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Larry T. Spider

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  1. Build the damn statue.
  2. Still just chugging along dollar cost averaging 2-3k into index funds once a month. Commission season starts in about a month so that will be fun.
  3. I’m not that concerned about it because my company is paying and I’ll probably use the gym. Just saying a $56/night fee for a pool that closes at 5 pm is shitty. Google AI is saying that’s standard so I guess they can get away with it.
  4. Going to answer my own question and post it in case there are other people looking for the same thing. Work travel has packed on the pounds so now I have to be careful. True food kitchen - Caesars Roku Sushi - Caesars The Halal Guys - Venetian Canyon Ranch - Venetian (lunch only) Does the pool really close at 5 pm each day? If so that is a huge kick in the dick considering the resort fees.
  5. As one of the resident Bobcats, I am excited about the move. Haven’t missed a home game in 11 years, which means I sat through a lot of 4 (or fewer) win seasons. Our leadership team, especially the president, has done a phenomenal job.
  6. Been to Vegas a million time to party and gamble. Going M-F next week for work and staying at Caesar’s as that’s where the conference is. Not my first choice after staying there last year and feeling like the place needs a massive refresh. Anybody try to eat decently healthy while in Vegas? I usually don’t so recs in or near Caesar’s would be appreciated. I don’t want to send the company into bankruptcy with my expense report so value (relatively speaking) is also appreciated. Anybody done the pool there? Won’t be available until later in the day but hoping to snag a free chair and take a break from losing money in the later afternoons.
  7. For me it’s similar to how former servers usually tip well at restaurants. When I was a teacher, I drove uber two days a week. That was Fridays after work and Sundays after lesson planning. It was hard to live in Austin on 55k and have any kind of financial goals. I don’t have kids but try to take care of the teachers I know now that I make more.
  8. People can disapprove all they want. Doesn’t make a shit until they vote differently…..and they won’t.
  9. We use Chase Sapphire Preferred which has a $95 fee but has been well worth it. The signup bonus plus our normal spending quickly got us 2 round trip tickets to Spain with only a little additional money from us. Using multiple cards and getting the bonus should be easy for one person as long as they are with different companies.
  10. You would probably be spending enough to take advantage of the big sign up bonus and minimum spend requirements on 2 or 3 cards.
  11. You could make most of those same arguments against the 10 commandments law but here we are….
  12. I think the biggest hurdle is selling shares vs keeping your current shares and cashing in the dividends.
  13. I completely agree, but I don’t think that’s what we are going to get. Trump is going to stoke the flames with the military followed by pictures of cars/building burned by brown people. Trump thinks he can prove himself right on illegals being lawless thugs and some are going to play right into it. Wouldn’t surprise me if there are some right wing provocateurs mixed in to kick off the action. People with half a brain will know that these were mostly peaceful protests needlessly escalated by a power hungry orange menace. But the other 75% of our idiocracy will just see dirty minorities burning stuff and fighting cops. The African Americans of the civil rights movement gave us a blueprint but we rarely follow it. Amazing how they were able to organize and stick to a plan even without the ability to communicate online.
  14. I’m all for people waving the Mexican flag if that is their home country or their heritage. Hell, maybe it’s not and you just want to show support for people that are being caught up in all this BS. But realize the optics are going to be bad. The American idiocy needs simple messaging with as little nuance as possible. It’s confusing when people that don’t want to be departed to Mexico are waving Mexican flags in the face of cops. You become a much more sympathetic figure if you’re waving an American flag signaling that you are hoping for a better life here. We all know that the tatted up guy waving a Mexican flag in the face of a cop is going to play right into the disinformation playbook of the right. On a completely separate note, where was this energy during the election? The left love to squabble over minor policy differences while a wannabe dictator gets elected. Then they fill the streets all pissed off. Win. Elections.
  15. Is it just from the initial fill up or ongoing refills? Never owned a pool.
  16. So they’re smart enough to get chemicals on all these different types of aircraft and keep it a secret……but not smart enough to use something colorless? Checks out.
  17. Update on this. Have the wife’s IRA fully funded, my roth backdoored, and the 401k set to max out before the end of the year. Mostly going with the brokerage account for now and dropping in 2-3k a month. Still paying a little extra on the rental mortgage and setting a small amount aside for the next rental. But getting more dollar cost averaged into the market seems more important than anything else right now. Feel like I’m playing catch up from not making a lot for so many years. Commission season starts in 2 months. That should let me up the DCA amount to 5k a month for the foreseeable future. I still think it will take a few years of maxing IRAs, the 401k and dumping money into the brokerage to feel caught up.
  18. Buchanan went up about a foot. Thought it might get more based on where the rain was falling. It is doing better than Travis at 57% full. Canyon lake didn’t go up at all. Sitting at 45% full. We are still in desperate need of rain in the right places. It’s June now, so maybe next year.
  19. Looks like Travis is leveling off about 2 feet higher than before this latest round of rains.
  20. I do think this is a legit concern, especially if more left leaning people retire outside of the US. Whatever iteration of MAGAs are in charge at the time could make SS more solvent and claim the money should go to people who will spend it in the US to boost the economy. Two birds, one stone. Of course, liberal tears is the real goal but they have to dog whistle that part.
  21. I wanted to make a separate post to ask a question about the perceptions of different posters. I’m in Texas where we get the double whammy of MAGA at the federal level and the likes of Abbot, Paxton, and Patrick at the state level. Do the left leaning posters currently living in blue states feel the same sense of demoralization about the future of the US?
  22. Look at countries that have had shit hit the fan in the last 100 years. What commonalities exist between the people that were able to get out before it got bad. 1. Money. Probably the most important aspect as it makes picking up, moving, and having funds to live off of possible. 2. Foresight. If things get bad we will have a lot of people looking to leave at the same time. Also, we have a lot of people with money. Restrictions will certainly get tighter and we have already seen that in some popular destinations. Jumping before the masses would help greatly. 3. Political connections. Always helps to have somebody greasing the wheels in your favor. I don’t think it’s particularly necessary if you have a lot of 1 and 2.
  23. Outfield fences down at the disch
  24. A lot of rain in western RR but no hail.
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