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  1. LFG!

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    Concrete saw.

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    Okay, it was like 42 at the ranch, but probably a balmy 58 in the hole. It was wet. Dirty. Dusty. I wore eye protection (over my glasses), hearing protection, and a dist mask. I couldn't see shit. 

    It kinda worked. But to be honest, just pecking away with the smaller hammer drill was seemingly just as effective and a lot less wet.

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    I got out 5 buckets. Meh. I did tidy up my little filled in drainage and drove my maverick across it, so that was cool. 

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    15 hours ago, RPM said:

    You bottom out?

    I hope to have an update Friday! I'd been working on some amateurish road work (to go with me amateurish hold digging). But I got something that I hope helps push deeper. 

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  3. Any time I see a runner out there I think "good on you." And when I see an old or fatty out there, it goes triple. Even just walking - my mom spent more than a year is assisted living - good gawd walking and mobility makes all the difference. Keep it up. Dont sweat the times, think about doing it every week so you can do it years down the road. 

    Im 46 and don't run all that much anymore. A 5k slow grind os fine by me. But I have gotten into the rucking fad. I haul 30lb now. Used to be sand in watter bottles, but I got myself a wild gym feather (it has hip pads if I want to do more like backpacking). Boy and I signed up for Philnont next summer.

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  4. My new thing is pro-SROs. My brother in undiagnosed mentally ill, living on the streets (in a car). I cant afford to rent him an apartment. But if a SRO were maybe $500/mo he wouldn't be on the street. And that, I believe, is better for everyone. Nobody wants an SRO around them - and I get that. So out it in some industrial zone with a bus stop. 

  5. my employer doesn't pay well. We have gone to 3 days in office, 2 at home. As a manager the only benefit is that I can take away WFH for low performers. That's a handy tool to push out marginal folks. But in the long run my organization - like every organization - competes for talent in the free market. Salary and non-monetery benefits (like telecommuting) make up the compensation mix. We will either have to pay market rates, or offer flexibility. Offering neither is a dead end. 

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  6. 20 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    Without sup oxygen, summitting and then skiing down the bitch. Holy shit.

     

    if you french fry when you should've pizza'd, you're going to have a bad time.

  7. 4 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    Instead of a condo community, do a patio home community where yard and exterior maintenance is handled by the HOA.  All the benefits of locking it and leaving without having common walls with neighbors.

     

    I am into this. What do I search for on the real estate sites? I want to sit on a pile of invested equity and rent or own a place with such good paid flr maintenance that when I die it's 18 months before anybody notices my dessicated corpse.

  8. 12 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Engine falling off is exceedingly rare.  Single digit number of times in modern commercial aviation history.  Even this model engine has had multiple instances of fan blade failure and cowlings coming off without engine departing.  More to the story.

    engines falling off are uncommon in part because the temporal wormholes they cause. 

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  9. boys first buck. 9pt, pretty wide spread for our area.

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    I am actually more proud of passing up the 8+ throng of milling does and bucks last night. Just no way to have an ethical shot. Easily could have winged one behind.  (And I hate cleaning in the dark.) Savage in 7mm-08. Last years Christmas present. Mills county. Quartering toward.

    Wet spring, good growth. Some of the highest grass I've seen here (since 2007). Many of the does have healthy twins. Almost no mesquite beans and a small oak mast this year, though. 

    I am also thrilled of no pressure the rest of the season. Can pass on those damp freezing mornings. My ass was cold enough at 42. Back to cleaning.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Superhero said:

     

    Pulling the pin at 59 when my son finishes HS might work. By then we'll be sitting on ~$8M. It should be enough to last us for 20-30 years assuming we we keep our monthly expenses below $10K.

    But I also want to drink 18 YO whisky instead of 4 Roses, so working 'til I'm in my early 60s doesn't seem terrible.

    Didn't you have a huge health scare fairly recently? (maybe that was someone else) My dude. Take it easy.

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  11. Having managed my mom's finances (mostly all taxable inheritance), I kinda wonder how obnoxious managing RMDs and filing Schedule Ds will be when I am old and crabby. In theory a pre-tax saving is likely superior, but the simplicity of WYSIWYG Roths (plus simplicity of its inherited) is appealing.

  12. I should have quoted the guy above, but when I saw the simple majesty of "ASSWATER" in my post I couldn't bare to edit. 

    I don't blame a kid for enjoying a full ride. Maybe they have an honors college? I wish my local HS gave stats of the # of kids who go UT and A&M who are not the class rank auto-admits. I bet its most of them. The top 5% are probably doing Co Mines and ivies or whatever.

  13. 38 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    ASSWATER.

    Smart kids. Great internship possibilities. Desirable STEM majors.

    But it has a reputation for zero social life. No parties. No athletics. No fun. Not sure how many people met their spouse in college, but I am not sure the dating scene is particularly vibrant. Or as my teen daughter says "Dad, that is where the rolly-backack kids go." In other words, chopped.

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