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For ticks, we used to light a match and hold it up to the tick. The tick will detach itself and try to crawl away from the fire and then you can dispose. I hope it's on your dog and not you! This method is not recommended, because when the tick detaches voluntarily it regurgitates into the wound, w...

I've removed hundreds of ticks from me and my dog(s), and honestly I've never found anything better than just pinching the tick body between thumb and forefinger solidly and slowly pulling it away from the skin. You get the head, and that's really all that's necessary. I also haven't seen any eviden...

Mine is an aluminum unibody MBP from 2011 or so. I know the charger does all sorts of fancy sensing stuff, but when I hooked it up to my homemade charger* it charged with no issue. At least on a short term basis (the solar power isn't all hooked up yet, so I just function tested it). Beyond just ne...

Mine is an aluminum unibody MBP from 2011 or so. I know the charger does all sorts of fancy sensing stuff, but when I hooked it up to my homemade charger* it charged with no issue. At least on a short term basis (the solar power isn't all hooked up yet, so I just function tested it). Beyond just ne...

The blogs that seem to do the best in the FIRE/lifestyle design niche offer a lot of transparency around finances, in my experience. People want to read your story and dream about how they can achieve it, and seeing the actual hard data helps with that I think.

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SLO, Santa Barbara, and San Diego are all great. Although I also loved LA when I lived there. But it takes some time to get into.

Thanks! I have roommates at the moment, and I'll definitely be staying in Nashville. But I've been hunting for another house for me to live in, sans roomies. It's hard because my criteria are strict (I need a place with either a garage or a basement and a second unit I can use for rental income) and...

Hello, all. I've been kicking around the forums lately (as it's been too hot here in Nashville to do any of the projects I'm working on), but haven't formally introduced myself. I'm 36, male, with a background in electrical engineering. Depending on how you define early retirement, I retired either ...

I hear your objections to amazon's death grip on epublishing, and the monopoly therein. I feel similarly about itunes for digital distro of music. But the fact is that they provide the ecosystem through which people who live all over the world can discover and purchase my music (and in very small dr...

S_W: I'm new here, and I'm reading through the journals as I get bored and/or the weather is too extreme for me to build things. Yours was really interesting. A few things I picked up on that I wanted to mention. You mention repeatedly how discouraging writing is for you because it's "a loser i...

Yeah, that's a different scenario than me (10 year old Honda Pilot).

My primary concern is charging via an inverter, since I wouldn't charge in my car regardless.

Cool, thanks for sharing. I have quite a bit of cash on hand I'm looking for places to invest, but with stocks and real estate both high in the areas I'm knowledgeable about I've been looking more to P2P. If you go with LC, the two criteria that I have deemed most important to my higher returns are...

1) Your accessory loads aren't the main things alternators power, and 2) Really, I misspoke. The alternator is certainly one limiting factor (anyone who's done car stereo installs will tell you alternator upgrades are a pretty standard part of running a speaker amp), but even beyond that is the wiri...

Cool, thanks for sharing. I have quite a bit of cash on hand I'm looking for places to invest, but with stocks and real estate both high in the areas I'm knowledgeable about I've been looking more to P2P.

Mine is an aluminum unibody MBP from 2011 or so. I know the charger does all sorts of fancy sensing stuff, but when I hooked it up to my homemade charger* it charged with no issue. At least on a short term basis (the solar power isn't all hooked up yet, so I just function tested it). Beyond just ne...

Now I'm confused whether you identify as asexual or not. You can't possibly be asking this about 7wb, can you? (If you're asking about the OP Millennial (Denise), she's asexual, as evidenced by the titles on the links and explained in one of her blog posts) I had read the website, but I was reading...

So, am I correct in seeing that your average ROR for Lending Club is about 8%?

Note just incase you're wondering - a Macbook pro is very difficult to charge without using an AC inverter and then the Apple AC to DC converter. There is a voltage/amps/resistance test that occurs between the computer and the charger before the charger will put out amps of any significance, so if ...

Now I'm confused whether you identify as asexual or not.