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  1. strawman

    AMA

    Pft! I wish. You're ranked third among my friends, with an 89% win rate, average word score of 24, and average game score of 373. I'm sitting at 8th place with an average word score of 22 and average game score of 327. I forget who else I was playing with from here that curb stomped me every...
  2. strawman

    AMA

    So far, so good. My oldest two are out of the house, and the youngest recently celebrated her 3rd birthday. We put an Emporia energy monitor on our house, changed some habits based on what we found, and added some solar, cutting our grid energy usage significantly, but not quite in half - about...
  3. strawman

    AMA

    Yo, sup? Tell me what's happened in your life, and AMA before I run off again.
  4. strawman

    Maybe Moving Out. Advice on Mobile Homes?

    Yes, I did the conversion before posting. Remember how crazy it was that CAD > USD during the recession?
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    Maybe Moving Out. Advice on Mobile Homes?

    Mobile homes are not "mobile", though they can be moved very expensively. They are not designed to be moved repeatedly, but manufactured, and then moved into their final location. Mobile comes from Mobile, Alabama, not from the idea that they are movable. They are never - NEVER - a financial...
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    [Contest] Guess the date of Trump's Impeachment!

    We're now well past the halfway point between the @Gruebeard and @MindDetective guesses. If an impeachment vote succeeds any time between now and November 3rd, 2020 @Dave will (probably happily) award $100 to MindDetective.
  7. strawman

    AMA

    :zoid: Ah, yeah, that was a mess! And for that reason, no, I have not. In my workshop it would only ever show its highest and lowest temperatures, though, it's never a comfortable temperature in there. That said, I do look at the thermometer I do have in there quite often, so maybe I should...
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    I've come to beg for monies :(

    I've donated, and for what it's worth it's on my facebook page for today. Good luck! If you were closer I'd help you fix it myself, but the last time I was in Alabama was nearly a decade ago... 1565377771 Ha. Looks like you got that last $350. I'm going to pretend it was because of my...
  9. strawman

    AMA

    - It amuses me. - Probably, but I still don't trust it. The ear thermometer is more accurate than the forehead thermometer. - Still using the Viewsonic PJD7820HD, it's 5 years old now and we've done one bulb replacement. I really messed up and ended up blowing dust into the light engine (not...
  10. strawman

    AMA

    ...it chills me to this day...
  11. strawman

    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    The BSA changed the youth protection training again this spring, so I had to take it again - for the third time in the last two years (once you take it it's supposed to last for two years...). You're not even allowed to email or text a youth without including some other leader or their parent...
  12. strawman

    AMA

    I've not been to the Mesa Arizona Temple, but I have to tell you I'm not a big fan of heat. We have a smaller temple about an hour's drive from home, so there's no particular pull towards that temple, but it is on our list of temples my wife and I would like to visit at some point. It's a...
  13. strawman

    AMA

    Things are going well. I'm enjoying my job and they seem inclined to keep me around, so there's a reasonable bit of job security at the moment. Our eldest son turned 19 and left for a mission. Our second son graduated and is preparing for a high school exchange (5th year of high school for a...
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    Lots of politicians have affairs, and lots of politicians are accused of having affairs. I don't know that it occurs to them with more or less frequency than the general public. But for people who are in the public eye avoiding situations that could be misinterpreted seems like a reasonable...
  15. strawman

    AMA

    I've only been here a little bit today and I'm already stirring the pot in politics. I can't resist the siren song of argument, and even that little participation is already bringing me down. I'm hopeful, but it doesn't seem likely. Certainly not in the near future.
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    [Contest] Guess the date of Trump's Impeachment!

    I'm interpreting it as the date he is actually impeached, as in the house votes and the vote is successful. I don't know that it really matters, though, it seems moot right now. Still, something could happen. Further, it's "closest to" without any under/over rules, so Gruebeard's guess is the...
  17. strawman

    AMA

    I'm here for a day since @Emrys suggested I visit to get all the deets about her new boyfriend. At 9pm EDT I turn back into a pumpkin lurker, so ask me anything over the next few hours.
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    It's not just a short interview: "...shadowing the politician on a 15-hour “ride-along” campaign trip around the state..." Apparently he and his wife made a promise to each other: “Before our decision to run, my wife and I made a commitment to follow the ‘Billy Graham Rule,’ which is to avoid...
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    Former President Trump Thread

    The DoE put the changes into effect one month ago, after announcing them less than six months ago: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-06-10/energy-department-plan-to-reclassify-radioactive-nuclear-waste-spurs-anger The improperly labeled and improperly shipped nuclear...
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    I probably shouldn't even be posting here, but I'm here now so I might as well become the lightning rod. Does your position change if the genders change - say a female politician demanded that a male reporter bring along a female colleague?
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