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TWiT and why you should be listening

In my last post, I talked at length about how I prepare for my life on the road each fall.  I put around 6,000 miles on my little Honda Civic each year, and so I am very concerned with what I will have available for listening.  To be honest, I almost never listen to music in my car anymore!  As I put it in that last post: My favorites include The Dave Ramsey Show, This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, and The Tech Guy.  My car plays MP3 CDs, so I just load them on a CD-RW, and the disc starts playing where it left off every time I get in the car.  When I’ve listened through the disc, I just use...
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Fall travel: 7 survival tips for life on the road

Like many of you, I am getting ready to head out on the road and as I prepare, I wanted to share a few tips on how to get the most out of your time in car and in those hotels.  So, here are 7 survival tips as you “road warriors” get after it for yet another year: Get a binder. Oh yeah, it seems really old school, but putting all of your travel-related information into a 3-ring binder is the way to go.  Snag one of those 3-ring pouches, and suddenly you’ve got a place to store all of those receipts you accumulate.  Expense reports are not nearly the same headache when you’re...
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