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4-16-21, 12:24pm
Most of the winter, I hope our road clearing crews are as obsessive as yours are. St. Paul has a reputation metro-wide for doing the worst job at...
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4-16-21, 12:18pm
DW came up from the basement yesterday declaring that the washing machine no longer worked. She pulled on the switch to start and ... nothing. I...
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4-16-21, 12:06pm
They're going to sand? If it snowed here on April 16 (where we get five feet of snow a year) they'd just wait the day or two it would take to melt....
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4-13-21, 11:17am
DW is much like SQ's DH (enough initials there? ;) ). I am fully convinced that, even if DW sees the mess, her brain spends zero cycles on...
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4-12-21, 8:47pm
A lot depends on whether the opening is a stock size. For a standard dishwasher, it should be 24". So you could look for a base cabinet that would...
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4-12-21, 4:10pm
Our Case 1: We refaced the cabinets in our kitchen. The layout was fine (except the kitchen could be bigger so we could have more cabinets; it's...
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4-12-21, 3:23pm
The Niro is a hybrid. Definitely does not make things simpler.
Personally, I've found most terrestrial radio around here so disappointing I...
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4-12-21, 3:19pm
What Alan said.
I have iCloud backup and perform two local backups of my phone (I don't have a tablet) regularly, to my laptop and to an off-site...
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4-10-21, 2:29pm
Good news on the job front is always welcome.
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4-9-21, 11:15pm
Keep up with the scheduled maintenance. Do what Toyota (or whoever) specifies. I always get a hoot out of old guys who remember their ol' '69 Chevy...
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4-9-21, 10:53pm
Interesting. I don't remember the Pilot correcting the lane departure, just informing. Then again, my very first car didn't even have power steering...
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4-9-21, 4:22pm
AFAIK lane departure in most cars is just a warning -- lights on the dash or a buzzer/beep or such (both of our cars are too old to have it but...
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4-9-21, 4:15pm
We like ours (2010, 100K miles). The new ones are getting a little ... "sophisticated" ... so they're not quite the cheap-to-buy-cheap-to-run...
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4-8-21, 10:18pm
Yppej, are they offering a Forte or a Soul? Both of them have a different, more powerful engine than the Rio (though fuel mileage stays about the...
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4-8-21, 10:09pm
If 200 is a mass event, I accompanied my mother to one a couple of weeks ago. Pretty well run; not many people over the four hours they held the...
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4-8-21, 10:06pm
We've cruised before. There are some aspects of it I definitely do not like, but on balance I've enjoyed the cruises we've taken. I think we'll be...
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4-6-21, 1:19pm
I'm sorry this has happened, SQ. It gums up the works really quickly.
I'll guess the IT department at the CU wishes it had never changed the...
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4-5-21, 2:17pm
Can't add anything to the advice here. I have zero interest in that kind of continuing drama in my life from anyone. I'd let him know I'd be willing...
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4-5-21, 2:13pm
I think that's been most of them for us. But, then, a few times they've been cars on the lot or showroom floor which had to be made ready for sale.
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4-4-21, 6:33pm
Yppej, I'm guessing the Kia dealer will just wholesale your car. It won't spend but a couple of days on the lot until it's picked up by whoever is...
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4-2-21, 3:31pm
As someone who found out that a laminated Social Security card was a game-ender when applying for my Real ID driver's license (necessitating a second...
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4-1-21, 11:16pm
I've been seeing more and more of the smaller commercial vans being used by tradespeople around here, trucks like the Ford Transit Connect and the...
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4-1-21, 11:10pm
For whatever reason, they've been popular at potlucks here for decades (not just DW's family). Then again, we're in the Midwest; we don't always do...
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4-1-21, 11:06pm
Makes sense. Catch-up maintenance is always costly. I hope the car gives you a little break now.
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4-1-21, 2:06pm
It looks like this will be the first major holiday since DW's sister passed away last fall that almost all the family will be together, so we're...
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4-1-21, 1:52pm
As the owner of a 19-year-old car (the other car in the stable being 10 years old), I'm all for squeezing long lives out of cars. But if you're...
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3-31-21, 10:12am
My neighbor actually worked at the plant where Ford built the Ranger before they stopped several years ago. It wasn't a huge seller because it didn't...
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3-30-21, 6:31pm
Wonderful news! Is wedding planning in full swing?
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3-28-21, 9:05pm
My dinner tonight was an impromptu tuna salad (with Hellman's mayo, onion, some dried celery flakes, and celery salt) served on cucumber rounds. DW's...
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3-28-21, 3:09pm
The expectation (written into purchase agreements here) is that whatever is nailed to a surface in the house stays (appliances, flooring, cabinetry,...
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3-28-21, 2:59pm
Hmm. Niece lives near Kansas City, MO. <looks at Duke's where-to-find map> Ah, figured it out. Apparently I can buy it here in the Twin Cities if...
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3-28-21, 11:20am
You realize, of course, that the dish turned out totally different because you used Duke's mayo in a Hellman's recipe, right? :laff:
Seriously, if...
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3-27-21, 12:48pm
My sister did, a couple of weeks ago. No uncommon or severe side effects and she was happy to make the trip just once.
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3-27-21, 12:46pm
Tradd, you landed in a much softer place. Good for you!
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3-27-21, 12:45pm
Based on what you've related in this thread, your son has been suffering emotionally for quite some time, largely at his own hand. Maybe his eventual...
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3-26-21, 5:56pm
That would be Mark Twain.
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3-26-21, 12:42pm
There seems to be an informal format to them -- or it's the tell that the item is horribly inaccurate: no dates, no direct attributions or sources...
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3-24-21, 3:25pm
Tonight: a Vietnamese beef and "pumpkin" soup made with two beef shanks that toook forever to get tender and most of a butternut squash that's been...
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3-24-21, 3:24pm
"Hygiene theater", a cousin to the only slightly more popular "security theater". >8)
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3-24-21, 3:00pm
Avoid the cell phone carrier that does not offer service where you need it. That's the first gate any carrier needs to hurdle.
Here in the Twin...
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3-23-21, 11:31am
Diesel is running around $3.09/gallon, which is typical to below average for winter time here. But I don't think I've ever seen it less than...
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3-22-21, 8:00pm
I didn't hit a paywall when I saw this article; if people do lmk and I will post a synopsis. How to add resilience to our lives amid the chaos:
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3-22-21, 6:48pm
Well, there was that! But everyone needs a hobby and we didn't give out Christmas cookies this year so this was our little party tray for people (and...
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3-21-21, 7:55pm
Still recycling here.
Much of the recycling is curbside: glass, aluminum, plastics 1-5, paper. They will pick up textiles if bagged separately;...
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3-21-21, 7:37pm
I made the storebought corned beef for dinner tonight, using the same technique as my homemade version. There is no comparison. It's worth the work....
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3-21-21, 7:32pm
Happy almost-belated birthday, Tradd!
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3-20-21, 9:22pm
For a couple of decades now, there has been a movement to try to establish upper-scale prefab housing as an alternative to stick-built; typically...
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3-20-21, 9:07pm
Our day lilies are starting to poke their leaves through the remains of last year's crop (we got most of our snow this winter in October, so some...
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3-20-21, 2:54pm
Some of those malls will be going with jingle mail in a decade or so.
They will be starved by the local governing authority (city, county, etc.)...
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3-20-21, 2:42pm
I've seen the video and it's largely a computer-controlled robot crew squeezing concrete out of a tube according to the directions (corner here,...
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3-20-21, 2:33pm
Living about six blocks from the Mississippi River, we frequently see hawks and eagles (sometimes even bald eagles) flying around the neighborhood. A...
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3-19-21, 8:26pm
The non-profit that runs the local community center for the city is sponsoring a pop-up vaccine clinic there. 200 doses reserved for St. Paulites...
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3-19-21, 11:36am
Nine pounds of brisket is almost gone. Four pounds to friends and neighbors, maybe 2-3 more to shrink and fat (the point was really fatty; next time...
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3-17-21, 5:39pm
That's great, Tradd! In addition to the pay bump, I hope it's a big step forward for your career. Good luck!
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