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I subscribe to the Wisconsin State Journal online edition. In June, I paid $8/month. That jumped to $18/month in July, and now will jump to $27/month in January. I don't mind paying for news, but more than tripling the price in six months is ridiculous. I have to call to cancel, can't do it online, so I hope to negotiate a reduced subscription fee.

Sorry this doesn't add to the discussion, but I thought the use of this word was spectacular. What does add to the discussion is that according to Eric Stokes, the message today was that explosive plays will get you beat. https://twitter.com/ByRyanWood/status/1736843776641872361

Back during the big oil boom in North Dakota, when wages for retail jobs were skyrocketing, he flew people from the corporate offices in Eau Claire, put them up at a hotel for two weeks at a time, and had the work as cashiers and lumber yard attendants, all so he didn't have to raise wages in North Dakota.

Both Dike and Bell hit the portal today. This coming off the heels of the WR coach being hired by Notre Dame, though I would be skeptical if that had anything to do with the transfers.

There was one. The booth commented on how this was the second Sunday night game she's been to.

Me too, and it's a nice watch that I have no desire to replace.

Green bean casserole was an invention of the Campbell Soup Company to sell more cream of _______ soup (I'm assuming mushroom). I feel like at least half of the "traditional" holiday sides were invented by food companies to sell more product.

Generally it's 2 kids meals, my wife and I each get a butterburger, and we get any combination of two fries, onion rings, or curds. I will occasionally splurge for one of their limited time burgers or a rueben.

A new job and he doesn't have to sell his house!

Here's my main issue with Culver's. It tastes great, better than most fast food, but I'm still hungry when I'm done eating. Also, it's usually $25-30 for our family of 4 to go to Culver's, and for that much, I can order good pizza or Chinese food and have leftovers for a few days.

I've been comparing this season with 2018, the one season where I thought we had a legitimate World Series chance when the playoffs began, and came within a game of making it. I don't dig deep into advanced stats, but some basic ones stood out. Pitching: team ERA was 3.73, 4th in the league. This year it was 3.71, best in the league, but not a huge difference. We gave up 659 runs in 2018 compred to 647 this year. Again, no difference. Offense: team OPS in 2018 was .747 (4th), .705 (14th) this year. We scored 754 runs (7th) in 2018, 728 (8th) this year. We hit 218 HRs in 2018 (2nd) and 165 (12th) this year. We had more SB this year (129 to 124), but that was 7th in the league, and 124 was best in the league. The numbers were pretty striking to me-very similar pitching numbers, but pretty different offense numbers, especially considering the DH this season. I don't know where they go from here, but offense is pretty darn important to he successful in the playoffs.

For my flex, one of: Michael Pittman Breese Hall Calvin Ridley I have Pittman in right now, but apparently, Hall is free of limitations going against the Broncos, and we all saw what Miami did against that defense.

We got a piece of mail from the Immortalist Society addressed to the person that used to live on our property. Do I contact them to let them know he died at least 4 years ago?

Pre-snap penalties need to stop; there were way too many of them last night. The game was not as close as the final score indicated. A few dropped balls on passes that would have been big plays and some red zone issues in the second half "limited" us to 38 points. If you watched most of last season, you knew the defensive problems were going to be there. They lost two of their three best players to the NFL and really didn't have anyone coming up the pipeline to replace them, and it's not like they were great against better teams last year. It's nice to have a good place kicker for once. We've had ok ones in the past, but I always cringed any time there was a FG attempt past 35 yards. There is so much more talent at WR than in the past, they just need to catch the ball. Mordecai was fantastic, and I put the INT more on Dike than Mordecai. Losing Mellusi will hurt.

The transition to what it seems everything being subscription-based or once free things now costing money bugs me. There are some journalists and columnists I read that were either laid off or chose to move on from the news/entertainment sources I frequent that still write the columns, you just have to pay for access. I get that they need income, but I only have so much I can shell out each month for a subscription. Take Deadspin/Defector for example. Deadspin was free to read, everyone fled for lots of legitimate reasons, now it's $8/month to subscribe to Defector. Another example of what I mean is Disney. We are going to Disney World in a month, and I found that lots of perks for resort guests that were free in 2018 now cost money. Gone are the free airport transportation, fast passes, and, magic bands.

Regular Sudafed has pseudoephedrine, which is amazing (and it's the stuff you have to show an ID to get and is behind the counter or locked up, because of meth). It's the stuff that has phenylephrine doesn't work.

This sums up pretty much every QB from Ohio State.

My walk to the bus stop after work each afternoon requires me to cross both Johnson and University on campus at UW-Madison. I choose the crosswalk outlined in red below: The only issue with this crosswalk is that it has no signals so you have to cross when there's a break in traffic. This is usually not an issue because there is a stoplight to the left and another to the right on University that stops traffic and allows me to cross. Each road is 4 lanes wide. While I appreciate the state law requiring cars to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk, I do not like it when drivers use it at this location to let me cross. I'll give an example of why. Number the lanes on Campus Dr, with 1 being closest to me on the south/bottom and 4 being at the top. A car stops in lane 3, but cars fly by him in lane 2, and he almost got rear-ended. He decides to go after I waive him forward. Moments later, a car stops in both lane 2 and 3 (no traffic in lane 1), so I proceed, only there was a car in lane 4 that did not see me and I almost got hit. Yes, I could walk a block to a signaled intersection, but I figure there is a crosswalk there for a reason, and there is usually never an issue crossing when the lights are red.

I am a bus commuter. The City of Madison just redid their routes (which part of that bugs me), but they announced that the buses on Monday will run the Saturday schedule because of Juneteenth. I work for UW and it's not a holiday for us; we still have to go to work. The Saturday schedule with the new routes requires me to transfer buses, takes considerably longer to get to work, and the bus does not get me to/from work at my normal times.

Our new house is only 3 years old so I was very comfortable waiving inspection. Unless it's the highest offer by a longshot, I won't consider any offer that has an inspection contingency when we sell ours.

We're in the Madison area and will be putting our house on the market in the next few weeks (we close on our new one soon!). I am hoping for a bidding war, obviously, but I cannot believe how upside down the housing market is right now. No contingencies, waive inspections, etc...

I can book a week-long trip to Hawaii for a family of four for less than a trip to Disney World, airfare included. I am getting vetoed on going to Hawaii.

Edit: Sorry, I don't know how to post it so the preview shows. Jets going after Lazard. If you go to the "share" button and select "Copy Link to Tweet" it should work when you paste it in here. - homer

1. We could consider a rent back agreement. Our neighbors did that before they moved. 2. We weren't able to get an approved purchase price at our ceiling, so we can only go so high. We think our ceiling will be able to get us what we want. 3. The main issue with this is we don't want to have to move twice in a short time span. With kids and a dog, it complicates things big time. We would have to make sure we rented in the same school district and attendance area as we are in or our kids would have to potentially change schools if we find something temporary. The market is also very slow right now and it's anticipated to pick up in the spring. It's just frustrating that it's so broken.

The housing market is completely broken and I don't know how anyone can actually buy a house unless they are selling theirs in a high cost area, moving someplace cheaper, and buying with cash. Here's my situation: Due to many factors, my wife and I want to purchase a larger home in the same school district we live in now. We will likely sell our house for over $200k more than we bought it for, and after paying off the balance of our current mortgage, we should have about 45-50% of a down payment on our next home. Notice I said should. Because of the lack of available homes, there are multiple offers on each available home no matter the condition. Because of that, we have been advised that any purchase offer we submit cannot have a contingency that we sell ours. A contingency will make our offer far less attractive. So we need to take out a bridge loan (which in the form of a HELOC) and find other funds to cover the down payment, which will then be paid off when we sell our house. Since we have a balance on our current mortgage, that is considered debt when calculating our debt-to-income ratio (the current mortgage, HELOC, and new mortgage are all factored in the DTI), even though we will pay everything off immediately when we sell our home. As a result, we cannot get a mortgage big enough for a home we know we can afford. If this was a normal, or even close to normal, housing market, we could use the equity in our home to calculate our next mortgage, but instead our current home is essentially a liability.