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The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman https://www.amazon.com/Last-Devil-Die-Thursday-Mystery-ebook/dp/B0BQLKNTYR A fun mystery where the detectives are a group of old people in an English retirement village. It's mostly humorous with a few really poignant passages. The author gets old age...

So @frodo2222 are you near the Pacific coast? in the mountains (don't know how far those are from the beach, but I'm wondering since you say the climate is great)? is the public transportation generally pretty good/can you get out into rural or wilderness areas with it? do you worry about the...

OK! That makes more sense actually. I guess I should stop freaking out and finish RTFMing.

It's either the alternator or IIRC the electrical load detector (lives underneath some fuses next to the battery). We are starting with the electrical load detector because it is cheaper and the alternator is still showing some signs of maybe being OK. The reason I bought this "intelligent...

Yeah that's what I thought I got. It's a little bigger than what I expected but I think that's what it is? "Intelligent battery charger with power supply mode"?

When it rains it pours (haha well it is monsoon season). I had to take the car in to the dealer to get a new digital key. My last one broke at the most inopportune time (0430 just before I was due to be at work on election day, with the car stuck in a public alley where I couldn't just leave it...

After it rains the temperature goes down but the humidity goes up, some tradeoff.

This was more like the end rather than the beginning of the volunteering phase. The first three years and 3700+ miles of my retirement. I think I'll just enjoy the desert for awhile and try to save up some money for whatever's next. They do pay pollworkers, here at least. Not much and not...

Whew, the primary election is over. This poll-worker-ing business is not for sissies. For the general election I think I will just try to work election day -- not the early voting, because it gets very little use here and there are other easy options. (They really have trouble staffing the early...

They are not easy to find and it can get expensive fast. I just got mine from Amazon. If you have a bigger budget there are specialized mail-order options. If you have access to a good bricks-and-mortar nursery, though, I would start there and maybe ask a clerk for pointers. I don't know if my...

My cactus seeds finally sprouted! I think there were ~50 in the packet and now there are ~5 babies. I planted them almost four months ago. Finally got tired of watching them and fussing over them and put them inside a watertight container with plenty of water, put it in a sunny spot, and just...

No. I'm withdrawing from this conversation because I think it just got silly. If you can't see the suffering, hardship, and dangers that less fortunate people suffer every day and that are amply and frequently covered in trustworthy sources, then nothing I can say will change your mind. If you...

There's a limit to how far you can argue from your personal experience. It's a big, big world out there and people encounter many different challenges. Just because you haven't experienced it yourself doesn't mean it doesn't happen. There are several areas in life where I, too, have had...

It's in his book. Neither one of us knows what % of people leave sticks-and-bricks housing for what reason. "Finding another place to live" is exactly what they're doing. For some/many/whatever % you'd like to speculate, living in a van either is cheaper or requires less up-front $ (another...

Would that include Bob Wells when he started living in his vehicle? Are you under the impression that everyone who loses their housing is dysfunctional and irresponsible?

Tucumcari Tonite! which is, you guessed it, a history of Tucumcari, NM. https://www.amazon.com/Tucumcari-Tonite-Railroads-Waning-Western/dp/0826363393 I grabbed it off a library shelf because I remembered driving down I-40 and seeing all those "Tucumcari Tonight" billboards years ago (don't know...

As noted above, this experience has been quite different from that. I'm glad you had a good time.

So in other words you have no evidence.

Yes on the "nodding and smiling"! On the one hand, you hear some pretty crazy xit. On the other hand, where else are you going to meet such a wide variety of people, most or all of them in a friendly mood?

Evidence that non vaxed piliots are in super high demand? Evidence that vaccination causes sudden death? Evidence that anyone who hires pilots believes that vaccination causes sudden death? Until you provide evidence, that's just so much hot air.