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Clark Lea named his kids 'Meadow' and 'Field'.
I may have come up with this same joke last year.
Over The Pants Hand Job. LOL!
I painted my entire home office maroon in my last house.
All I will say is... less is more. I thought I would love it, but it ended up visually shrinking the room. It also stayed warm in the heat of summer, which isn't great in Raleigh.
Also, you don't have to grab the paint numbers or anything like that, if you go to Lowe's or Home Depot, their computer system has all the official colors for all the major colleges and pro teams, so you just have to tell them what you want and they can quickly mix it up for you.
As Frank would say, "those over-50 brains will get after ya!"...I hear ya man. I'm right there with you.
And they wonder why the usps operates in the red every year...
Yupp mine just made it back to Charleston yesterday and is out for delivery as of this morning. There are explanations (ie small packages going cross country loaded on pallet xyz that doesn't get unpacked until DC and then shipped across up/down the coast) but it's still hard to wrap my head around
We have a Grand Design Momentum that might fit what you are talking about, but likely has more living space than you are looking for. We have dual axles, but tri axles might work better in your application. We bought it specifically to be able to haul two motorcycles.
Other options would be ATC or Sundowner (this might actually be who made the trailer in your picture). We also have friends that have a 40' gooseneck that has 20' for living space and 20' for cargo that they have been happy with though they due have a dually to tow it with. Example
As someone who has visited the Richmond Main Post Office on Brook Road multiple times, I have zero trouble imagining this scenario based on the level of "service" that I received there. The place should be bulldozed and rebuilt in a safer neighborhood and staffed with people who give a crap about helping their customers. Relocating it over to Jackson Ward near VCU would dramatically improve the situation there.
Clark Lea puts ketchup on his well-done filet mignon
Big thing is being comfortable changing a tire on the side of the road, you need an impact and a torque wrench. We had our first blowout on the PA Turnpike on 4th of July weekend this year 30 miles from our destination. Luckily, he has all the tools in the RV for working on the bikes so he had it changed in 30 minutes. The turnpike assistance guys showed up and asked if he needed help and he already had the shredded tire off and was putting the spare on by that point. He did ask if they would mind sitting behind us with their flashy lights on. We got really lucky that the only damage was to rip one screw on the skirting. Biggest pain is our trailer has load range G tires that need to be inflated to 110 psi which you can't find off the shelf typically. I had a tire shop put the spare onto the normal rim since the steel rims don't like to keep the lug nuts tight. Then we had to track down a compressor that could get up to 110 since the tire shop could only get it to 90. We drove home carefully with periodic lug nut tightening stops since we didn't have a spare and E-trailer had a new tire to us a couple days later. It is shocking how much those things loosen up in the first 50 miles after changing the tire.
My husband has done brakes, hubs, and all the suspension parts except for axles in our driveway. As he puts it, none of it was really hard, just time consuming and a pain in the ass. However, still way better than making an appointment at an RV shop, dropping off the trailer and still not getting it back for two months. We also had brakes done at a Camping World once, they came back improperly adjusted and he felt like he didn't have trailer brakes the whole ride home. We have had to do some other minor cosmetic stuff as well.
Clark Lea would have no problem googling that acronym at work.
(I, fortunately, am smarter than that. A little help here.)
Clark Lea wants to pet the fluffy cow.
So if it is a hitch mounted travel trailer, you need to account for everything in your tow vehicle in addition to the weight from the trailer on the hitch. I hesitate to give a hard and fast number because it depends a lot on how many people/dogs/stuff you are planning to take on trips and the terrain in which you are traveling. Fluff is also helpful if you have a one off where you bring a couple extra people and it isn't convenient to take a second car. I am not however, saying everyone should buy a 3500 dually to tow a single axle travel trailer.
The following is going to be anecdotal and probably too long, but here are contributing factors to my tow vehicle logic. I have mentioned in other places that my husband does motorcycle track days and club racing so when I started out tagging along he had a 1995 Ford Explorer with an open trailer to tow the bike/gas cans/etc and the rest of the gear was in the car. Worked fine but the transmission would scream on hills. The explorer died with somewhere north of 300k miles on it and he got a 2006 F150 with the baby V8. The F150 barely noticed the open trailer was back there, no more transmission screams. Shortly thereafter he decided he wanted to chase points and do a whole regional series and I decided that I was done tent camping at Road Atlanta in July. We bought a 7x14 enclosed utility trailer with two axles, insulated it, added a light and put an AC on top. With the now much heavier trailer, the F150 was still well within tow rating, however, the transmission was not all that happy on hills a la I-81. It still made it, but slowly and loudly. It lasted 5 years with that trailer before dropping a cylinder in the motor in 2017. We upgraded to a Ram 2500 diesel that had the air bag suspension knowing that at some point we wanted to get a real RV for a variety of reasons. Meanwhile, the Ram barely noticed the utility trailer on the back. In 2020, we bought the 5th wheel before the prices got stupid and it is definitely on the upper end of capacity for the truck but the diesel engine handles it fine and with the pin placement in the bed of the truck, it is really stable to tow. Only real sway issues we have are when we carry just a little too much water and it sloshes between the two connected fresh water tanks. That was really only an issue the first year, we have gotten better at the RV thing since then even if some of the lessons were mildly painful.
Other folks that I know have had sway issues with heavy trailers being towed by smaller vehicles even with a weight distribution hitch. You just don't want to set yourself up to have a white-knuckle driving experience every time you want to go camping.
AI - The color code for the University of Chicago maroon is RGB: 128, 0, 0
AI can fuck right off with those RGB numbers. That's pure red.
Tables finely illustrating his awesome French-esque film review skills.
Hardly. It's all I can do to keep up with French when he's laying it right out there. I just happened to notice that one play at the time, and through some quirk of my over-50 brain, it was somehow retained in memory for a few days.
A lot of talk about travel trailers above, so I thought I'd throw this question out.
I take periodic outdoor "excursions" that involve the need to take a ton of supplies for extended stays (hunting/fishing gear, coolers, tents, stoves, groceries, etc) along with the occasional need for ATV's and UTV's (think Polaris Ranger). Along with this, it is nice to have an extra living space if needed along with a shower for use in remote areas. In the past I have used a fifth wheel horse trailer with a small "camper" space at the front that included a small shower and a bed in the neck of the trailer.
The trailer is no longer available and I was thinking about getting a toy hauler. I would need enough room to store a UTV (60" wide) and gear as well as have a small living space. Most of what I've seen available was catered more towards smaller ATV's, motorcycles, or bicycles. Does anyone have any suggestions? I would prefer reliable and durable over creature comforts.
Picture of past setup for reference.
This is very much my opinion. When it comes to coaching searches, you focus on process over results.
I think the failure of the Fuente Process was that no one in the room had non-VT P5 experience. That said, I'm a bit understanding of this issue... I don't think anyone knew how far behind VT was at the time. This problem was addressed with the Pry hire.
The problem with the Pry Process was that he hired first time coordinators. That gap should've been identified. Everyone saw that coming. I remember Ty on the Solid Verbal called this out.
Take your pick lol:
Googling provided :
AI - The color code for the University of Chicago maroon is RGB: 128, 0, 0 and HEX: #800000. This deep red hue is used in the official style guide for the university, in contrast to other colleges like the Virginia Tech Hokies, which uses a different shade of maroon.
and per VT site : Chicago Maroon
RGB: 134, 31, 65
HEX: 861F41
CSS variable: --vt-maroon
CMYK: 15, 100, 37, 45
PANTONE: PMS 208
and another site said:
The primary colors of the Virginia Tech Hokies can be found in the table below.
Chicago Maroon
PANTONE: PMS 208 C
Hex Color: #630031;
RGB: (99, 0, 49)
CMYK: (41, 100, 56, 48)
Buy Matching Paint
Burnt Orange
PANTONE: PMS 158 C
Hex Color: #cf4420;
RGB: (207, 69, 32)
CMYK: (13, 87, 100, 3)
Buy Matching Paint
Went with all home teams this week!
I learn more new acronyms here .....
Clark Lea thinks he should earn NIL money
this is one of the useful cases for AI imaging
take a photo of your room and ask the image generator to replace the wall color to get an idea of how it might work in your space. I just told it "maroon" to give it a test, but you should be able to specify an RGB code
Here is an example I quickly did in my office:
edit: this was via Gemini. Notice it still missed the wall behind the window and the shadow behind the transparent bucket on the shelf is wonky, but for brainstorming purposes, it can be useful. Never trust AI to anything important unless you are going to rework it quite a bit
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i love it- you don't often see the 'present perfect' tense used and even more rare to use correctly!
Tables finely illustrating his awesome French-esque film review skills. Nice!!! No doubt Drones missed that one and others as you pointed out. At this point have him run a bunch then dial in a pass play he has the highest chance of making and pray for the best. Speaking of praying....
Hoping that we see the same D for Vandy. I hope and pray this guy is legit. If he proves to be, then we need to pony up the cash to retain him.
Hey - at least you got 2 right.
Somehow I got 1.
Fucking 1!
Picking randomly I should have gotten 3....