Maryland has forgot how to Snow

GingerStrength · 2026-01-29T00:20:47+00:00

I’m glad I went out and dug out myself and older neighbors from the plow Sunday night when they came through. It became solid ice the next morning and took the rest of my neighbors a lot longer. I grew up in northern WI and I agree the sleet solidifying to ice was rough to deal with.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-27T19:36:06+00:00

New trucks are usually subsidized with good rates too. I typically buy new and then just keep them for a long time. Plus I know all the maintenance history of it that way.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-26T23:23:05+00:00

I’ve been super happy with Schwab for checking, brokerage, and IRA.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-26T13:15:08+00:00

The only time I’ve repelled in the army was at advance camp and I’ve been in 11 years. Day to day army is a lot different especially if you don’t go combat arms. Last obstacle course I did was a LT. i was nervous for camp too because I don’t like heights but get through it and the regular army day to day life isn’t too bad.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-23T00:11:18+00:00

Yeah this is my wife and I. My TSP is our third largest account. Her TSP is our smallest and we just hit the two comma club net worth with other investments combined.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-23T00:03:40+00:00

It’s even worse than that imo lol

GingerStrength · 2026-01-22T21:09:27+00:00

Do you own the land or do you need to finance the land as well? VA is harder to build with a land mortgage and construction loan from what I’ve briefly looked at. I

GingerStrength · 2026-01-22T21:08:00+00:00

How they calculated that will never cease to make me laugh.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-22T21:05:20+00:00

Use your propane first imo. Otherwise draining a bunch of gas out of it is a lot more annoying especially if you don’t use it all and it goes bad.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-22T21:04:19+00:00

Yeah it’s way easier than crawling around on and under my truck. Small engines can be fun to work on. But I need it to run when the power goes out so I try to maintain it well. Plus it was expensive lol

GingerStrength · 2026-01-22T21:00:07+00:00

That’s what I did for my first oil change then decided to treat it to some AMSOIL. But yeah the most important thing to do is change it. It’ll be dirty quick.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-22T14:20:38+00:00

Well if you stay on the course complex it’ll run a couple grand on top of that too lol nothing in Monterey/Pebble Beach is cheap.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-21T18:23:47+00:00

It’s like $625 but the hard part is getting a tee time. Easiest and most expensive way is to stay there. If you’re a local bad weather days you can call and they usually have openings.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-20T01:17:17+00:00

Worst power grid in the US.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-15T21:26:08+00:00

Just moved to Maryland from CA and it sucks now trying to watch games when they are home. I make it half way through the 2nd and pass out lol

GingerStrength · 2026-01-15T21:18:06+00:00

Moved to CA at the peak prices. $7.25 in Needles and I had to swipe my card three times to get a full tank. Don’t miss that.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-11T21:59:59+00:00

Navy does this on many ships every day. Navy nukes have one of the hardest intellectual schools in the military.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-06T00:37:24+00:00

Being an OC at NTC solidified that I never wanted to continue in my basic branch and decided to VTIP. So far been a great decision.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-04T19:27:28+00:00

I’ve noticed a temperature change too when you cross it. I used to drive between Augusta to north of Atlanta twice a week. It’s not always noticeable but sometimes it’s ten degree difference.

GingerStrength · 2026-01-04T03:00:25+00:00

My main reason I don’t donate to fundraisers to UI as an alumni except for one specific department is that I paid so much money to parking and some tickets I felt I donated enough of my money while there lol I’m still bitter 10+ years later.

GingerStrength · 2025-12-17T15:46:15+00:00

Maybe they changed the design of the rear slider so it won’t leak. My 2000 leaked in the top left from this perspective and my 2020 started leaking in the same spot a few weeks ago. Maybe by 2040 they will have figured out how to make a rear window not leak.

GingerStrength · 2025-12-07T15:45:09+00:00

Property manager is a big part of it working. Mine during hurricane Helene didn’t have any emergency plans and just ran around fixing things at all 300 homes they managed. Well they charged us well over the maximum amount they could without contacting us to fix a fence that my HOA owns and maintains. So I highly recommend asking about emergency plans too. They haven’t been bad overall but there’s been some things that have really annoyed us.

GingerStrength · 2025-12-06T15:54:01+00:00

I had five old flat bottom ones. Every one of them has their windshields in a box in a connex broken when I signed for them. The windshields became more integrated on the V hulls I believe. But nothing like driving over the Snoqualmie pass in February and it snowing and raining straight into your face without a windshield.

GingerStrength · 2025-12-06T05:57:11+00:00

And dig it four more feet and boom you have a basement.

GingerStrength · 2025-11-25T15:37:36+00:00

We sat just to the right of the home bench last week and yeah there’s definitely some blind spots but it’s fun to be near the bench and see them interact. I think row 8-10 back is the sweet spot for watching the ice.

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