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My wife can’t help herself with this mutt. He listens better than the kids most of the time which doesn’t help.

First good buy I’ve made in a while. Had a client call me with a couple of recommendations and they thought it was trading at 50% of it’s real value a couple months ago. It has made up for some Stonks that haven’t been all that great to me.

Landry was done at that point, that was one of the best moves Jerry ever made. No different than Mack and many other long-time coaches, you have to move on eventually and that moving on resulted in one hell of a run.

Pricing differences are all over the board on the CT5 Blackwing. I’ve seen them at dealerships as high as $155k and I looked at another that was actually discounted from sticker to $86k. I’ve talked to them on the $86k one a couple of times, I just can’t pull the trigger even though I should.

Man getting old is the suck. Went in for my twice a year checkup with my cardio and apparently my potassium is all fucked up and has him worried, so along with needing to go low carb already I’m also giving up peanut butter, red meat, bananas, and a variety of other things for a little while. Plain oatmeal and a bunch of salads have got me back down to my low point last summer quickly which is a plus. Think I am going to meet with a dietician at some point to tailor a diet around all his restrictions.

Snow is pretty thin in Park City in places still. This is the earliest we have ever been out here by a couple of weeks and we should have waited a little longer. Of course it doesn’t look like much help is on the way either. The last couple of years of skiing Canyons we have been spoiled by powder everyday and a solid base where you could stay off the trails easily. Not really getting away from the trails this year.

No, I avoid the political stuff. I have places in two of the most conservative states around, we could use a few more blue state people moving in. When we bought it was a heavily snowbird community and we were on the opposite schedule with kids school. We went for the summers and the place was empty, fall break empty, Christmas and spring break busy but we kept our trips shorter. We could eat anywhere, beaches were empty, etc which was part of our draw. Now with people relocating to live it changed quite a bit last summer along with tourism going up a bunch and it just sapped a lot of the reason we were there out of it. We’re looking at getting off the island we’re on and looking nearby all the way up through Punta Gorda and seeing what we can find that is a little slower. On the boat front it’s why I’m pushing for a trawler. The waters are overrun with people down there, but you can still get away.

Selling my beach house and trying to decide which way to go now. We’re either going to buy a trawler and keep the lake place or I’m giving up on the cruising lifestyle, selling the lake place, and probably buying a canal front house and a couple of saltwater boats. SWFL real estate prices along with the way the community we were in changing pretty much overnight has us thinking a little bit about where we want to be. We’re going to look around a little outside the US as well before deciding. As far as this place, just avoid the high drama boards. Stay off football and out of the clock room and life is a bit simpler. I enjoy the information in Hobbies, Travel, and the business side, everything else is a drive by post.

Went bank side with ours and got a better rate and lower costs on closing costs. Bank side rates are still running low if you have a relationship and decent credit/financials.

It would have been nice if getting old would have been a slow build up instead of one year you’re mostly great and the next year everything falls apart. Hope this year is an improvement over partially torn ligaments in my knee from something simple, ongoing back issues from trying to power though a slow pull on a wake skate, hand/elbow surgery from years of water sports, foot/ankle issues that are now there because of not getting the knee fixed, etc. That doesn’t even count the fact I can’t see anything up close at this point. I can’t wait to see what my 44th birthday and 2022 has in store.

Knew I should have sold when you said you were buying.

My concern over boredom is outweighed by my concern over working myself into the position of not having the option to be bored because I’m probably dead or I’ve murdered one of the idiots that works for me and I’m in jail. I enjoy what I do, but I took over the lead role way too early in life and am definitely burning out on it. The average managing partner in my industry probably is 50-55 when they take over, I did it at 35 while maintaining the largest client book in the firm. I’ve probably got another 6-8 years in me and then I’m doing something else part time at 50-52 and hoping the money doesn’t run out.

You don’t need any of that depending on what the issue is. Most of the time it is a simple fix on a notice, controversy issues typically come up under examination. As far as former IRS EA’s, good luck with that bunch. Most IRS auditors that work in individual tax enforcement are low end tax preparers who couldn’t make it on their own or topped out where they were. They have some really knowledgeable people on the business side, individual not much. The head of their local criminal division worked for me at one time, he was a horrible practitioner and the fact he carries a gun now concerns me.

EA’s aren’t CPA anything, you just have to pay the IRS and do some education on the tax code. Every bookkeeper in my firm is an EA at this point. You don’t need to understand much about the actual tax code to be an EA. PM me what exactly they are saying you underreported and I’ll tell you whether to hire someone or what to do to fix it yourself. It has to be a 1099 issue with that kind of tax due. If you deducted your sugar babies as employees, you’re on your own.

I’m not a tshirt/pullover/whatever person, so it’s a nice polo and shorts every day all summer and a nice untucked button down and decent jeans every day when it’s cold. I had to fly over to a new firm that we were merging in for the first time a couple months ago and they were a little caught off guard with it. The next time they were dressed the same way because they had just dressed up the first time because they thought they should. Screw that. Dressing “down” can be done and still look professional (at least the new version anyways), just iron your clothes and wear properly fitting decent brands. There is a huge difference between nice jeans and an untucked ironed button down cut to the right length and some of the stuff the 25 year old recent college graduates roll in wearing some days. When I first started here in ‘99 after graduating, they were all wearing suits. I told them when I interviewed I didn’t own one and wasn’t buying one and I would pass on the tie also. I did tuck my shirt in back then though. I knew the managing partner fairly well and he hired me anyways over some concerns from a couple of others I think.

I don’t dress up for client meetings much less sitting at my computer all day. Shorts and a polo when it’s warm, jeans and a button down when it’s cold whether I’m working or not. I’ve told a couple people that made comments they were free to find someone that would dress up for them if it was an issue. I was that way prepandemic, so everyone is helping my cause now. I’ve never worn a suit and can’t remember the last time I wore a tie.

Brown deserves his own spot, none of the others completely torpedoed their careers like Brown has with the recurring issues. The others were divas with a side of being nuts, Brown is straight up nuts at this point.

Similar, down from 290ish to 263, was around 255 before some issues jumped up that slowed me down late summer. Shooting for 235 or so. Pretty good about some exercise, eating reasonably well, but suck at portion control and just skipping meals if not all that hungry. Going to work on consistent cardio and trying to get better about portion control.

Getting older sucks, I got knocked off my routine late summer with a knee issue that morphed into a back issue that is just now really starting to clear up. Then throw in a hand and elbow surgery in October and it has been a wasted fall, luckily I managed to stay within range of where I had gotten down to but need to put in some work this spring to get down another 25 or so and see how everything feels at that point.

Roughly 36x18, it’s a little larger than that so that the pattern on the pool deck could be carried inside and it would be solid travertine pieces all the way around the edge. Pool ended up at 42-44 feet I think. We couldn’t find shake shingles anywhere on this side of the country, so the shingles will have to be replaced once they become a little more available.

A month or two or maybe four after the last update, we finally have brick and the ceiling in.

Like most things they are an f-ing waste of money and there is no real justification. I said something to my wife about how little ours got used again this year, and her response was something to the effect of it looks pretty though. However, it is nice to have it those times you want it. We definitely use it way more than the kids use it and should use it more once the rest of the backyard is finished at some point in the future when our contractor decides to show up and get done.

Watched the Harder They Fall, Power of Dog, and Tick Tick Boom over the last few days. All three were definitely worth watching.

Going to take a look at it further. Thanks.

We’re wide open to suggestions on locations. I’m not a resort person although we will probably still look at them since it’s the first trip. Typically we rent a house in the non touristy area and avoid the large resorts although we do want access to decent restaurants. For instance, Grand Cayman we rent a house on Rum Point, Turks we rent a house near Sapodilla Bay, etc. Entire group is vaccinated, parents all have boosters at this point.