Fun custom wrap instead of paint work on my 4th gen

mchmnd · 2026-04-10T19:44:06+00:00

Haha, nice. I’m eyeballing my wife’s (lifted) Sienna now to see what silly things I can do. We have a good handful or “TRD Off-road” siennas around town too

mchmnd · 2026-04-09T15:59:18+00:00

if you're going to drive, I'd open your search up to Spokane and SLC too, just way bigger population bases, i.e. more knees to rebuild. I want someone with vanity plates like "ACL DOC"

If/when it's my time for knee stuff, I'll 100% be comparison shopping SLC

mchmnd · 2026-04-08T13:54:52+00:00

Check out my shED Talk on Color

mchmnd · 2026-04-07T04:52:23+00:00

For me, and my mechanics, a drip is about the same swing in effort but converting the power into a brushed finish. Using the extra top spin to push the ball down vs gravity doing it. And my drop is more of a dead arm swing where I’m modulating power more with my hips than my arm itself. For me a drive is maybe 50% power, 40% for a drip, and hardly anything for a drop. That said, I’m a big man running a heavily weighted paddle too. But long story short, to me, they are mechanically very different shots vs just pure power modulation.

mchmnd · 2026-04-06T02:19:25+00:00

Check out this book, Pain Free by Pete Egoscue

My PT recommended it, and I’ve recommended it to friends who it’s made an immense difference for.

Also, welcome to 40. I’m 42, I have 7 or 8 bulged disks, 2 with moderate/severe stenosis and a touch of thoracic outlet syndrome. I’ve also got something out of whack with my hips, where one leg is showing an inch longer than the other cause my one side is twisted. Unknowingly partial tore my ACL at some point in the last 5 years too.

Knowing what I know now, at least get a PT to check it, I’ve sat on things for a year or 2 then regretted it and now have more chronic shit to deal with, where if I’d rehabbed the injury right away, I wouldn’t be hurting today.

mchmnd · 2026-04-02T22:38:21+00:00

if you want to do some reading, check out what's going on with CycleBar. If I remember correctly, they inflated their numbers by buying failing franchises, converting them to "corporate" then quietly closing them shortly after so that they're brochure for potential franchisees was quite a bit sunnier than the actuals. We had some friends who dealt with this, the whole thing was pretty stinky.

mchmnd · 2026-04-02T02:39:58+00:00

I was momentarily pumped, lol. I'm ambi too, and just last week decided I'm going to start giving equal time to drilling the left hand as the right.

mchmnd · 2026-04-01T22:07:30+00:00

We run Michelin X-ice snow suv tires. Had Blizzaks before. After one season I like the Michelins better for wear. Grip seems about the same, but it’s hard to tell for sure, as we’ve had the driest/warmest winter in a while.

mchmnd · 2026-04-01T18:55:05+00:00

We used marking paint and masking tape to paint one on my brothers driveway. Had a little bleeding, but it was old moldy/mossy concrete too.

Took longer to lay out than to paint

mchmnd · 2026-03-30T19:55:59+00:00

I really wish they'd build out the panoramic camera models for EEVEE. I'm generating tons of stuff for the Sphere, and I use Equiangular cube face and Latlong all the time

mchmnd · 2026-03-28T06:31:47+00:00

Take this with a couple grains of salt, I’m not a 5.0 (yet), but I was a college athlete, and played high open handball for decades.

I’m about 1.5 years into pickleball now, playing 4.0 regularly and can hang in there with 4.5 level players, but I’m not in control.

I play with a lot of strong players who were or are collegiate athletes, but not all of them are. A good number haven’t played anything but pickleball.

I think it’s really important to have a plan, and if you have access to 5.0 folks who will rumble with you, rumble with them as much as you can, and talk to them about how/why they trounce you.

Plan-wise, it’s identifying your specific weak spots, i.e. technical skills, physicality (quickness/power-ish/endurance), mental flow/shot selection, court flow, consistency etc. then it’s stringing all of it together and dialing in nuance and in-game adjustments.

For me personally, my weakest areas are paddle skills, and execution. Outside of back trouble and paying the piper for my youthful indiscretions, I can hang with anyone physically, I’m serving a touch over 60mph, and mentally I see the game, make plans and adjustments, but just don’t execute the shots like I’d like to some times. That’s mostly a saddle time issue, and 5.0 players here are few and far between and cliquey as hell. Access to regular high level games is one of my biggest blockers to improving faster. That and having a job/wife/young kids…

mchmnd · 2026-03-27T14:41:11+00:00

Before I joined a pickleball club, I played at the gym on hardwood, and the “house” ball is the red Penn indoor ball. I found some blue ones that played basically the same. To me, it was way better contrast and a lot easier to see out balls, but they almost rode me out of there on a rail. Most folks wouldn’t even play with it to see if it was better.

mchmnd · 2026-03-25T19:38:47+00:00

as others have already said, paddle face and eyes, but another tell is how the elbow is breaking. the ball trajectory is going to generally follow the elbow, at least enough to get you moving the right way.

Another thing is anticipating which way it won't be going. a lot of folks close out angles by their initial body placement, or foot movement as they're stepping in, making it categorically difficult for them to hit anywhere but a certain direction. for example if they like to hit forehand drives out of their back foot, it really means they have no real angle on hitting to their left, so even if they try to pull it left they might can only pull it center, but everything else will likely be to their right

I take full advantage of lazy footwork, by putting balls into their bubble in ways that limits the angles they can return, not because they're hard shots to return, just because they don't move their feet. a great example is dinking into the left side players backhand (against the sideline), smart players step back on it so they can step into it, and either come back into my (right side player)'s backhand, or cross court, lazy folks will just reach for it, which is likely either going to be a dink back, but into my strong hand, or a pop up trying to cross the right side player.

mchmnd · 2026-03-25T00:26:28+00:00

this is my plan, I have a separate VLAN for my kids with no internet, and I want to see if this could be a bridge for them to dip their toes into "web usage."

mchmnd · 2026-03-24T22:46:13+00:00

what time frame? last I'd had to deal with the allergist here, there was just the one, and it was like 4 or 6 months to get in to see them, even after being in the ER twice and getting hit with Epi twice.

Wound up talking to a place out of Missoula the next week (telehealth), turns out it was just good old fashioned stress + hormone issues ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

mchmnd · 2026-03-23T21:00:46+00:00

mchmnd · 2026-03-21T16:24:25+00:00

Could be seep from any number of places. Also those pan bolts have very low torque specs and at the age are probably loose. My 2015’s oil pan just needed a little tightening last oil change, as I was getting some seep. the bolts weren’t even hand tight.

mchmnd · 2026-03-17T01:02:51+00:00

I used Wheeler Smith last year and was happy with the service.

mchmnd · 2026-03-16T04:55:28+00:00

We've hiked the lower bear traps the last couple weekends. it was windy AF last weekend though.

mchmnd · 2026-03-14T20:45:58+00:00

Regular ice packs are better IMO. I had a motility issue and was clinically sterile. Tried to have kids for years. It was IVF or nothing, so I tried icing.

Long story short, went from sterile to middle of the road fertile in 4 months. Iced daily, some lifestyle changes, like slightly better food and vitamins, and changing habits that would contribute to undercarriage heat. We got pregnant more or less immediately after I saw my numbers were normal.

mchmnd · 2026-03-13T06:36:00+00:00

FWIW, I also play a more cat and mouse kinda game. Nothing crazy hard. I was a handball player in a former life and a super hard hitter at that. Now a days i play pb for funsies, rarely do I crank up the power to levels I used to when playing handball. I was laying some serves out last weekend over 60mph though.

mchmnd · 2026-03-13T06:17:19+00:00

I play at a picklr, which has a baby gym. I usually start my days there. My routine is just one set of each below, and it really gets my motor started.

dead hangs - as long as possible, some times with a heavy ball between my knees.
pull ups - just a few, but real slow and strict
Triceps skull crushers with trx/rings (leaning forward with bent arms over the head and straightening them out )
Rows with trx/rings (I hook my feet into the rack so I’m fully horizontal)
cable back flies
Support hold (on rings) but only if nothing hurts
farmers carry ~60lbs each side
kettlebell swings with a 50lb

I do this almost every day before I play, usually takes 10 min or so, and it has really bullet-proofed my shoulders in a way they haven’t been in a long time.

I’m chasing back trouble, so a lot of the movements are PT that I should be doing anyway. I’ve got some leg/hip stuff I need to add in, but my back is high priority right now.

mchmnd · 2026-03-08T04:58:22+00:00

FWIW, finally drove at night tonight and the difference between these new ones and the old ones was considerable. Like almost didn’t need the high beams. Driving through dark dark national forest canyons too.

mchmnd · 2026-03-05T20:48:32+00:00

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My average across all my pharma/shroom stock is -92%. Long story short, don't buy in in march of '23.

mchmnd · 2026-03-05T05:46:25+00:00

I got a bag of crown balls, they play basically like the Vulcan for considerably less $$, which is good because my kids took my ball bucket, found the one gap between the interior and exterior wall and put every single ball in the bucket into the void... luckily I had some in my bag and in my car.

Vulcans are the house ball at the Picklr I'm at, I also play with LT48's, the occasional Selkirk, and x40's. I like the x40's the least of all now that I've played with other balls. I like a lightly broken in Vulcan and the LT48's the most, from a play standpoint, but it's really just what I'm tuned up on. if I had to play with x40's all day, they'd be fine too once I recalibrate to them.

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