Jim Bauer

@porwest (95461)

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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A Busy Week Ahead and Hospitalization

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 2 Feb

Well, it looks like it's going to turn into a rather busy week. I have to make some banking trips to get the cash needed for our gambling trip next weekend in Kentucky, plus I do need to grab a few items on my list at Ruler Foods....

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Dag Nab You, Walmart

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 1 Feb

Will there ever come a day when I can only ever praise Walmart? Maybe, but I suspect probably not. Look, I like Walmart, don't get me wrong. Sure, their checkers are the slowest checkers on the planet, and their customer...

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Found It

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 29 Jan

Whenever my wife and I travel, or there is a large expense to put out, I like to be as creative as possible in determining how it will be paid for. 9 times out of 10, it's the stock market that comes home to deliver the goods. I...

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Oh Boy, I Completely Forgot About That

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 28 Jan

And how in the world did I, I wonder? I walked out into the kitchen for an early snack. I don't eat breakfast, but I just felt hungry. I was looking around and saw we had some soup left over, a piece of braised pork, some...

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Sometimes You Just Make It Up

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 27 Jan

Of course, this is sometimes what gets me in trouble with @NJChicaa, but hey, as I always like to say, so long as it's good eats, so what if you wing it a little bit? It's not like when I make up a dish I don't have at least some...

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Yes, as a Matter of Fact I WOULD Have Dug One Out!

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 26 Jan

Did you know that Five Below changed many of its store's formats to Five Beyond? Well, they did, and I did not know this until we happened to need to stop at our local one for something my wife needed for her cell...

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Let's Rationalize for a Second

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 26 Jan

Let's imagine for a moment that I am a very well-respected doctor in your small local community. I have done great things over the years, and no one got hurt. No one died. I actually diagnosed some things, cured some things, and...

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Lunch Must Have Had Too Much Value

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 26 Jan

Sometimes you have a lunch that just, for whatever reason, sticks with you much longer than you might otherwise expect. Like our lunch yesterday. We went to a local gyro place we love, just a married couple who run the place and...

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Let's Just Say It Was a Friday That Felt Like a Monday

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 25 Jan

I checked on the news feeds to see if there was an invasion of Gremlins yesterday, but it seems there was nothing out of the ordinary that happened. But I am certain I did indeed encounter Gremlins. My Internet was acting up. Not...

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Dagnabbit, EGGS!

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 23 Jan

Well, I did make it to Ruler Foods as I mentioned earlier was the plan and got pretty much everything that was on my list. It was a bit frustrating that I did not need potatoes or onions—I have plenty and they're a...

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Off to Ruler Foods in a Bit

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 23 Jan

I mentioned to the wife this morning that I would probably be making a Ruler run sometime today. I do have a few items on the list I get from there that need to be replaced like bread, stuffing, butter and a few other things. I...

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A Delicious Egg Bake

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 23 Jan

Egg bakes, or egg casseroles, whatever you want to call them, are just delicious. And yes, I did happen to have eggs in the house to make one since I was able to find a fair enough deal a while back on some and bought a couple...

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Music You've Probably Never Heard #16

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 22 Jan

Down the rabbit hole of music we go again, with installment 16 of Music You've Probably Never Heard. This time in the lineup we have Marlon Brandi and the Wild Ones with Jack and Nicotine. They are just a...

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Baked Potato Lazy

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 21 Jan

I have to tell you, I love me a baked potato. Cook it up and slather it with butter and cheese and bacon bits, even some sour cream. Back in the day I did them proper. Dredge them in butter and garlic powder, maybe even a little...

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Clam Chowder Tonight

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 19 Jan

My plan was to make up a batch of clam chowder last night for dinner, but after we dropped mom off after running some errands, and since my mom currently lives with my sister and brother-in-law, we wound up having a bit of an...

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What Had Happened Was

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 19 Jan

There's a bit of a funny back story to our finally pulling the plug on our cable. It was something that my wife and I had fully discussed for several months before I actually decided to do it. You see, my wife is the TV watcher....

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A New Plan

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 18 Jan

The fact of the matter is that I blog, and I write articles, and if you have followed me long enough around here on myLot, of course you'd be quite aware that 95% of any my "commentary" has to do with money and politics. It's the...

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We're Thinking YouTube TV

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 17 Jan

So, as you know, I made the decision on Tuesday to cancel cable to save $175 a month, which was the portion of our cable bill that covered the TV portion. Our service ended Thursday evening. After several conversations, as well...

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It Happened One Day

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 17 Jan

It was during the holidays, and I was probably around 11 years old or so. At the time we lived in Illinois and we were visiting with my grandparents and extended family in Milwaukee, WI. When we stayed there, my dad would park his...

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Easy Spanish Rice

Jim Bauer @porwest (95461) • United States 16 Jan

I am sure that there will be elite connoisseurs who will entirely poo-poo my dish here, @NJChicaa being no exception who will probably send my entire idea into the annals of the worst, most vile concoctions to ever have molested a...

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