This is how Hyundai also gamed the system - cook the coastdown to impact the emissions/FE testing.

I can’t remember the last wedding I was at that didn’t have chicken fingers and Mac-n-cheese for the kids.  Now if that was what everyone was getting I’d be amused...

We have two girls and can resonably expect weddings in the next 5-10 years. I have been clear as they grew up - we have saved since they were born to provide a decent college eductaion. We have not created a second fund to pay for weddings.

The electirc truck maket will be dominated by the established names. Tesla and Nikola are being talked about with a prototype or two. The current industry manufacturers are already into fleet sized field trials with advanced powertrain designs. These are companies with established manufacturing, service, sales, and eng…

One college eductaion in a field which will (hopefully) result in them moving out eventually

I’ll be 50 in 2 months. Suddenly I’m viewed as the older generation that can’t handle the internet!?

This idiot will be perfect for the job. He showed up in Cincinnati after walking out in the middle of dinner with recruits at Texas Tech. He hired assistants from the bottom of the bottom of the list. Delegated every task imaginable and spent more time talking about golf than football. Cratered the football team in 4…

We had a amusing issue with hiding a wifi name at the office.

30 years ago we discussed getting an engagement ring. To me it was simply an old tradition but to her it was something more tangible in the process. She wasn’t shallow or vain but getting the ring was in her mind step xx in getting married. It was important to her so it was important to me and we bought a ring. Not…

Good luck to your son.

That happens to be my wife’s birthday. I can only imagine the look on her face when I treat her to free bacon to celebrate.

All testing is a simulation of real-world activities. The EPA tests are designed to cover a wide variety of engine operating conditions while the C&D test is designed around a single operating point. Interesting but not surprising. Had the C&D test been run at 65 instead of 75 mph the result would have been different.

I learned this week that my wife does not put butter in the Kraft Mac&Cheese?! This explains why sometimes it tastes great and other times it tastes like bleh.

The vacation cap is 80?! That seems pretty low and I can understand why you’re up against the limit. We max at 240 vacation here with unlimited sick. Sick accural is fixed regardless of position or length of service. Vacation accural is length of service and position dependent.

I’m in that same situation with my vacation days at THE state university I work for. I have a seperate sick day account. Do you have seperate accounts or are they lumped together?

Sounds like these two must be cousins or something! We could probably make a cookbook of idiot food.

One of my college roommates insisted we calculate sq. in./$ when ordering pizza. His motivation was all pizza is esentially the same therefore let’s save some $.

My daughter said the #1 problem in sororities at THE giant Midwestern state university she attends is coke. It’s really really cheap and available right now.  

Read the first 3 books while in grad school. I’ve been done for a long time and managed to pay off my student loan and still waiting for him to finish the books.

My mom has always joked that if my dad dies first she plans to have his ashes in her purse at all times. She will leave a pinch everyplace he never wanted to go - dancing, broadway shows, expensive resturants, etc.