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Brew

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  1. If you’re that particular that you need to open your burger up in the drive through line and check it because you’re too lazy to walk inside, maybe eat at home.
  2. This all depends on the circumstance in my view. If you are double checking everything is in the bag, I don’t see much of an issue with that although I’m not going to do it. If you’re double checking your special order requests, you’re the one that complicated things so you need to get out of the way to check.
  3. Everything in the food hall is good, especially if looking for something quick and/or not fancy. We eat at Bang Bar and the breakfast place at least once each trip.
  4. Paxlovid, my doctor said here’s 2 ibuprofen, go to the ER if you can’t breathe at any point and that was it. Other than some residual congestion, I’m good now after it really hitting Monday at lunch.
  5. Every state has different nuances on what they tax in retirement. The same goes for property taxes in retirement. It is further differentiated based on income levels in the same state and what is then taxed at those income levels. Sales tax catches everyone though so pay attention to that one as well.
  6. Been the same although much earlier in the timeframe at the moment. Our youngest has had pretty significant congestion only for going on 10 days now which is why we thought she just had a sinus infection. I went through the flu like symptoms checklist the first day and a half, but my fever spiked to 103 over about two hours and has been gone since. Now it’s the rotating in and out of other stuff while feeling perfectly fine the other times. The hardest part is trying to sleep and as soon as I lay down the coughing/congestion turns up to 11. Wife and oldest are just dealing with bad headaches and nothing else. Weird part is none of us tested positive on rapid tests. May take another one now just to see what it shows.
  7. This stuff has been the suck. The inconsistency in symptoms has been the most annoying thing. Feel like death for an hour or so at a time and then feel perfectly fine the rest of the day. Think I overdid it with my day off today, so feel pretty shitty now. It doesn’t help that the air went out upstairs last night and half the downstairs is closed off for never ending renovations, so four of us plus the dog plus a 14 week old puppy I’m about ready to adopt out are stuck in 3 rooms.
  8. TN has a steady stream also, no state income tax is the biggest thing I hear besides politics. Property is also still cheap here although that has changed drastically the last 2-3 years. I can still find tracts for relatively cheap as long as it doesn’t have ducks or a farmer isn’t after it, but those numbers are going up steadily.
  9. Not in TX, but we’re also looking at making a run to more blue pastures. We would have probably moved before but our oldest is dead set on graduating from the school she has attended all her life. Both kids have already said they are leaving the state post graduation, all the parents are entering hardcore GQP territory, so there isn’t anything holding us back other than my job which I should be able to just fly in for a couple times a month. We looked pretty seriously at buying a condo in Chicago, but IL is a clusterfuck for different reasons as well. We’ve been looking hard at coastal NC lately although I’m not sure it qualifies as a lot more blue/purple and climate change is probably going to screw it. If the oldest ends up at UNC like she plans, that probably becomes the most realistic option. Going to be interesting the next few years as like minds migrate to like areas. We are way down the rabbit hole at this point and only going further.
  10. Same here, youngest brought it home with her. Hit me a week after she got home and it sucks so far. First go round in our house.
  11. I ended up right around 3:15 for two 5-5.5 pound birds. The temps probably were in the 260 (or a little hotter) range for most of the time.
  12. We ate at Reserve Cut a month or so ago and it was excellent if you are looking for a higher end steakhouse. It was a large group and everyone thought it was a great meal. You can always hop on a ferry and go to any number of places. Taking the kids in October for their first trip. Staying at the Lotte and going to let our 16 year old plan the entire trip around what she wants to do. She has been on us for years to take her and Covid set it back a couple of years.
  13. I still keep them in my backpack when traveling and carry one when out in the bigger cities. If someone has a sign up (which I’ve still seen in Chicago and NYC recently), I’m fine being the guy that puts one on when asked.
  14. Some of you have some shitty eating habits. I can’t remember the last time I ordered a pizza from one of the big chains or are at some of the places mentioned. We pretty much only eat at local places we know the owners and the staff. I would rather spend the extra than deal with fast food places and eat the crap most of them put out. You get what you pay for including the service. If I’m eating fast food, it’s pretty much CFA where they can’t really screw up your order unless you get cute with it or they just give you the wrong food completely which is fine because I’ll eat anything on their menu. I’ll get Panera for breakfast occasionally but I order on the app and pick up and it’s always been right. I’m not sending anything back anywhere unless it’s just so egregiously wrong I can’t eat it. I’m not taking my chances with a remake. My kids have been taught the same way.
  15. Leads in W’s, leads in ERA, at home, he gets the start. Burnes would be the only one that might jump him because of his arm and potential to strike out the side to open the game. No way Alcantara, Rodin, or Musgrove get the start over him. They could always throw Strider and his 14k’s per 9 out there to open.
  16. If her situation is standard for anyone found with what she was found with, then it is what it is. If it has gone past what is “normal” (which I realize is a moving target) then the US should be involved.
  17. It is a sunroom, 3 of the walls are windows that are bricked above/below, one is full brick and the floor is brick. All of the downstairs but the living room and kitchen also have brick floors. It’s a lot different than the current style, but it gets a lot of compliments.
  18. I don’t believe it is the same exact material from what I have seen. It has not had the tackiness of the bed liners.
  19. I’m waiting on the local LineX people to do mine. They bought all the equipment recently, so I’m going to wait a little while until they get the kinks worked out. I tried having one of the other ones in a nearby city come do it because I’ve seen their work, but they couldn’t cross territory lines.
  20. Dry brined if for about 6 hours. I have not been doing that when I’ve smoked them before. Not sure if it was because of that or better temps, but there was very little in the way of drippings for two 5 pound birds compared to my past experience smoking them.
  21. Checked it today, it was in the 60-80 range.
  22. I have mine done twice a year with my cardiologist. I haven’t ever thought anything about the charge, so it can’t be very much for it. I don’t ‘t know that there has really been a need for that often, but he does pretty extensive tracking of everything and requires it twice a year as well as a full cardio work up every other year.
  23. Finally got my BGE setup in the outdoor kitchen after way too long. Running through the low temp smokes at the moment to get the gasket set. Pork chops were round 1 and I have to say they were the best pork chops I’ve cooked. Brined they all day, smoked for about an hour and a half to 145 and they were perfect. They have entered the rotation of cooks now, just need pictures next time. Went with two chickens the next day and they came out better than the ones on the WSM. 3 hours to 165 and they were perfect. I have to say I’m a fan after this weekend, just need to get more ideas from this thread to try. The WSM has been simple, but this was even simpler and was much easier to keep temps in range.
  24. Then when the mother dies because of inaction, you get a malpractice suit filed against you. All the practices in our area are going with a business as usual approach and making sure their documentation is sound and they have concurring physician sign off for now. That includes the ultra pro life Catholic doctor of one the groups and the ultra R one in another group. Their beliefs are that these reasons aren’t intended to be caught up in this law which we’ve told them is a pretty naive view. Attorneys are all recommending that they go ahead and petition the court for every scenario they can come up with which is what I think a few groups are going to band together and do. It’s an f-ed up situation. Some doctors are going to get caught up in it and hung out to dry and potential mothers are going to needlessly suffer in those states that are taking an all or nothing approach. RvW is driving the issue, but state legislature passed trigger laws are the problem that has to be deal with right this moment. The idiots that passed some of them have no idea of the medical consequence of some of those decisions based on what is starting to trickle out now.
  25. This is where I am along with Bolverk’s thoughts a little further up. I switched to D when it was clear Trump was going to be the nominee and shot was going to go off the rails. It has been nothing but reinforced sense. I line up with plenty of old R agenda items, but these take precedence right now. My two girls and the country they grow up in is more important than paying less tax, retiring early, access to firearms, and all of the other 1990’s era talking points. I would even say I’m pro life in a discussion, but legislatively pro choice is the only thing that makes sense. Their future is so important we’re looking at walking away from the state they call home because of how much their rights are being infringed upon.
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