Recent content by CJones

Agree wholeheartedly. Before we bought our place, we were always the 'hands-on' tenants that treated the place like our own. We got burned once when we moved out and didn't get our deposit back, and when I called to ask about why, the landlord told me "Well, you had a piece of tape stuck to the...

This is a great perspective and honestly where my mind was at when the idea first came up, but the idea of a shiny new house with more space in a slightly nicer neighborhood lured me in. ha. You hit the nail on the head - even what we're looking at would be viewed as a short-term play in that...

Thanks for the responses, folks. Definitely a lot to think about. We like where we are currently, other than the MS situation which, in reality, isn't 'bad', it just isn't as stellar as we hear from other schools in the district. We have a new principal starting after this school year, so I'm...

A1: Possibly. We have talked about how (hindsight 20/20) we wish we had bought two houses like ours at the time to have one as a rental. That's kind of what I'm trying to figure out. What else am I missing for negatives of being a landlord? A2: No idea. Haven't gotten down the path far enough...

We're almost to the stage of life where we have outgrown our current house (boys are getting to the age where sharing a room isn't cool - even with a custom bunk-bed setup). Also, it turns out the middle school we're zoned for isn't a slam dunk like the elementary school was. We have one with...

Good to know. I've used them for CAD type stuff and flowcharts, etc., but haven't used them for photo quality stuff. I'll give them a shot. Thanks!

My 10 y/o son has built a few different space-related LEGO kits lately (including a Curiosity Mars Rover) and wants to display them in his room. I was thinking of printing a wall poster (this one) as a backdrop to a shelf I'll build to put them on. Any suggestions for a reliable source for...

Hot Tin Roof, maybe?

I'm reviving this one ALMOST a year later... My son and I built a basic gaming desktop for his Christmas last year. He just saved up enough to add a real graphics card (ASUS 4060), which we did last night. He went from ~80fps to 500+fps on Fortnite right after we installed it last night. Then...

We flew into Loveland with a RV-10 a few years ago and tried to fish around Poudre River area. Unfortunately, they had a fluke late season (end of June) high elevation snow storm the week before and it all melted as we got there and blew all the rivers out. The Red Feather Lakes are north of...

Woohoo! First in the thread after Diz. Question: Is 'camping under the wing' still the standard arrangement for folks? I know Ted's crew brings their own rolling Holiday Inn Express, but are other folks still pitching tents or are there new-fangled arrangements in place?

The first time I flew into MDW (the busiest Class 'C' that I had flown into at that time, despite doing all my initial training at a smaller Class 'C' (MLI)), I was so focused on sounding like I 'belong' there, that after my initial call up, the controller actually had to tell ME to slow down...

It looks like the hoses you have are 'inverted'. The big end looks like the 'old style' propane tank connection (threads are on the inside of the fitting instead of outside) and the other end would attach to a burner/control valve/regulator/etc.

Maybe that was the point? I haven't watched it, but having seen several comments here, and after reading the books that Pacific was based on, I think the "barely got to know the guy before he was gone" was a common sensation for those that served during that time period. Maybe the show makers...

Interesting. We looked at that scenario for our trip: ATL-DUB-ATL with a separate RT DUB-LHR-DUB in the middle, but the math didn't work. I think us flying directly out of ATL, while extremely convenient for not having a connection, also kills us on getting discounts that may come from flying...