ran precompile again
still troubleshooting background image made a change to the asset_path tag in the css
ran precompile again
still troubleshooting the background image
taking some weight out of the application by deleting some images that aren't being used
clobbered the assets and re precompiled
removed scss from the application.css file
made a change with quotes
maybe this will fix it
went back to the old way I was doing it
I have no idea what I am doing at this point
I am tired of trying to make this dumb thing work I am just hosting the image