BigK

I'm blessed to work from home, so my commuting days are behind me. My 6 year old Jeep Wrangler JKU only has 42K miles as a result. Weather permitting I prefer 2 wheels as well. In fact, I put more miles on the old Vespa I picked up last summer than I put on my Jeep all year long. I bet my other bike (2012 Yamaha Super Tenere) thinks I don't love her anymore.

sending to everyone I can think of

Every time I watch this video, I think of the old homestead where my Granny and Grandpa used to live.

The Double Filet o Fish is my go-to menu item at McD's. Ignorance is bliss, so I don't wanna know what goes in a McRib, but they're delicious.

I've tried a bunch of times to build a lightweight AR, but I have favorite parts/components that I won't live w/out. Then I see the prices on the pencil thin barrels that I don't even like. Then I realize if rifle is too light I'll want buy a really expensive trigger to compensate for the weight. By the time I'm done refusing those compromises I wind up at 8 or 9 pounds anyway, LOL. I think what puts me off from seeing the lightweight build through is that in an ultralight 5.5lb AR the polymer lower saves less than 10% in weight. Somewhere in between, like a 7lb rifle that weight savings is only 7% and I don't have a use-case that justifies the cost to save that much weight.

On the way home from church, I asked my wife reckon why there's so many cars parked at our neighbor's house. She told me it's the super bowl.

Maybe I'm also an a-hole, but when I'm asleep in my bed, I am not going to wake up and join the search. Therefore I put my phone on DoNotDisturb on a schedule for 8 hours every night. I'm not offended by them in any way, but I sleep poorly enough as it is, so it can wait til morning. I don't need to add my phone to the list of things that wake me up from a sound sleep. I check the alerts right away the next morning and throughout the day to see if I need to be on the lookout or not though.

He was part of an era that first turned me into a country music fan. I am a big fan and thought he was a heckuva good dude.

I see where you're coming from for sure, but we had to resort to looking outside our geographic area to find qualified candidates and we couldn't hire them based on Nashville wages and we had to fill the position...capitalism in perfect form.

I agree, but I have 4X the experience as him and can code circles around him, but he gets paid about the same as me because of the labor market where he lives.

I've seen some of my co-workers in IT do it right and do it wrong. One guy moved from Nashville to Phoenix and stayed with the same company, working remotely and taking a beating for 2 years before he finally got a local job that paid enough to cover the increased cost of living. I saw another co-worker do it smarter. He get hired in Nashville and moved to a cabin in the woods and made a killing on the cost of living change. Another got hired remotely and is paid a lot because he lived in Miami, then he moved to KY. The company tried to cut his pay based on his new cost of living and he said never mind, he'd stay in Miami. A little while later he moved to KY and didn't tell them. LOL He just changed his address in our payroll app and never told HR he moved.

If it is the same quality (assuming both are decent quality), I'm still paying the 10% to help Mary Sue in TN have a job vs. some third grader in Zingzang Factory No. 38. I think the spirit of what Mike Rowe was saying is that all things being equal will you pay more just to avoid imported goods, right? You won't get a skilled US worker with a strong work ethic to build something that's only 10% that it costs to be made in China and shipped halfway around the world, right?

I couldn't agree more. I actually do care, but not enough to even do the legwork, let alone pay more on purpose. I'm not proud of that, just being honest.

Most folks I know would say this doesn't describe them, but I wouldn't be surprised if these stats don't describe most of the country. What do you think? True?

My step brother and I got into a scuffle one day and my step dad sent us out to get 2 short peach tree limbs and one long one. He said, "y'all wanna fight, get after it until I say stop." The long one was for him when we just stood there not wanting to hit each other, he used it for motivation.

I can almost hear the faxtones.

You could always tell who cut tobacco in HS, we'd come to school w/ matching stained hands. LOL

My first bike came from Western Auto. I thought I was the king of the road.

I can't believe my granny and grandpa didn't get kidney stones. You could see the hard water stains on all the sinks, tub, and toilet tank.

My grandpa finally dug a well and had an electric pump put in, but it was sulfur water. The well the porch of his house was built around had good drinking water and we used that kind of bucket to draw water. I was about 10 when they got a real toilet instead of that pot to piss in. LOL

Can you imagine seeing them try to figure out how to use one of these nowadays? LOL

We had Green Stamps when I was a kid. I remember the IGA Foods near my house always had a display set up w/ empty books and a big catalog tied down on a cord to look at to see what you'd buy.

The only thing I saw that corroborated anything they said was when they assaulted him at the traffic stop and he ran for his life, stripping off his outer shirt to lose the probes. I strongly stress that it was clear what they intended to do to him and he was literally running for his life. The rest of what the cops said is complete BS.

I've only heard of those on military vehicles, maybe I'm just not as old as I feel LOL

How about real women and good TV, no reality shows?