Morning, Box. Lots to do and no real motivation to do most of it.

Thanks, it actually turned out to be a decent offer with health insurance. The only bad thing is that the health insurance doesnt kick in until December :rolleyes:. Are there any insurance sales people in teh box? If so PM me as we a need a temporary major medical policy asap.

For my first depost at a bank brand (not branch), I always do 500 to start, to make sure I don't get any :rolleyes:. After that, I'll take ini 2-3k. Larger than that, you'd have to make 2 trips into the bank (unless you use a cart at the branches inside of supermarkets, etc)... that's where I draw the line. I'd rather stop at 2-3 banks than make 3 trips inside one branch.

You can only get 500 presidents per address, no matter what the time frame is (unless they changed it). The Native Am's don't have a limit, so order away on them. Or ship some president's to your neighbors & family members, as I've done.

I'll take that title in the box, maybe, but not overall. And who ever said addicting was a bad thing?

It's the end of August, it's hot and humid out very early today and it seems the whole world is on vacation as the roads were dead at rush hour this morning.

Service Dept. at my dealer was packed and I had to put my car in the employee lot on the side street.

Now a comment about Honda cars. They have no mid-sized cars in the current US line up. The Fit and Civic are sub-compacts. The Insight (hybrid) is a compact. The Accord is a Large car. How about something in between for us normal people?

Almost the entirety of my to-do list is phone stuff. I have to book a truck rental for the weekend, reach out to all of my previously attended schools for transcripts, and go to the limo place that I hope to be doing some work for. The video gig is going to straight commission as of 9/1, and I was offered a buyout of sorts...probably going to take it since it involves keeping the issued laptop. Taking that laptop defers the purchase of the one that I really want and also lets me get rid of this cursed seven-year-old desktop.

If you go by rental company definitions, both the Prius and 4-door Civic are mid-size/intermediate :)

The new Accords are not nearly as beefy as a comparable BMW. I wouldn't call an Accord large, but that's just me.

Morning Box!

I am thinking of saving my free weekend nights at SPG for a mileage run and instead staying at the Westin Dallas Galleria when we visit friends. The aloft Las Colinas is sold out already and that's where I was originally hoping to go after deciding to keep my nights.

Actually, I think that under the EPA classifications (see class sizes here), the Civic is a midsize. ETA: Actually, apparently not....the Civic has 102 cu feet of passenger and cargo volume, which qualifies it as a compact.

The curious thing is that a Civic today is the same size (or slightly larger) than the Accord was when it arrived in the US.

And, as an aside, have you considered the CR-V?

That's most every day for me.


The new Le Meridien is near there and if you're paying might be a decent deal; I stayed there recently for about $110/night, and it's pretty nice.

Cars have gotten bigger. The current Corolla is bigger than the '89 Camry I used to drive.

Yeah, I thought about that. The website does not say, but do you know if the Le Meridien allows pets? The better half hasn't decided if she wants to take the dog or not.

No idea; we don't have pets, and I wouldn't travel with Rover or Fluffy on business if we did. Sorry.

Interesting: Hotel in Denver charging your airfare for your hotel stay.

Good Morning. Looks like 100% chance of :rolleyes: for me, today.

I don't do insurance sales but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night have been looking for private medical insurance for a little while now since I've been out of work since the end of June. My wife is concerned that something will happen to me and the medial bill will shatter our precarious financial situation right now.

Anyway, I looked at several and have narrowed it down to a Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan or a United Healthcare plan. Both have 100% coverage after $2500 deductible and decent office co-pays ($25 and $35 respectively if I remember correctly). Both also included prescriptions. It was about $135 per month for one person to have one of those plans with a price guarantee of 12 months. Not really that bad considering that my wife's school district wanted $350 per month to add me to her plan which is effectively the same thing. I'm leaning toward UHC right now simply because I've had UHC coverage through work for a while and know the system. Also keep in mind that the prices I was quoted are for Texas and will likely be different in New York.