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CooterBrown

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  1. This movie was bat shit crazy. See it in a theater.
  2. Make sure you replace your remote batteries on a schedule. My batteries tapped out after I turned it on. No idea if there’s a manual switch on the side of the Toto but I couldn’t find it and I couldn’t reach the plug. Had to yell at Mrs Brown to bring me some batteries while my asshole got the longest polishing it has ever experienced.
  3. My wife said my sister just bought a pickup for like $85,000. IIRC, they live in a doublewide, so this checks out.
  4. I work for one of the 5 largest global engineering firms. It's amazing how bad the benefits all around are here. The only bright side is we do have unlimited PTO as long as you meet your billable goal. Mine is only 65% so it's easy AF and as a result, low stress for me. I take 6-8 weeks off every year. Pay is strong and we do get paid for overtime as long as 100% of hours are billable on that timesheet. 401K match sucks (3%), insurance sucks, no bonuses. But, it's my last job and I'm just coasting at this point.
  5. I got stuck some in that position once and when some redneck told me to stand, I told him i ain't no traitor to the stars and bars. I like to think that his rusty hamster wheel turned enough for him to be confused about his allegiance to the northern aggressor.
  6. My company doesn't contribute their 401k match until like April for the previous year, so it doesn't matter when you max out your contribution. Of course, they do that because if you quit before they contribute for the previous year, they don't contribute that money at all.
  7. After Ozzy died, Facebook recommended I follow Geezer. His Facebook is pretty much like any normal dude…hiking, Aston Villa matches, vacations in Italy, taking the grand daughters to see Adele, playing on stage with the Foo Fighters. Other than the access music has given him, he is shockingly normal.
  8. Keep in mind that you’ll end up doing 20+ short essays. For many colleges, when you go into the individual college’s additional info tab, they’ll have 2-5 short answer essays that are all completely different from the main essay. Don’t burn a kid out because they’re going to write a fuck ton more than that just that one.
  9. Hot Wheels will jump at the chance to rename Austin, Trumpville.
  10. Just got notice that my house in Allandale dropped 14%. Houses here are still selling in 2-3 weeks so it’s crazy to see that big of a decline.
  11. The only promise MAGA gives a fuck about is normalizing their hate. Promise kept.
  12. I never watched it either and tried to a couple of years ago. It was so dated, I couldn't get into it. I bailed before the end of the first season.
  13. Totally forgot that we unexpectedly got the new Avatar trailer in front of F4. Looks like more of the same overblown CGI that’ll be forgotten an hour after it ends.
  14. So, we got the MIL's 401K and IRA moved to inherited IRAs this week. We decided to put $400K in SPYI and enjoy those monthly dividend payouts. We are still waiting on a check for the balance of her state pension. No idea what that amount is but it will be invested in SPYI also. I was wrong about the taxes on SPYI. Dividend disbursements from an inherited IRA are treated as ordinary income instead of qualified so the taxes will be at our regular rate. But, found money is found money. We also just sold her paid off house. We used some of the house money to pay off my car and will buy my wife a new car since her mom said to use some of the money to replace her 2012 Sequoia. The balance is going to our brokerage account and will be invested in VOO. It's crazy to think about now being completely debt free, outside of a mortgage payment, and getting an unexpected $4,000+ boost in monthly income. TLDR: Inherit some money to get your finances in order.
  15. His pedophile attorney probably just instructed him to plead those 3 to any questions to cover his bases.
  16. This was good. It does not feel like a Marvel movie and is definitely its own thing. Much less action than is typical so some may find it a bit boring.
  17. Meh. The average Texas isn't even aware there's a Texas Supreme Court.
  18. Absolutely. A former coworker was in the Longhorn band in the early 80s. To this day, he is still known as Chief Yellow Hands for letting the seniors piss on his hands during freshman hazing. He will take that memory to his grave.
  19. Here's a tip once you get your financial aid package. At CSU, my kid got her merit scholarship for $12,500/year with her admissions letter. But, when she got her financial aid package, she got nothing else even though she'd done the CSU scholarship application and the Engineering Department application. When we were there for orientation, I had her schedule a meeting with the scholarship coordinator in the financial aid office. She went in on her own and asked if there was anything else they could do for her. She talked about how she wanted to lessen the burden on her parents, why CSU was the perfect fit for her, etc. A great BS session. They said they would look but no promises. About 2 hours later, she got an email with a renewable $2,000/year scholarship. TLDR: Have your kid self advocate for more money after financial aid packages are sent out.
  20. My MIL passed away in June and hospice gave my wife a pamphlet on the stages of death that was disturbingly accurate. Granted she was bedridden and had dementia so she was further along than Trump but the thin skin that would tear on touch and bruising from a mild breeze were signs death was 3-4 months out.
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