WaWa is nice, but we don’t have those in the midwest. I vote for QuikTrip as the midwest option.

The bike shop I got my Cannondale from is one of the stop points on RAAM. I was getting my bike tuned up a few weekends ago and we were talking about the event and it turns out the worst county (in terms of drivers giving the riders shit) is where my parents live, St. Charles County, MO.

As I said when I heard the news last night...

In Missouri I can walk into a gun store and walk out in less than 30 minutes with a firearm. Completed background check and all.

And they’re mostly people who have been raised on the idea that at any given time in a running car you have to have your foot on either the gas or the brake.

As a pilot, if I’m within the safe parameters of a chute pull and don’t have an easy way to an airport, you can be damn sure I’m pulling the chute. Off airport landings can very easily turn into not pretty things; and it’s not always something the pilot has control over. There are too many unknowns, and I’m not…

First company I worked for out of college was Anheuser-Busch they had an amazing pension plan. I was there for 8 years (3 after they got bought out by InBev) long enough to be vested in the pension plan. After they buyout, one of the first things InBev did was stop putting money into the pension fund. About 2 years…

I would make the simple argument that any program that’s gone 50% over budget has gone particularly bad. It triggered a required Congressional review it went so far over budget.
The development of the F-35 has been a borderline comical series of missteps and failures. As an IT guy, I remember reading articles when the…

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1. When I was in probably about 8th grade my oldest brother, who was probably a junior in high school, decided to make a chocolate cheesecake for the family. Great, that’s awesome. So he’s going through the ingredients and it calls for two square of baker’s chocolate. The baker’s chocolate my mother…

Was just thinking of posting this. I used to drive this 3-4 days a week when I was in college. Lived in IL, had an internship in St. Louis. I absolutely hated that drive, and I haven't been on that bridge since.

Love the cat launches as well.

Don't forget pork steaks. Put 'em on the grill for 10-15 minutes, then into a roaster pan full of BBQ sauce w/ some beer, cover it and put it on the grill for a couple hours.

They tried this on I-270 around St. Louis... it failed, everyone ignored them and just went with the flow of traffic. MODOT took them down after less than a year and put back up the regular speed limit signs.

I used to work for a major corporation in their Logistics department. We were decently sized, but definitely not the biggest on the block, we handled about 12,000 trucks a week. We had an employee of one trucking company that worked in our office, he handled their long-haul fleet, and the stories he would tell and we…