Recent content by Clone

Here is another deal, if you like the One Touch brand. I had used a predecessor about 6 years ago. I am thinking about doing some more monitoring, because my numbers have started creeping up again. Getting old sucks.

I did not mean any ill intent or implication. Maybe eventually I will just learn to completely sterilize (and then discard) my comments. I am commenting more on the news cycle and the demand for answers where we have no answers. In many cases, the people in the spotlight (on the news) are...

Have you considered a career as a politician? Or perhaps a product spokesman? We would all like to have definitive answers to many questions, and solutions to many of these problems. Unfortunately, there are few quick, easy, and correct answers. But there is demand for folks to claim that they...

We put in a Clearstream 2Max at our winter place. It worked very well. We did put it on the roof. I think this just got a good review in Consumer Reports. We picked it up on clearance at Lowes, which was really odd, because it was not on clearance at a different Lowes a few months later. It...

My son has had Corgis. They get pieces of carrots for treats. And they love them! Years ago, he had a friend of his watching his dog. He got a phone call where the person said "Your dog is flipping out! He is running in circles and doing back flips!" Turns out, the person was making a salad and...

Megacorp has always had a relationship with AON for medicare recommendations. I suspect they are like any of the other medicare counselor companies where they get some type of commission for signing folks up with a specific company. But the retiree group from megacorp seems to be enamored with...

We have started looking at plans as well. Here is a website put out by the State of Iowa that discusses what all is involved. It has a lot of good information, and is not a sales pitch for any specific entity. So I thought, how about just doing a google on 'SHIIP Arizona'. And here comes a...

We currently have an SUV and a pickup. Both are relatively new, and in recent years the number of miles we drive each year have dropped significantly. But the distribution is certainly bi-modal. We are either driving around town, or we are road tripping 500 miles one-way or 1400 miles one way...

That, apparently, only I understand the exact perfect scheme for claiming social security. Qualification: For myself.

And semantics matter. We follow a couple states. One in particular, always took a hit because it was not mandated that the schools be closed. Yet- all of the colleges shut down mid -March, and K-12 did the same. But because they did this because of a decision by the board of regents rather than...

Leave the sun visors down? That is what they did at a local water park.

I put a roll up cover on mine. I just haul things too frequently where the top needs to be open. Or where I need to get up in there to load stuff or find stuff. It does flop a bit when going fast down the interstate, but not too bad. This last pickup that I bought had a sprayed in liner from the...

It seems to me that having a band of demons join in would be a disqualifying act in a fiddlin' contest.

Repaired a rock chip on the windshield of the SUV. Used the Rain-X repair kit from Amazon. Very pleased with the results. There is enough resin for several more repairs, so I will definitely take it to Arizona with us. It had probably been 20 years since I had a chipped windshield, and then we...

Just shooting from the hip here- but depending on your tax status, and if you make charitable deductions, you could open a DAF and get a deduction for that. Also, if you have made any IRA withdrawals in the last 60 days, you could reverse those and deposit them back. I thought some of that 60...