Its a huge mess overall at my mothers house. As far as the arborist, there is some I can do with hedges and trims but there are a few dead trees that need to be removed, some that are dying. The winter storm severely damaged 4 very large trees, so that will have to be fixed. Thats just the arborist...
Jump to postObviously, we don't know your full financial situation, so any advice we give will be given with incomplete information. Can your mom take out a Home Equity Loan / Line of Credit to do the repairs necessary? For the immediate bills, DO NOT withdraw from your 401K. If you have to, take a loan from it...
Jump to postEven now when I drive an automatic I sometimes forget there is a clutch and slam on the breaks unintentionally. After driving stick shift for 15 years, I've been in an automatic for the last 5 years. Even to this day, occasionally I slam my left foot into the floor when trying to push the (nonexist...
Jump to postThe nature of the universe appears to be a handful of very fundamental forces and particles that combine in an infinite number of ways to produce spectacular complexity and chaos. Yeah. I mean, my professor wasn't wrong. It all WAS, in fact, F=ma. Just can get really complex. You also experienced t...
Jump to postThis reminds me of a quote I read in the book, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, by John D. Anderson Jr.; "the aerodynamic forces and moments on the body are due to only two basic sources: 1. Pressure distribution over the body surface 2. Shear stress distribution over the body surface No matter h...
Jump to postDuring recent runway works in MEL closing the main 16/34, our A350s were routinly landed on shorter cross strip 27 exiting at N, which is only 4740'. The A350 has lower approach speeds to the A330. Presumably, for the paperwork, the LDA was the full length, which is around 7500", right? For co...
Jump to postRight now the team to watch in MLB is the Tampa Bay Rays, team to watch Boston, Dodgers, and Atlanta. If you were going to place a bet today for the 2023 World Series Champs whom would it be? No idea. But I'm just happy that my Red Sox are vastly exceeding expectations right now. Of course, since w...
Jump to postIn the case of the Angels - how about having a better team, first? There is that. Though this used to happen back when the Sox would play the Angels in the ALDS as well. Anyway....this post that became a meme is hilariously accurate: https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/1394498097254965249?ref_src=...
Jump to postThat's really petty. If you have that many unsold tickets that you're worried about that many Toronto fans, that says more about your fan base than anything else. Exactly. When I go to Red Sox - Angels games at Angels Stadium, us Sox fans regularly drown out the Angels fans. Can't deal with it? Hav...
Jump to postWeekdays - from when I pick him up (around 5:30) till his bedtime (around 8:15).
Weekends - pretty much all day.
Also I get every other Friday off, so that day as well.
My son is 4.
I've expected to hear about Bam's death for several years now.
You don't even really hear about how fucked up he is anymore - it's old news.
Of course I do wish he would get himself together. But it's going to be a lifetime of work for him.
johns624 wrote:He may be "aware" of it, but he's never admitted it.
2018 Mazda CX-9.
Bought it in late 2018 when my wife was pregnant. Figured I should get a dad-mobile, which turned out to be a good idea.
Avatar2go wrote:Depends on the genre.
A few thoughts... 1.) Not good form to assume someone is pregnant unless they specifically tell you. 5 months is kind of that in-between stage where you don't really want to assume someone is pregnant without knowing for sure. 2.) Looks like the popcorn went into the row behind. Parent should have c...
Jump to postHopefully they had the foresight to plant some potatoes and spinach around the farm.
So we can at least have baked potatoes and creamed spinach with our newly cooked steaks.
If you can find a place that knows how to cook a medium-well steak (meaning, without it turning into rubber), then that's generally the way I go. Otherwise, medium or medium-rare. As far as cut, Ribeye is my go-to. There's a local place that has a Japanese Drunken Wagyu. It is ridiculous - so butter...
Jump to postHe's talking about this, pretty simple: Hmmm, OK. But he said "no seat asymmetry", which threw me off. Because there is definitely asymmetry. Not really from a structural point of view - look at the spacing of the seat legs and where they transfer the load to the floor... But one side is ...
Jump to postAaron747 wrote:He's talking about this, pretty simple:
Point is it’s the aisle that’s offset not the seats , the seats closest to the aisle on the 3 side are actually on the centerline, so no seat asymmetry How can they be centered on the centerline, unless the seats on the 2-side are much narrower than the seats on the 3-side? Just think about it. On ...
Jump to postTWA767 wrote:Probably we should bring back live chat room again ?
Touchscreens for all car functions. Why would you do that? I always compare it to commercial airplanes, where for important functions, they still have knobs and levers with standard designs (landing gear, flaps, slats, etc.), so that you can utilize those without looking at them. I don't want to hav...
Jump to postOuch! Glad your son is OK. Of course, little kids recover from stuff like this much faster than parents do. I'm imagining I will have to use the Heimlich or similar on my son sometime in the next 3 years. Glad it hasn't happened so far.... If you mean mandarin orange, I almost had that issue with my...
Jump to postDang, that's sad. Condolences to his family and friends.
He used to be fairly active in Tech/Ops back in the day, if memory serves. Seemed pretty knowledgeable. As you noted, I hadn't seen him post in years.
I was someone who constantly said "I will never buy an SUV". Then toward the end of 2018, I was about to have a kid, and I decided I wanted something larger, and also something that was not stick shift. Wanted to stay with Mazda, because my two previous cars had been Mazdas and I liked the...
Jump to postYesterday afternoon was honestly more beautiful than Southern California has been in quite a while. The sharp contrast between the dark clouds and rays of sun, the unusually low snow line, and the days of rain clearing the smog out of the sky really created something unique. The past several days h...
Jump to postIt is an innovation that has only been introduced in Portugal for the time being. It is not a punishment, like the red and yellow card, but expresses appreciation for an incident with remarkably fair play. In this case, it happened when the caretakers from the two teams worked together to treat a m...
Jump to postTo be fair, if it were the LAPD, they'd have teargassed the entire neighborhood and taken pot shots into the crowd. This one is actually a little tough if you're not familiar with Boston in that era. Fenway wasn't built as thicc as it is today, it was mostly the older buildings around Fenway Park a...
Jump to postbluecrew wrote:Even in cases of civil unrest, they don't hit the street with batons and teargas, like Minneapolis did. It's a remarkably safe city and a great place to live.
Sad day.
There's an A.net connection for me, too. I saw Jeff Beck in concert probably 10-15 years ago, and I believe I met A.net member KevinL1011 at the show.
It’s seems like harry is moving away from his demons but is acting like a petulant child with running his mouth off to the media to things that should remain private and confidential due to his very unorthodox family situation. It makes sense in a way. He likely didn't have much of a normal childho...
Jump to postPersonally, my son coughed nonstop from August until this last weekend, when he finally stopped. First of all, congrats, I didn't realize you had a kid! How old? My son (almost 4 now) has coughed on-and-off since....I want to say March or so. Just about when he started preschool (go figure). Some w...
Jump to postI'll love the Friars forever for knocking off LA this year. When the G-men can't do it, I'm perfectly happy to root SD from now on. San Diego is probably my NL team now, simply because Don Orsillo is their play-by-play guy. As much as a Sox fan as I have been, I'll always have some resentment that ...
Jump to postFive years ago I didn't think it was possible for fans outside BOS/NYC/LA to hate anyone as much as those respective teams, but it is positively refreshing to see the Astros universally despised, and well-deserved at that. I'll give the waste bin a double tap in their honor. The ALCS this year was ...
Jump to postCars - Mazda (I'm on my 3rd Mazda in a row, but I have a feeling my next car will not be one)
Cymbals - Zildjian
Drumsticks - Vater
Guitars/Basses - Ibanez (I have 2 Ibanez guitars and 2 Ibanez basses, though I do have a Yamaha acoustic, and an Epiphone SG as well)
Camera stuff - Canon
Phones - Apple
and were clearly outside her role as a pilot. Is safety not the paramount role of everyone in aerospace and aviation? But the characterization that it was some kind of Delta vendetta is not really true. They got a (now former) psychiatrist to state that she had bi-polar disorder, when she clearly d...
Jump to postEstherLouise wrote:I use it as a figure of speech. When I say it, I am not thinking about God, nor think "religiously" at that point.
From the thumbnail it needs some leveling can't tell the rest but whatever happened to rare photos easy to get accepted and common hard to get accepted? You telling me a photog can't bother to do 10 seconds of editing on a rare photo? It's ridiculous to have photos that can't even be leveled proper...
Jump to postEither way you are out of line posting that here. If you have reason to believe a pic in the DB has been cloned or photoshopped in some way email the screeners privately. You are dragging a long time photog though the mud here. Sorry, but looking at the photo, the long-time photog deserves it. Horr...
Jump to postEither way you are out of line posting that here. If you have reason to believe a pic in the DB has been cloned or photoshopped in some way email the screeners privately. You are dragging a long time photog though the mud here. Sorry, but looking at the photo, the long-time photog deserves it. Horr...
Jump to postairportugal310 wrote:Since the LDA (Landing Distance Available) is 1,794ft shorter than the TORA/TODA/ASDA...then it indicates a displaced threshold usually or something in lieu of that (a stopway perhaps?)
Not normal, likely something to do with these notams !EWR 04/074 EWR RWY 04R DECLARED DIST: TORA 10000FT TODA 10000FT ASDA 10000FT LDA 8809FT. 2204091638-2404302300 !EWR 04/073 EWR RWY 22L DECLARED DIST: TORA 10000FT TODA 10000FT ASDA 10000FT LDA 8206FT. 2204091630-2404302300 What do those NOTAMs m...
Jump to postmirrodie wrote:I’ll probably wake up late, have some coffee while working out and smoking 3 racks of baby rack ribs over charcoal with hickory chunks.
What are you cooking today?
Departure Attain as much altitude as possible before reaching residential areas. Use full length of runway when able. I don't understand. Why would a pilot " use full length of runway when able " [that's one heck of a derate!] if trying to " attain as much altitude as possible before...
Jump to postIndeed noise abatement/curfew does apply to the entire airport. I've heard from pilots of said airline that there are FAR fewer noise monitors (microphones) on the other approaches that'll rat them out. While technically 12/30 is the only "active runway" after hours -- probably to catch v...
Jump to postThe landing distance is indeed calculated from the threshold. And since you're nominally at 50 feet at the threshold, the ground roll is shorter than the landing distance. The nominal aimpoint is at 1000 feet, and your actual touchdown point is a couple of hundred feet beyond that since you flare. ...
Jump to postFull auto brakes aren’t no maximum braking capacity, so you would need to look at using manual braking. Then, dry runways landing distances do not use full reverse. Performance engineering might have the charts or computer app that calculates stopping distance from touchdown. Crews have landing dis...
Jump to postI have to wonder if the top of the photographers choice at the moment and views is really for the skillful photography or the “undercarriage” in the foreground of the photo, which would seem to be the main subject of the photo from the comments. I suppose everyone will be doing those photos now. On...
Jump to postseb146 wrote:And there we go:
EVERYONE knows it is illegal to cross borders with weed in any form. I do not smoke at all but I know that. The brosband smokes the real stuff and he knows that. EVERYONE knows that. Even Brittney Griner.
GDB wrote:I get the feeling that the 1974 fiction movie ‘Chinatown’, even then set in the past, had a core basis in reality and even being prescient?