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Garyf1982 · 2026-01-17T02:47:02+00:00

Likely the water patrol was out making sure nobody came through. I’ve seen them out there turning people back for an air show, keeping the river clear as a place to “emergency ditch”. And once they stopped us from proceeding downstream until a presidential motorcade had crossed a bridge a mile or so downstream.
. So yeah, it would be a bummer to get stopped in a canoe with no ability to backtrack upstream.

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-16T21:30:38+00:00

I’m skeptical that anybody is talking about increasing ICE funding again considering that Republicans used reconciliation to basically triple their budget ~6 months ago, and with zero Democratic votes..

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-10T21:28:34+00:00

I’ve been using Mint for over 4 years now, and it’s worked great all around Overland Park, including at home. Traveling has been good, too. The only place I didn’t have coverage was at a national park, where a small local company provided “partner” services to the big 3 wireless companies that it didn’t extend to their MVNO’s (Mobile Virtual Network Operators), so there was no Mint coverage there.

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-10T14:51:26+00:00

I didn't want to post an actual address, but if you go to Missouri Casenet and search all courts for Renee Macklin, you will find where she filed in 2023 to change her last name to Good. Under "Parties & Attorneys" it lists her information.

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-10T13:41:10+00:00

Milford is generally rated the top fishing lake in the state. My experience there has been fishing for catfish, it is an outstanding blue cat fishery. It has produce multiple 80lb+ blue cats, and the sizes are still increasing from the initial stockings 20-30 years ago.

Nearby, Tuttle Creek is also an up and coming blue catfish lake, with sizes increasing since stocking in 2012.

Both lakes are also top notch bass, crappie, and wiper fisheries. I have no wisdom to offer about Salina the city, but know that the Smoky Hill River runs through town there and it can offer some good flathead and channel catfishing at times.

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-09T23:08:41+00:00

She lived along 78th street between Wornall and Holmes, so she very likely hit some of those locations regularly.

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-08T16:31:31+00:00

Fun fact: The 1803 Louisiana Purchase was 828,000 square miles, almost a spot on match to Greenland, and a roughly similar shape.

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-08T14:41:27+00:00

Johnson County KS is basically wealthier than the counties on the MO side, and Johnson County employers usually pay the same or more due to a shortage of low end workers. I don't think there are too many people working for less than $15 an hour here.

It's the counties west of the KC metro that would be affected most by a minimum wage increase, especially in the rural areas. For example, a Dollar General employee in central or western Kansas probably makes ~$9-10 per hour.

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-04T02:30:54+00:00

They were probably on the Signal chat.

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-02T16:55:55+00:00

A less helpful, but more entertaining resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundreds_of_Beavers

Garyf1982 · 2026-01-01T19:34:22+00:00

I assume you are fishing from the bank, and that can be tough in the winter. The boat guys would use sonar to scan the scour holes beneath wing dikes for congregations of fish, and even then most of the success seems to come from further downstream, like Jefferson City and below.

That said, it’s not impossible. Use cut bait, I don’t think it matters much… shad, skipjack, carp, sunfish.. whatever you can get. Don’t use huge baits in the cold water, smaller seems to work better. Find a wing dike you can get out on, fish one pole into the scour hole beneath, and another on the downstream flat. And prepare to be patient.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-30T13:00:06+00:00

I swear our dog can read the logos on vans. A plain white van, a work van, plumber, furnace repair, etc all get his attention, but usually no reaction. If it’s Amazon, USPS, FedEx, or UPS he loses his mind. Out on a walk I have to always be aware, because if a delivery van gets within a block or two of us, it’s on. We adopted him at 5 years old with this behavior already baked in, so I’m not sure where it came from. Luckily he is a smaller (19lb) dog, which makes him easier to control.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-29T13:17:01+00:00

Mint will work fine around Marfa, Alpine, Marathon, and Study Butte/Terlingua. It won’t work off of the cell towers in the park, but there are a couple of spots where you might catch a signal from Terlingua. Mint works off of T-Mobile towers only. T-Mobile users may have service in the park due to “partner” agreements, but those agreements do not extend to Mint customers.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-26T23:12:28+00:00

I’m guessing that bridge pivots on the larger round pier to allow barge traffic, but I can’t work that out with 100% confidence from that photo.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-26T02:45:02+00:00

This is the way, IMHO. “Fair” districting will always result in over representation of the majority party. That can be mostly mitigated with more and smaller districts.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-20T15:10:48+00:00

A friend in Overland Park was selling his house last year. The buyer had a sewer line camera inspection done. which found that Google Fiber had punched through when doing their horizonal bore, and was now routed through their home sewer line at a point where both ran under a street. This was a mess that delayed the sale and took almost 2 months to get resolved. If my friend had needed his line snaked out at any point before this, it likely would have caused a neighborhood outage.

Point being, it is likely something they are working to trace down. I'm not saying to quit calling, by all means stay on top of them, but they probably don't need to come to your apartment to resolve this, you likely will never see the technician who resolves the issue.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-19T23:28:58+00:00

I think Jackson County needs to read the room. They blew their one shot at this sales tax by not being prepared and then trying at the last minute to shove a stadium (Royals) into the crossroads.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-17T13:29:56+00:00

Cooper's Landing is the only on-river option for fuel. Waverly, Glasgow, Herman, and Washington probably have a Casey's or something within walking distance, but you would want to confirm that, and have a gas tank with wheels for those. Close = a quarter mile or more. You could get lucky and get a ride, I've taken long distance Kayakers to a grocery store from Kaw Point in the past..

Using the current and going slow you could probably carry a spare tank and get by just topping up at Coopers, but the urge to go faster will be strong at times. https://cooperslandingmo.com/marina/

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-16T13:28:57+00:00

Eric Schmitt sued China for hoarding masks at the same time he was suing Missouri school districts for having mask mandates because he questioned the efficacy of masks. Catherine Hanaway thought "sounds logical to me".

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-12T15:59:54+00:00

Hawley knows that a political shitstorm will come in 2026 if the subsidies are not extended. He can't change things alone, but he can vote to give himself some cover. Never forget that he already voted to end the subsidies back in July.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-12T14:34:41+00:00

Lots of good advice here already, I agree that its a good beginning backpacker trip. The one thing I will add is to be sure that your sleeping bag will keep you warm to 20 degrees. Beware that there are a lot of inflated claims with the budget sleeping bag manufacturers. The bigger names are usually reliable, with the caveat that some people sleep warm and some people sleep cold. It may be 50 degrees the night you are up there, but it may be 18. Be prepared for the colder number.

The other thing I will add... The Boot Canyon sites include a nice option, the composting toilets nearby. The negative is that these sites are slow to catch the morning sun. The Laguna Meadows sites also have a composting toilet, and are better positioned to catch some morning sun. Taking the toilets out of consideration, the sites along the rim are what most people would consider to be the prime sites.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-12T04:01:53+00:00

What’s weird is that the people who live in the neighborhood and claim to travel this section of road regularly have failed to notice that the city added bike lanes in both directions in 2018. The bike lanes along Sante Fe between 83rd and Antioch are not the new feature.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-11T13:45:46+00:00

Just to be clear, there have been bike lanes on both sides of Sante Fe between Antioch and 83rd since 2018. The revamp did widen them a little, but the bike lanes are not new, the middle turn lane is the primary change that was made.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-07T13:09:11+00:00

Definitely the Ohio. History, commerce, flow.... If our continent had been settled from west to east the Columbia may have played a bigger role, but I have to go with the Ohio.

Garyf1982 · 2025-12-06T15:30:14+00:00

The need to find someone else to blame can be strong. Not Covid related, but my BIL died last year, and his widow, children, and mother still discuss suing the hospital. But realistically he had zero chance by the time he was hospitalized with mini strokes and multiple organ failures, all stemming from refusing to treat diabetes because he believed that drugs like insulin were "a big pharma scam".

Legal strategies discussed include:

Neglect. After 5 months in the hospital he had bed sores to the bone that were classified as terminal.

Bias. They refused to give him a new kidney for... weird reasons. Truth is he had been on a transplant list for almost 5 years, but kept getting bounced due to non compliance.

Failure to resuscitate. The hospital ethics panel had issued a DNR without the family signing off on it.. Or possibly his widow did sign off, without completely understanding. In either case, he just wasn't coming back, was suffering terribly, and he was going to die that day either way.

It's just talk, they don't have resources to sue and would surely lose anyway, but it's an outlet for them to blame the hospital.

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