exactly! I have an F150, and yes, its lifted, which I am trading in for a ‘17 Raptor when they come out. Do I need it? Nope. I work from home. My daily commute is approximately 1 mile each way to drop the kids off at their school. I dont even have anything to tow. Its useful in Iowa winters, for sure. But I get asked…

The alliteration is strong.

I used to help run a very popular CS server (Michigan Burbs) in the CS1.5 days. We were part of a fun as hell clan - Delta Six, and then I moved to SK|. I was primarily an AWP’er. I played for several hours a day, every day. It was not uncommon to get accused of hacking when you put in the hours we did. God I miss…

Preach on man! I’m right there with you. We make a great household income (top 2% for our area according to the graph, 3% nationwide) But, with a house, family, taxes, etc, sometimes things seems tighter than they should. People typically spend up to their income level. I remember a decade ago when we were making a…

Calvin and Hobbs was the G.O.A.T.... This makes me sad.

A set of decent files and a set of sturdy steel punches. I cant tell you how many times my 50 year old 1/4” punch has saved my butt when working around the garage.

Agreed. Am on my 2nd house, and right after we poured foundation and the framing went up, I started pulling ethernet, rg6qs, station wire and 14g4 speaker wire. roughly 4 miles total. im not joking.

As an owner of a large truck with a >80” width and a 4” lift, I feel your pain. Thankfully I live in the midwest where roads are nice and wide, but parking garagaes are the bain of my existense. I was up in Milwaukee and had to find a parking garage for dinner. I had my friend stand on the running board to keep an eye…

Reminds me of the scene in ‘Home’ where all the aliens passwords are ‘Password’ and the main guy had changed his to some long, articulate passphrase and they can’t hack into his account lol.

My God this woman is a moron. I grew up in rural Iowa neighboring Red Oak. I went to school with kids from there, had several friends from there. I hate this woman for how she is turning something very common (plastic bags on our feet) into something meant to be a hardship or povery.

Total jersey chasers.

Haha! I'm in the same boat except in the middle of Des Moines. 1/2 acre in the suburb with a 25 mile each way daily commute on I-35/I-80 to my cube. I don't exactly need one of these. But my '13 Screw will be paid off when these come out, so you can be damned sure I'm already thinking of excuses for my wife on why we n…

Tennis balls aren't sturdy enough. Lacrosse balls are MUCH better!

A fellow wrestler in our district - Blu Wahle.

My Nitto's have saved my ass more times that I can count. ;-)

College Savings Iowa (Iowa based 529) is managed by Vanguard and is pretty consistently rated in the top plans. I have zero negative feelings toward's the plans for our kids managed by them.

Or go learn SAS and get into analytics and modeling. The highest paid developers I know and/or work with all develop in SAS.

I cook with my cast iron almost daily, especially in the summer when grilling. Every time I grill I spray it down and pop it on the grill once I'm done. Since I have an egg, it sits at 350-400 for a good two or 3 hours. I couldn't be happier with it!

BS you say?

I have to admit, I'm addicted to my Lululemon kung fu pants. They are like sweats, only better!