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Brew

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  1. Omega guy called yesterday and they had a blue face Speedmaster come in, so it should be here Tuesday. Blue leather straps haven’t come out for the new ones yet, so went with the metal band for now. He’s going to call me this summer when the leather comes in.
  2. I’ve lost interest in going places I went on ski’s in the past. Kids, work, etc made me rethink how far I was willing to go and how long I was willing to be out recuperating. I’ll still ski the bowls and the backs of the mountains, but I go slower and I’ve definitely turned down the intensity. I also try to avoid the crazies blazing a trail down the mountain. I don’t go enough to run some of the stuff we did in the past.
  3. I believe it. My business partner still doesn't have his F350 he ordered in October. Ordered my 250 in September, I’m into mid May now on expected production. It has dropped back 2.5 months since they first sent me the build notification in early February. Dealer has contacted me multiple times asking if I would be interested in letting the order go. He wants to put it on the lot I’m sure.
  4. My youngest is none of those things, she will either be at free community college, a state school with cheap tuition, tiktok famous and making more than me, or jail maybe.
  5. Both of mine will leave the state and most likely the south (unless UNC works out) and probably not come back which I’m good with. Maybe it has always been that way, but a lot of the graduating classes from their school end up in the northeast in school. She and her mom got together and decided to meet with a college coach. Her high school has 3 college advisors for a class of about 70 which seems like plenty to me, but I guess this is a new phenomenon that has been added to the mix. Hopefully, it’s not the Aunt Becky version that requires me to write a massive check to gain admittance.
  6. Coin flip between Acuña and Tatis. Hate picking 1.
  7. I’m not even looking for the ones that aced their tests, I’m looking for the ones that had a life, hopefully made decent grades, and can sit down and talk to you in an interview. We’re not Big 4 (they can have all the 4.0’s) but we’re right on the cusp of Top 100 firm size. I left my first school with a 1.7 GPA after my first year, got married and finished out the next 2.5 years strong to get me back up in the low 3’s.
  8. Speaking of T-shirts, I was standing behind a young lady in line last night and the back of her t-shirt said “Text me when you cum” in great big block letters on it. I just had to shake my head.
  9. This whole process has become overly convoluted and the number of schools a lot of these kids appear to be applying to makes it even worse I suppose. If they have the test scores, it makes sense to apply early to the top tier schools you are looking at and get it out of the way. If you get in you’re set, if not you have plenty of time to get the next round out. It looks like the top schools are limiting applicants to only apply to the one school early though, so that may start tightening up too.
  10. Psychology, she wants to go to law school to practice in some area of child welfare, so she needs to go where I don’t have to pay.
  11. Even if I agreed with the majority of professional jobs being located inside of those areas, I don’t agree with the majority of those jobs requiring a high end degree. It’s a subset of that population working at specific firms. I’m not going to look it up, but the number of graduates from those high end institutions is a fraction of the overall graduates out there. We’re off in the weeds at this point. Shoot high, if you get there you’ll have a few more doors open for you. If you end up at Podunk U, your path may look different but finding success can still be had.
  12. For clarity purposes: The name on the diploma is over valued in most discussions. Outside of a few specific industries in the largest NE and west coast markets and a few major population centers in between, it doesn’t much matter where you go to college. If you disagree with that at this point, I don’t much care.
  13. Good advice. We’re working bottom up on your list. She has her lottery and reaches (Northwestern, UNC, and a couple of others) pretty well laid out and is working on the gimmes. She’ll graduate top 5% in her class with a mid 30’s ACT (at the moment) and plenty of the check the box stuff. She’s going to have to shoot for academic scholarships wherever it is, I’m probably writing checks if not.
  14. Not even close, although I should have been more specific to big law, Finance, tech, and a few other high end specialties in those markets I suppose. For some high percentage of people that I’m not going to put a number to, it doesn’t matter where you go.
  15. The name on the diploma is over valued in most discussions. Outside of the NE and west coast and a few major population centers in between, it doesn’t much matter where you go to college. The college my degree is from doesn’t even exist any more and no one would have heard of it anyways, it went bankrupt about 10 years ago. I needed the 150 hours required to get my license, so i did it as cheaply as possible. My oldest is starting this process now. She has been dead set on going to UNC for as long as she has talked about college and is finally just now starting to think about backup plans. It’s going to be rough on her if she doesn’t make it, but the acceptance rate for out of state females there is extremely low. We’ll see how it goes, but it’s probably time for her to work in some Plan B’s. I’m hoping for free state school for the 2nd kid assuming TikTok fame doesn’t work out for her.
  16. Stopped by today, apparently it’s a summer release. I didn’t see that anywhere on the website, put my name down and we’ll see what comes up I guess. I kind of like the white face / brown leather one also after looking again.
  17. All the Omega talk reminded I needed to go see what this year’s special editions are going to be. Think I may have to look in to the blue Speedmaster ‘57.
  18. Into May now with the expected production of my F250. Started in early February with a March 7th build date and it’s still sliding. Maybe diesel prices will be more reasonable by the time it finally shows up.
  19. It would make sense. Dealers we work for have had record years the last two years. The numbers haven’t even been in the ballpark of where they were before. A lot of that is coming from the over priced used car market and limited discounts on new vehicles. There have also been a lot of government replacements of lower tech vehicles that are keeping volume numbers way up, especially with Ford dealers. They are selling tons of Explorers set up for highway patrol and state office use.
  20. Took the youngest snowboarding at Copper last week. Ended up with decent snow Wed/Thurs which made it even better for her since she hasn’t been in fresh powder before. It was busier than I’ve seen it Thursday with the snow, Friday it was back to normal volume with no waits anywhere. May try to get one more in before end of season with the guys based on how good the snow cover was last week.
  21. This is the edited version? What was the unedited version like? Always amazes me the level of praise/blame put on a coach. TN lived and died by the 3, yesterday they died by it with probably their worst shooting performance this year.
  22. Number of calls is somewhat an inverse relationship with rent. The lower the rent, the higher the call volume. The higher the rent, the lower the call volume. True slum lords deal with a lot of calls because of the nature of the property and also the tenant. That doesn’t even get into routine maintenance issues. I don’t think I’ve ever had an issue with things like air filters getting changed in a $2000 a month rental, in one that is $750 you better have someone that handles that routine stuff for you.
  23. The whole story just gets more strange with Freeman coming out today and saying that he only got two check in calls from the Braves, one before the lockout and one right after it ended. That’s it for the cornerstone of your franchise for the last 10 years? I’ll be interested to see what their side of it is after apparently not even discussing an offer. It sounds like the decision was made during the season to let him walk.
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