(Part 2) Best products from r/Denver

I tried all sorts of meats and ultimately settled on chicken as the primary source due to costs. From King Soopers I would purchase 2 whole chickens, a pack of chicken livers, and a pack of chicken hearts nearly every week. I would use a cleaver to segment each chicken into 4 main parts and place them into a silicon bread pan like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Wilton-Easy-Flex-Silicone-Cavity/dp/B000VQ8EF6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1382492459&sr=8-4&keywords=silicon+bread+pan

You'll want a decent sized cutting board as well because the process of whacking chicken into sections isn't really refined.

I'd spread the hearts and liver among the 8 sections until they're nearly even portions. Each section represents a meal. I would then stick those pans into the freezer and pop out a section when it was meal time. The silicon pan facilitates the separation of the frozen meat from the pan. It's surprising how well frozen meat sticks to plastic.

To supplement meals I would purchase random meats that I found were on sale at the Vietnamese grocery here:

https://www.google.com/maps/preview?authuser=0#!q=Alameda+Square+Shopping+Center&data=!1m4!1m3!1d21518!2d-105.0157865!3d39.7076418!4m15!2m14!1m13!1s0x0%3A0xa65e2affb4fb01e9!3m8!1m3!1d21518!2d-105.0240692!3d39.7087313!3m2!1i1278!2i1346!4f13.1!4m2!3d39.710059!4d-105.0141048

Especially the beef bones because they had tons of marrow that my dog really loved. They're also a good source of things like pig ears, chicken feet, and duck parts.

Well, we're still really new to the game.. we only started playing in August. However, if you want to get a good idea of what gameplay is like and/or how to build a character, check out these links:

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  One group's weekly D&D game, recorded live
  
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  Dungeons & Dragons Official Homepage
  
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  Character building help: 27 Questions to Ask your New Character
  
  Also buy these books:
  
  Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms
  
  Heroes of the Fallen Lands
  
  D&D Rules Compendium
  
  These first two books are all about the character races and classes, and the last one is just a comprehensive list of all the game rules. Like I said, I've been playing since August, and I haven't read all of them cover to cover, because so far the only parts that have been pertinent to me were about building my character and leveling up. But there's a good, strong description of the gameplay in there, so you should get a pretty good idea of how it works.
  
  Hope this helps!

You DEFINITELY need to get a new lens.

The first lens you should get is the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, which sells for about $100 at Best Buy or Mike's Camera. It is a prime lens, meaning there is no zoom function. But it is much simpler than a telephoto lens with fewer moving parts, but you can get higher quality optics relatively inexpensively. This will allow you to play around with aperture & depth of field.

If you don't mind buying used, the photo/video section of the Denver Craigslist is pretty robust. you can find all sorts of used gear for great prices!

I have 4 chickens (I got them from Wardle Feed). I also got a nice used coop from there as well (about $300).


Feed is cheap, at about $20 a bag, which lasts a month or so for my 4 chickens. I put up a small fence around about 30sq/ft of yard space to let them free range a bit, but the coop has a full run underneath, so I can keep them somewhat locked up. I also have a light (about 60 watts) that I keep on a night in the winter, which serves two fold:

One to keep the coop slightly warmer (though it rarely gets cold enough to need this, chickens are hardy), and to keep them laying eggs over the winter, which they don't naturally do due to low amounts of light. I also have a 5 gallon bucket waterer (http://www.amazon.com/GALLON-Poultry-Waterer--Up-Chickens-/dp/B00F9A4976/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1457209610&sr=8-9&keywords=5+gallon+chicken+waterer)

And a water warmer for the winter (http://www.amazon.com/Farm-Innovators-C-50-Aluminum-Birdbath/dp/B0002DHBDY/ref=pd_bxgy_86_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0SECCZMNSYKE2Y3P9TGF). 5 gallons of water lasts for several weeks, and the warmer only turns on if the water gets to freezing point.


The eggs are awesome, make great gifts, and can be colorful! I get green, brown, and white eggs.

Not near you, but what helped me was getting rid of the temptation of television and video games. They are great once you learn self discipline, but an easy out when you lack motivation. Just, unplug them for a few months and box them away. When you really, really want to watch/play them, it's going to require work to do it.

Build some social activities that involve physical fitness... Even just walking, a bike day with some friends, a hike... It's fun and makes you commit.

And really, the answers are out there for proper form, technique, training, plans, etc. This might be more than you think you need or want, but the basics are part of this book and can get you places you might want to go: http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Alpinism-Climbing-Light-Fast/dp/0898866545

Skip the climbing stuff, but pay attention to the mental and the weightlifting/training. Do it right, watch the calories and you could be a beast.

You only need to worry about what you can do today; not what you missed, or what you'll do tomorrow. Get moving.

Because it generally changes the character of a place for the worse. Take Wyoming for example, which was number five. I'm speculating, but what I'm going to describe is what tends to happen in a lot of rural areas.

I would bet most people who live in Wyoming live there because they like small town life, they don't like city-folk, they want a place where no one is going to bat an eye if you don't leash your dog or if you go out and shoot beer cans next to the road. A place where you're free to be a redneck, if you will. They don't make a lot of money but they're happy with what they have.

Now you get rich people from the city moving out because they want to live "the country life". But their version of "the country life" doesn't include shooting beer cans, letting your dogs roam, or driving ATVs and snowmobiles around. They drive up property values by building their dream home "McMansions", forcing out the poorer people who first lived there, they get new laws passed banning dogs off leash and shooting, they complain about the noise of the ATVs and snowmobiles while they're out hiking in their Arc'teryx jackets with their 2.5 kids and 2 dogs, they get the zoning laws changed because they "don't like the smell of cows". Essentially they destroy what made the place desirable. It's the rural version of gentrification.

For good examples look at Aspen or Vail. 50 years ago they were quirky ski towns where a ski bum could live on an instructor's salary. Now they've been overrun by the rich who have destroyed the skiing culture [1]. Steamboat has recognized that the rich are driving out the ranchers that make Steamboat what it is and is trying to find a fix before it's too late [2].

Frankly I don't have a problem with people moving, though at a certain point a small town becomes a city and that sucks for the original residents. Unfortunately the population of America and the world continues to grow, so it's pretty much inevitable, except in the north: most people are too pussy to live somewhere where it gets really cold. However, I do have a problem with people moving and then deciding that they know better than the original residents. And if you move to an area where everyone lives in modest houses and build a massive McMansion, thus driving up property values, fuck you.

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This guy is right on the money.

What you're looking for is essentially the following two items (or three, if you're supremely obsessive)

1. A docsis 3.0 modem. The Motorola Surfboard brand has been king for quite some time.
   
   
2. A router. You can go for wired (advantage: Never ever crashes) or wireless (crashes more often, particularly the cheaper ones). I recommend either his DIR 655, or if you want to spend more, the Asus RT-N66U (http://amzn.com/B006QB1RPY). I can count the number of times this router has crashed on me so far on zero fingers.
   
   
3. If you got a wired router in step 2, you'll need a wifi access. I have become a big fan of the UniFi access points (http://amzn.com/B005H4CDF4). I got one for my parents, programmed it, then told them they were allowed to move it anywhere in the house they felt like. It has improved their wifi substantially. Please note, this entire step is only really useful if your house is at least 2,000 sq feet.

The LSAT is a fairly coachable test. The more prep tests you take, the better you will do.

Can you keep your mornings free 30 days prior to the test? And do you have $250?

Make the LSAT part of your routine for 30 days-- it only takes 21 days to form a habit. 30 days before the test, do the same thing every morning. Wake up at the same time, eat breakfast, go to the bathroom (always important before any test), do whatever you need to do to feel clean, awake, and refreshed... get to a library around whatever time LSAT check-in would be, and take a prep test at the same time the exam is scheduled. Administer the test yourself, adhere to time constraints, etc. $250 should get you a months worth of prep tests and there are cheaper/unofficial/bootleg tests out there. The LSAT will be your 31st consecutive prep test.

Continue your study groups and improving upon your weak areas, but try and commit to the 30-day prep plan. I encourage you to find a serious study-buddy to do the plan with you to, so you can keep each other honest and work through your answers together, on a test-by-test basis.

If you're saying to yourself, "I'd pay $2500 for a 175," this plan is a small investment by comparison.

Idk, but back in the day when I had this kind of setup I had great luck with inline antenna bypass unit, the sound was near perfect. However, that might be more work than you're looking to invest into this.

I guess you've read the book 'How to Lie with Charts' and took it as a lesson plan?

https://www.amazon.com/How-Charts-Gerald-Everett-Jones/dp/1419651439

You're only choosing a median income of a wider Denver area which is different from focusing on downtown Denver that has people making half a million per year (and up) along with the breakdown I already addressed in my original post. It's also a very different dynamic from the Denver metro area.

LA County has 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas and, at over 4000 square miles, it is larger than the combined areas of Delaware and Rhode Island. You have many of the literally 10 million occupants living far away from downtown LA in vastly higher concentrations than the Denver metro area.

The Denver metro area is only 2 million people with a vastly different geocentric dynamic. In other words, a lot more of the Denver metro area is empty. There are outskirts of Denver that don't have near the same dynamics, rent, wages, taxation or even cultural aspects as you get closer to the downtown area with its concentration of people and commerce. LA County, on the other hand, has 10 million people spread out in various concentrations (hence incorporated cities, etc.) all over the fringes.

The average pay for a cashier in Los Angeles, CA is hundreds of more dollars per month than a cashier in Denver, CO makes.

Why are you comparing that to people who live in a 12 mile area around the heart of Denver or even the entire Denver metro area which has areas with more wildlife than people within it?

Now, back to reality.

You pull up many same jobs, etc. in California cities that have similar or even lower rent prices as Denver you'll blatantly see the discrepancy in wages versus cost of rent.

Keep in mind Denver rents have increased dramatically in six straight months since January of this year. It's also extended to rent increases in Denver metro area so people are moving further and further to the outskirts.

I recommend this book.

Someone mentioned Cheesman Park, and the 1980 movie The Changeling is actually based on the Henry Treat Rogers mansion in that neighborhood.

Crooke Patterson Mansion in Cap Hill also has a creepy history.

This website has a few good leads.

Personally the only inexplicable things I've ever experienced were at the Stanley Hotel like /u/Shelbie007. My father's band was doing a concert up there in the Concert Hall (which is a separate building from the main hotel) and one of the members made a joke about ghosts and literally right after a large light fell from the ceiling above the stage and barely missed the guys.

I also recommend getting some drinks at their amazing whiskey bar and trying to get the bartenders there to tell you their stories.

>Crawled out the sun roof and walked away with a small bruise. That Subaru was totaled out and I went and bought another. Tested safe car :).

Wow. Fucking Subaru, man. I don't blame people for buying them at all.

>Edit: also now have dashcam.

Do you mind if I ask which one purchased? I was thinking of getting a G1-W. Everyone in /r/dashcam seems to like them.

Glad to hear you're ok, and that the airbags (and sunroof) helped you!

I lot of my advice has been mentioned already, but if you are interested in exploring high altitude baking in more depth, I highly recommend this book.

Pie in the Sky Successful Baking at High Altitudes: 100 Cakes, Pies, Cookies, Breads, and Pastries Home-tested for Baking at Sea Level, 3,000, 5,000, 7,000, and 10,000 feet (and Anywhere in Between). https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060522585/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_O.SgAbJZ272MB

I remember looking for one a while back, and the only thing I could find was the crappy blue Moleskin that's 3.5" x 5.5".

I ended up ordering a Rhodia Webnotebook from Amazon. They're pretty nice. The pages are a little smooth for my taste but they handle pen and ink pretty well. They've also got a webbed sleeve in the back for holding misc.

The Leuchtturm 1917 is also very popular for dotted notebooks.

Yeah, the "flammable tap water" thing was from up in my area, Weld County. The situation was that all of these folks used well water for their houses, and they had higher-than-normal levels of methane gas in their water. It was a big hit with the local media, but the kerfluffle died out not too long afterwards.

I think you'll find a lot of information if you check out Denver Water's page on Water Quality - they provide information on the treatment process and the results of their tests. You can probably also request the water test results in print (In Greeley, we get them once a year with our water bills).

All in all, I've lived here a long time, and I've never had a problem with our water anywhere. In my opinion, it seems like municipalities in Colorado are much more concerned with water and water quality than in other places in the US I've lived previously. Heck, Coors even advertises that their beer is brewed with fresh "cold Rocky Mountain water"!

Feel safe with your water. If you're still concerned (or want to prove to your mom that the water's safe), you can always buy a water testing kit, although I don't know how accurate or effective they are, never having used one myself.

I bought this and have enjoyed it: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Hikes-Dogs-Colorado-Savage/dp/0898869684

When I lived in a two story 2200 sq ft townhouse I had a whole house humidifier (Honeywell) and changed the filters every 3-4 mos. It worked great! Also had an air cleaner attached to the furnace. That cut way down on dust. Now I'm in a 1200' loft with a heat pump and whole building broiler for heat. I got this, which is sufficient for a one story place, but would not be enough for you.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004S34ISA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Any trail in the foothills.

EDIT: Here's a sweet book that is exactly what you are looking for, LINK, they also sell it at REI.

I read about its hauntedness in my Ghosts of Denver: Capitol Hill book.