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Rock band Traffic co-founder Dave Mason dies at 79

No kidding. That front timing cover job was quoted at $1900. I hear you except once upon a time I had a 1993 Grand Cherokee that was very reliable. I know Jeeps/Chrysler are not known for that.

My wife has always preferred a manual transmission. It's a long story but the gist of it is, I inherited her Hyundai Accent 6-speed after she got her present FIAT 500 5 speed. I don't like manual transmissions. Yeah, I can drive one, I just don't like to. So, I bought this. It's a 2005 Jeep...

Unplug the spark plug wire before you tip that thing over and stick your hand where the blade is.

I want to upgrade my phone. Verizon will only give me a free upgrade if I add a phone line. I don't need 3 phone lines for 2 people. What's the point? I get the feeling this will bite me on the ass at some future date.

Not sure what you're asking. We store left-overs or things we've made a bunch of for later use. You can store these items in regular plastic bags if you're going to use them in a day or two, but if you're going to freeze them for a long time, they will last longer in Foodsaver bags because...

We've used the FoodSaver brand for years. I think we get a new one every 10 years or so. We're on our third one; they don't last forever. However, our current one is marketed more towards hunters and is called a GameSaver. It's still made by Foodsaver but seems a little more robust. It has...

Country Joe McDonald

That was the year my mother was born. Same year as this.

Meh. I saw this movie trippin' on acid.

I was looking for something else and this showed up

I was thinking, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".

Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and ‘70s, dies at age 86

Bud Cort

Whippersnappers, all of ya.

...when you post this picture in response to this picture and nobody makes the connection. And to make matters worse, the guy in the middle, Chuck Negron, died last week at the age of 83.

If you go to the paint dept in a place like Lowes, there will be a lot of small fold-out pamphlets filled with pictures of rooms and exteriors all in color coordinated themes. They'll have titles like "Coastal" and that one will have pictures of rooms and houses painted in colors evoking the...

My bride made sourdough English muffins. Fucking Yum.

Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan, dead at 80

It’s for hanging earrings. My wife has three of those racks in that bathroom, not all of them full. It’s just sitting there in that picture waiting for me to hang it on the wall.

Towel warmer. Put a towel in it, push a button and when you step out of the shower you have toasty towel.

Thanks. Truthfully, I don’t get it either. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of baths I took in that old corner tub but it was installed so poorly, it had to go and I got that $850 freestanding unit for $350. I will probably never use it but it looks sexy.

Old shower. Notice old crooked tile. New tiled shower with thermostatically controlled valve.

Master bath needed remodeling. Some parts I didn’t want to tackle (shower) so I called for a price on just replacing the one-piece fiberglass shower with a unit made of large panels like cultured marble or fancier stuff. The low bid was $7500 for ugly CM and the bid from Kohler for their...

Brigitte Bardot

When I owned my business, you could buy a BBB rating.

Saw this today. Good movie with an original story. Haven’t enjoyed a movie this much in a long time.

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae legend, dead at 81

Final resting place of Dennis the Cat.

When we were first married many years ago, a 65 MG Midget was our only car and daily transportation. It was reliable and not very fussy except for the occasional carb sync, for which I owned the tool. Not mine, very almost exactly the same.

I don't know how anybody thinks they're going to pay a contactor to remodel a bathroom for 10K. I'm in the middle of a MB remodel that I'm doing myself because paying a contractor for just a 3x4 shower made of some sort of engineered panels was $10k (local cultured marble) to $17k (Kohler...

The biggest idiots are the folks in pickup trucks that back into their space at Home Depot or Lowes and come out of the store with a couple of sheets of plywood. Now what? Then there's one guy down the street who backs into his garage. Must smell great in his house.

Happy Columbus Day!

I'm going to use something like that in my remodel. The left side knob is a thermostat and the right-hand knob is the volume control. Once you set the temperature, you only ever need to use the one right hand knob and it will maintain that temp regardless of water pressure or incoming water...

If it's leaking out the showerhead or tub spout, put a new cartridge in it. Pretty simple most of the time. If it's leaking in the wall from plumbing line connections, you're in trouble.

Yeah, replacing a good shower valve just because you want stops can get ridiculously expensive. Most of the time, those cartridges just slip in and out. You had an unusual case. I'm going to start a bath remodel at my house in a few weeks and since I have access under the shower location via a...