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Shortly after moving into my development (82 residences) I attended the annual HOA meeting and volunteered to be Treasurer. There were 3 other board positions open and 3 people were interested so we all became HOA board members. We were paying a mgmt company $8500/yr and they weren't doing much...

I used to that when I drove manuals, but I've also never half filled my oil filter , true confession.

A beautiful woman loved growing tomatoes, but couldn't seem to get her tomatoes to turn red. One day, while taking a stroll, she came upon a gentleman neighbor who had the most beautiful garden full of huge red tomatoes. The woman asked the gentlemen, "What do you do to get your tomatoes so...

Continuing off topic - on the subject of greed, way back in the dot com area billionaire Philip Anschutz purchases US West, renames it QWEST and brings in super Joe Nacchio from AT&T , I'm running a professional services group at the time and had several Oracle DB developers - in high demand...

Weird and cheap, when I worked sales we'd do a campaign targeted towards c level execs where for the privilege of meeting with me they get some sort of itune card for $25 , I was surprised how many of these cheap bastards agreed to meet and then upon doing so several just said give me the card...

or this guy , copping a feel and rubbing, you ain't a beauty but that's alright , what else can we do now ?

As it so happens thru aggressive investing I am financially well off - but part of achieving that was not buying things like extended warranties, life insurance, carrying high deductibles on any insurance, paying a financial person to manage my assets and so on, going without a tailgate damper...

Purchased a Ford Protect extended warranty, 1st time ever bought an extended warranty on anything, did so because of the numerous reports of HVAC failures on 2019, but thus far my 2019 Ranger has had no issues. Anyways my extended warranty expires 03/2026 , I think I had bought 3 yrs of coverage...

At one time trade with China was prohibited, then Nixon "opened" China to trade with America, seeing the large population as a market for American goods. Then corporate America saw the opportunity to utilize the cheap labor and began to close factories and transfer mfg to China, allowing CEOs...

A politician visits a remote Native American community … … with news crews following him around as they tour the place. He asked the chief if there was anything the people need. “Well,” says the chief, “we have three very important needs.” “First, we have a medical clinic, but no doctor.” The...

I posted this before but usually those serp belt pulleys can be cleaned and regreased and I will do so at some point. With the Saab 9-5s I owned maintenance scheduled called for pulley replacements at 60k miles, but I would regrease them, also not a bad idea to check the tensioner itself for...

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Yeah bittersweet holiday for me as last week my older brother suffered a heart attack and is brain dead, will be taken off the ventilator tomorrow. You never know what tomorrow brings.

Baileys , now watchin 'it's a wonderful life" jimmy Stewart played George Bailey, Stewart piloted B24s in ww2 in Europe, flying 20 combat missions. Courageous patriotic dude. The original Scrooge however remains my favorite Xmas movie.

The same engineer that is enjoying a his vacations from submitting the cost saving idea, ho ho ho

Maybe the Fitzmotor can work his magic here ?

The 2013 Santa fe 2.0t we owned was virtually trouble free, but pre purchase mpg epa, was 27/21 , but hyundai got caught willfully falsifying the mpg test , and was rerated to 24/19 , they were fined $100m , then came the theta II engine debacle where they were fined $200m and had to replace...

Not comparable in US sales numbers, 2025 ytd according to Hyundai Santa Cruz has sold 23,889 units, whilst the Ford Maverick has sold 141, 873 or nearly 6 times as many units, numbers don't lie and personally I'd rather be drawn and quartered than seen driving a Santa Cruz. Yes I have owned...