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Bikeguy

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    USPS

    Did they deliver the mail on Thursday? I'm betting no. So how far away is the local branch office? That may be the short term solution. Our mail (mostly junk mail) and packages from time to time, are getting delivered.
  2. I don't have cookies hanging around very long.. I eat them. Kind of like this.
  3. Yeah it was 58 today. 26 degrees above normal. One week ago the high of the day was 4. Rain tonight... then 41 tomorrow. Still above normal.
  4. Time will tell... I sure hope you are correct. The estimate is 2108 cars are being recalled. Call it $30K per car, (unless you paid over MSRP) plus taxes, etc.. That's about $67 million. That's a drop in GM's bucket. BUT... some VP etc... could try to ' minimize their 'risk'... The blow back for a bad decision could be even more costly.
  5. Dealerships were made aware of the recall on December 14 and owners will be notified from February 6, 2023. Dealers will inspect the right-hand and left-hand side of the vehicle’s motor rail for an incomplete weld. Interestingly, subject vehicles will not be repaired and GM will instead repurchase them from owners. This will end poorly.... How much will they pay for the 'buy back' price? I'm sure it won't be MSRP. There will be some kind of market price paid. Then what about some people who will still owe more money than the car is worth on their car loan?
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    High Anxiety

    So you live in a state that inspects your car? I'm sure glad they don't do that were I live. Closer to Chicago they are in an EPA zone that requires emission testing every 2 years.
  7. When I worked... I also had a small sponge in the car. It would soak up the water. I'd use the sponge to get the water out of the car from time to time.
  8. You do know tires need to look like this. And not like this.
  9. We have hiked there.
  10. Ok... I'd suggest finding what other places you want to visit for your vacation. Then select a location to stay. For example... if you want to visit some stuff near Colorado Springs, find a place south of Denver. That would make the drive shorter for the vacation stops.. but longer for the games. It all depends on where you want to visit.
  11. Yeah... My brother and his friends did all they could one day to increase the odds of getting hit by lighting on a golf course. They saw the storm... did they quit and go back to the club house. Nope... they kept playing. He told me ALL off his hair, head, neck, arms, etc... was rising up. They hit the deck and hoped for the best. It was close..
  12. For those of us who still have a car with a spare tire, don't forget to fill that with winter air too. I need to do that tomorrow. That's where I have purchased most of my tires. I don't get there anymore for the free air or tire rotations. It's 60 miles away... nope not driving that far for winter air. When I worked it was on the way home. I'll just use my air compressor.
  13. It depends... In the summer, I'll wear cargo shorts. The phone will be in one of the cargo pockets. In the winter, in the pocket of my flannel shirt. On in the chest pocket in my North Face jackets. Now on a hike we got (Christmas gifts this year) water bottle carrier that also has a pocket for keys, and a cell phone.
  14. At our old home WoBG started feeding the feral cats. The front porch was open and covered. I called it the cat smorgasbord. I got to power wash the concrete porch about 4 times a year. Most of the time we had several cats outside. The record was 12 or 13. In the winter the got a shelter with heated beds and a heated water bowl. I'm allergic to cats. So they never got to live inside. Two of our dogs were rescued off of our road. They were dumped on the road. Each year... some of the cats had kittens. Yeah we had lots of cats.
  15. The Cubs just won the World Series.
  16. it could be worse.... you could have stopped at White Castle. And... no you won't die today.
  17. and duct tape. I'm a visual leaner and I'm a geek. I just had a difficult time understanding sentence diagrams. I survived English classes. After WoBG and I were married.. I found out she she could diagram any sentence. I had NO idea what she was talking about most of the time. We soon agreed on the division of labor when it came to helping our daughter when she was in school. I was the math, physics, tech tutor. WoBG was English, reading, and writing.
  18. That will do it. Blowing, drifting, more snow... I've dug out the snow at our old home, and less than an hour later.. it was like I didn't do anything. It appears there were lots of power outages too. News from 3 days ago. https://buffalonews.com/news/local/more-than-37-000-customers-without-power-in-erie-niagara-counties/article_6168c4d6-83a5-11ed-84c8-bf6c6bafcf64.html The wind and power lines and trees don't always get along very well. You don't even need trees to fall over into the power lines. Some wind storms are strong enought to blow the lines over. And then it can get worse.. Wind can cause galloping power lines, and they tend to self destruct if this happens. If the storm started with rain, and that starts freezing on power lines, and it gets windy, with the wind in the correct direction, power lines can start to gallop. And that's not a good thing. Too much movement, is a bad thing, too much stress, and things start to fail. I've seen transmission lines gallop like this. I was just amazed they didn't fall over. Lower voltage power lines can start to gallop too. Just the weight of the ice on the power lines is bad too. I glad I retired...
  19. Management always wants more productivity from the workforce. At least we are good at posting drivel.
  20. There must be 2 (or 3) cases of beer in my garage walk in cooler. With all of the recent cold weather. the garage is now 38 degrees.
  21. It could be worse... You could start a tread and prove to everyone you can no longer read, and geography has been ignored. Been there and just did that.
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