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Brew

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  1. We had ours laid out with 4 overhead gas heaters but when it came time to run the gas we decided against it. We have three open sides and after talking with everyone involved, no one believed they would actually provide enough heat to justify the cost involved because of the size of the room plus the ceiling height. Everyone is just going to have to put on a sweatshirt when it cools off and huddle around the fire place. Still waiting on travertine. First order came in screwed up, but they hope to have it in next week. This has been the longest f-ing project ever.
  2. You weren’t far off. I think I would have preferred they spent the extra $42M on Freddie over the 6 years and kept the prospects.
  3. I don’t get it. Short of Freeman just saying he wanted to move on (which may be the case), with that contract the Braves should have been all over it and kept their prospects.
  4. Residential can be such a beating especially if you are real slumlords. We had almost 200 doors at our high point and then started a management company that managed another 450 or so. We had everything from rough properties all the way to super nice. We’re under 30 doors at this point as we’ve been converting from residential to commercial development and leasing over the last 3-5 years and have also sold the management company. Anything over a few and I’m using a management company. I don’t want the calls, it made better sense to pay someone else 6-8% to deal with it. There are several online only companies that do a good job as well.
  5. Fuck that, a lot can be said about the cowboys front office, but they have been loyal to a fault with Gregory. If he has a problem with the language when he’s been suspended more than he’s played then so be it. Let him walk and find someone else that rather than keep on doing what we’re all critical of them for. Plus, haven’t you been critical of Gregory from day one?
  6. Going to be weird watching the Braves and not seeing Freeman at 1st it looks like.
  7. Been fighting this battle for a while now. I sleep on my stomach and it’s causing significant issues with my elbows, but I always end up on my stomach no matter what I plan to do.
  8. What qualifies as late middle aged? I think I might be offended, but I need to make sure what age bracket I fit in first. There is no wholesale definition for middle class any more. It is too location specific. $150k buys you a really nice life where I live. There are plenty of people in that range with 1-3 kids in private school, a 2800+ sq ft house, and plenty of other toys. It probably has you sharing a place with roommates in other locations.
  9. At the rate they are going, they’ll be more expensive than the fun car by then.
  10. There are way more of these out there than you would ever imagine although that level of income with that issue is outside the norm. I hate calling someone that owes money with their tax filings, because a lot of times they don’t have it. It amazes me the professionals every year that do payment plans with the IRS and we live in a low cost area of the country. Then I see their tuition information at the private school and parents are paying it, then I really wonder where their money goes. 3 vacations a year, LV purses, new cars, non school sports is a huge expense locally, student loans for one not working, country club dues to be able to eat with your buddies, duck hunting leases, alimony and child support for 2 prior marriages, etc and it all disappears quickly. On the car topic, you can find decent vehicles under $30k all day every day. I bought my oldest a mid level Escape for $25k. I wouldn’t drive it every day, but it’s functional transportation. I put 25k+ a year on a vehicle and I’m going to drive what I like. They get traded every 2 years and to this point I’ve come out pretty well on trade in values. I do okay, so I’m going to drive what I want while I’m here.
  11. Who’s arguing? I stated an opinion. He clearly violated the rule, that doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree with the length of the punishment. You do, good for you. The NFL has had more black eyes and “integrity” related issues that have basically slid by in the grand scheme of shit that happens in the league. I bet the next guy makes sure he doesn’t use the equivalent of cridley@atlantafalcons.org as his login.
  12. Doesn’t Stagg Jr have a pretty low retail which is what places like that are typically basing it on?
  13. I’m not sure the words NFL and integrity go hand in hand. I also don’t see it that way especially when you are betting on your team not against your team. The slippery slope argument went away when they embraced gambling the way they have also.
  14. He’s a complete f-ing idiot. However, a year for placing bets during a week you didn’t even play is a little ridiculous. That goes double when viewed in light of other suspensions.
  15. These are Stonks, I’m not sure any qualify as winners.
  16. Jumped out again yesterday, see where it goes before I get back in again.
  17. Sounds like they work for shitty bosses. It’s pretty standard in my industry and time off numbers for the others we meet with are up, not down. We have guidelines on no more than 10 consecutive days without high level approval, anything over 30 days total requiring approval, etc. Get your work done and take off. Don’t sit in the office just so you can get a check at year end.
  18. We went unlimited 3 years ago and paid out 100% of balances. People use more time now than they did before, so the scam part is going to be business specific. We had a lot of people that just didn’t charge PTO out because they wanted the accrual and the payouts once they capped. We were sitting on an almost $1M liability that was continuing to grow annually, so it was a good solution to cap our liability and push people to take the days off by not incentivizing them not to take it.
  19. Better get cash in hand before the reality of $5 a gallon gas sets in. Of course with the ‘22 allocation of new boats pretty well sold, who knows what’s going to happen.
  20. There are a number of Russian ETF’s. The question was why RSX was the one to look at over some of the others that may be trading under estimated valuations rather than over.
  21. Agreed, but the estimates on valuations that are out there show RSX to be trading at a 2X+ multiple of estimated values while others are trading at 40%.
  22. Of the Russian ETF’s, isn’t RSX about the only one that is trading at a multiple of it’s underlying value? Most all of the others seem to be trading at a discount to their underlying values at this time.
  23. People see the will of the people there standing up against the aggressor which changes sentiment. For so long we’ve been involved in regime change in places that may or may not want it, that defending the proverbial “David” sounds like a good idea at the moment. Now that everyone has seen that Ukraine isn’t just going to roll over, we’ll probably start hearing more of a call to up our level of help. Part of me would hate to ever see boots on the ground there, the other part of me says it’s time to wreck shop on Putin even though it is a terribly bad idea.
  24. I move closer and closer to being a vegetarian every day. At this point I’ll still eat chicken and pork from pasture raised producers, but that’s about it. The corporate farming methodology has really turned me off meat, especially being in the middle of Tyson chicken country and seeing the trucks on the road often. Farming octopi seems like a strange concept given what we know about how they interact with the world. We do a good job of bulldozing our way through everything though.
  25. Not located in TX, here and other states I have properties in that is the way it works.
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