In Manchester New Hampshire as well

There were no parking lots in the middle of Shopper's World in the 50s and 60s, nor the 70s through the teardown/rebuild in the early 90s. It used to be basically a rectangle of stores on two levels, anchor stores on the ends, open air to a large courtyard inside, with a sea of parking lot around it. It had grass, pathways, bushes, trees, fountains, and had seasonal items like Christmas decorations and a petting zoo in the courtyard.

Tippling Rock in Sudbury, has views to Boston on a clear day.

You don't have to leave your passport with them - you own it, or I guess technically the US government owns it. If a country requires the passport details for purposes of registration, stand there until they give it back to you. If they refuse, ask for the manager. If they still refuse, find a different place to stay.

Nest thermostats don't shut off the heat if people aren't sensed, it turns it back to the configured 'away' temperature. Getting past that, the default safety temp (temp to call for heat even if the thermostat was manually set to 'off') is 40 degrees. They would have had to intentionally disable the safety temp setting for this to have occurred. That is a fault of the user, not of the thermostat.

We've been using them for years - they save about a tank of oil each year, and we've gone on week-long vacations in the dead of winter with no issues of frozen pipes.

Negative - I had a PO box in a neighboring town until one opened in the location nearest me. You do need a verifiable physical address to get a PO box however:

REQUIRED

Whether you apply online or at a Post Office, two valid forms of identification (one photo and one non-photo) are required when you obtain your keys or combination at the Post Office where your box is located. You must present the IDs at a Post Office. One item must contain a photograph and one must be traceable to the bearer (prove your physical address). Both must be current. Acceptable forms of ID include:

Photo ID Options:

■•■ Valid U.S. driver’s license or state non-driver’s identification card

■•■ U.S. Armed forces, government, university, or recognized corporate employee identification card

■•■ Passport, passport card, alien registration card, or certificate of naturalization

■•■ NEXUS or Matricula Consular card.

Non-Photo ID Options:

■•■ Current lease, mortgage, or deed of trust

■•■ Voter or vehicle registration card

■•■ Home or vehicle insurance policy

Note: Social Security cards, credit cards, and birth certificates are not acceptable forms of ID.

Red Rose is in a somewhat weird place, and across the street from a police substation that clearly used to be a Wendy's, but man the food is amazing. Been going there for over 15 years, and it is worth the hour long trip from home to go.

Pointing out a fault is not a need to relax, it is being grounded in reality. There are more solutions than the one of burying the lines, such as removing trees that encroach on the lines. One is exponentially less expensive than the other. Expense is a factor regardless, since costs will be passed to ratepayers. This isn't a decision in a vacuum. If it wasn't, why not say the solution is to develop wireless power or put a fusion reactor in every home?

The state is not fiscally responsible for power company infrastructure, so I'm not certain why you are saying "NH won't bury the power lines." Cost estimates to bury lines are between $100,000 and $1,000,000 per mile to bury the lines, dependent on what they have to be dug through. Based on the reported 18,000 miles of residential lines on poles, that would be $1.8 billion dollars to $18 billion dollars to accomplish. Not going to happen.

I can't speak for providers other than mine, but Unitil in at least the seacoast has crews (usually Asplundh) cutting trees back constantly - I see them or the results of their work all the time. They called 3 weeks ago asking to trim my trees away from the power lines, and it's a small apple tree.

The town and/or homeowners/landowners have to allow the utilities to do tree trimming work. Can't fault them if they are asked and told no. The large storm in December was the first time we've lost power here for any length of time since the last huge ice storm in 2012 I believe it was.

You're not my guy, fwend.

Only one arch did, not the entire set

I think you have to tug on the strap and say "that's not going anywhere" for it to count.

Given that there are exactly zero McDonalds in Iceland, a fact they are quite proud of, I'm not certain how you can make this assertion.

Outlawing/closing down all the Dunks would probably do the trick.

Just to make certain you are aware, the Downeaster will not take you to the airport. It will take you to North Station, then you need to take the Orange (or Green) line to the Blue line. Blue line goes right to the airport.

I used a storage unit for approximately one year - I quickly left an apartment/housemate situation due one of the housemates devolving into lunacy. I ended up renting a single room in someone's house, and things like hand tools, car parts, and kayaks and such that had lived in my own storage section had to go into storage. Additionally, things like the couch and tables and such that I owned that were in common areas had to go into storage as well. The storage unit situation lasted about a year until I bought a fixer-upper of my own.

"Employees across the University of Massachusetts system overwhelmingly topped the list of the state’s highest earners in 2021, starting with Dr. Michael F. Collins, chancellor of UMass Chan Medical School. His overall pay was $1.35 million, including a base salary of $815,738 and $533,371 in other pay, according to state data.

Dr. Terence Flotte, provost and executive deputy chancellor of UMass Chan Medial School, trails behind Collins with an overall pay of $1.11 million, with a base salary of $860,519 and $249,696 in other pay."

No, it is not.

Maybe try contacting the League of NH Craftsmen and see if they have any members who do braided rugs:

https://nhcrafts.org

Edit: looks like there are more than a few if you search the members on the site by category, here's a couple:

https://nhcrafts.org/juried-member/3307/

https://nhcrafts.org/juried-member/9576/

The last one to survive was in Newington NH, but it has been gone for over 10 years. The closest one to NH/ME/Eastern MA is down in Western CT. Folks around here know that crayfish isn't lobster and they can't survive in New England.

Borrow a drill and buy a $15 eraser wheel - it'll pull the vinyl emblems and the paint on top of it right off.

I assure you that we are just as sick of your political ads up here.

Only buy the cards where the entire cardboard back panel of the card holder has to be removed to be scanned for purchase, as even the PIN area is covered on them. I generally find that kind of card at the displays of gift cards in Home Depot. That, or you can buy the gift cards online directly from banks.

CVS owns Aetna - you can have any prescription filled anywhere, but if you are on a maint medication, as determined by at least 3 months of continued refill, you are required to buy from CVS mailorder. You can continue to fill elsewhere, they will just not pay for any portion of your medication if you do.

Happy to be rid of Aetna.