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TideEggHead

Saw @nolaegghead's crawfish boil post, just ordered some for Saturday $3.40 a pound as of today.

ColbyLang

TideEggHead said:

Saw @nolaegghead's crawfish boil post, just ordered some for Saturday $3.40 a pound as of today.

Live? 

TideEggHead

@ColbyLang Yes sir. I usually wait until they are under $3 but we already have some guests invited haha. They were $4.40 last week I believe.

WeberWho

Settling for some peanut butter crackers for lunch. I tossed my turkey sandwich on the back of my tonneau cover of my truck as it was going to be in the low 30's this morning/afternoon. A perfect outside fridge. I had to stop back at my truck during lunch so it just made sense to keep my sandwich near the truck. I came out to my truck this afternoon and found this



My best guess would be hawk or Eagle as they ate the bread and meat but left the lettuce. Half the sandwich was missing.

I don't know who got the last laugh. The bird who has to digest the hot mustard or me without my sandwich!

lousubcap

Smart bird to leave the lettuce.  I'm betting on the bird!

nolaegghead

TideEggHead said:

@ColbyLang Yes sir. I usually wait until they are under $3 but we already have some guests invited haha. They were $4.40 last week I believe.

Mardi Gras they were up to $7/lb.  I picked them up last weekend for $2.89/lb from Rouses.  They were as good as they get, perfect size, alive, no weird chemical odors (you would be surprised how this is a problem).   I usually hold out for below $2.50 but inflation and all that.

HeavyG

nolaegghead said:

TideEggHead said:

@ColbyLang Yes sir. I usually wait until they are under $3 but we already have some guests invited haha. They were $4.40 last week I believe.

Mardi Gras they were up to $7/lb.  I picked them up last weekend for $2.89/lb from Rouses.  They were as good as they get, perfect size, alive, no weird chemical odors (you would be surprised how this is a problem).

Given all the oil/chemical related industries/events in that region and living at the outfall of the Mississippi River (aka Americas Toilet) I'm surprised that anything wouldn't normally have chemical odors.

nolaegghead

No one talks about it but I notice this stuff.

ColbyLang

HeavyG said:

nolaegghead said:

TideEggHead said:

@ColbyLang Yes sir. I usually wait until they are under $3 but we already have some guests invited haha. They were $4.40 last week I believe.

Mardi Gras they were up to $7/lb.  I picked them up last weekend for $2.89/lb from Rouses.  They were as good as they get, perfect size, alive, no weird chemical odors (you would be surprised how this is a problem).

Given all the oil/chemical related industries/events in that region and living at the outfall of the Mississippi River (aka Americas Toilet) I'm surprised that anything wouldn't normally have chemical odors.

Over half the crawfish sold come out of freshly pumped and irrigated rice fields. Some
do come from the Atchafalaya Basin. 

TideEggHead

@nolaegghead I wish they were that cheap here! I think the lowest I got was $2.60 per lb last year.

Ozzie_Isaac

$2.50/lb.  Surely you jest.  ~$9.99/lb plus overnight shipping fee which adds like $50.  (10lb minimum)

nolaegghead

Just got today for Quonset hut roof…360 gallons of high tech roofing elastomer with ceramic crystal particles….R1 insulation, reflects most radiation, fills 1/2 “ gaps….best part….it was free

nolaegghead

Thank you @nolabrew !!

lkapigian

Sopresatta, No Starter Cultures, No Nitrates, , I’m sold, quit using cultures a few years back, this is the first Salami ( I did bacon) without cure, noticeable difference for the better…probably will let these go a couple more weeks 

Botch

Ozzie_Isaac said:

$2.50/lb.  Surely you jest.  ~$9.99/lb plus overnight shipping fee which adds like $50.  (10lb minimum)

Yup, happy happy Southwest US.  
And yet, somehow we can raise brine shrimp ("sea monkeys" for you ancient comic book guys like me) here in the Great Salt Lake (at least for a couple more years), harvest them, fly them over a hemisphere to be fed to "real" shrimp in Thailand, freeze them (the real ones), and fly them back to our grocers, to be sold for less $$/pound than beef, pork, chicken or eggs (depending on the Shortage dù Jour).  
This inexpensive shrimp is never reflected on restaurant menu prices here in the US, due to completely different reasons for another thread.  Sigh.    

Ozzie_Isaac

Pool saga continues.  They fixed a few internal leaks, but still had an issue with how the sheer was mounted, so they have removed it completely and tore even further into the situation.  What is the Lesson Learned?  Wait for plumbers to install water features.  Masons are not plumbers.  Thankfully, all other water features and plumbing was done by qualified individuals.

nolaegghead

how do you screw up gluing PVC pipe? 

alaskanassasin

^^^ Also I am looking at the wall that they are compromising and wondering how long until the dam breaks. wow

Ozzie_Isaac

alaskanassasin said:

^^^ Also I am looking at the wall that they are compromising and wondering how long until the dam breaks. wow

That wall is well above the water line.  It is also not a part of the monolithic single pour that the majority of the pool is.  It is built on top of it.

Ozzie_Isaac

Kind of sad.  Making jokes in mtgs is no longer fun.  People feel obligated to laugh.  Gives me a false sense of being funny.

lkapigian

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Kind of sad.  Making jokes in mtgs is no longer fun.  People feel obligated to laugh.  Gives me a false sense of being funny.

A special LoL just for you 

FrostyEgg

Having some company over this weekend, so rounding up supplies for a batch of chocolate panty droppers.

Legume

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

^^^ Also I am looking at the wall that they are compromising and wondering how long until the dam breaks. wow

That wall is well above the water line.  It is also not a part of the monolithic single pour that the majority of the pool is.  It is built on top of it.

We had a similar design.  The cold joint between the two walls resulted in tiles popping off 10 years later.  Good fun.

Ours was poured, but it looks like yours is block so that may not be an issue.  We couldn't find the same tile after so many years.  I would put an extra box or two of tile away for the inevitable if I was going to build a pool again.

Ozzie_Isaac

Legume said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

^^^ Also I am looking at the wall that they are compromising and wondering how long until the dam breaks. wow

That wall is well above the water line.  It is also not a part of the monolithic single pour that the majority of the pool is.  It is built on top of it.

We had a similar design.  The cold joint between the two walls resulted in tiles popping off 10 years later.  Good fun.

Ours was poured, but it looks like yours is block so that may not be an issue.  We couldn't find the same tile after so many years.  I would put an extra box or two of tile away for the inevitable if I was going to build a pool again.

I have two extra boxes of tile.  I may order another though, just to be safe.

Btw, thank you for a new thing to worry about at 2am.

Acn

Packing

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

how do you screw up gluing PVC pipe? 

Very easily.  Forget your 1/4 turn.  Don't push it in all the way and hold it, incomplete coverage with bonding agent, foreign object debris, damaged surface area, forgot to remove flashing, etc.

lousubcap

@FrostyEgg - those are great dessert teasers right there.  I need to make some as it has been way too long. 

kl8ton

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

how do you screw up gluing PVC pipe? 

Very easily.  Forget your 1/4 turn.  Don't push it in all the way and hold it, incomplete coverage with bonding agent, foreign object debris, damaged surface area, forgot to remove flashing, etc.

Maybe too soon to ask this @nolaegghead

Seems he's had a bit too much time to dwell on this while he stares at his torn up wall and has contractors back in there while now under the even more watchful eye of Oz.  

kl8ton

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Kind of sad.  Making jokes in mtgs is no longer fun.  People feel obligated to laugh.  Gives me a false sense of being funny.

My gut tells me that you and I would get along great in corporate meetings.  It is always fun when only you and one or two other people are able to communicate inside jokes while the other 10 are oblivious.

kl8ton

I knew what I was in for going in. . . . 

I had to get an oil change on our 2015 Yukon.  We have a long-ish trip this weekend. Mileage and oil life indicator proved that a change would be necessary prior to departure.  I went to an instant oil change place.  Usually I end up at a trusted mechanic or the dealer as by oil change time, there is ALWAYS something else that I want fixed or changed and they just do the oil change at the same time.

I went in.
I read them the specification of oil from my manual.
I asked them how much for an oil change with said product.  (I think 0w-20 full syn)
They say $80 
I say fine but I just entered your text promotion to save $7.
They say they will take it off the bill.
Second technician removes air filter to show me a filter with 10% coverage of dust/dirt.  
I say pass.
Oil change done.
Sir your total is $116.34
?????????????????
Sir the 80 dollars was for 5 quarts - your vehicle takes 8.
Yep and you had the vehicle right here when you quoted me the $80
well sometimes they take more
nope - capacity is capacity.  I could forgive a +/- a quart at best. 
You need to manage customer expectations.  
Tell me it will not exceed $100 and charge me $95 maybe.
I left paying something like $96.

I don't really care - just what the heck - I know the game - next stop - used car sales.