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Our Friend George knows how to enjoy life.

This Sunday afternoon is the beginning of my second week in Santa Rosalia. The week went by soooooo fast, it seems like only a few days have gone by. I am getting so comfortable living here. Everybody treats me so kindly, and are so friendly. Man-O-Man!
I am a very lucky guy!

Scott Burns, one of the five most widely read financial writers in the country, writes in The Dallas Morning News about joining the RV lifestyle:

Millions of Americans are, or will be, facing tough choices. Some will be there because of forced premature retirement. Others will retire on schedule but won’t have nearly enough money. Either way, they face the same problem.

They can try to raise the bridge of investment returns on their nest egg. Or they can lower the flood tide of living expenses. Whether they live in an RV full-time or use it as a low-cost vacation alternative, the RV may be the best tool available for re-examining (and perhaps resizing) the American Dream.

Scott Burns: It’s Only Money
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Ah, to be in the desert in wintertime…
When I get to Quartzsite, you can be sure to find me

at The City Bus Cafe!

[update: the link is broken. That’s a shame because it was a neat site. Maybe it will fix itself soon.]

How to solder
MAKE’s soldering primer, and another for beginners and novices alike from the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library.

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A great way to choose a calendar:

VW Photo Calendar Voting just in…

Man, those folks are serious about their VW Vans!

Diesel Alternatives

“The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But, such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum products of the present time.” That quote may seem like it came out of a recent environmentalist summit at some prestigious research university, in the wake of rising oil prices and unrest in t the Middle East. Ironically, Dr Rudolf Diesel himself, who ran his prototype engine at the 1912 Paris World Exhibition on peanut oil, spoke those words more than 90 years ago.

Fuels of the future in Solar Power and Alternative Energy