Jim Bauer

@porwest (99297)

United States • Age 51

Joined myLot 7 years ago

Just a simple guy with nothing better to do than to waste a little time with my myLot friends. Dabble in some music here and there, and just lead a simple life.

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Jim Bauer's Discussions

Finally Got At It

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 9h

The lawn has been a bit of an area of contention lately, fighting with rain, contractors, and away time. The front grows slower, for whatever reason, and takes longer to get out of hand. The back on the other hand quickly becomes...

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Woodstock for Capitalists

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 2 May

Over the years, no one has been better at making a shareholder's meeting an event like Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway has. I tend to think that once Buffet is gone, and he's 94 now, it will be the 'end of an era' and an end...

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Tuesday Challenge 04/29/25

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 29 Apr

The Tuesday Challenge has evolved a bit since a year and a half ago or so when I first started doing it, and so far, I have accumulated $1,401 in my envelope. It's such a simple and fun way to save a little extra, which is...

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Locked 'em Up!

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 28 Apr

Well, I must say, the camping weekend went fantabulously, aside from some cooler nights and a bit more rain than we would have preferred. But hey, that's camping. Even when you have all the luxuries of home, or most of them, you...

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And...Away We Go

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 24 Apr

Well, it's that time again to get the camper back out on the road and into campsites. We got the battery put back in yesterday, loaded up some of the liquid stuff we took out for winter, and did pre-trip setup like adding some...

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I Wasn't Awake Yet

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 23 Apr

Generally speaking, when it comes to coffee, we don't use the pods. However, we do have a dual choice coffee maker with a regular pot on the left and pods on the right, and we do generally keep pods in the house. Most of the time...

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So, Which One is You?

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 10 Apr

We have a pretty funny gang on our favorite morning radio show in town. It's called The Rizz Show, headed by Scott Rizzuto with current "cast members" Lern, from KSHE-95 fame, Moon from the band Greek Fire, King...

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More Laptop Issues, Ugh!

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 10 Apr

Well, that was it. My laptop's keyboard went totally kaput on me. It started with the enter key on the number pad not working, followed by the period, then the 6, then finally on the main keyboard one of the alt keys stopped...

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What? I Couldn't Believe the Bill!

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 8 Apr

It was the strangest thing in the world to me every time it happened, but of course, sometimes strange things do happen. That's just life, right? You just go with it, I guess. Well, until it gets old, of course. So, get this. My...

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Look Folks, It's a Hippotato

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 8 Apr

From time to time, I see a post around here of strange looking veggies and fruits. I have shared a few of my own over the years, such as a tomato I grew some years back that looked kind of like a snowman shape that I drew a face...

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Trump is Proven Right AGAIN

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 7 Apr

Once again, Donald J. Trump shows, he's so far ahead of everyone else in the game, it's almost strange to me that by now, so many people have failed to figure it out. I mean, it wasn't that long ago that Trump threatened to get...

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The REASON You Charge a 29% Tariff on an Island with No Exports, Explained

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 7 Apr

Why would the United States impose a 29% tariff on an island of 2,100 people with no exports? I'm talking, of course, about Norfolk Island, caught between New Zealand and Australia, that has become a discussion topic around...

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My Dad's Area Got Drowned

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 7 Apr

Even where I live, in an Illinois city close to St. Louis, Missouri about 20 minutes away of about 65,000 people, we are prone to flooding (although in the 11 years I have been here we personally have not experienced anything...

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The Tariffs Aren't What You Think They Are

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 4 Apr

The panic over tariffs and trade wars is really unfounded when you think about it, and I don't really think people are actually taking the time to really think things through here. Trump's plan has multiple working parts to it....

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If It's Going to be, It's Going to be Minis

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 31 Mar

I don't really have a sweet tooth anymore these days. Maybe it was because when I was a kid, I ate sugary things like they were going out of style. When I was a kid, I'd eat anything sweet I could. Brownies, 3Musketeers, peanut...

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I Finally Gave Up

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 30 Mar

Sometimes weird things happen that just make no sense. Like my number pad on my computer suddenly going kaput one by one. Granted, I do a LOT of calculations on my computer researching stocks, accounting for the money, and...

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Time to Spray Already

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 30 Mar

Luckily, I have some triazicide in the garage I can mix up in my hand sprayer since already I have some wasps buzzing around in the typical areas they tend to want to start nesting, in and around my mailbox and around my main...

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A Water to Top off the Day

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 30 Mar

We all have our habits and routines. For some, they are more defined than others. Take my "drinking" habits, if you will. In the morning it's only ever coffee. During the day I drink mostly only water. I rarely drink anything...

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We Only Spent $19

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 29 Mar

Well, we went to the Man Cave Expedition today at the county fairgrounds, and it was a good time just walking around and seeing what they had to offer. It was mostly LED signs, metal signs, beer cans, beer bottles and...

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When Do You Get Dressed?

Jim Bauer @porwest (99297) • United States 29 Mar

I tend to be an early riser, usually getting up around 5am or 530am, and rarely sleep in. I like to have the whole day ahead of me. It wasn't always this way for me. In my younger years I was a night owl, and long preferred second...

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