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Spatchcocked chicken is the best way to do a whole chicken (Tim's photo is a spatchcocked chicken). It does equally well on the barby. The secret is taking out the backbone and splitting the breast bone so it lays flat. Making it flat makes it cook more evenly.
This is what a spatchcocked chicken looks like on the grill.
Hey folks
new member
was suggested I join my local chapter!
2008 F350 6.4 CC SB 6spd 92,xxx miles on 37’s
New to me. Came with a SnugTop SuperSport I’m not too fond of — would love to sell. I’ll contact forum leader before posting since I’m new, and I read the Start Here FAQ!
. I’ll contact forum leader before posting since I’m new, and I read the Start Here FAQ!
Follow all the rules and do everything he tells you. The chapter leader is a pretty tough guy. He keeps everyone in line with strict discipline. It helps if you get him a bucket of chicken.
We all have different needs when it comes to computers. Some guys need to have a lot of power and speed, for playing computer games. Other people have certain requirements for what they do at work. I'm casual and recreational. I surf the web, check email, watch videos, listen to music - typical consumer. I'll also use it for FORScan and Torque. I guess people do all of that with a cell phone. But I still like viewing a screen and using a keyboard. It will come in handy when I decide to quit my job, hang out in a coffee shop, and lose my life savings by day trading.
I've always had PCs. And it was always IBM (Lenovo) or Hewlett Packard. Just old school that way. IBM & HP were, once upon a time, the kind of computers you found at work. I was always hesitant to buy something like Gateway. A few years ago, I bought this ChromeBox that I'm using now. Everything seemed very easy to use. And it's doing what I need it to do. There was nothing about Microsoft Windows that I missed or couldn't live without.
The SCT tuning devices of yesteryear worked with Windows. My devices (X3 and LiveWire) are obsolete, outdated, and are no longer supported by SCT. I still have an SCT locked to my F-150, with custom tunes by Mike Troyer - who is no longer around to support the device or his custom tunes. Not a major concern, because at the moment, I don't have a new Mustang or F-150 that I want to load custom tunes into. Nobody custom tunes a Transit Connect minivan with an anemic 4 cylinder engine.
My Garmin GPS devices, yes, I still have several of them, can only be updated with a Windows computer. The Garmin website with the Garmin online updates does not work with Linux. Along with a few Garmin GPS, I still have a really old GPS made by Lowrance..... the fish finder company. I can't find any way to update that device. I like perching it on my Harley's handlebars. I can read the GPS gauges to show me how fast I'm going, how far I've traveled, etc. The trip gauge is handy since my old bike doesn't have a fuel gauge. I've got to keep an eye on how many miles I've driven, then guess at how much fuel I have left in the tank. Funny that nobody has stolen a GPS off the handlebars of my motorcycle. Thieves look at that, and laugh.
I bought a computer which I did not "need". Amazon' special. I was sold on the price. I'm a sucker that way. Buying junk because it's cheap. The only feature besides the price, which I liked, was that it was "mil-spec" ruggedized. It's built to take a little spanking. I'm just the guy to drop it, have it in a backpack with bigger, heavier things on top. Leave it in a backpack, throw that backpack into the truck bed, and drive through the rain as the backpack gets wet and slides all over, banging into everything. It'll be in my backpack as I get punched, kicked, spat upon, and pissed on - a hot date!
I've had an HP Chromebook x360 14 for a couple of years now, and I love it. It has 8GB of memory, and 128GB of local storage. For me, a 12" screen is just too cramped. The 14" works most of the time, and is pretty portable; I use it as a traveling computer. Pretty darn quick. The only things I would have against the one you have picked is the screen size and the memory of 4GB. However, if your needs are modest, it would work very well.
ChromeUnboxed just marveled at that particular chromebook here. Not stylish. Not standout, but still a remarkably good deal.
I would love to have a $500 computer, or even a $1,000 computer. But what would I be doing with it?
It's like buying a Mustang, when I only need a bus pass, as I commute from the bedroom to the bathroom, while working from home.
The real reason I bought it was for the price. I don't need another computer. Especially don't need a computer just to use in my F-150. Completely asinine to mount it with a gooseneck supported bracket so that it's at my fingertips. And I will not buy anything for it. No webcam. No padded, armored, carry case. No DVD burner. No Bluetooth speakers. No microphone. No mouse. Nothing. Just use it as is. Get $79 worth of computing out of it.
The F-150 was where I should have learned my lesson. I bought a full size pickup truck, without a need. Just because I wanted to drive around in a big truck, burning lots of gas, and not being able to find parking spaces in the city? I got it for a good price. When the F-150 went from being the #1 selling car in The USA, to selling zero within a month. Gas prices were at record highs. Ford was giving them away by letting dealers sell at cost, and giving the retail customer a $7,500 rebate. They had to move them off the lots. My out the door cost was about the same as if I bought a Focus.
Knowing myself, I will bet that the next time some auto manufacturer has to get rid of a car they no longer want to sell, and the price is too good of a deal..... That's kind of why I have the last carbureted Harley. They were going to fuel injection. I got a good price.
A slow news day. The stock indices are falling. People are still talking about the Los Angeles City Council. CNN broke the news that Budweiser bought 2 horses.
The good news for me is that we haven't been driving as much since the beginning of the pandemic. Had to fil the F150 the other day and the total came to $196. That wasn't even for a full tank!
I put 25 dollars in the Charger yesterday and the fuel gauge needle barely moved. When I first bought the car it was at half a tank, and I filled it up. Cost just over 77 dollars.
I filled up the van today. It took exactly 12.99 gallons. It has a 15+gallon tank. The European spec may be 60 liters. The rough math is just under 20 miles per gallon. The EPA estimate is 27 mpg. Which I can get, if I drive only on the freeway, at 55 miles per hour. I've done it. Trucks go around me to pass me. Seniors pass me and shake their canes at me. Once, after being paced for 5 miles, a highway patrol officer used the PA mic to tell me to go faster. As an experiment, I drove my F-150 at 55 mph, and got almost 22 mpg. It was a little over 21, but I am claiming the win at a little under 22. The real problem is that I do like to go faster. On open Interstate highways, where there is no other traffic on the road, I find myself cruising about 80 - 85 mph. I developed that bad habit driving during the pandemic, when everyone was staying at home. There were no other cars on the road. That really sucks more gas, and drops the mpg.
Once, I stopped to use the bathroom at a truck stop on I-5. I came back out to find a CHP car parked behind mine. He wanted to have a conversation with me, and check me out to see if there were any signs of impairment. It wasn't a vehicle stop. We just talked. The posted limit is 70 in that area. I was driving 80+, but not impaired. I told him about how on some of the roads in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas..... I saw 80 as the posed speed limit, I was driving 90, and people flew past me at 100 mph. He sort of laughed, and said, "here, it's 70, try to stay close to that"
Effing Gas!!! Almost $7 per gallon locally. Next, I'll have to fill the 27 gallon tank of the F-150! Jim, can we get the new members to pay us dues? We could split that for gas money.
