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Dropped a buddy off at his house one night completely toasted. I watched him go up the steps and left. The next morning I get a call from his dad raising hell. Apparently, he couldn’t get in the house and got in his mom’s car and proceeded to puke all over the front seats, floor board, etc. His dad still will not speak to me. The rest of our buddies still find it quite funny. On the garage stories, if my daughter marries a Texas fan that finds his way to this site eventually the stories will be able to continue. She has hit both mirrors and bounced the drivers side front off the garage entrance wall not once but twice. It is a small garage entrance, but she drives an Escape. The plastic front ends on those things don’t hold up well to low speed impacts. We were waiting to get the first hit fixed when she managed to do it again. We’re just going to leave it at this point until she rearends someone while sending Snapchats and then we can get it all fixed at once.

Been looking at them as well. I’m sure my wife is going to start mentioning trading sooner rather than later and the Sequoia’s have piqued my interest. We saw a new LX600 Saturday and she commented on it, but I like the Toyota front end better.

Has corporate assigned any blame? That’s the pilot union’s VP roasting him which should be taken with a large grain of salt.

Much bigger issue than a nothing burger for someone that runs the UFC. White has been very vocal in the past about his views on people in his profession hitting women and saying things like you don’t bounce back from hitting a woman in the UFC. Going to make it very difficult to legislate others when you are on video for the same thing. That is especially true with the way he manages the sport like it’s my way or the highway.

It serves the purpose, it’s not very thick and they will cook it a little extra for you if you want it a little more crunchy.

Blue leather band finally came in for the ‘57 after 8 months. I think I actually like the metal band better at this point but I’ll give this one a little while and see.

I’m not saying it’s some great dining experience, but a waffle, eggs, and some scattered hash browns hit the spot on the rare occasion I venture inside one.

Pull up to hangar, get on, leave, never enter the terminals.

I wash my jeans after every time they get worn. After a few years the bottom of the legs or the crotch start to wear out. I move them to the old outside jeans section of my closet and buy new jeans. I consider them expensive in my view of what jeans should cost, but even washing them weekly they last a pretty good while. I don’t get people’s obsession with being dirty. I iron my T-shirt’s though, so I probably qualify as anal. I also try and take the company plane as often as I can get away with it at this point to avoid the airports altogether.

So many questions, are you a certified little person? Are you just carrying an over sized carry on? Do you wander around in umbros, wife beaters and slides (no socks of course, to save space?) This is a dumb discussion, people can do whichever they choose. However, airlines should enforce the bag restrictions as people’s need to carry on is an issue as everyone is pushing the limits. I carry on probably 80%+ of my trips (gate check Delta some of that 80%, get my bag before the plane has even unloaded), but it is in a not expanded, approved size carry on with a backpack (medicine and electronics and shoes occasionally) that fits easily under the seat. Most of my trips are 3-4 days.

I carry a B&R carry on, roll my clothes, pack light, etc and no one is getting a week’s worth of clothes in one without wearing outerwear at least twice especially with jeans involved or expanding it and exceeding the size limits. Then you’re the person standing in the aisle trying to cram the bag in the overhead holding everyone up. Airlines should make everyone fit their bags in the approved size contraption before security to speed up the actual plane boarding. If you go with the wear it twice process, then at that point you are down to really packing 3-4 days worth of clothes and spreading it over 7 and bragging about how great you pack. That’s fine I suppose, but I’ll just throw a solid 7 days in checked bags and move on. My wife will wear a pair of jeans for a week though, so she carries on every time. I am admittedly OCD about clean clothes, so that’s definitely a me problem. However, the fear of the lost bag is right up there with other obsessions in today’s society we have currently that rarely come to fruition.

I travel quite a bit, anything over 3 nights and I’m probably checking. I’m not wearing already worn clothes to get through a week somewhere. I’m also not going to be the jackass with the overstuffed bag or multiple large bags. I’m also not fighting over bin space if I end up in a late boarding group for some reason and I’ll just gate check my carry on then. It’s not worth it, it can go under the plane. By the time I stop by the restroom and walk to baggage claim, the wait is rarely more than a few minutes. We have never had a lost bag (knock on wood) in all our years of traveling. We had one get delayed and they brought it by courier later that day.

Ordered a Snow’s brisket for family Christmas Eve and grilled flanks marinated in pineapple/soy and chickens to go with it. Christmas we went with a Turkey breast from Snows, home made Parker house rolls, hasselback potato’s and air fryer zucchini. It all went over well.

If it drops below 20 or so, I’ll drip a faucet in the far end of the house. This weather I dripped several. I also wrap and cover outside spigots and rotate hand warmers in them. It’s always worked fine, but this cold spell got one of the outside spigots so I spent an hour or so Christmas Eve under the house fixing it. Luckily it popped before Home Depot closed. I am going to stock up on some different size caps now because it would have sucked if it went an hour later after everything had closed.

I’m pretty heavily involved in the private school my kids involve and have been for 8-10 years. Several years back we did a study on how tuition was paid to get a better idea of capacity for tuition increases long-term. Over 50% was paid by grandparents and when looking through the details it wasn’t the people you expected. I would think that is pretty consistent across the board with other schools. I move money to my kids every year for estate planning purposes. I expect them to take care of themselves once they get out of college, we’ll see how it goes. Now if I could get parents off the payroll, that would be appreciated.

Outside faucet popped at 4:15 (wrapped, covered, and hand warmers on them) luckily Home Depot was open until 5. They had no caps the size I needed so added a connector and then capped the connector. That was a lot of fun while trying to cook for everyone that were coming over to eat at 5. Under the house to cut and glue, grilled chickens and flanks for fajitas, back under to check that everything had set and secure the lines, crisis averted.

You’re introducing a near adult dog that is larger than the current occupants to a house with dogs in it. That’s going to require work and patience to get everyone acclimated adequately. There is no shortcut to that and you shouldn’t have taken on another older dog under the circumstances. Puppy would have been a much wiser move. Hell, my 4 year old dog still doesn’t like the puppy we’ve had for 6 months now. Sometimes they just want to be assholes.

That is why I ended up at a cardiologist. Went in to urgent care for a sinus shot and my BP was showing 200+\100+, they freaked out and gave me something to lower it which didn’t work, they wanted to send me in an ambulance to the ER, and I said F that I’m going home and signed a release to get out of there. I started checking my BP and it was higher than normal but it would shoot up every time I got stressed or something was going on. Called a doctor friend of mine and he referred me to a cardiologist. They did a full battery of tests and found I had a heart defect that cut off blood supply when my heart rate went up. He put me on a heart rate medicine and I’ve been fine since although I still do a full battery of testing annually to check for changes. If I would not have gone to the cardio, the GP would have likely put me on a ton of pills not knowing the root cause of the issue. Go see someone and if it is a BP issue get a referral to a cardiologist.

Go sooner rather than later, everything gets worse and recovery is a bitch every year older. I didn’t go to the doctor until my late 30’s and then it was because of BP issues. Started seeing a cardio three times a year with that. Ignored everything else until last year and have now had 5 surgeries in 13 months to fix old issues with my knee still to schedule, this Achilles issue to figure out, and 2 ruptured discs that PT has manageable for now. I’m really wishing I would have put up the wakeboard and snow skis a few years earlier.

Motherfuck, woke up yesterday with tendinitis flaring up in my Achilles and it went downhill fast. By last night I could barely take steps and it was worse this morning. Called and got a prescription for anti inflammatory medicine that the pharmacy will not have until tomorrow which is fun. It pops up every year or so from old damage, but this time has been about the worst pain I ever remember experiencing. It just completely locks up mid step and feels like someone took a sawzall to my ankle. I was sitting in the floor doing the butt slide to the bathroom at 5 am this morning contemplating the bottles of Tramadol and Hydro’s I have from recent surgeries that I never took. This last 12 months age wise has really been a swift kick in the nuts. If the downhill slope of age gets much steeper, I may have to start drinking more.

Met with one of my dealers this week that is selling and he said he is seeing a roughly 4-5% drop a week in used values across his inventory over the last few weeks. New has still held up, but it is starting to show the same signs. Interest rates on new/used vehicles are pretty steep when combined with average pricing. Lenders are tightening loan requirements as well. I was looking to trade my F250, but it’s off $10k+ in the last few weeks. It’s still overpriced in relation to what I paid though.

It’s not even used in the “proper” context because he’s talking about doubters of Hurts who would most likely be white. Who knows what he was actually trying to say as his clarification also makes zero sense. I have a hard time caring, we’ll see what cancel culture has to say about it though.

Farm Credit typically can make the best loans on rural tracts.

Land rates are higher because the risks are higher to the bank, same reason debt to equity is lower. Most banks will only do 60% on raw land. Risks are higher because there is no government backing of the loans and no ability to resell the loans. It also can be more expensive to foreclose land and the market for buyers out of foreclosure is lower. Appraisals aren’t as accurate either. Plus which payments are you prioritizing if there is an issue. Banks aren’t looking at houses as income producing opportunities, they are just looking at their overall risks and how quickly they can clear a problem.

Most I see are still sitting in good shape. Their profits are up 2x-3x this year because they have been able to hold costs and sell at inflated rates. Met with a guy yesterday that does about 50 houses a year whose costs were within a couple percent of 2021 and his sales are up $2M+ because of the increase in market pricing on houses. He runs all his own crews and buys materials and warehouses them when the prices go up or down.