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Atta boy. It's raining and a wet miserable mess here. I'm very disappointed. It's gonna be an icy disaster tomorrow.

Less than an inch here in murvul. Not sticking to the roads either. Its supposed to keep snowing through the day but there's not much happening now. I'll be amazed if we get near the 4-6" they said. I may take a snow day tomorrow or WFH some. Not certain my car will start if it hits the -4 they're predicting.

I still have one. It's not hooked up to anything, but it worked fine last I used it. Picture quality was shockingly bad. It's amazing what we've gotten accustomed to. And the tapes aren't unlabeled. However, "Once upon a time in America" won't be what they expect....

I went in search of a sled this afternoon and came up empty. I thought about it a few days ago but didn't get one. The boys will have be satisfied with cardboard.

This is what I do with every new gun I get to help break it in. Sit on the couch and cycle the slide a couple hundred times.

I think this is mostly what Mas was getting at. The "show clear" in pistol shooting generally involves dropping the slide on an empty chamber. The issue is do you ride the slide home or just pop the release and let it slam? Probably not a big issue for serious competitors with race guns as they get lots maintenance and parts replaced on a schedule. If that habit carries over to defensive work and you carry a 1911 variant, then that's something you might want to think about.

Agreed. Coaches and players have largely become mercenaries. In a world of what appears to be limitless money, a man's word is worth very little. Sad commentary on the state of our world.

I don't do that as a matter of routine for the reasons he gives. But I don't worry about it if the slide drops on an empty chamber every now and then.

Kiffin is the only guy with an ego big enough to want to follow Saban. I suspect Saban named his successor and all this is just for show.

Sloppy carpentry... sadly typical but not as bad as I'd envisioned. I'd fix it just like @monkeylizard suggests. The expanding foam has been untouched by critters and held up fine at my house for 15 years. Get the low expanding version for masonry and apply minimally. Great Stuff will crack concrete blocks if you go nuts with it.

Hand made 2-stroke exhaust.... it's a thing of beauty.

I took a welding class in college and did a lot of TIG work on our race car chassis. I really enjoyed welding. Manipulating molten metal is fun. A decent TIG welder will be pricey. The last ones we got for work (AC) were about $13k. I'd agree to avoid the cheap ones and get a Miller, Lincoln, etc. with 240V input. MIG is faster, easier, and cheaper for making metal pieces stick to each other, but not nearly as pretty. Good TIG welds are like fine art.

A foot or two?!?! Got pics? I was gonna suggest expanding foam, I had to use that to seal up several spots in my crawlspace. A foot or two sounds like cutting replacement block to fill the space. Being above the duct makes it harder. You'll probably have to build a frame to support the block. I'd find a Mason and ask them.

Dad had full replacements on both knees a couple months apart. Yeah, it hurts. A lot. He was happy to get the first one done. He was gritty about the 2nd. Dad took the opiates for a few days and switched to advil after that. The surgery pain will go away. The hip pain you may not know you have because of how you've been compensating for the knees will go away too. You'll find it odd to walk without pain and without hobbling. My best advice from his and a few other people's experience is to use the ice water circulator and do the therapy. Then do the therapy. After that, do more therapy. The flexibility will go away and the scar tissue will make it hurt if you don't keep after it. That's not super encouraging, but it will feel much better in the long run.

I've not lapped a 1911, but that's how you lap stuff. I'd clean it up and look with magnification pretty frequently to confirm the progress.

Points #1 and #2 are why I'm looking for a pistol with a red dot. I don't have strong enough eye dominance to shoot with both eyes open, I get double vision when I try. I also wear contacts and I'm old enough that reading glasses have become a thing. I've always liked irons but I've got to be practical.

I think those are metric pattern. That matters for mags and furniture. $1500 seems ok provided its like new.

When I was a kid, our subdivision had split roads with a median. They tried to keep the medians pretty with various flowers and shrubs. A couple local nitwits kept driving through them at night. Dad and a neighbor got annoyed and bought some 2" black iron pipe. They stuck 4' lengths of it half in the ground inside a few of the bushes. A few nights later they heard some unfortunate noises. The next morning they found fresh tire tracks in the median. They followed the trail of oil and coolant around the corner and called in the license plate number of the truck. The judge sentenced the guys to community service, redoing all the landscaping in the medians.

There has been some major over-reach with regard to wildlife enforcement in the last few years. Look up "open field doctrine". That said, I agree with @Omega in that a few bad apples will certainly spoil it for the rest of us. Look up why there's no hog season in TN. You are permitted to manage some nuisance wildlife (small game) on your property provided they're causing damage to property or crops. Some animals (deer in particular) require a nuisance permit issued by TWRA to cull them.

Along this idea.... If you're redoing everything in pex, do it in a manifold style system. That way all the shut-off valves for both hot and cold lines are together, and you can isolate things so you don't have to shut off water to the whole house to fix 1 minor thing.

AC/DC is most excellent as well. Foundational.

⁹Heilung has a unique vibe, I bet it's quite the experience live. I really enjoy live music, been trying to go to more shows. Experiences rather than things as my wife says. I'd really like to take my kids to a big rock show at some point ... fire, lasers, ground shaking power, the full monte. Only recently have the big shows started coming back to Knoxville. Ticket prices sure have shot up. We saw Gaelic Storm a while back, they're a lot of fun. Going to see Joe Bonanmasaa in a couple months. Really looking forward to that.

Christmas #1 at our house was good. Sausage balls for breakfast. Minor flaw in that the neat R/C Willys jeep my son got didn't come with a battery. Oops. Then to Christmas #2 across town at the in-laws, which was good too. Lunch was great and I ate way too much of it. The kids got to play with their cousins, even if it was rainy and ugly most of the day. Off to Christmas #3 with my parents tomorrow. Hope everyone had a good day.

Our boys are teenagers now, so we've told them that the childhood idea of Santa Claus becomes the spirit of Santa Claus as you get older. The joy of giving is the spirit of Santa. I'm not sure they get that, but they probably won't until they have kids of their own.

Hard stop for me when they pulled corn pudding from the menu a while back. It's just really expensive bbq these days. And not great bbq at that.