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I furnished a good chunk of our BC house with really nice old stuff I picked up via online auctions for next to nothing. Have some quartersawn oak furniture, teak shelving, and other odds and ends that were dirt cheap. I also developed a sizeable record collection for very little that way, even...

Might as well continue the full derail at this point... They're mostly all built like crap, especially the volume brands out of Indiana, which is 95% of the models out there. It used to be there were a few brands that stood out, e.g. Winnebago, Airstream, Grand Design, but consolidation and the...

I'd be a lot more interested if it was from the Juno beachhead. Struggling these days to care much about anything American, except maybe dodging their produce at the grocery store. Incidentally, saw the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Rome a few weeks ago. There were Brits, Canucks, Aussies...

Similar for the Canadian-built trailers. We've looked at Safari Condo (best in the business, but pricey, especially when you option them out), Prolite (interesting designs, extremely light and reasonably priced, but a bit small for us bar one model nobody carries), Escape (nice fibreglass units...

I'll relax about Liverpool when they can handle a side who sits deep and hoofs it long to speedy wingers again. Wirtz looked great on the wing (Courtois nearly did them again!), and Bradley and Robbo were back to bossing the corners. It's no coincidence that reverting back to something like the...

We're in the market for a used small travel trailer, and I'll tell you, RV prices haven't dropped as much as I'd like. Sure, they're down from peak Covid insanity when you'd struggle to find a new one, but they've been pretty flat over the past couple years and are still well up from pre-Covid...

Most of those early Japanese Squiers of the era are now worth more than their Fender counterparts, as the US Fender factory was in a total mess at the time and making pure junk. Fender spun off Squier to compete with the excellent clones coming out of Japan (Tokai Hard Puncher being a personal...

Love the rig. Anyone playing their own concoction rather than just another muddy Ampeg fridge is good with me. The bass is classic, too. When I got my '76 P, it had the classic late '70s combo of a Badass bridge and DiMarzio Model P pickups with the cream covers. I swapped the originals back in...

Not that I'm aware of. The IBL seems to now mostly be a spot for local kids that didn't quite make it, prospects who've fallen out of the system, and a few guys from Latin America who will play for what I have to assume are pretty tiny salaries. There's also a few guys like Dalton Pompey, who...

I don't, well before my time in Hamilton unfortunately. I'm always impressed by the quality of play, though. It's obviously a step (or two) down from the majors, but there's lots of guys who have played in the show mixed in. Pretty much every game you're guaranteed to see a great play of some sort.

True for most sports, but especially for me with baseball. I love heading down to see the Hamilton Cardinals play in the Intercounty Baseball League, around since 1919. Perfect for a muggy summer night, watching the sun set with a beer in one hand and a hot dog in the other. Makes the slog of...

No shame there. I'm down to four basses and three amps now, having more was fun, but unnecessary. I also had the advantage of having a buddy who manages a Long & McQuade in the Vancouver area, as well as getting along well with the manager of the bass department in the main Vancouver store. This...

Weirdly, for me, budget isn't the constraint (though it is a factor, as we basically spend the equivalent of a decent used bike every time we go to Italy). I just kind of like only having one street bike, not really sure why. I get that this sounds silly considering I also have a track bike and...

Alright, add Gun-(infared-thermometer) Gene to the list!

For me, it's hard to define. For my street bike, it starts with a sense that what I have isn't working for me anymore. From there, when I see 'the one', I usually know it right away. Then I'll spend a month or two researching and comparing alternatives, invariably only to come back to the one I...

Have met "How-Was-It" Hank's brother, Tire-Pressure Troy many times. Will get out a magnifying glass to inspect the patterns on your tire, ask what pressures you're running, tell you what they're running, wonder whether a 0.25psi change might help them get better hook-up onto the back straight...

Landed back from two weeks of bliss in Italy to that score yesterday afternoon. That plus the sh*te weather did little to brighten the already sour mood. Trying to remind myself that they need time to sort out the system, and thinking back to how long it would take for Klopp to start new...

After our first pair of dogs passed away, we decided our next ones had to be small enough for my wife to easily lift, as our 80 lb dog's hip issues were tough on her with the many stairs in our house. We searched locally for a not-too-big-not-too-small dog for quite a while with no luck (lots of...

Agree with everything except re-signing Konate. He's been solid in flashes when the rest of the team is there to bail him out from his moments of distraction, but when they aren't at their best, he makes things much worse with his lack of consistency. He's come in for a lot of stick this year...

Insanely bad reffing aside, this was the first no good, awful, very bad week as a Liverpool supporter in a long time. Have heard a million theories as to why it's not working, from it all being Konate's fault, all being Wirtz's fault, Slot's fault for too much chopping and changing and never...