Yeah, I’m a little older than the average SRT-4 owner. I was 37 when I bought it, and I’m 55 now. My wife daily drove it for several years. I think she kind of liked the weird looks she sometimes got as a 50-year-old woman in an SRT-4. My kids didn’t appreciate it until they got into high school, and their friends…

I bought my 2004 SRT-4 Neon new, and I’m up to 236K miles now. It’s had Dodge’s Stage 2 turbo upgrade kit installed since 2005, and has been rock-solid. I replaced all the seals when I had the engine out at about 190K to fix front-end damage after I slid on some ice. I also took that opportunity to add factory Neon…

We had a cat once who would go absolutely crazy over cantaloupe. I think he would have rather eaten that than anything.

The serving size on Bugles is one bag, right? Right?!? I really find it hard to stop eating them once I start.

Whew! My microwave is over the range, so it’ll be such a relief stop climbing this ladder every time I heat something up!

Ah, sounds like what I instinctively do when my mother tries to talk about politics. (I’m 55 years old, but this still is the best way I’ve found to cope with her.)

That’s 2 whole sticks of butter in this?!? Okay, nothing wrong with that, butter is delicious!

Tolkien had Legolas address that perception of time for immortal beings in LotR:

6 to 8 weeks is about right for the little window unit we have upstairs where the central air just doesn’t keep it cool. It’s an old house, and there was not much thought put into proper airflow 80 years ago. The problem is that the “filter” light has no smarts at all. It starts blinking about once a week no matter…

My Fusion 2.0T gets 33 highway (actual). Is the difference all in the aerodynamics, do you think? Or are there other differences between the engines in the car and BS/truck?

It used to sometimes go a bit between washings, but since I started using a French press, there’s a lot of fine powdery grounds that need to be washed out. So now it’s basically daily. It’s interesting how the exact same coffee tastes twice as good made in the press than made with a drip machine. Those fine grounds…

Peanuts and cacao nibs makes a delicious combo in brittle.

Instead of your last step, use a serrated knife to cut off the stalk end just where the actual kernels start, then squeeze the ear out from the silk end. The silk will stay with the husk. This is the way we’ve been doing it for several years now. 2 minutes per ear, for 1 to 4 ears at a time. Great, easy way to cook…

That’s the way I imagined it.

I’ll use bold if I can, but it’s not always an option. Some email systems strip formatting like that on the receiving end, and SMS text messages don’t allow it at all. At least we’re beyond the point where I tell someone, “Move the mouse on the screen,” and they physically hold the mouse against the screen and move…

It was hard for me to read this email with all those commas and periods outside of the quotation marks

I’m reminded of an old The Onion story about opening Starbucks inside the bathrooms of other Starbucks.

I honestly kind of miss our old minivan. I’m a computer programmer by trade, but I still sometimes need to haul stuff. I could put 4x8 sheets in the minivan when necessary and still close the hatch.

“Lorde’s Butt” definitely sounds like it could be a town in the U.K.

Yeah, my first P-body was an ‘88 Sundance I bought new, and looking back, I think it only had an 85 mph gauge. It was a 2.2L TBI automatic, so I doubt it could get up to 85 mph. :)