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captainahab
| Favorite team: | Nicholls St. |
| Location: | Highway Trio8 |
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| Number of Posts: | 1676 |
| Registered on: | 12/29/2014 |
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re: Trying to recall the name of a BR restaurant
Posted by captainahab on 6/22/26 at 9:07 pm to BigDaddy6612
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Kiva's
A little Baton Rouge restaurant nostalgia....
Kiva's dad (pretty sure his name was Ken) was one of the managers (pretty sure the main guy) that ran The Village for Ms Fannie Distafano. Ms Fannie's son Joe, owned Jack Sabin's restaurant (also on Airline). When he closed down he went to work for his mother at The Village. Joe's son was Joey Distafano (RIP) who also was a good chef and restaurantuer.
When The Village closed, Ken took a lot of the staff and opened Kiva's (named after Ken's son). For some reason, I think Ken and/or Kiva were involved in opening up Portabello's (across from Mike Anderson).
re: Isn’t there a lawn equipment company in Industiplex?
Posted by captainahab on 6/13/26 at 12:59 pm to King of New Orleans
You may be thinking of Gautreaux's. They are on Airline but basically where Industriplex (which turns into Pecue) hits Airline. Big Echo dealer.
website
website
re: Sammy’s Highland Rd Closing
Posted by captainahab on 6/7/26 at 4:26 pm to dukeg7213
Word on the street is Willie’s is going into that location.
re: Sammy’s Highland Rd Closing
Posted by captainahab on 6/7/26 at 2:03 pm to geauxfish24
quote:
Went south in a hurry after the judge (rip) fiasco.
Jason left.
Quality went down hill.
Sammy wanted to expand and made some bad hires.
Sammy went broke and had to sell off the building to stay open.
Stabler inherited a crappy building (expensive plumbing problems) and new landlord supposedly wouldn't fix it.
The judge fiasco was a minor bump on the way down. I sure miss Mike.
re: LSU football welcomes Michael Sam for Pride Month
Posted by captainahab on 6/2/26 at 1:21 pm to SWLA92
Is that a Kiffin bobble head on the desk holding a gay pride flag :lol:
re: Table leg foot repair help...
Posted by captainahab on 5/31/26 at 4:05 pm to BigPapiDoesItAgain
If you don't want to DIY it, have her call some local antique shops and get the recommend a mobile furniture repair guy. Or you can Google "mobile furniture repair near me".
I've had success having a guy come to my house to work on a large antique armoire before.
I've had success having a guy come to my house to work on a large antique armoire before.
re: 2013 F-150 3.5 Ecoboost question??
Posted by captainahab on 5/29/26 at 1:13 pm to Lonnie Utah
Mine would randomly go into limp mode. It would also randomly shutter but not go into limp mode. Brought it to a mechanic and it did not throw any codes. Ended up being a loose battery cable at the terminal.
re: Who are y’all using for home internet?
Posted by captainahab on 5/20/26 at 2:08 pm to King of New Orleans
ATT 1GB @ $90 per month for just internet. Been very satisfied.
Dropped Cox a couple of years ago.
Using YouTube TV and my wife has a bunch of add-on's (Netflix, Paramount Plus, Apple TV, etc.) but still pay much less than Cox with their TV package.
Dropped Cox a couple of years ago.
Using YouTube TV and my wife has a bunch of add-on's (Netflix, Paramount Plus, Apple TV, etc.) but still pay much less than Cox with their TV package.
re: Whole Home Generator / Specific Room Breaker Tripping
Posted by captainahab on 5/12/26 at 6:50 am to captainahab
Wanted to give you guys an update.
The breaker is Arc - i didnt look close enough. In the old days, the older Arc's (that I was used to) had a yellow button. The newer GE's that are in there now have a black reset so at first glance from afar, I thought it was non-arc.
Electrician buddy of mine said Arc's can be more sensitive to generators kicking on. He said to try a non-arc. Swapped it out and we have had some bounces in power since yesterday and it never tripped.
You guys were right and it was a simple as a breaker going bad.
Thanks for the help!
The breaker is Arc - i didnt look close enough. In the old days, the older Arc's (that I was used to) had a yellow button. The newer GE's that are in there now have a black reset so at first glance from afar, I thought it was non-arc.
Electrician buddy of mine said Arc's can be more sensitive to generators kicking on. He said to try a non-arc. Swapped it out and we have had some bounces in power since yesterday and it never tripped.
You guys were right and it was a simple as a breaker going bad.
Thanks for the help!
re: Recommend a good vet in Sherwood Forest area.
Posted by captainahab on 5/5/26 at 11:36 am to prplhze2000
re: Whole Home Generator / Specific Room Breaker Tripping
Posted by captainahab on 5/1/26 at 3:48 pm to LSUDad
quote:
Is it a 15 or 20 amp breaker?
20 amp. Also the fridge is only 4 years old and it has never tripped a breaker. As mentioned, it has never tripped until recently and it only tripped when the generator kicked on.
Halliburton - from my understanding, the "smart load manager" is programmed to load shed the high draw items like HVAC, oven, electric drier, etc. You can flip the breaker while under Generator power and it works perfectly - even when the generator switches back to utility power.
Sure sounds like the breaker based on what others have suggested.
Thanks again for the replies folks!
re: Whole Home Generator / Specific Room Breaker Tripping
Posted by captainahab on 5/1/26 at 7:28 am to LSUDad
Not an arc fault and not on a gfci circuit. Will replace the breaker. Many thanks for the quick responses!
Whole Home Generator / Specific Room Breaker Tripping
Posted by captainahab on 5/1/26 at 2:37 am
5 year old house. Whole Home Generator for last 4 years and have experienced multiple short term (minutes) and long term (2-3 days) power failures. Within the last 2 weeks, we have had one outage that lasted 4 hours and one that lasted 5 minutes. Both times, a breaker would trip for a specific room. No big deal but that room has a refrigerator in it. Never has happened before (4 years and many outages). Appears to only trip when auto transfer switches to Generator. Does not trip when it switches back to regular power. No other breakers in the house are being tripped.
Only items on the breaker are fridge, router, Sonos, and a printer.
Any guidance would be appreciated!
Only items on the breaker are fridge, router, Sonos, and a printer.
Any guidance would be appreciated!
re: Snow Crabs around BR
Posted by captainahab on 4/8/26 at 1:03 pm to dcs930
Have not been so cannot vouch for it but Kiro Buffet opened at the beginning of the year.
Food Board - Kiro Buffet
Kiro Web Site
Food Board - Kiro Buffet
Kiro Web Site
Dwarf Mondo or ???
Posted by captainahab on 3/30/26 at 3:02 pm
New house built 5 years ago. In the courtyard area, the Landscape Architect did some hard scaping (slate pavers) coming off the slate patio with Zoysia in between. Looks nice but as things have grown it does not get the best sunlight so looks like crap in the winter and takes a while to look decent in the spring. Plus, you have to cut it with a weed eater because the mower and wheels to do not allow for a good even cut (the mower wheel rest on the stepping stones).
I was thinking of killing off the Zoysia and replacing with Dwarf Mondo. I need something that stays low to the ground and does not spread into the surrounding beds.
Pros/Cons of Dwarf Mondo?
Any recommendations other than Dwarf Mondo?
I was thinking of killing off the Zoysia and replacing with Dwarf Mondo. I need something that stays low to the ground and does not spread into the surrounding beds.
Pros/Cons of Dwarf Mondo?
Any recommendations other than Dwarf Mondo?
re: Paging the OT Refrigerator/Freezer experts
Posted by captainahab on 3/24/26 at 10:50 am to TexasTiger08
You may get more/better responses on the H/G Board. This has happened to me before.
DIY - Simple - could be ice build-up in the passage/air-way between the fridge compartment and the freezer compartment. You can defrost or if you are impatient, stick a hair dryer in there.
DIY Fairly Simple - the fan that moves air between compartments could have gone out. Pretty simple to replace.
OR...
Coils dirty
Low on Freon
DIY - Simple - could be ice build-up in the passage/air-way between the fridge compartment and the freezer compartment. You can defrost or if you are impatient, stick a hair dryer in there.
DIY Fairly Simple - the fan that moves air between compartments could have gone out. Pretty simple to replace.
OR...
Coils dirty
Low on Freon
re: What do you think the unhappiest age is?
Posted by captainahab on 3/12/26 at 4:07 pm to dyslexiateechur
Coming up with an average age is complete BS. There are way too many factors involved.
Own a business?
Job that ebbs and flows with the economy?
Health issues?
Have kids?
Kids have issues?
Spouse with serious illness?
Parents that require assistance?
Layed off?
AI may be taking your job?
And so on and so on....
Own a business?
Job that ebbs and flows with the economy?
Health issues?
Have kids?
Kids have issues?
Spouse with serious illness?
Parents that require assistance?
Layed off?
AI may be taking your job?
And so on and so on....
re: Crawfish peeling plants are empty of workers, all hope lost - Here we Go!! $$$$$
Posted by captainahab on 3/12/26 at 1:11 pm to Bourre
quote:
Cut off welfare and food stamps to able bodied men and women....
60% of the women I see eating $10/lb crawfish at Sammy's have IPhones that are newer than mine with screens bigger than mine and appear to be on some form of government assistance.
Maybe get them to kick in and peel some crawfish?
re: Acid Wash Pool
Posted by captainahab on 3/9/26 at 1:29 pm to blueboxer1119
Just make sure you have a hydrostatic valve on your pool.
re: My area is still being flooded with self storage places
Posted by captainahab on 2/7/26 at 9:26 am to soccerfüt
quote:
The flatfoots at the IRS ain’t dummies. They set up cameras to measure traffic in/out and utilities to get metrics.
Have not heard of cameras but if you are ever audited, they will request your water bills and match the meter readings to your deposits. That is how they busted a buddy of mine.
re: Are German cars worth the maintenance headaches and associated costs?
Posted by captainahab on 1/30/26 at 12:34 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
If you must, lease one for 2-3 years and do not buy. Get rid of it before the warranty runs out.
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