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  1. Have you ever changed the oil in your vehicle? With that idea in mind and a little tongue-in-cheek I came up with this song:
  2. While working on the song about chips, one of my daughters came home with a box of bread goodies another vendor gave her. In the box was some loaves of Rasin Bread. Have you ever had any raisin bread? How do you like it? This is what I came up with about having raisin bread:
  3. Try this forum https://carnivoretalk.com/ It belongs to our very own @Brother_Bliss
  4. Do you watch YouTube videos? Do have some favorite ones you like to watch. Have you had some of those favorite ones stop posting on a regular basis, quit all together or move to Patreon where you have to pay to watch them? This is a song about just that subject: Do like potato chips? Are you one who just sticks to the original plain chip ... or do you like the flavored chips? This is a song about shopping on the chip aisle:
  5. Here is an example of how AI can be useful: We have been working on my daughter's van. We had to replace the electric cooling fan. After getting the van put back together, we found that the cooling issues went beyond the burned-out fan. Her van has a "captive cooling system" which means, it does not have a radiator cap - instead, the reservoir bottle is pressurized while the vehicle is ion operation and the cap seals tightly to hold the pressure. The reservoir bottle is plastic, and we discovered it has cracks in the bottom, so we had to replace that, too. When we got everything back together - again, we found there is also a small leak near the top of the radiator. OK - we can just use some 'stop leak' ... that's what we used to do it when I was younger. So, I went to the AI search and asked what the best stop leak is to use for this van. Of course, to do so, I specified what the van is. Well, the AI directly told me NOT to use stop leak in that vehicle due to the captive cooling system and a few other reasons. Seems I could do serious and possibly irreparable damage by using the stop leak. That seemed a bit odd and/or extreme - so, I used another AI and asked that one about the stop leak. I got the same type of response. It also told me not to do it unless it was strictly an emergency and we were just trying to limp it off the road or get it back home. So, I asked a mechanic I know. An actual human mechanic who makes his living fixing cars. He verified what the AI's told me. We have a new radiator ordered and should be able to install it next week. In this case, the AI did not give us wrong information, hallucinate or make stuff up. It actually saved us money and headaches.
  6. I wonder if that holds true for those that have to 'sit and wait' ...
  7. Very nice! They look 'old school' and warming
  8. One of the woodturners I watch on YouTube lives in Croatia ...
  9. The thing is that I do know the history of the Russellites, so I do not need to study about them. That was not the context of the comment. The comment was about searching YouTube to get information about their meetings. I pass many churches in my travels. Most of them have signs for drivers to see with their meeting times posted. As I go by, I am aware the building is a church. Due to the size of the font, I can easily identify what religion that particular church is. However, I could not tell you when any of them hold meetings even though the times are clearly posted - so, when I get home, I certainly would not look up the churches I drove by to see when their meetings are. Likewise, I am not going to search YouTube to see when Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, Russellite or Bible Students meet - there is no need to since I am not going to attend their services. There is a huge difference in knowing the history of some religions, knowing their beliefs, researching their beliefs and researching when they hold meetings in my area.
  10. I, too, was merely commenting on what we did. Some time back, my daughter went to the dealership to see about getting a new car. At the time, she had a car that fit into the 'sporty car' category. She cleaned and vacuumed it before we went. The deal they offered, while good, was not what she expected when they allowed for her trade-in. She was about to walk out when the salesman tried one more thing. He took the manager of the dealership to see and ride in her car. When the manager saw the excellent condition her car was in, they raised their trade-in amount to a more realistic amount. She made the deal. It fit what you said, cleaning the car helped in that situation. Since we had gotten such a good deal, my wife wondered what kind of deal she could get. I called the same salesman, and we negotiated a deal via the phone and email. She had a car that had issues. I told the salesman what we had, and he offered a trade-in amount for well above what we could have gotten for the car if we had tried to sell it. We knew and they knew the trade-in was not worth the amount they were offering. My wife worried about the car and insisted on washing it and vacuuming it before we went to the dealer. She was afraid when they saw her car they would want to change the deal. When we got there, they had all the paperwork ready. We went straight to the salesman's desk, and he started with the paperwork she needed to sign. The price was as negotiated - nothing had changed. When we asked if they wanted to look at the trade-in he said they didn't need to - that the trade-in was going straight to the auction 'as-is'. In fact, they had already moved her tag to the new car. My wife still has that new car ... of course, it is no longer a new car, and it's paid-off. The difference was, they wanted to sell my daughter's car for a good profit - which they did in less than two days and got way more than they allowed her. They knew they would not get the allowed amount for my wife's car and had made a deal accordingly ... so they didn't care if the car was clean or had gas. They absorbed the 'loss' since they had made two sales to the same family and made a cumulative profit they were happy with.
  11. It is used for hand washing the dishes, not machine washing them

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    John
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    Married - 42 years and going strong
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