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Lifer
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T-Mobile (MetroPCS for prepaid) is chill about fees. There are none. It's baked into your final price like it is in Europe and the Middle East. Go over your limit, it's slower but not unusable. That's fair. For $30 a line I'm not bitching at all.

I use Project Fi. $20 a month for unlimited calling/texting and $10 for 1GB of data. Go over? No overages. Just pay $1 for each 100MB you use. Use less? They refund you the same rate. They have agreements with T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular. The phone switches between that and WiFi, whichever is stronger, automatically. So, use WiFi whenever I can and then don't sweat the rest.
 
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I noticed a mark on my arm yesterday. It was dark, and had a slightly blistery top; Kind of looked like skin cancer. After pondering that awhile, I decided I'm not /that/ unobservant, and skin cancer doesn't come on that quick, so I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what it was... Spider bite? Cat bite? Some kind of poisonous plant? The beginning of flesh eating bacteria or MRSA? D^:

Looking at it again today, it was a little more blistery, and it came to me... I burned it on hot exhaust changing my oil a couple days ago. Dumbass... :^S
 
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Lifer
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So I discovered the /r/short subreddit. Wow, some people actually become suicidal over being short lol. Kinda sad really. I'm kinda short myself at 5'6" but I've always been indifferent about it. Though I've never really been picked on because of it either, I think that must be an American thing.

From your pic, I assumed you were Paul Bunyan.
 

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Lifer
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I noticed a mark on my arm yesterday. It was dark, and had a slightly blistery top; Kind of looked like skin cancer. After pondering that awhile, I decided I'm not /that/ unobservant, and skin cancer doesn't come on that quick, so I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what it was... Spider bite? Cat bite? Some kind of poisonous plant? The beginning of flesh eating bacteria or MRSA? D^:

Looking at it again today, it was a little more blistery, and it came to me... I burned it on hot exhaust changing my oil a couple days ago. Dumbass... :^S

Got a new Wix filter in the mail yesterday just for that purpose. I have to do some maintenance on my hydraulic jack before I can do that though.
 

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I noticed a mark on my arm yesterday. It was dark, and had a slightly blistery top; Kind of looked like skin cancer. After pondering that awhile, I decided I'm not /that/ unobservant, and skin cancer doesn't come on that quick, so I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what it was... Spider bite? Cat bite? Some kind of poisonous plant? The beginning of flesh eating bacteria or MRSA? D^:

Looking at it again today, it was a little more blistery, and it came to me... I burned it on hot exhaust changing my oil a couple days ago. Dumbass... :^S


It's Lupus.
 
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lxskllr

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Got a new Wix filter in the mail yesterday just for that purpose. I have to do some maintenance on my hydraulic jack before I can do that though.
I got a Fram "synthetic" filter from walmart. Fram seems to have a bad rep online, but I've seen a reasonable explanation for the lower end poor performance. The deal, is the media tends to collapse in the Extra Guard™ filters, but they say it doesn't happen if you change them that ~4k miles(Can't remember exactly, but lowish miles), and the better filters perform well longer. IOW, used as directed, it performs acceptably well. I get the best they sell since I only change my oil every ~13k miles(twice/year).
 
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Lifer
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I got a Fram "synthetic" filter from walmart. Fram seems to have a bad rep online, but I've seen a reasonable explanation for the lower end poor performance. The deal, is the media tends to collapse in the Extra Guard™ filters, but they say it doesn't happen if you change them that ~4k miles(Can't remember exactly, but lowish miles), and the better filters perform well longer. IOW, used as directed, it performs acceptably well. I get the best they sell since I only change my oil every ~13k miles(twice/year).

Yeah, I don't trust Fram any longer. I used to change my oil at 5K or less. Decided to just get a better filter. My wife gives me Amazon bucks that she earns online. If not, I get cash back through Amazon for my purchases. I do get my Mobil 1 from Wally World though.