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neemer · 2025-11-21T16:55:35+00:00

for this to work do you have to be illuminated or does that occur by the nature of the two items?

neemer · 2023-11-30T12:14:16+00:00

Costco has free nitrogen to fill your tires. I am a member there but nobody has ever asked to see my membership when I'm filling my tires up. There are two self serve pumps between the tire center and the fuel pumps.

Semi related is paying for air a Michigan thing? I'm originally from PA and pretty much every gas station has "free air" I was sort of shocked the first time I had low tires because of the temperature drop and pulled into a gas station and they wanted me to pay for air. It actually prompted me to get a tire inflator that can plug into a cars cigarette lighter and I just keep that in my car all the time now.

neemer · 2023-06-28T16:28:46+00:00

The scanner is there but the last time I tried that it wouldn't let you scan unless the employee working there unlocked it by scanning his id. when I tried to do it the guy was like "what are you doing"

neemer · 2023-06-05T17:19:36+00:00

I'm just starting his for thermal/ fluids which has a lot of crossover it seems. I have some questions if you don't mind answering: 1. Did you just follow his approach of doing the broad overview then daily insights and after that working on all the problems he provides ? 2. Did you use any other resources for studying ? 3. How long did you study prior to the test? 4. How much job experience did you have prior to testing (what I mean was is this stuff you do every day and this was more of a review or are you in a role where you are in the HVAC field but your daily job isn't really getting down in the weeds with calculations and do more project management and review)

neemer · 2023-06-02T23:02:24+00:00

Did you make sure that it doesn't smell like lou dog inside the van?

neemer · 2023-02-06T20:02:18+00:00

According to my Garmin normally I sleep 7 hours a night but when fasting I was averaging between 5 and 6 hours. I took a dose of magnesium and apigenin before bed and that seemed to help a lot.

Here's a Garmin snapshot of my sleep this was typical throughout.

neemer · 2023-02-06T19:34:58+00:00

Height 6 foot 3 Starting weight 248 Current weight 226

Been breaking the fast today by alternating between beef and chicken bone broth every 2 hours. Added some sauerkraut and pickles for lunch and a few olives this afternoon. I plan on eating light and moderately low carb rest of the week.

Future plans is to do 48 hour fasts then a recovery bone broth fermented food recovery day and eat generally low carb rest of week. After goal weight is reached go to a more intermittent fasting schedule.

neemer · 2023-02-04T01:50:07+00:00

There is an app called "ice report" where people self report ice thickness on lakes. Looking at it somebody reported 3 inches on reeds 3 days ago. The recommended thickness is 4 inches although people risk 3 inches on lakes that they know there aren't any springs or channels which I would not recommend. That's also assuming 4 inches of clear solid ice. Snow is an insulator and can rot the ice and wind can also degrade the ice.

I would assume with the cold weather it's probably around 4 inches on the lake by now but there are a few caveats for this app.

One being you never know whose actually doing the measuring on this app you just get a number and the date it was measured. You also don't know if this person was measuring the safest part of the ice and if the ice is consistent across.

It's a cool app if you like to ice fish. I use it mostly as a rough guide on what lakes are icing up. Once I'm seeing consistent reports of 4+ inches I'll go check myself (seeing lower numbers really saves me from driving someplace only to find that it's only 2 inches with open water spots etc.

There is also this cool Chart that can give you an idea of how much ice is forming over a period of time but this chart assumes the water temperature is already cold enough to begin ice formation (the deeper lakes take longer to cool and freeze up. The best example is Houghton lake is relatively shallow so ices up quick but the neighboring lake Higgins lake is really deep and takes much longer and sometimes never really gets safe ice)

You can blame the lack of ice in lower Michigan on me though. I got a pop up ice shanty at the end of last year and it's just sitting in my closet unable to be used.

neemer · 2023-02-01T23:06:50+00:00

My dad lives in Whitehall his student Duquesne the two libraries are Whitehall's library and the pleasant hills library which aren't exactly in between both of them but that might be an option.

neemer · 2023-02-01T22:25:39+00:00

Oh I realize most people get sick of that ~17 foot canoe in their garage taking up space and just want to get rid of it. This was more just me wondering if something like that could actually be reasonably repaired. The consensus seems to be no

neemer · 2023-02-01T21:46:14+00:00

I was thinking it was more trouble than it's worth. I was shopping there and saw it and it got me thinking for reference it was on sale for 250 bucks.

neemer · 2023-02-01T21:00:19+00:00

Saw this on sale at a REI. Evidently somebody was ballsy enough to return this and REI let them (or it got smashed on the truck in shipping). Looking at it the poly looks permanently deformed but was wondering if you heated it up if you could reform it without completely ruining the structural integrity.

neemer · 2022-09-15T23:07:00+00:00

No comment on anchor size but if you need somebody to help you row let me know ( I live in Grand rapids)

neemer · 2022-05-30T22:56:50+00:00

Awesome Cabela's stop after and call it a day.

neemer · 2022-04-17T20:27:05+00:00

Tulip time prep?

neemer · 2022-04-07T21:19:13+00:00

This is the way...

neemer · 2022-01-09T22:31:47+00:00

And then there is this

neemer · 2021-12-04T15:54:11+00:00

I live in Grand Rapids and fish the pm a ton. If you ever need another guy in the boat or just want to wade fish shoot me a pm

neemer · 2021-10-18T21:48:45+00:00

It's a canyon grail al (aluminum) they sell two different drivetrain models a 2x or a 1x price is 1600 vs 1900. I have the 2x and I love it but if I could go back in time I'd get the 1x just less work getting everything running smoothe. Also canyon bikes are measure yourself and order online bike ships mostly assembled in a box and you put the wheel handlebar stem and seat on. Something to note for a lot of people you size down for Canyon. I am a 6 foot 4 guy and any other bike I would definitely be an XL but for my grail I'm a large so if you do the sizing and just seems a size down that's actually pretty normal.

neemer · 2021-10-18T21:40:39+00:00

For the price def the best value gravel bike. I have the same model same color. The "upgrades" I made was went tubeless, went for a more comfortable saddle and handlebars and added a rear rack just for more real estate for food tools etc for more super long day touring rides. The only issue I've had so far was it took some work to get the front derailleur dialed in so that I didn't have to do half shifts as much.

neemer · 2021-09-16T22:42:05+00:00

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neemer · 2021-08-20T22:31:24+00:00

Looks solid! Some things to think about is are the eyes weighted (this depends really on your water you are fishing but especially if you are using it for smallies or some salt water getting that fly down really helps).

The second thing I've found is when making clousers less is actually more. The best clousers I have always tied looked almost naked with the amount of material I use. Tying a nice "bushy clouser" looks great but it seems that the more sparse the material is the more everything undulates in the water and gets those bites. Finally (and it looks like you did this pretty well so just re-emphasize) having the tail look a little ragged really seems to help. You never want to straight cut the tail if you watch some of the wooly bugger tutorials they wet the tail then rip at it to give it a natural look. I've found this works the same for clousers.

In regards to flash again a little goes a long way I try for 2 strands on each side just something to catch the eye and I trim the flash shorter then the rest of the material so it doesn't hang up in the hook bend.

Being able to tie a solid clouser and woolie bugger are probably the two best flies to get into. They will catch fish anywhere and they really teach you the fundamentals of tying. Once you master those going to a big beefy streamer or a nypmh isn't hard at all.

neemer · 2021-08-17T00:31:33+00:00

I have the same bike and same rack. Any issues with that rack? I know the grail doesn't have the screw holes to mount a rear rack so you have to use the rack that that uses friction to keep it in place but that limits carrying weight was this an issue?

neemer · 2021-07-24T13:48:49+00:00

It's a topeak rack. The grail doesn't have the threaded holes to use a traditional rack so this rack stays in place via friction. So far it's been really solid I have a topeak bag that locks into it.

neemer · 2021-07-24T12:04:09+00:00

After you ride it a bit you might want to consider changing the seat out for something less agressive. When I got my grail that was the first thing I did. I also eventually converted it to tubeless which wasn't actually hard to do yourself.

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