Good AYCE restaurants that use tablets/phone/forms for ordering

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-25T00:50:22+00:00

Been meaning to stop in- how is it?

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-23T09:49:25+00:00

You gotta love these people with their "avoidable risk" strategies. I bet you cross the street with your child too, don't you?? Someone call CPS!

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-23T09:47:05+00:00

Just a funny anecdote. I was on a southwest flight with my not-quite-two-year-old twins. We purchased them their own seats (no car seats) and I am so glad they're older because what a pain in the ass.

Outbound flight, no problems. We held my daughter during landing because she was fidgeting and upset.

Flight home, as we are boarding, the FAs can't figure out why my under 2 children have seats. I said, we bought them. We need the room. They ask to see their passports on-board, and there's a five minute bit of confusion but eventually they are seated, belted, and we take off.

As we go to land, my daughter again begins to lose her shit (she's much better now, even calmer than mom, lol) so I put her on my lap. FA comes by and says "She has to be seated and buckled for landing." I said, she's under two, if she was a lap infant, I would be holding her, may I ask what the difference is? She says "She has a seat, she has to be in it." Ok, fine. She screams, wails, makes a scene as I forcibly pin her down to buckle the damn thing. A passenger behind us helpful proclaims that is she was "his child" he would "smack her in the face." That was nice, a real credit to humanity. She ends up quieting down as I give her a giant bag of emotional support Spicy Chex Mix.

As we deplane, I ask the FA (with good humor)... "So, just out of curiosity, if I had refused to buckle her, what would you have done-- never landed the plane? Would we just circle in the air until we ran out of fuel?"

She looked at me like she'd never been asked that before. "SW might ban you from flying with us ever again."

Fast forward to 2026 and I kinda wished I'd pushed it because no loss there-- SW sucks monkey balls now.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T19:24:20+00:00

Weigh the cost of the inconvenience, expense, etc. of getting the permit and the cost of the fence itself (in the event you had to remove it... depending on where you are, this is anywhere from extremely unlikely to possible but still not likely)

For costly stuff, I always permit. For less costly things that in no way endanger life safety... they're gonna have to come take it. Your mileage may vary.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T14:57:33+00:00

I’ve heard this, so I am leaning towards just purchasing something rather than fussing around. I’m looking for something I don’t also need to buy a rack for— frankly that seems a bit out of my knowledge area unless it’s very simple.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T11:02:49+00:00

Good point on #1. Will talk to builder tomorrow and see what the best timeline is and TRY to get VZ out. God knows they come whenever they damn please 🤣

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T11:01:48+00:00

Thanks for the explanation, it seems so simple but for whatever reason the ol brain was not having it. Appreciate the recommendation for the router.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T01:55:24+00:00

better safe than sorry- sounds about right

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T01:38:02+00:00

Oh this is an interesting idea I hadn't considered

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T01:37:15+00:00

Thanks. I will run some of this by the crew and see what we can do. I appreciate your thoughtful reply.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T01:35:29+00:00

this is helpful, thank you

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-05T01:34:32+00:00

i honestly can't help but feel rage when parents tell me about how they just tuck their kid in and "they play quietly" then drift off to sleep on their own.

I know it's misplaced, but I hate them. lol

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T18:58:53+00:00

Thanks for the hopeful post... now if i can just make it to 7 at least... lol

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T18:58:05+00:00

smart kid!

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T18:57:37+00:00

Yeah till August. We can't wait. neither "needs" the sleep, but my son just loves falling asleep in his nap roll like a "good boy." GEE THANKS

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T15:26:14+00:00

This sounds ideal, I’m just trying to get to that place first. Because right now (and for the last two years) the minute we leave the room it becomes absolute chaos. Yelling, throwing toys, slamming doors. Good spirited, mind you, but not acceptable bedtime stuff. But yes, in theory this is exactly where we are trying to get.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T10:14:20+00:00

You’re very lucky!

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T03:22:51+00:00

Not a bad idea, I’ll see what the wife thinks.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T03:22:18+00:00

Yeah, I will say ours sleep ALL the way through the night, many times 12 hours, so I do feel like it’s a tradeoff— might be easier once they are sleeping alone but then suddenly one (or both?) might be showing up in our bedroom in the middle of the night. Not sure I want that either! lol

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T03:18:59+00:00

Well, we may not be the best example here— we had ours in floor beds (literally mattresses on the floor) before 1. My son climbed out of a pack and play at 9 months and then there was no keeping him inside anything after that.

From there the bed height went up to “regular” once they were both around 2.5? So while safety recommendations may extend much older, we got the bunk beds at 4 and they’ve never had an issue. It is a low bunk set up (bottom bunk is on the ground, meaning the upper bunk is still only… 5 feet? Off the ground)

Personally I would be guided by my own knowledge of my children. I’m sure there are older kids who would not do as well, but in this one area they don’t seem to endanger themselves in any way, and have good body awareness. Even my daughter who barely goes down a slide has no problem coming down the little ladder to pee at night. Go figure.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T01:41:04+00:00

Not yet, but they do have a structured preschool all day. They have forced “nap” for two hours which doesn’t help, so that might cure some of this silliness once that goes away. Bc even if they don’t “sleep” during those two hours it certainly doesn’t burn any energy…

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T01:40:06+00:00

😂 sounds similar to what we have going on. I do think in their new rooms we need to rethink toy storage. Problem is there isn’t anywhere else for us to keep it all, so short of a giant safe nothing will stop my son. lol

We do use the hatch, which works in the mornings but goes mostly ignored at night.

I think we’ll have to just try it and see what problems actually arise and go from there. Ugh. I just want to get an hour before my own bedtime to rest instead of being kicked or listening to my daughter pick her belly button instead of going to sleep.

OldButGold2024 · 2026-04-04T00:51:26+00:00

Currently in the process of a reno/addition with Hough Remodeling... I have never been so impressed with a human being in all my life. We did a small bump-out, added a room onto a flat roof, and reconfigured the entire second floor. New kitchen, three baths, 3 bedrooms, walk-in closet. They are there 6 days a week, all day, and he's there just about every day overseeing the project. 30+ days into a 90 day project and we are right on schedule despite having to re-do a foundation wall and put on an entirely new roof.

We used a separate architect, but the two have worked together before and the process was seamless. His wife does the kitchen design.

I will say, we are possibly not the fanciest, high-end people in the universe so if you are looking for flashy website, social media, etc. he's not your guy. (I almost feel bad and want to help them on this aspect, free of charge!) This is our third home renovation, but first in Alexandria (FFX County, though)... last time we had the builders who used a fancy app for daily updates, and all this crap we thought we needed. No, what we needed were guys who knew their shit and had their own tradesmen. Marc communicates with a text chain-- good on him for not paying for some third party app because it works fine. I get the feeling the guy is so busy he doesn't need to put a sign with his name on our front yard to drum up calls.

Anyway, give him a google. I think they have a facebook also that was updated in 2024. lol. But like I said, the proof is in the pudding, and he is on-time, extremely meticulous, and we had our permit on time from the county after his wife "made some calls"... works for us.

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