Checked the pantry after reading this and sure enough, out of the four or five containers of vinegar (my wife does a lot of canning), one was marked 4%. Fortunately, it was never used for preserving and has now been removed for window cleaning duty...

Because the shrink costs all of us! I’m getting sick and tired of scofflaws who steal from stores, cross the Columbia to cheat on their sales taxes, refuse to pay the registration fees for their cars and fly Trump flags from the back of their coal rolling pickups. Those are the assholes. As for the Executive…

While Moxie is readily available in upper New England, it’s hard to find elsewhere. Thank goodness for Orca Beverage in Mukilteo, Washington that bottles it here in Cascadia.

And, if you present a membership card with a picture that doesn’t look quite like you, they can and will ask for your driver’s license or other photo ID. As a long-time Executive member, it’s about damn time they ended membership “sharing”. Now, if only Kroger would crack down on obvious, blatant shoplifting maybe our…

Don’t assume the receptacle is installed with the round ground hole down. Some people feel that the ground hole should be above the two slots and install the receptacle “upside down”. In some parts of the US the receptacles are installed “sideways” with the outlets side by side. The National Electrical Code does not…

I’m not surprised to see Portland on the list but Vancouver, Washington is in the Portland metro area and Washington has no income tax while Oregon has no sales tax. Vancouver might be my kind of town...

It can be really expensive and even dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t prepare properly, don’t watch the weather and get lost or stuck in the forest looking for that tree. Happens every year here in Oregon and sometimes it costs a life. There are lots of Christmas Tree farms here with a great…

North of the 45th, the sun wouldn’t rise until nearly 9:00 am DST or later on Dec 21. No thanks. Stupidly, the Oregon and Washington legislatures have already signed on to year ‘round DST. Daylight savings time does not “save” daylight:

It’s true. Gary is scary!

Normal Bates? Pretty sure Norm wasn’t normal.

How can Seattle NOT be on any of these lists? Portland, definitely, but Seattle is worse.

Your refrigerator compressor removes heat from the freezer compartment and pumps it into your house through the condenser coils behind or underneath the refrigerator. So using your freezer to create ice that you’ll melt in a DIY “air conditioner” is a giant waste of time and money as it won’t even cover the heat…

Sudden death lies inside your electrical panel! Even with the main breaker open, the utility service conductors from your meter to the line side of the breaker are still energized and are often not protected by any insulating barriers.

Portland one of the best for seasonal allergies!? With the grass seed industry in the southern Willamette Valley, the only thing good about Portland in the spring is that it isn’t Eugene which should be the number one worst city in the world for hay fever. Trust me. Portland should not be on that list. If the grasses…

As a professional engineer with several decades of experience your brief description of the purpose of building codes is spot on. While they can be frustrating to the folks financing, constructing and managing buildings for sometimes obtuse requirements, they provide a valuable service ensuring a standard level of…

This is the really important point that Scarjo is trying to make here. If you change the terms of my contract, for whatever reason, you must renegotiate my compensation. Disney’s failure to do this is wrong.

Toto. Primarily because the Toto Washlet is still the best bidet seat in the world and they fit their toilets perfectly. We’ve had one Washlet for almost 15 years and it still works exactly as it did when we installed it. I’d rather buy American butt we lag behind the Japanese in defecation automation.

Toto. Primarily because the Toto Washlet is still the best bidet seat in the world and they fit their toilets perfect…

What has Subaru-bashing got to do with this thread? I have an L1 Outback and I work the hell out of the the ACC. But I’m ALWAYS in control. Eyesight has saved my a$$ a couple of times when some idiot in front of me swerved into my lane or stopped on the freeway for no apparent reason. Most WRX don’t have Eyesight…

I wonder if the earlier detonations seen in the videos weren’t of the grain silos themselves blowing up. Combustible dusts are highly explosive when mixed with the right amount of air. Often, grain or sugar storage explosions start in one area and trigger a sequence of explosions as each explosion triggers the “aerosol…

https://www.familysearch.org/ is definitely the most useful of all the free sources of genealogical information. Even if you disagree (as I do) with LDS doctrine, this website is completely free of proselytizing. Their parametric search engine for their databases is extremely powerful.