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Our decade+ old Costco-purchased Crock Pot brand slow cooker is still working fine. However, I've bought a few newer kitchen gadgets and find the reviews on America's Test Kitchen to be pretty useful...

I've done several A:B comparative listening sessions and sadly, am now to the point where I cannot reliably distinguish between Spotify's highest tier and full high-resolution audio (conducted with very good audio gear - which has since been sold off). That's the result of decades of being...

Old Forester Birthday Bourbon on the top shelf (where it belongs). I’ve looked for this frequently and NEVER have seen a bottle in person. Congratulations on the find…

Bourbon. Dailies are either an Old Forester 1920 or a Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Barrel Select. Most evenings, I’ll sip on an ounce of one of these, but for special occasions, there’s some interesting bourbons in the cabinet.

Typically, I give the butler, my valet, our pilots, the chef and his staff, my personal assistant, the maids, both captains, and our tennis instructor and golf pro each a crisp new twenty dollar bill right before Christmas. But seriously, remember those who give you good service throughout the...

We have two Samsung smart TV’s and only use their “smartness” to integrate with Alexa which, when told “Alexa, Goodnight”, turns everything off except the outside landscaping lights. For streaming, we use an Apple TV in the Family Room and a Roku Ultra in the Master Bedroom. Since Apple has...

I have Camelcamelcamel set to alert me to *any* price drops - and I get pinged at irregular intervals - typically in the middle of the night. By the time I go to the site, the price has jumped back up to the original price (or frequently higher). I think it’s Amazon’s way to drive more traffic...

Hey Murf - thanks for asking this. While I don’t have an answer for you, I am in almost exactly the same boat minus 1 year, so will have to deal with the same issue next year. I’ll be watching the responses you get carefully.

I’ve got 3: main desktop was built in 2016-2017 and is running an i7-7700k Kaby-Lake processor (32GB RAM, (2) 2TB SSD’s) and thus, not eligible for any Win 11 upgrade. It’s my daily driver and runs anything I throw at it. Laptop is a 2015-2016 Dell XPS13 with an i7-65?? Skylake CPU (16GB RAM...

Thank you for posting this. Coincidentally, this almost exactly mirrors my personal experience…right down to the age and Gleason score. My PSA score that raised concern was 5.3, three months later it had increased to 7.19 then, when I had my procedure five months later, 8.5. Without those PSA...

In my Porsche days, this is exactly what I did - bought the same model that the Mfg was rebadging. Kept the battery in great shape all winter long because it does more than just charge. These days, I’m down to one (1) car, but kept the charger - just used it on the wife’s truck and it still...

There are several new car dealers between me and my local Costco (about 10 miles each way). Yesterday on a shopping run, I drove slowly and looked at the various makes to “see what I could see”. Keep in mind, there’s Porsche, Ferrari, MB, BMW, Audi, Range Rover, Chevrolet, Toyota, GM, Nissan...

I was with USAA for brokerage, insurance and banking until about seven years ago, when I moved the brokerage and banking to Schwab. About three years ago, I moved the insurance from USAA to Amica. Regarding the change from USAA to Schwab - we’ve been very happy with the level of service we’ve...

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I have about 30-40 CD’s that were ripped a long time ago to ALAC, and are stored on my computer and synced to my iPhone. I can play them either in the car via Bluetooth or at home on Sonos, and include some rare recordings that are not on iTunes Music, Spotify, etc. Sometimes, I really like...