Sounds like a really interesting book! And yes, it can be extremely difficult to stay true to yourself, when doing so puts you out in the "fringe" of opinions. And many people end up considering

Thank you.

I suppose the lure of easy money is an almost built-in part of human nature, and so there are a great many sketchy characters out there, waiting to prey on that attribute. You've been here long enough

Thanks! Many things are doing quite well this year while a few - our pumpkins, for example - are suffering from a weird kind of "dwarfism" we can't quite explain. But such is the natural world...

Above all, I find the whole process super calming and a great way to take my mind off the various woes of life and the world, in general.

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There's a lot of "Hidden" inflation, too. Take our homeowner's insurance. 12 years ago, it was $57-ish a month. On the latest renewal, it was $188/month. The actual premium per $1,000 hasn't

From where I am sitting, those seem like reasonable and proportional ambitions... based in actual tangible reality. It's pretty close to what we're striving for, as well. We have the house, the vehicle

Thanks! It was a welcome and much needed break.

Thanks for the honor and shoutout; I very much appreciate it!

It's not going to happen, but if he wanted to do something bold, Trump would pick someone like Tulsi Gabbard as his VP, offering borderline Democrats a "soft landing space" and the whole nation

Thanks for the nomination!

That seems to be a trend happening all over... you can hardly have any sort of opinion without being vilified!

Thanks! Both these guys are going to be past 80 before this cycle ends...

Thank you!

Yes, that's the "Honorary Consul" in Seattle... which is just someone who solicits companies to do business in Denmark, hands out import/export trade brochures and such. There's the embassy in

Ironically, it's your basic US Chevy pickup truck... they even used to be known as "$40 trucks" because almost ALL repairs on them cost about 40 USD. But not anymore...

That pretty much sums it up, particularly in the area of "new and improved."

It's just plain crazy! And it doesn't really seem like the Right to repair movement is gaining much traction. I don't like this growing sensation that "grin and bear it" is our only choice...

Hive has some interesting challenges, not least of which is the (often overlooked) fact that for a lot of Hive members, this is their first and only social media experience. If the majority of Hiveans