Lucky me. A RaceTrac gas station just opened 4 miles from my home. They carry ethanol free gas. It's priced at the mid-grade price. $.30 per gal more then unleaded but with the increased fuel mileage almost a wash. I'm retired and rarely drive my truck so that corrosive alcohol mixture wont set around in the tank drawing water. Also now I don't have to worry about ethanol ruining the carburetors on my lawn mower, boat, and weed whacker.
Can you imagine the night life in Havana after the Hotels and casinos get built? Offshore and back country fishing trips? The Castros have to go first.
My nephew recently received his electrical engineering degree. He found a position with a gas line company (high five figure salary to start) and will be working in Austin. He grew up in a mobile home in Florida, his sister's wedding was held in a horse pasture and the entire wedding party wore cowboy boots. He wont feel out of place.
Here is some unsolicited, grandfatherly advice. My kids haven't supplied me with any grandchildren so I feel the need to help someone. My oldest two were born in 1972 and 74. No computers then but they got lots of books. Do read ABC books to your child. Let her read along. My daughter could read them to herself when she was three. Today she has an English PhD and just got on the tenure track where she teaches.
My younger two children were born in 1987 an 91. They had access to my 386 and their own Commodore 128. They had to keep track of their game disks and load them themselves. As they got older their computer was located on a table outside my bedroom door. No computer or TV in their room and no hand held electronic games, but plenty of books in their rooms. Today's small, internet connected devices are wonderful things but are very addictive to young minds.
It was pure chance but each daughter has a younger brother. A boy is much easier to raise with a big sister to help. I am male and had a little brother, he is still my best friend. If possible I suggest having two children, we were meant to have family. I grew up on a farm and my children had plenty of woodlands to play in. You probably wont have that but any where with dirt is good.
You had good parents and are willing to provide the best for the next generation. I wish you the best.
My mother found some National Geographics from 1915-17 in a house she and my dad rented. Those auto ads were a double hoot, and the bare chested New Guinea native women. I was born in 1952. I watched the 60s and 70s ads on television.
When I pay for my gas I realize that the beautifully landscaped, pot hole free four lane highway I just pulled off of was built with those taxes. Just as I realize that abundant, cheap food at my local supermarket comes from subsidized farmers. Most of us (Americans) get way more from the system than we put in.
Sometimes having a rare skill gets you on a private jet. My father in law worked for 48 years as a machine operator in a paper mill. He was often flown to other mills to setup machines and instruct other operators. His wife worried anytime the flew. One night he had to be flown from Florida to Oregon to get a mill back into production. He called his wife and told her he had to pull a double shift. They had him back in plenty of time.
Somehow this was how my two children developed. I do everything "good enough" and utterly depend on my spell checker. My daughter has a PhD and teaches college English. My son has a law degree and is a contract manager for a major corporation. They were the first generation to go to college on both sides of our families. Yes, I'm sure both of them are mine.
The US problem is African Americans. No other country has them. In trying to make amends for Jim Crow laws and other discrimination the Black community has been ravaged. Drug laws and welfare checks have fractured their families. I worked with a very sweet black woman. Her three sons and her brother were all doing hard time in prison because of drug and gang activity. I remember in the early sixty's riding with my farm owner father down into "colored town" to talk to some of his workers. I felt safe, there weren't unemployed young men hanging around, they all had jobs. If any violence happened it was because of drinking and gamboling or a woman, then the knives came out. The object was to see who could cut the other worse, they didn't try to kill the other guy.
20 years ago made friends with a man who had just moved away from East Louisville. He lived in a two story house with his wife and two children. On evening he was in the basement and here comes this large black man down the stairs. Fortunately neither one had a firearm and my friend only ended up with a couple of black eyes. The police officer (a black man) who responded to the 911 call told my friend the best thing he could do would be to move his white ass someplace else.
Excellent reply. My very intelligent son was unable to get into the law school of big state college, much less Harvard. Ten years later he is interviewing a top graduate of that school to add to the team he manages. As long as Harvard maintains its enrollment standards any student that graduates will be productive wherever they get a job.
You confuse wealth creating jobs with mere survival work. Polishing m lady's silver or washing m lord's Rolls may keep you from starving but no wealth is created for your children. Unfortunately with automation and globalization the average American may be left with no opportunity to have real job but will be forced to become a rich mans servant.
This does get tiresome. I PAY road tax, I Pay school tax, I PAY federal taxes. Get the point, we have a country, we, as a group, authorize representatives to tax ourselves for our common good. Just because someone pays a little more for some service or claims they NEVER use that service doesn't mean that the current system is wrong. It does mean that some uses of public money are WRONG. Usually when someone spouts this out in means they want a grant.
Ah yes, proof. A man just got out of prison after serving 15 months for assaulting an officer. Problem was he didn't. Cops hid the dash cam video of the officer attacking him. After the video surfaced the guy was released. It's sad but cops lie and protect each other. Their actions have to be recorded.
Ex Vietnam era Navy Vet. The "shell" fired is part rocket. This extends the range but uses a smaller warhead. They even had a small version for the 5 in guns my destroyer carried.
That reinforces my point. Even people who do not have a Judeo-Christian religion still believe in the sanctity of life. Even in the US this research is not banned, just public money can't be used to fund it.
Science is only good at making people do what they want. Politics is needed to make people do what they naturally wont do. None of the learned papers I read about the need to fight climate change give any specifics on the affect of these policies on the average person. A renewable utopia can't feed 10 billion people. How do we get six billion people to leave in the next 10 years?
I was a farmer in Florida. I had to drive my open platform tractors several miles of dirt road between fields. Even cruising along at 15 miles per hour large horseflies would circle around me like fighter planes attacking an aircraft carrier. They would land on the tractor hood and me. The tractor was green and yellow, both un-natural animal colors. I think the movement attracted them. Or it could have been the heat signature from the engine.
I believe most people are like me, it's not a problem. Google knows where I am and what I usually search for. I often use Google search to look up words I can't spell, any single word search gives me a dictionary site as the first result. Any business search gives results close to where I live. Whatever javascript is I can see the content I want to see on the sites I visit so It's not bothering me. I guess some of this is like when I where mismatched socks. If my wife sees them I have to change one because it's "wrong". I do use ad and flash block, that's good enough.
That is a feature, not a bug. If you are the first person at a red light the car that was in front of you will be a quarter of a mile away before the light changes. Most of the problem is caused by people like my wife. When the light changes from red to green she is watching the car in front of her, as are all the other drivers in the line. They only start going when the car in front of them has pulled 20 feet away. If everyone watched the light the entire line could start at the same time and only spread out after everyone has cleared the light. Driver-less cars would solve this problem also.
One of my wife's great uncles was "retarded". That was the term used in the 1920s when he was young. His older sister raised him after their mother died. The sister married several times to older men but remained childless and "Frank" was part of the package. When she died my wife's uncle and aunt took him in. He lived into his eighty before he died, a five year old who liked to smoke and cuss. Today's small families make full-time care in home difficult.
Children learn a language long before they can speak. Before my daughter could walk I would tell her to get daddy's shoes and she would scramble into the bed room and shuffle out pushing a shoe with each hand. She could read when she was three and today teaches college so maybe she was more intelligent than most.
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Lucky me. A RaceTrac gas station just opened 4 miles from my home. They carry ethanol free gas. It's priced at the mid-grade price. $.30 per gal more then unleaded but with the increased fuel mileage almost a wash. I'm retired and rarely drive my truck so that corrosive alcohol mixture wont set around in the tank drawing water. Also now I don't have to worry about ethanol ruining the carburetors on my lawn mower, boat, and weed whacker.
Can you imagine the night life in Havana after the Hotels and casinos get built? Offshore and back country fishing trips? The Castros have to go first.
My nephew recently received his electrical engineering degree. He found a position with a gas line company (high five figure salary to start) and will be working in Austin. He grew up in a mobile home in Florida, his sister's wedding was held in a horse pasture and the entire wedding party wore cowboy boots. He wont feel out of place.
Here is some unsolicited, grandfatherly advice. My kids haven't supplied me with any grandchildren so I feel the need to help someone. My oldest two were born in 1972 and 74. No computers then but they got lots of books. Do read ABC books to your child. Let her read along. My daughter could read them to herself when she was three. Today she has an English PhD and just got on the tenure track where she teaches.
My younger two children were born in 1987 an 91. They had access to my 386 and their own Commodore 128. They had to keep track of their game disks and load them themselves. As they got older their computer was located on a table outside my bedroom door. No computer or TV in their room and no hand held electronic games, but plenty of books in their rooms. Today's small, internet connected devices are wonderful things but are very addictive to young minds.
It was pure chance but each daughter has a younger brother. A boy is much easier to raise with a big sister to help. I am male and had a little brother, he is still my best friend. If possible I suggest having two children, we were meant to have family. I grew up on a farm and my children had plenty of woodlands to play in. You probably wont have that but any where with dirt is good.
You had good parents and are willing to provide the best for the next generation. I wish you the best.
My mother found some National Geographics from 1915-17 in a house she and my dad rented. Those auto ads were a double hoot, and the bare chested New Guinea native women. I was born in 1952. I watched the 60s and 70s ads on television.
When I pay for my gas I realize that the beautifully landscaped, pot hole free four lane highway I just pulled off of was built with those taxes. Just as I realize that abundant, cheap food at my local supermarket comes from subsidized farmers. Most of us (Americans) get way more from the system than we put in.
Sometimes having a rare skill gets you on a private jet. My father in law worked for 48 years as a machine operator in a paper mill. He was often flown to other mills to setup machines and instruct other operators. His wife worried anytime the flew. One night he had to be flown from Florida to Oregon to get a mill back into production. He called his wife and told her he had to pull a double shift. They had him back in plenty of time.
Somehow this was how my two children developed. I do everything "good enough" and utterly depend on my spell checker. My daughter has a PhD and teaches college English. My son has a law degree and is a contract manager for a major corporation. They were the first generation to go to college on both sides of our families. Yes, I'm sure both of them are mine.
That just means he has spell-check enabled.
The US problem is African Americans. No other country has them. In trying to make amends for Jim Crow laws and other discrimination the Black community has been ravaged. Drug laws and welfare checks have fractured their families. I worked with a very sweet black woman. Her three sons and her brother were all doing hard time in prison because of drug and gang activity. I remember in the early sixty's riding with my farm owner father down into "colored town" to talk to some of his workers. I felt safe, there weren't unemployed young men hanging around, they all had jobs. If any violence happened it was because of drinking and gamboling or a woman, then the knives came out. The object was to see who could cut the other worse, they didn't try to kill the other guy.
20 years ago made friends with a man who had just moved away from East Louisville. He lived in a two story house with his wife and two children. On evening he was in the basement and here comes this large black man down the stairs. Fortunately neither one had a firearm and my friend only ended up with a couple of black eyes. The police officer (a black man) who responded to the 911 call told my friend the best thing he could do would be to move his white ass someplace else.
Excellent reply. My very intelligent son was unable to get into the law school of big state college, much less Harvard. Ten years later he is interviewing a top graduate of that school to add to the team he manages. As long as Harvard maintains its enrollment standards any student that graduates will be productive wherever they get a job.
You confuse wealth creating jobs with mere survival work. Polishing m lady's silver or washing m lord's Rolls may keep you from starving but no wealth is created for your children. Unfortunately with automation and globalization the average American may be left with no opportunity to have real job but will be forced to become a rich mans servant.
This does get tiresome. I PAY road tax, I Pay school tax, I PAY federal taxes. Get the point, we have a country, we, as a group, authorize representatives to tax ourselves for our common good. Just because someone pays a little more for some service or claims they NEVER use that service doesn't mean that the current system is wrong. It does mean that some uses of public money are WRONG. Usually when someone spouts this out in means they want a grant.
Unfortunately, the GDP includes government spending. The more it borrows and spends, the higher the GDP. This will not end well.
Ah yes, proof. A man just got out of prison after serving 15 months for assaulting an officer. Problem was he didn't. Cops hid the dash cam video of the officer attacking him. After the video surfaced the guy was released. It's sad but cops lie and protect each other. Their actions have to be recorded.
Ex Vietnam era Navy Vet. The "shell" fired is part rocket. This extends the range but uses a smaller warhead. They even had a small version for the 5 in guns my destroyer carried.
That reinforces my point. Even people who do not have a Judeo-Christian religion still believe in the sanctity of life. Even in the US this research is not banned, just public money can't be used to fund it.
How many Bible thumpers does Japan have? China? India? Is the US the only country with enough intelligence to do medical research?
Science is only good at making people do what they want. Politics is needed to make people do what they naturally wont do. None of the learned papers I read about the need to fight climate change give any specifics on the affect of these policies on the average person. A renewable utopia can't feed 10 billion people. How do we get six billion people to leave in the next 10 years?
I was a farmer in Florida. I had to drive my open platform tractors several miles of dirt road between fields. Even cruising along at 15 miles per hour large horseflies would circle around me like fighter planes attacking an aircraft carrier. They would land on the tractor hood and me. The tractor was green and yellow, both un-natural animal colors. I think the movement attracted them. Or it could have been the heat signature from the engine.
I believe most people are like me, it's not a problem. Google knows where I am and what I usually search for. I often use Google search to look up words I can't spell, any single word search gives me a dictionary site as the first result. Any business search gives results close to where I live. Whatever javascript is I can see the content I want to see on the sites I visit so It's not bothering me. I guess some of this is like when I where mismatched socks. If my wife sees them I have to change one because it's "wrong". I do use ad and flash block, that's good enough.
That is a feature, not a bug. If you are the first person at a red light the car that was in front of you will be a quarter of a mile away before the light changes. Most of the problem is caused by people like my wife. When the light changes from red to green she is watching the car in front of her, as are all the other drivers in the line. They only start going when the car in front of them has pulled 20 feet away. If everyone watched the light the entire line could start at the same time and only spread out after everyone has cleared the light. Driver-less cars would solve this problem also.
One of my wife's great uncles was "retarded". That was the term used in the 1920s when he was young. His older sister raised him after their mother died. The sister married several times to older men but remained childless and "Frank" was part of the package. When she died my wife's uncle and aunt took him in. He lived into his eighty before he died, a five year old who liked to smoke and cuss. Today's small families make full-time care in home difficult.
Children learn a language long before they can speak. Before my daughter could walk I would tell her to get daddy's shoes and she would scramble into the bed room and shuffle out pushing a shoe with each hand. She could read when she was three and today teaches college so maybe she was more intelligent than most.