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98eagle
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Shooter was tackled. Would like to see a video of that. The perp was absolutely flying. Draft the guy who took him down.
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re: Need suggestions on what to plant. **Updated**
Posted by 98eagle on 4/23/26 at 9:51 pm to Kingshakabooboo
Dwarf Nandinas look great behind Monkey Grass. I believe ours are the Pink Blush variety. They turn a combination of Chartreuse Green, Pinkish and a vibrant Red depending on the season. They do best in full sun and partial shade. Most of ours are in different levels of partial shade. We even have some in heavier shade. They still do good but are a little bit scraggly and have less vibrant colors in almost full shade. They are drought resistant as well. We are on the border of zone 7 and zone 8 in the southeast.
re: Fear of spiders
Posted by 98eagle on 4/19/26 at 11:47 am to Shorts Guy
quote:I agree 100%. The little green/brown lizards doing their pushups and showing their red necks are the greatest. We have a ton of them all around our house. We especially enjoy seeing them on our deck. It's a white/light gray composite deck with white rails. The lizards love to sun bathe, chase each other and hunt on it because they can easily see ants, spiders and other bugs on it. If we are on the deck, these little guys act like they own the place, they way they look at you and don't readily run off. They look at you like "This is my deck. Get the hell off of it!"
My favorite things are the green anole lizards. They’re everywhere at my house. Basically part of the family at this point.
At least spiders don't actively hunt you. Mosquitos actively feast on you like you are a Margarita. Those little vampire frikers even have a medicated straw that you don't feel while they inflate themselves and inject you with various toxins. They use your blood to make little baby vampires. Spiders don't have shite on mosquitoes
re: Why can’t we control 100 mile stretch of ocean?
Posted by 98eagle on 4/9/26 at 11:07 am to SquatchDawg
Is it feasible and safer for the US, Venezuela and the Middle Eastern countries not dependent on navigating past the Straight of Hormuz to provide oil shipments to replace the oil shipments that are always under the threat of Iran? How long would that take to transition away from these threats?
We use T-Mobile Home Internet. It's pretty good. We have lots of things on WiFi (TVs, outdoor security cameras, etc). I still plan to upgrade to Spectrum Fiber now that it's recently available in my area, plus a better 3 channel Mesh Network.
re: House design features that bother you
Posted by 98eagle on 4/6/26 at 9:16 pm to Onyx Aggie
A poor layout of a house with regard to the lot bothers me.
A new very nice lake house two lots down from us was recently built on a nice lot but they made two very bad mistakes with regard to the layout of the house with respect to the lot.
First mistake is they built a side entry 3 car garage with an inadequate amount of side driveway room to easily get cars in and out of the garage. It's not going to be easy for them to get in and out of their their garages. It is not possible to extend the side driveway to gain more room. The garages face a slope down to a creek. If you back a vehicle out of one of the garages, not only do you have an issue turning, but if you happen to run off of the concrete driveway, you're on the edge of a sloping dropoff.
The second bad layout mistake is on the lake side of the house they built a "lake view blocking" pool house near the garage end of the house. There are no windows in the lake side garage wall, nor in the lake side of the pool house which is poorly located to begin with. The end result is that probably 40% of the possible lake view from the back and sides of the main house is totally blocked.
This is a brand new multi million dollar house with two ultra stupid layout flaws.
A new very nice lake house two lots down from us was recently built on a nice lot but they made two very bad mistakes with regard to the layout of the house with respect to the lot.
First mistake is they built a side entry 3 car garage with an inadequate amount of side driveway room to easily get cars in and out of the garage. It's not going to be easy for them to get in and out of their their garages. It is not possible to extend the side driveway to gain more room. The garages face a slope down to a creek. If you back a vehicle out of one of the garages, not only do you have an issue turning, but if you happen to run off of the concrete driveway, you're on the edge of a sloping dropoff.
The second bad layout mistake is on the lake side of the house they built a "lake view blocking" pool house near the garage end of the house. There are no windows in the lake side garage wall, nor in the lake side of the pool house which is poorly located to begin with. The end result is that probably 40% of the possible lake view from the back and sides of the main house is totally blocked.
This is a brand new multi million dollar house with two ultra stupid layout flaws.
Our defense is smothering them.
Chernobyl is the GOAT documentary.
Almost got killed on separate incidents riding motorcycles.
When I was 15, I was riding a crappy low HP street bike on a 4 lane hwy. Traffic was tight and I was in the fast lane boxed in, to the front, right and back. Traffic was going about 40 mph. The van to my right apparently did not see me and decided to dart into the fast lane where I had no where to go except off the road to my left. I was immediately in a gravel shoulder. The only problem was there was a crossing between the separated 4 lane road and there was a car stopped in that crossing directly in front of me. If I broad sided it I would have been airborne. I laid my bike down and slid into the side of the car about the time my bike stopped. I was cut up and abraded pretty good along one side and scared shiteless. I decided not to ride street bikes anymore. But stupid me decided to start riding and racing dirt bikes.
Fast forward two years. Although I was into racing dirt bikes on sanctioned dirt tracks, some buddies of mine and me were goofing off racing on a narrow trail with plenty of steep hills not very far from our neighborhood. I was jumping one hill and my tragectory was a little off. I was off trail when I landed in about 2' tall of high field grass. I was still going downhill and accelerating to get back on the trail about 35 mph through the grass when I hit about an 18" tree trunk broadside that I didn't see. My bike threw me straight over directly on my head. I have no idea why my neck wasn't broken. I was a wrestler since 7th grade and football player, and I had a very strong neck, but still I should have been dead. I had a small tree limb sticking through the foam into my helmet just past my eye and was in convulsions when the next rider came up behind me. It was my older sisters boyfriend who was 4 years older than me and was training to be a paramedic. He saved me from swallowing my tongue while I was convulsing.
One of my other friends rode his dirt bike to our house about 5 miles away and told my sister and my dad that I was dead. When they arrived on site, an ambulance was there and I was just becoming conscience. I was knocked out probably with a concussion and had a small cut on my scalp. The paramedics treated my cut and made sure I was okay. Didn't even go to the hospital or ER. My Dad told the paramedics I would be fine and I just got my bell rung just like my coaches used to say when I got knocked out playing football. I never rode a dirt bike again.
When I was 15, I was riding a crappy low HP street bike on a 4 lane hwy. Traffic was tight and I was in the fast lane boxed in, to the front, right and back. Traffic was going about 40 mph. The van to my right apparently did not see me and decided to dart into the fast lane where I had no where to go except off the road to my left. I was immediately in a gravel shoulder. The only problem was there was a crossing between the separated 4 lane road and there was a car stopped in that crossing directly in front of me. If I broad sided it I would have been airborne. I laid my bike down and slid into the side of the car about the time my bike stopped. I was cut up and abraded pretty good along one side and scared shiteless. I decided not to ride street bikes anymore. But stupid me decided to start riding and racing dirt bikes.
Fast forward two years. Although I was into racing dirt bikes on sanctioned dirt tracks, some buddies of mine and me were goofing off racing on a narrow trail with plenty of steep hills not very far from our neighborhood. I was jumping one hill and my tragectory was a little off. I was off trail when I landed in about 2' tall of high field grass. I was still going downhill and accelerating to get back on the trail about 35 mph through the grass when I hit about an 18" tree trunk broadside that I didn't see. My bike threw me straight over directly on my head. I have no idea why my neck wasn't broken. I was a wrestler since 7th grade and football player, and I had a very strong neck, but still I should have been dead. I had a small tree limb sticking through the foam into my helmet just past my eye and was in convulsions when the next rider came up behind me. It was my older sisters boyfriend who was 4 years older than me and was training to be a paramedic. He saved me from swallowing my tongue while I was convulsing.
One of my other friends rode his dirt bike to our house about 5 miles away and told my sister and my dad that I was dead. When they arrived on site, an ambulance was there and I was just becoming conscience. I was knocked out probably with a concussion and had a small cut on my scalp. The paramedics treated my cut and made sure I was okay. Didn't even go to the hospital or ER. My Dad told the paramedics I would be fine and I just got my bell rung just like my coaches used to say when I got knocked out playing football. I never rode a dirt bike again.
re: Swamp cooler for vehicle
Posted by 98eagle on 3/30/26 at 11:19 am to ToucanBill
We had no AC in our car and our parents let us crawl into the back windshield with all of the windows down.
Battery powered sprayers are a very nice upgrade over a hand pump sprayer. I don't have a backpack version but I do use a Scotts Professional 2 gallon battery operated sprayer since last year and it is awesome. The battery and pump are in the screw in top. Super easy to use and store.
re: What are you doing today?
Posted by 98eagle on 3/29/26 at 11:03 pm to Wolfhound45
Started repairing some 25 year old outdoor stairs between our upper deck and landing leading to a lower screen porch. Every nail and screw holding one of the stringers was rusted to the point of total failure with a poor design where the stringer ends were 100% vertically attached with no notched out overlapping wood. One stringer was only being held from falling to the ground by the deck boards nailed into the top of it. I'm replacing some boards and improving part of the design by adding additional wood support boards and 5/16" and 3/8" stainless steel lag screws, fender washers, deck screws and am repairing/reinforcing all of the stringer boards for the whole stair system.
re: Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen
Posted by 98eagle on 3/29/26 at 8:42 pm to Everclear2000
We finished this series last night. It's pretty good. Definitely recommend. Not as good as the Haunting of Hill House which is the goat of horror series in my opinion, but this is still a good horror series to watch.
re: What was your first real job in high school? Like where you had to clock in, etc.
Posted by 98eagle on 3/11/26 at 2:18 pm to Planetarium
quote:That was my first job in highschool as well. I worked at a True Value Hardware store that really trained everyone to an extreme.
Hardware store
I became highly proficient in every department as we frequently rotated as the lead person in every department and they trained the heck out of us. I took numerous training courses on the job for topics like plumbing, electrical, yard chemicals, paint, etc.
It didn't matter what you needed when customers came in. I could cut and thread pipe, sharpen lawnmower blades, make keys, mix paint, cut single pane window glass, tell you what weed killer, fertilizer or insecticide you needed, tell you what size and type electrical wire and components you needed, replace your lamp light bulb socket, fix your garden hose, show you how to use any hand tools, power tools or lawnmowers that we sold and much more.
If you needed just about anything fixed that required replacement parts from a the hardware store, you could just bring in whatever was broken and we would sell you the parts and fix whatever you brought in for free.
We were all so highly trained that people from wealthy neighborhoods would come in and hire us to do work at their houses after work and on the weekends usually for things like fixing their toilets, installing ceiling fans, etc.
It really was the perfect job for learning how to be a handyman and do most work needed in and around a house and yard.
quote:Flashback to driving to highschool!
22 lever action in the back window rack!!!!!!
Our concrete driveway is in a heavily wooded lot. At least for us, pressure washing doesn't last or do as good a job compared to spraying Wet-N-Forget once a year. I spray Wet-N-Forget everywhere mildew, mold, algae, moss is a problem. It keeps the house, driveway, our deck, courtyard, lawn furniture, etc. looking new. It's expensive, but easy. I use a battery operated 2 gallon Scotts Professional sprayer to make it easy to apply. I'm not saying this is superior to pressure washing, but it's a good alternative that works well for us in a very shaded lot.
Pretty good show. It reminds me of American Horror Story. Probably because Ryan Murphy is the executive producer of both and Evan Peters is the lead male actor.
I didn't do the work but our vented gas logs had a leak. My plumber replaced our gas logs with ventless gas logs. They are nice but man do they put out the heat, so much in fact we can't even use them because they will melt the paint on the fireplace mantel. I still need to go to welding/fabrication shop to get a custom heat shield built. Even then it heats very well, it's just too darn hot if we get anywhere near the fireplace.
re: Official CryptoTalk Thread
Posted by 98eagle on 1/19/26 at 9:16 pm to Hateradedrink
quote:Exactly. The only guarantee is that Bitcoin will have frequent price swings of varying amplitudes. A perpetual money generator for those who know how to take advantage.
No one can ever tell in this market.
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