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Re: One month to go. What are your plans? - 4 days ago

We are doing the alternating holiday thing with the in-laws, so that means this year is our turn to host daughter and son in law. Wife's sister will be a usual fixture, and son will make the 9 hour trek north too. The feast for the few days kids are at the original home will include a bone in Standing Prime Rib, and my wife's wonderful red sauce that could used with either lasagna or stuffed sh

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Re: ‘Perrrfect’ Newspeak peeve. - 8 days ago

QuoteDP After all that, the price of $32 for a small deep dish pizza actually seemed OK. WHAT? I was thinking that, must be a higher cost of living there than here in Western Mass. Dave

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Re: ‘Perrrfect’ Newspeak peeve. - 8 days ago

Quotemattkime How was the pizza? Guessing it was perrrrfect. Dave

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum Member RacerX - 9 days ago

Happy Birthday RacerX!!! I hope you have some awesome plans for your day! Dave

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Re: Ugh; left debit card at the grocery store, should I cancel? - 12 days ago

Quotegadje Grocery store called me today to say that they had it, but of course it was missing for over a day. Wow, how did they get your number? I did this once at a regional supermarket near me several years ago. I had a message on the answering machine at home waiting for me, I live 10 minutes away. They had all my info on file due to the store membership /discount card. Dave

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum Member MindMeld - 15 days ago

Happy Birthday MindMeld!!! I hope you have some awesome plans for your day! Dave

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Re: Happy Birthday 11/10 MR Forum Member davec - 16 days ago

Happy Belated Birthday davec!!!! I hope you had some awesome plans for your day. Dave

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Re: NFL Week 10 Talk (spoilers) - 17 days ago

QuoteRgrF The way to early game in Frankfort provided a serious outcome, Mac Jones career as a QB is over. As a Pats fan, the game stunk, but I did get my wish, Mac was benched, finally. Dave

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Re: MR Forum Remembrance 10/31 GeneL - 22 days ago

QuoteMacArtist I also miss GeneL. We started chatting online when I bought a PM G5 at an Apple Store fire sale (remember those?). He pm’d me when he was feeling depressed and I tried to listen and give him feedback and discuss the problems my family experienced with depression. He was a part of why this place felt special to me. It was more than the camaraderie. More than discussing tech pr

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Re: Received this LEGIT email, (copied exactly as it appears) - 22 days ago

Quote$tevie Sounds serious. I hope you are able to sort it all out. I gav e the m my ne w ca rd in fo, hop e it wor ks! D ave

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Received this LEGIT email, (copied exactly as it appears) - 22 days ago

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Re: MR Forum Remembrance 10/31 GeneL - 22 days ago

Quotehal Gene's story was like a personal horror story. He seemed like a good guy, but he ended up dependent on a woman he wasn't married to and her kids seemed to fear him getting in the way of their inheritance. They acted on this fear and pretty much ruined the end of his life. What a nightmare. I had a hard time engaging in those threads - I didn't see any solution and had no advice to off

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Re: Happy Birthday 11/2 MR Forum Member waver rider - 22 days ago

Happy Belated Birthday wave rider!!! I hope you had some awesome plans for your day! Dave

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Re: Happy Birthday 11/3 MR Forum Member MartyStickle - 22 days ago

Happy Birthday MartyStickle!!! I hope you have some awesome plans for your day! Dave

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Re: some EV reading - 23 days ago

QuoteMarkintosh Quotedk62 Does anyone have experience with VW ID4? Reading on Reddit, the ID.4 gets panned, mostly for reliability. One discussion on the "askcarsales" thread had salemen suggesting that the ID.4 had resulted in more buybacks than they had seen since Dieselgate. That said I see a lot of them around here. "Panned mostly for reliability" To me this is su

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Not a fan of Daylight Savings ending, however... - 25 days ago

I really will appreciate the extra hour of sleep tonight. Dave

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Re: I need more leaf rakes, what do you recommend? - 25 days ago

QuoteSpeedy Quotemattkime Lawnmower Yup, that is the most environmentally sensitive thing to do. Mow your leaves into bite size pieces and let nature do its thing over the winter. I have never raked but I mow for the last time each season before we get winter-long snow cover in order to chop up the leaves. 33 years and no leaf debris buildup. Pretty much what I do. However, we have two h

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Re: Skechers Men's Relaxed Fit Melson - Planon Slip-ons (Taupe) $26.24 + Free Shipping $26.24 - 28 days ago

QuoteGareth Not a lot of size choices, 7, 7.5 and 9. Clearing the rest of a line? I love Skechers shoes, relaxed fit are the best for me, a bonus is when I can find a "work" style with the non slip sole. Dave

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Re: So what are you doing for Halloween - 29 days ago

Just shut down the outside lights and displays. Had 45 kids, slightly down from the 50 last year. Dave

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Re: So what are you doing for Halloween - 29 days ago

QuotergG Welcome to Dave's BBQ! Many have eaten here.... Few have died They are in the front yard. Dave

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Re: So what are you doing for Halloween - 29 days ago

Whole from yard covered in assorted graveyard scenes, witches cauldron 'burning' smoke machine, 7 ft wooden Sasquatch bungied to a tree, and my John Deere tractor running over and spewing out skeleton bones. I'm dressed as the Swedish Chef handing out full size candy bars, only kinds we like, so if there are leftovers... Dave

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Re: Electricity prices outside of California - 4 weeks ago

Quotesekker QuoteDinerDave Quotesekker Solar panels will not be here soon enough! YES! Where do you stand so far? Getting estimates, signing the paperwork, waiting for install? I am a big proponent of solar, If you have the roof facing the correct way, or in my case a nice open sunny back yard for ground mounts, it is the way to go. I have no idea of what I 'WOULD' be paying for el

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Re: Ford, GM, and even Tesla are warning about the EV market - 4 weeks ago

Quotemattkime QuotegabesterBecause I have two adequate ICE cars in my family and no urgent need - beyond the intrinsic benefits of owning and driving an EV - to justify seeking an EV right now. And the longer I wait, the better the EVs seem to get, especially on the used market. I'd have no problem spending $15-20k on a used EV and needing to buy new tires ($1k), breaks ($1k), and battery ($5k),

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Re: There is no rise in retail-theft. Retailers are lying about why they're closing stores... - 4 weeks ago

QuotergG Quote$tevie Quotevision63 Amazon is cleaning their clocks. If I have to find the aisle and item myself, check it out myself, and bag it myself, I might as well buy it on Amazon. I'm old enough to remember sales clerks who would help one find what one was looking for and then ring it up. Cheap-ass corporations run the stores so lean now that it doesn't seem worth the effort to travel th

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Re: Electricity prices outside of California - 4 weeks ago

Quotesekker Solar panels will not be here soon enough! YES! Where do you stand so far? Getting estimates, signing the paperwork, waiting for install? I am a big proponent of solar, If you have the roof facing the correct way, or in my case a nice open sunny back yard for ground mounts, it is the way to go. I have no idea of what I 'WOULD' be paying for electricity per kWh, the bill

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum Member riley5108 - 4 weeks ago

Happy Birthday riley5108!!! I hope you have some awesome plans for your day! Dave

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Re: like a Bolt out of Hell?!…..GM talks about why it revived the ‘discontinued’ Bolt….. - 4 weeks ago

Quotesekker QuoteDinerDave Quotesekker Now if they would only bring back the Volt! "They" did. It's called the Lexus RX Plug in Hybrid Maybe if Chevy advertised like this... Dave Not sure if you are serious. Or saying this Lexus PHEV is the spiritual successor to the Volt. Either way, the 2023 model is not in North America AFAIK. Second, the price STARTS at $70k. Right now, m

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Re: Why EVs Are Piling Up At Dealerships In The U.S. - 5 weeks ago

QuoteFritz those of you that have EVs, did your insurance go up/down significantly or stay the same? No change on mine, house insurance did not change with my 34 ground mount panels, maybe them NOT being on the the roof helped there? Dunno. Dave

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Re: like a Bolt out of Hell?!…..GM talks about why it revived the ‘discontinued’ Bolt….. - 5 weeks ago

QuoteN-OS X-tasy! QuoteTiangou Barra said that GM had originally planned to launch a series of newly designed EVs in entry-level segments at a total cost of around $5 billion. But given the popularity of the current Bolt – 2023 is already the model's best year ever for sales – it made sense to revamp the existing car instead. In other words: This was a cheap and easy way to stir up some in

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Re: like a Bolt out of Hell?!…..GM talks about why it revived the ‘discontinued’ Bolt….. - 5 weeks ago

Quotesekker Now if they would only bring back the Volt! "They" did. It's called the Lexus RX Plug in Hybrid Maybe if Chevy advertised like this... Dave

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