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Re: Car Related: Took me three months, but... - 2 months ago

I'm very impressed. Yesterday the foot-opener-thing for the trunk of our CRV stopped working. The extent of my skills was to turn it off and then back on on the screen in the cabin. That didn't work, so off to Honda for a (fortunately) warranty repair. If it wasn't under warranty I'd just let it sit. Figuring out and repairing an engine is just not going to happen for me.

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Re: Your periodic Nextdoor update: parking in the garage! - 2 months ago

If you click on the link that numbered provided and look down a couple of posts you'll see a woman taking a package from a mailbox and telling the owner that he's getting too many packages and it's suspicious and taking this package. It's hard to know whether she's just that moronically suspicious or is a package thief who just got caught. Her last performance makes me suspect the latter.

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Re: AAPL - Where Do You Think The Bottom Is? - 2 months ago

QuoteOmbligo It and most other stocks will fall until the Ukraine situation is concluded one way or the other. This. We're not buying any stocks/funds right now. We'll likely miss the bottom but it turn out we hate losing what we have more than we dislike missing a move up.

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Re: Car in shop for minor paint touch ups for 2 weeks???? - 2 months ago

We just got our car back yesterday after 15 days. It was a literal fender-bender that required a new fender (remarkably cheap at $131 for an OEM Honda fender) and a very small touch-up on the bumper. We were told back in early Dec that it would take a week to do but they couldn't get us in until Feb 8, 2 months later. We brought it in and were called twice a week with an update. Three days after

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Re: Commas or no commas in this sentence - 2 months ago

QuoteTodd's keyboard Personally, I—after years of experience—would use em dashes, as well. However, this is a grammar question on a student's assignment. thanks, T's kb I think either is grammatically correct. Quite frankly, I'd choose based on the age of the teacher. Old teacher, both commas; young teacher, no commas.

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Re: calling a spade, a spade?!....'The Blacklist' renewed for Season 10..... - 2 months ago

Yeah, a couple of years ago it got tedious but we're liking this season. We tend to binge watch them several at a time every month or so.

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Re: installing a new bathroom sink, should I replace the water valves? Raise the drain pipe? - 2 months ago

I'd do it. If the water lines are copper, I'd just sweat new piece onto existing to extend them and then use copper pipe straps to connect them to the stud. I'm sure that PEX is fine but I don't want to connect dissimilar materials behind a wall. That's just me. I agree with using the quarter turn ball valves. You can get PVC connectors that has a threaded end. I don't know if they're the r

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Re: Milk settlement e-check question. - 2 months ago

I was able to use a debit Master Card that I got from United Health Care for doing an online health assessment in Google Pay to send the money to an existing bank account. I couldn't use it in stores for some reason but putting the exact amount into a Google Pay transaction took care of it.

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New Apple Buying Advice site - 2 months ago

Josh Centers is an editor at TibBITS. He says that he regularly is asked about what Apple product to buy and has put together a site that he titled, "Apple Buying Advice." He suggests you can think of it like Wirecutter but exclusively for Apple products. Here's his article: Here's the site:

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Re: Speaking of beards... - 2 months ago

Sounds like lots of us are bearded. Mine's 45 years old and I don't do anything except cut it when it gets unwieldy. My wife likes it because she thinks it makes me look her age since my beard is largely white. But my hair has virtually no gray at 68 years old. Every time I mention cutting it my dear wife comments that I'd then look 50 and she'd look like a cougar. I think not but I defer to her

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Re: PHEV-ish - 2 months ago

QuoteMarkintosh We have a Tacoma, which we probably don't really need. A simple trailer or occasional rental could probably meet our needs just fine. Tacoma: 900 miles We have a 2016 Tacoma with double doors and long bed that we paid $30,000 for new. When I had the oil changed in the fall the used car manager came up to me and offered my $25,000 for it (with 48,000 miles). I would have

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member Sam3 - 2 months ago

Happy Birthday!!!

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Re: Anybody find any Trump comments about Russian invasion? - 2 months ago

He apparently called in to Fox and blamed Biden:

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Re: Time to ask about iPhone screens and icons again. - 2 months ago

QuoteRAMd®d What makes it worse, every time I upgrade the iOS/ipadOS, it changes my main home screen. It's a lot of tedious work to get it back. Luckily, that doesn't happen to us. It would really irritate me if it happened. If it happened to my wife she'd never upgrade iOS!!!

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Re: I Don't Like To Brag About My Expensive Trips I Take But..... - 2 months ago

QuotergG Quotetuqqer QuotergG You can DL the Publix app to help you know which items are BOGO. Nice tip, never had seen that. They even have a BOGO tab. Yep, there app is pretty good and usually shows what aisle the item is in, which is nice if it isn’t something you buy all the time. I wish the app would list the prices like the Kroger app does. I live directly across the street from a

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Re: Would this be considered irony? - 2 months ago

QuoteSpeedy Why would T-Mobile need your social in the first place? They ran our credit when we got their old-guy Magenta plan and included new iPhones, trading in old iPhones. They charge a discounted amount monthly for the new phones over 2 years. I presume they did the credit because we were walking out of the store with pretty expensive phones that we hadn't paid for up-front.

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Re: Check engine light question - 2 months ago

I'd take it to the Honda dealer and let them read the code and fix it, if it's still under warranty. If it's not under warranty, then I'd do the Autozone thing so I'd know what it was and then go from there, depending on the cost.

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Re: the artful dodger?!....Venmo user has $3,800 stolen by '12 year old boy'.... - 3 months ago

Clark Howard has been warning about this for several years. It seems crazy, but there you go.

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Re: Another one of those Apple things I'm probably among the last to learn. - 3 months ago

I think that's pretty cool. It's the attention to minute detail that leads me to use Apple products. Even though they don't always "just work."

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Re: The Sequel to 'Missing Covid Test Kit' - 3 months ago

Got ours today.

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Re: Catholic priest sends thousands of Children to FIERY HELL - 3 months ago

When my wife and I read this, I pointed out that our Catholic school teaching said that anybody can baptize somebody, particularly in times of extremis. I looked it up at a website that focuses on Catholic issues and they say this: Who can perform a Catholic baptism? Anyone can perform a baptism, however this is typically done only in extreme cases in which someone’s life is in danger. The

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Re: Pal(e)in comparison?!.....judge dismisses Sarah Palin vs. NY Times..... - 3 months ago

Quotebtfc “ The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff Monday came as a Manhattan jury was deliberating on Palin’s suit, which claimed the Times and former editorial page editor James Bennet defamed her by unfairly linking her to a 2011 shooting spree in Arizona that killed six people and gravely wounded then-Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.). Rakoff said he would continue to allow t

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Re: MR Forum Fit Club: Keep it rolling - 3 months ago

We've got our annual physicals coming up in 2 weeks. Every year we lose some weight to try to fool the doctor! We went to Feb physicals years ago to try to limit our Christmas weight gain. Both of us did pretty well but we'll be more focused on what we eat for the next 2 weeks and will both lose a couple of pounds. Our golf is limited by morning frost delays on the greens so we've been starting l

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Re: Powerbank Recommendation? - 3 months ago

Quotegraylocks QuoteRacer X What are you going to de doing on the boat. Sounds like an interesting gig. two 45 minute shows and schmooze with the passengers for the week (it's two separate week long cruises) some of whom think i'm actually someone to write home about that they schmoozed with. the shows are fine but the schmoozing will be a stretch for this introvert. however the price is right

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Re: Advice on adopting cat(s) - 3 months ago

You said you're considering 2 kittens. Sharon Crowell-Davis is a companion animal behavior vet at the Univ of GA vet school. She suggests that getting 2 kittens is better than 1 kitten. Some people think that cats are naturally solitary and do better by themselves. Dr. Crowell-Davis finds that while solitary cats can survive, feral cats tend to form social groups when there are sufficient food re

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member Bo - 3 months ago

Happy Birthday!!!

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Re: Wyze deadbolt lock and keypad, received and installed. - 3 months ago

We use a number of Wyze products. We bought cameras when the V2 came out some years ago. One just went south a month ago and I replaced it. We have a dozen of their light bulbs. Again, one started acting wonky so I replaced it. We have their scale and 2 of their vacuum cleaners (one was $100 at Walmart.com right before Christmas). I bought several of their light switches that we'll install in a h

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Re: I lost my wallet last night - 3 months ago

I wouldn't cancel them but I would keep an eye for fraudulent charges and cancel if anything looks fishy. I hope you have your credit frozen all the time. Easy peasy and makes losing ID less of a problem.

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Re: Missing Joshua Tree Hiker - Twelve Years Later - 3 months ago

I'm so sorry.

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Re: Good source for buying unlocked GSM iPhone X or 11? - 3 months ago

I've had good luck with Swappa, as well. I buy from people who haven't sold many things. I figure they're more likely to under-represent the quality of their device so people don't return them as not as described. I have no data, at all, that supports that belief, only that I under-represent the stuff I've sold for exactly that reason. So far, so good.

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