EmirOfShmo

I spoke with a county schoolteacher yesterday. He said both Richmond suburb counties (Chesterfield & Henrico) are planning on a 4 day school week for kids with the off day either Monday or Wednesday to be used as teacher planning day. The students will only have 4 courses each semester - effectively learning an entire year subject in a semester. They're still deciding which day of the week will be used for planning. 

We didn't talk about the class setup and/or cleaning, distancing, etc. 

10 minutes ago, TheMalcolmConnection said:

Question for all you meat smokers out there: finally took the plunge and bought a decent electric (don't judge, it's my gateway ) smoker. Have had a lot of success in my first smokes doing pork tenderloins, chicken thighs, etc. The other day I said, hey, let's up the game and try a smaller pork butt. Did about 3 lbs. of butt and let it go at 225 for around four hours. The instructions I read were for a 8-10, so I figured a quarter of the time right? Wrong. After four hours I was only looking at 90 degrees internal temp. What did I do wrong? Thanks for any advice!

Generally I'd say to plan 1.5 hours per pound at 225 degrees. BUT, I almost always plan 5-6 hours for a 3 lb pork butt and hope it's done in 4.5 hrs. If it's done earlier, I wrap it in foil & a large towel & place it inside a cooler until I'm ready to eat. 

What did you use to check the smoker temp? I've never used an electric smoker/grill so I don't know how accurate the built in thermometer is. I NEVER use the grill thermometer as a guide for the grill temp (they are almost always inaccurate). I use a dual thermometer (~$30) to use for both the grill & meat. 

On 6/26/2020 at 2:58 PM, EmirOfShmo said:

Eviction suspension ends Sunday, June 28th in Virginia. I hope people are prepared for this.

WATCH NOW: Anti-eviction protest ends with arrests, window smashed at downtown Richmond courthouse

https://www.richmond.com/special-report/coronavirus/watch-now-anti-eviction-protests-ends-with-arrests-window-smashed-at-downtown-richmond-courthouse/article_70945a9f-4830-5d5d-86b5-5405dba2adc8.html

42 minutes ago, tshile said:

Haven’t cut my hair since March 15

or shaved

 

everyone likes it but the wife. 
 

Told my wife: No Vaccine No haircut

Old man white long hair starting to bother her. Been over 120 days. Oh well...

2 minutes ago, Dr. Do Itch Big said:

Yeah. I got a fever

Not sure where you are but CVS has drive thru free testing.

https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/covid-19-testing

I ate 1/4 of a ham & cheese sandwich on Sunday before I realized the crust I consumed was covered in blue-green mold. BLEH 

We've been buying a loaf of bread on most grocery visits & putting it in the freezer until needed. It works fine with English muffins but bread only lasts a few days after thawing. Gonna have to go back to only buying it when we need it. 

Now accepting enrollment applications to my new "School of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" (aka Pastafarians). 

Are we going to get a SCOTUS ruling on White House Occupant's taxes this week?

🤣

12 minutes ago, Mr. Sinister said:

 

I don't think there's any way to prepare, for people who've lost their jobs.

 

Would be nice if some insanely rich people could pool their money and resources and provide housing for these people

Yeah, I hear you. Make plans to move in with family or friends? 

I've heard some advertisements in Richmond about housing assistance money but don't know the details. Sounded like a new source of money.

Eviction suspension ends Sunday, June 28th in Virginia. I hope people are prepared for this.

5 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said:

The state of VA had like 520 cases today.

Palm Beach County alone had roughly 450.

 

Couldn’t imagine being a frontline med worker down there right now.
 

Its gonna get out of hand.

...and Virginia is starting Phase 3 on July 1st. Northam doesn't look like the dumbass chicken**** Governor he was portrayed to be a 4-6 weeks ago. 

Edit: Oh...and **** you Ted. Your master spoke. You choose now to go against his wishes? Eat a bag a dicks. 

I meant to post this back in April.

We've known Paul since he moved across the street from us shortly after taking the job at VCU. His tennis coaching record speaks for itself. His men's team lost to Stanford in the 2000 Finals. I know he'll miss the competition but he's earned a well deserved retirement. 

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2020/04/14/legendary-vcu-tennis-coach-paul-kostin-retiring-after-30-years/

Longtime VCU Tennis Coach Paul Kostin, who molded the VCU Men’s and Women’s Tennis programs into national powerhouses and once led the Rams to within a victory of a national championship, announced his retirement Tuesday.

“I am grateful for Paul’s 30 years as tennis coach, teacher and mentor to VCU’s student-athletes,” said VCU President Dr. Michael Rao, Ph.D. “As coach, Paul guided the tennis teams to national prominence. As a teacher and mentor, he guided student-athletes to promising futures beyond the court and classroom. Coach Kostin is VCU, and we will all miss him. I wish him well in his retirement.”

2 hours ago, PCS said:

 

This country needs to kneel down everyday & pray for the Central Americans that keep the food supply working. I can't tell you how many food plants I've been to across the country that are staffed with 95-99% Central Americans who work in jobs that no American would think about doing. And not in the normal places you would think of - try Abbotsford, WI where almost 100% of the workers at the pork sausage & beef plants are Central Americans. Look at it on a map - lilly white America with a huge population of Central Americans who decided cold as **** WI is a great place to migrate to. Who knew?

To see Desantis degrade these people is disgusting. **** him. Especially in a state that depends so ****ing much on the migrant workers to work the fields to keep us fed. Someone needs to drag his ass out to the fields in Plant City, FL to pick the strawberries in the strawberry capital of the world. Maybe then he would appreciate the work of these people.

Seriously, **** him. 

30 minutes ago, SAli457180 said:

Doesn't look there's much a chance of a 2020 season at all this year, but at least the Nats will be defending champs when they do come back

Yeah, this season is over. I hate typing that but that's the reality. And college football & NFL are next on the list of not happening. Unless a miracle vaccine/cure is developed in the next couple of weeks sports in 2020 are over. 

8 hours ago, China said:

Meanwhile, back in Richmond:

 

Arthur Ashe Statue Defaced With ‘White Lives Matter’ Graffiti

 

Vandals defaced a statue of Arthur Ashe Wednesday with “White Lives Matter” and “WLM” graffiti in Richmond, Virginia, where the Black tennis icon, humanitarian and civil rights activist grew up.

 

A white man was spotted spray-painting the base with “White Lives Matter,” a racist counter-slogan to the Black Lives Matter movement that has gained momentum since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

 

“Don’t all lives matter?” the man told a Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter observing him. “I’m not a racist. I just don’t agree with people desecrating property.” 

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

"I just don't agree with people desecrating property."  said the main caught desecrating property.

I drove down Monument Avenue yesterday around noon to see the damage along the street. First time since C19 isolation in mid-March. The paint on the Ashe statue had been removed. There was a story on the local news showing a group of people scrubbing it off the base of the statue. 

Re: Antifa Repelers

I think I hear the faint sounds of CSNY warming up for a redo in Bethel, OH.

Tin soldiers & repelers coming

We're finally on our own...

1 hour ago, JSSkinz said:

Many companies don't even observe MLK day as a paid holiday.  I've never had MLK off paid and I've worked for large banks and lending institutions.

 

 

 

 

A lot of places in Virginia get the day off. BUT, it's referred to as Lee-Jackson-King (Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson) day. And it took a while for them to add MLK to the name but it was always a holiday. 

Just got back from a trip to Costco:

Lots of beef, very little fresh pork, some fresh & organic chicken wings (both of these were new items I've never seen there), very few bags of frozen chicken breasts/thighs. 

Out of: organic & regular Kirkland brand fresh chicken (wings, breasts, thighs, drumsticks), bacon (except the specialty $$ variety). 

I need to find out what day they restock the meats after the weekend rush.

1 minute ago, Springfield said:

I’m at the Outer Banks now (Corolla). Seems like it’s 70/30 as far as mask/no-mask.

Restaurants open there?

We're supposed to go to OCNJ in mid-July with our son, girlfriend, SIL & BIL. I'm not feeling it. Told my wife I don't need to drive 5.5 hours to sit inside or on a deck. If the water is too cold I'll sit on the beach & bake. Can do that on our deck. 

So the jury is in deliberation. Expecting a ruling in late June/early July.

7 minutes ago, skinsmarydu said:

^^ I put that **** on errythang. Love it. 

Told my wife a couple of weeks ago it has anchovies in it. Of course she doesnt believe me. 

Oh well.

This is a good article about the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Their HQ is on the newly renamed Arthur Ashe Boulevard in Richmond. I've driven past this building 1000s of times over the past 35 years & never bothered to read about who they are or what they do. Now I know. Disgusting.

Here are 7 things the United Daughters of the Confederacy might not want you to know about them

It’s helpful, in the midst of any conversation about this country’s Confederate monuments, to understand who put these things up, which also offers a clue as to why. In large part, the answer to the first question is the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a white Southern women’s “heritage” group founded in 1894. Starting 30 years after the Civil War, as historian Karen Cox notes in her 2003 book “Dixie’s Daughters,” “UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, where states’ rights and white supremacy remained intact.” In other words, when the Civil War gave them lemons, the UDC made lemonade. Horribly bitter, super racist lemonade.

Though the UDC didn’t invent the Lost Cause ideology, they were deeply involved in spreading the myth, which simultaneously contends the Confederacy wasn’t fighting to keep black people enslaved while also suggesting slavery was pretty good for everyone involved. Lost Causers — plenty of whom exist today, their sheer numbers a reflection of the UDC’s effectiveness — argue that Confederate monuments are just innocent statues; that taking them down erases history; that we cannot retroactively apply today’s ideas about the morality of slavery to the past. The response to those ridiculous cop-outs is that Confederate monuments honor and glorify people who fought to maintain black chattel slavery; that they were erected for the explicit purpose of obfuscating history; and that the immorality of slavery was always understood by the enslaved. Excuses, excuses: get better at them.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/7-things-united-daughters-confederacy-might-not-want-know/

7 hours ago, Dont Taze Me Bro said:

Need advice.........on cooking pork ribs.  I suck at ribs, what is the best way to do them?  I've read to boil them, then just put them on charcoal and get the smoke flavor.

 

But, that **** seems weak to me.  Anyone offer some methods to smoke them on a charcoal grill?  Gonna dry rub them if possible.

The 3-2-1 method is pretty popular for cooking ribs - smoke for 3 hours, wrap in foil & back on the grill for 2 hours, take out of the foil & grill for 1 hour. 

Personally, I cook them on the grill at 225-250 degrees for 5-6 hours using a dry rub. Sometimes I add sauce for the last 30-45 minutes. If I do the 3-2-1 method, I put the ribs in a pan & then cover the pan with foil. It makes it easier to add liquid while they cook for the 2 hours. 

One of the keys to good ribs is removing the membrane on the back of the ribs. I push a fork or spoon handle under the membrane & grab it with paper towel to pull it off. Usually need 2 or 3 attempts to get all of it off the ribs. 

Here's a link to the 3-2-1 method --- https://heygrillhey.com/3-2-1-ribs-perfect-fall-off-the-bone-ribs/

Post some pics! 

25 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said:

Just checking in to let everyone know that Richmond is still standing this morning.

You sure???  I saw this on the news this morning but I missed the context. I'm going to need to drive downtown to verify.