This is precisely what I was thinking. This article is completely true and accurate. But given rates of return these days, even for year long CDs, it's just not likely to be a meaningful amount of money. Your guesstimate of ~$5 is right on for me. The tax and insurance bills get paid every 6 months and it would come…

Not recipes (which we also have lots of) but especially during the week my partner and I have a stable of go to dinner things that are quick to assemble and that we both like. When we plan our dinners for the week we often both draw a blank on what to have. So we made a master list and when we can't come up with…

The mashed cauliflower everyone is talking about also works really well stirred into mac and cheese.

That's pretty much what I was going to write, too. The only thing I've used my tablet for in recent months is reading comic books and occasionally checking something online in between reading comic books.

Razorantinum by Lush Cosmetics. 1) come on, the name 2) it smells awesome and 3) it works wonderfully. It's really thick and creamy, razors glide very well but it will still rinse out reasonably quickly. It moisturizes, too.

Razorantinum by Lush Cosmetics. 1) come on, the name 2) it smells awesome and 3) it works wonderfully. It's really…

Yes, certainly there are the negatives associated with credit cards. The value in the prescription rewards along with the Visa card, though, is that with the additional discount card it's a 10% discount. If you're using that well, you can do things like load up on non-perishibles, paper goods and so on and save quite…

Target's prescription rewards is a good deal if you work it. If you have the Target Visa card you always get 5% off purchases (and free shipping online which is huge). With the prescription thing, every 5 prescription fills they send a code for an additional 5% off online and a card for 5% off in store. They also do a…

The "work" mentioned was the work of actually giving birth. The physical process of giving birth. The article above is about just that....not leave or partners or what-have-you. Just giving birth itself.

I'm seizing the opportunity to bitch about this: I'm on supplemental oxygen and at home my cannula is plugged into 50 feet of extension tubing so I can get everywhere in the house from one liquid oxygen tank. It works really well. But at least a half a dozen times a day one of the dogs will step on the tubing, or I'll…

One important thing is to be sure you're negotiating with someone who can. Trying to haggle or whatever with someone who doesn't have the final decision making authority is likely to end up being a colossal waste of time and may end up with you revealing much more than you wanted to before the person you really need…

I lived in a Residence Inn for 6 months.....the limit is 1 pet. If you talk to them in advance and pay an extra pet fee they'll let you bring 2 small pets. That's pretty much it. I don't understand at all how they had 17 cats at a hotel.

When I cooked in small restaurants making everything from scratch I still used way, way, way more salt, butter, cream and fat than I use at home. There are certainly restaurants that focus on cooking healthfully and reducing those things but in general restaurant cooking is heavy on those things because they taste…

Yes, I should have clarified, that's true if your options are start from frozen or defrost first. And is also true for small cuts of meat. If it's never been frozen, letting the chill come off has always worked well for me. Though I've not tested it enough to know whether it would qualify for "rule" so perhaps I…

A good 6th rule would be to let the meat/roast/bird come to something approaching room temperature before you start cooking it.

Looks as though it does, yes.

Nope. That's hilarious and perfect and honors Click and Clack and all of the humor they tried to bring to their work while also expressing condolences. Nothing remotely dickish about it.

You can also, with the Bodum (or Technivorm) stick them on a Wemo plug or similar. It was life altering for us to be able to roll out of bed and hit a button on a phone and the coffee was finished up brewing as we got downstairs.

You can also, with the Bodum (or Technivorm) stick them on a Wemo plug or similar. It was life altering for us to be…

Agreed about the plastic base! I had one come off in tact and another crack. Solved both with some sugru, but yeah, that's the single design flaw, good point.

Agreed about the plastic base! I had one come off in tact and another crack. Solved both with some sugru, but yeah,…

Thermos 16 ounce Stainless Steel Backpack Bottle

Thermos 16 ounce Stainless Steel Backpack Bottle

Definitely give her a heads up that you'll be in the class. If she's not the faculty of record there shouldn't be any conflict but it would be uncool if you're just sitting there in the class and she had no idea. She probably has figured out that you're likely going to be there anyhow if it's a required course.