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Wine of choice around here for entertaining: CMS Red by Hedges (cab, merlot, syrah). Just a darn good drinking wine, $10 at Costco. Highly recommended. Hedges Family Estate: Our Wines, CMS by Hedges - Stoop

One other note on freezing beans... a pressure cooker is your friend. I keep a gallon ziploc for each: red, pinto, black beans in the freezer. I rotate through each and cook as needed. Simple pressure cooker recipe: Soak dry beans overnight. Drain. Add to pressure cooker, cover with...

A couple recommendations (that've worked for me) in re: exercise/diet regime: Dr Ellington Darden's work ( drdarden.com ) on High Intensity Training (weights), saves me mucho workout time and his diet plan is supremely easy to follow -- many articles on his site and his books are often...

NKDude: I have never run a restaurant, so please take following as semi-informed advice (I've built and run a $5m company & started 6 businesses -- 4 successful, 2 crash and burns). Quickees: - one or both of you simply must have experience in the restaurant business. It's a surprisingly...

One I've been meaning to try: Mario Batali's Pizza Dough: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/travel/escapes/17pizza.html?ref=escapes And a little about his outdoor pizza oven (also meaning to try....) For Mario Batali, It’s Molto Michigan - New York Times

duh Stoop, read the thread before posting -- NYT train operators repost

JB: Close to pulling trigger on the 1000h as well. My Acer lappie's about to bite the dust (2 good years, big screen, nice desktop replacement, but just 1 hr battery life [ouch]) Reviews on NewEgg for 1000h are dang good. Newegg.com - ASUS Eee PC 1000H 80G – Fine Ebony NetBook Intel Atom...

Sarah: A few months back, did some research for my nephew who is self-motivated, but college-funds-lacking. I found the ebook by Gary North, "AFFORDABLE ACCREDITED COLLEGES: An Unconventional Guide for Self-Funded Students" pretty helpful and passed it along to my nephew. North talks about...

Pete: Interesting product. As I too was curious, did a wee bit of googling. How to make a fireplace grate blower?? How to make a fireplace grate blower?? - DoItYourself.com Community Forums Black galv pipe seemed to work on his project -- after [very important] 'burn off'. Particularly like...

From ResellerRatings Email Alert & Forums today: $369: Circuit City, Compaq Presario F755US http://www.resellerratings.com/forum/rr-homepage-deals/135308-compaq-f755us-dual-core-15-4-notebook-380-ar.html Closeout, AR, YMMV. I'd likely go with Dell as above, but if price is the sole factor --...

TheFed: Apologies... reread my missive and sho-nuff, does sound like franchise. Not what I was getting at. (and like you, I'd avoid headaches and cost of franchising) By way of example: Sam Beckford's Successful Studio Strategies (not affiliated in any way, just a nice example.) Husband...

... what they said. A bit over-complicated and partners are not a lot of fun (from experience). Another option? Create a business manual describing your processes. License it (at a high premium) in areas where you do not operate. Test market via Craigslist (business category). "Duct...

Autozone is a good choice. Isn't one near me, so I read codes (unfortunately, often) via a wee OBDII code reader I got from HarborFreight.com -- $40 or so. Works nice and beats the $99 the stealership likes to charge. Also can delete/reset service notices and check engine light, though if...

Also intrigued by those tiny places and aghast at $45k price tag. Better yet, so-called Katrina Cottages (conceived to replace FEMA trailers). One architect has the plans for sale & materials provided by Lowes. $55 a sq ft-ish for materials. Some nice plans, actually. Cusato Cottages...

Laurencewill: > Are timeshares even worth it on the retail market? Again, I'm biased (see disclosures above). Retail timeshares worth it? Mostly, no. You'll find those same Hawaii timeshares on the resale market for much (much) less. Check out the Timeshare User's Group ( tug2.net ) --...