I’ll miss you! Yours was a byline I always looked for. Best of luck in your future endeavors.

This has happened in rural Illinois, as well. The local hospital no longer does deliveries, and it’s more than 20 miles to the nearest one that does.

Was it a Chevette? The same thing happened to me in college on the way to class. The spot welds holding the shifter mechanism to the floor popped, and the entire thing came off in my hand. Mine was in 2nd gear, luckily, so I was able to make it home.

I kind of experienced something related to this, because one of our kids (who’s about to turn 30) lives overseas, but she sometimes gets mail sent to our house. I had to submit her overseas address and an affidavit that she doesn’t live with us to the insurance company.

I went to high school in Centralia. :)

PayDays have always been a favorite candy bar of mine. When I was a kid, they were made in my little Illinois hometown. Sometime in the ‘80's the factory burned, and production was moved away. I just learned yesterday that the town has a new claim to fame (if you want to call it that). The cardboard boxes for Kraft…

Sigh. Tomorrow I’m supposed to take my mom to her PCP to get a referral to a neurologist. It’s been a struggle to get her to agree to go at all. Although she can “pass” as fairly normal in casual conversation with someone, it’s gone way beyond just forgetting a few things. Besides memory problems, she has some…

OMG I think we’re long lost siblings. Those behaviors sound like my mom on a good day. :-/

I liked Save Yourselves a lot, so I’m very interested in checking this out.

No, I'm in Southern Illinois. Dollar Generals in almost every little town over 250 people here. 

That’s what happened with our local one. The building is a Dollar General now.

Lederhosen?

I wrote a solitaire app for Android that’s been very popular on the Play Store. I had a lot of users ask for a way to cheat, so I added a “peek” gesture you can use to show all the hidden cards in the tableau piles. I use it myself sometimes. As you said, yes it’s technically cheating, but you’re only cheating…

We were talking about this car in the Shelby Dodge group the other day. I’ve been over 145 in a standing mile in my SRT-4 with the Stage 2 kit, and it already feels really...light...at that speed. I can’t imagine what this 1st Gen must feel like at 200. Man, doing this without a roll cage seems stupefyingly dangerous.

Frame is pretty good. My FIL was the original owner, and he only drove it around town, and mostly only in good weather. I did have to replace the entire exhaust system last year, and some of it was rusty.

I can’t disagree with this list. And as a guy who daily drives a Neon, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think he should get rid of the Neon! Just so long as it goes to an enthusiast who’ll appreciate it, and not somebody who will trash it.

Pipeweed was said to have been brought from Numenor, so maybe that’s where the taters came from, too.

My son at college is driving my FIL’s old 2002 Buick Regal with the 3.8L. That car is a boat, but I figure it’s a pretty good fit for him right now. It’s only got about 90K miles on it, so it’ll probably last a lot longer. A couple of weeks ago he called and said it wouldn’t start, or at least when it did start was…

I wish they would also fix importing ZIP Codes in SQL Server Management Studio, so it doesn’t automatically convert them to doubles dropping the leading zeros instead of just leaving them as text.

I don’t remember, has there been a feature here on cooking at work? I’ve made a few pretty tasty things with ingredients from Walmart (or whatever happens to be in the cabinet sometimes) and the microwave.