Home Bar Blog

With Gas Prices Soaring our of Control, we’ve been cautiously looking at way to improve fuel economy in order to save gas & money. The obvious way is to SLOW DOWN! But even at $3.75/gallon I still see idiots tearing down the road at 80mph in their SUV or pickup truck. My neighbor’s kid just pickup a Cadillac Escalade with a 26 gallon fuel tank. Good thing he still lives at home with Mom & Dad becuase it’s going to cost about $100 to fill that beast.

So, how else can you increase gas mileage? 
The answer is not gas pills, fuel additives or other “snake oil” solutions, they just don’t work.
But we did find a site that claims you can use ordinary water to extend your fuel economy. It’s based on the old science project which demonstrates how electronysis breaks down water into it’s component gases, two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. The ingenious device we discovered simply uses your cars electrical system to generate hydrogen gas “on the fly” and injects it into the intake manifold.
The $49.95 plans, which claim to work on 99.9% of cars is a fun tech project that will teach you all about this cool new fuel while extending your cars efficiency by 40 percent! 
Become a hydrogen fuel expert and run your car on water for under $50. 

If so, put down the bottle and step away, although gas prices are getting out of hand, there is some GOOD news to report! Lumber prices are at an all time low! The housing crash has resulted in stock piles of lumber and the lowest prices in years. Now is the perfect opportunity to load up on building materials and add that indoor or outdoor home bar or rec room addition. Here is the best deal on home bar construction plans.
Entertaining at home will help save gas and with the recent rise in grain prices, will help save money from the higher cost of beer at your local tavern. It also keeps you from being liquored up behind the wheel, and that’s a good thing! So, entertaining at home will not only help save gas, it will help increase the value and enjoyment of your home. So get busy! And as always, stay safe & have fun!

How many times per day does your Internet Explorer web browser lock up, crash or freeze? Internet Explorer 7 wastes hours of productivity and is hands down the worst piece of software we have ever experienced.
When casually browsing the web, IE 7 lockups every other session. Firefox on the otherhand rarely locks up at all. It kinda makes me wonder what is going on over in Redmond. They produce the operating system, yet they can not produce a stable internet browser. Is this a problem that they are unwilling or unable to fix or perhaps a monopoly designed to hold back competition?

We have tried the new IE 7 Pro browser add-on, but the only thing it appears to do is catch IE when it falls and while it worked fine for a few days, it too eventually bogged down. This problem has been going on for far too long. IE version 8 is on the horizon, but reviews of the beta version provides little promise, as does Vista.

Symptoms of IE crashes include:
1. Hard drive starts chunking & grinding for several minutes while nothing happens.
2. Task Manager > Applications tab shows “Internet Explorer Not Responding”.
3. Entire PC freezes for extended time while it sorts out it’s own mess.
4. The words about:blank appear in the address bar.
5. Utter frustration sets in.

In a world rife with so many other problems, ain’t it great how one company can make you so incredily unproductive? Let’s hear how MS IE problems affect your work day.

We have a winner of the first official Home Bar Photo Contest.
The honors and $50 go to Robert W. of Crete, Ill.

April 2008 Winner: Northwoods Bar Theme
Field stone bar front application.

His unique Northoods Theme and use of field stone edged him out
over TONS of other great project entries. It was a close race between
his bar and at least two dozen other excellent projects.

Bob’s craftsmanship and creativity along with excellent overall
appearance of the fiinished project stood out as one of the best.
Photo composition also earned Robert the prize by capturing the entire
bar scene floor to ceiling and left to right and from four different angles.   

Bob tells us, “The bar is the focal point of our walk out basement, in a country setting but within 60 minutes of downtown Chicago. First time ever woodworkin project attempted.   In remodeling the entire basement ( again first time ), our motto was ‘everything twice’ and we were ok with that as long as we were learning and having fun ( and not making to many costly mistakes ). The L-Shaped bar plan was the starting point and then improvised. 
Enjoyed the project and enjoying the results even more.”
Bob also added “I defintely amazed (at learning of winning), especially if you could have seen our struggles at the onset. Everyone involved in this creation appreciates your support!”
Thanks, Bob W.

Thank YOU Bob & Congratulations!

The waters of the Wolf River near Fremont Wisconsin will soon be full of fish and fisherman for the 2008 Walleye run.
If you’ve never experienced this event, you should take a look at the photos of boats and home brew shore platforms with fully enclosed cabins with many including their own home bar!

http://www.wolfrivercountry.com/outdoors.html