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Buying A Truck (Without Getting Completely Screwed Over) Part 2
(Continued from Part 1) Fred and I waited for someone to pick up the phone. Now that I knew the vacation spiff was worthless, there was no way I was going to pay MSRP for the Ranger. It’s simply a matter of principle. No one was answering, so I made my way down to the [...]
Buying A Truck (Without Getting Completely Screwed Over) Part 1
By now, long-time followers of this blog will have a pretty good sense of what I think of the dealership car buying experience. It’s pretty much a blood sport. At this point, though, I’ve had so many bouts in the ring (a.k.a. the salesman’s cubicle) that I’m starting to give as good as I get. In [...]
What I’ve Learned About Fitness This Past Year
About a year ago, I weighed 235lbs. I wore XL shirts and pants with a waist size of 38″ or 40″. I had trouble breathing when I bent over to tie my shoes. I caught colds rather easily. I snored like a Husqvarna. I was really quite fat and out of shape. As I write [...]
Dish Scrubbers
My Papa, a wise, wise man, pointed out this universal truth to me many years ago, when I was a child. It remains a fact as true as ever, so I’m going to share it with you now: You can’t trust dish scrubbers. You know what I’m talking about. Those thingies you buy at the [...]
The Lane Lineup
People who commute to downtown Toronto from South Etobicoke via Lakeshore Boulevard will know specifically what I’m talking about here, but I think everyone knows of someplace where a similar drama unfolds on a daily basis. Just past Lakeshore and Park Lawn, the civil engineers worked a bottleneck into the eastbound Lakeshore lanes. At first [...]