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    Non-English bands that perform in English

    4 pages in an no mention of Volbeat?!?! Danish.
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    HVAC question - manual fan setting

    Ours is set to drop the set temp a couple degrees around 1 AM to provide that little extra bit of cooling overnight.
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    HVAC question - manual fan setting

    Our place has the 2nd floor system in the attic and this is the very reason I don't run the fan in continuous on mode in the summer. Despite the soffits and ridge vent it's hot as hell up there so the air running through the (insulated) ducts is going to pick up some heat energy and despite my...
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    Bethlehem PA, Local Pubs, Food, etc.

    If low brow is OK the local hot dog chain Yocco's is great. Get a few chili dogs with everything and some pierogies. First started going there when I worked in Allentown during a summer in college (1998), married a girl from there so go back from time to time and it's always fun to go to a...
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    Action Movie Recommendations

    Dredd with Karl Urban is great. The Raid and The Raid 2 are amazing, do not be troubled by the subtitles :)
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    Just how much were your Girl Scout cookies in 2025?

    $6 here, I'll buy a few boxes of Samoas one at a time during the season when they're set up outside of the grocery store. Somebody mentioned the insane pricing for the popcorn the Boy Scouts sell, it's true. I'm a Eagle Scout so very supportive of the cause, but usually just give them a $5...
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    Aircraft carrier collides with cargo ship? How does this happen?

    Spent a fair bit of time aboard the bridge of a variety of vessels, AIS on or off the radars still see the ships around and generate tracks. Between that and the ECDIS the crew has excellent situational awareness. AIS on or off almost irrelevant for avoiding collisions. jeff
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Not at the moment, but last night I saw Jerry Cantrell at the Fillmore here in MD:
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    Ever Get Injured At Work?

    Tore my meniscus by hyperextending my knee while on the job. My work is mostly desk job engineering but I work on ships/facilities from time to time. Treatment was covered and it's been fine in the 10 years since it happened. jeff
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    Harbor Freight Bauer 18V inflator

    My own little update, not long after my post the old Craftsman lighter-powered one bit the dust so I got the cordless Makita. It is excellent! Faster than the 12v Craftsman and gets a lot of run time from the typical 4 amp-hr battery. One odd/bad "feature" is that you can't lock the trigger...
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    RIP Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave)

    Always liked these guys. I am the announcer/DJ for my kids' summer swim team, have a lengthy playlist of tunes of many genres, Soul Man's on there. Gotta educate those kids about good music 😁
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    Run time on battery powered blowers?

    I've got the same Makita blower, works great and as you've discovered is good for a fairly short run time on those typical 4 amp-hr batteries but I find it very useful. I use it to blow off the solid surfaces around the house (driveway, sidewalks, deck) and the garage but I do not use it for...
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    Gift for 8 year old boy

    Nerf guns. It helps to have a part of the house you don't mind having filled with the darts all over the place but it's lots of fun to have a bunch of guns lying around and have a John Wick battle with the kids lol. jeff
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    Weird issue with new glasses? Can I return these?

    I picked up my first pairs of glasses today at Costco. I'm 47 and while my vision is still pretty OK I definitely have some issues with fine print and my right eye is pretty blurry compared to the left. Primary care doc sent me to an ophthalmologist to get them checked out. Left with...
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    Cigar Aficionados' of BITOG, what are you enjoying?

    Don't smoke too frequently anymore but when I did, Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur was my go-to! jeff
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    Best place to buy Makita 18V tools

    Check out https://www.makitatools.com/promos for the current promos. Usually have some buy this/get a free battery or bonus tool, which you can verify when you're ordering from Amazon, Home Depot, or International Tool (I have ordered a few things from them, good "real person" service). jeff
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Not now but last night, Iron Maiden in Philadelphia!
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    Town does an outstanding job acceptance used oil and antifreeze

    Not in my experience. There's an entrance for individuals (vs. say private garbage trucks) and perhaps the guys standing there are watching for out of state plates but I think in 20 years of going there I might have been asked for my license once but that was at the stop where you drop off...
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    Town does an outstanding job acceptance used oil and antifreeze

    The nearby one to me (Shady Grove in Gaithersburg) takes everything - paper, used oil, hydraulic fluid, antifreeze, paint, batteries, chemicals, metal stuff/appliances, old TVs & bikes, plain garbage, lawn waste, etc. No charge to the public for anything pickup truck sized or smaller. I was...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Prowler by Iron Maiden. RIP Paul Dianno!
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