A friend of mine is a commercial pilot. He did it the hard way. Started by spending a lot of his college money on getting his pilot’s license and enough hours to get his instructor’s license. He worked two jobs, UPS and at the airport, while trying to finish a degree in engineering. He kept flying as much as he could,…

You are preaching to the choir. I’m footing the bill for six degrees (three for me, three for my wife). We make a decent living, but the loans are outrageous. Still, we can afford a modest home and some privileges for our kids. Without the degrees, we’d be making much less and still have student loans.It’s a matter of…

You gotta pay to play....

Adventures in towing - yes, everyone should have a few. I’ve pulled large things over long distances with a variety of small trucks numerous times over the years. While I’ve never had a problem with a trailer, I’ve had my fair share of problems with the tow vehicles. The worst was when my fully-laden truck decided to…

I wish I had more stars to give. This exactly sums up my experience riding (and getting thrown from) a pair of these beasts this summer. A friend of mine owns two waverunners, one relatively tame one and one rip-your-face-off-and-feed-it-to-you supercharged monster of a machine. Both were a blast to ride, but as you…

It would only be done to roosters and it would be called a capon, but there’s a better way to deal with wayward fowl.

You can tell the city folk from the country folk commenting on this article. The city folk don’t know the difference between emasculation and castration . In the former, he loses the twig and berries, in the latter it’s just the berries.

The only answer.

Compared to what was available in the ‘70s, those tires are probably far better than what came on it new.

I know that lady! She came out to yell at us for parking too close to her house. We parked at the end of the curb before the sign that clearly states “No Parking Beyond Sign”.

I drive my WRX harder than what I saw on the video just about every day. After it was wrecked and repaired, I asked the Subaru dealership to go over it with a fine-toothed comb and to make sure someone drove it hard so they could catch any strange suspension or driveline problems before I accepted it back as repaired.

“...many people with whom I have varying degrees of closeness to assumed that my moving—before I mentioned I was going anywhere—would be with my significant other.”

2. Run-flat seats

Add a trailer and it’s a homebrew version of one of these:

It seems that being brilliant and being a bit off go hand in hand. As I’ve always said, if you are in the tail on a bell curve in intelligence, you are probably out in the tail in other ways. Frank’s music makes it clear he is waaaaaaay out in the tail.

I chose to believe the claim as truth, but it doesn’t change how shocked I am to hear it. Have you listened to his music? If he wasn’t on drugs, there was something wrong with him.

I never really understood the fascination with Frank Zappa. I’m shocked to hear that he didn’t use drugs because the only people I knew who listened to him, did use drugs.

With all the drive-through daiquiri shops we have down here, you’d think that it would be legal to drive drunk, but that isn’t the case.

It wasn’t her car. She may not have know how to open the top.