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Is there any way to tell in advance which gates your flight will be using? I flew through Hong Kong a few years ago - my flight deplaned at Gate 3 and my connecting flight was at Gate 69!

Two suggestions: the Pilot G-Tec C gel pens come in a “hyperfine” 0.28 version and come in a variety of colors. You can also try the Pentel Arts Slicci pens in 0.25. I think they sell these in a color variety pack.

I have used fountain pens for years but it’s hard to get the extra-fine nibs I like to use. You also need good quality paper for them otherwise the result is a mess—he paper absorbs too much ink and blots. Plus, really good pens (like those made by Sailor of Japan) can run into many hundreds of dollars.

I think Credit Karma shows you total debt as well - or at least it shows you how much outstanding you have on each account. Note that this figure is usually NOT up to date (it depends on when each account gets reported).

Yeah, agreed about the EnerGel. I love it. Now if they’d only fill the refills all the way instead of only putting ink up to the two-birds mark in them I’ll be happy. To be honest, though, it seems the broader the point the more ink is in the refill (I use a fine point).

I’ve noticed that over the past year or so ball pens and gel pens have less ink in them so they get used up faster. I suppose millennials whose only use for a pen is to sign a credit card slip wouldn’t notice but older people like me who use pens for actual writing find it annoying as hell. One pen I like to use…

I chose my Equifax account on Saturday but come to think of it I want asked for any payment information then. Now I’m wondering if I was actually at the Equifax site or some scam site made up to look like it! Brrr...

Except that now Experian and TransUnion are demanding registered snail mail applications for credit freezes, with no guarantee they’ll agree to freeze your account even if you do so.

Lock & Lock airtight containers. Probably overkill for most people but I wouldn’t use anything else. Plus, they come in such a wide variety of sizes that they find use all over the house. They even have airtight ice cube trays which I absolutely love.

Lock & Lock airtight containers. Probably overkill for most people but I wouldn’t use anything else. Plus, they come…

Did the study control for the amounts of pizza available? Bet they didn’t! That’s the biggest determining factor in how much enjoyment I experience.

I’ve been trying to put a freeze on my credit record since Friday. Managed to do it on Equifax but Experian and TransUnion refuse to accept my info but won’t say why. I can’t even pull my credit report because TransUnion keeps resetting the connection and blowing me off the site. What a mess. All three bureaus should…

Shit, I can’t even get my free annual credit report because TransUnion keeps resetting the connection and knocking me off the site.

I doze at Equifax but Experian and TransUnion are refusing to accept my information and neither will tell me why. I think I’m going to cancel all my credit cards and go back to cash.

The second one I got, I was in the hospital for unexplained anemia. The prep was this stuff called GoLytely (what a name!) It wasn’t bad but you had to drink a gallon of it, I kid you not. The nurse came in with two thirty-two ounce glasses of the stuff, and I’d barely finished one when she came back with two more. I…

“what is left after ‘catastrophic’ damage?”

For the past five or six years I’ve bought unlocked phones rather than carrier-locked ones. But I never buy NEW phones. I stay a generation behind. It saves me a couple of hundred dollars every time. The only time I ever bought a current-generation phone was this last time and that was to get away from that bedamned…

Trump can’t see the distinction between North and South Korea. To him they’re all one and the same. North Korea threatening nuclear war? “I’ll cut off trade with South Korea. That’ll learn ‘em!”

Almost makes me think the Navy should have been building ships with battleship-class steel armor plating instead of aluminum hulls. Seeing how easily these ships get holed doesn’t exactly fill one with confidence in their survivability in a real battle.

Nolan, meet Trump. May you be happy together tapping your way up the stairs with your white canes.