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I saw the same thing with marina gasoline. It was $5.29 in early November, same as it had been all summer.

Here they are wielded by professional lawn care workers. From what I can tell, they mostly blow the leaves into mulched areas, and nature puts them back on the lawn within a day or two. I'm working at home and I pretty much hear them from 8 in the morning until dusk six days a week, and part of...

I'm the treasurer of our HOA. We don't care if or when you pick up your leaves.

That's what it's like flying a hang glider, the glider is above you and the control bar is below you, and you don't notice either. Once you get grooved in, the glider feels like an extension of your body. It's as close to being a bird that a human can get.

We didn't like that idea, so we added a "no rentals" clause to our covenants. There is one rental house in our neigborhood, once it gets sold, that's all over.

Hideously loud and unpleasant, and not all that speedy. I do rake and bag the leaves that fall near and on the street, because it's the most convenient way to get rid of them. There are two maple trees and a large oak there, and the oak leaves would take a long time to biodegrade. For the other...

I think the rule is that there has to be (intentional) combustion going in in that cylinder for it to count.

We had a couple of new arrivals, one that I think is interesting, so here's the updated list: My car: 4 cylinder horizontally opposed boxer, 2.0 liter, turbocharged Wife's car: 4 cylinder inline, 2.5 liters, hybrid Daughter #1's car: 3 cylinder inline 1.5 liters, turbocharged Daughter #2's car...

It's kind of trendy to give alcoholic beverages funny names, "Tiger Tank" isn't too aggressive. So, do tell the details of your brew. Light, dark, which hops, specific gravity of the wort?

Sounds like the Mogas and to a lesser extent, diesel has come down, but the specialty fuels have not.

I was up at the lake getting our waverunner out of the water today, and saw prices for 87 octane E10 below $3. Gas prices are down, but it seems like only for mogas. The marina sells Marathon Rec 90, which is 90 octane E0, and it's been $5.29 all year. You can buy that at terrestrial gas...

How do you propose we determine what the safe level is? Originally, IIRC the safe level was 25 micrograms per deciliter in the child's blood stream, but the researchers found that still caused neurological damage, so the CDC started lowering it. When I left, they were at 10 micrograms per...

I was a contractor for the Centers for Disease Control in their Lead Poisioning Prevention Program. Low to moderate levels of exposure to lead have little or no affect on adults, but there is no known safe level of lead exposure for children.

There are biodegradable funeral urns made for situations like this. The rock salt ones are elegant.

Looks like the Luscombe boys have it figured out We scattered our parents' ashes in the Gulf from a boat. The state of Florida requires all ash scattering to be at least three miles offshore. If you're going to drop a container, the state where this is happening will have laws dictating where...

The drop plane slows to something like 80 knots so anyone without a wing suit on drops pretty quickly. Wingsuit jumpers know to keep the wings folded until well clear of the airplane.

You could just do track days, you can use your daily driver, the entry cost isn't too bad, and your tires will last quite a while. At my age I have zero interest in competing for anything, and at this point of my life track driving is just right. It wouldn't have been enough when I was in my 20s...

Another data point is the USEIA's product supplied data for avgas, which is found here: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mgaupus1&f=a It showed a steady decline until 2016, then a small increase through 2019, then a drop for the pandemic year of 2020, then an increase...

Oh, dear.

Because student certificates don't expire, it appears that the number of pilots is growing rapidly, but that's not the case because many of those students drop out and are no longer active. If you look at line 16, Pilot total without Student Category, you'll see that 2022's count is about 2500...