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  1. If you want simple, double paned, vinyl frame low-e, call Randy Els (no relation to Ernie) at Window World.  

    Or, and if you have a friend that works for BMC or a similar distributor that sells windows, that friend could sell you the windows direct.  You’d pay up front due to no account but you could get a decent deal.  If you have such a friends, ask him to hook you up with an installer crew; not the contractor.  

    Install should be around $100-125 per window inclusive of demo, install, caulk in and out, clean up and debris removal.   Your mileage may vary. 

    Also, spend the money on the mullions that go on the outside glass and inside glass.  The mullions that go between the glass are cheesy. 

  2. 47 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    For aftermarket solar, yeah.  For new construction with solar part of the design, I'd think that broken tiles will be minimized.  I would expect that the panels will be installed at the same time as the tile. 

    And there's not much maintenance required for the panels. 

    The answer is just install standing seam on the roof facets where solar is scheduled and complete the balance in tile or shingles or whatever.   Solar flashing kits work much better when mounted to standing seam ribs.  

  3. 1 hour ago, South Austin said:

    I'm 43, and right around 40 I realized that I just can't go "heavy" (for me, that was 4-5 reps to failure) any more.  I've gotten biceps tendonitis a couple times, but nothing that keeps me sidelined for too long.  My shoulders and joints can't take the stress like they used to, and I'm not trying to win a lifting competition.  Now I go for about 10-12 reps, focusing on form, with a minute between sets, which really gets the heart rate up.  I still build and maintain pretty good muscle mass, and look and feel better than I have since my early 30s.  Your mom has noticed the results. 

    Your ma felt my muscle mass inside her last night

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  4. I lost 20 lbs. last summer.  Cut down (not quit) carbs, watch sugar intake, smaller portions and semi regular exercise. Walk 3x at 35-40 minutes, walk 2x at 60 minutes.  Push-ups, air squats, simple ab routine.  I'm 54.  

    Harvey hit  and the routine went away and I'm back where I started.  Now the routine started again last week.  Down some already. 

    Not being a lazy pig seems to work for me.  Plus, I'm afeart of "fad" diets.   

  5. 10 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

    Look, the reason that even small-scale examples fail is because they get crushed from the outside because, whether it's stalinism, fascism, the American system, etc, they all have an interest in ensuring that those movements never survive. 

     

    So it's always someone else's fault socialism fails?  "Crushed from the outside?"  If socialists would just be left alone to their own devices then all would be good?  Hmm....where have we heard about groups just wanting to be left alone with no outside intrusion? 

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  6. 22 hours ago, Macanudo said:

    My family has several connections to the Campbell's including a great grandmother who came from Scotland as a girl and her last name was Campbell.  So I get to wear one of the best:  Black Watch.

    I also have a distant connection to Robert the Bruce's son-in-law, Walter Stewart so I can also wear any of the Stewart  plaids.

    I wear a lot of plaid.

     

     

    And you look fabulous in plaid.  Fabulous!!

  7. Having lunch all by my lonesome today (bitter...table for one?).  I had to get up and move because the jerk off in the booth behind me was watching youtube videos on his smart phone and had the volume turned up to 11.

    I got up and asked him if it was necessary to have the volume up so loud and he just had a slacked jawed look on his mug as if I was from outer space.  He literally just sat there with his mouth agape and half full of semi-chewed food.  

    I knew his little thimble sized brain wasn't working to well so I just up and left for another spot.

  8. 9 hours ago, Longhorn Al said:

    My great-great-great grandpa and uncle fought alongside men like Burleson, Hays, Wallace, McCulloch, Caldwell, Gillespie, Ackland, Lucky, and Highsmith.  So I'm going to add their names.

    Jim Galbreath

    Tom Galbreath (very good friends with Bigfoot)

    Hugo gonna tell you your GGG grand pappy and uncle where terrorists.  Just wait.

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