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  1. Had to push pickup of mine until this Saturday because they didn’t have it ready last weekend. Looks like I should have upped my budget and gone electric. https://nautique.com/models/super-air-nautique-gs22e/overview
  2. 2.0’s don’t have a remote reservoir, 2.5’s do. The issue with Fox’s/Icon’s etc are that you really need someone local that does rebuilds to keep them any length. They require rebuilds at max 50k miles (40k on Icons) and if you have to send them off they can keep them for weeks. The last set I had was a cluster because the fronts went early and now this shit with the rears blowing at 7,000 miles. I prefer the ride quality on the performance shocks, but I’m going to look for other options. Luckily my shop still had my rears, so he put them back on which saved me some dollars. My main issue with Fox is their customer service sucks donkey balls. He called yesterday and they just said pull them off and send them back and we’ll get to them when we can. He asked them to send out a replacement set since the mileage was so low and they wouldn’t even consider it.
  3. Fucking hell, I said numerous times in this thread I would never own another set of Fox shocks. Then I traded last year and the first thing I did was put a 2.0 set on the new truck. Fast forward 7,000 miles and a few months and I started hearing banging from the back of the truck when I hit bumps. Take it in and both rears are blown, I guess from the pictures a page or so back of me using the truck for truck like things. We have to pull them off and send them to Fox to be rebuilt with an unknown timeline, so I have to buy another set of shocks to use while those are with Fox for who knows how long.
  4. Before every start, that should be sufficient. If we’re changing out riders, I just leave it running while we sit.
  5. Most people buying trucks buy for the size. Ford probably isn’t designing this for fleet usage, it’s for people that like the thought of a Tesla but prefer the size of the truck. They just drive around town and rarely tow and this works perfectly. It does not work for me, but the concept makes sense. Even the towing issues would be fine for most people that are running back and forth to the lake, Home Depot, wherever that is inside of 50 miles from their house.
  6. Didn’t look back, but I think the Murder Hornet is a Malibu. That looks like like an X-45 with the step in the hull. Run your blowers, this stuff happens every year from people not properly running their blowers with inboards. That may not be the cause of this one, but I would put my money on it.
  7. There are still only so many boats being put out and very few carry over to the next year in inventory. Those sales are pretty fixed each year, so I think it will be the older used market that crashes. I got a deal on this one versus overpaying by as much as double on the used ones right now. I called on an 06 X-30 and they were firm in the low 50’s. That was the end of my used search. There are ‘17-19 210’s for sale for as much and more than this one.
  8. Unless something falls apart tomorrow or a better option becomes available, look like I’m picking this one up on Saturday. Don’t think that drive is what my wife had planned for our 22nd anniversary that day, but shit happens.
  9. Made an offer on a leftover new 2020 Nautique 210, we’ll see what they come back with. Don’t want a new one, but I feel a whole lot better offering on it at the price it is than what I’m still seeing in the used market. It will probably crash as soon as I buy something.
  10. Advantage of owning a white truck. It always looks clean from a distance unless you are playing in a mud hole. Here’s my dirty floorboard if it makes you feel better.
  11. I’m pretty sure we tried talking you into buying two. The boat market you are looking in isn’t as inflated as the wakeboat market. Pricing has been pretty consistent as the demand is different.
  12. Going to be hard to wakeboard behind that thing, but where there is a will there is a way. Electrical is not my area. It generally just involves a checkbook from my experience.
  13. Blind and ignorant is much better than knowing what prices of most models were 24 months ago. I’m seeing boats I’ve owned 5-10 years ago selling for 25%+ more than what I bought and sold for back then. I bought and sold an ‘07 Nautique 220 for low $40’s in probably 2012-2013, the ones out there now are priced upper $40’s, low $50’s. The damn thing sold new for upper $50’s 15 years ago. I called a guy about an ‘06 MC X30 with 800 hours and he wouldn’t budge from $52k. He’ll probably get it and someone will have a $30k boat when the market craters. Insanity.
  14. Since I got accused not long ago of not using my truck for truck things, I wanted to post up some proof. Moved probably 30 yards of dirt and countless tons of stone out to the farm over the last week. Probably pushed the F150 about as far as it needed to be pushed and now really am considering a 250 again.
  15. $&@(, it’s time to suck up my pride and overspend on a boat. I’m not going through the summer without one.
  16. We have been buying them for a while. They are the closest I have seen, you just cook them longer than the package shows to get them crispy.
  17. Only eat local, skip the corporate owned chains. We’ve seen a number of our local owned places thrive through this as people have done everything they can to support them. I can’t remember the last time we ate somewhere in the City we live that we don’t know the owner. It’s been years, not months. CNN article on what’s going on. Again, there are a bunch of factors. It can’t be pinned on one issue. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/11/economy/unemployment-benefits-work-incentive/index.html
  18. I don’t know what a Taco Deli is, but it would be next to impossible for a fast casual type place to do $2.2M in a month from one location. I do work for high grossing McDonalds, CFA’s, other types and the high side is $550k a month. At a $20 average meal ticket open from 6-3 30 days a month, that is a 7 person a minute average out the door.
  19. The economics of a restaurant where they pay $2.13 an hour is typically a restaurant where profitability is low because tables turn slowly, food costs and other costs are higher, etc. The only way for owners to make decent money in those deals is to have one that is ultra popular or own multiple restaurants. Fast casual places pay more because they turn more, employees serve more customers, tips are generally low if any at all, etc. When we eat at a nice restaurant, we typically overtip and we generally also tip at fast casual places that allow it. For those that say increase their pay, don’t complain when the cost of the meal increases proportionately.
  20. They are not independent contractors. Tip income is reported through a W-2 and part of your unemployment earnings just like your base pay. If you work for a place that isn’t handling it correctly, you could pick it up like 1099 income I suppose but most are handling it more correctly than not at this point. They have to guarantee a minimum wage, so they have to at a minimum be reporting some tip income.
  21. It’s not slorched and it’s not CR, it is a piece of the problem in some cases. People are hard to come by for a multitude of reasons some of which relate to what they are currently getting from the government between unemployment benefits and stimulus payments. Increased hiring demands in other industries are also part of it which is why you see SC/WY cutting off federal unemployment with sub 5% unemployment and labor shortages in their states. Spend any time with someone that owns a restaurant and they will tell you the same thing. Between food price increases, availability of product, and availability of people a lot are having to run limited hours right now. I have several that only open 3-4 days a week now because they can’t staff the rest of the week. Demand is up enough they are doing fine on that schedule, so I’m not sure how many will go back to the old schedule.
  22. For the most part it is clearly the best city in the state to go to college in, not the best “college town”. From a college town perspective, they don’t really exist any more. There are still some “college towns” around my area that are built around the schools with Oxford, Starkville, maybe Athens, etc but most major universities have ended up inside larger metropolitan areas as the cities have grown around them. Even with Oxford and Starkville, outside of the main street areas there isn’t much to do there and you’re leaving town if you want to get into anything. I would rather go to a school in a City with something else going on at this point.
  23. 3 weeks to go until I finally get down to the beach and get some fishing in. I didn’t get to do any spring fishing this year. Sucks to miss the best part of the year, but shit like work occasionally gets in the way.
  24. Because this morning I was trying to decide where to dump my Mindmed profits and picked UUUU and RXMD instead of ALPP this time.
  25. You have the right plan for a Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge trip. Day or two of hiking and seeing Cades Cove and a day or two of doing stuff that kids have fun with.
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