I’ve owned a couple cars that required premium, but for the most part I’ve been running 87 octane. I prefer to run premium in my 24 Expedition as I get about 2 more mpg, but the price difference has gotten outrageous in the last 6 months or so. Maybe I’ve just become more cost conscious. 

Paid $2.67 this morning for regular, premium checked in at $3.55! 23 gallon tank I fill 3 times a week, it starts to add up pretty quickly. You guys seeing nearly a dollar difference in grade?

And for those trying desperately to turn every fucking thread political, maybe give us all a break and sit this one out.

https://www.si.com/nfl/how-josh-allen-pr...axson-dart

Man, the hyperbole manure sure gets spread around this time of the year lol. Every team is loving the living shit out of their draft picks! Regardless, always interested in the back stories and the process in which teams get there. Dart seems like a good kid.....but so does Cam Ward. And Jalen Milroe. Just like with our redshirt freshman QB, hope springs eternal. Just need some live bullets to separate the wheat from the chaff.

https://www.pff.com/news/draft-running-b...ce=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null

Your fave?

Also, Todd McShay's Top 8 pick for 2026:

....rumor is the Vikings will play the Steelers in Dublin on September 28th. McCarthy, Kelly and O'Connell should get a nice homecoming welcome.

Kicking China’s ass.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5277...a-tariffs/

Jets tie the game with 1 second left

So, apparently, despite (horrifyingly) taking the Oath of Office twice...he just doesn't know about this whole "Constitution" thing.

I thought the Conservatives were all about the Constitution? I guess the redcap variety are, as usual, unfortunate exceptions.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trum...n-da6fd937

So, when the Oath says ""I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."...

...and he says "I don't know" when asked if he needs to follow it, and leaves it up to his "brilliant lawyers"...like Bondi, who said that 3/4 of America's citizens were saved from Fentanyl addiction in the last 100 days...

...why do the redcaps want anything to do with a president? They want a crypto emperor, and should all go found a new country to ruin together.

I just got back from a funeral in Central Minnesota yesterday.
Flew in on short notice from Montana (direct flight, thank you).
Rented a car and spent Thursday night with some college friends...he played baseball for the Gophers and we remembered many stories.  Her sisters sang a song at their reception from the movie White Christmas (one of my wife's favorites)..."Sisters" (the one that Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye copied with the big blue feathers)...except the girls changed the words of course.

Went to my Uncle's funeral near Pierz...been a while since I'd been to the little town just south of there that both my parents grew up.  The funeral, for my uncle...he was the last of all the siblings of that family that were stalwarts of that community.  I had gotten a hand-written letter literally one month earlier from him...he was still making plans for spring turkey hunting, the fishing opener and reconnecting with his deer hunting buddies.  He was 86.  

Lots of memories in that church where I had attended so many weddings (and funerals) of extended family members. It wasn't my home town where I grew up, but rather where both my parents came from.

But after the funeral lunch and visits with old family friends and many cousins were done, I followed a couple of cousins up to the family lake compound near Nisswa, less than an hour away from their home place. They were opening the cabins up for the summer, getting water turned on, docks out and such.

I forgot how nice the Minnesota lake country is.  The little taverns and resorts on these lakes.  
The fishing and hunting culture.  The summers spent "cabining" with young kids...now grandkids instead of brothers and sisters.  Another generation. 

As I drove back yesterday on a bluebird morning through Brainerd and down to MSP airport, I was reflecting that while I love the mountains, yeah, I could probably live in the lake country of central or Northern Minnesota.

Really what I want in a movie these days? Good storylines please. Something that transcends the Marvel Universe and Tom Cruise.

IF the decision is experience? For me the movie theatre will almost always lose to my big screen at home.

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Domestic box-office sales for 2024 were $8.7 billion. 

According to Comscore, that’s a nearly 24% drop from five years ago. And 2025 isn’t off to a stellar start. Numbers are down 7% compared with the first three months of last year.

“What does that say? What is the consumer trying to tell us?” Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos said during the Time100 Summit last month. “That they’d like to watch movies at home, thank you.”