After many, many miles of air travel.

If you can do it, only take maybe two days of clothes with you. Send the rest by UPS, or FedEx. It's a LOT less likely to get lost.

Sure it's an extra cost, but you don't have to deal with getting it at the terminal and chances are that it's going to show up, or there's a better…

I work in the food ingredient industry. I spent 15 years selling flavors. Trained taste test panels are something that every major food manufacturer uses. You think that Kraft isn't worried about some generic tasting as good as Miracle Whip? They have tens of millions invested in the brand. (BTW. I hate the stuff.)

Flav…

I'm a judge for the AKC. I judge what many of you would consider Search and Rescue work if you saw it. When I judge (about 14 times/year), I'll be outside in a Forest Preserve for about 10 hours on Saturday and ten hours on Sunday. No matter what the weather.

While Gortex jackets, etc. will work for me, I've never had…

Keep in mind that many times when you rent tools, you're going to get a tool that is better for the job.

Example. Although I do have a post hole digger, if I had to dig 20 holes, I'm sure as heck not going to use that.

They only rely on those numbers sort of.

I've got a 1981 Triumph TR8. It's a show winning car in impeccable shape. NADA values the car in fair shape at $8,000.00. Mine is worth about $15,000.00 No dealer would give you more than about $6,000.00 for the car.

Crick vs. muscle spasm.

I've only had one in my life. It felt as if my neck was (painfully) attached to my shoulder.

Trip to the doctor, injection, and heavy duty painkillers are the only way to solve the problem.

No problem with kids after the parents have made the decision.

We saved a dog. Small, fluffy type. We were trying to find a home for him. One of my friends said that his family was interested. They brought the 9 year old daughter along. As soon as she walked in the door, the decision was made. The dog could have had 3…

blackcat,

There's a difference between an obedience dog and an obedient dog. When I teach beginner and puppy classes, they are for pet owners who could care less about competitive obedience. That being said, I guarantee that my two current dogs are much more obedient than any of your dogs have ever been. Current dogs…

Let's see. I've TAUGHT obedience for 35+ years to over 4,000 people. I've earned the top AKC and ASCA obedience titles available, as have my students. Ditto for Canada. I've had therapy dogs and tracking dogs. I've worked with police departments helping them train their dogs. I've done protection work with dogs. I've…

"All it usually tells you is that the dog is inbred . . . "

Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Probably 95%+ purebred dogs are out crosses.

Very, very few breeders (and over 35 years, my wife have had a total of THREE litters) keep track of all of the puppies that they've sold. Yes, they're…

I've taught obedience for 35+ years. Many of those years I worked with some of the top obedience competitors and had top obedience competitors as students. I typically always did puppy and beginner classes.

Milan has done MORE to screw up more dogs and has set back the good training methods than anyone in the last 50…

#1 - Yes, I am a dog judge. Both for the American Kennel Club and the Australian Shepherd Club of America.
#2 - For the vast majority of people dogs from shelters are a great choice.
#3 - Not mentioned, also look into breed rescues. Many of the more popular breeds such as Labs, run breed rescues.
#4 - I can not…

A very old saying. "If it's not broke, don't fix it."

We have a dentist who I consider extremely excellent from a technical perspective.

Some time ago, I was experiencing a pain in my lower jaw. After probing and poking, x-rays and other things, he couldn't come up with a definitive diagnosis of what was wrong. That…

Some times. Not an absolute.

That being said, the unemployment number is more indicative of the types of criteria the above is using to evaluate the situation.

There are numerous areas throughout the country where welfare is chronically high. Slums, but also many rural areas throughout the country.

Care to explain to me what welfare and public assistance have to do with determining how easy, or difficult it is to get and keep a job? Add in the aforementioned two and the cost of housing and food.

What a strange set of criteria. The first three cover economics. So that tells you what it's going to cost you to live in an area and if you're going to get/keep your job.

Disability? So if a construction worker falls off a scaffold, that's supposed to show exactly what?

Life expectancy and obesity. What do either one…

I come from the corporate side of negotiating.

If at all possible, let your opponent come up with the first price. You never know if they might give you a better deal than you were going to ask for.

Come up with justifications for your price and present those before you ever give a price. i.e. If the price of your…

Rob is a software engineer, who admits that he spent less than a year coming up with the "perfect food".

I'll go to him for software. Impoverished people can't afford this stuff.

I just suggest that if you decide to go this route that you try to monitor your body very closely.

This happened a very long time ago. I worked at a company that truly was horrible.

We all had individual offices. Guy starts on Monday. Goes out for lunch. 1:00, he's not back. 2:00, he's not back. Finally someone goes in his office. There's an envelope on his desk. When we opened it up, it essentially said, "You folks…

Question. Take what you consider the 5 most nutritious ingredients in the world. Would you eat those and nothing else for the rest of your life? Forgetting about taste. (Of course my wife would probably go with pizza and nothing else.)