TU Rob

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They’re also cracking down on bulk buying next year. The couple in front of us grabbed around 30 hats, 20 polos, and a pile of other merch. I assume they were going to flip them.

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Good. The amount of women I've seen post Masters merch on Facebook since last week is crazy. No, I don't think I anyone wants to pay $250 for a Masters Polo for a tournament they didn't even go to. I saw one last night that was a Ladies T-shirt for over $80. A freaking T-shirt.

Alone I can go all day. Wife and kids with me, maybe 4-5 hours. Every single road trip we take on I65 she complains about the rough driving. I always respond with I’m just behind the wheel, I didn’t pave the interstate. Then offer to ride shotgun and let her take the driving. Funny how my boys never complain on a road trip about the rough roads. Princess and the pea for sure.

Took my two boys to see it yesterday. 7 and 12, so right in that prime video game playing stage. They liked it well enough, and the 3D parts were well done. Throwing in some 2 dimensional 8-bit animation in parts was nice for us older folks. Probably not worth paying theater prices to see, but we don't go to the movies that often, so when they both asked me if we could go see it I took them.

A few years back we took the kids to the aquarium. We stopped to eat at the Varsity on the way in. My wife, bless her heart, said there was a MARTA station nearby and we should ride it over to the aquarium. Yeah that’s not happening. I’m the only dude, and we had a 6 year old, 11 year old, and baby with us. And my wife would be no help if something were to go down.

Well when it goes to 16 in the next iteration, you'll basically have the same bracket you have in Basketball, but instead of it being a Region it is just the whole tournament. 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15 etc. Top 8 will host, next 4 games are at traditional bowl sites, semi finals and championship games following that.

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I always have to move the handle to the right side. My left is so dumb that if I brushed my teeth with my left hand I'd need to hold the brush stationary and move my head.

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I injured my right wrist at one point, and your comment about brushing teeth left handed hits home. It was so awkward, and I pretty much just held it with my left and moved my head around.

There are only a few things that I do well left-handed. The best being driving a vehicle. I learned to drive on a 5-speed manual, and after 30 years of driving, even when I'm in an automatic, I can't steer worth a crap with my right hand. It was always shifting gears so my natural tendency is to drive with my left hand.

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Those roaming charges are going to be horrendous.

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Must be T-Mobile with Starlink. Works great out in the boonies, as long as you don't need to send a video. Pics go through fine though.

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I think the people who knew designed a separate washer and dryer. There is no way that is economically feasible to have in one unit.

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Yeah, if we're doing laundry on the weekend for our family of 5, I like to start the next load in the washer while the dryer is running. Makes no sense to have one unit being taken up for both parts of the washing and drying. I'll throw a load of towels and underwear/socks etc in to wash, then start drying them. About 15-20 minutes into the dryer cycle, I'll start a load of darks or delicates and those go in right as the others are done drying.

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Pissed off my balcony a couple of nights ago

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I always let my boys pee in the yard, and I do it as well if I'm out there walking the dog or doing yardwork. Last night after work, I was sitting on the porch swing I have hanging underneath the landing on my deck stairs. Hear the kitchen door open to the deck, my youngest was going to come out and play in the yard with the dog until sunset. All of a sudden there's a strong stream of pee flying from above me, and I had to tell him to at least wait until he's down on ground level to let it fly.

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what do you think? the pad is for a hot tub, grilling, boiling crawfish..whatever. not sure what i'm going to do there yet but might as well do it now. concrete pad or trex?

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If going hot tub, definitely concrete. I had Trex on my old deck and it will expand and contract like wood, and the weight of all that water sitting on top won't hold up as well as wood decking. Long story, but when we moved in the old deck was in need of an update, but we had baby #1 on the way. When she was old enough to start walking, my dad and I over the course of several weekends tore the old railings off, added new railings, and laid Trex boards over the old wood boards to freshen it up. The framing was fine, it was the dangerous railings and old faded wood. That lasted another dozen or so years until a pine branch fell and hit the house and blew out the railings. So we finally tore it all down and built a new deck in place, and this time I went with all wood because the pine needles and leave that fall all over it left stains in the Trex boards. Supposedly less maintenance than wood, but that was not my experience.