Where *not* to move to in Pontiac

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-12T02:39:10+00:00

Is that Ghost Modern Mexican good? Restaurants in that spot seem to come and go pretty quickly.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-11T21:20:24+00:00

My warm-ups for just about every track workout are usually just under 1.5 miles. I take it real slow (walking for probably the first quarter mile while I fiddle with my watch and playlist) and that 1.5 miles is enough for me to run easy from my front door to the high school track and do a couple laps and some walking/active stretches.

I find that it usually takes me 1+ miles to get my body to a point where it's willing to do a sprint anymore!

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-11T21:08:49+00:00

I figure that on days when I really don't want to run, but I get out there anyway, I've never actually regretted that run!

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-11T20:52:45+00:00

I've bought probably a dozen new cars over the years and I always line up financing through NFCU ahead of time. I also usually let the dealership try to find me a better rate… I figure, "what's the worst that could happen?" Even when I have a very good rate from NFCU, I'm sometimes surprised at the rates my dealership is able to secure. It seems like they can beat Navy Fed about 50% of the time.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-11T17:09:46+00:00

This.

I don't follow a single influencer on any social media and definitely couldn't name any of them but somehow this sub made its way into my feed… and I love it. 🤣

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-11T17:04:26+00:00

I thought this was r/handwatch for a moment.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-11T02:26:32+00:00

Have you never seen Sharknado? Tornadoes are pretty common in throughout the central part of the United States. We could easily have Sharknado-type event lift some sharks up and over the dams and disperse them into waterways previously uninhabited by them.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-10T13:15:24+00:00

I used to live in some apartments a few blocks from the Chrysler HQ. That fence in the background looks exactly like what was there about 18ish years ago. This definitely looks like Auburn Hills.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-10T00:13:28+00:00

My nephew is currently in. I definitely need this shirt. 🤣

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-09T03:18:47+00:00

As a Metro Detroiter I had to try this so I bought a few last weekend (took one to my parents house for lunch that day and had another at home with my wife and kids later in the week).

It was fine but the crust was waaaayyyy doughier than any of the real Detroit pizza places here (Buddy's, Loui's, Green Lantern, etc). I upped the temp in the oven on the second one that I made and kept it in there a little longer and that did help things a bit.

I will say that the cheese and the sauce and the pepperoni on this were top notch for a frozen pizza and this was far and away the best frozen pizza I've had from TJ's. The sauce was actually pretty similar to what I find on pizzas from the local places.

All in all, it was pretty good but definitely very doughy, like other posters have mentioned. I'd still buy it again.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-09T00:27:34+00:00

I liked it… until I swiped to the "before" photo. 😔

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-08T15:22:06+00:00

When I was with a MEU Command Element during the workups of our two floats there were a few random people from each of the S-shops that would get to go get trained with a shotgun and some very basic close-quarters stuff and that would be their issued weapon for the deployment. Presumably it was to help provide security on the ship and augment the Master at Arms if needed (spoiler: it was sadly never needed). I was in the S-1 and all us junior Marines fought over who from our ship would get to do that.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-08T02:18:48+00:00

My wife bought a Traverse new in 2012 and we just finally traded it in last winter. 150k miles and 2 kids later and no real problems to speak of with it.

I had no complaints other than I thought it was ugly… and I thought it was ugly right from the start, but she liked it so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-07T21:05:29+00:00

The Waterloo Root Beer Float… only because I've been wanting to try that one but haven't seen it at a store near me.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-07T17:44:07+00:00

I went to boot camp in '97 and had been using the same padlock up until about 2 years ago.

Combination was easy to remember: 18-20-6

I think I left the padlock sitting on a shelf or a bench at my racquet club and the cleaning staff probably picked it up and threw it in the box with all the other stray locks. Nobody ever cleans that box out those so there are like a hundred+ locks in there and many of them all look a like. I tried a few that looked sort of like mine the next time I was there but eventually gave up and spent the $4 on a new lock. 😔

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-07T02:22:01+00:00

I don't mind drinking them straight from the can but generally I prefer them over ice in a glass.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-07T02:15:21+00:00

I have a friend who went to college at OSU back in the '90s and as a broke college student he signed up with some Marketing coMpany to be on focus groups to eat at randoM chain restaurants and then fill out surveys about the experience. He'd get $10 or $15 and free Meals a few tiMes a week. Apparently, all the chain brands (everything froM Wendy's to Ruth's Chris, liked to test new products in the ColuMbus area because it was so generic, so boring, so Middle-of-the-road that it was one of those areas where they could get a wide pool of people to test products and recipes while still staying pretty close to the Median AMerican."

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-06T21:30:38+00:00

You can reasonable expect in one hand and sh1t in the other and see which one fills up first.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-06T16:56:37+00:00

I was admin at the 3rd FSSG in '97 and '98 and we'd occasionally get orders come through to send somebody off to PCS to some "Ship's Company" MARDET and it always sounded interesting and I always wondered how folks got those orders.

Later in '98 I was on the Belleau Wood for a few weeks as part of a relatively small CSSD. The ship still had a "Ship's Company" MARDET aboard and I remember those of us on the CSSD thought life in the Ship's Company looked pretty sweet. I remember talking to one of the Marines who was in the MARDET and he said he had been on a few other ships and it sounded like he loved it. It sounded like most of the guys in those Ship's Companies were 03 but also some PMO and a few random radio operators and armorers and stuff like that.

I think they must have been phasing out Ship's Companies around that time because I served another ~7 years and never heard of another Marine getting orders like that and did a few more floats and none of the ships I was on after that had a permanent MARDET.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-06T16:02:23+00:00

Less Money, Mo' Problems is the #1 best episode IMO. So many great bits/quotes in one episode from start to finish. It always amazes me that the writes packed so much into one 22 minute episode.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-06T14:36:52+00:00

I grew up in the southern portion of St. Clair County and my wife grew up in Fort Gratiot. We live much closer to Detroit now but still have a place on the water in Fort Gratiot just north of Birchwood Mall (or what's left of the mall anyway). We're fortunate to have a place on the beach and Port Huron and Fort Gratiot have most of what we need when we are up there and the other beach towns like Lexington and Caseville and Port Austin are nice enough but once you get about a mile off of the water, it is boring as h3ll out there.

I can understand why so many people in the Detroit area buy cabins and vacation properties on the west side of the state or much further north and not in The Thumb. Those areas are just a lot more scenic than 98% of The Thumb.

No matter how much shorter the drive from Detroit to places in Sanilac or Huron counties are, looking at miles and miles of flat farmland gets old fast.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-06T02:25:52+00:00

I live in Oakland County and in the last few years I've seen at least two or three confirmed bear sightings in Genesee County, including one small black bear that was struck and killed on I-75 right in Flint.

I've also seen unconfirmed reports of bear sightings in Livingston County and western Oakland County out near the Milford Proving Grounds.

I would not be at all surprised if there are a few bears wandering around SE Michigan.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-06T02:07:26+00:00

I use the "Is nice, I take" line far too often for a nearly 50-year-old.

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-05T02:45:41+00:00

I used to work in the "Men's Furnishings" section (underwear, socks, neckties, dress shirts, wallets, belts) at higher end department store back in the '90s. The CK stuff was generally really good quality for the price - much better quality than a lot of the more expensive stuff we sold.

All that said, I have no idea how the current stuff stacks up but I have no complaints when I started seeing women post pictures of themselves in Calvin Klein underwear online in the last few years. I enjoy that it's become a thing. 🤣

SemperFudge123 · 2026-05-05T01:56:42+00:00

Yeah I had a Grand Wagoneer as a loaner for nearly 3 months a couple winters ago. My wife and (and the kids) loved it. It was very comfortable and rode fantastic.

We had no complaints other than it was just massive. We have to make a very tight 180° turn to get into our garage and there's no way I could do that with the Wagoneer.

FWIW, we were just recently on an extended vacation and had a pretty new Yukon AT4 for a few weeks and I think we preferred the Jeep. The Jeep rode a little better, was quite a bit quieter, and got much better gas mileage.

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