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Bob Loukas is a great crypto youtuber. Bit long of a video but he talks about long-term investing using the four-year cycle. He got in again a couple weeks ago so of course hit the recent bump. Though I do think it's a mistake to ignore other other factors like the stock market and unemployment, etc. in any crypto evaluation, because the crypto market very much doesn't act independently of the regular market. Crypto is a speculative asset, and so the mass of people will only invest when they've got some money to actually spend.

Rodgers to Seattle is an interesting thought, especially since what Seattle would be paying Rodgers wouldn't be a whole lot more than what they'll likely have to pay Geno. Though Rodgers being a bridge QB I'd see Seattle demanding they keep the #5 so they can draft Rodgers' successor. Seattle's late 1st and a 3rd seems more fitting, or it's a player from Seattle as the main return. Noah Fant and a 2nd would be fine with me.

I guess you can search non-stop flights, too. Skyscanner and Kayak have that "go anywhere" feature. https://www.skyscanner.com/transport/flights-from/mke/?adults=1&adultsv2=1&cabinclass=economy&children=0&childrenv2=&inboundaltsenabled=false&infants=0&iym=2307&originentityid=27544948&outboundaltsenabled=false&oym=2307&preferdirects=false&ref=home&rtn=1 https://www.kayak.com/flights?lang=en&skipapp=true&gclid=CjwKCAiAwomeBhBWEiwAM43YIMgAj6GB73Fe4EqjGw9lO2Qhe0rJI1xXVVqkbG_MuL3f1QzGYwnfeRoCwLgQAvD_BwE&aid=137201325827

There's a website somewhere that you can put in the days you're looking to go +/- a few and it'll list the cheapest prices around the world. If you were looking to get further afield than Memphis and didn't mind a few connections, you should be able to get pretty far away for a similar price. The Philippines has some of the nicest beaches in the world and would be quiet. A pub crawl of Australian Outback bars? Draining Scotland of its whiskey one sip at a time? Namibia is like one giant beach and some of the best photography in the world. Hike the John Muir Trail and enjoy quiet camping while also getting a year's worth of exercise at once?

Sounds like one of those where they already had the person picked out but they needed to pad their application numbers in order to call it a fair process.

My new bank's $5 monthly management fee and $2 paper fee also bugs me. It used to be that we were doing the banks a favor by letting them profit off our money. Now I guess they're doing us a favor by holding it.

I wish Amazon Prime Two-Day Shipping were actually two days and not three weeks. The streaming portion of the service only seems to exist to offer you crummy movies for free to get you to rent the better versions. And I think as long as you spend more than $35 you get the free shipping whether you have Prime or not. Why do I pay for this service, again?

Tight end. No telling if Tonyan will be back, Deguera isn't a starter and Marcedes just can't be your #1. With the corners we have I think we could get by with marginal safeties if needs be. Hopefully someone who knows how to tackle.

I'd be like a robot hot-dog salesman! Bought the deer lift. I don't have to keep my spare sodas cold so I'll probably just get the plastic crates for those.

I've had that thought for the spare sodas, just 2-3 containers, so backpacks could work. Need at least the one cooler to sell sodas out of, though. There's an arm you can bolt onto the bed and it swings out with a crank, so I'm starting to lean that direction. And my maintenance director may be willing to make me one. Bolt a shorter metal post in, a round pole slips inside so it swivels, and then a manual boat crank to lift the cooler up. The side hustle I think is going well so far. $180 and $113 net the two times in my new location, which I think bodes well for summer when the town gets busy. Was hoping to vend six days per month but it may end up being four since I'm concerned a nine-day shift at work, then two days vending, then back to another nine-day shift may be a little too much. Lot of requests for coleslaw on a hot dog here, so I may end up needing another half-hour in the morning to make it every time since I've been told it doesn't freeze well. edit: okay maybe I'm starting to ramble, but I'm liking this new solution: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073LR246F/ref=ewc_pr_img_1?smid=A16NOCZFTYEP6M&psc=1 It has a 200lb lift capacity and itself is 40 lbs. Probably add coasters so I can lift the cooler up at my cart to make it more obvious I'm selling sodas. Kinda pricey, though. Would still have to do multiple trips with the spare soda containers, but so be it. edit edit: Nope, this is better: https://www.discountramps.com/viking-solutions-l-e-vator-deer-lift/p/VKS-VLV001/?gclid=CjwKCAiAqt-dBhBcEiwATw-ggMfZZ40ojpebXYUgTzcqYQvJLj3vEblUUDbwoHCjN92aVH_WMMz4NRoCgP0QAvD_BwE Hunting supplies are better because I'm looking to lift more like a deer-weight than a motorcycle weight.

So an odd vending issue..... So my soda cooler is maybe 75 lbs. or thereabouts and I've got to lift it on and off the pickup bed to do my vending. My back being what it is, I can lift it, but one of these days I'm going to hurt something. Right now my best solution is truck ramps to make it a bit easier, although my cart being hitched up may get in the way of that. The boss wondered about a furniture dolly. I'm just trying to figure out what might work best to get something moderately heavy on and off the truck. The second dilemma is that I keep my extra cases of soda in the commissary, which means loading them up one-by-one and again at the end of the day. I have a small hand truck but being open cases, I'll hit a bump in the sidewalk and 10 cans will spill out. And sometimes I have to go down stairs. Or maybe truck ramps would work off the side of the truck? Right now I'm thinking another cooler for the extra soda, truck ramps to get them on/off, and then just wheel the cooler into the commissary. edit: ooh, just found this manual hydraulic lift which I really like. And not super expensive, either. edit edit: Cripes, the lift itself is 88 lbs. I'd need a lift for the lift.

So the team's new strategy is to give up the mid-range jumpers in order to better defend the 3. Sounds good, and of course they're going to have a tough time against good mid-range shooting teams like Atlanta and the Nets. But the non-Lopez secondary defenders haven't been boxing out and are letting guys get in front of them for the pass-to-dunk and offensive rebounds. I don't really see it all as a product of the defensive system, but rather Lopez has been so good that the other guys are expecting him to do it all and are getting a bit lazy. Hard for me to be able to tell just what Allen's defensive deficiencies are costing the defense as a whole and the sort of points he's allowing, but provided it isn't too terrible I'm otherwise hesitant to want him traded. Marjon isn't going to be getting any minutes in the playoffs this season (not that he's been bad, but it's just Bud's way) and Carter may only have very specific minutes since it'll be tough for him to defend bigger guys, and so having Allen out there provides that second good 3pt shooter on the floor to really open up the driving lanes for Giannis and lob opportunities for Lopez. Or at least to keep a spacer out there when Middleton is resting. Seems too valuable a playoff skill to be losing.

Regardless Ruiz is going to be a super-fun player to keep an eye on next year. Hitting it to the outfield is boring, anyway! I'm not as down on it from the As perspective. They're blowing it up and clearly have traits they're intentionally overvaluing. If Ruiz is the perfect embodiment of those traits, so what if you overpay from a conventional standpoint? If you thought the SB was the next big undervalued thing, how much more would Ruiz' value increase?

For a good while now I've been tempted to just jump in a day at a time and play these dips. Oftentimes they're predictable enough you can see a bump coming, things go up maybe 8% over a couple days, and then fall again. But ultimately I remind myself that things are never that simple and I should probably just avoid that stuff altogether. In February of March of this year I remember reading a few articles from long-term, successful crypto guys who said that most often a crypto investor totally misplays his first big bull market, but by that second big bull run they've learned those necessary lessons and it's all much more successful for them. I certainly played my hand poorly that last run-up, but it does make me pretty optimistic for the next one.

So have we hit the bottom yet or is there more to go? My thinking has usually been that the regular market has another fall in it and that Bitcoin will hit around 12k, but that we'll probably have a short little bump-up before that. The trap for all for folks who may have took long positions when it hit 15k. But I'd also hate to sit here and see Bitcoin hit 40k and I'm still out of the market. Largely I base it on what Jerome Powell will do. There's speculation that he'll pull back on the rate hikes going forward, which certainly would push a lot of growth.

Kirstie Alley (replaced Diane on Cheers) died of cancer at 71 yesterday.

Brewers don't have the payroll and riches to be sending another team money to get rid of a contract. And even if the Brewers could send $10M/season off with Yelich, what are you picking up for that leftover $16m--basically a player of Yelich's current ability.

I didn't get the promotion. Kinda thought I would. Though I guess considering I only wanted the position for the money and didn't really want the stress, maybe it's for the best. Also didn't get my bonus pay because the new policy is if you just have an interest in the promotion, that disqualifies you from the bonus, which is asinine. They made one person run an entire park for six months because it saved them money. It's no wonder everyone in the Division is looking to leave.

SBF should be in jail and there needs to be an investigation into everyone involved. But of course neither of those things will happen. Boy with Bitcoin invented to be a workaround to bank fraud and government fraud, all its actors sure seem to be doing the same thing. Sure wish there were some kind of fiat on-ramp to using a dex, though. I'm still all in cash. I don't think you can look at the crypto market without also looking at the real market. Now that the elections are over I wonder if Powell will tackle inflation a lot more. I tend to think there's one more big roadbump ahead, although BTC at 16.5 sure is attractive, too.

I'm indifferent to mushrooms. Can't really taste them. But will use them fairly often because they're good for you.

Still my favorite Brewer, still absolutely jacked, and still married to a member of En Vogue. If I found out the guy is actually a jerk it would be pretty crushing.

Still my favorite Brewer, still absolutely jacked, and still married to a member of En Vogue. If I found out the guy is actually a jerk it would be pretty crushing.

Rumor is that the team is shopping Grayson because he's bad at defense.

Thanks, really appreciate that. Yeah, maybe two years waiting for everything to fall in place. Will probably get my permit for the town square on Monday, so likely then I'll see a big pickup in business. Now to figure out how to navigate real work, vending, golfing and working out. My fault for praying and asking God to teach me discipline, you end up with the opportunity to learn it.

You have to wonder when Giannis' career is done, that the biggest factor in ranking him on the top-whatever-all-time list is going to be how many Championships he's won.