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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.

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.

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.

For the Brewers it's not just getting Burnes' value in prospects, but also a value in prospects to account for what would be a heck of a 1-2-3 punch in the playoffs.

For the Brewers it's not just getting Burnes' value in prospects, but also a value in prospects to account for what would be a heck of a 1-2-3 punch in the playoffs.

I don't know if the Brewers have even figured out whether they're a "soft rebuilds are necessary with our budget limitations" team or if they're a "try and be competitive ever year" team. There's no agreement on this site, either, and to me that seems like the biggest factor on whether folks say trade or keep. I'm in the "soft rebuild" camp and I think we'd have every ability to push for the playoffs next year even with Burnes gone. Trade from your strength, especially considering there's no need for a mid-budget team to have one or two guys in the bullpen who should be getting starts. Further, our OF prospects are speed guys, and speed is kinda negated if you're a low-ave/HR offense, so trading Burnes now is a great opportunity to get a better contact hitter or two in to better take advantage of that.

I don't know if the Brewers have even figured out whether they're a "soft rebuilds are necessary with our budget limitations" team or if they're a "try and be competitive ever year" team. There's no agreement on this site, either, and to me that seems like the biggest factor on whether folks say trade or keep. I'm in the "soft rebuild" camp and I think we'd have every ability to push for the playoffs next year even with Burnes gone. Trade from your strength, especially considering there's no need for a mid-budget team to have one or two guys in the bullpen who should be getting starts. Further, our OF prospects are speed guys, and speed is kinda negated if you're a low-ave/HR offense, so trading Burnes now is a great opportunity to get a better contact hitter or two in to better take advantage of that.

If you go with a computer-connected one you'll need a pretty good PC to run it. But the big plus with something like the Oculus is that if cost isn't a big problem you can keep up with all the technological advancements. And there's more games for it, too. I have the Playstation VR, which every now and again will go on sale at GameStop. And probably getting cheaper with their VR2 pre-orders just starting to be offered. Playstation's VR1 can be run on a PS4 but the VR2 will need a PS5. If you have no console at home already, the Oculus may be your best bet. Plus the Playstation VR, at least until v.2 releases, doesn't have joysticks, and so moving around in a Playstation VR game is always pretty awkward. And I'll definitely say that putting a VR on an older relative who's never used one before, and then having them do a roller coaster or a scary game.....well that's just such a blast to watch as they scream or try to keep their balance. Last time I did it with my family there was a lot of cry-laughing.

Days 1 and 2 in the books! Made $7 the first day and $28 the second. But more than anything, this is really just to get accustomed to doing it so that when next Spring hits and there's a lot of customers I'll be prepared. And I have a better location but I don't have the permit for it yet. Have a feeling I'm going to grow to hate hot dogs, since I can't re-sell the cooked ones the next day. Buns got a little soggy in the steamer, but I shouldn't normally have them in there all three hours. I'll have to experiment with frozen buns to eliminate waste, too. I like the grill attachment to the cart already because it smokes a lot and puts out a lot of smells. Preview attachment IMG_20221101_133337124_HDR.jpg [Image] 6.2 MB.URL

Ugh, had my first row with a co-worker who would be my barely-subordinate if I get the job. Bit of a power thing and an argument which was pretty well going to end up happening one day or another. But I'm not the controlling type who needs to learn to let things go, rather more easy-going and prefer control to happen at the lowest levels possible, so I'm aware that the downside to that is I can get pushed around, so it's probably good this happened.