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Hollywood Cannon said:
@Beef Invictus @JojoTheWhale Others

We're going to have to drive up to Buffalo for this funeral and this of course is HCette's one week out of the year where she's "on call" for her job so she needs internet access. I'm looking into mobile hotspots through Verizon but have absolutely no idea what i'm looking at.

I saw the best reviewed one (and most expensive) though Verizon is the Orbic Speed 5G UW. I just have absolutely no concept of what the plans are because it would be through a business plan and it only offers 5-10GB of data which seems rough.

Would a iPhone hotspot get the job done? Should we get the hotspot that comes in her car (Audi)?

She's super stressed about this and it's kind of above my mental capacity at the moment.
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Sort of sounds like she needs a new job if she can't switch 1 on call night for a funeral
 
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@Young Sandwich @VladDrag

My cousin was supposed to go on a golf trip to Bandon with a few buddies in mid-September. He's had a few things pop up and now he's backing out and asked if I would be interested in filling in for him....I would love to, but the cost is so damn much, and my wife is expecting mid-to-end of October, so she'd probably kill me, but god would I love to say yes
 
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Surrounded By Ahos said:
True facts, I was visiting family in rural PA recently and we saw more confederate flags up there than we did on the entire drive up through North Carolina and Virginia.
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Not surprising...Jersey shore area looks just as "rebellious." Culture war and lack of faith in Gov't institutions really becoming ingrained in a growing subset of insecure and angry people...
 
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DancingPanther said:
Everyone knows the disparity between someone out of shape and a world class athlete. That's not fun, and the weird internet fad of "wanting a regular person in the Olympics" is not fun.

It should be how the amateur athlete would do against world class athletes. Your teammate who's actually good at hockey. Your friend who was pretty dominant at track but didn't win states. The guy at your gym who does dry land and actually is pretty fast. The girl at work who runs marathons. Those are the people who would REALLY put it in to perspective.
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Yeah, she turned in a terrible time. It doesn't give any real comparison at all. Everyone knows the slow people are slow. That's all that clip confirmed.
 
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Surrounded By Ahos said:
True facts, I was visiting family in rural PA recently and we saw more confederate flags up there than we did on the entire drive up through North Carolina and Virginia.
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Sounds about right. Outside of the few more metro areas, PA is redneck city or Amish/Mennonite. There's a town about 10-15 minutes from me that has a well known KKK presence (if you know the town), and that's only 30-45 minutes west of Philly.

BTW I have no problem with rednecks. Many are just nice, fun people. Unfortunately there is that element within that group.
 
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Cody Webster said:
@Young Sandwich @VladDrag

My cousin was supposed to go on a golf trip to Bandon with a few buddies in mid-September. He's had a few things pop up and now he's backing out and asked if I would be interested in filling in for him....I would love to, but the cost is so damn much, and my wife is expecting mid-to-end of October, so she'd probably kill me, but god would I love to say yes
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I feel you, and congrats! I haven't played nearly as much as I have want to this year, which is a shame, because I'm really playing well when I do play. I've shot 81 at Broad Run (was even on the back 9) and 76 at Turtle Creek (was 1 under on the front there), I feel like this would have been the year to get into the single digits if I could play more than once or twice a month.

I'm playing with my buddies in a scramble on the 11th in NJ, so I'm looking forward to that.
 
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VladDrag said:
I feel you, and congrats! I haven't played nearly as much as I have want to this year, which is a shame, because I'm really playing well when I do play. I've shot 81 at Broad Run (was even on the back 9) and 76 at Turtle Creek (was 1 under on the front there), I feel like this would have been the year to get into the single digits if I could play more than once or twice a month.

I'm playing with my buddies in a scramble on the 11th in NJ, so I'm looking forward to that.
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I remember shooting an 81 last time out ... unfortunately, I still had 5 holes to go.
 
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Cody Webster said:
@Young Sandwich @VladDrag

My cousin was supposed to go on a golf trip to Bandon with a few buddies in mid-September. He's had a few things pop up and now he's backing out and asked if I would be interested in filling in for him....I would love to, but the cost is so damn much, and my wife is expecting mid-to-end of October, so she'd probably kill me, but god would I love to say yes
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Just a heads up, your golf time will suffer a bit with a child in the mix. It will essentially cease to exist if a second child comes into play. :laugh:
 
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Young Sandwich said:
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Just a heads up, your golf time will suffer a bit with a child in the mix. It will essentially cease to exist if a second child comes into play. :laugh:
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It is so damn tempting, but the total all-in cost four nights would be like 5 g's. That's a tough one to swallow.

On top of the kid coming, we recently bought a house, without a home inspection, not my call, and found out that we get water coming in through the top of our basement window and there is mold all around it, so we're going to have to pay to get that fixed. There's a deck above that has a sliding door from the kitchen and when they built the house, they never put any flashing below the door, so the water gets behind the siding and drips down through the window. The sellers never disclosed this in the report and when our realtor sent a letter, they claimed they never knew it leaked, despite, after further inspection, the string on the blinds being brown from the water and there being caulk all around the window....fun times.
 
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Cody Webster said:
It is so damn tempting, but the total all-in cost four nights would be like 5 g's. That's a tough one to swallow.

On top of the kid coming, we recently bought a house, without a home inspection, not my call, and found out that we get water coming in through the top of our basement window and there is mold all around it, so we're going to have to pay to get that fixed. There's a deck above that has a sliding door from the kitchen and when they built the house, they never put any flashing below the door, so the water gets behind the siding and drips down through the window. The sellers never disclosed this in the report and when our realtor sent a letter, they claimed they never knew it leaked, despite, after further inspection, the string on the blinds being brown from the water and there being caulk all around the window....fun times.
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Sheesh, that's brutal. What a scummy move by the sellers there. Buying a home without an inspection is my nightmare, but I know how cutthroat the real estate world is right now.
 
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Young Sandwich said:
Sheesh, that's brutal. What a scummy move by the sellers there. Buying a home without an inspection is my nightmare, but I know how cutthroat the real estate world is right now.
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Yeah, definitely a scumbag move. The first week we moved in, it was one of those weeks where there were torrential rains, we had to put a towel down on the ledge and the next morning the towel was completely soaked. There's no way they didn't know about this issue, but it'd be impossible to try and prove. We figured we'd spend just as much in fees trying to fight it as we would just getting it repaired, so that's most likely what we'll do. We have someone coming out next week to give us an estimate.

There's no doubt we wouldn't have gotten the house with a home inspection, which would have been fine with me, but I lost that battle.
 
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Cody Webster said:
Yeah, definitely a scumbag move. The first week we moved in, it was one of those weeks where there were torrential rains, we had to put a towel down on the ledge and the next morning the towel was completely soaked. There's no way they didn't know about this issue, but it'd be impossible to try and prove. We figured we'd spend just as much in fees trying to fight it as we would just getting it repaired, so that's most likely what we'll do. We have someone coming out next week to give us an estimate.

There's no doubt we wouldn't have gotten the house with a home inspection, which would have been fine with me, but I lost that battle.
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That’s brutal man.
A friend of mine sold his house with an inspection, that passed, and a year later the new owner tried to get him to pay for a clogged area drain in the back yard.
There’s a ton of trees and the new owner wasn’t taking care of the leaves.
 
Lord Defect said:
That’s brutal man.
A friend of mine sold his house with an inspection, that passed, and a year later the new owner tried to get him to pay for a clogged area drain in the back yard.
There’s a ton of trees and the new owner wasn’t taking care of the leaves.
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What morons lol.

That's another thing. The drainage in the backyard is atrocious. The backyard slopes down on either side and meets at a flat area outside the basement door. Every spout they have drains into this area, so when it rains a lot, it pools in that spot. I need to do a lot of digging and install some drains. I hate this house but can't tell the wife that
 
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