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Not a fan of this one including their newest character reveal in the mid credit scenes. Everything felt completely miscast and I couldn’t get past it.

Downtown Disney is an easy option from DL and as others have mentioned it’s probably a better option. My wife has been able to get reasonable reservations in the park by just keeping an eye on it. They went the first of October and she ended booking a couple of meals the week before because of cancellations. I’m not sure what that looks like around NYE with the crowds, but we much prefer DL over WDW. The size and layout are much easier to deal with.

Sedona and Moab would be my choices depending on time of year and if you want to stay in one place for the trip. You could also fly into Vegas, stay for a couple of days, and hit Zion and Bryce Canyon easily from there or head towards SLC and spend a day or two in each of the national parks.

It makes for a more enjoyable weekend after a Thursday night W.

This is such a large percentage of people out there that it is sad. It’s nothing new, but the buzzwords spread much faster now than they used to.

Not planning on it in about 5 more years.

We both graduated from the public schools and always believed our kids would attend them. Federal lawsuits that ended the community schools along with federal management oversight turned our system into a disaster that it is having a hard time recovering from. I send my kids to private school because locally that is the best option and we have to make decisions based on what’s beat for our kids long-term.

That’s because you choose to live in a high cost district. I don’t believe that should have any bearing on the federal income tax system. Tax income, take the preferential treatments out of the system.

A solid public school district is a benefit to everyone, so paying the tax is what it is. There is a debate locally for vouchers to be able to apply part of that tax cost to private school that will probably go nowhere, but would help me feel better about it because our local system sucks.

They’ve never closed a loophole without opening 10 more. It’s why the tax code has ballooned each and every year and why at this point no one understands it. The software companies can’t even keep up with the pace of change. If we’re not going to wholesale change it, just eliminate the 20% QBI deduction, roll back the rates to where they were, roll back the estate exemption and pull in trusts and other planning vehicles back into the estate, increase the CG rates, and add a few other things to get rid of some of the lopsided benefits that have been put in place. We just worked a deal to transfer a large corporation to family members through trusts in a tax free setup that will avoid estate/gift taxes and CG taxes because of a bullshit loophole that a local law firm is taking advantage of. It’s the most lopsided transaction I’ve ever seen from a tax standpoint and it’s 100% by the book as of today.

Property taxes are a perfectly fine system for local governments. If you choose to spend $1.5M, you pay more than the guy that can get by at $500k. However, as a private school parent, it does suck to pay property taxes and still pay tuition.

All of your tax plans suck, it needs to be a simple system that people can’t play. Income above some amount (have a base that slides based on dependents) is taxed at X% with progressive increases as income goes up, all income is just income for tax purposes, get rid of the deductions because it shouldn’t matter where you live or who you donate to, incentivize retirement savings, and on down the list of shit that makes sense and keeps it easy. All trusts and assets go through estates, minimal exemption set of $X, sliding scale on tax based on asset valuations with a much lower rate than the current 40%. Business pay same sliding scale as individuals, Section 179 and bonus depreciation go away, options are taxed as earned not exercised, etc. None of this is going to happen so this whole discussion is a waste, but we need a simple system with limited variability. There is entirely too much money spent gaming the system where if we were more reasonable we could probably bring the rate structure down substantially.

Wish they would have let Fried go until he had to be pulled. He was still rolling, had a low pitch count, and this is it for his season. 7 run lead, just let him run.

Chasing the ball and now watching the baseball game has the dog worn out.

Yeah, that’s a great big hell no for me. I like a nice leisurely cruise speed.

He f-ing crushed that ball.

I can remember before getting married saying I would never spend X on a house or have a house over Y size. Then I got married and it’s been a steady size climb since. We’re adding 600 square feet onto our current house with our oldest of two kids just about to college which makes no sense. That doesn’t include the 600 sq feet of covered outside space being added. There is such a run up in size now, you almost have to have it for resale. With our 2nd home selling, we’re thinking about buying a lot and building but we only need 2000 or so square feet and are concerned that it needs to be bigger from a resale perspective.

Like everywhere, pricing has gotten stupid in SWFL. Our place is on Sanibel and I’m not sure we’re going to be able to buy back there with pricing the way it is. We looked at a place in Ft Myers today because I can get water front for $750k less than what it will run me to buy back on Sanibel with a dock. Going to look at Marco up through Anna Maria and take a look at the Keys and see what we can find. You can’t beat the weather 9 months out of the year, but July/August can suck. However, those 75 degrees day through the winter are awesome.

Holy shit, he made up for his shitty series right there.

That’s a massive loss by the Bengals with them up by 11 with less than 7 minutes to play. Luckily I didn’t play them anywhere other than a big parlay ML bet which just bent me over.

Then why even comment? You have the circle jerk thread one thread down where you can stay in your safe space. The “woe is me” mindset gets more and more entertaining especially when the team created the issue. Feels a little like reaping what you sow at this point. As far as the hitters, maybe it’s time to give a little credit to the other side. The Braves aren’t running a scrub staff out there. The longer it goes the more the advantage swings back to the hitters, but the Braves should also realize some benefit from that as well. It’s not like they are rolling out a AAA lineup.

Realtor called and wanted to show our second home to someone, so I threw out a stupid number and told her she could show it. They accepted which kind of sucks after thinking about it. Guess we’re going to sit and see what happens with pricing. Worst case, we’ll rent for the summer I guess. Yes

Wouldn’t be the first 3-1 lead they have blown and they have also blown it with better starting options.

Wright was huge tonight. Assume it will be on Chavez and Smyly tomorrow to do the same.

Maybe go check the last page of the Astros page where Cabo said that exact thing and got agreement.