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re: Buying house items from Mississippi to ship to LA
Posted by TU Rob on 12/16/25 at 11:34 am to TitleistProV1X
I think there was some loophole that was closed in recent years. I bought some appliances from a place in Missouri that didn't charge sales tax for out of state purchases, and when I needed a new dishwasher a few years back I went to their website again and now they are charging sales tax. Buddy of mine told me about them. They had just moved and bought a new washer and dryer, fridge, and some other things. Paying the $100 delivery was cheaper than the taxes.
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re: NOT having "help" seems to be the exception to the norm these days
Posted by TU Rob on 12/16/25 at 9:24 am to DestrehanTiger
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Or that these services have become more efficient. My yard guy charges me $35 a week. When I was a kid in the early 2000s, I was charging 40-50 from my neighbors to cut their grass. It would be stupid for me to cut my own grass these days. I could spend those 2-3 hours getting other things done around the house and/or spending time with the family.
Same here. Several years ago, the neighbors two houses down from me had a yard service. My friends that lived between us and them asked them one day about a group rate. So the two of us signed up with the company, and a crew shows up every other week, parks the trailer at the house in the middle, and a crew gets out and takes care of all three yards at once. One guy is riding a zero turn, one guy is edging, one is weedeating, and when all of them are done each guy grabs a blower and cleans up. They are here maybe 1.5-2 hours tops, and it looks great. We pay $140 a month, and in the winter they still come buy to mulch leaves and blow off. And now I don't have to mow, edge, and weedeat the front yard. I still cut my backyard since there is no edging involved, but at least I know the front yard is going to look great and it doesn't depend on if I have other things going on during the weekend.
Mine is a 5 quart where the lid doubles as a skillet too. Handles for the lid are on the sides instead of on top. Plenty large enough for cooking family meals. Maybe go larger if she is doing a ton of meal prep like you said, but I can cook a decent sized pot roast in mine that feeds our family at least twice. Anything larger and my wife wouldn't want to use it.
re: You're an NFL HC, your team is 16-0 going into the final week
Posted by TU Rob on 12/15/25 at 3:41 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
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You want to treat it like a preseason game. Let the starters play a quart or 2 and then sit them. You don't want them to go 3 weeks without any real game action.
This here. Anyone that isn't dealing with a nagging injury plays to start the game. Maybe start rotating second stringers in with the starters in the second quarter, and have the starters play one series at the start of the second half. After that, let everyone else play.
re: The fact that ND threw a fit like a toddler when they were left out of the CFP....
Posted by TU Rob on 12/8/25 at 4:21 pm to Lonnie Utah
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But here's why I don't feel sorry for them. How many times has ND had a chance to join a conference and how many times have the declined the invitation? If they TRULY wanted that 13th game, they've had multiple opportunities to be eligible for it. They decided they didn't want to do that and it bit them in the backside this year.
Except for 2020 when it was convenient for them to play an ACC schedule. They went 10-0, and Clemson beat them in the ACC Championship game by 24, and they still got to go to the playoffs that year, and lost to Bama by 17.
re: List of team turning down Bowls
Posted by TU Rob on 12/8/25 at 3:36 pm to BabyDraco1499
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It is a sad day now that we have teams opting out of bowls. Bowl season used to add to Christmas and I LOVED it
Back in the 90s, you had about 15-20 bowl games, and most of them started in the few days leading up to Christmas and it climaxed with the New Year's Day bowls. Then all of the unnecessary expansion happened. There are 36 bowl games that are NOT part of the playoffs. Add in the Cotton, Orange, Rose, and Sugar that are the CFP quarterfinals, then the Fiesta and Peach in the Semifinals, and there are 42 "Bowl" games.
This season we have two bowl games this Saturday, along with the Army Navy game, which should get a day to itself.
Troy and Jax State get the great reward of playing a bowl game in Montgomery that starts at 8 PM next Tuesday night. Both teams have nicer larger stadiums and neither are in the ghetto of Montgomery. It isn't even a fun trip for the players. Just over a week to prepare, and if it wasn't a game between two old in-state rivals, attendance would be horrible.
re: Arby’s Closes on Burbank, who you got for the 2026 restaurant shutdown in BR?
Posted by TU Rob on 12/8/25 at 12:22 pm to Jackie Chan
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I'm not saying Arby's is bad, but it's not a place I ever consider going to eat.
We get it about once a month. If you have kids, the sliders are a pretty good option. Better than a greasy burger or fried chicken sandwich. I alternate between the French dip, Reuben, and roast beef sandwich.
re: What’s your biggest pet peeve with your significant other?
Posted by TU Rob on 12/4/25 at 8:15 pm to delta_zulu
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42 pairs of shoes strewn about the living room.
Mine mostly keeps it to her closet or beside the bed. But the shoes are a complete mess in the closet. Nothing paired up, just random pile of shoes. She must just go in there and kick them off and let them land wherever.
But it reminded me of another one. Next to her nightstand she has about 5 things plugged in. Phone charger, lamp, laptop charger, heating pad, and something else. It’s a big mess of cords. Then complained when I stepped on the cord trying to get to my closet. Where should I step right there and not step on a cord?
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The way she answers questions. 100 words too many and it never addresses the question directly.
It isn't just answering questions, it is having the same conversation several times a week about whatever is bothering her. Lately it has been boy drama with our teenage daughter. Newsflash, nothing has changed since two nights ago when you wanted to think to me out loud about it. If it isn't that it is talking about work. I'm the type that wants to leave work at work and not bring it home with me, but we get into the same conversations about her boss and coworkers at least a few nights a week. Yes her boss is an idiot and barely capable of doing what he's supposed to, but I can't really change that.
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This weekend designated for “bubble teams” to face off to make the final 4 playoff spots of the 12.
Bama vs UVA
Notre Dame vs Utah
BYU vs Vandy
Miami vs Texas
Those 4 winners join the bracket of 12.
What say you?
Bama, without playing in an SEC championship game, would be the league's champion. Due to all the tie-breakers with having four teams at 7-1 in the conference. I forget all the specifics, but Ole Miss and A&M were eliminated with the various levels of tiebreakers, and that left UGA and UA, and then it went to head to head, which Bama won.
re: Another blow to US mail. Amazon plans to cut ties with USPS. Thank god
Posted by TU Rob on 12/4/25 at 9:59 am to sidewalkside
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Any time I see a package is supposed to be delivered by USPS (United States Postal Service) I just consider it gone.
For some reason, it always seems to be an Amazon package lost by USPS too. I order from a bunch of different places, and most smaller items still ship USPS and I can't remember any being lost. But half the items that Amazon (or the seller on Amazon) ships with USPS they are either very late or don't show up at all.
About 5 years ago I ordered some memory foam mattresses from Amazon. Two TwinXL sized mattresses. USPS left the missed delivery note in my mailbox, and the reason they checked that they couldn't deliver it was that it didn't fit in the mailbox. You think? A 4 foot tall box isn't going to fit in any mailbox. I called them to do the reschedule delivery option since I didn't want to drive across town to pick them up, and a couple of days later I get an identical notice in my box.
I contacted Amazon and told them apparently the postal service wasn't going to deliver these, and Amazon shipped replacements. I specifically asked for them to be shipped with Amazon or UPS, not the USPS. Of course they shipped the replacements with USPS as well. I get another notice in the box, same reason, and I had to drive out to the USPS distribution center to pick them up. When I arrived and handed them the ticket, she goes in the back and rolls out a cart with 4 mattress boxes on it. I tried to tell her I only wanted the two, and the original shipment can be returned. She just laughed at me and said they're not sending them back and that I could do that if I wanted to, but she was giving me all 4 boxes. I reached out to Amazon when I got back home and they told me to keep them.
re: Seasoning grocery store hamburger patties
Posted by TU Rob on 12/1/25 at 3:33 pm to riverdiver
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I’ve tried 93/7, put the dimple in the middle, tried cooking it hot/fast, lower temp/longer, best I could make it work was thin smash burgers.
That is the only way.
I still see some 10-15mg ones here in Alabama. I sipped on a 10mg watching football on Saturday like I would a beer. Takes a little while to kick in, but it isn't like a beer buzz that you keep drinking to keep going. Had one during the early games of the day, and had a second one starting at halftime of the Iron Bowl. Some of them have horrible weed aftertaste, and some are like drinking a LaCroix with hardly any flavor at all.
The only time was this past spring when I was in Williamsburg VA on a field trip with my son to the DC area. It was literally next door to the hotel we were in and he didn’t feel like going out anywhere that night. It was pretty good. Chili’s, not Olive Garden.
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We joke it's where all the creepy Scientologist type people went.
I'm sure that's true in some places. We took 10 troops down to the USS Alabama, and ours was the largest of the groups. We're more conservative, but most of the others were from our area. I think we had a group from Huntsville and the Auburn/Opelika area as well. We really try to do at least one outing a month. Not all are camping, but my 7 and 12 year old love it. Stuff we probably wouldn't have done if they were not involved.
Someone else mentioned sports, and that is one reason I was looking for something for my boys. The older one played soccer, but has no interest, and the younger one has done soccer a few times as well. They love going camping and taking our dog with us when we're not going on a scout campout. They've been putting together survival kits with firestarters, paracord, knives etc the last few meetings. Stuff that is useful and they're actually learning skills.
re: In a disturbing sign (anecdote) of the economy struggling
Posted by TU Rob on 11/25/25 at 10:38 am to sidewalkside
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Nice guy with a nice branded GMC HD and branded polo shirt and hat
Exactly the type of guy I don't want working on my house. Spends too much time and money on wrapping a vehicle and getting shirts printed instead of doing real work. Give me an old guy in a white crew cab and a T-shirt instead. Prices will be better, and the work will be quality.
Shameless plug here, if you want a scouting experience, without all the woke/DEI crap, and Bible teachings, look for Trail Life or American Heritage Girls in your area. Our church broke off from BSA a while back and the troop is now chartered under Trail Life. Biblical principles, and church leadership, but it is mostly run by the dads and volunteers. The curriculum for earning badges and awards is similar to the Boy Scouts. Some of the dads joke that is is boy scouts with Jesus.
Both of my boys have loved it. They have friends from church and school in the troop, and we don't just do camping trips. We've done overnight trips to the Tennessee Aquarium, the USS Alabama, and at the first of the year we're going to the space and rocket center in Huntsville to spend the night there.
Both of my boys have loved it. They have friends from church and school in the troop, and we don't just do camping trips. We've done overnight trips to the Tennessee Aquarium, the USS Alabama, and at the first of the year we're going to the space and rocket center in Huntsville to spend the night there.
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This journalist should be fired just for using a temu AI to write this for him.
re: First things first. We gotta thaw this bird.
Posted by TU Rob on 11/21/25 at 3:46 pm to Clyde Tipton
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It was a No Colors brand
I put a thawed turkey in mine one year and the next morning it was frozen.
I second the BIN Shellac primer. Wife used to do paint projects as a side hustle, and taking wood kitchen/bath cabinets from stain to paint, this is what she used. Power sanded them, sprayed on the primer, and then followed with paint a day or two later.
If you're doing a lot of painting, like multiple rooms in your house, go get the HVLP Wagner sprayer from Lowe's. It works well with the primer and paint. I would help on her projects most of the time, and would do most of the spraying. She handled prep work, taping, and the final spray, but I loved laying down a coat of primer and the first coat of paint.
If you're doing a lot of painting, like multiple rooms in your house, go get the HVLP Wagner sprayer from Lowe's. It works well with the primer and paint. I would help on her projects most of the time, and would do most of the spraying. She handled prep work, taping, and the final spray, but I loved laying down a coat of primer and the first coat of paint.
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