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boilerhorn

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  1. Rep for citing https://www.troublefreepool.com/ - great resource for pool owners. Highly recommended.
  2. Two unrelated issues, but I'll start a single thread... In a multi-stage remodel we did a couple of years back, we changed the flooring in the bathrooms, leaving a small gap between the floor and the moldings on doors in areas where we removed tile. The guy we had was good, unreliable, and well-priced. He no longer lives in the USA, so we are looking for a decent carpenter to fix this. Recommendations? Wife noticed water dripping out of one of the PVC pipes exiting the 2nd floor attic. 1 of our 2 tank gas water heaters (40 gals each in series) failed and the drip pan was doing its job (woo hoo)! Now I need to replace. With the annual freezes we are now having, would those of you with tankless still go with tankless? I assume I want the tankless outside of the house, so failure does not flood my house. Other thoughts or recommendations? I've used Proven Plumbing on a few things recently, and they've been competent. Any other recommendations, esp. if I decide to go tankless?
  3. For the gamblers among us, that is Greg McElroy's lifetime stat line.
  4. Typically each kid has to touch the ball once, but you might actually double check what the actual rules are. That said, there might be a pre-season coach/commissioner/org meeting where some rules are negotiable. You might be able to get more touches/playing time for each of the kids. These kinds of things are great because it helps you to figure out which other coaches take it too seriously. They're easy to pick out if you propose certain things. Also - with 6 year olds, I think your experience might be night-and-day compared to what @LCHorn had with 2nd graders. If you successfully get 1 misdirection play out of 6 year olds, you would be coach of the year
  5. As you probably know, I was kidding. However, I agree with you. Some folks can survive on innate talent until a certain point. Then, they develop new skills. etc.
  6. There are more attractive out there and there are less attractive out there. A 24 year old whose primary job is to look good will likely look average or above average. Like @PittsburghTiger I find her a little scary, or at least unsettling. I also find it odd that both would be willing to make such a public spectacle of everything. There was almost no way to keep it under wraps given BB's high profile job at UNC, but sharing all sorts of shit on social media - and her being so intimately involved in his day-to-day is odd. Yeah, yeah - undefeated and all, but this is just odd. (fwiw, I am not sure I have ever written a sentence with the word "there" 4x before).
  7. The juxtaposition of her appearance and some of the locals (she, too, is a local) in that video is strking. Genetics and socioeconomic status has some to do with it, but the the dental care diversity stood out. Guess which one is Hannah
  8. Interesting requirements to become an air traffic controller... edited to add - I think we're kinda fucked unless they incentivize this role a bit more. In my life, I've heard of exactly 1 person who was an ATC. Friend's brother is a retired air traffic controller after spending some time in the air force. He's long retired. It's super high stress and thankless. Right now, there are around 15k air traffic controllers. At $150k/year, that's around $2.25B per year to guarantee the safety of roughly 2.9 million passenger trips per day. 2.9 million passenger trips per day works out to around 1 billion trips per year in/out of US airports. A additional $3 FAA surcharge per trip could easily fix this problem. Basic Air Traffic Controller qualifications All applicants to the air traffic controller program must meet these minimum requirements: Be a United States citizen Be under the age of 31 Pass a medical examination Pass a security investigation Pass the FAA air traffic pre-employment tests, including the Air Traffic Controller Specialists Skills Assessment Battery (ATSA) Speak English clearly enough to be understood over communications equipment Have one year of progressively responsible work experience, or a Bachelor's degree, or a combination of post-secondary education and work experience that totals one year
  9. They both look like wasted draft picks. Shedeur holds the ball too low and always does that clutch/pump before he throws. I'm here for the entertainment...
  10. Bill is paying for the full GFE and he's getting the full GFE.
  11. Magic Johnson and Angel Reese Launch Financial Literacy Program While I laud their efforts, a four-session program makes me wonder if this is more symbolism over substance. I hope it helps launch something larger...
  12. Couple of observations. 1 - Kenneth Grant is taking shit seriously. 2 - There was neither a sack nor a self sack involving Ewers. Chum for the haters.
  13. Unsolicited advice I have offered anyone who will listen: refuse any flight that involves EWR. It is a shitshow right now.
  14. google maps has pics of all the cars in the cul de sac.
  15. Gorilla's simulation. Interesting insta if you care to lose hours of your life.
  16. In games where Pickens was the leading receiver, Pittsburgh was 7-2 last year. And they were 1-2 in games he missed. Pickens + 6 for 3rd + 5th is basically recuperating the 2nd they used for him in 2022. He would not be on Pittsburgh's roster after 2025, so he likely garners a compensatory pick best case at #100. This trade will get (1) him out of the locker room and (2) the Steelers a pick around 80.
  17. Agree with @immamac that Quinn needs to clear out his team and start anew. Ron Slavin, his Southlake-based agent, has been certified by the NFLPA since 2004, but has only negotiated about 17 contracts in that time. Here are the ones I could find. He makes reference to Miami and Notre Dame - and the timeline. Miami was likely tampering both Quinn and Carson Beck and might have said, "we'll get $4mm to the first one to sign." Notre Dame's QB room looks a little weak right now. That said, I wonder why no NFL teams were giving "if you are there in round N, we are taking you" advice to his agent. Or perhaps he was not getting the pre-draft feedback he needed. Nothing he is saying at this point is helping Quinn. He needs to say things like, "Quinn is confident in his abilities and willing to do whatever it takes to excel at the NFL level. We believe Miami is a great place for that to start." And move on...
  18. Pickens is a top-quartile receiver when he is "on" and focused. When he is not, he's about as effective as I am at WR. He's a whiner and a head case most of the time. As noted, though, the Steelers had Wilson and Fields as QB. Dak is definitely superior to those guys. The Steelers QB room looks worse this year, so Pickens' bitching might have escalated. If Tomlin has lost patience with him, that should be a warning.
  19. They canceled my flight out of EWR for tomorrow PM. Working to reschedule to LGA
  20. That would have been the magical, mystical triple negative - and been hypothetically grammatically correct. The original is more likely correct.
  21. Yes. A significant portion. However, AB is still able to remain entertaining on social media. Just imagine how he’d be if his brains were not scrambled.
  22. ABIA adjacent complaints... Does Uber now require that every driver possess a car with at least one warning light (two preferred) illuminated? Check engine, ABS, tire inflation, etc. If only one is illuminated, then brake vibration or grinding is required. Flights into EWR are delayed significantly today. EWR having runway repairs. 6a flight now 8:20. Ugh. PreCheck is becoming more annoying over time. (1) too many people have it now (2) fucking Clear breaks the line. New x-ray scanner machines are slower than before.
  23. If she's fellating him more than 5 times per week (yes) and "getting all gussied up" for him in the critical times (yes), the occasional "eek, that's an NCSU 4" (yes) thought will quickly pass.
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