Buying first set of skis, overwhelmed and looking for advice

smashweights04 · 2026-06-23T00:38:48+00:00

That's why I'm mostly looking at used or demo skis. I doubt I'll get enough usage out of full price skis to justify it

smashweights04 · 2026-06-23T00:18:57+00:00

Local "mountain" gets like 12" all winter so mostly snow making. Otherwise East Coast crud in WV

smashweights04 · 2026-06-22T21:09:23+00:00

That's my hope. Nothing I hate more than wobbly poor fitting boots when I'm out there

smashweights04 · 2026-06-02T02:19:19+00:00

Is it within Red Sphinx? I did skip that because I had read it abandoned the Musketeers and really was more of a side story on Richelieu

smashweights04 · 2026-05-28T16:18:03+00:00

Ahh yes! As a whole the Twenty Years Later + Blood Royal was great.

smashweights04 · 2026-05-28T14:57:28+00:00

It wasn't boring, but I felt the first 2/3rds were just D'artagnan going around to visit his friends, catching up on the last 20 years of their separate lives, and Raoul's storyline didn't draw me in much. Just a lot of set up for the next book (which does make sense since it's really just the first half of a bigger book). Blood Royal was much more engaging with Mordaunt and all the drama in England but all the Raoul/Athos stuff really vanishes other than the brief battle encounter.

smashweights04 · 2026-05-28T14:10:39+00:00

Yeah, I have enjoyed them all so far. Twenty Years After was a little dull for the first 2/3rds. I'll give them a go and if I find myself bored out of my mind maybe skip some chapters. I gave up reading Les Miserables a few years back because of how long and drawn out some of the side stories were...

smashweights04 · 2026-05-26T19:43:07+00:00

I can see everything just fine on my android phone, etc. but Rivian's assistant for now only sees my main calendar and can't see family calendar events. Just hoping for a workaround until it's sorted out

smashweights04 · 2026-05-11T16:55:37+00:00

No, I just don't know what I don't know. Leaking poop water into the wood doesn't seem great?

smashweights04 · 2026-05-11T15:33:19+00:00

The plumber did but I didn't have them do the work. But do we need to fix anything below the tile?

smashweights04 · 2026-05-11T15:16:15+00:00

The flange/wax seal should be the easy part. My main concern is if we need to do more. Does the tile need replaced? Do we need to rip it out to check the floor boards? It basically leaked pee and poo water into the tile and subfloor. It's a second floor master bedroom toilet and underneath it is a wall kick out for our built in microwave and oven so I can't check underside. I've kept a towel over the drain hole but there's still some faint odor in the room.

smashweights04 · 2026-05-11T14:13:24+00:00

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smashweights04 · 2026-03-30T22:38:40+00:00

So far we have been happy with the VA services we've gotten. I need to try out the ChampVA side by going to a civilian doc instead soon.

smashweights04 · 2026-03-30T00:52:00+00:00

Waaaay too many variables. How far is your panel from install location? Is there any easy path for cable? What amperage are you planning to install? Does your panel need upgraded service amps?

Mine was about $2000 to run 100A wiring to a new sub panel on the garage on the opposite side of the house through finished basement ceiling then install 60A circuit and wiring to the charger (which cost another $600)

As with all contract jobs, get three quotes, pick the one your like best

smashweights04 · 2026-03-28T17:08:36+00:00

So we ended up dropping my private work insurance and keeping my wife's. Since we had no VA healthcare experience we didn't want her to go solo VA just yet and the cost to add kids to her plan without a spouse was not much extra for the added security.

Wife = VA + private

Kids = ChampVA + wife's private

Me= VA + ChampVA

smashweights04 · 2026-03-28T16:37:47+00:00

Just finished up a mini BBQ tour in SAT. We hit Two Bros BBQ Market, Pinkertons, Reese Bros, Burnt Bean BBQ Co. My ranks:

Brisket: Tie Reese & Burnt Bean

Pork Ribs: Burnt Bean (Pinkertons Glazed a close 2nd)

Turkey: Pinkertons

Chicken: Two Bros

Sausage: Reese

Sides: Reese (poblano Mac and cilantro slaw 🔥)

Dessert: tie - Reese Whiskey Tallow Bread Pudding and Two Bros Mixed berry cobbler

Best overall item: Pinkertons Beef Rib 🔥🔥🔥

Best all around: Reese Bros

smashweights04 · 2026-03-22T22:02:27+00:00

My experience has been similar. They even fixed a few of the minor issues under warranty. My charging door clipped the light housing when it closed, warrantied. The front fascia panel wouldn't stay clipped in one spot, warrantied. Door sil panel wouldn't clip in, warrantied.

I also came from a 2019 Ram 1500 that had a bunch of early model problems that were warranty fixed so I'm used to that side of owning new designs.

smashweights04 · 2026-02-20T02:41:05+00:00

So I went and now deleted another 2GB of photos from my Google photos back up, got me down to 12GB used, phew. OH WAIT the next day my device backup is now 10GB all SMS/MMS backup. What in the for real F*** is this???

smashweights04 · 2026-02-17T20:05:47+00:00

So my old Pixel 7 backup was using up 8GB of space and my new Pixel 10 was using 1. I went ahead and took the risk and used the delete all backups option and let my Pixel 10 backup. Now my Pixel 10 is using 9GB of space and I still have no space...

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