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Celery Man

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  1. 14 minutes ago, Party_Taco said:

    What are we looking at there?

    about 800 g finger chiles and habaneros with an onion and a bulb of garlic, roasted and then boiled (outside) in 7 cups of vinegar with chile powder and some salt and then blended into a hot sauce.

    2 minutes ago, Bert Orange said:

    Eggs and cardboard?

    and served on eggs with some crispbread so basically yeah

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  2. I’m cool for whatever, can fuck around with the tracking spreadsheet to add tables and graphs for all those things as well. Honestly I’m intrigued with the pull-up thing but would need to figure out where to put a bar.

    @UT_OB1 had mentioned 20-30k as a body weight squat goal, I assume that is reasonable but I’m also a little worried about making sure I get the consistent time for all of these things. That’s part of what the challenge is for though and pushups don’t actually take any time hardly.

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  3. I’m so jealous of my wife for having the “Disney on ice” tradition with the daughter. Daughter is so extra, she claims Anna and Elsa are her friends and told me this morning that they remembered her from her birthday party.

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    boy and I did the lantern festival while they were at the arena

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  4. Alright, i feel like we have some takers on 10k pushups. I'm going to do this bike thing as well, and I'm down for trying the squat thing but it seems like UT_OB1 and I might be the only two interested in that?

     

    I set up a workbook here for tracking at least the pushups -

    Surly 2026 Pushup Challenge

    I've probably fucked it up in a few ways but there's a sheet for inputing daily totals and then another sheet that should tally the totals and display a chart of your progress. I'll fuck with that some more as whoever set it up last time had some nice averaging stuff that i probably didn't get right because I am not a spreadsheet guy.

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  5. My incredibly niche comedy script idea is a Friendship style movie where Buzzrock, believing his Sweetwater rep to be a true friend, reaches out to get the NAMM hookup and then heads to Indiana. Then you have an odd couple buddy road comedy planes trains thing and they find the true meaning of friendship and also derail Henry Juskiewicz’ plan to take down the industry he believes wronged him using blood rosewood.

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  6. My wife, who just got out of the hospital for some kind of crazy complications after having her gallbladder removed last week, is a lot of things, but one of them is an absolute lunatic when it comes to one upping every other mom in the Christmas cookie “thanks for being a preschool teacher/neighbor” game. Game set match

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  7. Alright, got some takers on pushups, I’m game for trying the body squats thing too, I feel like that achievable but am mostly thinking of what all i can try and fit in every day.

     

    For me, this will be my cycling goal in terms of mileage.

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    I’ve done 192 miles in December so far, probably spending more time per day than might be sustainable over a year but I expect my distance per hour to increase. I need to figure out how to track where I am on that map over time easily, that would be a fun visualization for me. Bonus that I’m facing the right direction as I sit on the bike.

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  8. 21 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    The question is whether you'd sell out, for a significant amount of money, a significant amount of your autonomy. The best argument I've read so far in favor of selling out is that the extra money enables you to retire sooner. But think of all the time you lose every day, getting ready for work, wasting downtime at the office, commuting, and how much more productively you could be using that time, including on activities whose revenue could far surpass the additional $120k that would be earned via the paycheck.

    That extra, let's say conservatively, 5 hours per week that you get to spend however you want could be invested towards some smart real estate moves (or in other ways, such as high risk high reward investment opportunities). Of course, you can still do those things while working a normal office job, but you'd have to find the time to do it and usually at the expense of your sleep, hobbies, and family time. That might feel feasible when you're right out of college, but after that first kid? After 35? Now you have to ask: what's the true cost of that added stress? Think of how much harder it would be to get to the gym, or to eat well, or to go to therapy. Not enough hours in the day, so you're dealing with high blood pressure, maybe even diabetes. Eventually something will have to give.

    So, I view that extra 5 hours per week as the only realistic way to devote adequate time toward profitable side hustles. If you're an enterprising person who believes in yourself, you should take the WFH and wisely invest the free time in your own capabilities.

    to me, the idea that I'm "discover 5 more weekly hours" away from moving the needle meaningfully on some smart investment moves is bananas, at least on that salary and in comparison to what I could do with twice as big of a shovel. Similarly, if you can make it on 120k (which, if you're willing to take 120 that's assumed) then surely 240 means your wife could stay home and cook or you can hire a chef/meal service, you can solve any number of time problems with the money. Even the commute, although I think that's realistically the thing that is the big sacrifice in time and soul sucking if you're not just extremely introverted.

    i think you might be able to start to bring me around if you adjusted the numbers a bit and added some sort of draconian stuff to the office part. Generally if you're a white collar worker making $240k in an office you can duck out for therapy. I'm also assuming it's not a bullshit job that you do in 2 hours at home but 8 hours in the office, or there's not some other catch like you have to work 80 hours a week or whatever. Drive in, drive out, you're at work all day. I say this as someone with a 2 year old and a 4 year old who wakes up every day at 5 and eats well and exercises and keeps a clean house and is an engaged dad and all that kind of stuff - the commute time seems easily worth it in exchange for bigger vacations and better college funds and less groceries and bill stress and more flexibility for the family and activities and etc etc etc. I am surprised that there's this much of a debate for 2x income.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    Divorce rate for married couples

    well see now I'm wondering if it's normalized for time married, although I would assume it is, and I bet if you peeled the layers back that there may be some cutural generational stuff but that there is a corresponding "more divorces for people getting married young, and millennials get married older" thing at the bottom of it.

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