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xwesx

28firefighter said:

We watch a lot of HGTV in our house. Too much.

Well, not having ready access to TV means that it is MUCH easier to not gravitate toward the "I wonder what's on?" scenario. If you want to actually watch something, you have to work for it a bit. And, a HUGE bonus? Well, when someone at the office says, "You know that commercial where...," I can say, "Nope" without any hesitation. I probably see fewer commercials in a year than most people see in a single day.... or *maybe* a single week, if they're light watchers.

xwesx

My version of watching sports these days:

I watched every single one of the NBA playoff games so far. It took me about four minutes for each one of them on NBA.com under "highlights."

jmonroe

thebean said:

I will give up my satellite (or cable) TV, and especially my DVR, when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. I love sports too much to do any type of streaming thing. The ability to time shift and FF through commercials on the DVR is worth the monthly bill to me and the missus.

I'm with you, especially the DVR thing. I rarely watch anything live anymore including the news, can't take the commercials. OK, sports I watch live but I'm just about at the point where I'm going to hit pause for about 10 minutes then un-pause the beast. We have FIOS and after watching Son #1 fight with whatever system he is trying out this week, to decide which one he's going to settle in with, I'm not about to play with any of that stuff now. He tells me it's the wave of the future because cable is too expensive. Like any other new thing (remember when cable was new), once they reel you in the price goes up. As they say, "been there, done that". I can put up with a lot of stuff but wannabe TV ain't one of them.

In my case, you can't judge a book by its cover.

jmonroe

abacomike

thebean said:

I will give up my satellite (or cable) TV, and especially my DVR, when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. I love sports too much to do any type of streaming thing. The ability to time shift and FF through commercials on the DVR is worth the monthly bill to me and the missus.

Prying the X1 Xfinity remote from my hand would be sufficient for me to “stand my ground” forcibly with a 9mm “shot across the bow” to anyone attempting to keep me from my cable TV, DVR and NETFLIX, HBO, ESPN, STARZ, SHO or MAX.

abacomike

Got to Ponte Vedra with no problems.  Averaged 32.6 mpg at a steady speed of 75 mph.  Drive was actually relaxing in the S450.  A true road car!

stickguy

impressive mileage for such a big, powerful car.

tbirdmarco

 To watch a bunch of each G TV here daily and velocity into do it yourself channel 2 

tbirdmarco

 Enjoyed reading all the house stories mentioned above throughout the day in here good luck Michael with a new house and we couple current house wren think it’s over 10 years ago was October 2007 was from a Polish family guy was supposedly in construction everything we touch heater is done half [non-permissible content removed] everything we have to do the roof next month we never touched it finally leaking needs to be done 

tbirdmarco

 The first day after we did the closing we couldn’t stay at the house the first night they were nasty to us and told us give them a night and day to clear a theater stuff so we went think about is the next afternoon and they give us all the keys to everything then we were able to clean the house up put some carpets we were good to go 

tbirdmarco

 We never got the CEOs for the extensions in things to this day or lawyer promised oh don’t worry we’ll get them from them big mistake back then I know better now should’ve made him sign papers of course they skipped town regardless with the win lesson learned will never use the lawyer the real estate agent recommends or inspector will get it separately on my own from now on 

tbirdmarco

 Update on my 61 Thunderbird just stop by the place after hours to make sure everything was good of course there’s two things they over booked but I mentioned so I made sure to bring it up to them again so we shall see was going to maybe go look again tomorrow with my cousin to see if things were fixed that in the horn didn’t work what you did before I made sure I let him know again if I don’t keep on top of these people they overbook and cut corners but definitely would never use this place again hopefully picking it up tomorrow or the beginning of June since the next 

tbirdmarco

 Two weekends after this weekend I am busy with my sister’s college graduation next weekend and the following weekend more family stuff memorial day weekend 

abacomike

stickguy said:

impressive mileage for such a big, powerful car.

Stick, remember it’s got a 3.0 liter V6 twin turbo rated at 363 hp.  The 9 speed transmission really makes the difference - low rpm’s at high speeds.  But I agree with you that it gets great fuel economy for a 4500+ pound vehicle.

driver100

Writing from beautiful Seattle. Using my tablet......not easy.

Found out this info. If you take the Detroit 3 out of the equation, cars are 45% of the market. Fiat Chrysler Canada only has 7% are cars, Ford 12% General Motors 22%.
So, the car is not dead. Toyota sells lots of Corollas, BMW sells lots of 3 Series.
Ford is giving up on cars because the profit is small.....but the cost to update and do research is way more than they can earn back.......trucks are more profitable. Also, pollution control rules not as strong, for trucks.

dino001

driver100 said:

Writing from beautiful Seattle. Using my tablet......not easy.

Found out this info. If you take the Detroit 3 out of the equation, cars are 45% of the market. Fiat Chrysler Canada only has 7% are cars, Ford 12% General Motors 22%.
So, the car is not dead. Toyota sells lots of Corollas, BMW sells lots of 3 Series.
Ford is giving up on cars because the profit is small.....but the cost to update and do research is way more than they can earn back.......trucks are more profitable. Also, pollution control rules not as strong, for trucks.

We’ve seen this movie. Didn’t end well then. Gee, wonder if it will be any different now. Let’s ask what’s the percentage of cars sold to first owners, new or used. Then fast forward 10 years, no more Fords in the mix. What’s the first dealer they’ll visit to get their first SUV? Will they even think of going to Ford?

Looks to me the CEO is covering his tenure, bonuses, he’ll be gone in five years with a fat bank account, heralded a great man that improved profitabikity. After him, even a deluge...

ab348

dino001 said:

Looks to me the CEO is covering his tenure, bonuses, he’ll be gone in five years with a fat bank account, heralded a great man that improved profitabikity. After him, even a deluge...

Hackett will not last anywhere close to 5 years as CEO IMO.

driver100

dino001 said:

driver100 said:

Writing from beautiful Seattle. Using my tablet......not easy.

Found out this info. If you take the Detroit 3 out of the equation, cars are 45% of the market. Fiat Chrysler Canada only has 7% are cars, Ford 12% General Motors 22%.
So, the car is not dead. Toyota sells lots of Corollas, BMW sells lots of 3 Series.
Ford is giving up on cars because the profit is small.....but the cost to update and do research is way more than they can earn back.......trucks are more profitable. Also, pollution control rules not as strong, for trucks.

We’ve seen this movie. Didn’t end well then. Gee, wonder if it will be any different now. Let’s ask what’s the percentage of cars sold to first owners, new or used. Then fast forward 10 years, no more Fords in the mix. What’s the first dealer they’ll visit to get their first SUV? Will they even think of going to Ford?

Looks to me the CEO is covering his tenure, bonuses, he’ll be gone in five years with a fat bank account, heralded a great man that improved profitabikity. After him, even a deluge...

My theory in business is, if you have a product already in the market......that product has potential, the smart guy will figure out how to make it work. A lot of companies would love to have Fords infrastructue, dealer netwok, plants etc. Why throw that away? They have to find a way to attract buyers. Ford did it with the TBird, Mustang, Original Taurus, they should try to do it again. Retreating rarely works, successful businesses have to advance and adapt, and go boldly into the future.

driver100

Our houses came with instructions and notes. One house came with full instructions and an invitation to call them if we had any questons.

On the other hand, one friend moved into a house and the previous owners took every light bulb and every roll of toilet paper.

imidazol97

roadburner said:

We never had cable; too expensive to run a line to our house. I also refused deal with the satellite companies, as they wanted payment before coming to our house to determine if we had an adequate line of sight. At present we have Netflix and Amazon Prime, accessible through either my Sony BD player or my Roku streaming stick. We use the Roku to also subscribe to DirecTV NOW and Hulu. I also have an Amazon Fire Stick and I might try DirecTV with it as it is supposedly less prone to buffering issues. We also get 30 or so OTA channels from a Mohu Leaf indoor antenna.
My only gripe so far is that only the OTA stations, Netflix and Amazon have 5.1 audio. Everything else is just stereo.

How do you get access for the internet? Is that needed for Roku and the other methods?

I talked to TimeWarner/now Charter/now Spectrum and they are trying to peddle their full bundle.
They did admit I could get internet access and use something they charge about 40$ for that "lets"
me stream 10 of their channels of my choice over and above the internet charge from whomever.

Spectrum/TimeWarner are really ripping people off for cable alone. So many people are cutting the cord,
and they are trying to make up the profits on a smaller number of subscribers to pay all those providers on cable.

They were really offended I still have DSL internet through Frontier.

oldfarmer50

I'm feeling inadequate today.

I've known that my next door neighbor owns a Corvette and that across the street is a Jaguar collector but this morning as I pulled out of my driveway I see that the guy on the other side of me has a Tesla.

Maybe he'd let me live in his garage, it's bigger than my house.

oldfarmer50

I'm watching All Girls Garage on Velocity and it's very interesting watching the gender differences. On AGG they work cooperatively while in the male car shows each guy works independently. The women seem very supportive of each other while the men are always macho posturing and competiting with each other. The men also like to tease each other (mock aggression) which the women never do. Totally different styles.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50 said:

I'm feeling inadequate today.

I've known that my next door neighbor owns a Corvette and that across the street is a Jaguar collector but this morning as I pulled out of my driveway I see that the guy one the other side of me has a Tesla.

Maybe he'd let me live in his garage, it's bigger than my house.

Maybe your neighbors drive for Avis and Hertz.

jmonroe

abacomike

Well, we're at the Player's Championship Tournament - Sawgrass TPC - in Ponte Vedra Beach. Weather is beautiful right now - going to be a great two days, from what the weather forecast calls for. Will keep you update. Maybe if you are watching this on TV, you might catch a glimpse of us.

Happy Mother's Day to all your wives and Moms and Daughters.

explorerx4

@abacomike,
How will we recognize you? The one driving the Mercedes across the green?

oldfarmer50

jmonroe said:

oldfarmer50 said:

I'm feeling inadequate today.

I've known that my next door neighbor owns a Corvette and that across the street is a Jaguar collector but this morning as I pulled out of my driveway I see that the guy one the other side of me has a Tesla.

Maybe he'd let me live in his garage, it's bigger than my house.

Maybe your neighbors drive for Avis and Hertz.

jmonroe

I can't imagine those places being more generous than Enterprise. I'm already a hundredaire thanks to the 401k.

stickguy

explorerx4 said:

@abacomike,
How will we recognize you? The one driving the Mercedes across the green?

look for the paramedics tending to the guy that got hit in the forehead with a golf ball.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50 said:

jmonroe said:

oldfarmer50 said:

I'm feeling inadequate today.

I've known that my next door neighbor owns a Corvette and that across the street is a Jaguar collector but this morning as I pulled out of my driveway I see that the guy one the other side of me has a Tesla.

Maybe he'd let me live in his garage, it's bigger than my house.

Maybe your neighbors drive for Avis and Hertz.

jmonroe

I can't imagine those places being more generous than Enterprise. I'm already a hundredaire thanks to the 401k.

That's where you're wrong. @Sandy said his 401K has made him a thousandaire.

jmonroe

jmonroe

stickguy said:

explorerx4 said:

@abacomike,
How will we recognize you? The one driving the Mercedes across the green?

look for the paramedics tending to the guy that got hit in the forehead with a golf ball.

You're right and with Mikes luck, it will probably happen when he's driving the Benz across the green with the sunroof open.

jmonroe

explorerx4

The some upset spectator will whack him with a golf umbrella.

imidazol97

stickguy said:

explorerx4 said:

@abacomike,
How will we recognize you? The one driving the Mercedes across the green?

look for the paramedics tending to the guy that got hit in the forehead with a golf ball.

No. Look for the guy with the extra clean valves because he only uses Top Tier gasolines in his car.

Or the one wearing a polo shirt with broad, contrasting horizontal stripes?

28firefighter

stickguy said:

@abacomike, How will we recognize you? The one driving the Mercedes across the green?

look for the paramedics tending to the guy that got hit in the forehead with a golf ball.

Coffee right through the nose. 

jmonroe

explorerx4 said:

The some upset spectator will whack him with a golf umbrella.

D

explorerx4 said:

The some upset spectator will whack him with a golf umbrella.

Man, this could be disastrous. I didn't know that Sawgrass had grocery stores on their course.

jmonroe

ab348

I was watching the tournament and they said that a wayward shot by Webb Simpson caught some guy right in the gut and bounced back into play. Maybe that was Mike.

jmonroe

ab348 said:

I was watching the tournament and they said that a wayward shot by Webb Simpson caught some guy right in the gut and bounced back into play. Maybe that was Mike.

Some might say Mike screwed up again but I'm all for giving him credit for keeping the ball in play.

We'll have to ask our resident golfer @houdini1 what the official ruling on this should be.

jmonroe

driver100

imidazol97 said:

stickguy said:

explorerx4 said:

@abacomike,
How will we recognize you? The one driving the Mercedes across the green?

look for the paramedics tending to the guy that got hit in the forehead with a golf ball.

No. Look for the guy with the extra clean valves because he only uses Top Tier gasolines in his car.

Or the one wearing a polo shirt with broad, contrasting horizontal stripes?

OK no more jokes about shirts with wide horizontal stripes........people are getting reported for comments like that!

driver100

stickguy said:

explorerx4 said:

@abacomike,
How will we recognize you? The one driving the Mercedes across the green?

look for the paramedics tending to the guy that got hit in the forehead with a golf ball.

Too funny. I thought he was on the course when that 5 foot snake was on the green.

abacomike

ab348 said:

I was watching the tournament and they said that a wayward shot by Webb Simpson caught some guy right in the gut and bounced back into play. Maybe that was Mike.

OK, you guys!  I am so thrilled you all had fun with my life’s misfortunes   From “belly ricochets” on errant drives on the course to golf umbrella beatings in the PGA market to getting hit in the head with a golf ball.  This is my lot in life - to make everyone laugh at “The Perils of Michael”!  Hope you got a kick out of the jokes - I SURE DID!  

It turned out to be a great day - that 12th hole par 4 at 288 yards was exciting as was the Island Green.

We’re having dinner at Caffe Andiamo right at the main entrance to TPC Sawgrass - superior Italian food - several golfers and their families are here.  It’s really exciting being here in the middle of one of the best tournaments on the PGA Tour.  And, nothing happened out of the ordinary - oops - forgot about that darn snake bite - otherwise uneventful. 

ab348

This will probably get @driver100 all riled up again. Another bad day locally for a M-B driver, but this time a bit different:

https://haligonia.ca/police-seek-driver-who-fled-from-motor-vehicle-collision-239186/




Much conjecture that he was involved in some sort of illegal activities.

Worst thing is that the impact ruptured the heating oil tank for the house and not only is that property now contaminated, apparently one or more properties downhill from it also got some. That will be very expensive to remedy. Hope that Benz has liability insurance.

tbirdmarco

 You made it safe might do your destination enjoy the weekend 

tbirdmarco

 But glad you made it safely to your destination driver 100 enjoy ford should’ve kept some cars around I given up entirely history has a way of repeating it self hope it doesn’t we shall see who knows nobody really knows 

tbirdmarco

 Rainy [non-permissible content removed] day didn’t get the car today maybe will go in a little over a week and get it 

tbirdmarco

 Enjoyed reading everything else above all old former wow that’s quite the spread of cars your neighbors have you have a nice Mustang to my favorite out of all of those 

jmonroe

abacomike said:

ab348 said:

I was watching the tournament and they said that a wayward shot by Webb Simpson caught some guy right in the gut and bounced back into play. Maybe that was Mike.

OK, you guys!  I am so thrilled you all had fun with my life’s misfortunes   From “belly ricochets” on errant drives on the course to golf umbrella beatings in the PGA market to getting hit in the head with a golf ball.  This is my lot in life - to make everyone laugh at “The Perils of Michael”!  Hope you got a kick out of the jokes - I SURE DID!  

It turned out to be a great day - that 12th hole par 4 at 288 yards was exciting as was the Island Green.

We’re having dinner at Caffe Andiamo right at the main entrance to TPC Sawgrass - superior Italian food - several golfers and their families are here.  It’s really exciting being here in the middle of one of the best tournaments on the PGA Tour.  And, nothing happened out of the ordinary - oops - forgot about that darn snake bite - otherwise uneventful. 




Don't count your chickens yet. There is still time for the waiter to drop a plate of spaghetti on your white shorts.

jmonroe

jmonroe

ab348 said:

This will probably get @driver100 all riled up again. Another bad day locally for a M-B driver, but this time a bit different:

https://haligonia.ca/police-seek-driver-who-fled-from-motor-vehicle-collision-239186/




Much conjecture that he was involved in some sort of illegal activities.

Worst thing is that the impact ruptured the heating oil tank for the house and not only is that property now contaminated, apparently one or more properties downhill from it also got some. That will be very expensive to remedy. Hope that Benz has liability insurance.

Nah, that won't bother him. He's used to it by now, happens all the time with Benz drivers. You'll never see a Genny in my hood that looks like that.

jmonroe

driver100

Thieves don't bother steeling wannabees.

If your going to steel a car you might as well go all out and take a Benz, the jail time if you get caught is about the same.

driver100

ab348 said:

This will probably get @driver100 all riled up again. Another bad day locally for a M-B driver, but this time a bit different:

https://haligonia.ca/police-seek-driver-who-fled-from-motor-vehicle-collision-239186/




Much conjecture that he was involved in some sort of illegal activities.

Worst thing is that the impact ruptured the heating oil tank for the house and not only is that property now contaminated, apparently one or more properties downhill from it also got some. That will be very expensive to remedy. Hope that Benz has liability insurance.

Maybe that would make a good ad:

Two out of three thieves prefer taking an M.B. for doing drug deals!

jmonroe

driver100 said:

Thieves don't bother steeling wannabees.

If your going to steel a car you might as well go all out and take a Benz, the jail time if you get caught is about the same.

You've got that right. I've never worried that my Genny wouldn't be right where I parked it. Might have some spit on it but it's always been there.

jmonroe

roadburner

imidazol97 said:

roadburner said:

We never had cable; too expensive to run a line to our house. I also refused deal with the satellite companies, as they wanted payment before coming to our house to determine if we had an adequate line of sight. At present we have Netflix and Amazon Prime, accessible through either my Sony BD player or my Roku streaming stick. We use the Roku to also subscribe to DirecTV NOW and Hulu. I also have an Amazon Fire Stick and I might try DirecTV with it as it is supposedly less prone to buffering issues. We also get 30 or so OTA channels from a Mohu Leaf indoor antenna.
My only gripe so far is that only the OTA stations, Netflix and Amazon have 5.1 audio. Everything else is just stereo.

How do you get access for the internet? Is that needed for Roku and the other methods?

I talked to TimeWarner/now Charter/now Spectrum and they are trying to peddle their full bundle.
They did admit I could get internet access and use something they charge about 40$ for that "lets"
me stream 10 of their channels of my choice over and above the internet charge from whomever.

Spectrum/TimeWarner are really ripping people off for cable alone. So many people are cutting the cord,
and they are trying to make up the profits on a smaller number of subscribers to pay all those providers on cable.

They were really offended I still have DSL internet through Frontier.

We have a 12 Mbps DSL line. A wi-fi router connects to the Roku and Sony BD player.

roadburner

Another glamorous campaign weekend- this time at my hometown's spring festival. Yesterday we set up the booth and manned it for four hours. Today I drove my Jeep in the festival parade at 10, followed by campaigning at my booth from 11-3. In 90F weather.
The good news is, I'm essentially finished with campaigning; My mailing and final newspaper ads are locked and loaded. I have the fourth and final candidates forum on Tuesday and a debate a week from today. The debate won't move the needle in either direction because it's three days away from the election and frankly, the people who haven't made up their minds by that time are very unlikely to vote. However, not showing up would hurt, so I'll do it.
My friends are much more optimistic than I am; the are predicting a 2-1 margin. I'm thinking 5-10 percentage points at most. No matter how it turns out I'm good; unlike my judicial elections, if I lose I'm not out of a job.

driver100

jmonroe said:

driver100 said:

Thieves don't bother steeling wannabees.

If your going to steel a car you might as well go all out and take a Benz, the jail time if you get caught is about the same.

You've got that right. I've never worried that my Genny wouldn't be right where I parked it. Might have some spit on it but it's always been there.

jmonroe

A good reason to buy a Gennie..........salesman told me it was less likely to be stolen.

I can't copy this British list of top 10 cars stolen but number one is M.B. C. Class. Rest of top 10 is mostly M.B. BMW, and Range Rover, one V.W. and one Audi.
No Gennies.....even thieves don't want fakes!