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Are any of you doing any covered call options with your IBRX holdings? I have a few thousand shares of SLS and have been doing pretty good with it on short term options like weekly and 2 week options on top of just the stock appreciation. IBRX’s short term ones haven’t been worth messing with, but there is decent pricing on 90 day options right now in the low to mid teens. With the volume of shares I can pull a few thousand and the risk seems low inside that window. Ultimately, if they get called I’ll still be in good shape with a 4-5x return, but covered calls is something I haven’t messed with much.

He’s not disagreeing with you, he’s making fun of the “skip leg day” people. The whole thing is dumb at this point. I used the guy I work out with as an example of someone that rarely works legs or just takes a quick pass at it. 7 days out of 7 he would pick upper body. That’s his prerogative, but it comes up regularly. The gym is running a 1000 pound challenge this summer. The leaderboard has over half the people with a higher bench than squat and deadlift, some by quite a bit. I find that odd. I don’t give a shit in the grand scheme of things, but I can still point out that it’s odd. Especially when I know a few of the guys benching 400+ but walking around on chicken legs.

I was looking around the gym this morning while doing legs and I was amazed how many “skipped leg day guys” there were walking around. I work out with a guy that has been working out for years and he has virtually no leg strength compared to what I would expect after that length of time. It’s odd the disparity when we get to leg day. I’ve always been a bigger guy so maybe being fat helped set the base. I’m down to about 245 now, but a significant chunk of that is in my legs. I’m keeping a closer eye on measurements and max weight now to track progress than I have been. Going to shoot for 230 by October and then try and hold right around there.

I’ve had a 2 door as my daily driver for 3.5 years now. The longest I ever kept a vehicle prior was less than 2 years, but I haven’t seen a need to get rid of this one yet. My daily isn’t a long distance, so it has maybe 25,000 miles on it. I’m not going to jump in it and take off to the beach, but I’ll drive it 100 miles to Nashville and back every now and then. It has had a few issues like having to get the AC fixed and a couple of sensor issues, but nothing of any real significance. It has a 3 inch lift with 35’s, so it drives different than stock but I think it rides much better now. I’m moving up to 37’s in the next month or so because it doesn’t quite have the look I want yet. On the LC discussion, wife bought a GX 2 months ago. I’m not a fan of the ride in it. She came out of a Range Rover, so I expected a drop off but the GX rides worse than my trucks I have had. It has a really bad chatter feel when you go over bumps like the whole suspension is loose. It’s just a very odd ride for the price vehicle it is.

Ole Miss was test optional, so I think that goes against your argument. I would say that the more selective, higher app schools at least in the Southeast still required test scores. The less selective public and then the private schools have never reinstated it after Covid to help their admittance numbers is my guess. There were several SEC schools that were putting it back in place going forward. I’m happy for my youngest that they were still test optional. It gave her the option to go to the school she wanted with less than stellar test scores.

Just my opinion but parent’s weekends are a colossal waste of money and really end up being an excuse for parents to party with their kids and their friends. UGA sororities do them on homecoming weekends in the fall, so we end up staying in Atlanta and our daughter stays with us. We drive over for the game and sorority tailgate and stay the weekend in Atlanta doing shit there. Houses are 8-10x what they are for non game weekends, so we just stay in Buckhead. We also aren’t spending a lot of time on campus. I went to college and had my experience, our daughters have their own experiences to live. We go one weekend in the fall and one in the spring at most and she comes home maybe 1 each semester but maybe none. Kids need to find their independence and at least from what we see with a lot of people/friends that’s becoming difficult.

No, take 40 just keep an eye on the maps as to whether you need to jump off somewhere and go around. That trip through West Helena and back up would be a long ass drive unless you just really want to see farm land, the MS Blues history in Clarksdale, or gamble in Tunica.

You aren't going to make Jackson by lunch if you spend any time in Hot Springs. From the NP area, it’s a solid 4-4.5 hours depending on traffic in West Memphis at the interstate junctions. Also, there isn’t anything to eat worth stopping for. Memphis would be a better bet for lunch or do the Shiloh detour, cut across to the Jack Daniel’s distillery, and then rejoin 40 on the other side of Nashville. The stretch of 40 from Little Rock to Nashville is terrible. It’s a coin flip on whether there will be an accident causing traffic issues. Drive it to Dallas and back over the weekend and had to detour both directions.

Went to the Lynx game Thursday night. Easily the loudest the place got was in the first quarter when Fudd hit a few shots. My youngest is obsessed with all things UConn which has carried over to the Wings.

I drive back and forth to Atlanta quite a bit and South Florida as well. On the road, I’m stopping at Buccee’s over everything else available. Bathrooms are clean, store is generally clean, registers are all manned and move quickly, tea is decent, plenty of snack options for the kids. They are building one about 30 minutes from my house that we travel by weekly. Can’t see any reason I’ll ever stop at it.

My youngest had a 3.6 unweighted, a couple of AP credits, a lot of involvement and volunteer hours, excellent essays, and got solid money from AR, Mizzou, Ole Miss, KY, and MS State inside the SEC, money from all the privates she applied to, and money from a couple non SEC state schools. She was never going to UGA or FL, so it was about finding her a good fit out of state that we could get in state tuition at. The only school she didn’t get money from was TN (required scores) of all places which was in state and they deferred her.

Those are the 5 most highly selective state schools in the country that also have sub 10-20% OOS admittance, they are still score based or moving back to score based. That wasn’t the market for my second kid.

My hang up has been three herniated discs from trying to relive my 20’s on a wakeboard 3-4 years ago. They have held up to lifting at this point although I know they are there when I really go for heavy weight on squats. I think I’m going to get with one of the trainers on form and moderate weight for a couple of weeks and see how it holds up.

Not really true right now, some of the Southeast state schools (mainly the highly competitive ones) are still heavily focused on scores but outside of that a lot of schools East of TX were still test optional for this cycle. There were at least 5 schools in the SEC that didn’t require test scores and none of the privates required it that my youngest applied to. I know when our oldest applied, the Big Ten and entire Northeast were test optional at that point. Again, test scores seemed to be more centered around the UGA’s, UNC’s, UF’s, etc that are top 50 schools with large application numbers. My youngest went test optional and only submitted scores to two schools I believe. Several test optional schools required it for Honors consideration, but that wasn’t a priority for her. She was able to get large scholarships from several state schools as well as most of the privates she applied to applying test optional. She also wasn’t chasing super selective schools and focused on what I would call Tier 2 schools.

Down about 35 pounds since August, getting pretty close to where I originally wanted to settle. Think I’m going to push that further now and see if I can drop another 20-25 to get to right around 215-220 by August to finish out one year. Can’t really describe how much better I feel than last summer. Gym is running the 1000 pound lifting challenge for the month of May. Think I’m going to take a shot at it. I haven’t deadlifted since high school, but I’m fairly certain I can get where I need to be on squat/bench with a reasonable deadlift. We’ll see how it goes.