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I got moved into our new shop yesterday, 30′ x 20′ heated shop with its own bathroom. I’ll have room to keep the boat in there over the winter so I can work on it. I need to replace the electrical system in it. Once I get that done, it’ll be basically like new……only 46 years old. Kiddo’s been killing it in school & elsewhere, so I bought him a basketball hoop for in the shop. He’s been bugging me about getting one, but the driveway at our house is at a steep angle, so that was a no-go. I surprised him with it after school yesterday, he was pretty stoked.
Minnesota Vikings Discussion Topic of the Day
Jim Irsay is calling for all plays to be reviewable in the last two minutes. Do you agree with him?
Personally, I’d love to see the NFL adopt a review system similar to college ball. If a play looks close, the booth stops play & reviews the play. The college system is FAR less clunky than the NFL’s mess of a system, and in the end, the game moves more quickly.
Minnesota Vikings News:
Vikings.com has the Vikings @ Packers Week 8 Injury Report, along with a game preview of Vikings @ Packers. Also, Cam Bynum was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Week. Much deserved, in my opinion.
From MSN, former NFL player Sergio Brown has been denied release as he is charged with the murder of his own mother. Messed up story here, yikes.
CBS Sports released their QB power rankings.
Jim Irsay is calling for rule changes after the NFL admits to botching multiple calls last Sunday in the Colts-Browns game, per CBS Sports. That was an absolute mess, the Colts have every right to be upset about that game, the refs basically handed that game to the Browns.
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Buffalo must think they are Minnesota. At the one yard line and can’t get a touchdown.
Now Allen throws a Pick,
I am shocked.
10 – 10.
Still tho Allen > Kirk…by A LO T
There are too many CEOs that talk like politicians. Fancy flowery words are just painting a pig. A painted pig is still a pig.
Seems that has been the case for some time. Anything specific today?
A minor website that I sell on has decided that they are doing a shipping program that most people cannot opt out of. He, the CEO, keeps painting it pretty, but it is just a way for them to make more money. It was not a site that was keyed toward book sales anyway as I rarely sold anything on there, but since it didn’t cost me anything unless I sold something and was minimal work to maintain I hung around for a bunch of years. After this heavy handed handling of things, I have closed my store on that site. I won’t miss them, they won’t miss me.
Thanks for response.
Truth and honesty usually work well with people, but many opt for see thru sugar and fluff that seldom works.
This from CNN: White House calls on Congress and new House speaker to pass legislation on gun violence
For the record, I think it should be illegal to use a gun to kill someone except in self defense….oh wait…it already is.
Need more Gun Free Safe Zones, that will work well.
The only people that don’t carry a gun in Gun Free Safe Zones are law abiding citizens. Those are not the people that do mass shootings.
Total grandstanding! Pass legislation – New Law – Don’t shoot people.
Time to break out – we need a couple of rushing Td’s against Packers. QB sneaks don’t count
I think Akers is gonna be a very reliable lead back and take over for Maddison at some point this season. Hes already getting more touches and being more productive. As well as pass blocking
Agree – they brought him here for a reason. For whatever the reason, Maddison seems to be having problems.
Moving into the shop, gonna get more done today now that the weather has trapped me back at home.
Holy crap, roads are bad today here in ND. I was up in Hazen, was going to make another stop in Mott, but that became a no-go. Drive home was a bit poopy, although I had the road to myself until I hit interstate.
Probably had 6″ or 8″ in Hazen, maybe half that in Bismarck.
I could just copy this & paste it to the intro every day from now until May 1, 2024 & it would be accurate.
Year round. If its not ice, slush, snow its constant lane closures and construction
No football for me. Prime can kiss my GD ass. Try Wild i guess.
I’m sure they’ll feel the pain of not receiving your $15….
New world, subscription.
https://twitter.com/SkolBros/status/1717546971102118382?s=20
It will never happen. That is like asking a government unit to cut back on taxing.
I didn’t really care about the bottom part. Just like watching the moon over GB and listening to Joe Buck whine and fake being appalled
I thought this was America!
lmao things I didnt think Id see today.
That was funny, lol.
Is Israel going to push Gaza Strip into ocean? Is Iran going to go off? If i’m touching on politics i’ll stop.
Actually seems more like world events.
Actually Iran can’t do anything other than send more terrorists and give $$ to others to attack Israel.
Since Biden is giving them so much money they have enough to spare.
(Ok I might be touching on Politics.)
Lets talk about how Hamas is staying at the Four Seasons…because they are lol
Saw something on the news last night that was beyond sobering. In case you didn’t see it.
Two guys in Nevada went for a joy ride and ran over and killed a retired policeman (they were looking for him). Then they traded places driving so the other person could run someone over – which he did.
They then show the suspects in court laughing about everything and giving the finger to the deceased’s wife and family. One big joke to them.
I just thought WTF has happened to us. And what needs to be done.
Yeah. Did you see the video of the guy getting robbed after getting in a car accident? Bad wreck, he’s on the side of the road and some guys pull up and rob him at gun point.
Yes, Perhaps the caring parts of our society will take a look at these undesirable parts and start doing something about it.
No that would be racist.
People of color ‘might be’ impacted disproptionatly’.
Kind of how you can now get a HS diploma in Oregon without being able to read a HS diploma in Oregon.
Oregon is a cesspool and that is being polite.
Just the western/woke 3rd of the state.
The other 2/3rds are trying to defect to Idaho.
Can’t pump your own gas though because they know how smart their average citizen is.
The changed that law I heard.
Suppose to be ‘optional now’.
Will see on our next trip to see the grands.
I thought I remembered hearing something about that but couldn’t remember. Even if they finally changed it, that was a ridiculous rule.
Believe we have numbers on our side – we certainly have enough deranged white people ( note Maine) to balance things out.
It won’t change the narrative since ‘figures don’t lie but liars figure’.
One when he was arrested stated ‘I am a juvenile and will get out of this in a few days, watch and see’.
I think those two will have a ‘good time’ in prison.
Another bad one was the kid who beat a teacher because she told him he couldn’t play on his Nintendo in class. The “kid” was over twice her size, did some damage and luckily has been charged as an adult.
We pay attention to that stuff as The Teacher is a teacher.
Even as he was being arrested he insisted on getting ‘his game’ back.
Hard to fix someone that stupid.
Also I’m guessing his parents are just as stupid or worse.
The Teacher has parents that tell her, ‘I don’t want anything negative to happen to my child so you are not allowed to them No’.
She tells them to advise the principal that they will need to get a different teacher for their child.
I hope you are right, and even that is too kind for people like this. I use “people” generously.
This is what needs to be done.
Too quick and kind. More public square type stuff to serve as example for others who might have similar aspirations.
Saw that too. The video is disgusting. One of the victims was a retired police officer.
It was hard to watch – felt helpless watching evil.
Theres always been crazy and shitty people, you’re just seeing and hearing about it more because of the 24 hr news cycle. Do what I do, don’t watch it. Hasn’t affected my life negatively in the slightest.
Perhaps. But maybe if I and a lot of other folks start seeing more of this, we might wake up , start getting more involved, and at least ry to do something about it.
How do you fix deep rooted corruption at the top of power? How am I going to get law enforcement to act when crazy people post shit of Facebook and Twitter BEFORE they go shoot up a place (which often happens).
Short answer – more, good decent people that are tired of this crap actually start getting involved. As distasteful as politics is, it won’t change if you don’t get involved. Donations, volunteer time, whatever. It will take time for sure because as you say, there is a lot of corruption at top.
Off my head, elect a mayor that will be all over the Chief of Police fro crime. Many, many folks will support this. More need to speak up.
Schools – get some people (elected) on School Boards that can start cleaning things up.
The crazy people shooting things up – I don’t have a good answer for that. But I tell you this, if one of those guys gets caught alive, I’d make a hell of an example of him so the next guy would think about it – of course, that won’t happen
Won’t work out here.
For example the School Boards. If they try to do the right thing by Parents the State sues them for Violating the alphabet soup groups rights.
Eventually since the state has lots more $$ and lawyers than School Districts they win. Rinse and repeat.
No doubt CA is in a bad way. When the School Boards can’t control events in schools, that’s tough. And I guess there’s zero chance of electing the right legislatures.
Now crime, seemed with some limited success you guys have done some work regarding dumping DA’s – for sure, not enough though.
We got one DA, in SF.
The one in LA weaseled out of it.
Oakland and I think Sac are still working.
Cal can burn for all I care once we move on next year.
Just as long as they keep paying my retirement from the Prison.
Trouble is CA has a lot of votes in the electoral college as well as reps in Congress. Got to make up for it in many other places.
Still think more people need to get involved and do whatever they can.
They lost Population and Reps in the last census,
Kind of a slow process to reduce their national influence.
Vikings Wed Injury Report:
Asamoah (or as Joe Buck says, Asama) Ankle DNP
Hock Foot DNP
Cleveland Foot LP
Nailor Hamstring LP
Hopefully there is a Podiatrist on staff.
Nailor out. Hang nail. On IR.
Think he is designated to return this week.
Heard he has speed, just never seen it.
So fast you CAN’T see him!!!
Flash sighting??
Except for the ‘sighting’ part.
It’s coming boys…study from Northwestern U:
Would love to know who funded that research and stands to gain financially from that change. Follow the happy little money trail.
Probably those that hold the most lithium reserves.
Yup, ask the African’s mining all the nickel and such for those batteries how good for the environment it is.
^^This^^
I call BS.
Liberals massaging data to get the results they want.
Reminds me of Thank You For Smoking
Even Elon has said it isn’t a long term solution.
Isn’t it obvious that if you remove polluting vehicles (carbon-fuel based engines), you will reduce the pollution in the air where the vehicles were located? You don’t need a study to understand that concept. However, it will me a increase in pollution where the electricity is produced, where the lithium is mined, and where the cars are made. It isn’t a question about the amount of pollution. It is a question about the type and location of the pollution.
Flagged for not supporting the Narrative.
Using dang logic against Woke propaganda?
Just who do you think you are!
LOL.
No way to prove how many, “lives would be saved”.
How many people will die from electric vehicles due to battery explosions, radiation from chargers and other things that haven’t even been thought of yet?
Freezey and car batteries do not end well.
I love studies that make use arbitrary numbers to make their data look good. X number of lives will be saved. X number of people will be happier. X number of people will get laid more often. X number of children will love their parents more.
It will save lives, just not those of the children mining lithium.
They’re not here so they don’t count.
As always.
Trade offs.
Should talk to Doc Brown, he has technology to fuel cars with trash
On a related note: some of the first cars developed in the late 1800’s were electric. They were even developing a process for charging station distributions. Apparently, the combustion engine advocates got a little testy and started strong-arming the electric-car acolytes. The group with the better bullyboys won out.
Who are you?
Jacki Robinson
Funny how sniffer flying back to beach property on AF 1 and 2 and 50 car gas guzzling motorcades never a issuue.
That’s a good point, watch one of these fifteen times a day motorcades going by when touristing in DC you gotta wonder who they are transporting and why it takes 40 cars. Maybe taking the dog to the vet?
They should just call Addison.
LOL
Politicians are a joke you can do 2 years in congress and get a pension and health care foe life. Same people who threaten SS and Medicare.
How much is the pension? I could do 2 years in DC for the right price.
Not a lot but still, I busted my nuts for 30 years to get one. I hate them, all self serving pieces of shit.
I think Bismarck should be a test city. Completely phase out IC cars for electric by carbon taxing the pumps to the nines. Put in a nice electric bus service. Bismarck because it is compact, is the capital, not too hilly, and a little chilly in the winter so a good testbed for battery tech.
Why you hating on Bismarck?
Brad do you dirty??
He been hating since we disagree on Kirk and the placebo Vax.
There are several hills here in town that are STEEP and bitches in the winter. Also this whole state would riot
What a bargain.
With the weather moving in I had to cut wood, we heat primarily with a wood stove. I buy logging truck loads and cut periodically during the winter. Last load had a couple 24″ fir logs on it. Looks cool but take for ever to split. Asked the relatively new SIL to help. 6′ 4″ 235 # weight lifter guy. Man can he swing a maul. But there is some skill involved not just raw power. Maul head placement is key. Got me to thinking what current Viking would be best at splitting wood. Need some coordination but power is nice.
Think maybe just a snow shower in southern Minny. Dodge a bullet for now.
Did you two kiss?
No man, just gave him a beer.
Oh, thats nice. Just, sounded like you were checking him out when he was chopping your wood.
Where you find a gif of five and kodiak?
5 and Kodiak should still be part of club, all due respect to mods or admins.
Yeah not my deal, I actually missed when they left
Not my call. I only offered to help post the asylum.
I agree, them around with NLNVF and JRob would be pop corn worthy. I took the baton after they left.
I vote Hunter. He’d probably split wood Captain America style.
Another mass killing. 400 million+ guns in America. It’s not the guns America, it’s society and getting worse.
The news is also helping it along. But Western society is reaching the cliff. At least in major populated areas.
Maine isn’t very populated, I agree with your over all statement though.
I mean, neither is Bismarck/Mandan but theres shittys, druggies, gangs etc that are slowly getting worse here too. And none of these people are from here. Id be ok if ND stopped growing population wise, shit was fine before.
Well, that guy was insane and folks were asking for some kind of intervention, none was forthcoming.
We have to do a better job of getting guns out of the hands of crazy folks… I know its a slippery slope BUT I mean the dude was hearing voices in his head – someone needs to go take his guns away.
But this fits the narrative – GUNS BAD.
And then there’s the domestic terrorist angle card that will get played. Angry white men bad.
Agreed. I think the honest trickiest part of that… if you are a gun owning person and you know if you go get mental help then there’s a possibility your guns are taken… then you don’t go get help. It’s tough.
I know, its a slippery slope but my goodness this seems like an easy one.
Maybe if you get a psychiatrist to certify you as mentally stable post treatment you can get your guns back? I don’t know but there has to be a way.
Slippery slope – probably.
But that aside, what do you think of the state of psychiatry. Heard a guy recently say he felt that psychiatry is at about the place medicine was before they realized there were germs and viruses.
For sure, crazy people shouldn’t have guns. But looking at some of the people that the psychiatrists release from prison and say they are safe for society, I wonder.
For sure, a tough issue.
Psychiatry is an Art not a Science.
It is not ‘provable/repeatable’.
Had this argument with Mental Health types at the prison all the time.
They didn’t like the argument but they could deny it.
Agreed. It’s how I feel sometimes about things I don’t agree with. If something is shitty, something has to change, so we at least need to try some thing different. Status Quo isn’t working.
Through out time people have been killing people with whatever is available. It matters not how many devices are banned, people will still kill people with whatever is available.
Timothy McVeigh agrees with you.
The easy answer is the gun being the issue. It gets people to back up a certain politician, no matter which side you are on. Myself , I truly believe the issue is gun free zones. They create the fish and barrel idiom.
I read that 94% of gun violence happens in ‘Gun Free Zones’.
It would be funny if true.
Always be guns, Black market or whatever, It’s sick that are the problem.
That is truth. A person doesn’t go out and randomly kill people for fun unless they are very sick.
Timberwolves last night, PPP-EEWWW!
Meh, 3 point loss. First game of the season. I half watched it so wasnt sure who was pupu or not
Somehow KAT managed to score some points while looking like absolute garbage, offense looked out of synk, was expecting much, much better.
I was done with KAT like 2 years ago already. Over ratted to the max
I was hoping they would have traded him, but with his contract he might as well have a no-trade clause.
I think McDaniels being out hurt us a lot last night.
Man, I saw so many posts about how the wolves are back. They must have been talking about the Yellowstone wolves.
LOL
Timber puppies, Mild, pick your team.
NBA sucks. The end.
Hockey sucks. The end
Yep.
I’m not watching millionaire woke people protesting the country they make millions in. NBA is a bunch of hypocrites.
Yes, yes they are.
Kind of a continuation of the discussion regarding how difficult a 9-5 office job is for our coddled college grads. I left the horse pistol about 2 pm as the roads were getting worse and the highway department is short of both trucks (as many are still configured for construction) and drivers (as some of them are also firefighters and were dealing with the monster fire downtown), worked from home.
They wanted a paracentesis later in the day on some guy coming through the ER, was getting admitted. I think paracentesis is a simple procedure that any HCP can perform. However, the clinical notes are festooned with references to “rad is unavailable will perform as soon as available”.
I may have to address this issue. I’m fine doing them for convenience sake but when you start getting called out for something that simple to perform one gets defensive.
I think younger/new employees are so scared of making mistakes they get paralyzed. Not saying it’s a good excuse but in my experience just enabling them and saying you can do this, I know you can etc… goes a lot better than… DO YOUR JOB!!!! I know it’s weak sauce to go that route but this is where we get into the generational issue with them being soft. Not all of them of course.
Think Rams have an upset chance tonight? Bills have played sloppy in a few games and it cost em
They don’t play the Rams….
Soooo…theres a good chance lol. Bucks Defense could cause issues. Theres a chance
Zero chance of a Rams upset tonight.
Because its TB @ Buffalo tonight.
…Shit thats right…do they play the Rams at all this year? idk why my brain thought Rams
Love to see Bucs win just so i can see Diggys implode. Pretty sure Bills get it done.
GF, nice job on the shop hoop for your kid!!
You are the early front runner for father of the year.
Was wondering about something.
Hear quite a bit about Flores and the defense.
Not much is said about Wes Phillips. Seems ha must be doing a lot of good things.
Any thoughts?
KOC tends to get the credit for the offense.
We had 6 inches of snow yesterday and supposed to get 5 more today.
Freezey didn’t come up and get my snow blower running. So I had to hand shovel the 6 inches off of the driveway…That sucked I will have to do the same tonight.
I had my mechanically inclined friend try to get it going. He failed (but he is a Cowboys fan so not surprising). He cleaned the spark plug, which he said looked good, put new gasoline in, and the bitch still didn’t start. He says it sounds like its not getting fuel but doesn’t know why.
Next step for me will be to ask my neighbor to try and get it going, I will offer $100. The neighbor dude is very good with engines so if he agrees to do it I like my chances, well worth the $100.
Feel for you – good luck.
Just got back from the store, had to get my wife some more sun tan lotion.
Truthfully – miss seeing snow and walking around in it. Get’s a little warm to often in Florida.
Yeah, I don’t think I could survive in Florida, where the two seasons are hot and unbearably hot.
Dirty carb.
14″ in last 24 hrs, 8 degrees F this morning. Seems like I just took the snow plow off my plow truck.
Roads are almost completely iced over, I just trundle along at 40 mph. The truck stop must have 150 trucks, amazing how they squeeze in there.
The fire at the “historic” Jordan hotel has caused a major mess downtown, ice on all the power lines and main street blocked off, like a skating rink. Pisses me off the way that building was abandoned and became an eyesore. If a first responder had been hurt fighting that blaze I would be pissed.
Do you use snow tires and if so they on yet?
Yes and no. Last winter my wife got me the Vulva after I saw visions of the pearly gates driving my RWD Ranger home on glare ice, that thing is a tank. She mainly drove the 4WD 2011 F-150 which I have snow tires for, but she eschew as they are messy and deliver poor fuel economy and all seasons are just as good (her words).
Sounds like this year she will drive the Vulva with all seasons and given the vehicles at my disposal I will drive the old F-150. Once I get some time off a couple of weeks from now I’ll have the tire shop swap the winter tires on. Last couple of days I have been driving the AWD RX450h which is actually very stable on ice with all seasons if you keep it in snow mode. Guy ahead of me last night in a half ton was really struggling.
Did you take your camper out this last weekend?
Where did that photo come from?
I saw it on Facebook and it was supposedly in Dillon this past weekend. I wish we would have seen this guy.
Looks like only about 6″ clearance up front.
Yeah, it’s a pretty impressive setup. Somebody went through the hassle of making that hitch instead of spending less time to just put an actual 5th wheel hitch in. These are the type of people who should not reproduce. How does a HP not catch them?
There must be a rest of the story with all the crap in the pickup bed. This looks like a temporary setup they use to allow moving fifth wheels around, say in a dealer lot. I have kind of a similar contraption for my tractor so I can move trailers around.
My buddy that is from Dillon hasn’t seen it before and his parents still live there.
Might be Freezy.
He’s not good at fixing things I hear.
That sucks, I have a little four wheeler I’ve been fighting for a couple years. Had it running once, not quite right, tried a new carburetor and now nothing. Have you tried putting a little gas directly in the cylinder? If it will fire with that and then quits fuel flow is likely the issue. Putting some fuel directly in the cylinder may also pull enough of a vacuum to start drawing fuel.
Agree with above, even start with a shot of either.
Thanks for the advice guys…I will let you know if/when/how I get it going…
DId you try spraying carb cleaner?
Do you run your internal combustion engines dry at the end of the season. FTMP I do and have never had problems. I ended up with a couple of gallons of gas left in my riding mower and no way to siphon it out or drain it so I ended up putting stabil in that and putting it in my heated shop.
I try to run in it dry at the end of the season. I do not believe my friend tried spraying carb cleaner..
Might need a new carburetor based on the limited information.
Grrrrrr……If that is the case I am going to say screw it and by the electirc ones for 2200. Then I never have to worry about this shit again.
Until they shut off your electricity because you are using too much. Or whatever the reasons are.
What gas you running in it? Anything less than premium is risky, especially in a seasonal appliance (snowblower, ice auger, lawn mower) that will sit for months without being used.
Well the stuff that is in it now is premium…I think it is the carburetor…taking that apart and cleaning it is way beyond my ability, going to try to pay the neighbor to do it.
Going forward, run the premium in those type of motors.
At the end of the season I add a splash of Sea Foam, run it a few seconds and choke it out. I also fill the tank with gas so air doesn’t get inside and condense over storage time.
Never thought of this, I may have to try it.
Yes, premium is a must.
*Ethanol free premium
Gonna make a pot roast in the Dutch oven tonight to celebrate the 10in of snow were currently in the process of getting. Its gonna be gooooood
Nice!
I am going on a field trip to Brookings, SD and then to Madison, MN shortly. Hope I don’t run into anything crappy in that territory.
Brookings sucks. The end.
Disagree. When’s the last time you’ve been there?
2007 I think, only cool thing about when I lived there was seeing breaking Benjamin at skinner’s, George’s pizza is pretty amazing when you’re shitfaced. I’d probably feel different about it if I’d gone to school there
Gothca, that’s cool that BB played Skinners. But Brookings downtown has come a LONG way since 2007. closer to 20 than 10 years ago man lol. George’s is still good
Yeah, I moved there after college, I went to southwest state in Marshall, MN but got an internship at Daktronics which developed into a job as a product manager. I really liked the job and company, but I never took to Brookings, it just felt like if you didn’t go to SDSU you were kinda looked down upon by the 90% of people that did. I met some cool people during my internship though and got to travel the country and go to tons of pro sports competitions with elite seating. I’ll never forget 1st base front row seats to Rockies Giants game at coors field, Bonds got on base nearly every at bat and a yelled stuff like, “you dropped your syringe”. Also helped build the renovations on Kauffman stadium in KC, which is one of my favorites in in all of MLB, got to see hockey at Madison Square Garden, and many other places.
Where are you coming from, on your way to Brookings? Brookings has some good eats and breweries…
In the 80’s out here the next 4 days
I’m golfing on Saturday.
I my last Swings 3 weeks ago. It was my best day of the season and the best Iv hit my irons in..maybe 2 or 3 years. It felt really good.
Golfed Saturday and Sunday last weekend and hit the ball very well.
Good end to the season.
Now I get to start over next spring
NOOOOO! You have to hit the ball some over the winter to keep from going back to square 0. Well, that is what I am going to try anyway.
I have a net and golf mat in our garage, so I will keep practicing.
Will also make a few trips to the golf dome and a few outings to a simulator.
It is just not the same as on grass.
Apparently everything is better if you are on grass!!
My old broken down body is telling me I need some time off..got some pretty good tendinitis going in the left fore-arm. I think I will take a month off from golf and weight lifting and see how it goes.
Yeah, I am 60 and the elbows got a bit sore a few times this summer.
I have a rowing machine and use that daily. That plus the golf took a toll.
Most of tendinitis in forearm from golf and lifting is actually tendonosis. Rest will make it feel better, but it will return when you resume activities.
Would recommend strength and flexibility program to get the tendons back in shape.
I will look into it..have to do something..the left fore-arm is quite painful…
Definitely should get an MRI…
I think an MRI, a full panel of blood tests, and maybe a CT of the brain just to be sure there isn’t a neurological abnormality that is contributing to the issue.
Anything else or should that do it? 🙂
How could you forget your covid test and subsequent booster?
good call! I didn’t want to get into a disagreement with MT since he is giving advice on my snow blower…BUT……
Saw some new research this morning on Covid vaccines and the heart issues…more and more evidence that the Covid shot isn’t as benign as we are led to believe.
I need to verify the research but no Covid boosters for me at this point, I still want more clarity on the issue.
I just had my flu shot though.
Sadly a lot of folks were reporting that for 2.5 years but were shut down and shunned and called conspiracy theorists. Big Pharama and Big Gov got a lot of profit wrapped up into this garbage, and lot of Drs are in on the game.
Man you guys busting my balls. Had a request for a breast u/s on a guy last Friday for painful swelling, r/o tumor vs infection vs abscess.
Breast u/s, guy or not, is a MQSA procedure and I don’t do mammo. Told ’em a) no sonographer on duty that does breast b) Friday afternoon good luck finding a breast rad to read it and c) CT is a better option.
Got this snarky response that u/s was her preferred option for the patient. I asked her why then every other patient with two weeks of diarrhea has to get a CT in the ER but this guy asking for a CT was like massively inappropriate.
I blame Ponder.
So you were arguing with the guys physician? keep fighting the good fight!
In all seriousness, I will seek medical evaluation of my fore-arm if it doesn’t improve in a month with rest.
FYI I just diagnosed my wife with an intercostal muscle strain and recommended a treatment of Ice followed by heat and a 4 day course of anti-inflammatory meds.
I make a better Doctor than a Mechanic.
It was the NP on duty in the ED.
It was a dumb convo from start to finish. Her calling me to gripe that a sonographer wasn’t available was as fruitful as calling a cardiologist to complain that the echocardiographer won’t do a thyroid ultrasound. Figured when I pointed out that I wouldn’t read a breast ultrasound and they probably wouldn’t get a report until Monday anyhow that would be the end of it. Oh no she had to school me on the best imaging test for a male inflamed breast even after I pointed out that the workup would include a diagnostic mammogram in that case (yes we do those on men).
Not that the CT was massively diagnostic but at least I could say lots of swelling and inflammation, no abscess, probably infection if fails to resolve in two week proceed to diagnostic mammogram given risk of inflammatory breast ca.
Sooooo what happened? ultra-sound or CT?
Or nothing?
She begrudgingly ordered the CT.
Outside of elbow – tennis elbow? Do a lot of dumbell lateral raises.
In side of elbow – golfers elbow? Do a a lot of dumbell wrist curls.
Doing both is usually a good idea.
Moderate pain doing the exercises is acceptable – but should get better with time.
I would say its more along the top/outside. I will try both the exercises you recommended.
Also try holding a heavy hammer with elbow supported, and pronate/supinate hand. Guarantee you will feel this. again, moderate pain is Ok.
I have tennis and golf in one elbow and golf in the other.
Have become a bit of an expert on this.
Yep – if nothing else, just swing a club a few minutes several times a week. Putt some on carpet.
Keeps some muscle feel and touch.
We always make it in the crock pot but have always wanted to try in the Dutch oven. I get worried that it will boil over for some reason lol.
Nah, the temp isnt hot enough and there isnt THAT much liquid that it would boil over. I will post pics. Iv been doing things old school, low and slow since iv gotten that oven, and everything has been amazing. It takes time so I get why its not for everyone but the pay off is worth it. So good.
So what heat level do you set it to on your stove? Because I also think it would be better in a Dutch Oven I would just worry lol.
Medium rack position, remove the top rack for room. The recipe im using calls for oven at 325 for 1.5 hrs, then add potatoes and carrots for another 2 – 2.5 hrs. Liquid will be roughly 2 cups of home made beef stock and 1.5cups of red wine. Im using Chianti
Thats exactly what I said to myself when I grabbed the bottle 😀
Chianti – no, not with a good piece of beef. A good Merlot or Cab
Its cooking in it and its not anything fancy. Merlots of Cabs are usually my go to but iv never used Chianti so im going to give it a go. Im sure it will pair just fine 🙂
Isn’t Chianti just Sangria without the fruit chunks?
Nope! “A Chianti wine (/kiˈænti/, also US: /-ˈɑːn-/, Italian: [ˈkjanti]) is any wine produced in the Chianti region of central Tuscany.”
You could use it to make a sangria I spose but Sangrias require additional sugars, brandy, fruit, etc.
Sounds awesome!
I have a 7 quart dutch oven and I agree, it is a great way to make soups/stew/chili/roasts.
I have a crock pot, but I have gravitated more and more to the dutch oven.
Crock pot is good for lazy week night meals you can set in the AM. Or pot luck/ party stuff. I rarely use it, Id say less than 10 times in 5 years. Also using instant pot less and less.
you are a pot roast.
Im YOUR pot roast bb <3
Happy Thorsday, Friday for me. This is the last day of owning our restaurant, we are closed tomorrow and transfer ownership. So I will be down to one job and all of my kids’ and MIL’s projects to work on.
Congrats on entering a new phase! Hopefully, it is rewarding and less hectic.
I have my dad’s 52 Ford I would like to start working on, its pretty rough, but a complete car.
Congrats! Sounds like a good change of pace.
What kind of pay do you get for that
I usually get paid in complaints about how long I procrastinated.
That’s crazy, today is the last day my parents own their restaurant as well. Dad is retired and mom is going to be semi retired. Enjoy man.
Congratulations to them, the restaurant business can be fun, but is a challenge and draining.
Yeah, my mom trying to stay afloat in Minnesota during Covid just zapped her totally. Just lost her passion for it.
Same her, it was a constant uphill battle, with the government and stupid libs turning us in if we didn’t abide by the guidelines strictly enough to suit them.
There’s no liberals in Jackson, come on.
Liberals care about people.
We have a handful, and believe me, they are a handful.
Jackson, WY?
Minnesota
Ah, I couldn’t remember and for some reason was thinking you were in WY.
Congrats to you as well. Now my parent’s house won’t be in hock for that cafe lol.
Cool.
I hope that’s what you wanted and/or planned on doing.
Not exactly what I was planning, I was hoping to get out of my job and just do the restaurant thing. But, can’t supplement my income by working in restaurant.
Congrats Jackon!
Is Jackon the opposite of Jackoff?
Good catch DE.
Yes, yes it is.
Congratulations! Bittersweet I’m sure.
Yes it is, will definitely miss the good customers, but luckily it is a small town, so we will still dee them around.
My yellow lab is loving having a backyard (we lived in apartment above restaurant).
Oh a fellow Lab lover, great to hear that!
I let him out and he will just run in circles. Don’t get me wrong I took him to play fetch and get exercise regularly, but there seems to be something about being in his own yard.
I can’t remember who originally thought of the idea, but basically there would be an official in the booth reviewing every play as the game goes on, and if they see something the call down to the field and change the play call.
I believe that was the genius of wrenage
They got to do something. It’s just stupid that bad calls are made, bad calls are replayed over and over in slow motion, announcers say it was a bad call, the official commentator says it was a bad call, every viewer can see it was a bad call…and then they stick with the bad call.
And they do all of that while the refs are bumbling about the field talking it over. Be quicker and more accurate to do it all remotely.
The way they have made roughing the passer, illegal contact and hits on defenseless player rules subjective and simultaneously catastrophic for defense further complicates the matter.
Clearly, today’s system is pretty poor.
Not sure about this, but it seemed before reviews even existed, the refs actually did a better job. Missed some but nothing like today.
Roughing the passer, holding, PI and illegal contact, are all subjective and not for review. Seems that’s where the big issues are anyway.
You can’t review a PI but you can whether a WR drug his foot just right on the sideline.- seems out of balance.
Would tread east towards any type of more review.
I reckon they missed a lot of stuff in the old days, but now TV coverage has gotten so much better, and we have YouTube, etc. with replays at our fingertips, it is more noticeable.
I watch about 10 percent of the amount of football I used to watch, and it seems like even in that 10 percent, I regularly see game-breaking calls where a defense has an offense stopped and then a phantom call grants an auto-first down.
I especially hate that defenseless receiver stuff. Blow to the head. 15 yards. First down. Then replay shows the DB hit was actually shoulder to shoulder. They got to clean that up.
How?
Look at two recent SB’s.
Bengals stop Rams 3rd and 8 at goal line end of game. Weak,weak PI call favor of Rams- ball game.
Chiefs/Eagles. Eagles stop Chiefs on 3rd and long – again weak, weak defensive holding call against Eagles – ball game.
These calls help decide ball games and were at best very marginal.
They’re not reviewable.
At the end of the day, probably the best solution is to just shrug and say, “The NFL is broken. Don’t be surprised if your team gets screwed.”
especially if your team is the Vikings
Excellent point.
The problem is, once you open every play up for review, it slows the game down and it possibly goes down a rabbit hole.
It might lead to breaking the 3 hour gametime rule you were hoping for.
What makes you think THOSE guys would call it right? I dont think adding another biased league official to the mix will change anything
I lean towards this. Plus it will add a lot of time to the game.
They still wouldn’t get everything right, but they may catch the egregious stuff that can’t be challenged and correct it.
Like in the 9ers game? No flags on the field and all of a sudden after the play is over… penalty.
I believe the NBA has done that…however I have yet to watch the NBA, even when Toronto was in the finals.
They try to do something like that, but it just becomes a 5-10 minute process to get the call right.
Good Morning!
FTP!
SKOL!
Happy THORSDAY!
Happy Thorsday!
Love Avatar! Have you seen them live? I have 2 or 3 times. Always good!
Nope. Crazily enough, they are actually in St. Paul November 4!
I doubt I would get there, though.
Yeah I saw that. Thought about going but already going to Meshuggah, In Flames, Whitechaple December 1st. All which are bands I love. Avatar is with In This Moment… fuckin puke!
I saw In Flames when they were with Megadeth, Trivium and Lamb of God. It was fun to see Broderick playing with them.
Broderick is a BEAST! You ever listen to Nevermore? Jeff Loomis and Broderick together is one of my all time guitar combos. Too bad they never made it bigger and Warrel Dane died, he had such a unique voice. But their album This Godless Endeavor is a friggin master class in riffs, leads and great catchy melodies.
I have listened to Broderick’s other stuff, but I don’t think I have listened to that album. I will give it a whirl at work one of these days.
I am more of a Jeff Loomis fan than Broderick. That’s nothing against Broderick at all. Just love Loomis’s style. Here’s a taste.
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Good morning, SKOL!
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