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    2024 Umbrella Policy costs

    $470 for 1m.
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    Electric Vehicles - Models Discussion

    How is Tesla handling FSD if you get a speeding ticket? Are you responsible for the car exceeding the speed limit or is Tesla? I ask this because on our current cross country trip, we have passed through several speed traps where Google claimed the speed limit was 65, or 55, or some number...
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    Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

    It was pretty close to perfect in Cape Girardeau, MO. We had a tad over 4 min of totality and clear sunny sky. This was my first total eclipse and WOW. I did not expect the sunset in every direction either, that was very cool. We are already back in our hotel in TN, took about 2 hours to...
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    Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

    We are in Cape Girardeau, MO. Sunny skies, a few wsipy clouds that I think will go away. I took a pic through the shade 14 welding goggles at iso400 of the sun this morning here.
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    Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

    Both Cape Girardeau and Poplar Bluff are mostly sunny at 1pm and 2pm :dance: Now to just get there. Its 3:17am here north of Memphis.
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    Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

    We are going to be heading to Cape Girardeau, MO, along with 15,242,566 friends. Should be easy parking.
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    Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

    Why is the american ensemble cloud cover so drastically different from the canadian or european? 80% cloud cover in places vs 10% in the same place. It isn't just the small time difference..
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    Latest Inflation Numbers and Discussion

    Last month I paid $4.19 a gallon for gas and today we paid $2.89. Deflation? No, just traveling from Washington state to Texas.
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    Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

    Hah hah, you just described us. Currently staying north of Houston just waiting to see where to go. Right now I am thinking the little corner of MO.
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    Electric Vehicles - Models Discussion

    Overall I think self driving will save lives but there will be the edge cases where a person could make a better decision (such as recognizing that a person or object is likely to do an unexpected behavior). Statistically though, the self driving vehicle will react better to most situations but...
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    Electric Vehicles - Models Discussion

    If the software notices a kid bouncing a ball 10 feet from the edge of the road, is it smart enough to slow below the speed limit in case the ball gets away and the kid darts into the street?
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    So grateful for the ACA

    If ACA would not have come available, we likely would have put off retirement and stayed at Microsoft. Thus the ACA has cost us about $5,000,000 or so.
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    2024 Travel Plans

    We were planning on heading toward Cape Coral, Florida after this stay in Texas, but it looks like it is hot there in a few weeks (mid 80s). I am more of a high 60s low 70s person now after decades in Washington state, even though I grew up in Georgia. I wonder if the Outer Banks, NC would be...
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    Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

    I think there are going to be a lot of hotels which were counting their money while sitting at the table, only to find mass cancellations.
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    Considering a retirement move out of town/state

    on the "it is refreshing to throw everything out", while it is, we ended up buying a lot of that stuff again when our plans changed. I tossed a nice tool chest, air compressor, shelving, walnut kitchen table, on and on, and have had to repurchase most of those at our new house.
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    Galveston vs Corpus Christi

    So the house we are going to rent for a week starting tomorrow has a private dock and a boat ramp. We have our little Portland Pudgy and 3hp electric outboard so we can putter around. The larger body of water off the canal is Copano Bay. My wife was wanting to get a saltwater license and fish...
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    SpaceX Texas, solar eclipse

    We went to Starbase today. Very cool, very very active. There is so much going on, it is like a entire city is being built all at once. I was amazed how close you could get to everything compared to Nasa facilities. They had done a test fire of the engines on a Starship yesterday or the day...
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    SpaceX Texas, solar eclipse

    I imagine everyone is now freaking out a bit since the weather forecast is thunderstorms or rain for the entire path of the eclipse. We don't know where to go...currently hanging out in southern Texas on the coast.
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    New Rules for Realtors

    Yep. At best on most of these things you get a coupon for free cheese rolls at Red Lobster with a $25 entree purchase.
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    Galveston vs Corpus Christi

    We were watching the weather today while staying in Colorado and saw this huge band of rain/clouds sweeping across almost all of the states in the path of the eclipse. What if something like that happens April 8? There are going to be a ton of disappointed people, especially if they paid $900...
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    Galveston vs Corpus Christi

    When we are talking South Padre, that is not Corpus Christi, right? It is down near the border?
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    Galveston vs Corpus Christi

    Thanks all. We just entered Wyoming for the night (dang, there is nothing here) so we have a few days on the road trip before we will have to make the decision. If I get close to South Padre Island, I would go see the SpaceX facility (rubber necking from the fences since they don't have...
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    Galveston vs Corpus Christi

    Thanks! It seems quite a bit warmer, nicer weather in Corpus Christi than Galveston according to the forecast out until April 7, but obviously I think that is more of a guesscast. They don't seem that far apart to have that different weather though...
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    Galveston vs Corpus Christi

    Opinion? What would be the better place to "hang out" for a week while waiting on the eclipse? Galveston or Corpus Christi? We would probably rent a house or condo on the beach for a week. Eclipse path is about 200 miles away so we would head out very early in the morning (like 4am) to make...
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    Favorite product jingle

    As far as one that I didn't like, it was 1 877 kars for kids UNTIL the season 3 episode of The Bad Place where the devil and his associates are having a meeting and they end with singing their national anthem....1 877 kars for kids. We were on the floor laughing.
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