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So, I've been watching random YouTube videos about accents; mainly accents of the US. Some of the things I do or say, I didn't realize they were related to Michigan or sometimes Northern Midwest states. There's a few I enjoy in particular. A couple are specifically about my home state of Michigan. A couple are generalizations of certain states / regions of the US. Of course not everyone in a...

Another inflation report has come out and "gasp"... it is bigger than it has been for awhile. The report ... The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.8 percent in April on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.6 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 4.2 percent before...

So in about three years I am retiring.  And the first major thing I would like to do is take my family on the vacation of a lifetime.  I have already been planning and putting feelers out there to the family about what would be their once in a lifetime vacation.  I haven't let on to them what I want to do quite yet until I can make a final decision on the destination. I love to travel and...

It's not very often that I surprise myself; especially in a good way. Last night, not only did I surprise myself, but my family too. I never really took to cooking. Never really liked it much to be honest. I still don't really like doing it, but I'm getting better in spite of that. Well, I've never made my own fried chicken... like REAL fried chicken. Last night, I decided to give it a whirl....

This is getting beyond ridiculous. This group Cyber Ninjas should have never been allowed to do what they are. A completely partisan organization that is trying to do all of this in secret and block anyone from seeing what they are doing. . They are pretending to be cops and trying to deny people access, even after a real policeman told her where to go.

If you had to pick something about yourself that you would like to improve or change what would it be? Not your physical looks, but in your personality. Please, no politics or religion. Thank you. 

The B.L.S. has released another month of data . How many guesses do you need to determine direction of prices? The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.6 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.4 percent in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The March 1-month increase was the largest rise since a 0.6-percent...

Every day, my kids remind me of how awesome they are in several ways. My daughter is nearly 18 and I can only remember one time that she said something along the lines of hating me, which she quickly recanted and said that she hated that I was punishing her [I made her scrub cabinets for mouthing off to me at 13 years old]. My nearly 13 year old son has never said anything along the lines...

Going back to my roots . . Take A Ride On Heavy Metal

A tribute of a master, just because .

It's time! The political atmosphere is poisonous. People are attacking, killing, and maiming others, not because of war, famine, or pestilence, but because of the political views we hold. We have moved to the point of our politics defining who we will associate with rather than our humanity. We are becoming increasingly a society that is so divided by our political affiliations that the long...