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Welcome! I’m a native of the Bay. Glad to have you aboard!

I didn’t know dry January was a thing. I guess I’m a participant, although I didn’t plan on it. At this rate, it will be a dry Feb too. Overall I don’t sleep well if I drink right before bed time. Sometimes I wake up after a 3 hour “nap” or I toss and turn. The sound machine on my bedside table...

My 2007 white MacBook is still working. I did beef up the RAM and swapped the old plate spinner for a SSD. Of course it is no longer supported, so I put some vanilla Linux build on it. My first.

Ah GG, deleted. I hope he is doing well.

My smoking den is the backyard, which has been glorious these last two days!

Have you got settled into the new place?

That is terrible. My wife and I had a similar deal in our first house. We had a one year lease which converted to a month to month arrangement. We did some work, but nothing on that scale, and with less craftsmanship.

I wish! The house needs repair!

Our first winter in Central Illinois was a shocker and we signed up for level pay for the next year. Right before the cold hit again we moved into an efficiency apartment. Our cost was releveled based on our new place and it was comically less. Because of this, our gas bill was paid out of the...

Now it smells like burning tires!

Sure thing. It was the 2013 BoB PotY. A Brigham Chinook, 29.

To think some have to pay for the same level of life advice you are giving away for free.

Happy new year!

Hang in there.

Zeno, it seems I’ve been collecting things as long as I can remember. From collecting bottle caps as a kid to inheriting and maintaining a stamp collection, to comic books, to sports cards… and my interest in each of those waned. I used to have a list of pipes and shapes I wanted to acquire, and...

That is awesome! As many guys on this board can attest to, marriage is hard. Congratulations! We celebrated 25 years in November. I certainly echo your last line: “ can’t imagine life without her or with anyone else.”

I have just one, a BoB poty from a few years back. I’ve been experimenting with the insert out. So far I like the increased airflow.

That’s a beaut!

I paid for our 25th anniversary trip to Hawaii with proceeds from the sale of many of my McClelland/McCranie tins.

I respond with, “Oh he was your grandpa too? That rascal!”