I don’t have any problems with gluten, but so many many things I’ve loved to eat had the plug pulled on them over the years. Costco and Sam’s club alone have really done this a lot. One other thing that annoys me is when they do, rarely, bring something back that the manufacturer stopped making, the new version is a…

I’ve only seen Kerrygold in bars, salted and unsalted. Maybe they just don’t have it here?

The Kerrygold is pretty great. I have seen it forever and never bought it, but a while back I grabbed a box of the salted, and  it was a ton better than the stuff I used, various store brands, to mostly make garlic bread with. 

That’s our opinion, but other people tell me different. In high school, I used to torment the truly nasty English teacher I had last period by just spouting data about the unending SD40's, Geeps, and if it was some oddball power, well, that took it to another level of useless info. How could I do this daily without…

The second unit in the wreck, a GE/Wabtec ET44AC goes fully optioned at about 2.2 million bucks. The lead unit is a DC to AC conversion GE Dash-9, which was a lot cheaper to buy when it was new, being at least 15 years old. I don’t know what the conversion and rebuilds cost NS to do, but there are about 700 of them…

They call Hulcher, R.J. Corman, etc and they will work 24/7 and probably have at least one track back running by now. The really messed up cars will probably be scrapped on site, and they will drag the locos away, fix the track, put the locos back on with a pair of cranes, if they are in decent enough shape to tow,…

That’s what I was asking my TV when I saw it the first time!

I would expect all three to be back in service before too long. The rear ones look pretty decent, so I expect them to be back as soon as they get a spot at Altoona to shop them. At 432,000 pounds for the first locomotive alone, the beam never had much of a chance. The 3 locos weigh over 1.2 million pounds fully…

I can walk over to one, the other is a 30 minute drive during rush hour. The next one is about 25 minutes from that one. In NW Ohio and SE Mich, they aren’t hard to find, just look for the GMC truck places and Buick is there too..

My last 4 Dodge experiences, 2003 Ram 1500, 2008 Charger R/T, 2010 Challenger R/T, and 2018 Challenger Scat Pack experiences have been pretty pleasant. No real games being played, just the hardish sell on extended warranties. I was happy with the first 3 vehicles, and my present one is almost paid for and has had zero…

The cruise ship companies, in a lot of cases, are really terribly run. The problems some of their ships have is both scary and amusing. I’m a ham radio operator and I had a series of converter boxes that decoded a bunch of digital modes used on HF (High Frequency, AKA Shortwave). A lot of the stuff that could be…

If just one of these beef substitutes actually tasted like....meat, I would be on board. But none of them do, a lot of the ones I’ve tried have a very noticable green beanish aftertaste that is a total turnoff, at least to me. Maybe the lab grown will do what so far, the plant stuff fails at. I don’t hate all the…

A friend of mine had it done a long time ago and still has all kinds of problems from it. Halos, starbursts, etc, he drives with one eye at night. I had some probems with “rays” after cataract surgery, but it was solvable with the YAG laser and I have had no further problems. He’s going on 15 years of hassles with it…

Best car I drove this year:

I’m the opposite, Pepsi over anything, every drink. When I go someplace that has Coke, I usually just get iced tea. I do like Diet Coke better than Diet Pepsi, but that’s like the question, “What cancer would you prefer sir?” Pepsi Zero Sugar is the only diet soda/pop I actually like. At least like a little bit. Diet…

I’ve had a couple of really good experiences from dealers over the last...wow, it’s getting close to 50 years! The first was when I bought my first car in 1974. We went to a small town dealership about a half hour away from home. I had tried to get a ‘74 Challenger or ‘Cuda, but the good ones were gone, so I ended up…

When I started there on my birthday in ‘79, I wasn’t prepared for the freak show I was about to see. There was a flophouse “AAA Beds” about a block away, and 2 rescue missions, and another within walking distance, so we had more traffic of people from those 4 places alone, and most of the problems came not from the…

I couldn’t care less about coffee, and if chocolate went away, I wouldn’t be happy about it, but it wouldn’t devastate me. But rice? Wow, I don’t think I could or would want to live in a riceless world. 

They pulled the “Sandy” penny pony rides during Covid, but they are back. 

I do most of my shopping at a couple of different Meijer locations. At this point in time, grocery stores are Meijer, Kroger, and Wal-Mart. Meijer’s isn’t as cheap on some items as WM is, but the stores are a lot nicer, and they just kill Kroger on pricing. Some of their pretty much identical items are like half the…