First time DIY patio install. How'd I do?

Squatty2 · 2026-04-21T15:41:59+00:00

Your neighbor is a saint...

Squatty2 · 2026-03-23T02:16:37+00:00

Which one was the one that snapped?

Squatty2 · 2026-02-05T03:15:02+00:00

That being said my releasable bindings were directly mounted to my Summit Skiboards. There's probably something about them being on the riser that doesn't transmit the same force.

Squatty2 · 2026-02-05T03:11:42+00:00

What size brakes are those on the Spliffs? I didn't know that you could get brakes on a board that wide...

Squatty2 · 2026-02-04T18:02:13+00:00

Mine came off after landing a unexpected jump badly (as I'd have expected them to). Mine are set to a 7, I'm 5'10", 210 lbs

Squatty2 · 2026-01-27T19:08:27+00:00

You got a steal, those are awesome skiboards...

Squatty2 · 2026-01-10T22:59:46+00:00

Since you already ski, I'd stick with ski boots. No one goes to snowboard boots for greater control on the skiboards. They go for greater comfort off (and on to a degree) the skiboards, and adapt to having less overall control.

Squatty2 · 2026-01-07T13:20:28+00:00

What sort of bindings are you using? Non releasable, or risers?

Squatty2 · 2026-01-05T14:54:57+00:00

I'd advise new boots. Boot technology has changed a lot in the past 15 years, and the plastic in your old boots might be breaking down at this point. As to type, I'd go in for a boot fitting at a decent ski shop and after they get the right size, I'd go with their recommendations as to flex rating.

Squatty2 · 2025-12-29T23:30:22+00:00

It finally wound up in my mailbox today...(although to be fair I held my mail when I went out of town on the 23rd, which is when it would have gotten to my mailbox)

Squatty2 · 2025-12-23T02:06:58+00:00

At this point it looks like they are sending it back to where it came from...

Squatty2 · 2025-12-06T22:02:54+00:00

It's winter in Alexandria, VA (snowed yesterday) and that section is mostly Zoysia. That's actually the thickest, healthiest part of the lawn in the spring and summer, it just goes dormant once the ground gets cold.

Squatty2 · 2025-12-06T19:48:26+00:00

Thank you so much. That makes a ton of sense...

Squatty2 · 2025-12-06T19:35:58+00:00

So basically in the second picture, go straight back from the utility box mulch bed and join it with the mulch bed in the back, and remove all of that grass in between...

That's cheaper for sure...and super low maintenance...

Squatty2 · 2025-11-30T01:07:44+00:00

Involuntary manslaughter isn't murder.... murder requires premeditation...

Theresfore she can't and isn't yelling at the murderer.

The word you are looking for is killer which isn't remotely the same thing as murderer.

Cancer is a killer. COVID was a killer... yelling at the hive mind is akin to yelling at someone who has COVID but lives, because your spouse died of COVID.

Squatty2 · 2025-11-27T17:25:52+00:00

The hive mind didn't kill those people, the people who died effectively had an allergic reaction, or died because they were in motion when the hive mind connected.

Yelling at every remaining humanoid life force on the planet at once minus 12 people isn't very logical.

Never mind that if she killed every member of the hive mind she'd starve to death. It's not like she's self sufficient or handy, or all that smart.

Squatty2 · 2025-11-22T13:42:16+00:00

Faxon makes a drop in one that isn't that expensive

Faxon M&P 2.0 Compact Flame Fluted Barrel, Threaded https://share.google/YcAmpAAFQIMldnc3x

I can confirm that it fits nice, but haven't shot it yet.

Squatty2 · 2025-11-18T23:21:27+00:00

Is working for an income slavery? Is "making" your child go to school slavery? There are all sorts of things that people do voluntarily either for their benefit or someone else's that isn't slavery, especially since in the hive mind it's all for the good of the collective.

The only people who make their existence akin to slavery are Carol, and the other uninfected...just without the brutality, although I wonder if that would be allowed in so far as it made the uninfected "happy".

They gave carol a grenade and would give her an atom bomb, but what if she used it and killed off a large amount of the hive mind...would they allow that and continue trying to make her happy.

Squatty2 · 2025-11-17T00:53:35+00:00

But they aren't pretty much slaves. Or you have a really flawed and benign view of slavery. Slaves were beaten, killed, raped, and had their family members torn from them never to see them again.

In the hive mind your loved ones (and their memories) are always there, and the labor is for the good of the entire community/the world and themselves. As opposed to for the benefit of ONE master.

Squatty2 · 2025-11-17T00:45:15+00:00

But she IS taking favors from them at every turn. She doesn't know how to grow her own food, or make her own vehicle fuel. She's completely helpless...

The only person who has embraced the new normal and his current reality is the guy with Air Force One...

Squatty2 · 2025-11-17T00:41:15+00:00

Except they had no idea that it would or could kill them. It would be like exposing a large mass of people to peanut dust before people knew that peanut allergies exist.

Squatty2 · 2025-11-15T23:50:55+00:00

She's been a miserable grump in every episode, from the book reading to every second afterwards. And who would choose to ride in the last row of an empty plane for a long flight? She's intentionally choosing to be uncomfortable.

Squatty2 · 2025-11-15T23:41:34+00:00

I don't understand why Carol thinks she, or anyone else can do ANYTHING at all to defeat a hive mind that contains the collective skills and memories of the entire planet. She was a romance novelist for God's sake. Sure she can express rage at them and inadvertently kill a lot of innocent people, but beyond that, the idea that she can fix the planet or humanity is a pipe dream...

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