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Don't know of a local place, but I just bought some on ebay. Seems like I got about 100' for about $9. It's not cheap. I cut it in half, and put half in my BOB, and may try braiding with the rest. I did a few knots I found online the other night and discovered it's not as easy as I thought. Getting those knots all neat and snugged up is tough. If there is a local option to Knoxville, I'd love to hear about it too.

Southernasylum, I know what you mean by Blood Sweat and Tears. I bought this house (and another one two years ago) as real fixer-uppers. I found my handyman gene with the first one, and put a lot of effort into both of them. The first one I kept thinking we were going to live in, so I went above and beyond, and made it a top-notch home. The second one, I did way more than I needed to make it a rental, but I kept telling myself I wouldn't rent out a house I wouldn't live in. Anyway, after all the time and effort spent on the houses, I have some seperation anxiety with them. It feels weird not being able to go to the place I just spent so much time at. At least the first house I'm renting to my sister, so it doesn't feel so bad, but this latest one was rough handing over the keys.

Perstare, I have an idea why this guy may have been pushing renting. The way the tax laws are written, if I buy an investment property and sell it within a year, the profits get added to my net earnings for that year and I am taxed on them at whatever rate that puts me in. So, for example if I make $50,000 a year, and buy and sell a house that I make $25,000 profit on, my total personal earnings for the year are $75,000, at which I get taxed at around 25%. If I keep that same house for just over a year, the IRS seperates it out from my personal earnings and taxes me at a set 15% on the house profits. It's very common for someone to buy an investment house, then do a rent to own plan, where you rent for one year then buy the house.

OK, you guys are all scaring me. Yesterday I had my first real tenants move into a house I just bought and fixed up. They seem like decent folks, have good jobs, college grads, but you never know do you? In my lease I have a clause that says something like anything you leave on the property automatically becomes mine to do anything I want with it the day the lease is expired. Don't know how well it would hold up in court, but it's there in writing and signed by the tenant.

I think Opie also played one of the football players in Remember the Titans.

Arrgh! The video on CastTV is out of synch with the audio. Anybody know of an alternate location to watch it?

I have trouble with Sunday Night Football's sound. I use a reciever to decode the Dolby Digital sound and all I can hear is the fans yelling. The commentators are barely audible. I have to fiddle with the sound settings and select something that disables Dolby, and use something like Pro-Logic instead. Other shows and channels are usually fine.

Another O-Kridge hello

As soon as it gets enacted, an open source option will appear that will not be under control of the Feds. Bad guys will just use that option, leaving us law abiding citizens the ones who will be spied on.

I've also noticed that it seems like one week is guns a blazin' action, and the next week is more subdued story line development. I like the action weeks better.

I'm not suggesting anyone break the law, but out of curiosity, how does the gov't know if a gun has gone across a state line? I thought the records of who purchases a gun are not supposed to be kept. Is there a database somewhere that says a particular gun is tied to a particular state. What if I moved to another state, I could take my guns with me without an FFL, then sell to whoever I want, right? It all seems silly to me.

+1 I always told my kids "nothing goods happens when you're out past midnight". This is doubly true if you're in a bar.

I have been a camper all my life, and have owned several different tents, ranging from very expensive to inexpensive. For a family tent, right now we are using a Coleman tent from either Dick's or Walmart. At first I was hesitant about getting it as I really do appreciate higher quality stuff, but the price was right on this particular tent. I'll say that I have been pleasantly surprised by the way it has held up and would buy another one. If you are only going once or twice a year, don't spend a lot of money on one. Something like the one above will work fine for you. One recommendation I would give you is to buy one that is a little bigger than the number of people you want to shelter. In other words, if there are two of you camping, get at least a 4-man tent, or if there are four of you get a 6-man. The number of people that a tent says it can sleep are crammed in like sardines. Get a little extra space to put some stuff while you are sleeping in it. The tent we own is a 6-man tent, and is just right for me and my wife. It's got enough room for one of those blow up mattresses, and I can bring in a camp chair if it starts raining and I want to read in the tent. Have fun!

One thing I like to do, is download the free AutoRuns utility from Microsoft. It's a small utility that when run, shows all applications that start up automatically when your computer starts. You would be surprised how much junk gets started every time you reboot your computer. The cool thing about this program is it shows everything with a checkbox next to it. Just uncheck whatever you are not sure about, then later if you discover something that you actually needed, just go back and re-enable it. You should be able to Google AutoRuns and find it on the Microsoft site.

Sanded the hardwood floors of two bedrooms and a living room, then applied a coat of polyurethane. Then went and painted a bathroom. Then fixed (hopefully) the leak on my roof. Put a bunch of trash in my truck and took it to the dump, only to find it had closed. Guess it's gonna sit in my truck till tomorrow.

Noticed that the link didn't state if the Yugo stuff was corrosive or not. I'm assuming that it is???

A guy at work says that CoorsTek in Oak Ridge sells surplus 50 gallon plastic and metal drums for $5 each. I have not personally verified that, but he did have one in the back of his truck.

Not a recipe per se, but we have a little device called a BakePacker. It's made out of aluminum, it's round and about an inch and a hafl thick and has a grid in the middle. The thing fits perfectly down into a pot. What you do is, put it in the pot, then fill it with water almost to the top of the grid. Then take anything that you would normally have to bake like cornbread, or a cobbler, mix it up and put it in a clear plastic oven bag. Work the bag and dough on top of the grid so that it is evenly spread out, adn then boil the water with a lid on the pot. Somehow it bakes the dough. I've had the BakePacker for years, and my folks have had theirs for twice as long. Can't even beging to say how many yummie things we've made. For instance, take a cake mix, baKe it up and pour pie topping on it. Best part is there is no clean up. You cook it in the bag.

Me too. I still find myself clicking it all the time.

The sign at Lincoln's is way up high on the glass to the left of the door on the wall perpendicular to the door (and the street). It is very difficult to notice, and not very conspicuously placed. I think they would have a hard time enforcing it.

I'm sure it's the coverage in my area, and my limited viewing of ads (mostly everything I watch is on DVR and I fast forward thru comercials), but I only see Haslam's ads on TV, never his opponents. But, every Haslam ad I see has him crying about being a victim of mud slinging attacks. I never see him talking about issues. From my perspective, I don't see his point.

What's so funny is the "Senior Citizen" is three years older than Joe. FOXNews.com - Aerosmith Guitarist Joe Perry Injured After Motorcycle Struck By Senior Citizen

Doesn't bother me a bit. I know that the law, as written, allowed for the old signs to remain so that the law would be revenue neutral. In other words, the bill had no chance of passing if it was going to cost the state any money at all. So, making this one consession helped the bill to pass. I know it's legal now, so I just carry past the sign. Plus there is the slight chance that a bad-guy may see the sign and think twice about coming into the park.

I've watched three shows now, and every one it has been an issue that Cody refuses to wear shoes. Seems a bit silly and hardheaded to me. Otherwise, I am enjoying them. It's good to see some of their ingenuity on how they use stuff at hand. The other thing that surprises me is that they show when they kill something for food. Not like some shows, where they show the cute little bunny hoping across the grass, then the next shot is some ambiguous meat cooking on a spit. I laughed out loud when Dave beat the heck out of the porcupine with a club.

I just got a new tumbler, my first one, and ran a batch of brass through it. I thought that it would be a good idea to deprime the brass first, so that it would get a thorough cleaning. However, I just spent an hour and a half last night removing media from the primer hole of about 200 cases. Every single piece of brass had media jammed in there. Had to use a small finish nail to poke it out of each case.