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Today is your day Boomer! Usually I promote healthy living on this blog....encouraging an active lifestyle and good eating habits. But, Donald you are driving us to drink! Yes, the U.S. President is doing so many "dumb" things almost every day that maybe we need a big Canadian beer! How about one beer per day for his entire four-year term? Yup, you can get the Moosehead Presidential Pack delivered to your door in Ontario, New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia. It is a CRATE of lager, containing 1461 cans, it costs $3490(plus tax and deposit), and you can keep the great crate! A spokesperson for the brewery says "If the start of 2025 has taught us anything, it’s that it will take determination to weather four years of political uncertainty—and what better way to make it through each day than with a truly Canadian beer." Alright...a good Canadian beer every day to drown our sorrows....or....hold a really big Boomer friend/family party and drink it all at once!! But who has ...
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Today is your day Boomer! We've all heard, and maybe experienced, driverless cars...but what about eVTOLs? Hmmmm....no? Well, think of the Jetsons cartoon(see picture) and imagine yourself in a flying taxi! Missing all that traffic below, getting there quicker, with a great view! eVTOL stands for "electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle: it lifts off the ground like a helicopter before flying at speeds up to 200 miles per hour (322 kilometers per hour) with a range of about 100 miles (161 kilometers). And these craft do it without filling the air with excessive noise caused by fuel-powered helicopters and small airplanes."(Associated Press) However...“It’s a tricky business to develop a whole new class of vehicles,” said Alan Lim, director of Alton Aviation Consultancy, a firm tracking the industry’s evolution. “It is going to be like a crawl, walk, run situation. Right now, I think we are still crawling. We are not going to have the Jetsons-type reality where ev...