TU Rob

We're taking a small group from our scouting troop out to Washington State in a few weeks for a mission trip. Long story, but most of our group is able to fly out on a Friday and a couple have to wait until Saturday. This is going to give us about 6-8 hours to kill that Saturday before we pick them up from the airport, and were looking into a few sites to go for a quick hike. Our troop leader has tasked my son with deciding on what adventure to take. He had a few recommendations, so I wanted to ask here to see if anyone has been to any of them and if you'd recommend any over the others. Also if you have other places you've been and think some teenage boys would enjoy, please let me know.

Multnomah Falls, Latourell Falls, and Forest Park were the ones he had found online. Proximity to Portland is most important, as we have to be back at the airport around 3-3:30 that afternoon to pick up the rest of the group. Looking at maps, they all look fairly close, but in my mind we don't want to go too far out of the way and deal with traffic considering the schedule. Both of the falls are east of PDX, and Forest Park is west of there, so not knowing traffic patterns or other issues, I'm thinking we'd rather hit both of the falls as they are closer together and not double back to try to go to Forest Park.

We're planning on seeing Mount Rainier later in the week, so that wouldn't be necessary on this day.

Definitely YouTube. Pretty sure you can have multiple streams going at once too. I've had one football game on the TV and one on a tablet at the same time, although that was in the same house. So many places these days have Smart TVs and I've been able to log in and watch when we're on vacation just fine.

Sold an old washer and dryer on FB a few months back. At one point I had over 100 unread messages and 90% just said is it available. Every single one of those got ignored. Answer a question here and there and get right to asking them when they can get it and ignore the lowballs and sob stories as well.

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I love the 5.7 V-8 but as someone who goes 45-50k per year…..

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We had one with the smaller V8, and it also drank gas. Not as bad as the 5.7, but as big as that SUV was, it was still a gas guzzler. Not bad on the highway but 90% of our driving was around town.

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Anyone taking a paycut to play NFL Football was overpaid in college. Don't read any more into it than that.

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Exactly. The NFL rookie pay scale and salary caps were collectively bargained for by the NFLPA.

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First overall pick has a value of $54MM, down to $16MM for the 32nd pick. Basically the players already in the league, as well as the owners, were tired of stuff like Sam Bradford getting an almost $80MM contract while unproven in the pros. That is the one that prompted the rookie pay scale. Of course that means more salary cap room for the players already in the league, so of course they wanted to limit what the rookies can make. College is totally different as there is no cap and pay scale.

We had a 2010 model for over 10 years. Wife moved on to a Sequioa for a few years but we kept the van a little longer. Could lay down the back row and take out the middle row and stack plywood or drywall panels inside. It hauled many pieces of large furniture over the years.

My only complaint, and I think this is warranted because most people take vans on road trips, the driver seat sucks after hour 3. Sure it is comfy around town or for a short trip, but somewhere after 2-3 hours it feels like a rock. I’d get out and stretch and walk around, then 20 minutes into being back on the road it came right back.

I drove a 2 door Wrangler from Bham to Baton Rouge nonstop one night and was never uncomfortable. Something about those Sienna seats were just bad.

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It makes sense because the small cup servings are microwavable but how do you do a large serving? How long is that in the microwave for?!

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I swear the boxes of Kraft had microwave directions back in the day. When I was living in a dorm room, and all we had was a mini fridge and tiny microwave, I wore out one of those round Pyrex pans making Kraft mac n cheese and Pasta Roni. It was something like 4-5 minutes in the microwave, take it out and stir so the pasta doesn't clump up, and back in for another 4-5 minutes, then add the sauce. It only takes a little longer on the stove top since you boil the water first, then add pasta and boil like 8-10 minutes, but it tastes better to me that way. And if you're a parent making this for kids, and don't stand at the stove with a wooden spoon and eat the rest straight from the pot, you're doing it wrong.

Hasn't happened to us often, but my checks from work have been stolen/washed a time or two. I'm an accountant and some landscape company asked us about a past due invoice. We had record of it being sent out and cashed, and when we looked up the check image, they had changed it from the landscape company to some other random company name. When I looked at it, the font was different than what our software uses to print. Wasn't a ton of money, but the hassle of filling out a claim with the bank, issuing a new check to them, and everything else involved started pushing us more to ACH payments for any vendors that will accept them.

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Can’t imagine getting that at a bar unless it was the only light beer they had

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If it was the only beer they had, I'd order liquor.

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49 Winchester

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Saw them open for Eric Church last month. I had heard the name, but never really listened to them. They were awesome. Went down a rabbit hole on Spotify and I think I listened to everything they have put out.

Most memorable and useful, my grandmother got all of her grandkids a KitchenAid stand mixer when they got married. 22 years later and we still use ours a good bit. Stuff like plates and silverware are nice for young couples, but I couldn't tell you who got what for us all these years later off of a registry. But I can tell you Granny got us the mixer, my parents paid for the honeymoon, and my father in law got us the fancy steak knife set.