I served on a jury for a murder trial two years ago. I really think there should be something that then exempts you from ever doing it again. It’s a little traumatic hearing all the testimony and looking at crime scene photos and evidence that are real, and not part of some TV show or something.

What an interesting looking car! I really like that color.

I’m willing to be proven wrong if you’ve actually measured those temperatures shown in your diagram. Most of the time there’s not high heat at the bottom, as the coils aren’t actually on very much once the oven is up to temperature. In fact, you’ll find a lot of info online that most ovens are hotter at the top. But…

If you don’t have a convection oven, this just doesn’t seem like an actual problem. In a regular oven, there isn’t really air flow. For the amount of time that you cook a turkey, the heat is going to be a lot more evenly distributed throughout the whole area, I think.

I’m sure she does look good, but as a 50-something myself, the thing that struck me when I saw her on some talk show a couple of years ago (don’t remember which one), was wow can she dance! I’m no expert, but she seemed like an amazingly good dancer on that show.

I think I’ve mentioned it here before on an orange-related post, but my wife and I really like Gold Nugget mandarins, which are also only available when they’re in-season. They’re ugly but delicious!

I don’t actually know the answer to this, and now you’ve made me wonder. What about the fresh rosemary, thyme, sage, and oregano from the garden that I dried myself last month in preparation for Thanksgiving? Is it somewhere in between? I feel like they’re going to be more...potent... than store-bought dried herbs?

Yes, I wish simple trimming had been mentioned. Our very old cat has trouble fully retracting his claws, so he gets snagged just trying to walk across the bed. Once in a while I clip the sharp tips off with nail clippers. They make special clippers for pets, but regular human ones work fine for this, as well.

I thought he was going to slice it in half...AND IT WAS CAKE!

I was just thinking, I like Lapsang Souchong (have a canister of it here my desk drawer right now), so would I like this beer? I don’t generally drink a lot of beer, but I do like Guinness instead of a lager.

Rent them? We went to the theater and watched them! :P I remember the first movie I ever went to see more than once was Back to the Future. It still remains my all-time favorite.

They’re distantly, loosely related, in that the parent companies were started by two brothers.

I agree. I mentioned that in my reply to Chase. Wage stagnation isn’t the only issue, but it is a big issue with regard to this and other things.

All true, but individual situations do vary. I also feel I should point out that home prices aren’t sky-high everywhere. I just looked it up, and in my county the median is $126K. Not everyone lives in LA, or NYC, or Denver.

I’m kind of there with you. I was watching all the shows for the first 3 or 4 years, but they started to feel very...repetitive?...or something. Except Legends of Tomorrow. I watched all of that, and it was a weird, messy, wonderful joy to experience. If some of the shows were aiming to be a complete dinner, LoT was a…

My income 30 years ago was a lot less than half what it is now, too. But you’re right, the housing price to median income ratio has shot up the past two years, and prices are going to have to come down.

I don’t disagree, with you or with the other replies above. I just wanted to point out that even 7% is still lower than the average mortgage rate over the past 50 years, which is 7.76%.

I hope to encourage you young first-time home buyers. When we bought our first house in the ‘90's, the rate on our mortgage was 8.25%. But we were able just a few years later to refinance at about 5%. So even if you end up needing to borrow now at a higher rate, there’s a pretty good likelihood you can refinance at a…

I first saw her in The Middleman, which doesn’t get nearly the recognition it deserves.

Can confirm. 1982 German I class we had gummy bears as an exotic treat.