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  1. OK, I googled Jim, he is a world renowned skate board artist that is now working for Disney.
  2. So who are the team members of The ACE Team? Who is Jim Phillips? Are these people of importance at Disney?
  3. Does this help? Being of an Engineering background, it took me less than a minute to solve it. I was just surprised that my son solved the horse one so fast.
  4. That is a little bit of data manipulation in that statement. The key part being the "Entrance". The distance from the boat dock at Fort Wilderness to the castle is closer than the distance from the bus stop at the Outpost to Spaceship Earth. It is also 1.31 miles from the Outpost check-in to the boat dock as the crow flies.
  5. Looks like they did not have a season at all for 2016 but may try again in 2017. Personally I believe hunting to be a vital part of the management process.
  6. Now that I am almost 100% over this nasty sinus infection, and I have reviewed my report, I see that I missed several things. I have to give props to TCD on his trips reports because writing one is hard. I had this vision of how I wanted it to flow and I guess too much Sudafed is like too much alcohol because it slipped off the path I intended. I forgot to show off our Silver status gift, a nice beach bag. I also forgot our last towel animal. And our final crayon puzzle. Make the fish go the opposite direction in three moves.
  7. We have looked at the Galveston cruises, and plan to do one in the far future. The schedule there just does not work with school age kids and we still have 7 years of school left. I am hoping that when the two new ships are launched, they will offer more cruises out of Galveston.
  8. She was more concerned that I would be upset that she didn't do much. I assured her that I was not upset and that the rest of us did have some fun, just not doing the things we looked forward to. As to the traveling, I spent over 10 years driving a truck for our business. I averaged over 4,000 miles a week most weeks. So over 800 miles in a day is a cake walk for me. Everyone else has their pillow and a blanket so they just lounge while I drive. We love to travel and see things and have done so since the start of our marriage. And knew that it was a big gamble with the weather takin
  9. Sunday morning is here. I am up early so I can eat breakfast in Cabana's, with a table at the stern so I can watch the docking operation at Castaway Cay. The captain brings the ship in, makes his turn and starts backing in to the dock. I am ready for this, had been looking forward to this, and then, I feel a shudder, and we start pulling away from the dock, slipping further out to sea. My heart sinks, knowing that Castaway Cay is a bust. Shortly after pulling away, the captain comes on the intercom, and due to extreme gale force winds of 50 knots (approximately 57 MPH for us land lubbers) we w
  10. The next morning was Nassau. When we booked this cruise, my wife had booked a shore excursion for Nassau since we did not like our first experience there at all. It was a day on a private beach somewhere that you got there by boat. I started watching the weather at ten days out for our trip before we left home. The forecast was showing for cooling and rain all day on Saturday, so before we had left home, we had decided to cancel that shore excursion, thinking that the weather would be bad and not wanting to waste that much money. That turned out to be a bad/not so bad decision. The weather on
  11. The next morning, sure enough, the wife is sick, sinuses draining like a faucet, sneezing, coughing, the whole deal. So she takes some meds and hopes to be well enough to board at our scheduled arrival time of 12:15. Well a couple of hours later, feeling much better, we board the hotel shuttle to the Cruise Terminal. Here is our first view of the Dream. We check in and since this is our second cruise, we were rewarded with some snazzy Silver lanyards to hold our Key to World cards around our necks and advertise to everyone else that we were returning guest, though some cast members o
  12. Since we had a few days free, we decided to visit some other parts of Florida that we had never been to before. My wife had heard that there was a beach on the western side of Florida that known for finding shark teeth so we decided to spend a day on that beach looking for shark teeth. So I first day in Florida we spent on Nokomis Beach. We found a couple of dozen after figuring out what to look for. We got up the next morning and headed to Port Canaveral with a couple of short stops to fill the day since it was such a short drive from Nokomis. Our first stop was at the TECO M
  13. I will start this off with a small explanation. Since our beloved Ole Miss Rebels failed to field a defensive squad for the past season, resulting in No Bowl Game, we decided that a day on the beach at Castaway Cay was in order to sooth our sorrow. So with that intention, my wife checked cruise prices and compared to the time that our youngest child was out of school and found we could save over 2/3's of the cost if went after the holiday season instead of during the Christmas/New Year time. We asked our two children what they would like for Christmas, a bunch of stuff they didn't need or a Di
  14. This question is like Ford vs Chevy vs Dodge. With that said, B&W is very highly liked, so is the Anderson raised ball hitch. For a sliding hitch for short bed trucks, the Pullrite Superglide is a premium hitch with a premium price. To be honest, most hitches manufactured today are good hitches.
  15. Merry Christmas to you good Sir. Thanks for taking the time to entertain the rest of us Fiends.
  16. And I hate how those machines are always dripping when you are trying to get ice for the tea. Makes it hard to get clean ice without the drippings from the previous person's soda.
  17. Kelly, The Mini Max nest has a band that goes around the middle with a handle on each side. This is a Mini.
  18. Unfortunately that is the standard Mini. Good to cook one steak at a time or two hamburger patties at a time.
  19. I think you need to get that picture of the deer blocked by the Gator Fence to go viral. How dare Disney disrupt the life of that poor deer. And it also deprives the poor alligator from its food source, thereby increasing the risk of another alligator attack. Did Disney get approval from Biologist before installing all that fencing? I bet not. Now they have impacted the migration patterns and who knows what else. These fences need to be dismantled NOW.
  20. $250 for it is a a great deal if it is a Mini-Max and not cracked or missing parts. Some places are asking $600 for that Egg. If it is just a Mini, then it is still a good deal. Mini's sell for around $380 here.
  21. I know that my boat pushes a huge wake at anything over an idle but once it is up on the pad running, at say 85 or so, there is almost no wake at all. My dream would be to rip off a run across the water bridge, trimmed out and running close to a 100.
  22. Eat at Felix's Fish Camp. Next to the Battleship. Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island. Fort Morgan on the east side of the inlet. And don't forget the huge Mardi Gras parade since you are talking about going in February. Mobile was the site of the very first Mardi Gras in North America, New Orleans just took it to a whole other level (some good, most bad).
  23. If you have trouble with the slide on a Glock, it is because of bad technique.
  24. Do as Travisma stated and go to a range that rents firearms and try several. My recommendation is a Glock 19. It is easy to load, shoot, and hit your target, even under a ton of stress. My wife started out with the 38 special revolver. After just 50 rounds she went back to the store and bought a Glock 19. She carries her Glock often. Next thing after deciding which one you like, GET SOME TRAINING! Take a women's self defense shooting class. One of the best things my wife ever attended.
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