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Posts posted by dcbc
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2 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
No kind of lawyer at all am I. I merely sling mortgages for a living (while operating a side hustle as a fee attorney in title company, where my main job requirements are to answer the phone 3 times a month when my manager tells me what to do.
Just ribbin' ya. My wife did that title company lawyer gig for a while when she was in private practice. Still a little disappointed that you didn't have a side family and were planning on sticking both families into the RV. But regardless, this will do nicely
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2 hours ago, Chewbacca said:
I was referring to me. I told Wulaw to start a thread about his family's travels. In the thread he started to talk about his family's travels (misspelling notwithstanding).
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Yeah. It also said "families" Great Am. Adventure. Forewent singular family with "high comma" (or apostrophe for we educated old farts and Zappa fans) + "S" in favor of plural, which is what peaked my interest in case it was some sort of RV meets Big Love affair. Would not read title again.
/trial lawyer is my guess
//appellate lawyer joke
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Just now, conVINCEd said:
If you want to sleep in, once you have enough smoke on the brisket, set the oven to 205, wrap brisket, and leave it in there as long as you want to.
That's always an option, but our oven is older and has a bit of swing to the temps. Usually, I just put the brisket on around 10 p.m. on a Friday night. Wake up and check the next morning around 9. I'm less picky about when I wrap these days. So if it's in the 170s, so be it. Wrap, drink coffee, and see what happens. That's also why I don't tend to try to cook hot and fast. Low and slow and sleep.
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1 hour ago, Jimbaround said:
I did a brisket yesterday and it turned out pretty well, but the flat was a bit over and the bark on the ends was difficult to cut through. I didn't wrap this time because I was trying out higher temp cooking ~300 - 340.
Thoughts on the tough bark? Also wasn't working with an ideal cooker set up: Webber kettle with a coal box and bricks to create a heat shield.
I may have mentioned upthread, but here's my experience, albeit on a WSM. 2 Clay pot bases in a foiled water pan. No water.
I moved to no wrap mostly out of a desire to sleep in. I usually cook at around 238 F. If I held that temperature, I would only have to cook about 1 hour longer. The bark was meteoric and very smokey. The very tip of the flat would be a little dry, but the brisket overall was excellent. I also could pull it closer to 200--204 F.
After several cooks and varying extents of dryness in the flat, I'm back on team-wrap with pink butcher paper. Mostly the same processwise. Cook at 238ish F, wrap when I wake up 165+ F. I try to be quick with the wrap so as to no lose too much temp in the brisket. At this point, I usually open the vents a little bit to push through the stall and finish up quicker. With the brisket wrapped, I'm not worried about the higher temps. Note: I know plenty of people cook at 270 F and up, but my experience on the WSM is that briskets don't respond as well to this as they might on an offset until I have them wrapped, at which point it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Even so, I doubt I'm much above 250 F and have a hard time getting the WSM over 300 wide open with nothing in the pan. When I wrap, it usually doesn't probe done until about 208 F. But the end result is better as far as consistency between the flat and the point. And resting it for a few hours in a cooler only improves matters.
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17 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
Sorry, was drunk. I'll go sit in the corner.
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I don't think he was referring to you.
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17 hours ago, joe dirt said:
we’ve had an orbi rbk40 since 2017 and it has been pretty awesome until the last 6 mo or so. now if a power surge knocks it offline, when it comes back up, less than half my shit connects again. i’ll have to factory reset multiple times to get it all up and running again. we have around 50 connected things at all times, most of which are smart switches and power receptacles. it’s become really unreliable.
in the last few months i’ve tried google wifi, google nest and now nighthawk wifi6 mesh. they all suck. i have at&t fiber gig (fight me)and each of these systems is averaging less than 100mbps where the orbi was anywhere from 300-350. i need something better. someone help.
Assuming the device you're using is AC. How close is it to the wifi point? I know the theoretical speeds of n and ac are much higher than real world speeds. 300---350 mbps is impressive. With Google, I pretty reliably get 100 mbps where the modem is seeing 200 mbps. I don't worry about it much though because connections are rock solid and everything does what I need it to do no matter where it's located in the house.
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Just now, atomheartbevo said:
Makes you wonder why some of the other aerospace companies got comfortable, and didn't innovate on things like this.
Shareholders? Or maybe it's a money machine? I don't know. Cool as hell though.
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54 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope...
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4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
I'm assuming that due to the angle, we can't see the elephants and The Great A'Tuin?
And the deadlights.
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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Ask folks in O&G, they have some ships that can do some amazing things with positioning themselves in one spot. My dad used to occasionally go out into the Gulf, and this was years back, and even then they could remain relatively steady and in one spot.
That's awesome. No doubt. But my main fascination is how they could get that friggin' tube with thrusters and sharks with friggin laser beams to land upright on a boat (or anywhere else for that matter. I know they did it years ago. But opening night on Broadway, too!
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Late to thread, but mind blown by how they could land that first stage engine on a fucking drone boat. It's my age and my love of old James Bond movies, I know.
Also, every time they call them by their first names in the NASA broadcast, I chant, "Doug & Bob!" My family loves it, I suspect.
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7 hours ago, Clackles said:
What lake are you on? We’d probably be carving from shore to shore on my stretch of LBJ with that line. Sounds like a lot of fun though.
Around here, I've ridden it on Lake Tyler. I've ridden it on the Llano arm of LBJ years and years ago (early in the morning). You have to find a time when things aren't crowded. And 40+ mph in our Ski Nautique when it's choppy is a bit of a beating on the folks in the boat. So keeping it a bit slower or using a regular line is an option.
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Damn, Brisket. That story is awful. I got nothin'.
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Smashed out pork chops.
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10 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
I never did but both of my kids grand dads and their uncle were bedwetters well into their lives.
Now I'm not saying I didn't piss the bed a couple of times as a kid, and a couple of times more on a few nights in college. LIke any challenge in life, they'll deal with it. You'll help.
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Jaegerschnitzel over home fries.
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4 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
5 and 7. I’m talking about wetting the bed at night time, not pissing themselves during the day.
Can't help you there. Mine (older) have had their share of challenges, but wetting the bed was not among them.
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5 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
The little two are also still both in diapers at night time. That should be fun bc diapers never leak or smell disgusting the next day.
How old again? Making them piss outdoors might actually be a good accelerator in the potty training realm.
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4 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:
Was at the HEB in Buffalo Speedway around noon picking up steak for tonight and brisket for tomorrow. It was crowded. I saw one person without a mask. Out of the hundreds encountered.
Glad to see people around here are still using common sense.
Wish I could say the same. Fucking east Texas. Curbside for me for the duration. Too easy not to go that route.
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6 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:
We don’t know enough about strains etc to actually pull the trigger on that vs making a guess on it.
This is pretty much the bulk of the problem in a nutshell, and will be for a while. We don't know what we don't know.
Kind of like, "Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is . . . maybe he didn't."
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59 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
I’m the only person on the family that bathes regularly. They are all nasty, so maybe not as hard as you might imagine.
Thanks for the other tips.
This is going to be great in close quarters. I can see the stink lines now!
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1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:
I'm a man! I'm 41!
In all seriousness, that's a great response.
I'm 47. I edited my post above. Time for a primary physician, my friend. Shit slowly falls apart for some (even the healthy some like I am; reasonably good health, exercise, etc). You want someone to make the referrals at the least. That's all to reinforce my suggestion above that you have a plan for when shit goes wrong (it probably won't) in BFE.
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6 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
I mean, I don't even have a doctor and I'm pretty sure we still have obama care bronze level, so... it's not like here is a panacea. If I die, I die, so be it. But its just as likely to come for me in Houston as it is out on the road.
With kids and no doctor, you sound young. That's fine. No offense intended. But you seem to have means. Maybe picking a doc for when things go haywire, as they do, would be a good call.
As for the rest, fair enough. But you have capable hospitals in Houston. My point is that you don't want to be stuck in BFE with your or a family member in residence. I mean, I've had family members stuck in the hospital for weeks on end, and it's hard enough when you're trying to manage it from your own home.
I've said what I felt I needed to say. Go forth, have fun, learn from your trials, and be awesome as a result.
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Texas BBQ
in Food and Travel
Posted · Edited by dcbc
20+ years ago, some friends and I were driving from Houston to a concert in Austin. As we headed up 71, we started seeing billboard after billboard for some barbecue place in La Grange. This is not the guy who used to post up in the little gravely area on the other side of the overpass. That stuff was delicious (R.I.P., Mr. old, mid 90s, BBQ shack guy). This was on the other side of town off 71. But what got our ignorant attention (back then) was that each billboard said Great BBQ or some such, "Check out our trophies!" So our dumb asses stop in. Place is empty of clientele. I look up on the wall, and I see a slew of "trophy" bucks. Long story short, barbecue was shitty, even by 1998 highway stop, commercial joint standards.