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100%. Have heard similar from a few different places. Prolite have struck a great balance of price and quality, and are one of the best choices if light weight is a priority. They've kept their prices much lower than the equivalent Safari Condo and Escape trailers, and offer a lot of small...

This is definitely my experience. I have a few buddies who share my love of watches, and my wife calls them my 'watch gang' with far less respect than I would like. She clearly doesn't think we're particularly tough for a gang. Their wives seem to respond similarly... (I've heard people say the...

Having spent some time with friends in Rome recently, I was struck by how different their social engagement with their neighbours is. Because they live in a medium-density city, and work close to home, much more of their social life revolves around walking and chance meetings with friends and...

Same for us. Have had ours on for a year now, and they were fantastic all through the heavy snow last winter. The data on them I've seen is they perform virtually identically to proper snows from 0 down to about -8ish, then the added silica in the proper snows means they start to edge ahead...

Agreed to a point, though the Brits are also often guilty of overstating their own importance while minimising the efforts of the 'colonies'. They're also bad for poking fun at the French and Italians for their predilection to surrender without the nuance that both of those countries suffered...

The half-assed way he loaded that was verging on rage-bait, but impressive nonetheless. Perfect way to ride somewhere and strand yourself through over-fuelling, at least until a day layer...

Oof. Yeah, we went to the Camp Mart in Hamilton, immediately got the heebie jeebies, and backed out as fast as we could. Only talked about bi-weekly payments, and sold only junk brands. One thing I appreciated about Ruston was the sales guy was super up-front about how brutal the depreciation...

That's AI. I couldn't find anything from a real news source that said anything similar. Coastal Oregon, like Washington and BC, does have a serious issue with homelessness, that much is true. Temperate climates and port access to cheap drugs means addicts tend to congregate there, and there's...

I furnished a good chunk of our BC house with really nice old stuff I picked up via online auctions for next to nothing. Have some quartersawn oak furniture, teak shelving, and other odds and ends that were dirt cheap. I also developed a sizeable record collection for very little that way, even...

Might as well continue the full derail at this point... They're mostly all built like crap, especially the volume brands out of Indiana, which is 95% of the models out there. It used to be there were a few brands that stood out, e.g. Winnebago, Airstream, Grand Design, but consolidation and the...

I'd be a lot more interested if it was from the Juno beachhead. Struggling these days to care much about anything American, except maybe dodging their produce at the grocery store. Incidentally, saw the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Rome a few weeks ago. There were Brits, Canucks, Aussies...

Similar for the Canadian-built trailers. We've looked at Safari Condo (best in the business, but pricey, especially when you option them out), Prolite (interesting designs, extremely light and reasonably priced, but a bit small for us bar one model nobody carries), Escape (nice fibreglass units...

I'll relax about Liverpool when they can handle a side who sits deep and hoofs it long to speedy wingers again. Wirtz looked great on the wing (Courtois nearly did them again!), and Bradley and Robbo were back to bossing the corners. It's no coincidence that reverting back to something like the...

We're in the market for a used small travel trailer, and I'll tell you, RV prices haven't dropped as much as I'd like. Sure, they're down from peak Covid insanity when you'd struggle to find a new one, but they've been pretty flat over the past couple years and are still well up from pre-Covid...

Most of those early Japanese Squiers of the era are now worth more than their Fender counterparts, as the US Fender factory was in a total mess at the time and making pure junk. Fender spun off Squier to compete with the excellent clones coming out of Japan (Tokai Hard Puncher being a personal...

Love the rig. Anyone playing their own concoction rather than just another muddy Ampeg fridge is good with me. The bass is classic, too. When I got my '76 P, it had the classic late '70s combo of a Badass bridge and DiMarzio Model P pickups with the cream covers. I swapped the originals back in...

Not that I'm aware of. The IBL seems to now mostly be a spot for local kids that didn't quite make it, prospects who've fallen out of the system, and a few guys from Latin America who will play for what I have to assume are pretty tiny salaries. There's also a few guys like Dalton Pompey, who...

I don't, well before my time in Hamilton unfortunately. I'm always impressed by the quality of play, though. It's obviously a step (or two) down from the majors, but there's lots of guys who have played in the show mixed in. Pretty much every game you're guaranteed to see a great play of some sort.

True for most sports, but especially for me with baseball. I love heading down to see the Hamilton Cardinals play in the Intercounty Baseball League, around since 1919. Perfect for a muggy summer night, watching the sun set with a beer in one hand and a hot dog in the other. Makes the slog of...

No shame there. I'm down to four basses and three amps now, having more was fun, but unnecessary. I also had the advantage of having a buddy who manages a Long & McQuade in the Vancouver area, as well as getting along well with the manager of the bass department in the main Vancouver store. This...