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We don't have good Chinese food, but we have an excellent Thai place that will be open. The owner is an interesting guy, I keep expecting this...

I've found Christmas markets in Europe disappointing. When the roast corn and cheap socks dealers appear, you know the Christmas Cabal is running the...

I had something like that on my car...~40 years ago! I almost certainly bought it from the J.C.Whitney catalog. Didn't realize leather steering...

I put one of those nice leather stitch it on things on my F-250 when new. Took awhile to install however the feel is much better than stock. I'm...

I had a crappy VW Golf about 10 years ago that had a really worn steering wheel. Wrapped it in nice bar tape which kept it going a little longer....

Yesterday, I walked into the largest shopping mall - for the town I'm in - and Christmas decorations were on every wall. Did I mention I'm in a...

Karen is planning to visit the Christmas market (markets? I don't know, I don't follow these things) when we're in Stockholm the second week in...

Shaan's of Hyde Park, ok it's an Indian restaurant, but nothing says Xmas like Kashmiri Naan.

I should have said one last Chicago Christkindlmarket. I do indeed want experience a few European cities at holiday time, starting with...

^muffler man from before cars were made out of metal.^

Just wait until the holiday season gets started!

Is this a reaction to all the "10% OFF!!" sales going on right now? You know what 10% off is called? Regular pricing!! Please list names of best...

While you couch it in terms of one last Christmas Market (presumably the one in Chicago), all I read is that you now have a perfectly valid reason to...

My lovely wife and and I are in negotiations to purchase a three horse living quarters trailer to replace the travel trailer once we get to Wyoming....

I had a stepsister in Mexico City and her husband was German. His family migrated to Mexico from Germany in the late 1930s. The German community in...

relax by Doc Mertes, on Flickr

I built my first frames in the early 1970s using acetylene and air with a Smith torch that made a pretty big flame. I learned how to do this by...

We’re relocating, so the missus wants to go to Christkindlmarket this weekend for one last time. Who am I to say no?

the tips are changed for the heat coverage desired. how to explain this? better to just say that the turbo torch process isn’t framebuilding...

I think I get it. So while you might be able to get the whole thing hot, if for some reason you didn’t, you lacked the control to get a smaller...

So we’re coming home from Spain today with a plane change in Madrid. I think Madrid competes directly with the Charles de Gaulle airport for the...

SeaTac's international flights were recently hobbled by a "computer issue" that led to the same solution, hand-written tags and manual check-in. We...

Christmas Eve is three weeks after Thanksgiving weekend. My son is here for Thanksgiving and we're traveling to PHX to spend it with friends. I say...

When we came back from Italy on American Airlines we flew from Naples. There was some sort of an issue there and I think it was local. The staff...

Technically, those are in the aisles back in September. It's probably just me, but I like seeing Christmas decorations for extended period of...

Christmas decorations are in the aisles of all the big box stores before Halloween and I can see trees already up in houses. TREES ALREADY UP IN...

After having a number of snafus with American in the Caribbean trying to get back to Miami to London this weekend (took 2 days with pain) in order to...

When we started making frames at Witcomb USA we used Turbo Torches for several months. We jettisoned them because they may heat well but lack all...

Trip B by Doc Mertes, on Flickr

Every year, these characters become more relatable.

In the Dorptown people have their tasteless plastic blow up Christmas lawn ornaments out already. That's how I know Thanksgiving is sometime in the...

We're moving to a small town in Wyoming in the spring. They don't do any Christmas stuff until the second week of December. My kind of people.

November 16, 2024 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr SPP

IMG_0741 by Doc Mertes, on Flickr

My negative feelings towards Christmas started in the Summer, specifically 29 June. That’s when my regularly scheduled programs were disrupted, as...

St Christopher (Hitchens) would approve.

Thanks, Dan....really enjoyed those. SPP

Oh yeah. This is a good thread idea. BTW Vonn is unretiring.

It's like this here and I'm ok with that.

It takes a courageous person to swim against the tide of giving and getting presents on the coming holiday. But it is the right thing to do.

I listen to my lists on Spotify at home and in the truck and watch documentaries on Prime and Netflix. The only Christmas stuff is the required...

My web browser is configured with ublock origin and I don't turn on any radio with ads. Problem solved.