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baldona
| Favorite team: | Auburn  |
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I had to pee driving down I-65 around Clanton, AL years ago and the choices were very limited. I guess I wasn't paying attention, I can't remember exactly, lets be honest maybe I was on my phone or something. But I reached to open the bathroom door, and the handle was wrapped in a condom. Probably put there as a joke by a teen ager, but the unexpected feeling of latex on a door handle along with the site of a condom on it hasn't left my mind.
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re: Former employer returned my personal items completely destroyed. What recourse do I have?
Posted by baldona on 7/29/26 at 3:43 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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I was allowed to grab what I could carry from my office and was then escorted out of the building.
This was a mistake and a learning lesson. They should have given you boxes and some time, even if HR or security was there watching you. That's the cost of laying someone off.
Your lesson here is not to leave personal items behind and expect it to be treated well.
I'm sure it was an emotional time, but I'm also shocked you couldn't just have a coworker pack it and meet you to pick it up. That seems like a normal process also.
re: ICE issue in West Monroe
Posted by baldona on 7/29/26 at 1:25 pm to AFtigerFan
This is from google and my general experience relates to this. I run a business that does a small portion of business with the hospitality business that is known to hire a lot of hispanics.
From the ones that I have talked to, the process to work officially takes a long time and is not easy. Many of them refuse to follow the rules for one reason or another, mostly the paperwork and effort. People act like its hard, its really not. Its just not easy.
But the fact is that most "asylum" seekers are working illegally because they aren't putting in the effort to work legally.
Can Asylum Seekers Work in the US?
Asylum seekers in the United States can work legally, but they must follow specific rules and wait for the work permit. The asylum system has seen significant changes, with the number of asylum grants more than doubling in recent years. As of September 2025, the backlog of cases has reduced, but asylum cases still face an estimated wait time of 4.3 years.
From the ones that I have talked to, the process to work officially takes a long time and is not easy. Many of them refuse to follow the rules for one reason or another, mostly the paperwork and effort. People act like its hard, its really not. Its just not easy.
But the fact is that most "asylum" seekers are working illegally because they aren't putting in the effort to work legally.
Can Asylum Seekers Work in the US?
Asylum seekers in the United States can work legally, but they must follow specific rules and wait for the work permit. The asylum system has seen significant changes, with the number of asylum grants more than doubling in recent years. As of September 2025, the backlog of cases has reduced, but asylum cases still face an estimated wait time of 4.3 years.
re: Artifical Bait for Mangrove Snapper
Posted by baldona on 7/29/26 at 10:32 am to The Last Coco
You may try straight mono or fluoro 15-20lb test. No leader. Fluro sinks fastest, then mono, and braid floats.
I know live bait is key, but usually if you can get a decent chum going with a small hook and proper presentation on straight fluoro or mono that works well.
Its kind of like fly fishing, you want your bait to sink naturally and usually that's easiest with just a straight mono or fluoro set up.
I know live bait is key, but usually if you can get a decent chum going with a small hook and proper presentation on straight fluoro or mono that works well.
Its kind of like fly fishing, you want your bait to sink naturally and usually that's easiest with just a straight mono or fluoro set up.
Why no pepper? Does pepper mash with the tarragon? I'll have to try tarragon and beef. I'm not hating
Would a finer chop not be preferred?
Would a finer chop not be preferred?
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Trying to find something for me and my wife to do without the kids. We normally do one of these a year since our kids have been born just tk get away. Looking for recs for either thursday thru sunday or sunday thru Tuesday. Weve done the typical stuff, DC, nashville, Pikes peak/colorado springs, orlando.... maybe even thinking of trying that packup and go
Chicago is a great long weekend trip. Check the weather, it could be hot as shite or really nice in the summer. I've frozen my arse off in mid May at a Cubs game and I've worn shorts at New Years.
But generally speaking if you are talking about August time frame, as said I'd go north to beat the heat personally. But that may or may not happen it maybe hot everywhere.
Pro tip: get a Cooler or Turkey fryer/ crawfish pot and a Sous Vid. Constantly boiling water and working on the right temp is a PITA.
A sous vid when my wife got hit was amazing. She like 111* if I remember right.
You basically want it as hot as you can stand. Sous vid kept it perfect.
A sous vid when my wife got hit was amazing. She like 111* if I remember right.
You basically want it as hot as you can stand. Sous vid kept it perfect.
re: UNC’s GM Michael Lombardi placed on paid administrative leave
Posted by baldona on 7/27/26 at 12:39 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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An obnoxious New Jersey Yankee is gonna ruffle some feathers at a place like UNC Chapel Hill.
I’d love for someone to tell me where someone like this won’t ruffle feathers in 2026? You think big city folk that are full of me too hard left libs are putting up with it? Mid west people? I mean where?
Guy was just an obnoxious idiot that was protected by Belichek and didn’t realize Belichek has little or no pull anymore.
re: English gymnast, Gabriel Langton learns the accordion
Posted by baldona on 7/25/26 at 8:44 pm to LawnmowerMan
Damn OP I hope the guy is alright, if not your title is a dick move
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Down here in swampy S. Louisiana, we have governmental spray for mosquito control, and it has been established that is why we also do not have any fireflies.
I've seen them in upland places further north like Ft. Payne, AL, Ft. Smith, AR, and in Tennessee outside Knoxville. Growing up, I remember seeing lots of them in Starkville MS when we lived there.
This doesn't seem like the only reason? I've lived in the florida Panhandle for 25 years and Ive never seen a single one. We had them in Auburn, AL. Seems more likely there's another reason other than Pest control? They aren't out in the country here in the panhandle or in the swamps where no one is spraying? I certainly don't doubt its vastly knocked them back, but if they were as thick as they get other places they'd certainly be in the state forests and what not where there's 100,000 acres of no pesticides?
Maybe they stop where the Hardwoods meet the Pineforests? Or something similar that's weather/ habitat related? That wouldn't explain Auburn, AL but its surrounded by Hardwoods so idk.
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The climate dictates where the water is, nothing else matters but the climate. Whether the climate can be changed by human activity I have no way of knowing, but is changing just like it always has, and we keep ignoring it
WUT? A lot of the issues with California and Nevada water is literally humans piping it, daming it, irrigating it, and otherwise physically moving it from lakes and rivers to areas that need it and that's sometimes 100s of miles away.
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There are a lot of 92Gs that burn most of the time in a chow hall but are in a unit like the 82nd or even the 75th RRC. There are plenty of opportunities for them to get hurt. It ain't 18X or 11X work, but there are a lot of cooks in high op tempo units.
Why is “plenty of opportunities to get hurt” such a strong reason here?
We can say the same about 1,000 different professions outside of the military that do more for our country than a lot of these men and women. I’m sorry but just because someone is “in the armed forces” doesn’t automatically place them on an untouchable plateau.
Here’s the real problem, the real financial answer is your cooks, your truck drivers, your logistics personnel, etc what scamming like this does is force the military to contract it all out. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper to pay 3x for a contractor for 1 year of actual work than it is paying these positions for 50 years due to “disability”.
re: Van Life. Has anyone here done, currently doing, or plan to do this lifestyle?
Posted by baldona on 7/22/26 at 2:35 pm to TheMagicMan
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With a Cargo Van, there's no worry about towing a vehicle. A Cargo Van is easy enough to drive around even a major city. I've driven a lot of Cargo Vans so I'm comfortable with them. I've genuinely never driven an RV and they seem like a bear to drive. The most comparable thing I've driven is a U-Haul and that's always a miserable experience. I know you can get smaller RV's, but to me there are still more negatives to RV's compared to Cargo Vans.
Am I wrong in that assessment?
I truly apologize for being blunt, but you are just super inexperienced. I'll say a couple things here.
You need to look up Sprinter vans and Class B Rv's. They are basically sprinter vans modified to be an RV. Plenty of commercially sold RV vans out there.
Staying in Walmart parking lots and the like is for dirt poor people. Occasionally, sure that's fine. There are tons of state parks in every state that have very cheap campsites, $25 a night or less. You can boon dock more so out west but in many State Forrest lands for free. There's a lot of other areas you can stay in an RV for free, many rest areas for example. Truck stops are also an option often times.
My point here is that as a 42 year old with a little money, there's almost no reason to try to be absurdly cheap and sleep illegally in parking lots. There's tons of free better options you can stay in with an obvious RV and a lot more comfortably.
re: Van Life. Has anyone here done, currently doing, or plan to do this lifestyle?
Posted by baldona on 7/22/26 at 12:50 pm to TheMagicMan
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I would essentially give myself around $100,000 budget to buy a Ford Transit Cargo Van and have the cargo area retrofitted with a bed, portable 12V cooler, small portable toilet, minisplit A/C and a tire pressure control system. I would use solar showers or just buy a gym membership at say Planet Fitness for showers.
As a guy that's rebuilt cars and boats, I would highly recommend NOT doing this.
You can get used RV's for cheap. Under $50k easily. Don't plan this as a forever thing. Plan it as a 6 month or 1 years thing.
Realistically you will put under 20k miles on it in a year. Which is a ton unless you want to just drive all the time. You can buy a used vehicle for say $45k, put 15k miles on it, and sell it for $35k.
Total cost of $10k and 0 time
re: Van Life. Has anyone here done, currently doing, or plan to do this lifestyle?
Posted by baldona on 7/22/26 at 12:25 pm to TheMagicMan
Cruise America has a "ultra compact" RV now you can rent.
Idk what you do for a living, but there's no major reason to jump in head first here. Take a 2-3 week vacation and rent one of these small RVs and give it a go.
Go from there.
Idk what you do for a living, but there's no major reason to jump in head first here. Take a 2-3 week vacation and rent one of these small RVs and give it a go.
Go from there.
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without navigation lights
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little after 8 p.m.
I'm not trying to make excuses or anything at all.
Sunset is around 7:45. Legal shooting time would be 8:15. Legally your Nav lights are usually supposed to be on at legal sunset. So this was breaking the law, but realistically if it was 8:05 or so it was still likely plenty of light to see well for a long way on the water.
I'm not trying to make excuses or anything at all.
re: Driving in Europe
Posted by baldona on 7/21/26 at 2:57 pm to CaptainJ47
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Thank you. I was joking about driving that far since a buddy told me to come meet him. We won’t have much of a drive. We will be doing Brussels, maybe Dinant, then off to La Roche en Ardenne. Thankfully I have driven in Europe a dozen or so times. I sleep great on planes and we are in Delta One. That said, I support not driving hours upon end after a flight.
I'm not even trying to be a woose as I'm not at all. I forgot that one of the reasons why driving in the UK after a flight was so hard, was because it was a stick and I was using my left hand. I had a very hard time adjusting to first being in the top right just like in the US. I felt like it should have been in the top right, up and closest just like the US. Up and furthest away just threw me for a loop, especially tired.
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I know a woman who looks somewhat like this at that age. She looks a bit older in person, but her filtered pictures look similar. the amount of work she puts in to looking that way is incredible, hair coloring and facials once a week. Hormone shots about that often. 5 am pilates, lunch workout, walks after work. Eats nearly nothing, drinks a crazy amount of protein mixed with collagen and who knows what else. Untold $$ spent on stuff like getting rid of hair, makeup, skin products, wardrobe.
Possible, yes. Possible for the majority of society, no. Costly, ungodly. Impressive, overwhelmingly yes.
And generally uptight and not fun?
There's a reason she isn't married and has been cheated on numerous times even though she looks like a dime in photos.
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My travel in Europe is targeted to Fieberbrunn, Austria. I have been 15 times since 2009 and have visited many other cities and countries on those trips but always visit Fieberbrunn at some point. I have rented a car from Frankfurt, Munich, Salzburg and Venice to get to Fieberbrunn. Prices have been rising since covid.
Sure, you can get better pricing at different places in Europe but some places just cost more.
How much are you paying?
Here's Munich Airport July 23-July 30, 2026. This is through SIXT just the first that popped up on Google.
VW POLO
Price details
Rental charges
7 Rental days x $31.92
223$47$223.47
Taxes and fees
$119.24
Total (incl. tax) $342
Now, you can certainly rent a LOT more expensive if you want. But like I said, under $100/ day fairly easily. If you have 2-3 adults, its generally cheaper than training around.
re: Driving in Europe
Posted by baldona on 7/21/26 at 11:37 am to CaptainJ47
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We land in Brussels on 8/14. Solid 9 hour drive to test out this driving situation. ??
As you can tell from this thread I'm pro rental car in Europe, but I would highly recommend NOT driving your first day of arrival.
You will be tired, time change, and just a new country unless you were super experienced there.
I rented a car out of London Heathrow a couple of years ago upon arrival, I had my family of 4 at the time with me. Really REALLY stupid to drive out of the UK, driving on the wrong side of the road, tired, etc.
I only drove to Kent, which I think was like 60 mins from the airport. But it was easily the most dangerous I've ever felt driving.
How does this warrant a private evac? People are so damn soft and dramatic these days. I get that it hurt like hell, but I have 0 doubts she could have ubered to the airport and then flown home commercial.
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