That's the joke man

I’ve always been here. I grew up here. So the question for me would be why did I stay here. Family and friends is of course a big draw. My family. My wife’s family. It’s not a bad place to raise kids. Ample activities. The lake nearby. The wife and I have talked though that if our kids scatter when they grow up that we might move to Colorado because we love it so much out there. We love to ski in the winter and hike in the summer.

We’ve been looking for a new pub trivia ever since they stopped at Patton Alley. Might need to give this a try. General knowledge?

#TeamShanghai

Gotta have me a DP with my Mexican Villa

Yeah some of the most liberal states have gone too far left and same for the conservative states.

If you’re left of center politically, you’ll be frustrated by the race to the bottom in this state. Budget surplus? Let’s cut taxes for the wealthy instead of raise teacher pay that we are ranked near the last in. Loosest possible gun laws. Abortion banned. Our two senators are right wing trolls.

The Springfield metro area is not a bad place to live though. Live in the suburbs or one of the surrounding communities and you’ll be fine. Republic is also a nice town just outside Springfield. Nixa and Ozark. Most of the people I grew up with are still here. Which I know is true of a lot of places, but it’s not like people are fleeing because of crime and poverty.

Still waiting for someone to use my idea and open a Mexican restaurant on Kearney Street called Kearney Asada

And that one was… not good

Yes an excellent burger

I hadn’t seen this before. Pretty great

Coyotes best wings IMO

Villa for Life

I forget what they call it there, but the Arroz con Pollo is primo 🤌

Chicharron plate at Cafe Cusco 🤌

This is the answer

Springfield BrewCo has a hot chicken sandwich that is Nashville hot style and it’s fantastic.

Hope they are warrantied still

I too have used Uber pretty late a couple different times.

Not terrible. I use vinegar to clean out the urn every couple weeks. Which reminds me I did have to buy the urn which was another $70 or so IIRC.

There are a couple other parts I take apart every few weeks and clean with vinegar. I imagine having sugar in it makes it worse though.

I drink a ton of unsweet tea. I was going by McD’s daily. And getting a couple of them at a time. My wife suggested I buy an actual tea maker. So I found a used restaurant grade one on an auction site for something like $125. It’s the kind you see at a restaurant or gas station. Water line plumbed to it. I buy the tea in bulk and the large bags make 3 gallons at a time and the bags equal out to about $1 per bag. I’ve had the machine now a couple years so I’ve easily paid for the machine and then some. It has a way to do sweet too. I think you buy sugar packs for it or something, not really sure.

We had a lot in our neighborhood out north of Springfield.

Can’t go wrong there either

You do you brah