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Author: aron

  • RestRev – BJ’s Brewhouse

    I was scrolling through Facebook and I saw the advertisement for a Monday special at BJ’s, half-off deep dish pan pizza and the picture of that pizza spoke to me. Besides, it’s half-off how bad can it be? So Sandy and I headed out the door and to the local BJ’s. We thought that the pizza on the website must have been wrong because the pizza was $14, but it turns out that the regular price of the pie is $28. We ordered and as the waiter walked away I told Sandy that this had to be good, we’ve never eaten a pizza that was $28, well except for in Colorado Springs but that’s another story.

    I’ve been to BJ’s before, and I really want to like them because their menu is so varied and has items that should be stellar, but again, disappointment. Their food is always just this side of edible and manages to fail at every expectation. The taste, presentation, even the temperature is just wrong… Maybe it’s just us because the waiter seemed surprised that we weren’t taking any home.

    BJ’s, when will I ever learn with you? You just can’t cook!

  • New Lawn Toys

    Happy to put the HomeDepot shinanigans behind me and get the new toy!

    Don’t have to worry about how much oil, the 2.2 ounces is exactly what it needs. The tool just wants to start and warms up smoothly. The clutch works properly and the attachment bolts on without spinning but once you pull the trigger, there’s revved-up power. Fits all my other attachments and we’re hopefully good for another 7 years, I’m due for a new one in 2029.

  • Local Sports Teams

    I had been outside and ran into my neighbor and she mentioned she was watching the Rangers game. I reminded me of visiting my grandmother and uncles house and there was always the Rangers game on. Then my thought train moved on.
    Fast forward to that evening and I noticed on the news that the Mavericks are playing, not only playing but in the play offs. I searched OTA channels and nothing, then I realized that our Dallas Stars never played on free TV either. In fact the only local major league team that you can get is the Cowboys so you for 17 days of the year you can catch the home team play.
    What gives? And how do they expect kids these days to become fans if they can’t even watch the games? That and you’d think there’d be a huge segment of the local advertising that would want to target that population.
    I guess you can listen to it on the radio, although that’s really not the same thing.

  • Home Depot Follies

    So the time has come to get a new string trimmer. For starters this triggered another ‘damn I’m old’ episode. I was thinking that I had just got the old string trimmer and looking back, it’s been seven years… absolutely crazy.

    So I do my research and all things are equal between a Ryobi and Troy-Bilt trimmers, price, manufacture and both fit the attachments that I already have but the Ryobi has a 3-year warranty and TB a 2 year. Ryobi it is…

    So the price is $229.99, I head up to my local Home Depot, and find it but there are two types, grumbling I look them both over, they’re the same, no price though. Get to the checkout and it’s $249.99, strange and WTH, get to the truck and look it up on my phone, still $229.99. Go in and ask and it turns out Home Depot will not match prices… With themselves… Think about that for a bit. A store will not match the price that’s on its own website… They said they could order it for me right there though. I said no, just refund my money, things were just a little too weird at this point.

    Long story, I went home, got online and it will be delivered free to my house in two days. Absolutely no need to have gone anywhere.

  • Watched – Alita: Battle Angel

    I wasn’t really sure when I saw this initially but the trailer pulled me in. It’s a really cute movie with the doe-eyed protagonist one of those you really enjoy cheering for and feeling the lows with her too. The ending is wide open for a sequel and it would make an absolutely fantastic series but this article seems to cast doubt on a restriction of the story on the big screen. I’ll be rooting for the sequel and will rake this as 4.3 out of 5, well worth your time!

  • Happy Easter

    We went to have lunch with the family and retrieved the RV and brought it back to park in the new pad for it, I hit the wall a couple of times but we wrangled it into place…

  • Watched – Moonfall

    Halle Barry is the known element of this 2022 sci-fi/action flick. It’s a bit out there but it makes for a decent movie. The premise is that the moon has fallen out of its orbit and it’s jacking things up on Earth in a pretty bad way. So lots of special effects to see the world getting almost blown apart and the moon a creation of crazy origins. In a world of some really bad movies this one is watchable and entertaining. 3.5 out of 5.

  • Prework being done.

    Started capping off the sprinkler system for the dig. Skid steer will be here Friday for a week. Hoping that most can get done over this weekend.

  • RV Relocated

    So I’ve been hesitant to move the RV because that means I’ve got to get moving on getting the driveway extended with the pavers but my sister was kind enough to let me store it at her place while I get the project done. So the clock is ticking, I’m overthinking this, all I have to do is move dirt and level, the skid steer will do most of the walk.

  • Server Lag Addressed

    So for whatever reason, I didn’t remember Google’s DNS addresses right and I set them up wrong on the actual server. Once the server was reliably able to communicate properly with DNS we seem to be golden and everything is working the way it should and is pretty fast. So I guess I can start addressing the email to the database I was talking about, and figure out what the hell to do with docker, or podman, or whatever it is that allows that mechanism to work. More on that to come.