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  1. I have a good friend that lives out of state that I get together with a few times a year. He quit about the same time but he was a bottle of wine + a night guy. His reasons were similar in that it was more about his kids than a personal issue with it. He orders NA beers when we’re out with others. I find it odd, but it’s what works for him.
  2. On the whole drinking thing, if you’re looking for pills to make you feel better it might be time to just quit. I was having a conversation with my teenagers a couple years ago about drinking and how pervasive it was in their classes. The parents didn’t seem to care and enabled it because they were doing the same thing. I packed up 100+ bottles of bourbon, gave them away, and haven’t thought about it again. The health benefits were pretty quick even though I only had a drink or two a few nights a week while cooking or eating with friends. Even a minor amount on a regular basis makes a difference. The culture of alcohol consumption is odd when you really think about it. From being around my kids friends, it’s becoming a more significant problem in their age ranges than what I remember growing up.
  3. I was having BP issues several years back and everything else was at least in the vicinity of normal. GP prescribed a BP med and said he would be happy to refer me to a cardiologist to get a work up. Best advice I’ve ever had was getting referred to a research based interventional cardiologist. He put me through every test he had to figure out exactly what was causing the BP spikes and then slow dripped prescription changes until it was in line with where it needed to be. By the time it was done I was taking 1/8 of the dosage the GP wanted to give me and also dealing with some other issues I didn’t know I had. Heart disease runs in my family, so it was better to know everything. I go through a full battery of tests annually now where he can track any changes that need to be watched or dealt with. He’s also basically my GP at this point. I don’t take medicine for anything unless he prescribes it and I see him for general heath things that come up every once in a while.
  4. We’ve never had an issue with no see ums outside of fishing the really low tide mangrove areas at dusk. Disagree on the swimming side also, there are plenty of places to pull in and get in the water. Would I go in the inner islands, no. If you are on the outer islands like Kice or Cape Romano, or the outside islands further south, no problem. If you want more water clarity (Kice is generally pretty clear at the cuts) then you can skip around to the other side of Marco and run to Keywadin or run really far north to Lover’s Key/SanCap. I don’t want to sit on a beach cheek to cheek with people, I’ll take west coast over east coast 7 days out of 7. Once you pass Cayo Costa the beaches/water turn more towards what people expect with the gulf. You can still find some seclusion through Longboat Key and the north end of AMI during the week, but everything is pretty well packed from Marco to Anclote unless you go to boat access only places like a few places in the 10000 islands (most on Marco go north to Keywadin), North Cap / Cayo Costa, or the area of Sanibel between the end of West Gulf Dr and Bowman’s where there is no public access. Everyone has their preferences, I just hope it is clear water and white sand and they stay away from where I hang out.
  5. I’m not a huge fan of the Keys, but the whole point of the Keys is to get out on the water and do very little else. I’ve always had a great time in the middle keys, but it’s get up, get on the boat, get off the boat, go to bed, do it again.
  6. This is a much better idea than driving to Key West for the day. Taking a boat out of Goodland to fish, shell, sightsee the 10000 islands will be more memorable than the clusterfuck the drive to KW is. For me, there isn’t any place better than Sanibel down through the 10000 islands. You can still get out and find a place to set up with no one else on it. Saying that, SWFL beaches aren’t like typical gulf beaches so if you are looking for clear blue/green water and white sand don’t bother, go further north past Venice /Sarasota to AMI or that area or stay on the East coast. It will also be a little warm that time of year, so be prepared. We get out early, avoid the mid day sun, and go back out early evening. If you need recs on the area, I can send a few.
  7. You can get up over $300k on a 28 foot with twin 450R’s. We were out sea trialing a boat in SWFL and one just absolutely dog walked us in the intercoastal. They were easily running up around 75-80 on a 28 foot tritoon. The salesman was telling us all about them.
  8. I went to a faith based school and outside of required chapel (which I managed to never attend) didn’t feel faith based at all. I also was not looking for anything having to do with faith back then, so I never found it at a Southern Baptist backed college. My daughter at UGA easily found a large group that she goes to church with and that attend on campus ministry events. Even her good friends that aren’t churchgoers by any stretch attend with her on occasion and are extremely supportive. Ultimately, if your faith is a priority you can find what you are looking for on most campuses, especially large one where there are people looking for the same thing.
  9. Ate at Bavette’s this week, have to say I prefer the Chicago location. Something about it being in the Park MGM and where it was located inside just didn’t fit. We ate at Beauty and Essex again and it was great like always. Also ate at Amaya (took over Holstein’s spot) at the Cosmo and it was excellent for what it was.
  10. I pay $100 a night for someone to stay at the house overnight, walk/feed the dogs, etc. We use high school / college kids that we know so I’m fine overpaying them. We also want them walked in the morning and late afternoon and let out at lunch, so I’m fine paying a little extra for all that.
  11. After reading this whole thread for some reason, I’m putting down a deposit. I’ve been looking for a truck to haul trash, potting soil, recycling, etc and haven’t found anything I’m willing to pay for. I can pull trailers with my other vehicles so this is more about needing an open bed at the moment. I will also enjoy having another vehicle that it bothers my high falutin wife to ride around in assuming it makes it to production.
  12. What do you consider comfortable/pleasant? My kids swam through the winter when we had our place in SWFL, but I avoided it other than being out knee deep while fishing. I think water temps were usually mid/high70’s in December. I don’t think you will find much warmer than that in the US.
  13. Sanibel/Captiva and the north end of Anna Maria Island above Pine Island are tops for us. Owned on one, was buying on the other when the hurricane hit last fall, may stick with vacationing for a while. Outside of those two, it would be the northern keys or the beach areas around Charleston and then the St Simon’s area. I’m not a fan of the Atlantic beaches but the towns are worth a visit.
  14. Yes, they are one of the few state schools we looked at that go as far as they do to protect in-state candidates. They also make it incredibly difficult to convert to residency status once you are there. We’re buying a house, moving her residency, moving her to claiming herself, etc and it’s still a crap shoot whether they will change her undergrad status. It should make a difference for law school though so at least there may be some benefit.
  15. UGA is already way down that path. Their out of state acceptance rate has been super low and keeps going lower each class. Honors college acceptance for out of state is even worse. Most of my daughter’s friends are Atlanta kids that are going for free. It drives her nuts when they talk about it because most didn’t want to go there and are going for free while we tote most of the cost of her going.
  16. Golf, the cutoff to make a DIII or NAIA team is doable for a female that picks it up late and has some natural ability that will put in the time.
  17. Just renewed a lease with USDA, when do I get my check for the remainder of the lease? I have a really good client that has really long-term leases on courthouses, post offices, etc be interesting to see what he hears. Did it ever occur to anyone to actually have a plan with reasonable goals that could be targeted rather than just widespread chaos and see what’s left? Who am I kidding, what sense would that have made?
  18. Most of the free services are income limited and not that user friendly which (along with rapid refunds) drives a lot of lower income people to H&R Block where they get f-ing fleeced. The free system the IRS built was actually a decent start towards what should be standard which is a government offered filing service. They have your data, click through, agree with it, file, should not be this difficult. As far as your premise that it should have been done a decade ago, okay so what. It was completed and it worked and the R’s have been after it since day one as an unapproved use of funds. My rep keeps sending us emails about how he is helping us, I keep emailing him back telling him he’s not helping me. We’re not here to do everyone’s work, a free service should absolutely be mandatory and would actually help us.
  19. He might have to go to KY if he really wants to find it.
  20. I don’t know, if we’re doing a draft Burchett, Ogles, and Blackburn have to be near the top of the list federally and I can’t imagine Faison, Sexton, and their bunch wouldn’t be high up the state draft list.
  21. And the next grift begins, make a bunch of noise about the 22nd knowing it will not be changed, attack the legislature for not changing it over the next 3 years, run him as a VP on a ticket with a figurehead top of the ticket, and the sideshow continues.
  22. TN has to have the dumbest bunch of elected officials of any state at this point. I don’t know what it is about Middle/East TN specifically, but they are a special group of idiots.
  23. This week has to be icing on the cake of the most perfectly executed grift of all time at this point. Create a bunch of social justice crises to capture a certain subsect of the US population, get elected, sign a bunch of EO’s and then tell them how much you have done, enrich yourself along the way, and go into midterms patting yourself on the back for all that has been accomplished with your proclamations. It’s not like the Dems are going to post ads saying wait a second, there are still brown people at Home Depot, Haitians in Ohio, trans/gay people among us, etc. They are just hoping egg prices stay up so they can use that at this point. Half the country is celebrating like the US is fixed and they can’t wait to go on vacation to the Gulf of America and the Dems aren’t going to be willing to go low enough to explain the grift to them. The idiots have been enthralled with the sideshow at the circus while getting fleeced all along the way.
  24. I’m pretty sure an early decision application can only be submitted to one college. Early action would be the application process for their other colleges. With early action you have until the normal commitment time frame (normally May) to decide where you want to go. If you didn’t get an ED acceptance, you‘re free to see who accepts them, who offers money, etc all the way up until the commitment deadline.
  25. Not old, don’t care. Changed out the bumper on my Bronco last week and blacked out the letters. Looks much better now. Still need to remove the front crash bars to clean it up and also give me the ability to go up in tire size on the next go round. They couldn’t have made it much easier to wire in the auxiliary lights than they did, just had to find the wire that went the amps I needed and then attach them with a connector. Bought an adapter to keep the clear on the fog light switch and put the yellow on auxiliary. I also have to say the guys at 4x4 truck LEDs were easy to work with. I sent them an email with what I was trying to wire into what, they sent me the part numbers to buy for the adapters and wiring along with the correct lights to use.
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