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"Daytona 500" 500
DrafterX Offline
#351 Posted:
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Oh ya.. doesn't matter how cold it is either... Mellow
SmokeMonkey Offline
#352 Posted:
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8trackdisco wrote:
Morning, Monkey.

Only got to watch the Liverpool match yesterday. Will be able to see the first 60 minutes of United Chelsea game, then will have to tape that and the cup final, which I'll be watching through my fingers with a therapy blanket.


It’s awful so far. Will be pulling hard for the Arsenal at 10:30.
8trackdisco Offline
#353 Posted:
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The 28 degrees isn't bad. It's the 20-30 mph winds that wear you out.
DrafterX Offline
#354 Posted:
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Ever wonder why they don't make rubber socks..?? Had to walk thru a puddle the other day and got my foot wet... There has to be a solution and after some thought I think the rubber socks would work.. Think
delta1 Offline
#355 Posted:
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Plenty of waterproof shoes and boots out there. I have a few pairs for different terrain and ankle support. I think those would be more comfy for you than waterproof/rubber socks...my feet sweat a lot...so I'd want rubber socks to have a comfy absorbent inner lining...

but if you don't want to spend the money on waterproof footwear, you can slip a plastic bag, like the ones at the produce aisles, over your feet, with socks on, before putting on your shoes... if you carry plastic poop bags when you take your dog out, like most responsible dog owners, those would work...
MACS Offline
#356 Posted:
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Got some Danner boots... gore-tex. Waterproof. Also got some XtraTuf fishing boots, which are also water proof. BigGrin
danmdevries Offline
#357 Posted:
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DrafterX wrote:
Ever wonder why they don't make rubber socks..?? Had to walk thru a puddle the other day and got my foot wet... There has to be a solution and after some thought I think the rubber socks would work.. Think


When I was a kid my parents would put newspaper bags over our socks before we put our boots on to keep our feet dry.

It worked.
RMAN4443 Offline
#358 Posted:
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danmdevries wrote:
When I was a kid my parents would put newspaper bags over our socks before we put our boots on to keep our feet dry.

It worked.

My mother told me not to play in puddles......I don't think she wanted me to have any fun Anxious
frankj1 Offline
#359 Posted:
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RMAN4443 wrote:
My mother told me not to play in puddles......I don't think she wanted me to have any fun Anxious

but did you listen?

I think not.
rfenst Offline
#360 Posted:
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Mondays suck.
87-89F today sucks too.
SmokeMonkey Offline
#361 Posted:
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Good morning, y’all
8trackdisco Offline
#362 Posted:
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25/21.

Good start.
Ewok126 Offline
#363 Posted:
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41 with high of 65 and SUNSHINE!

Thank GOD!

I hope you all have a great Monday.
Speyside Offline
#364 Posted:
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Morning all. Chris, enjoy the sun and temp! 65 would feel wonderful.
Ewok126 Offline
#365 Posted:
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Speyside wrote:
Morning all. Chris, enjoy the sun and temp! 65 would feel wonderful.



Man you are not kidding, I am so looking forward to the sunny warm day today is pathetic.
DrafterX Offline
#366 Posted:
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Cool Dudes...
danmdevries Offline
#367 Posted:
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Someone crashed into my mailbox again. 3rd one in 8 years...

Gotta try to dig a hole in frozen ground this morning when I get home to put up a new one again.

Welcome back to Monday fellas
DrafterX Offline
#368 Posted:
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Gonna bury Massa in da cold cold ground... Whistle
danmdevries Offline
#369 Posted:
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Picked up a pressure treated 4x4 on the way home. Thought I might have one, but wasn't sure. Got home, I have 6 8ft posts... oh well.

While I was at Home Depot, I saw they had these stout steel spikes you hammer 3ft down and bolt the post into. $20 but no hole digging or concrete, so I bought it.

Cut the post, hammered it in, bolted together and mounted the mailbox in like 10 minutes. Ridiculously easy.

Well see how long it holds up, if it doesn't get hit again before it rusts to failure.
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#370 Posted:
Joined: 11-15-2016
Posts: 3,677
This 500 seems to be taking forever....

Morning, everyone!

Nasty stomach flu on Friday, then painting the kids rooms all day Saturday and getting the rooms ready on Sunday. Fun weekend. At least our sitter watched the kids while we worked. Otherwise it would have taken weeks. ha
danmdevries Offline
#371 Posted:
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Hank_The_Tank wrote:
This 500 seems to be taking forever....

Morning, everyone!

Nasty stomach flu on Friday, then painting the kids rooms all day Saturday and getting the rooms ready on Sunday. Fun weekend. At least our sitter watched the kids while we worked. Otherwise it would have taken weeks. ha


Dog crates are cheaper than a sitter Whistle
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#372 Posted:
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danmdevries wrote:
Dog crates are cheaper than a sitter Whistle


Sitter watched them for free...can't beat that. She is like family and loves our kids. So she likes to have them over for the weekend every now and then.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#373 Posted:
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We left our kids on Friday night with a sitter.... first time we've left them with someone other than grandma and grandpa... i was nervous the whole time... but we got out and had sushi... good times...

Fished yesterday morning... ended up with a 3lb 9oz and a 4lb 2oz rainbow... very thankful for fishing days like that...
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#374 Posted:
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
We left our kids on Friday night with a sitter.... first time we've left them with someone other than grandma and grandpa... i was nervous the whole time... but we got out and had sushi... good times...

Fished yesterday morning... ended up with a 3lb 9oz and a 4lb 2oz rainbow... very thankful for fishing days like that...


We are really picky with who we leave our kids with. Essentially only grandparents and our sitter who watches them during the week. Every once in a while we will let our pastor's wife watch them, but that's it
rfenst Offline
#375 Posted:
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Chicken noodle soup and raspberry sherbet for desert.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#376 Posted:
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Well this sitter was my almost 16 year old niece... we didn't leave the house until 7 and the kids were out by 8... and my parents live around the corner so if there was an issue my dad could come right over... expensive though... babysitters dont come cheap in these parts...
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#377 Posted:
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Well this sitter was my almost 16 year old niece... we didn't leave the house until 7 and the kids were out by 8... and my parents live around the corner so if there was an issue my dad could come right over... expensive though... babysitters dont come cheap in these parts...


I wouldn't even know how much a sitter would be other than our all day sitter. It is expensive for that too, but it is a third of what we would pay if we sent them to daycare. I don't know how people afford that, especially if you have multiple children. Childcare already breaks us as it is...something like 1300 per month.
victor809 Offline
#378 Posted:
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Dan...
I'm thinking you need some spikes for your new mailbox post...

Like 20ft in front of it, pointing up.
DrafterX Offline
#379 Posted:
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Landmines... Mellow
victor809 Offline
#380 Posted:
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Hank... opel...

Anyone who wants to spend time with a kid for free... probably a pedo.
Pastors wife...? Probably married to a pedo.
16 year old? Probably got into your liquor and got drunk. Probably let your kid play with knives while drunk.

You've both failed as parents at this time... may as well hit the reset button and enjoy your free time and money.
victor809 Offline
#381 Posted:
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I feel like I'm solving everyone's problems today
delta1 Offline
#382 Posted:
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buncha homeless people are ruining the parks near my house...gotta find alternate walking routes...

kinda conflicted, because I feel empathy and would like to see them get help, but don't really want them nearby...
DrafterX Offline
#383 Posted:
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Landmines... Mellow
MACS Offline
#384 Posted:
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delta1 wrote:
buncha homeless people are ruining the parks near my house...gotta find alternate walking routes...

kinda conflicted, because I feel empathy and would like to see them get help, but don't really want them nearby...


You have to know that they didn't get there from a little bad luck. They get there from years of bad decisions and criminal activity.
victor809 Offline
#385 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
You have to know that they didn't get there from a little bad luck. They get there from years of bad decisions and criminal activity.


I dunno...
Cali is a tough place to live. A lot of people are living at the very edge of homelessness. I don't think it's smart to live that way, but I can see easily how someone who plays by the rules and doesn't make horrible decisions can end up homeless...

Heck, if you have a rent controlled apartment... and something happens to lose it? A lot of people living in these apartments could never afford to live at market rate. They are now homeless and have zero chance of being approved to live in any apartment on the market.

Now, I've never understood why they don't leave the area at that point and find somewhere more affordable... but it happens apparently.
frankj1 Offline
#386 Posted:
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victor809 wrote:
I feel like I'm solving everyone's problems today

It would be less than honest of me if I said I had not noticed.
MACS Offline
#387 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
It would be less than honest of me if I said I had not noticed.


Presenting options... yeah. Actually solving problems... resounding no.
danmdevries Offline
#388 Posted:
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victor809 wrote:
Dan...
I'm thinking you need some spikes for your new mailbox post...

Like 20ft in front of it, pointing up.


Just need to get people to stop driving while messed up. The ones that have crashed into the ditch, 2 had open alcohol containers, and 3 had syringes n stuff. One still had a syringe hanging out his neck passed out down in the ravine.
victor809 Offline
#389 Posted:
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Do they have any good stuff on em?
8trackdisco Offline
#390 Posted:
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Ewok126 wrote:
Man you are not kidding, I am so looking forward to the sunny warm day today is pathetic.


Well overdue here as well. We had a 50 degree day in early November. Cold as ****e since.
8trackdisco Offline
#391 Posted:
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victor809 wrote:
I dunno...
Cali is a tough place to live. A lot of people are living at the very edge of homelessness. I don't think it's smart to live that way, but I can see easily how someone who plays by the rules and doesn't make horrible decisions can end up homeless...

Heck, if you have a rent controlled apartment... and something happens to lose it? A lot of people living in these apartments could never afford to live at market rate. They are now homeless and have zero chance of being approved to live in any apartment on the market.

Now, I've never understood why they don't leave the area at that point and find somewhere more affordable... but it happens apparently.


Aren't there any nice ghettos in the Bay Area? Both Cheech and Chong came from East LA.

Love irony. All the leftest programmers moved into SF, making so much money in silicone valley, rents go up and all of the poor leftists are getting poorer.

They should have camps for .... um... some of you people.
MACS Offline
#392 Posted:
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Lets just keep the property values going up for 7 more years, Mmmkay?

I'd like to sell my house and buy a nicer house and a nicer boat in FLA. It'll have a guest room for you and Cindy to visit during the winter.
8trackdisco Offline
#393 Posted:
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danmdevries wrote:
Just need to get people to stop driving while messed up. The ones that have crashed into the ditch, 2 had open alcohol containers, and 3 had syringes n stuff. One still had a syringe hanging out his neck passed out down in the ravine.


What kind of neighborhood do you live it?
8trackdisco Offline
#394 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
Lets just keep the property values going up for 7 more years, Mmmkay?

I'd like to sell my house and buy a nicer house and a nicer boat in FLA. It'll have a guest room for you and Cindy to visit during the winter.



Love that!
frankj1 Offline
#395 Posted:
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is the couch available?
Ewok126 Offline
#396 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
is the couch available?


Don't be needy and greedy now.


Is the bald spot behind the hedge bushes outside available? I just need a bucket to chit in?
frankj1 Offline
#397 Posted:
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Ewok126 wrote:
Don't be needy and greedy now.


Is the bald spot behind the hedge bushes outside available? I just need a bucket to chit in?

all yours.
Ewok126 Offline
#398 Posted:
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sweet..

If it's warm and dry I can drag my butt in the yard to wipe. I should set then.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#399 Posted:
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Made personal pan pizzas for dinner... went with bbq sauce and chicken and onions...

Cold rain moving in...
danmdevries Offline
#400 Posted:
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8trackdisco wrote:
What kind of neighborhood do you live it?


No neighborhood, unincorporated county. But I live pretty much right on the border between money and no money areas. Lots of abandoned homes (bought mine abandoned) lots of rental houses that don't look inhabitable. To the west home prices start hitting the half million mark. To the east and south, they're closer to 30-50k.
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