
Reagan1k
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Fair enough. I should have been more clear. I've got lodging at Park Hyatt Beaver Creek and will have a car, so I guess tell me what to do in Vail / Beaver Creek area. I checked the Vail Summer thread but found a lot of covid era discussion and decided to not muddy up that thread with a bump.
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Advice on restaurants and interesting things to do/see (beyond the requisite hiking)?
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Firearms Collection (individually) (1940s to 1980s)
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Clear is doing some ID upgrades when you check in now for security at their kiosks so the line is moving slower than normal to get escorted up. More time per person per kiosk adds up when the workers have to go through the extra steps before they can walk you up. Once they finish this or when the majority of fliers have done the extra steps once, it should smooth out. Having both Pre and Clear give you a little flexibility that's very much worth it at certain times. Especially if TSA is understaffed (gasp - how could that be) and the Pre line is backed up. Clear obviously takes you to the front of the line and bypasses the snaking ropes. However, if the Pre line is very short, it's a toss-up and Pre can be quicker if you can walk right up to to the TSA booth for the ID check instead of having to duck and dodge at the booth to get your eyes in the right spot for Clear to find you. I view Pre as a necessity and Clear as an insurance policy or add-on. Edited to say I can't speak to ABIA specifically, but Clear in general has been slowed for a while now for this reason.
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Turkey's for eatin'....not making guns. Your "advisor" there probably open carries a Taurus .380 at Sam's Club on the weekends for a big day out.
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Quoted for truth and emphasis. Sometimes the best business is that which you DON'T get. And that's just the cherry on top of not wasting time on an improperly qualified opportunity.
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Its a wildcat cartridge and a special action that just looks like a glock but has a cylinder. Those guys at the academy gun counter are known to be cutting edge experts in firearms. Just go stand at the counter one day and listen to 'em talk. Hank and Skeeter (the new kid-hired last week) have been working in the back on load development and programing the CNC machine to ramp up production. Get on board. It's the next big thing.
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Whatever path works for you is the right path. I'll share this which has been my experience - not to try and convince you of anything, but because what you shared sounds eerily familiar with how I felt. I'd tried everything I could think of to avoid AA and for the same reasons. One of the first things I was told when I'd spouted off a few "yeah, but" comments was to really consider the words of a philosopher who said - There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation. I got really hung up for a while on the god deal, which turns out was more of a hang-up with organized religion and its teachings. I was an agnostic who thought he was an atheist. My turning point was being told I didn't have to believe shit. All I had to do was have a willingness to believe if it ever came to that, and just acknowledge I didn't have all the answers and am not running the universe. I'm analytic - not an engineer but a show me kind of thinker. What I experienced was that the step process is actually almost scientific in nature. It doesn't matter what I think will happen or even want to happen, but if I do x, y, and z, I'll get a specific result - often in spite of myself. Like baking a cake or a chemical reaction....... If I follow the directions, the result is predictable and consistent regardless of how I feel, what I want, or think will happen. Hell, I know two belligerent sons of bitches who actually tried to prove that this stuff won't really work by doing it out of spite and they too got the predictable result instead of what they wanted....which was to show everyone it was a bullshit fairy tale. Anyway, best of luck and keep chiming in here please. It's always encouraged and welcome!!!!! It's how we all learn and evolve.
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Yep! And perfectly normal to consider whether you should burn the place to the ground if the other car gets finished first, right? Self, self, self, self, self - Oh wait....there's another way to think. I take a breath, hear a different voice and consider that I don't know whether its good or bad if I get done first, or if it even matters to begin with. I'm a cog in a wheel on a small rock hurtling through space. A spec on a spec in the big picture. Things are as they should be and fundamentally all is OK. Practice, practice, practice - spin off, come back to center, spin off, come back to center. Grateful I found a way to make "It" stop.
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I'm the opposite at IAH - I hate the layout and being seated anywhere near the bar. It's where the bar, food service door, hallway to bathroom, and food line all converge. Impossible not to have people stepping over you, spilling shit, or bumping your table or computer. It's way too cramped for my taste. That's just me.
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Best I could tell he assumed he could just walk past the line and into the lounge by casually flashing his fancy platinum card to the desk associate as he walked by. She politely invited him to join the line to check in along with everyone else and I guess that was beneath him. He's a platinum cardholder yada yada, do you know who I am sort of shit. Manager stepped in and told him - still very respectfully- that he had no more or no less status than anyone else who was patiently waiting in line and he was welcome to join them. That's when it went to shit city - he threatened to cancel his card due to lack of RESPECT. Manager calmly said that might be the best thing as he wasn't welcome in the lounge with his attitude toward staff and the other patrons. Manager offered a phone and even said he'll dial the number if joker wanted to call AMEX. Dude's wife was trying to wiggle under the tiles in the floor and escape notice at this point while the manager explained the behavior wasn't acceptable or tolerated, and none of their party would be entering his lounge today. Manager was a 100% pro. Calm, but no bullshit and no second chances. Hope he enjoyed his Hudson News trail mix and $6 bottle of water.
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Yeah - I've let a few swifts get by me over a couple hundred dollars here lately. Trying to keep it under $1500 plus buyers premium to keep it under two grand but haven't hit one yet. I've seen more 257's in auctions recently than I have over the last 12 months, but that's the difference in 5-6 vs. 2-3. I haven't checked Gunbroker in a while. So many of those give me bad vibes when dealing with M70's b/c there is a growing trend of "replicas" being passed off as real - rebarreled, restamped, restocked and not acknowledged.......that's harder to police there vs. with an auction house if something comes in and its obvious. There's a very nice supergrade Bob coming up to auction in a few days and I'm really, really tempted, but the butt plate was removed and a Pachmayr pad added, and a little notch out of the stock under receiver where a Lyman sight was added then removed. No one else would notice or give a shit but I'd think of those two things every time I wiped it down. I know it is probably unreasonable on my part considering the age of the rifle but whatever!
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Exactly why I edited the comment. Lowering current taxes just for the sake of lowering taxes is very different than what you described. Glad there was some clarification. Too often, "reducing taxes" is just for the sake of such in a vacuum, and doesn't look at long term ramifications, but you have a plan and a purpose. Sounds like you need to be dishing advice instead of asking!
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I don’t think there’s much left you can do given the stated goal…… but would ask a question - considering this year’s income, your age, and expected career earnings…. Have you looked at the possibility you’d be better off paying the taxes this year if you’ll likely be in a higher bracket later on? Bracket arbitrage depends on a lot of assumptions but if you have any degree of certainty or a long runway of higher future income ahead, you might be stepping over dollars to pick up dimes this year by going all deductible/ traditional vs. Roth. Maybe - maybe not- but one does have to consider that.…. Edited to acknowledge there may be some other reason to keep income down besides just paying lower taxes. That changes the calculations by introducing an outside variable or external need to reduce AGI.
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Yeah- and that’s where the bonds as mentioned above or some other alternative asset class that doesn’t move lock step with equity will pay off. You aren’t holding them to meet or exceed your expected long term equity returns, but you can lessen sequence of return risk when withdrawing by having different asset classes from which you pull those funds in certain years. Having the flexibility to pull fixed income coupon payments and even spend the principal on a maturing bond allows reinvestment of stock dividends into and no or few withdraws from an equity position that’s been hammered so you don’t eat all the seeds you’d need for next year’s crop. If you aren’t taking planning on taking an income off a portfolio then it’s a mute point, but if you need to siphon off a few percent a year starting in the next 5-10 years, it’s worth seeing how the simulations and probability of success run for you by adding some fixed income vs. staying 100% equity. You sure as shit don’t want to enter retirement and start immediately pulling from a 100% equity portfolio at the same time the market is in or entering a secular bear phase … and you can’t predict that looking out at your retirement date. Emotionally it can feel counterintuitive, but the maths work when withdrawals and sequence of risk enter the chat.
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Virtually no cost to it relative to return on just one hit. Not spending human capital. Pressing play and executing a run on a program daily. If it’s even a semi legit operation, they probably have other & better marketing running simultaneously and email blast is just picking up loose change.
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My old partner (retired) still comes to the office 2 days a week for a couple hours each. He has no business even looking at emails but out of respect and to help keep him mentally engaged, he still has an account. Nothing of any importance but he gets to tell people he’s still working/consulting. Harmless! At least twice a month he asks if my assistant will call xxxx and tell “him” to quit bothering retired partner with emails. He can’t wrap his head around bots and spam. He’s convinced someone is typing an email TO HIM. So yeah/ they get the attention of and some hits from that generation. Biggest volume I get lately is SEO and someone found an error on my website they want to fix and demo their capabilities…… that a construction takeoff services using AI. Dozen a day - all get block sender and into junk, but they change the url so even that is really a waste or time.
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I ‘member those. I wanted to peak at the 70’s. I’m still hunting an as-built Bob (Std. and Fwt.), Swift, and 375 Alaskan. Really want to close those out. You give a few generations +/- 75yrs and someone’s going to take something off or screw something on. No judgement there. Rifles are tools for working, but I’m a sucker for as-built. I bid on dozens of 70’s per year and get my fair share, but none of those iterations have been under my ceiling. Time to raise the roof a bit probably.
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Like @BearSchlong, I can’t stop once I start, and I can’t stay stopped…… without a sufficient substitute that I found in recovering. No one seemed to understand, Alcohol wasn’t a problem, it was a solution for me, but the solution had horrible consequences. Taking medication for a cold that give me cancer - over and over. having a different perspective and a new way to views the rules of engagement in life through the steps of AA proved to be a solution to my problems that exceeded any hope I might have had. I just wanted to stop. It gave me far more. If you find you can’t stay stopped without becoming miserable- restless, irritable and discontent- there is a solution. Come on in….. The door is open. Godspeed!
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Just watched the manager at IAH Centurian lounge verbally destroy some arrogant, entitled ass who was trying to big shot the check in and then got belligerent with the staff when they told him he had to do what everyone else does to get in. breath of fresh air!
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Nice!!!!! I've got the euro and asian common weapons too....Mausers, Mosin, Enfield, SKS, etc. I like them all unfortunately. In fact, the Enfield 5 MK1 (Jungle Carbine) might be my favorite. I don't know why - childhood fascination I guess. All I can figure is that all those Saturday's watching Rat Patrol imprinted on me. Haven't dipped into the German handguns yet. Too daunting to learn. Too many copies and variants - I get overwhelmed and don't have that itch. Hey - that sporterized 1903 far right looks like a really well done rifle. Any story to it? There are some damn fine custom rifles made off those actions. Someone spent some time and money on your dads. Not uncommon to see some exquisitely built rifles on that action from even the Griffin and Howes of the world.
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Yep - I was fortunate enough to get drawn on the random number generator in the very 1st cycle. Got a Remington frame with an Ithaca slide. Nice gun. They went through a few more rounds when it was lifetime limit of one 1911, and then they got some more. They reopened the applications. Now into what I guess they call phase II where someone like me who's already bought can put in for another. I'm in the hopper for another one if/when my number gets pulled. I'm up to 12 Garands, a 1911, a .30 carbine, a 1917, and two 1903s (1903's I bought in store in Talladega). It's a bad habit that's easy to justify because of their (CMP's) pricing. I tell myself I'm not spending money since they're priced well below market. That said, I'd never sell them unless under duress and if I'd run out of my wife's shit to sell.
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Got two more Garands from the CMP - bit unexpectedly. I'd forgotten I put in another request since it took 5 months to fill it, but pleased with what they shipped. S.A. receivers with summer '41 and spring '44 production dates. Barrels are new. Muzzle and throat readings are 0. Fascinating to think how many barrels have been fitted on the '41 especially. Stock shows impressions that this rifle was carried and shot a lot. You can feel where the off hand held the rifle and see where it rubbed against a back while slung.
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Our company deals with check fraud either coming or going 3-4 times a month. They either wash our outgoing check and our positive pay picks it up, or we don't get paid and find out the same thing happened to a check coming to us. Unless the banks are keeping an investigation under super secret wraps, I can only surmise that much/most of this goes unpunished. Seems to be a skimming operation off a stolen identity where fraudulent deposits are made and then funds withdrawn. Major PITA, but checks are still a big part of our payment process. Not everyone is set up for EFT yet, and that comes with its own set of issues and security concerns.
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Good shirts. When I'd go to Houston I'd get fitted and had some made. Nice people. Easy to work with / through if Houston is on your path. Old family business.
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