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The "brains" are in an external box locked under the seat and I have an extra battery for parking mode.

I went with the external brain and storage because a few dash cameras overheated in the summer heat. It also gives the front camera a smaller profile so it hides nicely behind the rear view mirror.

It connects to my vehicle's hotspot and auto-uploads any "events" to their app for viewing later.

MSY to LHR is a 9 hour direct flight on British Airways. Then connecting flight to wherever.

Business class has seats that lay flat. Leaves around 9 pm and lands around noon. Eat a meal on the flight then sleep the rest. Wake up ready to go.

Just made that trip 3 weeks ago.

If you have a Discover card, they have a service that will scan the major sites for your info and will submit take down requests automatically.

In skagway we took the train through the mountains into Canada, but instead of getting on the bus to get back, we rode bikes back. 90% of the ride was downhill, so it was mostly coasting.

I hole-hardedly agree, but, allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.

Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it's a peach of cake.

The innovation is that the rear wheels can turn. Turning the front and rear in opposite directions will reduce the turning radius allowing for sharper turns.

Turning the wheels in the same direction enables crab walk. Crab walk is a "look what I can do" feature that will probably never get used, but since it is available, why not enable it.

I used this advice after Hurricane Ida decided to relocate my tree to my living room:


Hey OP... I used to be the guy who worked for insurance companies, and determined the value of every little thing in your house. The guy who would go head-to-head with those fire-truck-chasing professional loss adjusters. I may be able to help you not get screwed when filing your claim.

Our goal was to use the information you provided, and give the lowest damn value we can possibly justify for your item.

For instance, if all you say was "toaster" -- we would come up with a cheap-as-frick $4.88 toaster from Walmart, meant to toast one side of one piece of bread at a time. And we would do that for every thing you have ever owned. We had private master lists of the most commonly used descriptions, and what the cheapest viable replacements were. We also had wholesale pricing on almost everything out there, so really scored cheap prices to quote. To further that example:

If you said "toaster - $25" , we would have to be within -20% of that... so, we would find something that's pretty much dead-on $20.01.
If you said "toaster- $200" , we'd kick it back and say NEED MORE INFO, because that's a ridiculous price for a toaster (with no other information given.)
If you said "toaster, from Walmart" , you're getting that $4.88 one.
If you said "toaster, from Macys" , you'd be more likely to get a $25-35 one.
If you said "toaster", and all your other kitchen appliances were Jenn Air / Kitchenaid / etc., you would probably get a matching one.
If you said "Proctor Silex 42888 2-Slice Toaster from Wamart, $9", you just got yourself $9.
If you said "High-end Toaster, Stainless Steel, Blue glowing power button" ... you might get $35-50 instead. We had to match all features that were listed.

I'm not telling you to lie on your claim. Not at all. That would be illegal, and could cause much bigger issues (i.e., invalidating the entire claim). But on the flip side, it's not always advantageous to tell the whole truth every time. Pay attention to those last two examples.

I remember one specific customer... he had some old, piece of shite projector (from mid-late 90s) that could stream a equally piece of shite consumer camcorder. Worth like $5 at a scrap yard. It had some oddball fricking resolution it could record at, though -- and the guy strongly insisted that we replace with "Like Kind And Quality" (trigger words). Ended up being a $65k replacement, because the only camera on the market happened to be a high-end professional video camera (as in, for shooting actual movies). $65-goddam-thousand-dollars because he knew that loophole, and researched his shite.

Remember to list fricking every -- even the most mundane fricking bullshite you can think of. For example, if I was writing up the shower in my bathroom:

Designer Shower Curtain - $35
Matching Shower Curtain Liner for Designer Shower Curtain - $15
Shower Curtain Rings x20 - $15
Stainless Steel Soap Dispenser for Shower - $35
Natural Sponge Loofah - from Whole Foods - $15
Natural Sponge Loofah for Back - from Whole Foods - $19
Holder for Loofahs - $20
Bars of soap - from Lush - $12 each (qty: 4)
Bath bomb - from Lush - $12
High end shampoo - from salon - $40
High end conditioner - from salon - $40
Refining pore mask - from salon - $55

I could probably keep thinking, and bring it up to about $400 for the contents of my shower. Nothing there is "unreasonable" , nothing there is clearly out of place, nothing seems obviously fake. The prices are a little on the high-end, but the reality is, some people have expensive shite -- it won't actually get questioned. No claims adjuster is going to bother nitpicking over the cost of fricking Lush bath bombs, when there is a 20,000 item file to go through. The adjuster has other shite to do, too.

Most people writing claims for a total loss wouldn't even bother with the shower (it's just some used soap and sponges..) -- and those people would be losing out on $400.

Some things require documentation & ages. If you say "tv - $2,000" -- you're getting a 32" LCD, unless you can provide it was from the last year or two w/ receipts. Hopefully you have a good paper trail from credit/debit card expenditure / product registrations / etc.

If you're missing paper trails for things that were legitimately expensive -- go through every photo you can find that was taken in your house. Any parties you may have thrown, and guests put pics up on Facebook. Maybe an Imgur photo of your cat, hiding under a coffee table you think you purchased from Restoration Hardware. Like... seriously... come up with any evidence you possibly can, for anything that could possibly be deemed expensive.

The fire-truck chasing loss adjusters are evil sons of bitches, but, they actually do provide some value. You will definitely get more money, even if they take a cut. But all they're really doing, is just nitpicking the ever-living-shite out of everything you possibly owned, and writing them all up "creatively" for the insurance company to process.

Sometimes people would come back to us with "updated* claims. They tried it on their own, and listed stuff like "toaster", "microwave", "tv" .. and weren't happy with what they got back. So they hired a fire-truck chaser, and re-submitted with "more information." I have absolutely seen claims go from under $7k calculated, to over $100k calculated. (It's amazing what can happen when people suddenly "remember" their entire wardrobe came from Nordstrom.)

Get your model number/engine size and look up part numbers for the air filter, oil filter, spark plugs, fuse, and engine oil type/quantity.

Call around to local generator maintenance places and see if you can buy a set or two of everything so you can have an oil change kit. I have enough supplies to do three oil changes. I also have a spark plug gap tool and anti seize in my maintenance kit.

The maintenance schedule is to change the oil every 200 hours of runtime (approx every 8 days.)

Exercise it now and make sure it starts and runs. If you know what you are doing (and you don't mind resetting clocks) kill the power to your house (main breaker) and see if the generator senses the power failure, starts, and transfers over the house to generator. After running a few minutes, restore power and make sure the transfer gear switches back to commercial power. Be careful with your central A/C system. There should be a delay so it doesn't try to start up an already pressurized system. Not having a startup delay can damage your A/C system. My system throws a fit swapping from generator to commercial, so be ready to kill your A/C if it acts funny or makes weird noses.

I also have replacement high temperature sensors. A fence was installed near the exhaust, so the hot air cycles back to the intake and overheats the generator if I am not home to open the fence while running. If you have anything that can restrict airflow, you may want to buy a sensor while you are shopping for the other stuff.

They like Porsches too.

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