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What are you drinking tonight?
Pliny the Elder is very good. Pliny for president, just average -
What are you drinking tonight?
Spent 3 days in Dana Point, CA for my wife's work event. Extending the trip for a couple of days in Palm Springs. Stopped at Monkish and The Bruery on the way there. Monkish is all about great IPAs and Bruery about Stouts. Two great breweries just a few miles from each other and didn't have time... -
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When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
"Still, the company's Model Y crossover was the best selling new vehicle in California, the report said." -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
I'll come back in a month to see what "fired whole supercharger team" really means. Also, I'm in California this week, apparently no one here has received the anti tesla memo. It seem like every 5th vehicle here is a Tesla. -
Retirement Targets
If you're getting close to retirement, I'd highly recommend using newretirement.com. It's taught me a lot of tax strategies that I plan on using when I retire. The only shortcomings it doesn't have is ACA planning pre Medicare and how to work it to get discounts. I was going to wait to use the... -
Coolest Thing Made in Iowa
I'm assuming people like to have the headquarters in Iowa? -
Coolest Thing Made in Iowa
A few years ago I bought a Kong cooler, which is made in Atlantic. Really a top notch product and they make them in cyclone colors. -
Coolest Thing Made in Iowa
I use to be into MotoGP racing. I remember a decade or so ago they were building a new track in the middle east and all the riders were talking about how great the lighting was. They said the lights was so good that they got rid of shadows, which was an issue on motorcycles. They mentioned... -
Smoking Meat Questions and Discussion
If anyone wants to try out different BBQ sauces, Wal-Mart in Grimes has little sampler bottles. Kinders, Blue Hog, Sweet Baby Ray's, etc. I really liked the Blues Hog Raspberry Chipotle that I bought a full bottle of so I got some sample bottles of Competition and Smokey Mountain. -
New water heater...
It must make a big difference having kids. In our 18 years of living in this house, with a 40gal water heater, we've never experienced running out of hot water. Looking back, it was pretty stupid of me to replace it with a 50 gallon..... -
New water heater...
Was it a power vent? Instead of running to the side of our house, ours goes to the roof, which requires a fan (power vent) that sits on top of the water heater.