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I'm not a prepper, but my normal situation is probably what preppers dream of. I'm 50 miles from the nearest small town, 10 miles from the highway, 500 miles from the nearest major metro area. All the houses are heated with wood, we have generators, multiple 500 gallon tanks of propane...

https://gisweb3.azwater.gov/WellReg If you're interested, here's the well registry for Arizona. You can look in an area you're interested in and get an idea what the well depth tends to be by looking at other wells. This lists wells of all types so ignore anything that says irrigation...

My girlfriend lives in a 100+ year old house with 3" copper drain pipes. I think they are awesome. Like a lot of things you see in old houses, no one would take the time and expense to do that now. Same with wood work. Everyone would like to have hand made solid wood everywhere and...

It's not like the SB wins are all he has. He's 8th all time in passing yards and 9th in touchdowns. Not even close. No one will ever take that away from Bob Griese. During the perfect season he only played 4 games before being injured and then came back during the championship game when the...

I think the problem is you keep saying "draft classes". You don't get drafted to the hall of fame, you get inducted. When you say "draft" people think you're talking about players coming out of college.

Well, if it makes you feel better, here's my data meter 1 day after the reset... And here's my un-throttled speed test at 6:15 PM on a Tuesday night. This is why I'm excited about Starlink.

The only explanation...

Watching the Seahawks-Rams game last week I just kept thinking "neither of these teams are very good". I'll be shocked if the Packers don't handle the Rams pretty easily. Those two were both so promising. I couldn't believe it when Borland retired.

You can make slabs yourself with a chainsaw and an Alaska mill. Whether it's worth the trouble or not probably depends on what access you have to people who want big chunks of hardwood and whether you like doing that sort of thing. The quality of the tree makes a difference too. I saw a...

I'd probably just take the bolts out, coat them with caulk, and put them back in (minus the dish of course) to plug the holes. Probably not going to cause problems especially since it's right at the edge of the roof.

Either way if you go outdoors for more than 15 minutes from May through October you will die. Phoenix is the only place I've lived that I really disliked. Giant beige suburban sprawl with horrible weather 6 months out of the year. High crime, bad air pollution, lots of traffic. To be fair...

I saw an article speculating about the 9ers trading for Watson and they thought it would take 3 first round picks, 2 seconds, and Jimmy Garoppolo. It could be worth it if he is an elite QB for the next 10 years but talk about putting all your eggs in one basket.

I polished off a frozen pizza just before I read this. Must have been a supernatural communication.

I'm a fan of Hebrew National. They have a jumbo dog but they're not always available at my grocery stores.

I got some for Christmas but haven't tried it yet. Could smell it before I unwrapped the gift so I was a little concerned about what it was.

Nice tanks. Gouramis have always been some of my favorite community fish.

Yeah I nearly barfed in the movie theater. It was nothing compared to Cloverfield though. At least I could watch the Blair Witch Project and just felt sick by the end. Cloverfield I was staring at the floor through the whole thing and still had to go outside a couple of times during the movie...

I still wonder about something being loose in your panel. If something is arcing it seems like it would have to be on one of the buses since it's effecting multiple breakers or possibly the neutral although there really shouldn't be any arcing on the neutral. It might be interesting to see if...

That's why head coaches don't tank even if GMs or owners do. Sure you might get a good draft pick, but you won't be around to use it.

Steeler fans have had way less than their fair share of misery. Fuck em.

I think the Bills are going to get there. Rodgers vs. either Allen or Mahomes should be entertaining though.

Well I think if you're really serious about being prepared for some kind of societal breakdown, getting out of the city has to be step one. Drilling wells is serious business though. Around here they cost about $45/foot. Pretty affordable if you're just going 100 feet, but you might be going...

Gotta drill a well. It's expensive but the only real way to be sure you're going to have water.

Competition usually yields better results than collaboration anyway.

That's what I was going to say. Any homeowner should have a ladder.

I was looking at the Shop Fox too. I have a Shop Fox metal cutting band saw and a drill press and they are okay but I sort of wish I had sprung for a Jet or something. They've gotten a lot of use and they're still going but they ain't what they used to be. I've played with a shop fox table...

If you ever get a chance to hear Steve Young talk about his time in Tampa it's pretty entertaining. That organization was a real shit show back then and stayed that way for a long time.

What do you guys think about adding a better fence to a table saw. I have an old Craftsman table saw that belonged to my grandfather and I would like to keep using it for sentimental reasons and because I don't want to spend the money on a new one but the fence sucks on it and it's a bit under...

That's pretty cool. It's always a problem getting the meter where you can see it since you usually have to hold a lead in each hand.

Yeah I have wood chisels but I don't know how well i can cut an angle inside there. Maybe it would make sense to do something like this to avoid that.

So my girlfriend asked if I could build something like this for her Berkey water filter. Of course I can, but I am thinking about complicating it for myself. I have always wanted to do a wedged through tenon, kind of like this... I would probably make it out of a hardwood 2x4 to give myself...

I just use yellow mustard. The vinegar evaporates off so it doesn't affect the flavor much.

Things that are on the quarantine todo list: Continue to cry about game of thrones 18 months after the series ended.

Whoever put that list together is the biggest loser in history.

Yeah, don't confuse nerd rage on the internet for everyone hating the show. I didn't find the ending to be especially inspiring, but I didn't get all the hate for it. I think it was mostly people who were unhappy that it didn't follow their personal fanfic that they had been writing for it...

I've heard that if you have a heart attack before 50 it's probably genetic no matter how healthy or unhealthy you are (short of say, massive amounts of cocaine or something). You can damage your heart by being unhealthy/having uncontrolled high blood pressure but it takes a while.

I was a EE in a past life but I can't think of an explanation for this. A good rule of thumb though whenever electrical circuits start acting haunted, it's usually because of a grounding problem. Maybe a loose wire in your neutral or ground bars or something broken in there. There could be...

And a lot of times it's just to go fail as a head coach. I think when the Chargers hired Norv Turner away from the 49ers to be their head coach it made both teams worse.

It was ideal. Dominate for 3/4 of the game and then lose it in the 4th to improve draft position. Sort of wish they had done the same last week vs. the Cards. Holy shit watching CJ Beathard try to play quarterback is painful. In the first half it seemed like he didn't want to even try to...

I don't know what's causing it, but i'd get it checked out asap. Very weird, especially if it started effecting multiple circuits at the same time. Is it always the same breaker getting tripped or multiple ones?