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Vended my first kinda event. Made 180% of what I usually do, but it was 10 hours and my body really paid for it the next day. -
I don't mean that Giannis should be the second-best player on the team, as that would be impossible, but that I'd like to see the offense centered around somebody else who can create their own shot. Giannis draws attention even without the ball, should do well in a pick and roll offense, good at offensive rebounds and being available for a pass in the paint. Not the guy needing to go 30/8/8 to win but the guy who goes 20/12/6. What we've seen out of their offense for years is Giannis gets the ball at the top of the key and tries to drive the basket. If that doesn't work, reset and try again. If that doesn't work, pass to Middleton with three seconds left to try and make some heavily contested shot. So I guess more of a Jamal Murray alongside Giannis. Middleton is the best bail-out shooter in the NBA, but doesn't lead the offense. Jrue tries but he's low-percentage. Ideally I'd like to see the others create opportunities for Giannis rather than the other way around. We used to see a lot of that with young LeBron, too. I respect that we're pretty handcuffed with a roster and that a Jrue trade isn't going to bring in some All-Star, but it's still an offense I'd prefer to see instead of Giannis doing everything and the rest of the cast just chucks up 3s.
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My work just raised the pay for seasonals, who will now be making more than the bulk of the full-time staff.
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On PC. When a new ad loads it has a habit of pulling you out of the text box you're writing in. You lose the few words you'd written and have to grab the mouse and click back in. Once or twice is one thing, but one of the last comments I wrote it happened a LOT and it's super annoying.
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courtesy with limited use of pronouns
GAME05 replied to djoctagone's topic in Brewer Fanatic Issues & Suggestions
Ha! I worked on trade magazines, too. I worked at Cygnus out of Fort Atkinson as an editor. I had talent for magazine writing, but ultimately I started to see that a career doing it would mean a lot of layoffs and really low pay so I got out. -
Finally told my commercial kitchen that they haven't been invoicing me. We'll see if they say "we'll start" or "Here's six months of back charges". They're re-organizing yet again, which they like to do every two months or so. They never tell me about it, so I just walk in for the morning and suddenly my stuff has been moved. This time not only was it moved, but some stuff was missing. You'd think if you saw three plastic jugs right among somebody's stuff that they weren't garbage, but I guess not. They weren't cheap and I can't vend without them. I get the impression they don't really want me there. I also don't have any other option.
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The mid-range jumpshots and 3s hurts his TS, but he's also got to learn them if he wants to play much past 30. Jrue isn't really an offensive aggressor and Milddleton has always been their bailout guy, but the team could really use someone who's a bit of a ballhog and scarier in the halfcourt game. Giannis is probably more ideal as a #2 all-around sorta player.
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To save everyone else from having to look it up, he's 83.
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Pitcher infuser would take too long and I'd probably need three or four of them. Squeezing a real lemon is part showing the customer that it's the genuine stuff and part performance. I don't have to race to decide, but right now that's about the way I'm leaning, in large part because I'm thinking that pouring it from a cooler is a much tougher sell for $4 regardless of taste. And I'm probably selling myself short that "fast" is the only reason people stop, plus if they want fast they can hit a gas station. There's only one fast-food place in town and everyone hates it. People will wait. And a line is good advertising for me, anyway. I'll likely ditch sodas altogether. $2 water, $3 small gatorades, $4 lemonade. That's a bargain for all three. I gotta stop selling myself short. I keep thinking about customer value but I gotta make money, too. Down the road maybe I'll add sweet tea concentrate. edit: Looks like the food truck that is sometimes around does lemonade for $5, so I'll likely match that price. Undercutting him is tempting, but I don't need him to show up at my spot and take all my customers.
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Interesting, and thanks for the feedback. Only some of my customers are construction workers, and they've left the line before when someone in front of them started ordering for their office, but I guess I would have, too. And I'm probably overselling the time to make the real stuff. It's basically squeeze lemon, add simple syrup, add water and ice, shake. Another vendor did that with concentrate and didn't offer ice in the cups. Told people it was already cold, more ice would only dilute it, and that way they were getting a full cup of lemonade instead of a cup of ice and a little drink. Crazy enough the concentrate still comes out to about $0.80/serving like the real lemon version. My biggest hesitation was on the perceived value of me just pouring it out from a cooler vs. actually seeing the lemons cut. I assume people will think the powdered Wylers version, regardless, and that they'd balk at $4. But I would have sample cups to give out to demonstrate it's better. But you're also right I'm convenient and 24 oz. of lemonade would hit the spot on a 95-degree day, even at $4. But you both make a good point, too, it's basically the same cost from doordash. You're also right that I could switch out. Dumping the concentrate idea would only cost me a $30 cooler and a $50 bottle of concentrate.
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I gotta raise my hot dog prices from $3 to $4 which won't go over well since this is my first summer doing it and customers are still discovering me. But I can lose 20% of my customers and still be better off at the higher price. I want to be a bit above that $20/hr threshold to feel like all the labor is worth it. Looking at adding lemonade as another income source, particular since I don't sell many sodas which aren't a big markup to begin with. I see some people do concentrate which tastes good but I hesitate on thinking people will believe it's worth $4. But it'd be the easiest method. Or I'll just have to start buying lemons and the squeezer and do it that way. That would add a bit more time in line which the construction workers won't like. But once it gets particularly hot out I think it should be a big seller, even better that it has a $3 profit to it compared to $0.90 for sodas.
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Hopefully the time between jobs is short.
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I'm inclined to think they will try to reduce their repeater tax hit as much as they can this offseason. I think Grayson Allen will be gone and I suspect so will be Brook Lopez, replaced by Myers Leonard and some defense-only center. I wonder what the front office is thinking, that either we're just a head coach away from competing again, or if they think Giannis just buoyed a middling team and we need to retool a lot more. If retool, maybe Jrue gets traded since he only has the one more year on his contract to bring some youth and energy back to the team. Plus if Jrue were replaced by someone with a little more offensive upside, maybe that also helps to cut down on Giannis' usage rate next year.
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Maybe there should be a Heat assistant coach in that candidate list?
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So the Bucks have $114M in guaranteed contracts next year with a projected salary cap of $134 and eight other roster spots to fill. They also have $90M tied up in Bird Rights players allowing the team to go over the cap to re-sign them. The luxury tax line is $162M, or $48M above the salary cap. Ownership has said they're fine taking on the repeater tax, though I suspect it's not a strong commitment. My brother had the idea of trading Middleton in order to sign Brown from Boston, but you can go over the cap to re-sign a current player, but not to sign a new one. Jrue is also a FA after next season, and the idea of extending both him and Middleton while continuing to pay the repeater tax just doesn't seem like a possibility. I wonder if there's a good possibility the Bucks are hoping for a sign-and-trade of Middleton as well as trading Jrue this offseason for something of a soft rebuild to not only make the team younger but also to start adding players who would best compliment the style of whatever coach they hire.
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Don't know him. Should I be excited or worried?
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Pretty well always the right move to opt out. We probably just have to cross our fingers that there's a good enough market for him that somebody wants to do a sign-and-trade in order to give him five years. I've heard rumors of the Mavericks, who of course would be happy to overpay for about any big name. But it would mostly amount to a couple late 1sts and off-the-bench improvement. The Middleton-for-Kawhi Leonard rumor was interesting. The idea being the Clippers would be giving away more talent but get away from Kawai always being injured. I've heard of a Mitchell Robinson (Knicks) for Middleton idea. Apparently the Rockets are interested in Middleton for some unknown reason. Ultimately, though, even if both Middleton and Lopez leave, I see more of a soft-reset where we just roll with what we've got left and we just start expecting Giannis to get 60 per game on a ridiculous usage rate.
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Yep, same by me. And my state has told me I can't investigate a driver based on the smell of marijuana pouring out of the vehicle nor do a search because of it. So unless I can get cause by some other means or they've got the drugs just sitting in plain sight, they're easily getting away with it. So prepare for DUIs to get worse, not better.
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It's surprising to me that pensions have pretty well died apart from government work. It really does stick a person to a job, plus having a vesting period probably saves a company money if the employee leaves before vesting as opposed to giving them a 401k match. As a higher-up has reportedly said, "Oh, they won't quit; they're on a pension." I'll have to start thinking of alternatives to retiring in Belize in case "go golfing" becomes a bigger desire to keep me busy and active. The basically-only course was just bought by a hotel chain, so good chance it'll either become private or prohibitively expensive to play. A single cousin retired to Puerto Rico, so maybe there. Otherwise vaguely wondering about Eastern Europe, like Poland or Belarus, Although being able to get around using English plus at least some expat community are important, too. I know places like Portugal are growing in popularity as retirement options, but I make the immediate assumption that it'll be too expensive. Similar with retiring in the States, I just don't think that $2500/mo is all that sustainable since I'll be paying rent on a place as well as having half my income be based on capital gains.
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The pick swap makes it a just-slightly higher return than I was expecting. Jets protecting themselves on the chance Rodgers gets injured and they have to give up a high pick, which I guess represents that "Jets want to avoid another Denver situation" insurance. Now time to use that #13 and our next four seconds to trade up and take a QB, because that would be hilarious.
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My 401k funds are all garbage but it doesn't appear I have the option to self-direct. The 10-year return of the S&P is 162% yet not one of my funds beats 5.
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That had to have been it. I remember it was a little before the Sign Forest, and that area is right before. That's what a local told us about the area, anyway. Do you really drive when you're going to the Lower 48 instead of fly? That's a heck of a haul.
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Had to cancel my first Farmer's Market tomorrow due to expected rain at noon. They're still having it, but I don't feel like spending $50 on set-up and seven hours of labor to hope people buy hot dogs at 9am. Still not too much bugging me because I had a great day on Wednesday when all the construction workers found me. Ran out of chili and sauerkraut so I closed down an hour early and still broke my profit high by $10. Although I felt guilty when one guy I turned away said "But you said you'd be open until 2."
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There's a little area around the northern border of BC which has the second-best abundance of animals after the Savannah. We got to see Dall sheep, buffalo in the road, almost hit a moose, and saw a "golden bear" which we were told is a cross between black bear and grizzly. My view for two months, Lake Lebarge, specifically:
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Can't the Packers just take a guy late in the 7th Round and have him step in and be starter material?
