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  1. GAME05
    Great write-up, Tim. Really terrific use of both quotes and heavy statistics to back it all up. Hader embodies my frustrations with the budget disparities in baseball. He's a guy who the Brewers would love to keep long-term, a guy who would probably love to stay in Milwaukee, but ultimately has to be traded eventually because we just plain couldn't afford to keep a player of his caliber.
  2. GAME05
    Great write-up, Tim. Really terrific use of both quotes and heavy statistics to back it all up. Hader embodies my frustrations with the budget disparities in baseball. He's a guy who the Brewers would love to keep long-term, a guy who would probably love to stay in Milwaukee, but ultimately has to be traded eventually because we just plain couldn't afford to keep a player of his caliber.
  3. GAME05
    Great write-up, Tim. Really terrific use of both quotes and heavy statistics to back it all up. Hader embodies my frustrations with the budget disparities in baseball. He's a guy who the Brewers would love to keep long-term, a guy who would probably love to stay in Milwaukee, but ultimately has to be traded eventually because we just plain couldn't afford to keep a player of his caliber.
  4. GAME05
    Great write-up, Tim. Really terrific use of both quotes and heavy statistics to back it all up. Hader embodies my frustrations with the budget disparities in baseball. He's a guy who the Brewers would love to keep long-term, a guy who would probably love to stay in Milwaukee, but ultimately has to be traded eventually because we just plain couldn't afford to keep a player of his caliber.
  5. GAME05
    Since we're on a baseball board, I definitely recommend "Nine Innings: Anatomy of a Baseball Game". It's about one single baseball game, everything leading up to it and during, between the Brewers and the Orioles in 1982. Currently reading "Is God a Moral Monster?" and looking forward to the Andrew Klavan book coming out next week how classical literature mirrors the Bible.
  6. GAME05
    I became a Bob Uecker fan well before I became a Milwaukee Brewers fan or a fan of baseball in general. I started listening in the dreary days when losing 90 games a year was pretty standard. Oddly enough I tended to enjoy the games when the Brewers were losing badly more than when the game was close, because as he still does, Uecker understood that calling the plays when you're already down 10 runs wouldn't hold the listener, and so he will just start telling baseball stories. He'd go on and on with some funny story with a quick little "line to LF for the second out" between telling you how he created the game "Ugly".
  7. GAME05
    I became a Bob Uecker fan well before I became a Milwaukee Brewers fan or a fan of baseball in general. I started listening in the dreary days when losing 90 games a year was pretty standard. Oddly enough I tended to enjoy the games when the Brewers were losing badly more than when the game was close, because as he still does, Uecker understood that calling the plays when you're already down 10 runs wouldn't hold the listener, and so he will just start telling baseball stories. He'd go on and on with some funny story with a quick little "line to LF for the second out" between telling you how he created the game "Ugly".
  8. GAME05
    I would only imagine the co-workers would understand that you negotiated the title only for resume purposes. They're navigating the same job-world, too.
  9. GAME05
    I don't really want the Superintendent position at my current work. Even other superintendents say not to do it for all the stress. But I'm leaning toward applying, anyway. I started this career at 38, so I'm way way behind in retirement savings, and I'm not sure I can pass up an opportunity for another $1000 per month.
  10. GAME05
    Nice thing about suit jackets is you can take them off and suddenly you're more casual if needs be. Just hang it over the chair.
  11. GAME05
    My work has now stated that no clothing choice can be held against a candidate. You could go in your underwear and still get the job, no joke.
  12. GAME05
    Hopefully everyone is ok today. I'd moved mostly into a commodities index fund a month or so ago and it's basically holding even today. Probably a lot of other plays to be made with Taiwan unfortunately-probably upcoming, though doubtful any that I'll strongly pursue.
  13. GAME05
    They probably need a WR in the 1st whether Adams is back or not. Heck even if they got Judy back in the trade they probably need a WR in the 1st.
  14. GAME05
    Thanks for the tip and I'll definitely keep that in mind. For this year just wanting to keep things simple and then do more as I get used to vending and based on what customers are requesting. There's the potential for vending at fishing tournaments which would be a $2000 day as well as maybe leasing the cart out to someone else. I make some flat fee but also avoid the burdens of having an employee.
  15. GAME05
    They're not called "brats" down here. It's just "sausage" or a "sausage dog". And everyone here likes the BrightLeaf hot dogs, which are regular hot dogs died red which I think is off-putting. I'll likely offer a brat and maybe also a BrightLeaf (those would require me picking up my food from two different places, though). Apparently mayonnaise on a hot dog isn't uncommon.
  16. GAME05
    My meeting with the prospective commissary (commercial kitchen) went well and it looks like I'll be able to use them this coming Spring to vend my hot dogs. Storing food at home is illegal, so I just need a place to keep food and wash dishes. And the place next door I accidentally walked into first is owned by the guy who runs that town's hot dog cart, so he gave me the low-down on all the other places to vend around here. He said he makes $250-300 per day which is roughly what I was figuring and he's in a not-great location.
  17. GAME05
    I'll have to ask my friend again for the specifics of the story. I thought Chevy was the character that made Community good. His character provided some negativity and pessimism, and above all grounded the other characters and restrained some of their lunacy. Post-Chevy the characters just went off the rail.
  18. GAME05
    For the past couple decades he's been running around Hollywood trying to get work because nobody will go near him. When he joined Community I figured he'd work hard to change, being that it was clearly his last chance at redemption. But nope. I'm bungling this story, but I guess many years ago Chevy was in a movie with a first-time director. Chevy was so difficult to work with that he made the director quit. It being Hollywood you'd normally figure quitting your first movie would be a career-ending move. But as the director tells it, he'd tell producers about why he quit his first job and they would say "No, if it was Chevy then that makes sense."
  19. GAME05
    I used to be a proofreader, and yeah, that was definitely always a concern that I might misspell a word in my letter and not realize it. I'm at a job now as well as that proofreader job where there was an HR rule that we had to call all references. I've known of some terrific candidates who couldn't be hired because we could never reach their references.
  20. GAME05
    There's a section in "How to Win Friends and Influence People" which talks about cover letters, basically what is attractive to hiring managers and which aren't. The whole book is great but that would be a particular section worth looking over.
  21. GAME05
    Based on not a huge ton I keep thinking 32k might be right around the bottom. A friend of mine thinks 29. Kinda same difference, though either way I just have a hard time seeing it fall much further, especially having seen it hit 67 not very long ago. Long-term crypto folks sometimes have a way of dumping on Bitcoin holders because it doesn't offer the home run that the small stuff at least has the potential for. But you'd have doubled your money just playing the major highs and lows of it last year, which I don't exactly consider timing the market. Ignoring all the going-for-100x people that's an amazing return. Not counting this latest crash, gaming in general did something like a 5x last year. I'm still optimistic on the sector because right now the standard-bearer is Axie Infinity, which isn't even that special of a game, which says to me the formula is a valuable one and nobody has really capitalized on it yet.
  22. GAME05
    No, haven't staked anything just yet. I've been waiting for the bottom of the market to start doing all that. I didn't sell at the end of November like I should have, so now I'm hoping for maybe one more week of green, then cash out and hold until the market bottoms out.
  23. GAME05
    My father has a second house near Phoenix. He can walk to the football stadium. It's not listed, but he's still getting two calls per day to sell at some very high prices. He was really tempted to sell but my brother I think correctly reminded him that since he's set money-wise, what's the point of selling? Unless there's a plan to actually do something with the money to better enjoy retirement, then there's no value to just having more money. My father is a good example of what consistent savings can do for a person. Never made more than $40k/year and the mother only occasionally worked. But the father saved 20-30% of every paycheck and was blessed to only be out of work for six months of his entire career. It meant stretching every penny, certainly. We never went out to eat, etc. But now someone who never made much money never has to ask himself if he can afford anything anymore. If either of them end up needing long-term assisted living we'll actually be able to pay for it.
  24. GAME05
    Digital Asset News the other day mentioned cryptotrader.tax, and it looks like that will be in the neighborhood of $100 to do the uploads and forms, so I'll probably use that. I had been trying CoinTracker.io, but it doesn't read Metamask and the forms it was getting me were a mess. ------ I bought Moonbeam (GLMR) way way way too early yesterday before it really had the chance to settle down from the KuCoin listing. Took a big hit on that. Up a lot today though I'm still not even. Nice to see what the market has been doing lately overall. Folks really over-reacted to the Fed rate increase even though everyone knew it was coming. Instead they just pulled all their money out of everything. But people don't tend to hold majority cash long-term, so I'm optimistic this year that as folks buy back in they may well do so via crypto because they're still market-averse with more rate hikes coming. We never really saw that "market is going crazy!" rise like in 2013 and 2017, but I guess the converse of that is maybe maybe maybe we don't really see the same fall. Volatility is more fun and more profitable, though.
  25. GAME05
    I'm curious to hear more. How old and where are you currently at with retirement money? I'm 44 and I don't think I'd crack $50k in retirement savings just yet. I'll also have a pension but that won't be more than about $1200/mo. Another benefit is work will continue most of my medical benefits between retirement and 62. Between this and my side job I should be starting this year, saving $1000/mo is realistic if not somewhat conservative. Although I'm a little unsure yet just where to save it all. I have a 401k and a self-directed IRA, but also taxable stocks/crypto. I'm in work housing, so when I retire I'll need a place to live. Sounds crazy right now but I still hope to retire before 60. I've heard rumor you can withdraw from an IRA early without the penalty in order to buy a house, but I also doubt I'll be buying one. So at least for now I'm stuck with capital gains. And since I'm single no kids I have ambitions to retire in Belize. No income tax, no capital gains and a slightly lower cost of living.
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