Son of the Revolution is the book that started my interest in Chinese culture especially under Mao. If you're reading more of a history but want more the feeling of living in the society I highly recommend this biography

Will check this out too, thanks

Reading a book on the Cultural Revolution in China. I may quit this one. It’s too hard for me to keep up with all the characters. Don’t know if it’s just me but foreign names are tough to keep track of since they are not common names to me. For some reason my brain doesn’t associate a face to them ...

Reading a book on the Cultural Revolution in China. I may quit this one. It’s too hard for me to keep up with all the characters. Don’t know if it’s just me but foreign names are tough to keep track of since they are not common names to me. For some reason my brain doesn’t associate a face to them a...

I’m actually not a big fan of the keyless start/stop in vehicles. C2i’s example is one reason, the other being that my wife or I will leave the key fob in our jacket and forget to leave it in the car when we get home. So the next time one of us goes to drive the car, we have to search around for the...

Saw the full eclipse in Pymatuning just before the clouds arrived. Also felt the full brunt of that I-79 traffic. Sucked ass but it was worth it.

We had two locust trees taken down last month. I finally got around to moving all the wood chips from the stump grindings to various parts of the yard. Only got one tree’s worth done but I also need a nap

Sports like football and hockey tend to allow comebacks more than others due to the prevent offense teams go into. Baseball and basketball you pretty much are forced to continue to try on offense. It’s why I enjoyed the 2016 Cup run so much. The Penguins just kept their foot on the necks of their op...

Glad tif isn’t designing the bridges I drive over. Yikes

“Other non-weather related natural events” covers eclipses. Fire away

Clouds are right out

Who ****** cares...I'm not Taiwanese. They can't even decide if they're China or not...NEXT!

Listen pal, I just came back from the Great West where earthquakes and volcanoes shaped our great land. If the earth is sizing us up for another big kaboom in Yellowstone, I want to know

Wasn’t there also an earthquake in Taiwan a couple days ago?

I believe this was ktk’s reference https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhA-wGgi5x9v65gF7pgoFmxpoVTgHkNhHEnY6SPq953LDlg9_iJrWkH4SiY4VUqxMWL1cK6G8iorLoQege6S1hLM7Bn5gQaZTPj7Hb-VkK1LsGnPmIeGwUeBP__jC2XD-Ps5iwJ0c6_eLC/s1600/Screenshot_2020-03-23+Larry+David%25E2%2580%2599s+urinal+...

I’m in. Break my heart buccos

Injuries and the pitching staff are reasons that I am tempering any excitement.

MWB has the right take. I enjoy manuals as long as I’m not sitting in traffic every day. If you have one long enough, there’s no thought to the process, it becomes second nature.

Pirates never do well in division.

68-94

where the **** is the warm weather

It’s not in Arizona. Snowed out here yesterday

Davis does come off with a bit of a Jason Kendall vibe. Scrappy old school baseball player

My wife and I were looking for something different the other day and started Cheers from the beginning. Man, that show started out in stride. Most times you revisit (or for my wife start) older sitcoms like that it takes a while for everything to click, but Cheers was funny from the start while sti...

Cam Sutton eh? Huh

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39763512/sources-mlbpa-call-majority-players-ask-removal-bruce-meyer The owners proposed a salary cap/floor before the last deal. Players rejected the premise outright. Only major sport without that structure and then complains about the obvious outcome from that...

I just figure it’s better to put that saved money into the Roth IRA right away so it can gain interest vs waiting until the end of the year. As long as the number of back door conversions is limitless. So, you definitely can't put it into your Roth directly over time because then you're subject to ...

I just figure it’s better to put that saved money into the Roth IRA right away so it can gain interest vs waiting until the end of the year. As long as the number of back door conversions is limitless. So, you definitely can't put it into your Roth directly over time because then you're subject to ...

I just figure it’s better to put that saved money into the Roth IRA right away so it can gain interest vs waiting until the end of the year. As long as the number of back door conversions is limitless.

I think IRAs and Brokerage accounts are the only options, which is unfortunate. You could also do what we do and invest in the IRA and then do a backdoor Roth conversion to get around restrictions/having to do any calculations. Looks like this is the way I’ll go since our income may push us over th...