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Brew

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  1. Reading through this thread, seems like utilities is the place where the government may actually be able to run things better than the private sector. Living under the TVA umbrella with all municipal utilities has been a bonus. Several utilities in KY tried to spin out of the TVA system and built their own power generation plants and they have been killed financially. They are sitting on massive debt that they can’t pay, the local cities (all fairly small) signed off on the bond issues and are on the hook, and it’s been one issue after another with them. We did some price consulting for them a few years back and it was clear then that there was a major problem coming.
  2. The older dog sleeps in his bed beside our bed, the puppy sleeps in a crate in the kitchen. My one rule when we got dogs was no dogs on the bed. The older dog waits until I get up in the morning and jumps on the bed to sleep with my wife. She’s already making comments about letting the puppy sleep where he wants so we’ll see how long the crate lasts.
  3. Someone needs to ask him what knowledge they are bringing that is going to help an elementary/middle school kid at this point in their education. At this point they are just trying to get babysitters in class rooms. It would have made a whole lot more sense to offer forgivable loans to veterans who want to finish out their degrees at a state school that is then forgiven if they teach for x number of years in a target school. I know several people that have graduated recently that are teaching at specific schools to get their loans forgiven. Both of our kids have been in private school since they were 2-3. The local schools here are a run down shit show and are in the middle of a constant battle with the county, city, NAACP, etc. I graduated from the public system and hated the private schools, but with 2 girls we had to do what was in their best interest long-term. I don’t think their education K-8 has been any better than mine was and in some cases I don’t think it was as good. The high school has made up for that. They focus on AP classes, ACT prep, have one college advisor per 25 or so seniors, etc. and really focus on pushing the kids to challenge themselves. It is really focused on what it takes to get scholarships for college.
  4. Always liked the lines on them, but I preferred the wake on the 205. With the right tower setup, the 205 was also a great looking boat although people routinely screwed them up with garbage towers or placing them in the wrong location.
  5. Partially to help cool the pool down at night during the summer, partially because I see/hear pump failure stories with running variable. I’ve had zero pump issues with the last two pools, so I just let it run.
  6. Pool company set ours at 12 hours on high and 12 at 25%. I run it at 75% 24/7 on the summer and 50% during the winter. Everyone I know that has it changing constantly burns pumps up.
  7. If someone wants to give me $90k+ for this one, show me where to sign. 3300 miles, optioned out other than a sunroof and the stupid yellow cab lights. I’ve turned into the suburb guy riding around in a 2500 series with nothing to pull. Of course, as soon as it sells I’ll go buy another boat or more toys and start the circle again.
  8. That pricing is nuts. My F250 Platinum was $72k in May. I’ll cut you a deal and sell it for $10k off the 350’s pricing for $92k.
  9. In reality, doesn’t that cover most everything discussed in this thread?
  10. Trump versus a smarter, more appalling version of Trump will be the GQP’s wet dream. This presidential election cycle is going to have a shit ton of money and conflict and a bunch of roads that lead to nothing good. Desantis’ last year is taking everything to a new level.
  11. Bonefish Malvaldo 26 or a Barker 26 Bay are my first two choices if I can get past the size or maybe even the Conch 25. Think I really need to go 22-24 if I go that direction though.
  12. Boat went under contract today, looks like the end is here for my 20+ year run of wakeboats. Kind of sucks the more I have thought about it. Been researching what stupid purchase I’m going to make to fill the empty garage slot, leaning towards a 22-24 foot bay boat I can also use at the home lakes but I can’t decide. May just sell the truck too and buy a Blackwing or something else dumb instead.
  13. I haven’t noticed any taste difference in normal recipes since switching. If it’s a heavy garlic recipe, I still go fresh. If it’s a clove or two, bottled,
  14. Remove Spice World minced garlic jar from fridge, stick spoon in to get minced garlic out, dump in pan, rinse spoon, replace bottle in fridge.
  15. If I can get my teenagers to fit in the box, will they also accept them?
  16. If I’m in a cove with low traffic and no waves, I go shorter than normal. 15 is probably cutting it too close with a 10 foot depth, but 20/25 would work fine. I don’t want a lot of extra rope in situations like that.
  17. Watched it, it wasn’t the greatest movie ever but it was nice to get something different. Well worth watching and a bonus to support something other than Marvel. Key definitely likes to use a curse word or two. Also, he must have been looking at the Hope Solo pictures that are out there while he was working on his renderings.
  18. You can also add a minimal life insurance policy with some and the home/auto discount more than covers the cost.
  19. I run all Penn spinning setups currently, have 6 of them. I backfill the spool with mono, then top it off with braid and then use a mono leader. My kids fish them also and we rarely have had any issues with the braid on them. Occasionally you’ll get a knot as the first layer of braid starts to wear so I just cut it back and keep going until the braid layer gets shorter than I want it to be.
  20. Checked ours, it doubled. Escalade, F250, and golf cart (all 3 pretty well brand new) run $800 every 6 months. The 16 year old and her Escape runs $897.
  21. Just prepare for them to go no lube on you. It’s the parents right of passage. Ours doubled when we added our oldest daughter.
  22. Everything I read when researching said gas was superior for baking because of the moisture level in a gas oven. It all depends on what you’re cooking I’m sure but temp control on the higher end units is supposedly better than electric. I don’t like the taste on my gas grill, so I went electric even though I’m sure the oven burns cleaner. We went with a 48 inch range. I would also look at a stand alone cooktop and dual wall ovens if you’re getting down in the smaller range sizes. I prefer that setup which we currently have, but it wasn’t worth the discussion once it was agreed we could go to a 48 inch setup. On the griddle, I wanted the indoor one for pancakes, eggs, other simple things. Plus, I didn’t want the grill insert or the extra burners above 5-6, so griddle it was. Extra burners would be more important if space was an issue.
  23. We have a gas cooktop with a down draft and then electric wall ovens. We are going to a single unit Wolf gas cooktop with a griddle and electric ovens with an overhead vent also. I don’t like the downdraft for the reasons mentioned above plus it is loud compared to overhead. We looked at the gas and electric oven options and decided to go electric for what we use. Prepare to spend a small fortune. Our appliances in our remodel are more than I ever expected to pay.
  24. Kick it’s ass. One of my partners son went through treatments for leukemia. It was a long road but he’s doing extremely well now.
  25. Ballast, they are working on dialing in their wake surfing wake.
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