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The difference tires make

Recently I put my 3rd set of tires on my car.  Here are some lessons I had to re-learn. Comfort - A set of tires can make a huge difference in the comfort of your ride.  I need to go to tirerack.com every time and check the ratings for comfort.  They also have ratings on lots of other important aspects of many brands of tire.  Rotating - Towards the end of the lifespan of my previous set I was not rotating on a regular basis, so the tires began to wear unevenly.  Why wasn't I rotating?  Because it was inconvenient & out of my way.  This time around I installed at Costco with hopes that I'll already be there - so I should be able to stay on a good rotation schedule.  Also, I found out that Costco sends reminders for rotating if you want them to. Installers fees - when shopping you have to pay attention to the details.  I tracked every expense each installer had which included warranty, install/disposal fees, TPM (tire pressur...

Whole house antenna

  As a recent cord cutter living in close proximity to a metropolitan area, I enjoy over 40 HD channels for free.  Ok, well maybe I only enjoy about 8 of those channels and the others are not so good.   What I really use this for is local channel news and channel flipping.  In any case, to be efficient, I wanted to only have 1 antenna power a TV signal to any coaxial jack in the house - so I searched the web looking for a good example of how to do this.  Unfortunately, google didn't show me what I was looking for, so I experimented on my own & I'm happy with the result.   The challenge - how to use 1 antenna to feed an HD TV signal to all of the TV coaxial jacks in the house (except 1 that I hijack). Here are some of the prerequisites for this project if you approach it my way. Have good coaxial cable throughout the house Have a centralized closet where the coaxial cables in the house all converge. Have an HD Antenna with the range ...