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Your Mom

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  1. It’s not my preference but I can live with it. I expect this won’t be the last time we do this.
  2. That speed info is probably from ATC radar. It’s groundspeed and has a lag vs real-time. It’s not airspeed.
  3. If they were making 737s out of plywood then that lack of FAA oversight was worse than I thought.
  4. Your Mom

    Blake Gideon

    I mean.. I guess now is as good a time as any to decide I'm over it.
  5. Your Mom

    Blake Gideon

    Welcome back Blake.
  6. This. Even with only 90,000 miles, a 21 year old truck that spent its life in Ohio it’s going to be a rust bucket. They painted the undercarriage black to hide all the rust but they failed to remove spare tire when they did it. That area where the spare tire should be is what the rest of the frame actually looks like underneath that later of rattle can spray paint. At some point the age of the truck matters as much as the miles. Hoses get brittle, metal corrodes, etc... all irrespective of the mileage driven. I bought a 20 year old vehicle recently but I would not have bought it if it had spent its life in that part of the country. They don’t call it the rust belt for nothing.
  7. I’m sorry to hear this. Thinking of you and your family tonight.
  8. Well shit I've camped at Madera a couple times and never knew it was right there. I always assumed it was outside the park and in the middle of nowhere.
  9. What's with all the stress about the buyout money? As long as someone else is paying for it, why the fuck not?
  10. Perhaps the effects of a year of Zoom school are overstated. I can buy that. But couldn’t you also argue that the dangers of teaching in the classroom right now also might be overstated? My local mom-groups are convinced anyone who sends their kids back to school is actively trying to murder teachers. How many teachers have been contact-traced and been showed to have gotten infected with COVID by a student in school? Of course that number gets higher if we force everyone back to school but nobody is advocating that. But the option to return to school with the current situation of plexiglass around teachers, limited movements in hallways, masks required, most classes less than half full, etc... isn’t any more dangerous than the situation restaurant staff, airline workers, grocery store cashiers, and dozens of other occupations are currently facing. Is teaching less important than any of those occupations? There is certainly some level of danger there. There is risk. But the same can be said for lots of other industries who are currently back in work because the work needs to be done. And it’s not a case of me constantly bitching about the education system and suddenly needing it. I’ve probably given more rep to Larry Spider over the years than I have to any other poster. I respect teachers and I love reading his insight to the system and correcting our assumptions about it. I have donated many hundreds of hours in my kids’ schools over the years. I respect the profession. But I also see my kids’ struggles right now with virtual school. It’s hard to accept that and to chalk it up as necessary to keep teachers safe when I’m back at work in crowded public spaces and seeing others all around me also back at work in jobs far less important than teaching.
  11. I left the Chisos Basin at 3:30pm Wednesday. Drove to Marathon for dinner and then drove through heavy snow for about an hour on 90 toward Del Rio. Crazy shit. We were supposed to stay in BBRSP one more night but I didn't want to be driving out on River Rd the next day in those conditions. We hiked Emory Peak Wednesday and saw several campers on their way up into the mountains for the night when we were on our way down. I love a good adventure but camping in the snow isn't one of them. The Ranger advised us to be back down by 3pm as he expected the road into the Basin to close and anyone still in there could be trapped a couple days.
  12. GF and I just spent 3 days in and around Big Bend Ranch State Park in mine. First time I played around with the rear diff locker. Probably didn't need it but locking it up to crawl up a few creek crossings on the backroads was fun. It makes it so easy. No slippage at all.
  13. It's not that, it's a numbers thing. Shutting down some sports is a logical step prior to shutting down all sports. Just like having 50% capacity in a restaurant is a logical step prior to closing all restaurants. And if you're going to reduce athletics, but not eliminate it all, it makes perfect sense to have the most important stuff be the last thing you shut down. I'm a parent of a middle school athlete who just lost his season and a varsity athlete who hasn't lost his yet. Makes sense to me.
  14. Don’t be a pussy. Just buy it.
  15. Chicago can kind of be all over the place but westerly would be a pretty good guess. ORD lands west more than east. An iPhone app called AeroWeather will give you current METARs and TAFs. METAR for current conditions and TAFs for forecasts. Select “decoded” if you don’t speak euro pilot secret code. That’ll be something you can keep an eye for a while but I don’t think it will give you historical data.
  16. Thread title sucks. I'm home, kids don't have school, feels a lot like a Saturday. I saw the title and figured there were games on today I had missed. But any way, here's to Rocky Top.
  17. https://www.amazon.com/Prank-Pack-Earwax-Candle-Prank/dp/B016V6TAZC/ref=sr_1_50?dchild=1&keywords=white+elephant&qid=1608330427&sr=8-50 https://www.amazon.com/Prank-Pack-First-Fire-Prank/dp/B0757WW6KB/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=white+elephant&qid=1608330626&refinements=p_36%3A-1000&rnid=386465011&sr=8-2 Just search white elephant on amazon.
  18. Yeah I pretty much did the whole network but looped around on Log Loop a few times. Lots of fun jumps on the outer loop.
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