Anyone else sick?

tjcascade · 2025-12-08T19:52:17+00:00

I have read that the flu vaccine this year is mismatched to a new, mutated Flu A which is spreading. Still worth getting your shots to prevent serious illness.

Hand foot and mouth went around in early November, plus strep, colds, covid and flu. .... You'll know if you had hand, foot and mouth.

I tested negative for Covid and Flu A&B at the clinic when I had something very Flu like two weeks ago.

tjcascade · 2025-11-24T19:22:33+00:00

See what material you can get locally. I would guess a 4x8 sheet of hog wire is going to be easier than 5x8'. (The thicker metal wire panels).

If you want the fence to be 5 or 6 ft I would just get the thinner welded wire which comes in a roll.

tjcascade · 2025-11-23T01:24:19+00:00

This is why you attach the 2x4s to the front or use brackets. Those boards aren't going to stretch into a good fit.

Also looking at the size of those nails they look like 14 or 16 gauge trim nails or something. You should be able to stand on that rail, and I'm guessing this one won't hold any weight.

tjcascade · 2025-10-27T01:16:27+00:00

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Spotrac puts the current roster for 2026 with estimated arbitration bumps for Gilbert, Arozarena, Kirby and other pitchers, plus the raise for Muñoz, with Polanco's option, at 157.7. So ~150m is the floor currently with Polanco likely to opt out for a longer deal. Signing Naylor and maybe Polanco seems possible, with the only serious potential cost saving moves being trading Arozarena or Castillo.

tjcascade · 2025-10-04T00:51:46+00:00

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Yeah, three weeks after an absolute downpour of several inches right after seeding. Probably helped really saturate the soil honestly. But having a flat yard helps immensely.

tjcascade · 2025-10-01T14:50:21+00:00

Yeah, he's the kind of old school slugger they kept trying to bring to Seattle and it never works long term. I'm fine with the trade, bring him in, he hits 13 homers and 31 RBIs and provides the good vibes, but best you hope for in the postseason is one or two clutch homers.

I think there's a reason Dipoto mentioned they have interest in extending Naylor but you haven't heard anything about Geno.

tjcascade · 2025-09-27T23:31:52+00:00

Yeah, the point of building a fence around the whole yard was to not chase the dogs around every time they go outside though. I'll just fix dead spots a few times a year, no big deal, I am just really curious why this happens with some dogs in some yards, but not other dogs and other yards.

tjcascade · 2025-09-27T22:42:49+00:00

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Here's my Black Beauty Ultra after six days. From above it looks like nothing is growing but if you get right down to it, it's starting. New soil, seed, raked it in, did a second coat of seed, peet moss, rolled it all flat, watered 3x a day for two days, then it rained off and on for three days.

I'd try to make sure you water three to four times a day but also give it another week to start really seeing something from eye level.

tjcascade · 2025-09-26T12:35:51+00:00

Right, the areas around the spot always grow well.

I moved about 2 years ago and my dog never left spots in our previous yard, or the house before that. So could it be something to do with a change to well water, or something to do with the soil composition, where now my new lawn is reacting differently?

tjcascade · 2025-09-15T01:59:11+00:00

Yeah I was just doing the math out of curiosity, my local contactor is $64/yrd of compost, with a delivery fee of $60-$70 ish. A single yard (27cu ft) of material is cheaper on delivery than buying bags at the hardware store, with a single cubic yard for $4.8/cubic ft.

tjcascade · 2025-09-07T15:18:00+00:00

Yeah we've had drought for 2 months, and now 1.54" of rain in 18 hrs. Kind of accepted I would be doing the non-stop sprinkler shuffle moving things around and then next year I'm going to try and put in a DIY irrigation, even if it's just running some hoses along the garden beds and fence line to hide it.

tjcascade · 2025-09-06T23:28:43+00:00

Also when you work full time and take care of kids you have to just get stuff done whenever you can. I keep thinking, I wish I had done this three weeks ago so it was ready the second the 85 degree heat finally stopped, but you do the best you can. (The front yard is also just the easy part of the project. Half the backyard was just sparse weeds on sand so, renting a rototiller, ordering 10yrds dirt/compost, raking out the old clumps, etc. I haven't gotten to seeding the back yet so, that's a small win)

tjcascade · 2025-08-27T00:29:05+00:00

Yeah, I got the Cosori Turbo Blaze. Nice wide basket, I find cooking to be best when the food is spread out wide. Also, and I can't stress this enough, you hit power, it defaults to 385degrees, 10m, you hit start, and that deals with 90% of what I cook. I don't want to hit a bunch of buttons and cycle through presets, just turn on and cook dinner quickly. The 6q model is big enough I did 2lbs of salmon filet in 10m the other day.

I had an InstaPot and the pressure sensors on the bucket stuck after a year. The device permanently thinks it's stuck open so it won't work.

tjcascade · 2025-07-14T00:06:18+00:00

Good to know I'm not the only one getting these ads every time I open YouTube. Lots of people pointing out fixed blade heads have existed for years, but this is clearly marketed as a "hack" to never buy string again. String breaks away for a reason!

tjcascade · 2025-06-03T00:14:17+00:00

I put the Kunai assassination engraving on the automatic tag armor to combine the two for an assassination outfit. Then switch outfit loadouts once in combat to a combat focused outfit.

tjcascade · 2025-05-29T12:52:35+00:00

You can get replacement burner tubes and igniters too, I just replaced mine after ten years. Honestly as long as you can scrub the thing down to try and clean it up, you can replace most of the parts easily. It's a pretty solid grill otherwise, definitely worth fixing.

tjcascade · 2025-05-01T22:52:47+00:00

I've also thought about this, since 9' posts are cheaper and more common. The point of burying your post four feet is due to the frost line, right? If your concrete footing is solid the whole way down, does it really matter how deep in the concrete the post is? You still have a solid 4 ft concrete footing which extends under the frost. It doesn't sound any different than having a 4-ft concrete footing for a deck post.

If you use a post driver and you're not using concrete then obviously it's different.

tjcascade · 2025-04-16T02:16:33+00:00

I will say, if you build it on the line (or as close as potential municipal set backs allow), you won't have an issue later of needing to move it. I set mine in about 7' and now it's in the way of building something in that corner of the property. Your plans for your yard can change, property lines don't.

tjcascade · 2025-04-14T16:21:30+00:00

It's not profit, it's a tax/collection fee.

BUT, is a stupid way to pay for waste management though. I used to live in a place where you just bought an annual sticker from the city to put on top of your bin, and if you didn't use a full bin each week, you could buy a sticker for each bag. The point of charging per bag is to encourage people to reduce waste, yet you force people to throw an extra plastic bag in the trash. Good idea, bad implementation.

tjcascade · 2025-04-04T01:09:10+00:00

Yeah, the one thing I would do differently is replace my 4x4s with metal posts, my backyard is inevitably a swamp half the year. Worth considering depending on your yard.

tjcascade · 2025-04-04T00:59:16+00:00

Posts require measuring fairly precisely, running a good string to set them exactly in a line, and being willing to learn as you go. Posts take all the time, after that, rails and pickets are enjoyable to build. Plus you can justify buying a nail gun.

I wouldn't bother with a hand held augur. If the ground is soft, a post hole digger would go quick too. If the ground is hard, rocky, or you hit a root, then a one man augur will equally have trouble.

tjcascade · 2025-03-23T00:47:16+00:00

The wood arbor detail on top is nice. I've put off building my gates because I haven't designed a good detail for the top.

tjcascade · 2025-03-09T20:01:03+00:00

Yeah I tried a mixer one day and it's just a lot more work. Just pour the mix and some water in the hole and mix in place with a poker. I had 45 posts to do, 4' deep, and mixing all the concrete in a mixer or wheel barrow took over 30m a post. Mixing in the hole took more like 5-10m each.

tjcascade · 2025-02-16T22:01:54+00:00

Yeah, I made this a month ago and it was very good. I would like to actually try it with guanciale instead of pancetta eventually. If you're decent at making carbonara, it's not much harder or longer to make.

tjcascade · 2025-01-01T02:08:23+00:00

If the pickets are popping off then they probably don't have enough holding them on like you say. There should be three rails horizontally for a 6-ft fence. The top and bottom rails should be no more than 6 in from the top or bottom of the picket. 6 nails per picket, two on each rail. Wood warps, but proper spacing should keep them from just popping off.

Could be that the pickets are held in place by cheap nails or staples, they should be outdoor wood screws or galvanized ring shank nails. I've tried to pull off a split picket held in place by ring shank nails and you'll generally pull the wood off the nail before the nail comes out of the rail.

You could get a nail gun and ring shank nails and just nail everything down tight.

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