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Traffic Question 5:

What do you do when your car falls into a pothole?

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If you’ve driven in Moline, you know about the potholes. I think the high school has a special driver’s ed section about pot holes and what to do if you fall into one bigger than your car.

It’s not street driving, and it’s not off-roading... it’s called Moline-roading. Jeep offers a Moline-Roading package that comes standard with heavy duty suspension, lift package, and front and rear winches.

My daughter has her own version of The Wheels on the Bus... “go clunkety-clunk, clunkety-clunk, clunkety-clunk”.

The way the city fixes these is the pebble-pooper: it dumps in some gravel and then squirts in some tar. Theoretically, it hardens up and meshes with the road. It sort of works until next time it rains or snows. A few days after application, anyone driving on it sprays gravel and tar everywhere.

So to answer the quiz question... well, that’s left as an exercise for the student.

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Installing GBridge on Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

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Just because I don't want to have to look this up again. Windows 8's driver signing enforcement prevents installing GBridge's network drivers. I posted how to work around that on gbridge.net forums when I was testing the Windows 8 preview, but their forum is offline now.

Windows 8

This method works for Professional or Home versions.

Grape Harvest

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I finally got a full harvest off of this vine (before birds, etc.) These grapes are pretty sour, if you just pick and eat. And seedy. However, I always thought they might make good jelly or something. So this year, I have lots of grapes to try something.

Basically, the process is:

Raspberry-Vanilla Pudding

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We have a picnic on July 4 where we are supposed to bring a dish. An hour before the picnic... what should we bring? We have lots of fresh-picked raspberries and that vanilla pudding I got last week. After a few minutes of Google-searching for things that use those two ingredients (no results, except for baked items and stuff of the wrong kind), I am going to make my own recipe for this.

Five Crunch Mix

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Five different textures of crunch for a delightful and versatile snack that doesn't leave your taste buds feeling like you drank an ocean of saltwater.
 
Shake together in a container (or snack bag) in the desired proportions....
  • honey nut cheerios
  • pretzels (thin style, broken in pieces)
  • unsalted peanuts
  • Spanish peanuts
  • banana chips
  • raisins
 
I usually go heavy on the cheerios.