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Bearing Model SF4411VPX1 Bearings
Type Angular Contact Ball Bearing
Description Excavator Bearing
HS Code 8482103000
Sizes 220x290x32mm
d 220 mm
D 290 mm
B 32 mm
mass ***KG
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SF4411VPX1 Excavator Bearing 220x290x32mm refers to the rolling industry, that is, non-ferrous metals, ferrous metals and non-metallic products rolling
Use for calendering roller roll diameter and roller bearings
Normally, four-row cylindrical roller bearings are used to withstand radial loads,
thrust rollers or thrust ball bearings, and angular contact ball or radial roller bearings
Most of the use the way of oil and gas lubrication or oil mist lubrication and grease the lubrication
SF4411VPX1 Excavator Bearing 220x290x32mm have different types on configuration of rolling mill
was mainly used two sets of aligning roller bearings mounted side by side on the same roll neck
This configuration basically meet the current production conditions, rolling speed of up to 600rpm
But with the speed of the increase, its shortcomings more prominent
bearing life is short, large consumption, low precision products, roll neck wear serious, roll axial movement and so on
When heavy load low speed, coupled with thrust roller bearings, with a small axial clearance to withstand the thrust load
When the rolling speed is high, with angular contact ball bearings, not only the limit speed is high, and the work of the axial clearance can be strictly controlled
So that the roller is tightly guided, and can withstand the general axial load force
This type of bearing configuration not only has a long bearing life, high reliability
but also has high precision rolling, easy to control and many other advantages
so the most widely used, mostly for wire rod mill, sheet mill, foil mill, double support roll Rolling mill cold rolling mill and hot rolling mill
Design of SF4411VPX1 Excavator Bearing 220x290x32mm , SF4411VPX1 Excavator Bearing 220x290x32mm burns because of many factors, generally very normal, the typical aluminum foil mill angular contact bearing burn is a worldwide problem
I personally think that lubrication is very important
oil mist lubrication effect Slightly better, as well as bearing installation clearance problems
Maintenance: keep the lubricating oil path open
Choosing lubricant according to the provisions, regular add enough lubricant
Make sure that the rolling surface of the roller and the sliding surface and the ribs keep a good oil and wax lubrication
Regularly check the seals, the timely replacement of damaged seals
To ensure that the sealing performance of the bearings to prevent water, iron oxide into the bearing, to prevent leakage of bearing lubricants
SF4411VPX1 Excavator Bearing 220x290x32mm
Product Model:

Structure: Excavator Bearing
Inside Diameter: 220 mm
Outside Diameter: 290 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Seals Type: Sealed/Shield/Open
Material: Chrome steel (Gcr15)
Precision Rating: P0-P2, ABEC1-ABEC9
: Neutral/OEM/As per your request
Weight: KG
Payment term: T/T, Western Union or Paypal
Delivery time: 3 working days

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Monday, July 25, 2005

My chest is glowing

Mr. Diva and I finally cleaned out the pool last night. But only after I threatened to lose my ever-lovin' mind. We were sitting at the table enjoying our fabulous, out of season turkey dinner and the children were just talking and talking and talking and I looked at Mr. Diva, placed my hand lovingly on his arm and said, "I have been cooped up in this house with your offspring for over a week now. It's too hot for them to play outside. The pool is disgusting. We have done every craft I know how to do. The children are dabbling in nuclear physics out of sheer boredom. If I don't get out of this house tomorrow, someone will surely die." He only halfway grinned before he realized that I was dead freakin' serious. He shoved a huge bite in his mouth and mumbled around the food, "I'll clean out the pool as soon as I'm done eating, dear. And would you like to work out tomorrow night? Ooh and isn't tomorrow night Ladies' Night, too? Why don't you go and I'll just take care of the kids." I don't think he necessarily wanted a night with the kids, but I think he feared for their safety if I didn't get a break.

So after dinner the five of us cleaned out the pool and refilled it. While I, in an obsessive/compulsive frenzy, spent 45 minutes working the wrinkles out of the floor, the husband and children sprayed each other and me with the hose. However, I didn't cackle with delight like they did when they got sprayed. When I was exhausted and had broken three nails from pulling the liner into submission, I found a lawnchair and sat down to watch the circus. Suddenly I heard quacking. Lots and lots of quacking. And then the flapping of wings.

The old momma cat had the duck!! The poor duck was flapping her heart out, trying to get away and was doing a pretty good job, until she went too low in anticipation of the surface of the water and the cat got her by the tail feathers. I yelled, "THE CAT'S GOT THE DUCK!!!" and the chase was on. The kids took off toward the pond, running, screaming and squalling. Mr. Diva took off running as well, but only got a few feet before his soaking wet jean shorts started falling down, so the run to the pool was more like a hitch with a hop and a hobble. I was doubled over laughing at my family running to this poor duck's rescue. Fortunately they reached the pair and he beat the cat off the duck and all was well. But my goodness, I got an ab workout last night from laughing at the scene.

So today, the kids and I decided to swim in our crystal clear pool. But alas, the water was too cold for me, so I sat in a lawnchair and watched them. We were only outside 20 minutes before they were all fighting and calling names and my threats to dunk them till they bubbled stopped working so I made everyone get out. 20 minutes outside and my chest is now glowing red. 20 minutes and I have a very crispy lady-bug. 20 minutes and I now feel like I'm a walking volcano. Of course, did my legs get any sun? My legs were out there just as much as my chest was, but they are still pearly freakin' white. Figures.

I am supposed to leave to work out in 9 minutes.

My husband is still not home.

Remember what I said over the weekend about chaining the children to the treadmill in order to get a workout in? That may take place if he doesn't get here soon. I have to get out of here because the donuts - they are calling still. The kids ate donuts for snack this afternoon. I told them they could have them after dinner, too. Breakfast? You betcha kids. They'll all end up in diabetic comas, but at least the demon donuts will be gone and will quit taunting me with their sugary goodness.

Hillbilly Mom said...

"There's no duck in the oven, dear Diva, dear Diva." Did I get that song started in your head again? Our cats are murderers, too. We don't have a duck. Their favorites are these baby mole- looking things that are like mice but with different noses.

Our pool got a slimy bottom because HH can't be bothered to put the freaking cover on it. He poured in some algicide, and woohoo, no more slime. We leave the wrinkles because we're lazy, and because it takes a week for the well water to warm up enough for swimming.

~April~ said...

I'm glad the duck survived, duck tastes nasty anyway.

I'm a white girl too. Anytime I'm in the sun I burn to oblivion. I don't know why I bother. I was out for an hour and 15 minutes or so watching the 4th of July parade in Cody, WY and I'm still peeling!!

So, where do you workout?

Redneck Diva said...

HillbillyMom-Thanks for getting that song goin' again. I woke up with it gone, but hmh, now it's back. You're a jewel. LOL

This old momma cat of ours is one heck of a huntress, but we'd rather she just leave the duck alone. That poor duck is a survivor, outwitting the hawks and foxes - I'd hate to think her demise was a domesticated cat.

April-I agree with you on the taste of duck! NAS-TEE. My uncle fixed it one year for Thanksgiving. We went to McDonald's when we left their house.

Why is it my children can tan like little indians, yet I burn to a crisp in minutes? Heck, their father is a freakin' REDHEAD and he can even tan! It's so not fair.

MrsCoach2U said...

Duck, prepared the correct way, is not NASTY! Thank you very much! As the wife of a hunter who found my "duck stash" in the back pasture, I've learned to fix it. I used to throw it over the back pasture fence after he put it in the freezer. Apparently, the local coyotes thought it was a Daffy Buffet and kept us up all one night. I was found out! Try making jerky or cutting it into small strips and frying it like steak fingers. Lots of gravy, of course to cover the ducky taste.

Redneck Diva said...

Gravy makes everything better, doesn't it?

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Chitwan, Nov. 3: The Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur, has started Ph.D course in forestry too.

Deputy Director of Research and Information Directorate of the University, Dr Balram Bhatta, said that the Ph.D course in forestry has been commenced from this academic year in Forestry Campus situated in Hetauda.

The University established some five years ago was running Ph.D degree only in agriculture science and veterinary science.

Registrar of the University, Prof Dr Surya Kanta Ghimire, said that the Ph.D course was advanced as per the target to run the Ph.D classes in four years of the University’s establishment.

Prior to this, most of the students used to fly abroad to earn their Ph.D for lack of the doctorate study in the country.

Deputy Director Bhatta said that relevance of the Ph.D programme has increased for its practical research in the country. He added that the University has utilized the professors and students for the research activities.

Registrar Ghimire said that preparations have been upped to launch classes on environment science and bio-diversity too. RSS

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Highways and Byways, Days 24-25: West Plains, MO to HOME

Our day began at Grand Gulf State Park near Thayer, Missouri.  Called "Missouri's Little Grand Canyon" by locals, the landform is actually a collapsed cave system from a prehistoric gulf.  The chasm stretches for nearly a mile with a depth of 130 feet.  Trails, boardwalks, and overlooks offer views of the canyon and take visitors into the depths.  Grand Gulf is an impressive natural wonder and offered the perfect place to hide our Missouri letterbox, which was welcome news since we were only three miles from entering Arkansas.

Grand Gulf State Park
Our mission accomplished, we drove into Arkansas on US-63, a highway we would follow as we swept across the state's northeast corner, winding our way back toward Georgia.  Since we had radically shortened our Arkansas itinerary, all we were hoping for was a spot to hide our Arkansas letterbox in this two-hour leap from Missouri to Memphis.  We found a lot more.

Near the Missouri border, a large bird near the roadside caught our attention.  When the town of Ravenden (pop. 511) was established along the Spring River in 1883, the founders named their hamlet Ravenden Junction (later the junction was dropped).  No one is certain why that name was selected, especially since the state of Arkansas is not in the natural range of any raven.  (Nor do ravens live in any of the cities Edgar Allan Poe inhabited, for that matter.)  However, we did see one raven in Ravenden today—the town's 12-ft mascot, though there is some justification for identifying this fellow as a phoenix.  First erected in 1991 by the town's volunteer fire department, the initial big bird was constructed of fiberglass, a material which the town learned five years later would burn.  After the first raven was torched by vandals, its fiberglass replacement met a similar fate within two weeks.  "Nevermore!" said Ravenden's leaders, and the third and current bird, built with stucco and cement and coated with fire retardant paint, has guarded over the town for 16 years.

Fifteen miles south of Ravenden, we arrived in Powhatan (pop. 50) on the Black River, home of Powhatan Historic State Park, a potential location for our letterbox hide.  A thriving riverport in the late 1800s, the town dwindled as it was bypassed by the railroad and roads overtook river passage as the preferred transportation for the populace.  The county seat moved to nearby Walnut Ridge in 1962, but the state park preserves and interprets the old Powhatan courthouse and a few other 19th century structures, one of which now shelters a letterbox.

Powhatan Courthouse and Park Visitor Center
Like the county government, we moved on down the road to Walnut Ridge (pop. 4,925), a town we expected to breeze through on our way south.  As we drove through town on US-63, we noticed lots of local businesses had their windows decorated with images related to the sixties and the Beatles.  When we stopped to take photos of the decorations, we found ourselves in front of a shop called Imagine.  Was it just a coincidence?

Of course, we couldn't leave Walnut Ridge without learning more.  The Imagine gallery seemed like a good place to start, so we entered and asked, "What's up with all the Beatles decorations?"  As we were soon to learn, we had chanced upon the epicenter of the town's Beatlemania.  Shop owner and retired art teacher Carrie Mae Snapp, a gregarious town native, spent the next fifteen minutes regaling us with the story of the 1964 incident that sparked the current British fever.  She should know; she was there.

On a fateful Friday night in September, 1964, Carrie's teenage neighbor and a couple of friends were at the local town hangout when they heard a large airplane circling the old World War II training field after midnight.  Concerned that the aircraft might be experiencing difficulty, the boys went to the airfield where they spied the private jet that had just landed.  Much to their surprise, the passengers who exited the plane and headed for a small aircraft were the Beatles, who had just played in Dallas near the end of their first American tour.  After a grueling three weeks of performances, the musicians planned to rest up at a nearby Missouri ranch before ending their tour in New York.

As it will, word spread fast in the small town and by the time the Beatles returned to Walnut Ridge's small airport on Sunday morning to board the charter, a crowd of 300, including Carrie Mae, was waiting to greet them.  Carrie gave us all the details of how she had touched George Harrison's arm and her father snapped photos of the Fab Four with his Brownie camera.  From the local newspaper, here's the story in Carrie's own words.

L to R:  Ringo, George, John, & Paul (Photos courtesy of Carrie Mae Snapp)
Although the famous musicians from Liverpool probably never gave another thought to this momentary stopover in the course of their blockbuster career, the encounter meant much more to the community.  Indelible memories of this providential event have remained an important part of Walnut Ridge history.  Last year, Carrie's brother Charles, a member of the local tourism committee,  spearheaded the very successful first annual 'Beatles at the Ridge' festival on the anniversary of the Beatles' stopover, complete with craft vendors, local talent, a beauty pageant and live music, headlined by Liverpool Legends, a Beatles impersonator band managed by George Harrison's sister.

Beatles tribute sculpture
At the festival, a local metal artist unveiled his sculptural rendition of the Beatles' iconic Abbey Road album cover.  The sculpture features life-size steel plate silhouettes of the Beatles in front of a 10' x 20' aluminum backdrop of Abbey Road.  The street scene incorporates hidden references to Beatles song titles and album names, as well as specific allusions to Walnut Ridge and the 1964 encounter.  Executed with a Dremel engraver, the tribute is located at Beatles Park on Abbey Road (formerly 2nd Street).

Leaving Walnut Ridge after disentangling ourselves from the Beatlemania web, we drove on to Tupelo, stopping only briefly to find our only Arkansas letterbox on this trip in Caraway (pop. 1,279), a lovely memorial to the letterbox planter's mother located near her grave in the town cemetery.

The following morning, we planted a letterbox at the location of Elvis's birthplace in Tupelo.  The site has expanded since we visited it a few years ago and now includes Elvis's childhood home and church, a museum with memorabilia, a memorial chapel funded by Elvis himself, and other new structures under construction.
Elvis's childhood church, where he first began singing
After securing a spot for our letterbox, we hit the highway toward home.  We again found ourselves monitoring the XM weather radio in an attempt to stay ahead of a weather system.  When it caught up with us east of Birmingham, we stopped for lunch to allow it to take the lead, following along until we caught up with it again near Atlanta.

As we entered the metro Atlanta area with its impenetrable traffic, careless drivers and crime-centered local news reports, we asked ourselves why we continue to live in the area.  We've certainly seen many alternatives.  It certainly sets the mind wandering...

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This squirrel near Grand Gulf State Park was determined to own the road.
Grand Gulf State Park
Courtroom at Powhatan, AR
Triple layer of security in old Powhatan Courthouse safe
Wooden gutters and downspout at Powhatan log cabin
Walnut Ridge's most famous street
Local businesses went all out to celebrate this year's festival.
Detail from Beatles sculpture
Rice harvesting near Bono, Arkansas
Elvis had an identical twin.  Imagine if he had lived.


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St. Thomas Aquinas' Biblical Approach to Theology

Today is the Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas! In honor of that, I thought I'd cover some ground I've been over before, namely, Thomas' role as a model of Catholic theology and his primary focus on Scripture. Perhaps most striking--at least to some--is Thomas' insistence on the priority of the literal-historical sense of Scripture.

In short, for Thomas, Theology is a biblical endeavor. This, I suppose, will come as a surprise to some of my non-Catholic friends. Nevertheless, as I'll explain, since he's consistently held out by the Church as the exemplar theologian (the "Common Doctor"), Catholic theologians should be sure to, likewise, make "the study of the sacred page. . . the very soul of theology" (Vatican II, Dei Verbum, 24).

St. Thomas' Significance

Throughout the ages, Thomas' work has consistently been held out as a model for Catholic theology by the Catholic Church. Consider some of the following quotes from various popes. I've added some italics.
Pope John Innocent VI, Serm. De. St. Thomas (c. 1352): “[Thomas’] teaching above that of others, the canonical writings alone excepted, enjoys such a precision of language an order of matters, a truth of conclusions, that those who hold to it are never found swerving from the path of truth, and he who dare assail it will always be suspected of error.”

“Among the Scholastic Doctors, the chief and master of all towers Aquinas, who, as Cajetan observes, because ‘he most venerated the ancient doctors of the Church, in a certain way seems to inherited the intellect of all’ [cited in Pius XI, Stud. Ducem. #5]… he is rightly and deservedly esteemed the special bulwark and glory of the Catholic faith. With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a love of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching. . . Moreover, the Angelic Doctor… single-handed… victoriously combated the errors of former times, and supplied invincible arms to put those to rout which might in aftertimes spring up.Pope Leo XIII, Aeterni Patris (On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy), 17, 19 (1879).

The book par excellence whence students can study Scholastic Theology with much profit is the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas… It is our wish, therefore, that professors be sure to explain to all their pupils its method, as well as the principle articles relating to Catholic faith.”Pope Leo XIII, Depuis le jour (On the Education of Clergy), VI, 100 (1899).

“Indeed, those principles of wisdom useful for all time, which the holy Fathers and Doctors passed on to us, have been organized by no one more aptly than by Thomas, and no one has explained them more clearly.—Pope St. Pius X, In praecipius (Letter to the Roman Academy), I, 124 (1904)
“. . . Thomas should be called not only the Angelic, but also the Common or Universal Doctor of the Church…”—Pope Pius XI, Studiorum Ducem (On St. Thomas Aquinas), 11 (1923)

“It should be clear… why the magisterium has repeatedly acclaimed the merits of St. Thomas’ thought and made him the guide and model for theological studies… The magisterium’s intention has always been to show how St. Thomas is an authentic model for all who seek the truth. In his thinking, the demands of reason and the power of faith found the most elevated synthesis ever attained by human thought.Pope John Paul II, Fides et Ratio (On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason), 78 (1998).
St. Thomas as a Biblical Theologian and His View of the Literal Sense

While Thomas' influence on the history of Catholic theology is seldom disputed, what is often overlooked is the fact that Thomas saw the study of theology as a biblical exercise. An excellent overview can be found in Christopher Baglow, "Rediscovering St. Thomas Aquinas as Biblical Theologian," Letter & Spirit 1 (2005): 137-146. You can purchase the volume here (it is full of a number of other excellent articles, including one by my friend and co-blogger, Brant Pitre).

Baglow begins by pointing out that, as many scholars explain, for Thomas there is a "unity between sacred Scripture and sacred doctrine" (137). He goes on to cite Thomas Aquinas, who wrote, "Only the canonical scriptures are the standard of faith (sola canonica scriptura est regula fidei)" (141).

Baglow highlights Thomas' treatment of Scripture in article ten of the first question of the Prima Pars of his famous Summa Theologiae:
The multiplicity of these senses does not produce equivocation or any other kind of multiplicity, seeing that these senses are not multiplied because one word signifies several things, but because the things signified by the words can be themselves types of other things. Thus in Holy Writ no confusion results, for all the senses are founded on one — the literal — from which alone can any argument be drawn, and not from those intended in allegory, as Augustine says (Epis. 48). Nevertheless, nothing of Holy Scripture perishes on account of this, since nothing necessary to faith is contained under the spiritual sense which is not elsewhere put forward by the Scripture in its literal sense.
Expounding on this passage, Baglow writes:
"Thomas holds that only the literal sense of Scripture is available to theological argumentation. That is because he maintains that all the truths necessary for salvation--the only proper 'content' of doctrine and theology--are to be found in the literal sense of Scripture.

It is not that he denies the possibility or utility of the spiritual senses. Rather, he insists on an essential, foundational status for the literal sense. To be legitimate, all spiritual interpretation must be based on the literal sense. This rules out any allegorizing that does not first deal with the literal meaning of the text" (142).
Suffice it to say, this is probably not what most people expect from St. Thomas. In fact, Thomas' strong biblical emphasis is positively shocking to many Christians who have never read him. To those who think Catholicism ignores Scripture, think again: this is the man the Church holds up as the model of Catholic theology!

In particular, I'd recommend his commentaries on biblical books to those interested in Scripture study. They are an absolute gold mine. Fortunately for us, English translations of his commentaries are now readily available in print, many with the Latin text included!

John Henry said...

Thanks for the post. I'm currently working through Kreeft's Summa of the Summa. Do you have a recommendation on secondary sources to supplement this reading. Or perhaps even a proposed reading list for beginners on which of his books to start with, and in what order? Once I've completed Kreeft's abridgement, his introduction recommends that I read W. D. Ross' "Aristotle." But after that, I'm open to more suggestions.

John Bergsma said...

It is really instructive to read his commentaries. He anticipates some of the moves made in contemporary biblical interpretation, like concern for the literary form of the text, and the structure of the entire book for understanding each individual passage.

Nathan Eubank said...

Great post. My students sometimes take this to mean that Catholics affirm sola Scriptura (they don't affirm the slogan of course, but they believe what it signifies). It's worth pointing out that for Thomas the "literal sense" is not reducible to the intention of the human author ("Since the literal sense is that which the author intends, and since the author of Holy Writ is God, Who by one act comprehends all things by His intellect, it is not unfitting, as Augustine says [Confess. xii], if, even according to the literal sense, one word in Holy Writ should have several senses."). For Catholics the intention of the divine author is discovered by reading in light of the whole canon as well as the Tradition (see CCC; DV). Catholics don't believe it is necessary or possible to prove that all Catholic dogma is "there" in Scripture in the intent of the human authors. As Dei Verbum 9 puts it, "it is not from Sacred Scripture alone that the Church draws her certainty about everything which has been revealed. Therefore both sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture are to be accepted and venerated with the same sense of loyalty and reverence."
I apologize for the long comment! This issue is much on my mind because of the confusion of my students.

Anonymous said...

thanks but can the motion of God in present day be explained by Thomas's definition of theology?


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SOL Island Auto Conaree became the first team to make the Finals of 2015/2016 playoffs when they edged Flow 4G Cayon Rockets 2-1 on Wednesday (May 25) at the Warner Park Football Stadium.

It was a party atmosphere at the ground in anticipation of an action packed evening of a double header that lived up to its billings, as Conaree took care of business.

Playing in the evening’s opening matchup, a 60th minute strike from Marvin Charles was the deciding factor in a high intensity game that saw four yellow cards being shown and one leading to a red card.

Conaree’s Errol O’ Loughlin opened the scoring in the 33rd minute, before Charles added to the tally.

Javiem Blanchette pulled one back for Cayon, but good defending from the opposition was enough to give the Conaree team their second win in the playoffs.

Conaree opened with a 3-2 win over the defending champions on Saturday (May 21st) with Captain O’Loughlin scoring twice in the 23rd and 54th minute and Kadeem Lewis netting in the 45th minute.

Jerome Richards (13th minute) and Shaquille Pringle (76th minute) were the goal scorers for St. Pauls.

In the other game from Wednesday evening, Winners Circle Newtown United, the team that dominated the Premier League season, was eliminated from the playoffs after St. Pauls edged them 1-nil.

Playing under damp conditions, both teams fought hard, but neither could have broken the deadlock until the 90+4 minute of the game Joash Leader slotted home an easy shot to break the hearts of the pro-Newtown fans in the stadium.

The defeat was their second in as many games, as they went under to Flow 4G Cayon Rockets in the opening match of the playoff.

Jerome Richards scored in the 13th minute, while Shaquille Pringle netted in the 76th minute as the chief destroyers in that match.

Action continues tomorrow Saturday (May 28th) with a double header; Cayon taking on St. Pauls and Conaree locking horns with Newtown.

Winner of the Cayon-St. Pauls clash will progress to the best of three championship game against Conaree that will be played in the middle of June.


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Monday, July 12, 2010

Take That Chance And Trust

Sometimes it's necessary.  It might be a little scary.  Your palms begin to sweat, your heart skips a beat.  And for one moment you think you shouldn't do it.  But when you do, when you take that chance, it can be worth it.

I'm slow to trust.  I'm quick to love.  I do not like to see people I care about in pain.  Sometimes when I'm upset about something it just slips out.  But not all of it.  Sometimes though it's important to do it.  To take that leap.  To trust that your friend, confidant, whoever, will understand.  That instead of turning their head they will look you in the eye.  Instead of running, they stay.

Trusting that person with whatever your feeling is tough.  While I can sit here and say telling someone about it, sharing that burden or feeling makes it better, it doesn't mean I always do it.  But I've noticed over the last couple days that people can surprise you.  I got a random text message from a cousin on a day when I really needed it.  I had coffee with a friend who told me whenever I need to talk, she is there.

Just like that.  So take that jump.  Make that move.  Try.  Try to trust.

Remember the sunset.  Live life the best you can.  Love as much as you can.  And when you feel like you are sinking, or stuck, or just not whole... remember there is always a sunrise.  There is always another day, another sunset.

  1. Have you ever heard "Standing Outside the Fire" by Garth Brooks? It is one of my all time favorite songs, and I think you would really like its message... and you might even like the song if you like country at all :)

  2. Heather, that is a FANTASTIC song! My younger brother has Autism and that is one of the only songs he knows :) But I haven't thought about it's message in a long time or really sat and listened to the lyrics. Which is what I am now doing while enjoying a cup of coffee. Thanks!

  3. I love the inspiration, Now going to look for the song :)

  4. I love it when just the right person calls or texts or even emails, right out of the blue. :-)

    It's almost as if we send out silent distress signals.

  5. Margaret, I think you may be right, a silent distress signal is a good way to describe it. Welcome to The Sunset Won't!

Life is busy, thanks for taking a moment to leave a note!


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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Bentley Barnato GT

Bentley Barnato GT

Named after Woolf Barnato, the most famous of the "Bentley Boys" - a group of wealthy racing drivers in the 1920s - the Barnato GT is an imaginary four-door coupé for Bentley based on the Continental GT platform.

It would cost a few grand more than the Flying Spur due to its sportier design and driving dynamics, making it a truer rival to Aston Martin's Rapide. The Flying Spur is the laid-back lazy cruiser of the range, while the Barnato GT is the fastback racy bruiser. And although the new, lower roofline does cut into some rear-seat headroom, practicality has been given some consideration in the form of a hatchback rear opening - suitable for carrying anything from your Waitrose shopping bags to your Manchester United away kit.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

The TR: Wingnut Revolt, Congressional Attacks and a Royal Promotion

Are you in the holiday spirit yet? We are already sick of all the Christmas episodes, red Starbucks cups and SHOPPING PRESSURE happening right now. Not that there isn't enough going on in the world to take our minds off things. Read on for the full scoop, and a very special surprise announcement from the original Queen of Snark.

Saturday, y'all. That's when the first vote on the Senate health care bill will take place, and no one's really sure if Reid has his 60 votes to pass it. Somehow we doubt that you'll be watching what happens on the old C-SPAN, but expect to hear all about it on the Sunday morning shows. Admittedly, less attention has been paid lately to the passing of the bill as people focus on the content (well, sort of, anyway). Did you know it might include a 5% tax on plastic surgery?

Still no Turkey Day decision on Afghanistan, sez Stephanopoulos/the Internet. Troops are poised just in case Obama comes through on the decision, but that won't leave many to guard the homeland. In the meantime, Dems have proposed a surtax to cover the cost of the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- it's just a show, so don't get all up in arms about taxation, but remember that wars cost money. Lots and lots of money.

Speaking of money: did you know 14% of American households are having trouble buying food? And 25 million people are un- or under-employed? And 10 states are on the verge of bankruptcy? Read this -- and, while we normally like giving you something to smile at on Fridays, this time we're keeping it real.

Oprah. Is. OUTTA HEEEEERE! In another couple of years, anyway. But don't worry -- Oprah is a force that will not quit, and we'll still be seeing her face in checkout lines, on TV, in presidential campaigns and who knows what else.

Here's hoping that we won't see anymore of this in the fine dining world. Blech.

The Week That Was

Obama's Asia Tour 2009 is just about wrapped up, and he made great strides in... foundation building. All right, fine. China owns us, so it makes sense to go be all smiley. But coming home to a week like this one can't lift the mood anyway: revolts against Geithner; protesting economical woes; nationwide airline glitches... it's enough to turn a President into a monster.

Hillary had a lovely piece in Vogue that centered on some of the more important things about her current position: she applies her own make-up; she (as opposed to certain female politicians) impresses Katie Couric with her smarts; and, oh, yeah, that she's a wee bit stressed. She's been in Afghanistan recently to mark the inauguration of President Karzai. (PS: Speaking of Vogue...)

...Ugh. She's still here. Our friends were threatening to boycott us if we spoke her name, so instead we'll just take a cue from Harry and call her She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. Or possibly Lord Jogging-Shorts. And, anyway, if it's true that avoiding her name takes away her power, maybe it's already working: there was a minor Tea Party revolt at one of her book signings thanks to her diva behavior. But what do you think, all you smarty-pants: is she the future of the party, and is said party on the verge of a comeback? Or will this be over when the media tour is?

Happy birthday, Joe! Geez, our VP is almost 70. Who knew.

John Kerry's daughter got a DUI in Hollywood, and, yes, we laughed. But then Dick Lugar's wife (you know, the Senator's ball and chain) crashed into a parked car in Northern Virginia, and now we're just scared for our safety. Drink responsibly, kiddos!

Could YOU work at Google? (The answer is: probably not, if this is for real. Don't worry, though -- neither could we.)

Super Special Royal Decree

Well, there is an end to all good things... and a beginning to even better ones. Today the TR marks the FORMAL PASSING OF QUEENIE'S SCEPTER to Culture Minister Katie Stanton. She's been writing the whole damned thing for quite a while, and Queenie (oops, er, Czarina?) begins to be embarrassed to take credit for Katie's smarts and humor.

So, everyone, hats off, bow low, scrape and grovel to the NEW QUEEN OF SNARK -- Katie Stanton. (Let me retire to that warm and lovely power-behind-the-throne space to think up a good new name for myself... Czarina? Goddess Divine? Suggestions in the Comments, people.)

Stupak is still upsetting us, but the new guidelines on mammograms and other procedures aren't making us quite so angry. Here's why.

Find our newly-crowned Queen at the National Geographic Warehouse Sale this weekend, desperately trying to spruce up her new apartment. And we probably shouldn't be telling you about this at ALL, but do you follow the Cupcake Truck? Don't say we didn't warn you.

And what shall the new Queen's first Royal Command be? Duh -- a week off! Enjoy your holidays and we'll see you in (eep) December!

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Concurrence and dissent. Identification and iconoclasm. On the one hand, but then again on the other. Is it true that, as Jeremy Parzen suggests, that “the English-language dialectic on Natural wine is misguided”?

No. And yes.

The natural wine conversation goes in cycles…for, against, for, against…and while I don’t expect this to change anytime soon, we’ve now moved into a more tiresome phase in which the subject is less natural wine and more how we talk about natural wine, or (worse) who talks about natural wine. On wine fora, we used to call this “talking about talking about wine.” It was considered the final stage of the entropic dissolution of any once-useful topic then, and it should be now.

(And yes, I’ve done my part to speed the decay.)

But when even the Solomon-like (Parzen’s characterization, which I think applicable) Eric Asimov is drawn into the debate, the heat-death of the natural wine universe is surely nigh. Must everyone now weigh in with an opinion on this issue? Scold and counter-scold?

Yet here I am doing just that. Again. I guess I can’t resist a good gathering, especially when there’s wine involved.

I must, with some regret, dissent with my friend Jeremy’s geographic characterization of the natural wine conversation. Ask Michel Bettane about natural wine. Get Pierre Trimbach and Jean-Pierre Frick in a room together (you might want to remove objects both blunt and sharp, first). Gather la famiglia Zanusso, Aleš Kristančič, and a regional industrialist of one’s choice at a lunch table, prime the conversation with a few bottles of friulano or rebula, and watch the radicchio fly in all directions. Or ask around in Germany, where you’ll likely be met by a formalized Teutonic variation on “why the hell would anyone want to do that?”

Nonetheless, there have been points scored on all sides. There actually is a fair bit of rhetorical nonsense flung from the catapults, the debris from which has damaged the entire conversation. To Asimov’s point that the relative scarcity of natural wine makes the volume and tenor of the response nonsensically hyperbolic…well, I’ve been saying that all along, so obviously I agree. In an ideal world, both the heat and quantity of argument regarding natural wine would instead be turned against the true industrialists, the chemical stews that litter supermarkets, and…if we must talk about talking about wine…the critics that unquestioningly support them.

Here’s where the pro-natural “side” (I dislike that term) has a point or two: the pushback against natural wine is, in the majority, commercially motivated. That the lawyerly (I adore Asimov’s term) need to pin naturalistas down to specific statements of practice so that they can then be battered into caricature is not born of a lifelong adoration for purity of principle. And if someone claims otherwise, and that person is in the wine business, I ask them to first offer fully-described and rigidly-bounded definitions of “ripe” and “balanced”…words I’m fairly certain they have not eschewed in their discourse. Then get back to me regarding the definitional haziness of “natural.”

No, it’s because natural wines aren’t cutting into Constellation Brands’ profits. They’re instead making a scalpel-sized incision – and really, no more than that – into the market share of wineries who sell not by capturing shelf space, but by capturing imagination. Their market is the person who might pick up a bottle of Inoculated Yeast Family Vineyards Syrah, but is instead talked into trying the Sans Soufre Père & Fils Saint-Joseph. Case-purchasers of animal-label shiraz are interested in neither.

But is this a legitimate fear? I doubt it. First of all, the actual supply of natural wines is miniscule at best, anecdotal at worst, and verging on mythical if one doesn’t live in a very small number of places with the market to support such oenological ephemerae. Second, just by their, uh, nature, natural wines aren’t going to appeal to everyone; the (over-hyped) accusations of biological and/or organoleptic eccentricity are not without merit. And third, natural wines aren’t, even at the extent of imagination, damaging the reputation or the commercial desirability of the most sought-after wines.

In other words, if you’re worried about sales, or worried about having to answer a few hard questions about how you make wine from a few interested consumers, there’s an easy solution: make better wine. Then you don’t need to care. Or, more charitably, you can let your wines speak for themselves.

On the other hand, there is an unpleasant level of religiosity to some of the pro-natural text. Finding winemakers who are so devout that they will spout scientific nonsense, call their neighbors’ wines “poison” not because of excess chemicals in the vineyard but because of minor differences of opinion in cellar practice…or worse…isn’t all that hard. (Nor is finding a neighbor that will call said high priest of naturalism an idiot, which I’m fairly sure doesn’t help smooth over the antagonism.)

Amongst the commentariat the failings are a little different, though the above issues are hardly unknown. One of the key skills any specialist writer has to develop – the earlier the better, but it takes all of us a while – is a healthy skepticism regarding cause and effect. There are many paths to quality wine, and none has unassailable historical or chemical legitimacy. Far too many writers on the subject of natural wine repeat and enhance the aforementioned scientific nonsense and religious doctrine, though whether it’s because they’re members of the sect or because they don’t know how to adjudicate the claims I don’t know. It doesn’t really matter, anyway, as the effect is the same. Writing “this is what winemaker X does” is an essential contribution to a conversation. Writing “this is what winemaker X does, and this is the best way to make wine and express terroir” is a matter of opinion on which people can disagree. On the other hand, writing “this is what winemaker X does, because what winemaker Y does has the following deleterious effects” requires that the writer have their facts straight regarding both the winemakers and the science. Which, unfortunately, is not the case as often as it should be. If one is going to be an advocate, one must secure the lectern to its foundation.

Another key skill for the writer is a healthy skepticism for the easy conflation of palate and practice. I am frequently dismayed at the narrow universe of consumption practiced by some of the most strident advocates for natural wine. (To be sure, a similarly-limited worldview is responsible for the major failings of nearly all wine writers…certainly including myself…but they’re not the subject of this essay.) One may certainly prefer natural wines for reasons ranging from philosophical to aesthetic. But when you’ve worked yourself into a position where you cannot understand, explain, or even acknowledge the affection for paradigmatic wines, when you must deride them for what they are or how they’re made without reference to how they actually taste, you have lost yourself in doctrine and have stopped thinking. Obviously, no one need like a given wine, or even restrain their criticism of a wine that they don’t like, no matter how acclaimed it is. But people with the most strongly-held and virulently-expressed opinions too often crawl inside their own worldviews, at which point they can no longer see outside them.

The rising volume of this wearying debate is why I have long advocated for a dissolution of divisions. There is a market for natural wines, and there is a market for everything else, and rarely do the twain meet. But why not? The context of natural wine is not other natural wines, it is wine. All wine. Natural, no matter how fuzzy the definition, means nothing without its counterpoint, and cannot be understood without a complete view of the spectrum on which it resides. And this is as true for the advocacy (or criticism) thereof as it is for the wines themselves.

More fundamentally, most people do not drink doctrine, they drink wine. As they should. One may be an enthusiastic advocate for natural wines as both a movement and a commercial product while still, in the majority, consuming wines that reside outside that movement. The failure to engage with this reality is an error endlessly repeated on all sides, though with more stridency from the natural wine commentariat, and it represents a lost opportunity. One cannot engage in a conversation about natural wines, especially the essential aesthetic one, if those wines will not leave the comforting embrace of their congregation, and that congregation will not leave the thick stone walls of its church.

But the ultimate failure, most certainly not restricted to the English contribution thereto, is that we talk far too much about right and wrong, about good and bad. We are strangely compelled to assign value, after which ranking and dismissal is all too easy. Instead, we should be talking about how, and we should be talking about why, and we should pause after each challenge to allow the universe of answers their space.

On the other hand, maybe the best solution of all is to stop talking. Because what advocate can make a better case for a wine than the wine itself? A wine, like all wines, of clarity and contradiction, but lacking the destructive human impulse to be right. That does not debate or criticize, but instead makes a simple claim: “here I am. Everything that I want to say is contained within in this bottle. The rest of the story is up to you.”

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Bologna “Braida” 2009 Brachetto d’Acqui (Piedmont) – Pure strawberry, sour cherry, watermelon Jolly Rancher™. Fine acidity balances the light sweetness. Very nice. (3/10)

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[vineyard]Neirano Brachetto d’Acqui (Piedmont) – Simple strawberry and powdered sugar froth. More basic than these (already typically basic) wines tend to be, but with the vague sensation of something mineralistic underneath. If they could only bring out this character, they’d have a beauty on their hands. (6/07)

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A tasting menu at No. 9 Park…28 August 2006.

Roederer Champagne “Brut Premier” (Champagne) – Intellectual, earth-driven but satiny stone fruit (minus most the fruit) with a gentle, yet inexorable persistence. Very thoughtful bubbly. Served with: ultra-thin-sliced smoked lobster sashimi with grapefruit, avocado and cilantro. The wine and the food stand essentially apart here.

Cusamano 2005 Sicilia Rosato (Sicily) – Made from nerello mascalese. Big, broad-shouldered raspberry and maraschino cherry fruit with a keening, fresh flower aroma. It’s simple alone, but with food it almost explodes with additional complexities. This is an inspired match. Served with: seared yellowfin tuna (about as pure and wonderful as this fish could ever be) with a brilliant marmalade of heirloom tomatoes lent smokiness by chorizo, which infuses the marmalade and adds a textural counterpoint in little crisp bits perched atop the cubes of fish.

Schrock 2005 Ried Vogelsang (Neusiedlersee) – A blend that’s a bit at war with itself, showing lots of interesting characteristics that seem to have absolutely nothing to do with each other: crisp acidity, juicy/lemony sprightliness, herbal grassiness, spicy headiness…it’s a bunch of smart people, all talking past each other. Served with: day boat scallops on a purée of curried cauliflower (possibly the single best expression of this vegetable I’ve ever tasted) and crispy little bursts of fried tapioca. This isn’t much of a marriage, though the wine does no actual harm to the food.

Faiveley 2003 Bourgogne Rouge (Burgundy) – Cranky, rough, ungenerous and difficult, with wan suggestions of something that might once have been red fruit buried under clumsy, off-putting tannin. A last-minute replacement due to a chef deglazing with red wine rather than the intended white, and not a very successful one. Served with: handmade orechiette, flawlessly pressed and cooked, with a Burgundian snail ragout that works rich, earthy wonders on the palate. A better red Burgundy would be magical here.

Lustau Almacenista Palo Cortado Sherry “Vides” 1/50 (Jerez) – Dark, fire-roasted nuts that consistently suggest sweetness, but never quite achieve it, settling instead for an intense, warming richness. The alcohol is a little more intrusive than normal, and it negatively affects the food pairing. Served with: seared La Belle Farms foie gras with golden raisins, almond praline and balsamic vinegar. The dish is flawless, but the wine only goes well with the accompaniments; the alcohol buries the delicacy of the foie gras. It’s an adventurous notion, but ultimately an unsuccessful one.

Vajra 2004 Dolcetto d’Alba Coste & Fossati (Piedmont) – Delicious. Sneaks up quietly at first, with light blackberry dust and a slightly exuberant structure, but soon fills out with gorgeous mixed bouquets of freshly-picked wildflowers and an earthy, morel-infused bottom end. Very, very agile with food. Served with: softly-seared Pekin dust breast with “melted” strawberries, honey, and perfectly bitter counterpoints of red shiso. This is an inspired match.

Les Pallières 2003 Gigondas (Rhône) – A heavy, ponderous stew of garrigue, leather and dark, smoky fruit overladen with tannin. The wine is chewy, and that’s not a compliment. It’s one of the better 2003 Rhônes I’ve tasted, though that’s certainly faint praise at best. Still, there are terrific raw materials underneath the sludge, and it’s possible that a few centuries of aging will resolve matters. Or, more likely, not. Served with: roasted lamb loin with a truffle “fondue” and leeks, dusted with thyme. The food actually helps tame some of the glue-like tannin in the wine, but the price paid is a diminution of the elegant earthiness found in the truffles.

A palate-cleansing celery sorbet is audaciously magnificent.

Pieropan 2001 Recioto di Soave Classico Le Colombare (Veneto) – A stunning wine, full of concentrated peach, orange rind and iron shot through with flowers and perfumes from some mythical Orient. Powerfully sweet, but with flawless balancing acidity, and as long as one would ever wish a wine to be. Majestic. Served with: blueberry and crème fraîche soup with a carrot “confit,” white chocolate, and anise hyssop garnish. The dish doesn’t sound like it should work, but in fact it’s some sort of revelatory symphony of summer flavors; and the wine, which also doesn’t seem like it should work with this mélange, soars above the music in perfect harmony. There’s real genius behind this pairing.

Garitina 2005 Brachetto d’Acqui “Niades” (Piedmont) – The usual bright red fruit, frothed (though so lightly as to be almost unnoticeably effervescent) and given just a touch of late-palate bitterness. Simple fun. Served with: a warm chocolate tart with chocolate sorbet and “wilted” grapes. The latter seem superfluous, like a half-hearted nod towards molecular gastronomy, but everything else on the plate is superb and properly undersweetened, which helps the wine dance around the edges. Of all the wines alleged to pair well with chocolate, I think brachetto may be the only one that really does so.


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What Makes Someone Desirable When Dating Online?

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Online dating has revolutionized the often awkward first date. Think about the classic rom-com You’ve Got Mail. There’s no way Meg Ryan’s character Kathleen Kelly wouldn’t have known that she was emailing/flirting with her bookstore rival Joe Fox (played by the ever charming Tom Hanks) if she’d been able to access his dating profile. Sure, they may not have even ended up together without that anonymity, but my point stands: Whether you’re an active account holder on or swiping left on Tinder, nowadays, it doesn’t take nearly as much time and effort to get to know a potential date before meeting them.

According to the Pew Research Center, the number of 18- to 24-year-olds who use online dating tripled from 10 percent in 2013 to 27 percent in 2016. But it’s only been in recent years that researchers have started gathering related scientific evidence. One of those studies, published this past August in the journal Science Advances, offers some really interesting findings regarding what makes someone desirable.

Using data gathered from active users of an unnamed heterosexual online dating site during the month of January 2014 (the study focused on four metropolitan markets: New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Seattle), researchers found that it’s entirely possible to attract a person you might think is out of your league. An analysis of messaging patterns showed that men and women both reach out to partners who were, according to the study’s measures, about 25 percent more desirable than themselves.

As the study’s authors write, “It appears that people are pursuing a hybrid strategy with elements of both [matching and competition]—they are aware of their own position in the hierarchy and adjust their behavior accordingly while, at the same time, competing modestly for more desirable mates.”

The most eyebrow-raising result from the study, however, had to do with age: According to their analysis, women reach peak desirability at the age of 18. For some reason, after women become eligible to vote, their appeal begins to decline. Men, on the other hand, don’t reach peak desirability until they’re 50—yes FIFTY!

“The age gradient for women definitely surprised us—both in terms of the fact that it steadily declined from the time women were 18 to the time they were 65, and also how steep it was,” Elizabeth Bruch, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan and lead author of the study, told the New York Times.

It may also not surprise you to learn that the more education a man has, the more desirable he becomes online. A woman with a bachelor’s degree is also pretty hot—but once she starts pursuing a postgraduate education, her hotness level begins tapering off.

The study’s authors also found that in a vast majority of cases, it was men who first established contact online: In fact, more than 80 percent of the guys in their data set sent the first “You up?” (Metaphorically speaking, of course.) What’s interesting, though, is that both men and women tend to contact fewer potential partners if the people they typically hit up were more desirable than themselves. The study’s authors called this a “quality over quantity” approach.

Despite how grimy all of this feels—particularly if you’re a woman hoping to find Mr. or Ms. Right without leaving the comforts of your couch—we still go for online dating, if only for the slim chance we can get a date with an Idris Elba-lookalike. As the study states, “The chances of receiving a reply from a highly desirable partner may be low, but they remain well above zero, although one will have to work harder, and perhaps also wait longer, to make progress. Compared to the extraordinary effort male rats are willing to go through to mate with a desirable female; however, messaging two or three times as many potential partners to get a date seems quite a modest investment.”

See more: How to Win At Online Dating

Unless you’re the 30-year-old New York City woman cited in the study who received 1,504 messages in one month. That’s equivalent to one message every 30 minutes, day and night. If this is you, maybe deactivate your accounts and hit up a local bar instead.

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Stomp dinosaurs, crack geodes, and excavate bones, all while wearing a tutu and crown! Glittering dinos are right at home with utility goggles and hammers. Edie has turned three and having an equal love of dinosaurs and ballet the T-Rex and Tutus theme was born. The decor was Jurassic chic. Ferns danced with hand painted dinos adorned with jewels, tutus and sunglasses. The children noshed on veggies and pizza before eating cupcakes covered in rock candy and "dirt cups." The children all lined up and hunted for dinosaur eggs while winding through paths of greenery and stumbling upon a secret dinosaur egg nest and ending at a homemade volcano. The highlight of the party was when all of the children gathered to hit the custom EDIE pinata in the front yard. After many attempts the pinata broke open and a shower of confetti, candy and toys rained down. All of the five senses were full engaged and everyone went home with a grow your own crystal tree.


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I just watched the movie “The Company Men”.  I immediately recognized the setting: amazing Autumn foliage.  Crisp, cold air.  Beautiful New England houses.  It took place in Boston, starting in the fall and ending in the winter.  As you may recall, I got to Boston in the fall and left in the winter while on my RV trip last year.

For the past year and a half, I have written down what I do every single day.  After the movie ended, I opened up my journal and  read through my entire 8 weeks in Boston.  I was able to relive the whole thing.  I could remember how I felt each day.  Little events which had been long forgotten came back to me, without being specifically written down.

I was able to feel the adventure again.  So much excitement everyday: meeting new people, exploring new places, and having new life experiences.  My whole mindset was completely different than what it has been the last few months.

I’m hoping to get another adventure in the works soon.  I really like the idea of learning Spanish, but practicing it is SO BORING!  I’m considering getting a one-way ticket + 3 month stay to some remote Spanish-speaking city.  Ideally, nobody will speak English, and I’ll be forced to learn.  Furthermore, if I buy the ticket 6 months in advance, I’ll have a heck of a lot more incentive to start studying before the trip!

Any recommendations on fun, remote, Spanish-only-speaking cities?  Central/South America or Spain will do.  I won’t consider any cities in the US like Salinas, East LA, Santa Ana, etc.

With minutes to go in the Rialta eBay auction, the bid was still $12,000 away from my break-even point.  I’m nervously hitting refresh, getting more and more worried that the final bid won’t be anywhere near what I wanted.

Finally I see a little activity before a very pathetic ending.  I’m out nearly $10k  when all is said and done, not including the countless hours I put into installing all the mods.  I can’t be upset because this is what the market determined the value at.

The experiences I had while traveling the country in this rig were priceless.  It was a huge learning and growing experience, and I have absolutely no regrets that I went through with it.

Restructuring my life

I’ve decided to set up my home-base in Reno, NV.  I’m buying a 4-plex and calling one of the units my home.  I’m excited to be able to answer the question of “where do you live” in one or two words.

I’m still in the process of downsizing my entire portfolio of websites to just one.  Business will be much simpler with just one site to focus on.

I’ve been closing credit cards/bank/savings/investment accounts that I haven’t been actively using.  Trying to again minimize things I have to think about.

I have already set up a new Nevada corporation, and I’m in the process of moving everything under that one: bank accounts, payroll, addresses, accountants, etc.  I’ll be entirely out of California by the end of the year and will have dissolved the CA incorporation I currently own.

Different type of travel

I’d like to be spending more than a month at each location.  I’m thinking 3-6 months at each city, and renting a room with locals rather than staying at hostels or in an RV.

US Destinations I’d like to live in:

  • Denver, CO
  • Austin, TX
  • Portland, OR (again)
  • Somewhere in the south?

Foreign destinations:

  • Summer in Stockholm
  • Long trip through Eastern Europe/Russia
  • Summer in New Zealand
  • Summer in Argentina/Moto tour through South America

Selling the Rialta!

The Rialta spent the last 5 months in storage while I was busy visiting Australia, Asia and Europe.  I came back and really didn’t have much interest in doing more trips in her.  I’d like to spend a lot more time out of the country, and I can’t really take the Rialta along with me.

I made the decision to sell before I got back to the states.  I pulled it out of storage the day after I returned, got it smogged the next day, cleaned it up and finally have it listed for sale.  I’m going to be really sad to see it go, however happy knowing that I won’t have to worry about it anymore.

I figure that if I ever want to do another RV trip in the future, I can always buy another RV and do it again.  Modding it out is half the fun!

Here is the official CL ad: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/rvs/2496392261.html

Due to my somewhat unusual lifestyle, I’m constantly getting questions/comments from curious individuals.  Here is a list of common questions, and my responses to them.

Note: I was going to do a single FAQ post, but decided to split it up into two posts: Lifestyle and Business.  This is the lifestyle part.

Must be nice not having to worry about income/job/boss/working/time/money/etc.

While there are heaps of perks doing what I do, it isn’t exactly this perfect lifestyle that some people perceive it as.  To dis-spell some common misconceptions, here are a few notes:

1.  I still put in close to 40 hours of work per week.  It is not 9-5 M-F, but I’m still putting the time in.  That whole 4-hour work week idea is crap if you ask me.

2.  While I don’t have a boss, I also don’t have co-workers who I can push responsibilities to if I want to take a 2-week vacation away from work.

3.  All my websites are NOT set-and-forget.  I do have to maintain everything, and if something goes wrong, I’m the only responsible for getting it fixed.

4.  There are risk factors beyond my control.  A recent Google logarithm update dropped the traffic in about 6 of my sites by 30%.  I can’t exactly get on the phone with Google and tell them to take it back.

Are you still looking for a place to “settle down”?

When I embarked on my first RV tour, a big justification in my head was that I wanted to check out other places in the country/world to see if I would ever want to “settle down” there.  At this point, I haven’t been thinking about settling down as much as I have about adventure.  Now that I’ve ventured outside the US, I’ve realized there is just so much to see.  I could spend a lifetime discovering new places.

Are you planning to do any more travel in the RV?

To be honest, I was a little tired of living in the RV when I returned from Boston in December.  I was in and out of the RV for my most recent stay home (Dec-Feb), and every time I returned to the RV, I realized I had missed it.

At this point, I am still enjoying the luxuries of living in a house, including:

1.  Hot water

2.  Unlimited electricity

3.  Oven/BBQ

4.  Roommates/ability to have multiple friends over

5.  Yard

6.  Telling people where I live without also having to explain that I’m not a rapist.

I guess we will see how I feel when I get back into the US, whenever that may be.  Just thinking about it right now, I realize that I do miss the RV lifestyle!

Is it harder to stay productive on the road?

Yes.  Constant change and lack of a consistent schedule do not create the best working conditions.  However, I am adapting, and learning to squeeze work in whenever I get a chance.

Your adventure sounds awesome.  I wish I could do that!

You can.  And you should.

The average Australian that I’ve met has traveled much more than the average American.  I’d estimate that Australians travel 5 times more than Americans.  Any excuse you can make is just that, its an excuse.

Job?  Take some time off.  Or save up some money and quit!  You’ll be able to find another one.

Kids?  Bring ‘em along!  It will benefit them to see other parts of the country/world.

Do you miss your cat?

Yes, and I’m sure she misses me just as much, if she noticed I’m not there.

Are you still watching Sharks games?

Even better, I am listening to them!  Its like reading a book instead of watching a movie.  I get to imagine it all in my head.

Have you told anyone that you are an international spy yet?

Yes.  And they did not believe me.  So I spared their life.

Are you just making up questions?

Yes.  I thought I had more lifestyle questions to answer.

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This is intended to be an instructional video for those who might borrow the rig while I’m gone, however I think anyone who wants to learn more about the rig might find these interesting.

I had to quickly leave Boston since the freezing weather was finally causing damage to the RV.  I raced across the country in 79 hours to beat some storms that actually closed down the highway.

I’m now home for the holidays, enjoying the better weather.  My plans from here on out are currently:

December/January/February: Bay area/SF in the RV (Maybe trips around the West Coast)

February/March/April: Australia

April/May/June: Europe

June/July/August/September: NY (With some trips up to Boston)

September/???: Possible southern tour of the US?

With this plan, the RV will be sitting for 6+ months.  Anyone have ideas on ways to get it some use while I’m gone?  I was thinking of letting close friends/family borrow it if they wanted.

Working Out While on the Road

Going to the gym has become a mandatory activity for every day I live in an RV.  This is because it is oodles easier to shower at the the gym rather than shower in the RV.  My current gym is closed on Thanksgiving…  I don’t know what I’m going to do!

Why is showering in an RV so lame?

  1. I only have 26 gallons of fresh water.  I actually have a 16 gallon tank, and 2 5-gallon backup tanks in case I run out.  If I showered every single day in my rig, I’d need to refill water every 6 days or so.
  2. The water heater draws 1400 watts and needs to run for 10 minutes to have a warm shower.  This is a lot of electricity, especially when you have batteries and solar panels in Boston in November.  And forget taking a cold shower when it was 35 degrees out the night before.
  3. The shower is SMALL.  Need I say more?
  4. The shower curtain needs to dry or else it starts smelling like mold.

While it was initially awkward to shower at the gym, I have since became totally comfortable with it, having done it every day for the past 6 months.  I actually have had great conversations with other men in the showers.

Forcing myself to workout.

Since I plan on going to the gym every day to shower, I might as well work out while I’m there.  I feel weird going to the gym and not working out.  I feel weird not showering, so I go to the gym.

Finding gyms near me.

When I scope out my next target neighborhood, I always make sure there is a gym nearby.  Pretty much every single gym I’ve been to offers at least one week free to new members.  Sometimes this pass is good for more than 7 days as long as you don’t ask.  For example, my 7-day pass here at Bally Fitness actually lasted 10 days.  I just walk up, say I have a guest pass, and they say “Oh yea, I remember you.  C’mon in!”

When it comes time to sign up, just be straight up and tell them that you are leaving in a month.  Typically, the salesperson has much more flexibility then you’d think.

My Expenses While Living in an RV Full Time

Due to an overwhelming amount of requests (1 email), I’ve decided that I’ll share my last few months’ spending with everyone.  I actually just wanted to track where my money has been going, and I figured this would be a good idea to get a breakdown of my expenses.

I broke down my spending for July and August.  I spent July in Portland and August in Seattle.

These numbers do include every last penny that I spent on my lifestyle.  This includes health insurance, food, gas, gym, entertainment, bus, taxi, etc.  This does not include money spent to operate my business (marketing, contract labor, hosting, domains, etc.).

Here is the breakdown:

Cash (ATM Withdrawls, likely spent mostly on Food/Entertainment/Beer/Bus/Taxis): $740

Food/Entertainment: $507

Phone: $127

Gas/Propane/RV Dumps: $26

Car Insurance: $0 (Prepaid)

Health Insurance: $100.10

Gym: $58

Other (Shoes, clothing, supplements, etc): $218

$1,777 Total

Cash (ATM Withdrawls, likely spent mostly on Food/Entertainment/Beer/Bus/Taxis): $605

Food/Entertainment: $653

Phone: $127

Gas/Propane/RV Dumps: $187

Car Insurance: $52

Health Insurance: $100.10

Gym: $70

Other (Shoes, clothing, supplements, etc): $288

$2,082 Total

Cutting Costs:

Clearly a large portion of my monthly expenses is dedicated to Food/Entertainment.  I have a big appetite and eat out at least once per day, usually twice.  If you were interested in living in an RV, you could probably get away with doing it for less than half of what I spend.

20 Week Update

20 weeks of living in an RV is no laughing matter.

Actually it is.  I can’t tell you how many jokes I’ve made/been a part of due to my living situation.  Its close to a “That’s what she said” scenario.  Any opportunity to make a jab about how I live in a car is exploited, and we always have a good laugh.

“Tommy, do you want a ride home?”

“Where did you park your house today?”

Here are a few thoughts I’ve had recently:

  1. It has been 3 weeks since I have seen anyone I have known for more than 3 weeks.  I forget what it’s like to hang out with people that you have known for more than a month.
  2. It is pretty emotionally draining to make friends for a month and then leave only to start over again somewhere new.  While it is fun and exciting, it also requires immense energy and positivity, which can be hard to keep up all the time.
  3. I’d like to spend more than a month in each location if I really like the place.  I wanted to spent more time in Portland and Minneapolis, but I’ve been on a schedule to make it to Delaware for a wedding in October.  After the wedding, my schedule will open up, and I’ll be able to spend longer in each location.  I’m thinking maybe 2 months in the bigger cities with more to do.
  4. I need a new fridge.  I’m sick of mine freezing everything.  I hate it when all I want is a bowl of cereal, and my gallon of milk is just one giant ice block.
  5. I have to start watching my energy consumption in the winter.  There were a few days here when my solar panels didn’t pull their weight because of heavy rain and clouds all day.  Maybe I’ll get better/more batteries to help store more power when it is sunny out.  Worst case, I can just turn the engine on.
  6. It has been 3 weeks since I have seen anyone I have known for more than 3 weeks.  I forget what it’s like to hang out with people that you have known for more than a month.
  7. There are LA Fitnesses EVERYWHERE.  I don’t know why they don’t just call it US Fitness.
  8. I miss In N Out.  Everybody here misunderstands me when I say that I’m dieing to have in n out animal style.
  9. I’m still paying California Income tax.  Thanks Arnold.  I’ll mail in my deposits from the other side of the country for you.
  10. I used to think people that did work on their laptops in coffee shops were losers.  Now I’m one of those losers every day.
  11. My business is still continuing to grow because I’m working smarter rather than harder/longer.  I spend more time on the important stuff and simply ignore the unimportant time-wasting activities I used to fill my days with.  Last month was actually my best month ever!
  12. I’m sick of telling new people that I meet what my deal is.  It takes 5 minutes to explain my living/travel situation is, and 50% of the time, that’s the first and last thing we talk about.  How annoying.  I should wait to explain myself until they first prove worthy of my friendship.

I’m planning to go to Boston immediately after the wedding in Delaware.  I’ll stay there in my RV until it starts to get too cold.  After that, I have 3 options:

  1. Park the RV long-term and do a sublet for a few months in NY.
  2. Park the RV long-term and fly to South America/South East Asia/Australia/Japan/Hawaii/???/Europe for the winter.
  3. Drive the RV south to escape the cold winter.

Hidden Benefits of RV Living

While the ability to go wherever the wind takes me is the most obvious benefit of living in an RV, there are a few other interesting bonuses that only other RVers realize.

  • You don’t lose stuff. There are only a few places it could be.  I never spend time looking for stuff anymore.
  • It takes 15 minutes to thoroughly clean my rig. Even if it is a total mess, takes me 15 minutes to organize everything, wipe counter tops, and even vacuum.
  • A sink full of dishes takes a few minutes to do. My sink is tiny and doesn’t hold a lot of dirty dishes.
  • Takes a few minutes to heat up. The rig is so small that it heats up very quickly when I turn the furnace on.
  • Nothing is out of my reach. Literally, from where ever I may be, everything is no more than one step away.
  • No bills. Rent? Nope.  Mortgage/property tax?  Nope.  Electricity?  Solar panels.  I’ll use about 5 gallon of gas a month (not including traveling between cities), and maybe 4 gallons of propane.
  • No mean neighbors. If I don’t like my neighbors, I just find a new spot to park.
  • Safety.  When I come home, I know that nobody is hiding inside, waiting for me to go to bed, because there are no places for a full-grown human to hide.  Furthermore, if someone enters, the alarm goes off.  Simple as that.


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As i mentioned at the start, the graphics look unbelievable. This always was and always will be with pro games. It is the one thing that pes 11 will have over the fifa ps3 game, and its the one reason why i and so many others will buy the game. Below is a trailer for the new pes11.

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Samantha Wynter from Mexico finds this movie interesting because it examines the conseqences of genetic engineering of humans in the future. It shows the struggles of Victor, a man conceived naturally and with imperfections, to succeed in a world of genetically-designed, perfect humans.

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Life is Beautiful

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    • One piece construction - straps are sewn in place and store in the pocket.
    • Holds variable sized flat pieces, up to 36" x 48".

    • Made of 1000 denier black CORDURA® nylon.
    • Straps and buckle secure material in place.

    • Handle and shoulder strap can be used for carrying.
    • Flexible design conforms to a variety of shapes.

    Who's It For?

    • Printers and Publishers — Foamboard Presentations

    • Photographers — Large Prints

    • Lawyers — Posters & Large Graphics

    • Graphic Designers — Design Boards

    • Interior Designers and Interior Design Students — Design Color Boards

    • Artists and Art Students — Large Artwork, Foamcore, Paintings, Prints, Paperboard and more

    • Presenters — Large Display Boards

    Monogramming is available for this product. Each monogram is individually stitched onto the product with white thread. Color variations are also available. Each line of 10 characters will cost $15.00. Specialty logos require a digitizing set up charge averaging $35.00 per design. Please allow at least one extra week for delivery of a customized order. Call 1-800-668-9983 to speak with a salesperson for more information.

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