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Re: What is your elevation? - 4 days ago

453 ft.

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Re: Discounts on Gasoline? - 23 days ago

Sam's Club is usually about 20 to 30 cents cheaper. jims

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Re: Amazing mid-air collision-no deaths - 6 weeks ago

All were very fortunate to be alive. I flew the Metroliner back in the 80's and can't believe they made back to land.

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Re: -4 in SW Arkansas with no electricity - 4 months ago

Rolling power outages in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. jims

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Re: New desktops for 2021 are here! - 6 months ago

Thank you. Beautiful pics. jims

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Re: NFL Week 13 Talk (spoilers) - 6 months ago

As a lifelong Cowboys fan I am happy we have an extra day not to suck. I am afraid that until the Jerry Jones is no longer at the helm, there will be no superbowl appearance.

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Re: sky high?!....AT&T raising DirecTV satellite and U-verse TV prices...... - 6 months ago

I think if you are in a contract you will be ok. I just called and got a $40 a month discount for 12 months. I will end up with the price increase. Directv discounts have been getting smaller for the last few years. Two years ago it was $60 a month off, last year it was $50 and now $40. Mine is up in November each year and then in January the raise the price. jims

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Re: out of time?!....this tech device 'officially' discontinued, will stop working in 2 years...... - 7 months ago

Knew it would come soon. I bought my first one to watch NFL Sunday Ticket when I was a corporate pilot and flying a lot on weekends. Still have one and now just use it mainly to watch sports on the patio although my son uses it to get Arkansas games in California. Will miss it, but not the end of the world. jims

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Re: Any CarPlay experts? Dad got a new car, but no Apple joy. - 7 months ago

On our Mazda CX5 there is only one usb port that works with Carplay. It took me a while to figure out why it wasn't working. jims

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Re: Flight Simulator PC Build Completed - Having Fun Flying it! (X-Plane 11.5) - 8 months ago

Looks like you are having a lot of fun. Thank you for posting your journey through this project. I look forward to seeing more of your impressions of the whole setup. jims

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Re: 4 months away- what does your Christmas look like now? - 10 months ago

A little more lonely. Every year we either go to San Francisco or my son and family come to Arkansas. We were just discussing this last weekend and it looks like neither one will happen this year. Still 4 months to go so maybe something will change. jims

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Re: Are digital thermometers just wacky? - 11 months ago

My oral digital thermometer is very accurate, but my brand new ihealth touchless thermometer was over 3 degrees high right out of the box. The one at my work reads 2 degrees low. So much for accuracy. jims

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Re: Building Flight Simulator - Currently looking at X-Plane 11 - 1 year ago

QuoteCarnos Jax Yes, Little Rock. Hawker used to have a completion center here for its midsized jet line. That’s a nice run of aircraft you flew there. Didn’t realize u were in Ft. Smith. I think Willy B is there too. Zoidberg is not far from me. The three of us had a get together back in the 2000’s. High time we did it again. Spent a lot of time at Central Flying Service and lunch

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Re: Building Flight Simulator - Currently looking at X-Plane 11 - 1 year ago

QuoteCarnos Jax Keep us updated SKYLANE. There was a time I thought about doing something similar, but that was more than 10 years ago. No doubt the options are much greater now. Probably a great time to put together a sim. Btw Jims, what did u fly in the corporate world? I worked for Hawker Beechcraft most of my career. Carnos Jax For 16 years flew for a company with an Aztec, Aerostar

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Re: Building Flight Simulator - Currently looking at X-Plane 11 - 1 year ago

Great info. I will check it out. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Building Flight Simulator - Currently looking at X-Plane 11 - 1 year ago

I have been looking at getting the new 2020 Microsoft flight sim. It has been released in beta. I have looked at the reviews that seem to be mostly positive. I know I will need to get a gaming pc with yoke and rudder pedals. I was a corporate pilot for 32 years , but I haven't flown in over 5 years. I don't know when it will be released, but I am looking forward to doing the sim. jims

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Re: what to do about pain meds these days? - 1 year ago

Good luck, My wife has chronic pain from nerve as well back and neck issues. She had been on tramadol for about two years. She has taken it just as needed and it really only takes the edge off when the pain gets bad. Up until last year there was no problem. Then the DEA got involved in what the dr. can do, So they started making her go to dr. to get renewal every month. About 2 months ago they m

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Re: iTunes suddenly plays only one song at a time - 2 years ago

If it is the same problem I had, you select song or songs then right click to get the menu and scroll down to uncheck selection and then get the menu again to check selection. That is what worked for me. jims

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Re: POLL: How often do you answer non-Contact phone calls now? - 2 years ago

I got so tired of the robo calls that I set everyone in my contact list that I would want to talk to a ringtone and made a silent ringtone for the main one. ATT now has an app for this that helps too. jims

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Re: Any Ryobi ONE+ users here? - 2 years ago

I have found that it is within a few dollars to buy one of the new tools with a battery and charger than to just buy batteries alone. You need a new charger as well. sims

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Re: Meat smokers anyone? - 2 years ago

We have a gas smoker. Thought we would use it a lot, but really only use it a couple of times a year. I think if we had bought electric we would use it more. It is harder to control the temp on gas. Others may have different experiences and opinions. jims

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Re: Transfer everything from old phone - 2 years ago

imazing works well.

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Re: Post Menopause behavior stuff..i need help and info, experiences - 3 years ago

My wife had severe mood swings. Once it got bad enough to affect other people she went to the doctor and was placed on hormone therapy. Since then back to normal. This is over about 10 years. Hormone therapy is not for everyone and she has been monitored by the doctor. Has had reductions in the amount and type of hormones she takes. There is hope is your wife will go to the doctor and tell them w

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Re: Having an issue at local CVS; Opioid problem hits home... - 3 years ago

So sorry you had this problem Here's another example of people misusing causing others a problem.My wife uses tramadol and went to get her refill. They told her she could now only get a 7 day refill at a time. Finally found out that the insurance company had a new policy. She had to jump through hoops and got an exemption, but if she couldn't have or for others that are not so lucky, going ba

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Re: deal or no deal? Apple 27" iMac w/ Retina 5K Display (2015 Model): i5, 8GB DDR3 $1300 + Free Shipping - 3 years ago

Just bought one. I had been going between the refurb 2017 or this one. Still was almost $400 cheaper by the time you got sales tax on the Apple refurb. jims

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Re: Smokers stink - 3 years ago

I was a corporate pilot and in the early 80's when most people still smoked, our instruments would fail quite often. When the instrument shop would tear them down and let me look inside them the gyros bearings would be gunked up with the tar and nicotine. Very expensive to fix. I quit smoking in 82. Best thing I ever did. jims

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Re: New iMac — In da House! - 3 years ago

You snooze you loose! Price went from 1360 to 1619.

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Re: Hot Tub recommendations and costs? - 4 years ago

I have had 2 hot tubs both of which are Hot Springs. I left the first one at our old house when we sold. It was bought in 85 and we sold house in 02. Never had a problem with it. The second one was bought one year old in 02 and it is still going strong. I have replace the pump once. It is on a screened in patio, and is out of the weather. I would not recommend buying one of the cheap ones at the

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Re: I talked to a factory Rep. of the Hot Tub that I posted about the other day. - 4 years ago

We had a Hot Springs for 16 years and left it with the house when we moved. A friend bought a hot tub from Home Depot that broke down within the first month. The repair company took 6 weeks to come to town and fix it. He was always having problems with it. We bought a used Tiger River spa (built by Watkins which also makes Hot Springs) when we moved to this house in 2002. It was a year old and

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Re: Need info from hot tub owners and former owners - 5 years ago

We have had Hot Springs hot tubs for 30 years. We bought one new in 1986 and used it until we left that house in 2002. Used it an average of 5 times a week. In that time we replaced the cover and heater once. In 2002 we bought a one year old Hot Springs Tiger River spa. It has been on a covered patio since 2004. In that time we have had the pump rebuilt once and the cover is ready to be replaced

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