That's why I always climb from the Tibet side.

Ha! I looked it up. I can discourage them from nesting as long as I don't disturb an actual nest. Not that I would EVER do such a thing. Anyway, the jays don't migrate (although I don't suppose...

There are no children here. And no lawns. But I do yell at the jays that try to nest over my front door. And they yell back. A hose won't reach them but my special squirt gun will.

Yep.
FIS has been running GS and slalom races this week at AM. Fun to watch. I tried to keep up with the slalom racers on the next run over but couldn't, even though I didn't make turns. I'm sure...

The Best Sentences of 2023. From an ongoing section of Frank Bruni opeds in the NYT. Warning: liberal bias, although not entirely so....

At 73 I ski as hard as I ever did. By which I mean I work as hard as ever to go a lot slower , quit a lot sooner, and hurt a lot more.

The 90 year old casements in our house are still going strong. No cranks and gears. The window and the screen are on separate mounts. You push the window and screen out, release the window by...

Wow

The Utah Gulls. Or, if you prefer, the Crickets.

Got a run on High T this morning. I've been hiking over there for decades but this is the first time there doesn't seem to have been any attempt to create a track. Just 50+ separate lines up and...

I had a GF who watched Dr. Strangelove on my advice. She thought it was depressing--didn't realize it was a comedy. We didn't last. (Not because of that; she was out of my league.)

Buttah--you do realize that you're the only one who actually takes this thread seriously, don't you? I can't imagine what it must be like to go through life with no sense of humor.

Our no freeze hose bibs have long pieces of pipe that are soldered to the copper pipe in the crawl space. YMMV.
I learned the hard way not to leave a hose attached to the nonfreeze bib in the winter.

I would think that it beats sending organic waste to a landfill where it produces methane. But I'm too lazy to look up numbers.

I'm really impressed that you and your lawyer made an issue of fixing the procedure and not just taking the money. Thank you for doing that.

This is a weak area in medicine. One study found a...

I'm watching Kucherov's 100 as I read your post. At 17 minutes into the 2nd. Lightning have been trying to set it up all game.
Meanwhile Matthews had 12 SOG, 13 if you count a save made by a...

He has as much chance of getting that money as Fred Goldman or E. Jean Carroll

What a nightmare. As I understand your original post, someone in the clinic put the wrong label on your specimen, or maybe specimen jars were prelabeled and the doctor put your specimen in the wrong...

Bot reported to mods. I mean look at the avatar. Clearly not a person.

DST used to start at the end of April, it's been moved earlier twice. That probably has something to do with why resorts that used to open early in the spring don't any more.

A lot of land use rules were invented to keep black people out.

I had a 6m old Cocker that unzipped a gym bag that our son's HS friend brought over, pulled out a bag of weed and brought it down to us in the living room. That dog would do anything for a treat. ...

I don't think drones will work as cheap at patrollers will.

Some of the best corn I've skied around here has been in January. And the nice thing about it is that the window is a lot longer. The not so nice thing is I'd rather be skiing powder.

I'd rather live in the middle of a bunch of dirtbag methheads than in an HOA.

Go flyers go--(take out the caps) Assuming the wings can take the Habs one more time.
So many teams vying to get their asses kicked in round 1 in the East.

And we can always count on someone complaining about the thread to keep it going.

I ate at the Truckee McDonalds a day before I flew to Boston where I came down with raging GIs and we had to give away our tickets for the Wings Bruins game my son got me as a Xmas present. I've...

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