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  1. Brine on the roads has got to be one of the biggest wastes of taxpayer money.

    Take the snow on Wednesday. They put brine down everywhere, even the side streets were covered with white streaks. Within FIFTEEN minutes of the snow starting to fall, roads were littered with cars slipping and sliding. Within a half-hour, gridlock in metro, Cool Springs and Franklin was all but shut down and the temperature when it all hit? 30°F.

    Yes, the snow melted quickly yesterday when the sun came out, but it melted exactly the same time on my sidewalks and patio as it did on my street that was covered in brine.

    I have thought this was the case with previous snows, but seriously paid attention this time. Why do they keep doing it if it really doesn't help?

    Just like the weather guys get kickbacks from Kroger when they forcast snow, the car wash guys probably give kickbacks to DOT for making everybodies car dirty... :D:P:D

  2. BTW, if I knew I had a 28 gallon tank and drove into a station and filled up with 30 gallons(including the neck) I would not be buying more gas there as I would suspect their pumps of being wrong. I would assume you had at least half gallon of gas driving in, the Neck from the time you get the first auto turn off of a pump you do good to get in another half gallon in most cases. However sounds like you probably have a big truck, probably a long neck on it, but it probably already has gas in the neck when it is kicking off the first time.

    02 Ford F250 Crew 7.3 Diesel

    Diesel foams when agitated so when the pump first kicks off, if you go slow and fill until it won't hold anymore, it will hold another 5 gallons or so, especially if you rock it front to back and "burp" the tank. As far as the 28 vs. 30 and pump accuracy, I thought about that but that has happened in more than one station, in multiple states.

  3. What's even worse is if you have one of those "Miles until empty" displays. I've had mine down to 4 once..................:D

    I supposedly have a 28 gallon tank but regularly put in ~ 30. I do, however, fill my filler neck until it won't hold anymore without spilling it.

    On a related point, you would be surprised reading after crash reports in the aviation world how many crashes resulted from fuel exhaustion. I guess we all have a little gambler in all of us :P

  4. Ray Ban quite making my favorite dress glasses in the frame size that I like.

    I've run into the same thing. Wonder whats up with Ray Ban. They used to be the cats meow........ :):cool:

    I had a set back in high school that I wish I still had. Were reflective that had a little darker tint on the top and bottom edge. That and the wrap around ear piece. Dummy me lent them out to a chick and that was the last I saw of them. Was soon there after discontinued. :cry:

  5. Well, remembering what my dad told me, use peanut oil because it is more temperature tolerant. Some of the lesser oils when just barely overtemped will smoke, he said.

    All kinds of injectable marinades out there, so you might have to get a couple of turkeys before then to "try" some out and perfect your technique before being on the center stage on Thanksgiving.

    My dad also created a filter to filter the oil when ready to break the setup down. Makes oil last/taste better longer if all the little cracklins that naturally come off during cooking are filtered out before storage. He made the filter out of 4" PVC pipe and it uses a paper towel for the filter element. Edit: He also said something about storing the oil in a light resistant package, like the original jug in the box because light breaks the oil down. I don't know how he figured that out.

    I've got to figure all that out for myself now cause he passed this last Easter and I'll be the one responsible for getting it done. It sucks having to try and figure out stuff that a mechanical engineer whom graduated from GA Tech in the early 50's doped out cause I ain't that smart...........

  6. I've used these before. Not that strenuous to use. It does most of the work, you just guide it along...............unless you have large rocks. Even then, if you can get the direct bury cable mentioned above and get it some depth with the trencher, it might be easier than you think. The labor you have to exert is pushing the dirt back in the trench, which is much easier than actually digging the trench.

    The Home Depot Tool Rental - Trencher

  7. I have no idea about debt limitations. I am a very occasional listener to Dave Ramsey/Clark Howard and here is what I have absorbed in relation to this. Again, I am no expert and would advise you to seek "professional" advise, like a CPA maybe............

    I think that you are correct in that in a certain time period, the original debt is written off as bad debt and sold off for pennies on the dollar to a collector who then will use every tactic they can think of to see if they can't make some money from you. If I were in this situation, I would go back to the original holder of the debt and get info to see what it is. If its legit, you might try to settle out of it...........or not, depending on what it is and for how much, etc. If it is a committed collector, they can continue to report it to your credit report within every 7 years and it will stay on there. If they report it once and forget it, it will go off the report in 7 years.

    It could be a mistake and they have somebody who has a smiliar name to your wife. When it gets this far, they grasp at any shread of info and start blasting with large cannons, right or wrong. To correct them and get them to cease fire is a real pain. If they do report it to the credit report and it is in error, you can write the credit reporting agencies and dispute it. The collector then has a certain time frame to prove their case or it comes off the report.

    Hope that helps some and somebody much smarter than me will be along here very soon, I'm sure.

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