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Took advantage of a weekday off to get a nice Columbia Gorge sampler in yesterday, with a focus on the Little White Salmon area. Big Cedars County Park, Spirit Falls and hidden wildflower spot near Home Valley

That's why they're installing kiosks in most of them. The days of the happy-go-lucky McDonald's cash register worker are almost over

Actually you didn’t. Looks like nicknames for Richard are censored here.

This is really the only MacDonald's I ever crave.

But even in god-forsaken CA, you can still get a $1.50 hot dog and soda at Costco!

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I'd argue that you and MAGA are the ones hell bent on going down with the ship. And yeah, I do think the polls showing Trump solidly winning are wrong. I'm old enough to remember when polls indicated a large red wave was coming in the 2022 midterms and it was nothing more than a small ripple. Who's to say we aren't seeing a similar phantom wave this go around?

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Long range GFS suggests the upcoming whet pattern may be in and out…

In n Out is great. Imagine Dick's drive in, but everywhere across the SW instead of just the Seattle area. I had my first burger from them at the central Hollywood location on a road trip just out of high school. It's impressively good for a fast food joint.

Speaking personally, I know I'm just that much more likely to do a 50 piece McNugget and large Peanut Butter Crunch McFlurry combo when I don't have a laser-eyed teenager there at the register to judge me.

I was reading some franchise owners report on this and their labor cost hasn't changed but order sizes and "premium" food ordered has increased after adding kiosks. MORE DERAILMENT SORRY OFFICER J-DOG

Their fries used to be straight up crack. I still have to scratch that itch every once in a while, but more often than not, its I end up with a bag of french fry flavored salt.

Plenty of mid level clouds streaming in from the WNW over here. Has gotten noticeably darker in the last hour.

In a lot of places, fast food prices have inflated more than any other type of food - mainly because the cost of labor has skyrocketed.

We break down during our annual road trip to MN and will stop at McDonalds a couple times. They actually have really good coffee. We never go to McDonalds when when we are home.

My son just asked me about the weather this weekend so I ran the ECMWF surface maps because there are usually breaks during stormy patterns in Seattle. What a mess. Very little sun for maybe a week. Clouds at multiple levels for many days... damp and really chilly daytime temps. Sun and showers every day during spring troughing is one thing. This is going to be something worse. Timing of our trip couldn't have been any better.

TikTok has a year to sell or get banned. By then, the election will be in the rearview mirror. Not to mention you think your average American has a short attention span? Just look at the 20-somethings... They'll be moved on to the next manufactured crisis within a few months at most.

Biden is disliked by many, Trump is absolutely hated by more.

In less than a week, the tree outside my home office fully leafed out. Last week they were all so tiny and bunched up.

But what I really came here to mention is you can feel a change in the air outside this morning. It is a cloudy and mild morning, but the positive vibes of nature are quite apparent. Beneficial and life giving rains are on the way and nature is rejoicing.

I can't imagine being north of 40 and still eating fast food regularly. Unless you have the most amazing metabolism or have time to workout 6 hours a day it seems like the perfect pipeline to obesity. Whenever I make the mistake of grabbing a McChicken or something because I'm in the hurry I always feel like garbage for the next few hours. Like eating poison.

Jesse downvoted this again because he wants it to rain forever and never see the sun for the rest of his life in the miserably arid and sunny PNW desert climate he lives in.

It's looking like the wetter pattern that will close out April will carry into the first week of May along the I-35 corridor. I'm ready to get the pool ready and the CPC favors above average temps to open May.

0z models all bullish on rainfall totals for just about everyone. WPC forecast

You know who makes a surprisingly good milkshake? Shari's.

In n out is just another fast food place, I don't get the hype. Although I will say, the shakes are REALLY good. I remember hearing about when they opened that one in Keizer oregon a few years back, people waited in line for over 6 hours on the opening day.... just for a cheeseburger that tastes okay.... they could've spent a fraction of that time cooking themselves a gourmet cheeseburger at home, and it would've costed them the same amount. Humans are weird

Locally here, May 2011 was historically cold while June was just merely chilly. June 2010 actually felt a lot colder than June 2011, though looking back there was only about a degree difference.

It’s true. There’s really nothing nothing in life that’s worth fretting about aside from record MIN/MAX’s in May/June. The rest is just gravy, baby. Embrace the chaos.

I gave up fast food 12 years ago at 37. around the same time I started huffing DMT. Enlightenment. we're all just love and light in a big cosmic goo

Hopefully the upward trend in the ensembles is not just a default to climo in long range and there is an actual warm up ahead. Mid 50s is great in March but not so much in May.

Liquid now falling from sky.

Strawberry shake , one deluxe , a fry and throw in a tarter

This is all predictable as you point out. It's not going to be banned. Money > everything.

300+ hour precip maps are back! But at least even the semi-realistic near term looks fairly wet.

I haven’t had McDonalds in a decade…However I do still crave a quarter pounder now and again but I always refrain when driving past. Also it’s getting quite expensive, we stopped at Taco Time after the kids soccer practice to grab dinner and it was $50! Good lord! Another reason why we rarely eat out while on the go anymore.

oh boy i can't wait for hillsdale to get even worse than it already is

You strike me as the healthy type. The kind of roach that will outlive us all. With love brother.

You can see my search history?

We agree my friend in Christ... my dear brother... and fellow child of God. I try to avoid fast food as much as possible.

Closest one to here is in either Roseburg or Keizer. Guess they decided to skip the Eugene/Springfield metro area.

THEY’RE COMING FOR YOU CASCADIA! https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/apr/23/in-n-out-proposes-second-clark-county-location-in-east-vancouver/

I looked up the founders of the weather channel. Looks like they’re both dead.

Did a road trip to Minnesota with my brother the middle of that month. We camped a few nights in Yellowstone on the way. It was Also camped in Glacier on the way back. It snowed.

Gorgeous evening. My daughter got the Irish setter up on her trampoline and is hosing her down. Pandemonium.

The white witch is causing a deep freeze west of the mountains