You should really edit that headline since the Merchant Marines and the U.S. Marine Corp. are two different things with the latter usually being referred to as “Marines”.

The retail style u-pick apple orchards get overrun during picking season around here so I’ll probably have to go without unless I can talk someone in to going up there mid-week. The last time I tried to spend a calm relaxing fall day picking apples I sat in traffic for an hour. 

It’s not a unique situation. Carl’s Jr. and Hardees are similar. 

The commercial huckleberry pickers have a reputation of using devices that destroy the bush while stripping the berries so I’m not a big fan of big corporations using huckleberries, besides they usually just throw in some tiny pieces and call it good. Dealing with the terrain, biting flies, mosquitos, and underbrush…

While we don’t go to O’ahu, the only we’ve ever had is being stuck in a vehicle that we didn’t want. We went to the Big Island not long after Hawaii opened for tourists again in Feb. 2021 and got put in a Tahoe which was nice but too big, and we went to Maui in February this year and got Rogue which is a Nissan and…

Money laundering in racing? I’ve never heard such an outrage!

Oh god, is that a conversation pit? 

But just for one buyer.

I’m thinking 1942-45 might have been worse. There were no cars and no parts at all. 

I’ve read that the test screenings did not go well, but it’s been well documented that test screenings are far from infallible. 

My Epcot visit was when I was stationed in Orlando on a Navy base that hasn’t existed in a long, long time now. Epcot in 1985, at least for me, consisted of visiting a few things (getting stuck at the top of the big golf ball planetarium was a highlight) and then drinking around the world. In other words, I got…

It’s very important. During last year’s PNW heatwave (110 ain’t normal around here) our AC died and the main floor was miserable but the basement was still very livable due to the insulation factor of good old earth added to the regular stuff.

We’re regulars at our local Mexican place and have come to know the servers and owner pretty well so when we go it’s like visiting friends. They also tend to make our drinks, let’s just say on the strong side. Sometimes a little too strong, though of course we don’t complain. 

50 year olds are not boomers. We are GenX and we would rather not get in the middle of your fights. Please just continue to ignore us as we lead our lives.

I got being dumped by a woman I really liked. I hit the road with no destination in mind and ended up going over the North Cascades highway. The absolutely gorgeous scenery and the great driving over both Sherman pass and the NC highway cleared my mind and by the time I hit Anacortes and dipped my toes in the water I…

The picture seems to be of a cordless mower while the description reads corded. Big difference. 

The picture seems to be of a cordless mower while the description reads corded. Big difference. 

I hope that TPTB are satisfied now that all of the sites are now just listicle generators. Seems to be 80% of content now.

Your bourbon definition needs some tweaking. Not only is the part about the proof wrong but it doesn’t mention that the barrels must be new oak. 

Teaching the basics of money does nothing to help people who are desperate. They are poor, they aren’t fucking stupid. Most of them know what’s up, but they don’t feel they have a choice. They are grasping at straws with the hope that somehow they can pay it off in time. Allowing people to prey on that desperation is…

Fuck and No. I started working on my grandfather’s dairy farm every summer starting at age 12. I have no fucking desire to play farmer even if it doesn’t involve stacking haybales, cow shit, or fencing pliers.