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Baboontyme

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  1. Bears, Broncos, Saints are the 3 teams that don't have a choice. Bears could be fun if they hire KK and draft Williams.
  2. I have been contemplating some kind of setup to display the family Google calendar on a flat screen in the kitchen. Anyone do this? If so, app or setup recommendations? I was initially thinking touchscreen but that might be overkill. I think input from phones/laptop is fine but it would be nice to have something more in your face for the shithead kids and husband who forget to look at the calendar on the phone.
  3. It has been a few years but there is light rail from the airport to downtown that integrates with the subway. As I recall it was quite easy and convenient. Maybe a 20-30 minute ride.
  4. I didn't realize that was an option. Of course I never really looked. Upgraded to 20/month.
  5. The Drew Brooks piece was pretty heartbreaking. I can't imagine. I'm going through some stuff with my oldest and something like this helps put it into perspective. Also there is not currently, nor in my opinion has there ever been, a better theme song/intro music than Hard Knocks. Cheers be damned. Instantly gets me fired up.
  6. I pay 3.50 a month (tree fiddy) for something. I would pay more for sure. I've been on here a long time and it's a pretty cool community. I won't contribute to nil stuff, Texas, MSU or otherwise. If giving more for the board infrastructure but not nil is an option let me know.
  7. Update. Sent my mother in law in to the store covertly back when this was going down to order 250 sq ft of the same flooring. I have it on hand. In the meantime mil saw the carpet we are doing in the basement and decided it would be a nice Christmas gift for us to carpet the main stairway, upstairs hallway and master suite addition in the same carpet. This was never in scope with the contractor. She bought through the same store. Last week they were here to install the lvt. I told them what was going on, and that I wanted them to come back and do the living room when they come to do the carpet. They said great, thank you, call the store and tell them. I've been waiting a week for a quote and I found out why. Indeed they went to the builder and asked his permission. And he said no. I said why can you do that carpet upstairs for us but not the floor and they said it's because he never gave us a quote for that area. To think I even told him I had payment ready for the other change orders. Now I will definitely not be scratching that check until every last thing is completed to my satisfaction. Asshole.
  8. Would the nerdy/perky dentist girl in the Crest commercials in the purple scrubs with the glasses https://twitter.com/HorrorGuerrero/status/1703117192462741973
  9. That is crazy..
  10. I already chose A stop gloating.
  11. I don't wade into the cesspool that is the football board but just wanted to say to you Horns GL tomorrow and I'm rooting for you. Here are my preferred outcomes. 1. Texas 2. Washington 3. Saban 4. Alien Invasion 5. Apocalypse 6. Human Extinction
  12. Just read Season 2 is a go. Let's hope it's closer to the first half of S1 than the second.
  13. I don't travel as much as some of you all but I have played the points game a lot starting last year. Between buying travel for myself and family members and cc spend on all of my Amex cards (fly Delta primarily) I made silver medallion. Just got notice in the mail today. Does that mean I've got status for all of 3 days? 😂
  14. I mean if he wants to fuck horses who am I to judge? He and Now This are hopefully plotting their triumphant returns together.
  15. I'm not sure what shipping costs are like but these guys are who I went with. I was previously set on the top of the line Goalrilla but there really was little comparison. The website is janky to say the least but it's a really quality hoop. https://www.proshotbasketballgoals.com/
  16. I don't have any experience with it rusting but I did put in an in-ground hoop and I will take every opportunity to post a picture of it because it rarely gets used so I need to get at least some mileage out of it.
  17. Yep. I'm not sure I totally buy this but from the Amazon link. I mean it is what it is, it tasted poor, and now it doesn't so there's something there. Even my wife said the old water was gross, and we all know she has terrible taste.
  18. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WVXGGFW?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1 15' was the shortest I could make do with. But it has to be the pvc core. I have been running so many experiments I feel like Bill Nye. To recap I let water sit in two separate pvc core hoses for a period of time, then poured in a plastic cup and tasted and both had that terrible metallic taste. Same experiment with the pex lined hose and it was fine. Running a whole lot more water through the pvc lined hose may have lessened the bad taste but I didn't want to bank on that.
  19. I'm married (not to a stripper) so it's possible but I don't remember. I changed the water line out today. I got impatient. Damn if that didn't fix the problem completely. I don't think it was a super taster thing. I asked my wife to try the water out of the pvc lined hose and she said dose nasty. TLDR don't use a stainless pvc lined braided hose to your refrigerator water/ice line.
  20. Even better.
  21. Missed this. No, it has been in use the entire project. Between the kids and I we're probably filling up damn near 300 oz daily from the fridge. Or we were.
  22. I'm zeroing in and I do believe it is the line, specifically it is pvc-lined stainless braided. I also think I might be a "super taster". I have for years had issues with Kingsford charcoal giving off a chemical taste that no one else seems to notice. Though in the case of the water line my kids taste it, too. The water lines are copper and the water tastes fine directly out of the faucet. I just prefer it filtered and chilled through the fridge. 10-12 years ago we had a plumber tie a valve into the line in the basement and run it up through the floor to the existing fridge. There is a tie in there to the line that is currently hooked up and a shut off. I can access this via an access panel that they cut into the drywall ceiling in the basement. I don't know what kind of line was on it for the past 10-12 years but it tasted fine until it was replaced last week with the pvc lined stainless tubing. I let some water sit overnight in the pex lined tubing that I bought from Amazon. Poured it into a cup this morning and no funny taste at all. Same experiment with an extra roll of the pvc lined tubing tasted terrible. I think if they can replace the current line with the pex lined Amazon one the issue will be resolved. I hope.
  23. I don't think I am going to be able to do much experimenting on my own here. It will require plumber involvement to even replace the line. There would be a significant amount of fish taping, tight connections, water shutoffs. I think I probably could do it but it would take me 2.5 hours, a lot of curse words and another piece of my rapidly diminishing sanity. And while the builder is a pos who is terrible at his job the plumber is awesome and could change the line out in 10 minutes. Between the boy and I we spent about 90 minutes doing this tonight just to make damn sure that taste isn't going away. It's not. I ordered a 15' run as I think that can work with pex core instead of pvc and I will have him switch that and just hope it's better. Is pex core probably the same as pvc? Yes. I'm resigned to thinking we're going to have to find a different drinking water source. I guess at the end of the day it's just people's recycled piss anyway. And I made scrambled eggs in the Oxo on the hot plate.
  24. If you want to spend a couple of bucks I really like the Nvidia shield box. It's fast. I have no idea about the casting stuff but it's pretty feature rich so I would be surprised if it didn't.
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