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It should be added that to compensate for the small hot water tanks (ours is 10 gallons) the water can be very, very hot. The idea is that the really hot water, mixed with cold water at the shower or sink, give more regular hot water than if the hot water was used straight from the heater at a...

Who says men don't get pregnant? Dexter

I prefer the Class As  because I had enough 'C's in college to last me lifetime. Dexter

Nice chronicle. It appears, though, is that what you need next weekend is a good old-fashioned barn raising even. It would be the best gallon of potato salad, cases of beer and hot dogs for the BBQ you have ever bought. Dexter

Good advice. Experience is needed. We have the both in our Bounder and hate it - will never have another. It is not that a booth is bad it is just not for us or the way we live. Same goes for a dedicated oven, ours has never been touched other than as another storage space. And a second wash...

Depends. If I'm driving just to get somewhere (like between Seattle and San Francisco) and I know where I'll be staying then 450 is no big problem. 250 to 350 otherwise. Also if I going to a park (or relatives driveway) I've been to before then that leg can be longer since I have no worries...

Hong Kong is a culinary heaven! Dexter

Don't remember. I do know that we kind of gulped our beer, said our thanks and left. Wayne had seen my friend walking through the lobby (he was hard to miss at 6'9' and well over 300 lbs) and mistaking him for someone he knew  Wayne sent one of his party after us to ask us to join him for a...

Small financial transactions between Hong Kong and the US frequently got screwed up because both places use dollars but many in the US only think in US dollars. I once paid a US$100 insurance premium with a HK$800 check (exchange rate at the time was 8 HK to 1 US). A couple of months later I got...

Absolutely! I spent a lot of time there either as a central place to meet or, more interesting, just as a place to people watch. Due to a complete mix up and bad eye site on his part, John Wayne once bought a beer for me and a friend in the lobby. Needless to say it was quite exciting for the...

As others have said, normally no but a call from a cell phone a couple of hours before arrival can relieve anxiety. We normally call two or three places to make sure what they have for amenities, especially WiFi. If one has WiFi for $5 a day and the other is free guess which one wins all else...

Jim, My box is all power cords for computers and they are all the same. The one thing that hasn't changed from the early days of the Apple II through the Osbourne's and various PCs is the power cord. In the nearly 30 years I've been working with small computers a lot of them have come and gone...

Vacaville factory stores has a Goelitz Jelly Belly Gourmet Jelly Bean outlet where you can buy Belly Flops (jelly beans that aren't shaped perfectly) really cheap. I know that this doesn't have anything to do with this topic but my mind does tend to wander sometimes - especially if it is...

If you were at the Hilton we may have had drinks together in the Dragon Boat Bar and not even known it. I truly loved that bar for a decade starting in the late '60s. Of course the same could be said for the Captain's Bar at the Mandarin, the lobby of Peninsula and quite a few others I'd rather...

I saw them at a street fair three or four years ago. The are simply a cowboy boot with a wood or tin 'roof' (normally two pieces in the style of a flattened 'A' frame). A hole is cut in boot about midway up just like the hole in a bird house. Inside the boot is some kind of liner (I was going to...