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Late in the evenings is about all I get. I put the youngest of 3 to bed, then make the middle one get in the shower and go on to bed. After that I workout. Usually the wife is in the tub for her some alone time so I slip out back to exercise. She and my oldest were gone two nights this week for an office visit, so that left me with the younger boys, and despite there only being 3 people at home instead of the usual 5, I got less time alone.
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When we moved into our house 19 years ago, still pretty much newlyweds, I got a couple of quotes for fencing in the backyard so the pets couldn't roam. I went with the black chain link, and it pretty much disappears with all of the shrubs and vegetation behind it. No upkeep to it, it does the job, and was less than half the cost of wood.
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We start having our two year old daughter be around more kids and I’ve had two in the last 6 months. Spent last night unleashing an unholy nuclear warfare on my toilet from both ends a couple days after the aforementioned daughter threw up twice.
Wait until you have multiple. It is lots of fun. Youngest comes home with a fever, ends up throwing up multiple times. Trying to keep Tylenol or Motrin down, trying Pedialyte, and since kids are so dang tough, he shakes it off in about 12 hours, and now has an endless appetite and endless energy. Then the next afternoon my middle child starts aching and feeling bad. More throwing up. My oldest is in high school so not around her brothers all that much, but then my wife and I both start feeling a little weak. One sickness ends up hitting everyone in stages and when one is better the next one is up. 10 days of someone in the house either throwing up or recovering from it.
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They call that a classic Browning A5
Yep. Love both of mine. They were my grandpa's. A light twelve and a sweet sixteen. I have two boys, and each of them will get one handed down to them.
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If he's replacing an existing unit then he's more than likely got an exhaust duct already that he just attaches to the new unit. That's pretty easy to do thru the 7.5"+ cut out the existing fan is sitting in.
I did this 2 years ago in our half bath. We had an existing fan in place, and wife wanted to get rid of the wall mount sconce lights and have just an overhead light, so I think I bought that exact Broan model. It was a simple install. Remove old fan, cut a little drywall on the ceiling out for the wider unit, hook up to existing ductwork and done. Took about 30-45 minutes tops, from turning the breaker off to turning it back on at the end.
Now if you are doing a new install and have to run ductwork, yeah that's the attic and early March would be a great time to do it, rather than July/August.
re: I learned something about Ohio State football last night
Posted by TU Rob on 3/3/26 at 8:32 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Always liked the helmet stickers as a kid, takes me back to youth and high school football.
We had them in high school, so being childish kids, we thought getting them was super important....But we sucked and they were based on performance not participation, so most only had maybe 3 or 4 on the back of our helmets. Good times and orange slices, sorta outdated for CFB pros these days.
We didn't have them the first few years in high school, but our old coach retired and the guy that replaced him instituted stickers. I'm forgetting exactly what they were earned for, but if we won, everyone on the team got a sticker. On offense, every TD got a sticker for the starters, and if somehow we got a lead and the backups got a score, they got one for that. A turnover and the defense got one, and there were tiers for yardage. We also had a headhunter sticker awarded to one defensive player each game for a big hit or a play that had a big impact on the outcome. I was a JV scrub so I only got stickers when we won a game. Team captains got a different sticker to signify that. Pretty much all the seniors ended up with one of those since we rotated which guys were captains each week.
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For me if I know I have a cheat meal/day to look forward to it's easier to power through the week and stay disciplined. I do best with a strict schedule. When I'm not following one and I let myself cheat the meal or day becomes a 3 or 4 week binge. Having cheat meals or Saturdays helps me stay disciplined during the week. It's mental for me. It's much easier to turn down all the king cake at work if I know I'm going to eat a pint of blue bell on the weekend. During the week if I start eating junk I usually end up shrugging and keeping on eating junk since I already messed my week up.
This exactly. I do very well from Monday to Friday. No desserts, nothing fried, no alcohol. But I'll get a 6 pack and have 2 each on Friday-Sunday, and this past weekend it was one of my kids birthday so I obviously had some cake. But ate pretty well other than that.
re: Sun Belt bracket is back with the quintuple byes.
Posted by TU Rob on 3/2/26 at 9:54 am to The Third Leg
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New York, Chicago, Vegas.
Geography must be hard for you.
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Alabama- Good People Hitch Hiker IPA. This must be a seasonal, I’ve never seen it. I’m surprised it wasn’t Trim Tab IPA. It’s rated pretty high on Untappd.
It has been in grocery stores around Birmingham for a while. I prefer the Hazy Snake, but Hitch Hiker is pretty good too. Their Coffee Oatmeal Stout is good too.
re: Pro sprinter, Olympic bronze medalist, returns to UH to compete in NCAA
Posted by TU Rob on 2/27/26 at 8:34 am to JimTiger72
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Olympic athletes go back to compete in college all the time
We had a high schooler on our relay team last Olympics. If he can do that and still end up running in college, I see no difference.
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Add curtain rod locations to your list. You'd be surprised at the weight of custom drapery installed in rooms with 12' ceilings.
Also, 3/4 plywood flush mounted between studs for blocking is completely adequate to support almost anything in your home.
Learned that the hard way in one of the bedrooms. Some of that due to rowdy boys who thought the curtains were a toy, but I had to remove the hardware, patch the hole where it had opened up in the drywall, and then install the hardware in a slightly different spot. One side was in a stud, the other was not, and that side that only had a wall anchor took the brunt of it.
Also if you can, don't use the tiny screws that come with most mounting hardware on things. We had a toilet paper holder with what looked to be 1 inch screws. There was a mounting bracket, and then the actual holder attached to that bracket and all screws were hidden, so I grabbed a 2 inch deck screw and zipped it into the stud.
re: How old are you and how many different toilets do you think you have pooped in
Posted by TU Rob on 2/24/26 at 2:59 pm to RoosterCogburn585
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40 and I would say I am 100 or less...
I probably hit 100 last year alone.
We've got 3 at home, but I don't use the one upstairs often, but have in a pinch. Plus I have replaced all of them at one point, so that's easily 6 just in my house.
3 at my last house, and I lived in a dorm for a year so there were several. School bathrooms, 3 different apartments all with at least a couple. At least a half dozen different ones at my current job. And I've had 4 previous jobs, let's say about 6-10 in each of those offices. Countless hotels and rental properties over the years. Used to travel for work, and would spend 4 nights a week in the same hotel room, times 14-16 weeks traveling per year, it adds up. On a cruise. Airplanes. Of course in several different Buc-ees. Are we counting port-a-potties as well? What about in the woods on the side of the interstate? On the USS Alabama, in one of the Smithsonian museums, on a bus, both sets of grandparents houses growing up, houses we lived in growing up, its a huge number.
I'm thinking Pinterest must have been pushing the dollar gold coins back in the day. Wife told me about it, and I went and got a roll when our daughter was about to lose teeth. The first few were fine. The last one I still vividly remember. Waited up until after midnight to slip back and play the tooth fairy. At least 30 minutes goes by, and she comes downstairs bawling her eyes out. She said "I saw what you did" and there in the middle of the night we had to tell her the tooth fairy was just something fun parents did for their kids when they started losing teeth.
But we kept the gold coins going for her younger siblings. They never spend them, heck my kids never spend any cash they get. They give it to me after birthdays and Christmas and want to order something from Amazon.
But we kept the gold coins going for her younger siblings. They never spend them, heck my kids never spend any cash they get. They give it to me after birthdays and Christmas and want to order something from Amazon.
re: Favorite frozen pizza from the grocery store?
Posted by TU Rob on 2/24/26 at 11:46 am to Prosecuted Collins
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Surprisingly Bettergoods from Wal Mart is great
I've got the gluten free Margherita version several times and it is good for what it is. I still prefer buying a frozen crust and using a sauce I like and shredding fresh mozzarella, but the ease of just tossing one in the oven and eating 15 minutes later is great.
And this one is a little further away, but China Bistro on Rocky Ridge in Vestavia is a great authentic Chinese place. It would be about 10-15 minutes from the Met to get there, and it is really more of a takeout place. Not a lot of seating inside.
Grand Cantina on Acton Road for Mexican has been good. Get the steak, not the chicken. Everything we've ever ordered with chicken as the meat has been watery soupy chicken, but the steak is great.
Grand Cantina on Acton Road for Mexican has been good. Get the steak, not the chicken. Everything we've ever ordered with chicken as the meat has been watery soupy chicken, but the steak is great.
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Costa’s Mediterranean
They also do carryout if you just want to eat in the hotel one night. The family meal for 4 comes with salad and breadsticks. The breadsticks are much smaller than they used to be, so I always order extras. They used to be like little loaves of bread and you got 4 of them in the meal, but now they're the smaller breadsticks. We usually get the Lasagna, but the chicken parm and chicken fettuccine are great too.
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Bryant is a Carrier product, and WeatherKing a Rheem product.
I've got a Rheem Sure Comfort 14 SEER 4 ton unit. Had it installed in the fall of 2020, and it has been a beast. Also has a gas furnace, and we paid $7,100 for it back then. I wouldn't hesitate to go with any Rheem product after replacing our old Lennox.
re: What are some ubiquitous 90’s beers that you rarely see anymore but are still being made?
Posted by TU Rob on 2/23/26 at 3:04 pm to Paul Allen
Didn't Rolling Rock and Killian's get sold to another company? Rolling Rock was my go to in the early 2000s.
I still remember 6 pack bottles of domestics being $4.74 at the Walmart in college. For when you wanted to be a little fancier than cold cans.
I still remember 6 pack bottles of domestics being $4.74 at the Walmart in college. For when you wanted to be a little fancier than cold cans.
re: Hotel Workout
Posted by TU Rob on 2/22/26 at 10:02 am to Aubie Spr96
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Figure a set of dumbbells through 50 lbs, a treadmill, and if I’m lucky, a cable machine. Yall’ve seen it. The standard hotel ‘gym’. Need a 5 day program.
You almost described my home gym perfectly. I've got fixed dumbbells in 12, 15, 25, and 30 lbs, and two sets of adjustable handles and plates to go over 30. I've got 4 25 lb plates so I can quickly load 50lb dumbbells, and I've got a variety of 5, 7.5, and 10 lb plates. Throw in my Peloton and a good set of resistance bands, and I can work every body part. A good dumbbell program on a 3/4/5 day split will work wonders.
I did fasting several years ago. You can't just eat whatever you want in your 6-8 hour period. If you truly focus on macros and calories, it can be a good tool to help with weight loss. I was running or going to the gym at lunch during the week. I would eat my lunch afterwards, around 1:30 or 2:00, and then have a good dinner around 6 or 6:30. Lots of meat, fresh veggies, no sugar etc. You really get accustomed to it after a couple of weeks, and I would say it helped more with fat loss than weight loss, if that makes sense.
While this isn't the ideal solution, a lady that works for me was telling me about her dryer ducts. It vents down into the basement, and instead of exiting the house, they have some sort of catch bin, that she cleans out monthly. She said it was there when they moved in, and because of where the laundry is, it would have been a really long run to exit the house, reducing efficiency. It would have been another 15-20 feet to an exterior wall. You might try something like that, and install it in an accessible place in the attic.
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