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My grandson is 5 and I cannot get him to lip a bass for the life of me.

Sorry about your pops. Don't get into the frame of mind that your life is going to end at 63. Your quality of life is directly related to your mental state of mind. I do relate though. not for me but for my pops. Dad is 82. Dad had 2 siblings and both died at 83. This runs thru my head all the time. Every time the phone rings with his number, or if one of my siblings call, I can't help but think it's about dad.

Try 'em in a shot glass topped with vodka and tobasco.

Sorry for your loss

Don't eat the red meat. The fishiness comes from the red meat and stomach meat. The backstraps are tasty.

You're smart enough to know you're not smart enough. If I had 6 extra arms, I'd outfish everyone of you.

Uncle Paulie is what I have gone by for years in The Family https://boingboing.net/2022/07/09/paulie-tony-sirico-walnuts-dead-at-79.html

We did the same on our Erie charter in May. Captains were employed by the charter service. I think if I had a guide who worked for himself, the tip would be solely dependant on the success of the trip. Last salmon charter I was on, we tipped the first mate as well. He had all the fish gutted and cleaned before we made it back to the dock.

Your biggest issue is going to be with the supply chain.

$1200 to fill up 5lbs sounds more realistic than $1200 a pound. I think the going rate for residential is between $200-300 a pound. Another tactic many company's use is that R22 is illegal and the equipment has to be replaced. That is 100% false. If and when you replace your unit, the installation is as important, if not more important, than the brand of equipment itself. Find a reputable contractor. Have them perform a heat load calculation to determine proper sizing of the equipment. Don't know what unit you have now but, lets say you have a 100K btu atmospheric furnace which is 50%-60% efficient. It should not be replaced with a 100K btu 80+ or 90+ unit. Basic math tell us that a 100K btu furnace that is 60% efficient, means 60K btu is heating your house and 40K is going out the flue. With an 80% furnace, you have 80K heating the house and 20K going up the flue, and with a 90% you have 90K heating the house and 10K going up the flue. Let's say your original furnace was sized properly. Using a 100K btu 80+ or 90+ would now have your furnace oversized. This causes short cycling and premature failure. Let's say you've had high efficiency windows installed and higher R value insulation installed. The heat load calc will be different than single pane windows and R11 insulation. Same math works for the a/c unit. Science tells us that heat moves to cool. During the winter, the heat inside your home wants to exit the house. During the summer, the heat from the outdoors wants to enter your house. Better windows and insulation changes that factor and needs to be figured into the load calc to make sure the unit is sized correctly. Anything different and an oversized or undersiized unit will cause you problems. On top of that, going back to SEER and EER ratings, all that goes out the window because your home is not a controlled environment and the equipment rarely works under design conditions. If your installing contractor doesn't want to run a load calc, find someone different. Don't be suprised if installing additional ductwork is recommended. When subdivisions go up, the hvac installation generally goes to the lowest bidder. They are the lowest bidder for a reason. I've been in the industry for 25 years albeit on the commercial and industrial end. I spent 15 years primarily working on commercial refrigeration. Got hurt 10 years ago and I currently manage a hvac/r supply house. I may not be smart but I'm not as dumb as @12poundbass looks

R22 equipment was about a 15 year phase out. The refrigerant is still available and R22 replacement compressors are still available. The equipmet itself is not. R22 is no longer being produced in the US and it is no longer being imported. It continues to be the refrigerant of choice everywhere else in the world besides Europe...but I won't go there as it would break forum rules. As far ar the 80% furnaces, there is still a big market for them. The installation costs are prohibitive in many instances because of having to run pvc for the intake and exhaust. Much cheaper to install an 80% unit that tear down walls to run new pipe. Another problem is installing them in uncoditioned spaces. condensate is a byproduct of the 90+ units. There have been many instances where these units are installed in attics or abve ceilings that are unconditioned. Space falls below 32* and the condensate freezes. Unit shuts off on a safety and now you have no heat. The condensate is also acidic. it shouldn't be dumped into the drain without being treated but the majority of the time it just gets dumped.

Bravo!

A/C units in the north will have a minimum 14 SEER requirement, units in the south will have a 15 SEER requirement, and heat pumps a 16 SEER requirement. As far as changing refrigerant, Puron also known as R410A will begin its phase out in 2023. The issue with the proposed low GWP refrigerants that are being tossed around is flamability levels. They are currently using flamable refrigerants in applications that require less than 12oz as the total charge. R32 is being used in window shakers and R290(propane) and R600(butane) are being used in small commercial refrigeration units. Your A/C unit in your backyard might hold between 5-10lbs of refrigerant. Were you to use something like R290, you've basically got a potential bomb in your back yard. A wire shorts out on a copper or aluminum line...KABOOM! Municipalities are working on changing building codes to accomodate flamable refrigerants In 2019, congress drew up the AIM act. It was voted down. Is was rammed thru in a covid bill in Dec. 2020 and on Jan. 1st 2021, refrigerant prices quadrupled. CFC's are no longer available (think R12 which was phased out in 1995). HCFC's (think R22 which is still probably in half the A/C units around the country) costs have skyrocketed. When I started in the industry, the wholesale price for R22 was $30 for a 30lb jug. The same jug currently sells wholesale for anywhere from $1400-2000 depending on your location. HFC's (think R410A) begin the equipment phase out in 2023 and will probably be final in 15 years or so. It is proposed in 2029 that 80+ efficiency gas furnaces will no longer be available and all furnaces manufactured will be 90+ efficiency. As far as equipment efficiency, it has nothing to do with the air temperature. First, let me clarify, SEER and EER ratings are based on design conditions in a controlled environment. They mean little in the real world. It's just something the manufacturers have to to to appease the government regulations. What makes the units more "efficient" is that they use less energy. EC motors and inverter motors are being used in place of standard motors. An EC motor uses a module taht converts single phase power into 3 phase power. 3 phase motors consume less electricity. Inverter motors, which are being used in a lot of minisplit heat pumps as well as your fancy appliances are DC motors. There is a power inverter in the control board that converts your ac to dc power like your phone charger does. They are also using 2 stage compressors which is basically giving you a low and high output. Meaning, if you run the a/c when it's 80* outside you might only need 70% of the cooling capability and if it's 100* outside you would need 100% cooling capability. If you can run the compressor at 70% capacity 80% of the days it is used, that's where the energy saving comes into play. As far as the end user, any enegry savings will be negated the first time you have to replace one of these motors as they currently cost 3-4 times what standard efficiency motors run. None of the above applies to commercial or industrial a/c, refrigeration, or gas appliances. The easiest way to save energy with your a/c and furnace is to keep them clean. Wash the outdoor coil one a year. If you don't know how or don't want to, have a service company come out and do it. Change your air filters regularly, and take a peek at the indoor blower motor once a year. If you're mechanically inclined, slide the blower out and brush/vacuum the blower wheel and motor faces.

You guys are going to have to wait. Completely slipped my mind and I filled up wit 87

A little Larry the Cable Guy

The EPA standards have changed and beginning Jan 1st, the minimum SEER and EER ratings have been raised. If you can gut a unit now, get it. Prices will increase once the new regs get into place. Manufacturer's have ceased production of 13 and 14 SEER units because they don't want to get stuck with them May of this year was my busiest month since I took over the store 2 years ago. June sales beat May by $75K. If the first week of July is indicitive of the rest of the month, I'll beat June's sales by $50K Show me the money!!!

They call it a fisheye lens/filter for a reason

If you do choose to get it, Buy it cleaned...and clean it more. Use a light breading and DO NOT OVERCOOK IT. It's done after a minute or two. There's a Greek restaurant here https://www.psistaria.com/ that has the best calamari I have ever had. If you ever get to Chicago, it's a must stop. Better than the calamari.... if you order a drink from the bar, it's old school. Get a $10 Jack Black and you're done for the night. Unlike the chain restaurants that serve you a $20 drink and it takes 3 to catch a buzz.

No but, If I'm going thru the effort, I'll drop a few extra bucks. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good onion ring. I prefer them lightly breaded. There's a few restaurants around here that serve onion ring "bricks". I could polish down a brick by myself if I really wanted to. https://hackneys.net/menu/

The appeal of fishing is not sitting at home on the couch with a controller in ones hand. I don't play video games aside from Candy Crush and Solitare. Many would argue that those aren't video games. My personal opinion is people play games like Call of Duty, Madden Football, Grand Theft Auto, etc is because it puts them in some kind of fantasy land. It allows them to experience something they could not or would not have experienced on their own.

Next time make calamari. The rings are much tastier.

Sluggo's were around before Senkos and Flukes. A combination of the best of both worlds.

Bird shot and the proper choke and he should be able to get them all in 1 shot.