My dad recently showed me the ratchet strap method on a lawn tractor tire. I used to think (and still do) that man can fix anything.

My dad recently showed me the ratchet strap method on a lawn tractor tire. I used to think (and still do) that man can fix anything.

The truth is that it is very hard to find a “bad car” nowadays.

Reliving the Pimp My Ride era? No thanks.

Wait, this isn’t Kazakhstan?!?!  Honey, we took a wrong turn back there...

I think people say outrageous things just to get clicks. What he believes is not the point. Stupid people have always been stupid. Our reaction to the stupidity is what I’m most concerned about.

Some of you (ahem, me) might start to get a little anxious as soon as the needle slips below half-tank.

According to Cox Automotive, the average mileage for rental risk units in April was 82,800 miles...

Absolutely!  Static electricity is a thing, lol

I worked for an IT company some years ago that acquired smaller organizations. Just before we brought them into our network, we would do assessments of their infrastructure to see if it made sense for them to keep their existing hardware or have them piggyback off ours. During the audits, we would frequently see where…

I always transport my fuel cans in the bed of my truck because I’m scared of something like this.

Our willingness to sink further into debt has no limits. If you need a car right now, why not score a deal on a late model used car vs over paying for something new?

I mentioned this before but my ol’ man is a retired trucker and he still has his HAZMAT endorsement but he told me he wouldn’t think about driving a tanker. Other than the sign-on bonus, the salary is at the bottom of what you can make because most companies pay per mile and when you are local, you just don’t rack up…

We test every 6 months not including normal data restores in between. We can’t lose more than 12 hours of data in production.  To be down for longer than a day would be, as my boss likes to say, “a resume generating event”.  

2) Have good strong policies of running tape backups so data recoveries can be re-installed.

You had to know this was coming. I saw people get into at the store over rolls of paper towels a year ago so this was not unexpected.

People at work: “I read on Facebook where Russia is hacking our gas, wants us to buy theirs” “gas will run out by this weekend”, “take every car you own and fill it up”.

I’m here in the Mid-Atlantic and folks are losing their minds. Ran a few errands yesterday and was going to stop for gas at Costco since I was near a quarter of a tank. The line was so long, the police had to come and direct traffic around it. Had plenty to make it home and since I’m still working remote, I figure I…

With that fire, I know a sprinkler system he could have passed by to handle that.