Re travel insurance: your credit card may already have you covered, assuming you used it to pay for your flight.  Never, ever use a debit card!!!

Mr. Sinic is an airline pilot.  Those pro level Travelpro bags are durable, but heavier than shit!  I don’t think I could heave a full one up into the overhead bin.

Mr. Sinic is an airline pilot.  Those pro level Travelpro bags are durable, but heavier than shit!  I don’t think I…

I guess I’m the only person left on the planet who has never owned an automatic. I can’t engage the heavy clutch of my Subaru with my bare foot.

Still waiting for the writer to own his bias and suggest this gift for Father’s Day instead. I was born in 1955. The rest of you should bloody well know better by now.

Still waiting for the writer to own his bias and suggest this gift for Father’s Day instead. I was born in 1955. The…

Thing is, I know two things: 1) I have always been able to outpace most people on tests of cardiovascular fitness, and 2) I am G/G on the rs2253206 allele, a genotype that is predictive of the “best” relationship between training and a reduced heart rate response.  I also sweat sooner and see less body temperature…

Exactly how do they expect to enforce this remarkably tone-deaf policy? If they let a parent dressed according to their strictures in, and bar one who’s wearing the “wrong” thing, they will be sued for infringing on the latter’s civil liberties. Under the US Constitution, governments have show a nexus between policies…

Are you kidding? When the sun doesn’t come up until almost 10:30 AM in December, we practically use caffeine IVs up here. In any case Alaska has a lot more in common with Seattle and Portland (the one in Oregon) in terms of coffee culture than it shares with New England. Maybe I should complain to Alaska Airlines, the…

DD’s coffee is awful. Weak, bitter, and served in traditional styrofoam that probably leeches toxins big time. And that’s the dark roast — their medium tastes like a mud puddle.

You are obviously guys and the giveaways were obviously guy’s sizes and cuts. I, too, have dozens of T-shirts from charity events, conferences, etc. But I can’t wear any of them. I am a 108 pound woman who wears a size 2 or 4. The Ts all come down to my mid-thighs, have sleeves that flap loosely below my elbows, and…

Actually, public access rights vary by state. New England and California are the most permissive — in Massachusetts, for example, Chapter 91 of the state statutes encodes the public trust doctrine for “fishing, fowling and navigation” below MHW that originated in Roman law and was brought to the colonies from England.…

That’s not a very big tank on the sprayer . . .

Agree. Plus we aren’t allowed to walk by these Divine entitlements even if we stay below mean high water.

As a fellow OP, I have to agree. I especially hate sauteing in my IP — the sides are too high to make manipulating the food very easy, the IP has to be on a lower surface than my counter if I want to be able to see in without burning my face with splatter, and the lowest saute setting is still too hot for some…

I’m a slow eater. I also have a BMI of 19 as a 60+ woman. Eating slowly is both healthy and mindful. I get that table turnover affects waitstaff income (this would not be true of they were given a living wage by their employer v. customers, of course) but I’m damned if I let a server whisk my plate away when I’m still…

They get lower fitness, more visceral body fat, a smaller saving account, and less privacy. That’s what!

I assumed this would be a single sentence story: “ . . . by not getting an Echo (etc.) or by unplugging it if you already have one.”

You don’t need a cloud-based database (app) to keep track of this stuff. Just keep a journal that is password protected and stored on a HDD you alone have access to. Maybe it’s my generational difference, but I cannot imagine ever deciding to upload my personal data like this. Nor would I want cloud-based listening…

Ask me when I’m 79.

“I’m afraid we just ran out of the chicken . . .”

I do my steaming in a microwave, using a large ceramic bowl and silicone rubber lid. The microwaving happens in pulses, just long enough to generate steam from the small amount of water I add to the veggies. A lot of the cooking happens during pauses when the food is resting. Veggies are done when a knife into the…