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    This.   Before you buy stuff, I strongly suggest you get quotes from a couple pro's.  I got insulation installed for less than it would have cost me just for the materials.   I had my floors insulated with R19 bat and R19 equivalent blown into the attic (for a total of R38).  I like walking around the house barefoot and it helped a bit with how cold the floor feels.            My house is the same way.  Every time I undertake some sort of project I find myself staring and something and thinking... Really?  :shake:

      :confused:   A 3D printer capable of producing metal parts to the tolerances needed in a traditional firearm costs somewhere in the $1M-$5M range.

I had a couple friends that tried the Mr. Beer kits in our college dorm rooms...  boy was it horrible!  It must be bad when broke college students who haven't discovered craft beer yet think it's too nasty to drink...   I'd like to home brew, but don't really have the space or the time at the moment.  A couple coworkers have done it a lot and made some really good beers. 

    I like hot sauce, but there's no way I'm trying one that comes with an eye dropper.  Especially when it says "ghost pepper" on the label.  :surrender:

I wonder what the shelf life is on them?  My kids love all sorts of light sources.  They'll turn the lights off and run around the house waving their flashlights and screaming.    It's pretty cute for the first hour or so, after that....   :bored:     They like it when the power goes out because I can't fuss at them for turning the lights off.

Do the eye dominance check and then put a piece of masking tape over the non-dominant eye's lens on her shooting glasses.  Once she gets used to it, you should be able to take the tape off. 

    I recall from a recent demo we saw at Chickamauga, that the demo loads (even with live ammo) are 1/4 to 1/2 the power of a full charge used during the war.  That sound about right?   Given the boom they make at 1/2 power, it's hard to imagine what a whole battery must have sounded like back in the day. 

Just depends on how sensitive your wife is to the weight, noise, and recoil.  If you think she's pretty intimidated and/or apprehensive, I'd start with a .410.  If she likes that, move up to a 20ga, then perhaps move up to a 12ga.  I'm assuming you're talking about skeet, trap, or sporting clays. It is true that .410 and 20ga are harder to find, but you should be able to order target loads for most anything.

The only guns I clean every time are the ones that shoot corrosive ammo. The others I'll inspect and wipe off the crud, but I don't strip them down and do a thorough cleaning. I'm a firm believer that more guns get broken and/or worn out due to obsessive cleaning than obsessive shooting.

I can't figure out how that would be to someone's advantage....?  Just a scam to get money then claim you don't own the property so the property owner has to pay it back?   Is that the scam?  Seems like it would be really difficult to pull that off given all the crap you've got to go through to get a mortgage these days...    :confused:

Looks fine I guess.  Is the 2nd trash can just for extra capacity?   A couple purpose made rain barrels do the same thing without all the plumbing work.    On thing to note... I've got a rain barrel connected to the downspout just like that's shown... and it gets nasty inside.  Cleaning it out isn't the easiest thing either.  There's no way I'd use that water for anything other than watering my plants without considerable treatment (boiling & filtering, etc.).

    A common misconception.  Stop wasting money on interest charges and just pay the bill.  As tanker said, a loan officer will look more closely at your income to potential debt ratio than anything else.  Don't get a card with a huge limit.  If you've got a card with a $30k limit (or 3 $10k cards), that means you could rack up that much debt without the loan officer knowing about it. 

We had carpet and vinyl installed through Lowes a few years ago when we bought our house.  The experience was decidedly "meh".  The only reason I went with Lowes was I had several hundred $$ worth of gift cards.    The carpet guys did an ok job, but I've had to deal with a few frayed edges, more of an annoyance than anything.    The vinyl guys did an ok job as well, except that one of the toilets leaked afterwards.  I called to report the leak and apparently the crew foreman/supervisor came out to fix it (most likely because he was the only one who spoke English)... he was a serious prick.  He spent more time arguing with me about it than it took to just replace the seal and move on.   After I told him as much and went to another room, he started in on my Mom who happened to be there at the time....   :mad:    I said, "look m-f-er... either shut your mouth and fix it or get the F out!"  :bat:   He fixed it an got the F out.  After he left, Mom said.. "Wow, I've never seen you get pissed off like that before."  She never mentioned the F-bombs in her presence, which would've gotten me a major butt whooppin' 10 years prior.    I called Lowes to complain and they told me I wasn't he first to complain about his attitude.  She apologized profusely and said he's sooo fired.  They sent me another $100 gift card by way of an apology. 

*sigh*  I want an AK. I kinda want an -47 because that'd be one less caliber to keep on hand (already have an SKS).  But the low price of -74 ammo makes it quite appealing.  Guess I'll keep saving my pennies.   As for an optic, I'd just put a simple red dot on it, if anything.  I'd also seriously consider changing it to peep sights, but that's just personal preference.  I don't think adding something like an AFG makes it especially "tacti-cool".  You could always just bolt a single rail segment onto the existing fore-grip. 

    The only place I use my debit card is at the ATM.  I don't ever buy anything with it.  The only thing I buy stuff with is a credit card.  At least with that you get a bill before the money's already gone. 

Depends on how big your pocket are.  If you're a big guy, pocket carrying something like a commander sized 1911 isn't out of the question.  If you're not so big, anything much bigger than what you've listed starts to look silly.  I'd try as many as I could get my hands on and pick the one that shoots/feels best.   Whatever you choose, get a proper pocket holster than covers the trigger. 

I've seen a number of those kilts at the various Scottish Highland Festivals  'round these parts.  I don't think I could pull it off either. 

A 105mm howitzer is technically a centerfire cartridge....

They've got a new album out.... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0clL8QLQsrc&feature=m-ch-fea

  FTFY.  :)

I use Speer Gold Dot's in my P3AT, and I need more but haven't found any yet.

    A knife would've worked better than a stick, though the outcome might not change.

    For this tremendous act of bravery, I heard there's a little known clause in the Koran that says he gets 72,000 virgins instead of just 72...   maybe they'll start lining up to follow in his trailblazing footsteps. 

    Video is required.  :)

I used to do really elaborate pumpkins, the more gruesome the better. But when I had kids of my own, I decided some of my creations weren't really appropriate for little kids, so we go with the standard stuff now... Check out this gallery.... http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/mark-ratliff-s-complex-creative-and-cool-pumpkin-carving-1383142264-slideshow/mark-ratliff-pumpkin-carving-photo-1383140169808.html