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Da Fino

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  1. Next go is my choice so I'm thinking Glacier National Park, over to Seattle & then back down to Portland / NorCal, maybe some PCH if it's not washed out.
    If I can swing it, a 4 day fly into DC with just me & the boy so I can visit Dad in Arlington National Cemetery is also a desired trip.  [ redacted political bullshit about D.C. ]

    She won’t let you use a toll road, but you think the next one is your choice? Good luck.
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  2. 8 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

    My Wife is 100% adverse to tolls, whether you're tagged or not (& yes, I do recognize the $$ differences if you have a TT), so I'm not up for a solid 9 days of her bitching because I caught a toll on day 1 of the trip.  Plus the added complaints once the bill arrives in the mail.  So obv. there's no TT in the Tahoe that she uses 95% of the time vs. my Ram 2500 that DOES have a tag.

    Why? And why do you actually take that into consideration?

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  3. 26 minutes ago, ROFL BOX said:

    We're headed to the East Coast for the Summer trip.

    1.  Apparently we're leaving 78620 on 05 Jul because she wants to do Independence Day @ her parents (nothing fabulous; the swimming pool has been shut down for probably 1/2 a year & her Dad is making ribs & chicken).  It's the same people we see @ every holiday & she literally drives within 400 yards of her parents house every day she drives home from work.

    2.  Destination / route will be 1st stop New Orleans, then to Savannah for 1 night, up to Charleston for a minimum of 2 nights, possibly 3 (yay... I get to hear her try & reinterpret the American Civil War around "Northern Aggression / economic freedom for the Confederates" when we visit Sumpter).

    3.  For the return leg coming back a bit N (taking Interstate 20 so we can catch some of my family in South Central Arky), "I don't want to go through Atlanta.  They are literally shooting everyone there with all the BLM stuff & riots going on."  (she gets a lot of her FB news from OANN & Brietbart, etc. & nothing I can explain to her will impart even the littlest bit of knowledge).

    3a.  Her:  "We are NOT going through Atlanta.  We'll just go through Augusta on the way back from Charleston."

      ...Me:  In my best Jerry Seinfeld voice "Have you ever LOOKED at a map of Georgia?"

    Oh, for joy - especially when she complains about her back from having to sit for hours @ a time.

     

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    Fuck all that. 

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  4. Before you send them on, be aware WSM or stick burners are both better smokers than kamados. The efficiency of the kamado hurts it as a smoker; you simply don't get the air/smoke flow that a vertical/horizontal smoker has, and it makes a difference on bark, smoke flavor, as well as smoke ring. You'll see a lot of comments in this thread and all around the internet where kamado people comment that they have trouble matching their WSM results on briskets and ribs. This is the main reason. (Also the reason for my WSM rec for Enchubben a few posts back - it's just the better tool for briskets/ribs, and cheaper than a kamado to boot.)
    Where the kamado excels is flexibility (low and slow, hot and fast, even hotter and even faster, and super-sear) and stability.

    I know more than you. Thanks.
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  5. 20 minutes ago, millhouse said:

    I've been in the office the whole time. No traffic, no issues with parking, didn't have to deal with other people bitching about things that don't matter. I'm not looking forward to some people coming back just to complain about being back.

    Same here. We aren't the type of business that can wfh. It was good while it lasted. Now the traffic and slow left lane drivers are back. 

  6. We mounted a regular indoor 50" to the corner of our pergola. Mount has a swinging arm that really for positioning and we anchored the sonos connect to it. No issues with brightness, especially in the shade. Stays outside year round under a weatherproof cover. 

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  7. 13 hours ago, McCroskey said:

    Text exchange with my wife earlier:

    Her: "You locked me out of my car"

    Me: "Well, that's impossible, you were literally driving it when I left." (She had to move her car because she had blocked the driveway)

    Her: "Well my keys are somehow locked inside."

    Me: "I really don't know what you tell you other than I'll be home in a couple hours."

    Her: "Nevermind, all the doors were locked except the driver door."

    Holy shit. This one actually made me mad. 

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  8. 6 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

     

    But I can tell you, just by looking at those bottles, that the ones that look clean at the top are the last ones I’d try. Geography doesn’t make you better at appreciating hot sauce

    This shit again? What a weird take. 

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  9. 28 minutes ago, BornOrange said:

    Add Rice and their 7 CWS appearances, and we still beat the rest of Texas 37-35. SMU and UTEP have never been.

    It's worse than that. Without Rice there are only 21, and he left them off his list. But hey, at least he took the time to put up his pride avatar. 

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