pro at $315.

Thank you. I studied James Joyce in college--glad to know I haven't lost my touch.


We did LVP plank in stone-like pattern. Unfortunately I don't know where the contractor got it--we were doing...

That's true of the real [fill in name of any city in the world] but you can only see the Mona Lisa in Paris. (OK you can't really see it in Paris either for the crowds but there's lots of other...

I saw a lot of bands but the names are gone from my brain. And some of them I never did get the name.
I forgot that about KOTJ. Then there was the original cover of Blind Faith that had us...

St Chapelle church, try to see later in the day on a sunny day with the sun coming through the stained glass. It's less visited than a lot of the other tourist stuff because it's small and it's...

I was on a little turbo prop from Denver to C Springs, flying through thunderheads with the sun breaking through between them and lots of turbulence. I couldn't figure out whether to be terrified or...

Some pretty tracks on the north face of Donner Peak, from the top.

Kid who?



I'm as real as a Jewish doctor's kid can be, I guess. And this is the first time I've heard the term Juggalo.

And BTW, Wikipedia says Iggy invented crowd surfing in 1970, but he...

I dumped my DeWalt driver and drill (can't remember where I bought it) after 30 years of hard use (hard for a homeowner anyways) because it didn't seem worth it to replace the dead batteries--the...

Maybe not nefarious but good luck comparison shopping when all you have to go by are model numbers. Where is the average consumer going to find things like how heavy the bearings are--one of the big...