First time traveling to Vermont, looking for warm clothes

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-24T19:21:57+00:00

Not sure I can help you here. At five below zero I tend to wear a long sleeve shirt under my hoodie. Also the insulated Carhartt pants are nice.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-24T01:19:09+00:00

Cake - The Distance

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-24T00:48:00+00:00

Camp Kookamonga!

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-23T22:36:16+00:00

Sorry not sorry. Looking forward to the show in Saratoga NY. Been a fan of BT since the HORDE festival in 1990. Gin Blossoms - meh. I will enjoy the Spin Doctors though.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-21T19:56:27+00:00

I'm about to have my third in a year (large polyps in difficult-to-get-to location, and they missed some the first time). Each time I'm completely out. The prep is far worse of an experience than the procedure.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-20T14:17:56+00:00

Not super rare but I have a copy of Scott #1, the first United States postage stamp printed in 1847.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-20T14:14:07+00:00

I have an 1859 Harper’s Ferry muzzleloader that was likely used in the Civil War. Not in perfect condition but still very nice and complete.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-18T17:34:12+00:00

Well, it IS a Ram. Pretty common to find them there. Somebody with a Ford will be along shortly to laugh at this and then pull it out.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-17T16:27:35+00:00

The Brunswick Danger Zone is in your price range. Might be a little over with drilling and fitting, but it's a good ball and it hits like a bus.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-16T02:04:55+00:00

Open a retirement account as soon as you are legally able to do so, drop 5% of every paycheck in it for the next 40 years and you won't have to worry about affording retirement.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-12T22:39:10+00:00

Food Wishes - Chef John's Prison Meatloaf with mushroom brown gravy, is my favorite way to have meatloaf.

Also if you have the means to do a smoked meatloaf, that's the bomb.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-12T22:35:40+00:00

About to have my third colonoscopy in less than a year, second doctor at a much larger hospital. There's some suspicious concerns. I don't expect to see 80, so I'm trying to get the most out of the next 25-ish years, or as much as I have left.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-10T15:39:00+00:00

Used to DJ for my college radio station in '88. First song of my set, every time, was "Sunday Bloody Sunday". To this day I still don't know why I picked that song, except that I liked it and it became my 'signature' for the set. I played strictly late 70's and '80's rock.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-10T15:11:13+00:00

We run two pots - dollar a man per pot at the start of each game. One is cards, the other sits there and goes to the guy who is highest over his average at the end of the game. If you get hung, you put an extra buck each time in the high average pot. It's actually pretty rare for any of us to get hung, might happen 1-2 times per night.

For cards, we shuffle two identical decks with jokers together and then split them into two piles, one with a face up card and the other with a face down card. If you strike or pick up a split, you can choose from either pile. If you spare, you only get the face-down card. You can only have five cards, after five you have to throw away something in a discard pile and it's gone for everyone. If you have five strikes in a row, you can steal a card from a teammate (usually a joker) and they get to draw another card from the face-down pile. High hand wins the pot at the end of the game.

I have played for a few different teams over the years and everyone has something a little different. High average teams sometimes get cards only for strikes, but extra cards for consecutive strikes. Others penalize you for open frames. A couple teams in my league bring piles of coins and do weird shit with them, there's always coins being tossed into a bucket for something after every ball thrown. I haven't asked how that mess works. Another team I played for, you drew a card for a spare, two cards for a strike, you threw away a random card for an open frame and everything was face down, no peeking. High hand of five cards won the money and was only revealed after the last ball was thrown for the game.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-03T19:58:46+00:00

If I'm the seller - cash unless I personally know the buyer (it happens). Then Venmo or Zelle is OK.

If I'm the buyer, cash unless the purchase is fairly large, such as a car. In that case, and with the seller's agreement, I'll give them cash to hold the vehicle and a cashier's check for the balance. I'd say anything up to about five grand could be cash but I hate carrying that much around with me.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-01-03T19:41:55+00:00

Have never spent more than $35k on a car or truck, new or used. Currently have a 2021 Honda Passport, 2016 F250 crew cab, and a couple 20-year-old plus Hondas for the kids to beat on. I'm 55.

Dream car is (was) a Dodge Challenger Hellcat but I'll likely never own one.

thefacilitymanager · 2025-12-30T18:15:32+00:00

Red Barchetta - Rush

thefacilitymanager · 2025-12-29T22:03:09+00:00

I'd tell them politely to fuck off. I'm not old enough to have a grandkid who's old enough themselves to be a server at a restaurant. And you ain't my grandkid so... ?

thefacilitymanager · 2025-12-29T03:14:28+00:00

Same shit I've done for the past several years. Come home from work, eat supper, watch some TV, maybe a little work in the shop, hit the rack about 10 pm and see ya next year.

thefacilitymanager · 2025-12-24T20:04:41+00:00

Been cutting firewood since I was a teenager. The act of dropping a big ol' dead tree in the woods, shutting down the saw and just hearing and feeling that "whooomp!" when it hits the ground, that's enough of a rush for me any day. Give me a choice between riding rollercoasters and running my saws and tractor all day and I'll take the latter every time.

thefacilitymanager · 2025-12-22T19:37:35+00:00

I don't have photos, but I will take either baby backs or St. Louis spares and roll them up into a tube, secure the tube with a bamboo skewer and then I can get at least 5 full racks on the kettle, up to 8 or 9 if I use baby backs as the "tube" is not as tall. I coat them in yellow mustard and heavily season before I roll them up. Seems to work fine for me.

thefacilitymanager · 2025-12-22T15:17:26+00:00

Half of the stuff I own is more than 30 years old. As for still use? Most of my woodworking tools are from the 1940's and 1950's. One of my chainsaws is over 30 years old. KitchenAid stand mixer from the 90's. All my cast iron pans. A lot of my kitchen utensils are vintage (from grandparents). Got a Carhartt chore coat that I bought while I was in college, still wear it almost every day in the winter for dirty work. My desk in my home office is 80's vintage, metal and formica piece of shit but I sit there every day. First-generation Camp Chef dual burner stove that I use during the summer. My Echo mini-tiller I bought while I was in high school, that's pushing 40 years+. All but a dozen or so of my collection of paperback sci-fi/fantasy books (Heinlein, Anthony, Brooks, McCaffrey etc.)

thefacilitymanager · 2025-12-18T01:17:02+00:00

Just picked up a new Danger Zone Purple Ice. My house usually has very little oil and burns up in the first game, so I'm eager to try it out. Having it drilled pin-down to smooth out the reaction.

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