My family rented a luxury cabin in Stowe, VT during the fall. We flew to Boston to me my brother and his family before loading up his cars for the drive. He packed his knife roll, a Kitchenaid mixer and pasta attachments, a few pots and pans, lobster, various pre-prepped items, and we loaded up on wine and liquor in…

Did you guys try the “Super Pursuit Mode?”  It probably wouldn’t have helped.

Ah. I interpreted the NASCAR Fusion to be rear wheel drive and the consumer version to be either front wheel or optional no-wheel drive.

We love it. It was so cheap that we just need it to last 2 years for it pay for itself in fuel cost savings. I was planning on buying a used 1st gen Leaf and hope to strike the battery warranty lottery under the right conditions, but my wife loathed the interior. The 500e is much more spartan and retro so it was…

Here’s a whacky anecdote:

Perfect timing. My aunt had 60 friends and family over to her house for 4th of July festivities. One of her friends bought a bunch of vietnamese spring rolls, but made about 3 quarts of her delicious peanut sauce...I went home with a quart and was thinking about all the wonderful things I could enjoy with it.

Reusing bottles of Grolsch is probably the easiest solution for bottling homemade small-batch beer.  My neighbor does his in 6 gallon batches.

What a mess!  I feel for the medallion holders and the struggling ride-share drivers.  I don’t know what the solution is, but I feel like raising the minimum wage is treating the symptom and not the source problem.  The cost of living has far outpaced the rise in wages over the last 40 years, but especially the last…

You gotta have a strong core to do that till the sun goes down.

I get your point, but I think it’s different when it’s the last 2 laps of the race. Bump-and-run can be forgiven earlier in the race when you have an opportunity to get some positions back, but Larson gave Busch zero options during his turn 2 attempt to overtake him. Busch retaliated disproportionately and I think 90…

It makes you wonder how differently the race would have ended if Larson had waited for turn 3 to make his move. He raced the hell out of his car, but couldn’t clear Busch. I’m glad Busch wasn’t wrecked, but boy did he return the favor. Busch didn’t push...he shoved Larson on turn 3 and I’m not sure how many drivers…

I think you’re misunderstanding my point and are focusing on the idea that an Integra is not an expensive car. We’re talking about a used Integra Type R with 58K miles that sold at auction for $40K. How else would you explain it? Who do you think is bidding on these cars? We aren’t talking about craiglist here,…

I think what’s happening here is that folks who were fans of the car way-back-then have the financial means to buy the car they once wanted. In the ITR case, imagine a college student in the late 90s coveting the Integra but couldn’t buy the car with zero income and a negative net worth due to student loans. 20…

Generally I would say no because there are probably much better ways to make use of that money. However, there are few circumstances when you might want to spring for a bigger downpayment such as a better mortgage rate (only if the extra cash is marginal...don’t spent too much to get a lower rate) or if you’re in a…

Doesn’t the tax-collector win? Higher price means higher tax revenues. I figure the same happens with the rise in wages too. More employer taxes and more tax collected from the wage earner. Damn, I’m cynical.

I’ve contemplate buying a black Z4 coupe and replacing the rear BMW emblem with a Batman logo.   I think the Z4 makes a pretty decent Batmobile for the poorman.

It’s nice to know what you can afford so that you can aim to spend less than that and live more comfortably. I really hate to see people buy more than they really need only to get sacked with a higher mortgage payment, higher insurance premiums, higher property taxes, higher furnishings expenses, and higher…

I like a challenge and wanted to take you up on saying this has nothing to do with racism, but that’s impossible to do. Can we all accept that his happens more than we’d like to admit, much less accept the thinly-veiled micro-aggressions are more numerous, harder to prove, and are arguably more damaging?

Some friends of our visited us for the week and the night before their flight I took them out for some of delicious fish tacos (Taco Tuesday) and salmon poke. They liked the poke so much that they bought and extra 1/2 pound of it for their flight the next day.  Sure it’s marinated in lovely ingredients such as soy…

I’m not sure why it is but I’ve noticed that female admins in their late 30s-early 50s really over-apply perfume. My theory is that their sense of smell diminishes  around that age and they’re unaware how overpowering they smell.  I have no scientific data to support this, but it’s just an assumption.  But it does…