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Didn't see it. I'm gonna guess "wow" means bad.

I have to qualify every year with day/night pistol and shotgun as well as day/night combat course. I'm a good shot, but once you add that element of "You better pass all six of these courses of fire to keep your job" the anxiety ramps up a little. Mostly because you have to shoot in specific ways and I don't want to forget something like the last two rounds as support-hand only.

When I worked retail the standard greeting was "Hi can I help you" and the standard response was "No, just browsing." But of course the key is to get them chatting so you can help them and in turn, get the commission. So I started greeting people with "What's the good word?" The weird question would throw people off and I got more people to talk that way. Although a lady once chewed me out for it, got really mad at me for asking. My guess is because she couldn't think of an answer she lashed out instead of having to appear confused. Boss told me to stop doing that, but I didn't because it was effective even if one lady got mad.

Hello and goodbye greetings get to be so automatic. A friend told me he was on the phone with his boss once and as he hung up said "k, love you" out of habit. The boss called him back laughing and said he's done the same thing before, too.

I asked my anesthesiologist cousin, and yes I had to look up the spelling on that, for his expert opinion on this. He said that it's important especially for elective things like viagra/cialis. He said when patients know there is a new option for treating a condition they have, whether it be ED or psoriasis or something, they may be prompted to go see a doctor versus just dealing with it. He said patients will often ask for the brand name (where of course big pharma makes the big bucks) verses generic or alternative treatment options. And many doctors will accommodate those requests if there are no contraindications.

That one may have been me. My accountant was pretty impressed at my account when she saw the total value of the transactions until she saw it all balanced out to very little. It's been just the opposite last year as I haven't touched anything since about February.

Cripes. Just logged into my Coinbase account and all my money had been transferred out and it wasn't me who'd done it. Thought I'd been hacked. But I guess Coinbase is scrapping its Coinbase Pro to something else and apparently that's where my money went.

But wouldn't Las Vegas have an easier time selling season boxes to all the casinos who want to keep their whales happy? That matters more than a couple hundred seats in the nosebleeds.

I found The Chosen on Amazon and binged it. I hear it's been popular enough they're going to show the season finale in theaters along with streaming.

Trade clause or no, I still figure Rodgers would have to approve a trade beforehand. And in that case why go to a middling team when he could be on a middling one in GB? But the Jets would easily be the most Superbowl-capable of the bunch and I could see that convincing him. Elijah Moore and a 2nd wouldn't be a haul, but would be reasonable for a guy who may only play one more year. Then maybe a conditional 2nd and 4th if he plays the year after. Plus with their 1st the Jets would be in line to take the Richardson guy from Florida who will need a year or two of bench work before he's ready, anyway.

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.

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.