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TLOC said:
You aren’t wrong on your analysis except on your point of view. From our end it was a beautiful game to watch
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Knowing you are a Packer fan I understand completely. For me it was an ugly game to watch because Dallas played so poorly.

I don't even like to watch the Ravens, my home team, blow out another team. All I was hoping for was a close game. Usually, I would turn off a game like that. I was so impressed with Green Bay's play I kept watching. Their young quarterback, Jordan Love and running back, Aaron Jones impressed me the most. The Packer's offensive line and the receivers were impressive too! I watched it almost to the end.

Once Dallas' defense was exhausted the game was over. The Packers showed mercy, they could have really run the score up, I admired that.

It's one thing for a veteran quarterback to read the field so quickly. I don't expect a young quarterback, like Jordan Love to do that, and he shows courage in the pocket. To top it off he changes arm angles to create a passing lane. Then he throws pinpoint accurate passes almost every time! Dallas had a good pass rush early in the game, but Love frustrated them by releasing his passes so quickly. He looks like an MVP candidate to me.

Aaron Jones and the Packer's offensive line worked almost perfectly together. The Packers' offensive line used a variety of blocking schemes, not an easy thing to do, to exploit Dallas' overzealous front seven. Jones showed great vision and exploded through the holes. Dallas's gap control was poor at best. Every time they failed to cover a gap Jones found it.

The Packers' receivers all ran precision routes and frustrated Dallas' secondary. As a group the Packers have one of the best rosters of receivers in the NFL and they played like it yesterday.

The Packers' defense played a fantastic first half. I give them credit for catching two of the balls Dak threw to them. They could have had a few more interceptions, but if defenders had skillful hands, they would be receivers. It's hard to praise a defense that gave up 500 yards, but much of that was after they started playing "bend don't break" defense which was the smart thing to do.

Even though I don't like blowouts, this game was something to see. The Packers played the closest thing to a perfect game I've seen all year. Apart from special teams, but that's just nitpicking. The special teams' mistakes were not game changing. The ugly part was watching Dallas play one of the worst games I've seen all year.

Congratulations to the Packers and their fans! I can't wait to see their next game.

Green Bay @ San Francisco 1/20/24 8:15pm on Fox
 
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Bruette said:
I was hoping to enjoy a close game.

Dallas could do nothing right. The Cowboys defensive players were overzealous, trying to do too much. Especially their front seven. That resulted in one or two players being out of position on almost every down. On offense Dallas was not much better. I've never seen Dak so inaccurate. By the time Dallas corrected their mistakes the game was out of hand.

Green Bay was impressive! The Packers played with nearly perfect precision on both sides of the ball. The young Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love and their running back Aaron Jones exploited nearly every Dallas mistake.

It was an ugly game to watch.
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No, it was a beautiful game to watch, except GB went into slow play to early and turned what should have been a real blowout into just a win.
 


I don’t generally work on the house on Sunday. But last night I did have to go reset the boiler. It’s started throwing combustion chamber faults again once in a while. Will need to have the combustion chamber cover off and any gypsum dust that fell in before the flue was fully attached vacuumed out (this is a guess of the problem). The guy who’s been helping and provided the boiler and piping of it is out of country on a job right now. In Saudi Arabia where I assume it’s warm.

Anyway I we nt up there around 11pm to reset it so it wouldn’t get colder (slowly) in the house, which annoys the mud and tapers. Amazon had brought my 45mm screws and the new style rocker smart switches from Lutron for the 4-way installs. After clearing the boiler fault I wanted to wait to make sure it didn’t fault out again quickly (occasionally it would get in such a cycle ten days ago though. I’ve it seen it or the fault it was throwing then since). So, while waiting, I quickly swapped in the new switches and they work perfectly so the wide garage now has switched light. I also test fit a 45mm screw in the crossbar. It looks like it would protrude a bit but the weather gasket thickness means it won’t be enough to get a good grip with the decorative nut so I’m waiting for the 50mm screws to come today to get them. I’ll have both 45mm and 50mm screws to work with do the fixtures.

after test fitting the 45mm screws I sat and watched Mentour Pilot / MentourNOW and 74Gear videos on YouTube while I waited for another degree of warmth to appear on the thermostat

the light fixtures are two Chinese made Amazon purchases. They look the same externally but the cross pieces and stuff for attaching to the wall are a little different as is the weather gasket. I bought a certain number a while ago and turned out I needed a couple more and the original is no longer available. I bought another brand that looked the same but ended up being a smaller version. So I went through the listing for lights and compared dimensions and bought more new ones where the dimensions were very close. Putting them side by side they are identical.

they claim to be both euro and US UL listed and so that’s why they probably have the metric screws for attaching the attachment cross piece to the fixture.

I’ll be headed up shortly to try and get 6 of these done. They’re not hard with Wago levernuts and a power drill for putting tube screws into the plastic electrical box. Then hand attaching type fixture to that crosspiece.

I’ll be doing one trim for the eaves lights (the one I can do by climbing out a window). The others will require a ladder at a later date. But I can get switches installed so hopefully the wave lighting can start to be turned on.

then I’ll head back to the basement and finish bringing all the network and thermostat wires hanging in the basement to their corner and hooking them in. Right now only one thermostat is hooked up for the whole house and none of the zone actuators are installed. The house is one big radiant zone.

28F it says on my wrist and the light coming through the blinds looks partially sunny.
 
kbkchooch said:
Good morning gang!

Dry flurries this morning, of course the nervous Nellies driving at 15-20 below the posted made for a long drive to work this morning. You would think with today being a Gubmint holiday that half of the idiots would be home, but no, a few got out. We are supposed to get some actual accumulation tonight, so tomorrow may be real exciting!
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At 4:30am this morning it looked like a serious snowstorm on I95 from the Fort Mchenry tunnel all the way to rt 100. Even the trucks were driving 40mph. It appeared I95 had not been salted. When we got to Elkridge there was about an inch of accumulation and the snow subsided. We saw more than a few cars had slid off the road. Not long after the wind scattered the snow on the roads. By the time the sun came up only the grass was white. Listening to the morning traffic on NPR there were at least a half dozen accidents on major roads before the sun came up and even more afterwards.

Only time will tell what tomorrow will bring.

Be safe, there should be a full complement of idiots on the roads in the morning.
 
santafewillie said:
For all of you other football knowledgeable folks out there; she blamed some guy named Quinn who switched from the successful season-long man to man defense to zone coverage for this game!
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It's hard for me to criticize the use of zone coverage in that game. With two of Dallas' cornerbacks on the injury list Dallas couldn't match up with the Packers in man-to-man defense. Injuries doomed the Cowboys. Not to mention the Packers played as close to perfect as you can get on offense.

In man coverage you match your best cornerback to the best receiver. Green Bay has several top-notch receivers. In man you usually only have the free safety to cover anything over the top. That won't work for Green Bay's receivers. They have the talent to beat you over the top on either sideline. You must play at least cover two, that leaves the tight end open over the middle and running backs open in the flat. If you play cover three then you have underneath crossing routes open. With that many good receivers, you are damned if you do and dammed if you don't. The only hope is a pass rush that disrupts the quarterback. Green Bay's quarterback reads the field and releases the ball too quick for the pass rush to reach him.

Dallas' only hope was to win in a shootout. Dak had the worst first half I've seen him play, that was not going to happen.
 
Dub said:
@troyphoto I see your process for crushed ice. I would recommend thin ice trays and save on the labor. Faster freezing too.
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Every one of those I found online had at best a 3 star rating. Removing the ice from them was the biggest issue.

And, freezer space is at a premium here. I learned that if I only keep one Motor City brand frozen pizza in the downstairs fridge/freezer, I can slide my two regular sized ice trays in it. that keeps my whiskey stir and strain cocktails chilled. But tiki had me beat. I was working the wife for a $500 pebble ice maker. But she said the Lewis bag was a better option.

And, I can always take a few frustrations out on the ice... ;)
 
Afternoon All,

Slept in later this morning after being up several times because of the tooth, I thought. I went to the dentist this morning and found out the tooth is OK and not causing the issues. The actual problem is gum disease, so I'm taking antibiotics, medicated mouth wash and lots of Orajel. I go back next Wednesday for a in depth exam to figure out a treatment plan. I see a lot of mouth pain in my future. :(

At home I did a couple of chores then glued the 4 walls together and started tar papering the 2 main roof sections.

Louis- Thanks for your thoughts. I dread going to the dentist.

Chad- It sounds like 3 steps forward and 2 steps backwards.

I hope everyone stays warm and has a good night.
 
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Grizzled said:
These two are from July 1988. Rarus Railway SD's southbound on the BN Garrison to Butte trackage.
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FYI, those are GP9s.
 


We made it above 0 to +2 for a couple hours. It’s -3 right now and the wind chill is -21. Unaware of any changes to the school schedule tomorrow. Because it’s MLK day most of the area schools were off today and the granddaughter texted asking to come over because mom and dad are working , her brother refused to play with her and she was bored. She did end up coming over and wanted to swim. It’s just under 500’ away and I keep the walkway clear and run the radiant heat to prevent ice. But I cannot prevent the 20mph winds from whipping and it was a cold walk. She also asked why I didn’t put a tunnel into the pool building. Terry got a chuckle out of that as that was a discussion during the design process. When I was at the weathering bench she wanted to help! That was a first. She ended up mixing a bunch of paint for me using the vortex spinner I use for mixing paint. She thought it tickled!
 
TLOC said:
We made it above 0 to +2 for a couple hours. It’s -3 right now and the wind chill is -21. Unaware of any changes to the school schedule tomorrow. Because it’s MLK day most of the area schools were off today and the granddaughter texted asking to come over because mom and dad are working , her brother refused to play with her and she was bored. She did end up coming over and wanted to swim. It’s just under 500’ away and I keep the walkway clear and run the radiant heat to prevent ice. But I cannot prevent the 20mph winds from whipping and it was a cold walk. She also asked why I didn’t put a tunnel into the pool building. Terry got a chuckle out of that as that was a discussion during the design process. When I was at the weathering bench she wanted to help! That was a first. She ended up mixing a bunch of paint for me using the vortex spinner I use for mixing paint. She thought it tickled!
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It was +7 F-degrees when I went to get my ears lowered, and pick up groceries.

We're up to +8 at the moment
 
TLOC said:
We made it above 0 to +2 for a couple hours. It’s -3 right now and the wind chill is -21.
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troyphoto said:
It was +7 F-degrees ...We're up to +8 at the moment
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The sun came out early this morning and we made it all of the way up to a whopping 24° today. Currently it's at 18° with wind chill at 8°, but it will fall fast now that darkness has set in. The forecast for tomorrow morning's low is 9°, quite cold for us but this morning it was 8°. Still not expected to rise above the freezing point until 10:00 am Wednesday. Brrrr!
 
Strange it’s warmer here than at SFW estate.
We had 26-28F and sunny but chilly. It’s now 23F and dark.

I got switches wired in for the porch lights and the eaves lights and a 3-way switch setup for the front house “coach” lights. I got the two porch lights hooked up and working and one of the fron“coach” lights. The porch lights and coach lights are basically the same fixtures and my 45mm and 50mm screw worked out.

I didn’t get out and going until after 2:30pm and had my daughters guitar and band practice taxi service at 5pm.

tomorrow I going to finish the 3 front “coach” lights and maybe climb out and get an wave can trim and bulb in.
 


chadbag said:
Strange it’s warmer here than at SFW estate.
We had 26-28F and sunny but chilly. It’s now 23F and dark.
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This is a strange weather pattern!

Tom- Is about an hour and a half north of me and their temps made it above zero this afternoon. Ours never made it above zero.

If it did, it was for a brief enough moment I didn't catch it. -2 was the best temp I seen for our area.
 
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