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  1. GAME05
    Yay I finally got a call to get my initial inspection done by the Health Department. They do an initial inspection mostly to make sure your equipment is up to code (my cart is brand new, so shouldn't be an issue) and that you know how hot to get your food (165 then hold above 135). Of course now I gotta race to make sure all the food is in the commissary and things are ready to go, like wiping out coolers and testing how many ice packs it takes to keep it at 41 degrees and paying for food insurance. It's been nearly two years getting things together, including waiting a year and a half for the commissary to have a spot for me. Bonus that I'm hearing that there's more potential for sales in town than I figured. There's a farmer's market once a month, a First Fridays once a month which is pretty desperate for a food vendor, and the only fast-food place in town has gotten expensive and the construction workers don't eat there anymore. I'd only planned to vend on free weekends, but I guess depending on how much I'm willing to work there's money on weekdays, too. I even bought an XMRadio boombox so I can catch the Brewers games while I vend. And then the irony is that there's a 5% chance I transfer parks within the next few months and will have to start all this over again:)
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    Eh, non-story. It's not like Burns is sitting around thinking "I'd take a 10/$100 deal if only the Brewers phoned, nor are the Brewers waiting to offer 5/$200 if only Burnes would send an email. Everyone involved knows exactly what's up apart from the fans. Even early extensions aren't exactly uncharted territory.
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    Wow, both deep WRs were wide open on that play. Not just Amos, but both safeties needed to step up about five yards to meet the receiver once they got past the LBs clearly playing zone. Instead they dropped back five yards for seemingly no reason. They were both good for absolutely nothing on that play.
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    Barring major injury losses I don't see any reason not to expect this defense to be a Top 3. We've got a shutdown corner opposite a second-year guy, good DL with a first-rounder to improve our usually-bad up-the-middle run defense, and another 1st round LB to improve that unit. Certainly we could pick out guys who could be better, but as a whole it's a great unit and any final result outside of the Top 3 I will conclude is sub-par coaching.
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    Well it certainly doesn't help when your coach at the time intentionally throws games now and again.
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    May be an interesting next few weeks. Rumor that a higher-up will demote himself to the position I'm applying for (fine, as he has a positive reputation), but worse that my one friend near here I also golf with may transfer farther away. There --might-- be a position opening there for me, in which case I may well try to transfer over there, myself. More money here with no friends around is probably less valuable than staying at low pay with two friends to golf with, even though I kinda need the money to retire with.
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    I don't mind the pitch clock too much. Sometimes pitchers take slow-playing too far and the game can really drag on that way. And if larger bases are safer for players or make it easier to make accurate calls, so be it. I don't see either really effecting the way the game is played, so therefore I don't much care one way or another. Totally against rules on telling a defense where it should play, though. Why reward batters who are only able to pull the ball? Being able to hit a ball all over the field is a skill and that skill should be rewarded. If baseball wants more offense it can lower the mound, which has been the strategy from since Bob Feller. Yet another change I don't like at all. MLB likes to ignore the game itself in favor of pushing more playoffs and taking an NBA strategy in thinking we come out only for individual players.
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    Admittedly I've been doing more speculating than investing this year, but it's been treating me fairly well. The brother works in the energy industry and he really likes the future of alternative aviation fuel. Darling, Neste and Calumet seem to be doing most of it, though they've gone up a good bit the past few months and I'm inclined to wait on what I expect would be a good drop once the Ukraine situation ends.
  9. GAME05
    I'm trying to figure out what company would be a good play with any coming food and energy shortages in Europe. Maybe Repsol?
  10. GAME05
    Pretty much every time for me on PC.
  11. GAME05
    I got a sample of handmade soap with some cologne I ordered and I've never used handmade soap before, but it was kinda nice. Like the smell of it. Maybe I'll try to make some myself. I thought about making my own solid cologne, but I guess it's a lot harder than youtube makes it look.
  12. GAME05
    Fall in Wisconsin is only like a week, anyway.
  13. GAME05
    Finishing my fourth straight month of working noon-9 and have another one or two to go. Not enough time to run errands in the morning and certainly not at night, so everything has to be packed into my days off, which isn't enough time to get everything done.
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    I've speculated that GB made a lot of promises and gave a lot more control to the new ST coach in order to get him to come here. He had a good showing in Oakland and wasn't all that bad as a HC, and so you'd figure he had a good few other job offers. If GB was going to keep things status quo, I don't think he would have chosen to come here and hurt his career to be yet another scapegoat for bad special teams play. So is anyone taking odds on whatever new and interesting way Green Bay will find to choke in the playoffs this year?
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    An inflation figure which sent the market rising yesterday is the same figure which sent it way down only a few months ago. Europe is already buying Russian oil via India, so I'm not too convinced it'll hit anything at crisis level unless winter there gets particularly cold. I'm more concerned about the housing market here and especially in China.
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    Metamask is the top online wallet; Trezor or Ledger are the best hardware wallets. And then there's various types of fire-proof keys you can get to store your passwords. Good to get two and have someone store a copy at their house. --- Unsure of what to make of the market right now. I have some nervousness that a further banking/housing crash in China will send everything to a true bottom. I'm more tempted to sit on the sidelines for a couple months yet.
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    90% of mutual funds don't beat the market. Not only are you paying their fees, but they have a certain obligation to move money around just for the sake of it, because "I didn't do anything this quarter" doesn't sit well with investors. There's good books on dividend investing. There's a good few companies out there which pay a pretty steady dividend every quarter, and that can be great in retirement to just cash out the dividends instead of re-investing. It doesn't take millions invested to get a decent monthly income out of that. Buying REITS can help you with that diversification you want, too. Owning individual stocks aren't necessarily a risk even relative to an index fund. Plenty of large- and mega-cap companies out there with a terrific moat that aren't going out of business anytime soon and provide a really healthy return.
  18. GAME05
    With more teams making the playoffs now, blow-it-up moves for someone like Soto would be idiotic.
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    Don't disagree with you one bit, but just speculating on why a top team would trade their closer mid-season instead of letting him play out the year and trading him in the offseason. Or maybe the Brewers were just really underwhelmed at the offers they got this past offseason and we're all really overestimating Hader's trade value.
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    I hear Rogers has had a fairly bad-luck BABIP, so certainly moving to a better infield defense in Milwaukee will help.
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    Really figured we'd have gotten a better overall prospect in return since it's a mid-season trade. What are the chances the Brewers decided Hader's recent struggles were more permanent in nature and not just from a mechanics change? And because of that, hurried to accept the best offer they could get right now. Because certainly if Hader struggled the rest of the year, we'd get about nothing in a trade for him in the offseason.
  22. GAME05
    What do you guys think of Weight Watchers (WW)? Lot of debt but EPS has been improving. Been falling for 16 months now, but if they get their stuff together they were a $40 company selling for $6 today. The speculation side of me says maybe there will be a greater demand for weight loss after these lockdowns and eating bad food from working at home.
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    In case you thought it, I didn't mean that comment as any sort of criticism of you or your post. Your answer is also why I was thinking roughly 2 years old, because that's about the point where babies stop making dramatic changes month-to-month.
  24. GAME05
    It's a reasonable argument to make that with Hiura on a hot streak, he should be continuing that hot streak at the Major League level. But I'm not convinced that past performance is predictive of future results. There's just as much reason to say his streak ended his final day in Milwaukee since we couldn't know what he'd do tomorrow. And then if he does stay, how do you go about deciding when that hot streak is over? If we try to ride a hot streak we're just as likely to see him be terrible the next three weeks and lose an extra game or two because of it before it's declared that his streak is over. Ultimately is Hiura the guy you'd like to see get 4 ABs in a playoff game? If not it shouldn't be any big deal if he's demoted.
  25. GAME05
    Hiura - 81 DRC+, 43%K rate, 412 babip (Over 500 vs RHP!) Adames - 95 DRC+, 27%K rate, 233 babip. All this says to me is Hiura has been lucky to have that kind of BABIP. That's better than Mike Trout. Conversely Adames has been unlucky. Minus a hot streak and a regression to the norm and Hiura would need to be a great defensive player to make up for it. At least grounding out moves a guy forward.
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