Another day of great weather, unless you’re a plant. Then it’s past due for some rain. Humans though, we’re lovin’ it. I see more people and dogs in the evening than I’ve seen in years. And that’s with Monday having a bit warmer evening than the last week. I think it broke 80F at some point, but it didn’t stay there. Today should be the same.
I was partially productive. I got stuff up to the attic, stuff down from the attic. I even put up the simplest Halloween decor, a string of funny flags. I cut and packed some pork loin while getting dinner ready. One roast, some thin and some thick chops, and one roast to eat now… Pork loin roast is one of my go to meals. Garlic salt, some bacon strips, bake for 20 minutes per pound, and 20 minutes, and get some sides ready. Easy prep, easy cooking, and delicious. Easy cleanup too.
Today I’ve got a pickup or two, depending on mood, and all the stacked up tasks I’ve been avoiding. Kid duties got a bit simpler as D1’s 4-5pm appointment is done, while D2 has an afterschool activity that needs pickup at 445pm for a couple of weeks… and another appointment from 630-830pm. All are in the same area which means a lot of back and forth for me. I am so in the habit of combining trips, and making loops that it offends me on a deep level to go back and forth to the same area multiple times in the day. I have to just get over myself and do it.
Which is good advice for life in general.
And stacking, that’s good advice too.
nick
Bain. 10% per year or die trying.
And EBay. Look at how well HP did with hiring Meg Whitman as CEO after the disaster of Lucent “magic” with Carly Fiorina.
Everyone wants a tenbagger, even those in the “tres commas” club.
I had no idea we were $200k in the hole for the student loans until after my wife finished residency and we bought a house.
I still trusted that she would manage the problem until we moved to Vantucky still $67k under with me unemployed. Wow, was that a mistake.
Since then, I’ve become a b*tchy doctor’s wife and dug us out of the mess. I certainly understand where those women come from now.
The crazy thing is that the loans were paid off about six years ago, but when rumors of Corn Pop’s repayment scheme started, Navient offered my wife to reopen $20k of the debt without my knowledge or consent on the premise that the loan forgiveness would let her have “free” money.
Ramsey is right. The student loans and the people behind them are evil. Plus society sends a wrong message to women about financial infidelity being ok as an empowerment issue, compounding the problem.
My friend’s divorce lawyer says that, lately, it always starts with the “ladies only” 50th birthday trips to Vegas.
What happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas, especially once the edibles start flowing.
Florida wants in on that market. Legalization is on the ballot this Fall.
60F and clear this am, with sunrise coming up…
soon.
Time to make the donuts.
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Yes indeed. It is a cash cow for the lenders, backed by the federal government. It targets those with the least common sense about finances. Those that have no clue about how interest accumulates. They think 10% interest on $100K is only $10K. They have no concept that 20 years later that interest may be more than what they borrowed.
Don’t be setting yourself above others. I have made worse mistakes. Especially when I bought my first boat and got scammed on the loan.
That I find hard to believe. Maybe it is the people I associate with as there are no bottom feeders in my circle.
Sympathy for your loss. It really makes the drug problem hit home.
I really don’t like the FEDs war on drugs and how little they accomplish. Part of me says make antibiotics prescription, everything else everyone is on their own. But then I see stories like this and realize there are people that without external intervention and control will make fatal choices. Bummer.
I did my civic duty yesterday and voted for tRump three times.
Rookie.
The battery in the Highlander went bad, all of a sudden. Enough power for the lights, not enough to start. The computer went wonky and displayed all the dash warning lights, an extra message in the center display saying airbag and safety restraint system was faulty and needed repair.
Easy enough to replace the battery. It was an 84 month battery, Toyota branded, which I think was replaced about five years ago. You have to bring the vehicle, and the battery still installed, into the dealer to get the pro-rated warranty honored. It would cost more for a tow truck than I would get in pro-rated money.
Since I had to take the battery out, removing all electrical energy, (yeh, I should have hooked up the charger), the computer has de-learned (un-learned?) all the driving behavior. Shift points are now different, idle is higher than normal, etc. It will take a few trips to get everything back to normal.
Batteries have gotten expensive. Over $250.00 for a new battery with a three full replacement warranty. Yes, I got a top of the line battery. Experience from boating taught me to not skimp on a critical battery.
Subbing again today. There are a couple of worthless sh*ts in the first period. They feed off each other. Yesterday someone was making a popping noise. I told the class to quit. The noise appeared again. Those two cretins were laughing the loudest so they got sent to the office. Whether is was them or not making the noise, they suffered the consequences.
One of the worthless sh*ts is absent today. His partner in their antics is suddenly subdued. Whether it was getting tossed in the office or the missing accomplish, I don’t know, and don’t care.
Some of these kids have no idea that not passing this class means they will not graduate. Maybe that is their goal. Just get to the age of 18 and drop out. In TN if you are under the age of 18, not in school, the state takes the driver’s license.
The wife has decided to remove the awning in the back patio and replace it. We had to use the electric chainsaw to cut down the old structure. It took three trips to the dump, a 1.5 hour round trip trip, to dump all the wood. I had to cut most of the pieces again to get them to fit in the back of the truck.
This is the replacement, three of them, for a total of 48′ in length.
https://www.backyarddiscovery.com/products/16×12-hawthorne-traditional-steel-pergola
They arrive by truck, dumped in the driveway. 800 pounds on a long pallet, four boxes to the pallet. Heavy stuff to move from the front of the house to the back. We use the pickup.
We have installed the first of the three. Each is about $3K, made of steel. 16’x12′ and about 7′ foot high. It took us four days to install the structure. We did not work all day, just a few hours. The wife wants to make the middle unit two feet higher. That will mean making some sort of wood extension for the lower part of the vertical posts. We have an idea of how to do the extension.
I have ordered the second unit. We will finish that before ordering the third unit.
Texas and Nevada?
The Sheriff in Bexar needs to go.
Plus, while I think Texas going blue is inevitable, we should try to make sure it doesn’t start this cycle with a Colin Allred victory.
A Senate seat changing parties in Florida in 1988 was the beginning of the end for the Dems in that state for at least a generation.
I think my head is bleeding, from beating it against a wall… I have been chasing an obscure input bug for ages. It’s just a silly, stupid student demo program on Android. Double-tap the screen, and a circle appears and starts moving. Tap on the circle to make it disappear again. Only: the taps were being delayed by half-a-second. I tried anything and everything I could think of. Everything that ChatGPT could think of. I lost hours on this idiocy. It never occurred to me that single-taps were being ignored until Android was sure it wasn’t actually a double-tap. I tripped over that almost accidentally, and now I feel really stupid. Aaargh
The loans are a cash cow for the Federal Government on most of the debt since 2010. The lenders get a fee for handling the paper, but the Treasury receives the interest payments.
We had to pass that bill to find out what was in it.