No, he meant rapeseed oil. Canola oil is the industry name for oil pressed from rapeseed. They didn't think rapeseed oil would sell very well.

I think you haven't thought it through. Do you expect the SSA to just keep a bunch of money in a vault in the basement? Of course not. The money has to go somewhere. Now if it was $10,000 or so they could just open a bank account, but it isn't. So, you have millions of dollars coming in and you need to do…

While it's generally true that the "secret menu" doesn't exist it isn't completely true. McDonalds has a few unadvertised items. e.g. Double Hamburger (slightly cheaper than a double cheeseburger w/o cheese), They used to do a grilled cheese, but I'm not sure if that's still done. At breakfast you can get Eggs only…

@timgray - My understanding is that they have to accept legal tender only for debts. That's why the gas stations require pre-pay. There is no debt until after you pump the gas. Requiring prepay allows them to refuse the transaction legally.

Step 1: Stop using the word "invest" when you mean "spend". Driving to the coffee shop is not an "investment" it is an expense. An investment is a purchase of an asset with the expectation of gaining income (interest, appreciation, etc) from that asset.

The freshness issue is solved by freezing. Use single serving containers, put them in the fridge the night before and they're good to go.

Have you considered freezing the cold cuts as single servings when you get home from the store. They'll easily thaw out overnight in the fridge.

I make a big pot of soup every week and freeze it in 2 cup containers (I use glass, you can get the anchor hocking 2 cup container 3 pack online for a good price). I have 2-4 different kinds of soup in the freezer at any time, currently chili, chicken noodle and broccoli cheese. I grab a bowl of soup, a fresh fruit,…

Ziplist seems to have all of the mentioned features, and is free.

This idea fails because the issue that it is trying to solve is that the people in the house aren't in the habit of putting stuff away. It isn't the trip up the stairs that is the problem, it is the habit of taking something with you. Thus, even if the one organized person puts stuff in the baskets, the baskets…

I still have mine, got it in 1981 with the 16k RAM pack. I still have a bunch of the Sync magazines for it as well. The only problem is I can't get a cassette recorder to work with it (not that I've tried in years).

According to <a href=http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood…>the Red Cross</a> you can donate platelets every 7 days and plasma every 28 days, still not twice a week, though.

I wanted to make one point in response to "difficult for me to push myself to exercise over and over".

I just wanted to point out that you can remove tipping without any of the bad things you imagine.

Actually, every electric oven I've ever used did use both elements for preheat, I think my gas oven alternates top and bottom to heat the chamber, probably because there is a limit to the amount gas that is available to the oven at any given moment.

Indoor track at a local college, or the Y.

Sign up for an event.

I second swimming, but try to find a group/class focused on laps and workouts, not red cross swimming standards.

You can, but you can't expect yourself to be able to improve as quickly as you used to. You'll need to take it slower than you expect. I took a decades long hiatus from running and getting back to reasonable was quite frustrating. You know how, but it takes longer than you want it to.

I take exception to the idea that "most people seem pretty loyal to their chosen browsers". Most people use what is in front of them. It's not loyalty, it's inertia. That said, I use firefox, chrome, IE, Safari, and I think my old debian box has iceweasel.