peejman

Somebody here did something similar for a camper/hunting shack a while back.    I understand the salesman's hesitation with 12V.  Plugging a bank of batteries into your house creates the potential for a massive over-current situation.  If something shorts out, the wire will melt in a blink and could easily start a fire you can't put out.   As long as you understand the risks and mitigate them with appropriate fuses (as you've mentioned), it should be fine.  But I doubt you'll find a pro willing to accept that risk so I suspect DIY'ing it will be your only option. 

    Great, now I'm hungry.  :drool:   I need to get my smoker out again.

I think checking the grounds is a good idea, that's what it sounds like to me.

An SLR camera with a macro lens and tripod would work best.  An auto-focus camera will struggle with the highly polished surface. You'll have to mess around with lighting to get the reflection in the edge you're looking for.  A light box would help with that.     If focus is the problem, one trick is to use a dummy focus target.  Hold something fairly large next to the edge, hold the button half way down so the camera will focus on the object and the edge is also in focus, then remove the object and take the picture.  If that doesn't result in good focus, you can get the camera to focus on a nearby object and then move the camera so it's focused where you want it.  It can be difficult to tell if the edge is exactly in focus so expect some trial and error.    You can also try using a gorilla pod and the 2 second self timer feature in the camera. 

Thanks for the info.  Wish I could've made it. 

My folks have it. Not worth the expense, IMO. Slick as ice when wet and stain as bad or worse than wood.

It's a good thing the regulations are clear, concise, and easy to understand.... Best of my knowledge, tagged vehicles are legal on main roads in WMA's. Other trails require a permit and/or hunting license.

Can you pay at the range or do you have to go to the PD?

I'd like to but my wife has already made other plans for me.  I'd like to get up to Norris sometime and sight in a couple rifles. Wish there was a closer place to shoot them. 

    But $70,000/yr probably doesn't cover the the salary and benefits for 1 extra person to do that all that signing, much less the additional court costs for all those who contest the tickets.

An odd bird for sure, but he was an incredible musician.  Not only his own music, but he wrote hit songs for a number of others.

I can see the badges CZ, running firefox.  Can't see them mobile using my iphone.     And yes, portion sizes are tough to wrap your head around.  I struggle with that myself. It takes a while for your stomach to shrink down to where a meal of correct portions actually fills you up.  When you're a stress eater (like me) and life is stressful, it gets quite difficult at times.  The best thing I know of is to simply get all the bad stuff out of the house, car, office, ...   If you don't have it, you can't eat it.  Not so easy when you've got kids who require cookies and such in their lunches. 

Prayers for a quick recovery.  Dad had emergency triple bypass about 15 years ago.  The surgery went fine and he's been better since.  A comment he made a few months after surgery stuck with me... He said, "I never knew I felt that bad, I thought I was just getting old."

    The irony is they don't actually bring in much money for the municipalities.  The cameras are leased and the camera company pockets most of the revenue.  The little extra money the city gets is offset by the increased administration and court costs because of all the extra pissed off people. 

  I wish I'd done more of that with my grandmother.

Good luck with your plan.  I used the MyFitnessPal app for a while a couple years ago and it helped me get a better handle on my diet.  I lost some weight and I'm in a lot better shape now.  I'd still like to drop another 12-15 lbs but it would appear I've hit the proverbial wall.  Something major has to change for me to lose any further weight and I'm currently not motivated enough to knock down that wall. 

Welcome!

I used to work in the auto industry.  They're driven off the end of the production line and typically through some sort of test loop, so yes, all fluids should be present.  There's only a few gallons of gas in the tank.  The ECU/PCM is in a "delivery mode" that locks out virtually everything except what's necessary to drive it.  Cars that are imported are driven on/off the ships. 

As long as the location isn't posted you're fine legally.  If you'll be wearing a tux, it may or may not have an appropriate belt.  As for not telling the wife... I can imagine any sort of "scene" on her baby boy's wedding day wouldn't go over real well. 

    Yep, free extended warranty sounds about right.  Or at least a couple years free service.

Nice bike.  Just remember that everyone is trying to kill you. 

    Funny you mention the PA.  It was plenty loud at stage center but we couldn't hear it at all on the north end of the ramp where we sat. 

If you're not there regularly, it's going to be difficult to train the dog to stay away.  If you think it might accomplish anything, talk to the neighbor.  Get some pepper spray and blast it next time it's around.   Else call animal control.  Dogs are not permitted to "run at large" by state law. 

I like the handwritten note and maybe some flowers.    Does she have grandkids?  Do you have little kids?   We have the sweetest little old lady for a neighbor.  She lives in a converted detached garage next to her daughter's house.  She loves my kids.  I send them over to visit Ms. Edith pretty regularly.  She beams when talking about them (and boy can she talk.... :D ), fawns all over them, and makes them cookies and such regularly.  Even though her daughter lives 100ft away, she gets lonely being by herself.  Her daughter is very nice and takes good care of her, but the daughter's husband was recently confined to a wheelchair, so she's got that to deal with too.  I do little stuff around the house for her... I fixed a lamp, hung a picture...    My point is, sometimes all they want is a little company.  5 minutes of conversation can make their day. 

I agree, never, ever try to catch a dropped gun.    I have heard of one instance where a pistol went off by itself.  It was a 1911 with a "trigger job".  It was sitting on a bookcase cocked and thought to be locked, and no one was in the room.  The owner heard the boom and when he went to investigate he found the pistol in the floor with the safety off and a hole in the bookcase and adjacent wall.  He took it to a gunsmith and was shown the buggered trigger.  Basically angles were wrong which allowed something in the mechanism to creep.  I'm not familiar enough with 1911 triggers to explain exactly what.  Apparently at some point he bumped the safety and disengaged it before sitting it on the bookcase.  They replaced nearly everything in it and it was fine after that.