Egad. Delete this, somebody.

December 1984 - a few days +/- the winter solstice, when it starts getting dark at around 3PM in southern Germany. I'm on the A831 headed back to Patch Barracks in a government-issue Plymouth Reliant. For the record (and what I told the polizei), I hit black ice and ran off the road onto the rumble strip. However I…

I actually tried to get a 1980 Chevette to do a burnout, or even chirp the tires on takeoff. No dice. 58 swayback horses weren't enough, even on cheap tires.

I thought you were promoting after-tax retirement plans. Roth 401K is such a plan, if your employer has expanded its plan to include one. The main thing I would be concerned about is the selection of funds in which to invest. Ours are pretty much OK, but yours might suck. This is where the regular Roth comes in…

There are Roth 401Ks now.

Actually yes, OP did try the math. He said, "if you have a low interest student loan (think less than 5%), then it might make sense to start investing before accelerating pay-off.

I appear to be the rare animal who is a fan of both Star Wars and Star Trek.

Well, let me fill you all in. Dish Network has a German language package with four or five channels. DirecTV does not, and last I checked, Time/Warner Cable only had Deutsche Welle. So that's that.

Not the same. Do you really want to see me divorced?

So how do I keep my German wife happy? Keep in mind that she's a complete idiot when it comes to technology.

That would have been my question - what is the outstanding balance on your HELOC? Shooting from the hip, I would consider that like I would credit card debt and deal with it accordingly (as in paying it off in full as quickly as I possibly could), and refi the first mortgage.

Them and the Miami Marlins.

German TV keeps me paying through the nose for Dish Network. If not for that, I would have cut the cord long ago.

Master cylinder underneath.

Why not pick a different star? Orion? Betelgeuse? Hmm, "beetle juice!" Lots of cool star name from which to choose. Vega's suckitude is not only indelibly imprinted on the minds of anyone who was there at the time, but it's legendary. It's as if Ford decided to build a new near-luxury sedan called the Edsel II.

I thought the plain upright script meant that the manufacturer didn't care about actually selling this one anymore.

Yeah, and do that about a million times. Then do the back yard.

Modern sports stadiums are increasingly built for people who don’t go to sporting events to watch sports.

In New York, the SUNY schools are nearly all in Div III - hardly the place to go and ask for a multi-million dollar salary to coach football. My Div III alma mater (SUNYIT) doesn't even have a football team. This leaves places like Syracuse, which is a private school, so nobody gives a rip what Joe Boeheim…

Just borrow the FLORIDA tag from FARK.