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Yeah, it's just also causing consternation because we're seriously looking at moving. Buying land out somewhere, and building our "we're going to live out our days here" place. So that has us wondering how much money we want to sink into the current house. Add into that the fact that in our...

Yeah, in Texas there's the "Lone Star Card" which they end up with SNAP and every other benefit on. Some of which you can straight pull out like cash at an ATM.

Chain Rustling Inbound..... House Project for Fall : Get the interior of the house painted along with de-popcorn a couple rooms and fix some minor cracks.... Call painter for quote. He comes over, looks at the types of cracks and says "I can't quote you for this in good faith until you get...

So here is essentially the soft cap, at least for me. Mostly because the cost to next 2X on the money making skills are all in the "That's gonna take a couple weeks" range, and the time in second per credit is creeping back up now (got it down to 24 seconds, already back up to 27 when I did my...

BTC strength is in it's stability and resistance to manipulation in terms of supply as a store of value. If you want anonymous money BTC has NEVER been that and never will by the very nature of an immutable ledger. If you want anonymous money, cash or gold for the most part. Cash has the...

So.. interesting for those of us who think the universe is a repeating clock....

The starting QB on your fantasy team, the first week back from an injury, apparently breaks his left arm.... The team he plays on has their backup RB in (who your opponent this week has) and runs in a TD on the next play to put him 3 points ahead of you, and seals your loss for the week.

Live footage of an actual COBOL development team...

For your NFL and everything over the air I can highly recommend the HDhomerun devices. Plug in an OTA antenna and it streams everything to all the devices on your network. Plug in an external USB and you have a DVR as well (which you will always own the recordings on). For NFL and any local...

That would explain it, as all my other procedures weren't abdominal in nature.

I have no idea. It just started this year, this year was the first time I've been intubated while being put under but it seems to happen every time now. I think they're lazy and don't want to monitor O2/breathing properly and it's easier to violate my throat with plastic.

So, our fall project here at Chez Haus is interior painting. We both hate painting so we're OK with paying a good painter to come handle up on it. We budgeted $10-15k. We want to minimize the labor expenses so we start boxing everything we can and packing things into areas which won't be...

I'm seeing a growing storm of disagreement over EggNog.. But remember.....

I had to have a septum reconstruction done around 15 years ago (a lifetime of scar tissue from sinus infections). I remember it because I had to wear what looked like a tampon under my nose for a week due to the bleeding. But it did wonders for my breathing, and apparently made my snoring MUCH...

Just find someone with a choking fetish and the self control to know what part of the throat to hold for it. ;) Thanks to having the tumors I've had ablated this year I've been put under general anesthesia more this year than the rest of my life combined. For me it's that I'd have a painfully...

One of the "Fat Kid High Holy Days" Day after Valentine's day Day after Easter Day after Halloween Day after Xmas

I don't think anything "has to give". It's the fact that there are several places making good money right now so smart investors aren't going to pile into something which doesn't have any reason to pile into it right now. Stocks are, as he says, tapping ATH levels. Gold is surging. There is...

Yeah, I started at 3/6 months which was what my grandfathers yardstick for such things was. Right now my cash equivalents is hovering around 15 months. If I also consider my "play fund" of crypto that bolsters it up to around 22-24 months. Which I could squeeze further by tightening spending...

Thing I've been pondering.... My grandfather raised me always believing in having a cash pool accessible. In his world, being post-depression era, that meant literally stashed cash. In my world that has been some cash on hand, but mostly cash in easily accessible places like interest earning...

They announced these layoffs, while simultaneously announcing that they're going to be hiring 250k in temp workers over the holidays. So I would bet these 30k are in perm corporate positions not the ephemeral and flexible world of their actual distribution employees. But it's another 30k in...

Seen in my driving today... And next door?

I'm starting to look more and more at that. My current gig is one where I get enough time during the "work week" to do other things, while it still being a full time gig. But more than just "stop working" I think retirement for me is going to look like "Doing something I want to do without...

BREAKING NEWS! Funny to me since I know folks who work at Gamestop corporate.

When I'm explaining it to people (who are usually younger, so "cost of a house" is wholly alien to them). I use cost of a burger combo. Which is a fancy way to get around to the Big Mac Index. https://inflationchart.com/bigmac-in-minwage/?show_divided_by=0

My standing theory is... If I'm parking somewhere that when leaving I will want to load shit into the trunk (Groceries, Home Depot, whatever) then I pull forward in. Otherwise I back in. At home both cars are backed into the garage (detached 2 car) because the way our driveway winds around the...

The new Druid tier set looks like crap, did someone slash the polygon budget again?

Yeah, but they could take him off the overarching helm of the whole cinematic thing and instead just have him work specific projects. In my perfect world he would be in charge of a Justice League movie and could mold the whole thing in his style off the late 80's/90's era JL and I bet it would...

Seriously? F all that. I can put a better filter inline before the fridge anyways. About to redo the under sink filter anyways.... AND..... one google search later : https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hack-rwpfe-water-filters-ge-fridge/ Only drawback is that you can then use generic filters...

A surprising number of the side by side options I'm seeing now are opting for a lower capacity ice maker, but it's built into the door so it doesn't "take up" a shelf in the freezer... Which is kinda nice. I don't know if I can put it off a month. But we'll see. Some local places are having...

I love that guys videos and have literally already been watching that one since yesterday afternoon. Went to the Best Buy Outlet near my house today to do some look and see, found a few which line up to his lists. Originally I was thinking we'd go from split sides to French Door, but watching...

So yeah... Apparently I am fated to become the fridge person around here. Today I notice that my usual morning beverage in the morning (Coke Zero over ice) wasn't producing as much foam/fizz as usual. I check the ice dispenser and the ice is coming out slightly wet. Apparently during the...

Could be irrational exuberance, could be the world realizing Trump isn't going to pull the trigger on 155% tariffs on China because of.. .well... Advanced TACO theory. Stranger thing I'm trying to find the explanation for is how stocks are banging up against all time highs and gold is still...

I think they need to treat the "multiverse" the way comics have always treated other comics in the past (and when I say past I mean pre-Crisis in the comics. It's other stuff going on. And then very rarely you'd have a cameo "team up" between two characters. Somewhere around Crisis on...

I still find this talk about this e-girl entertaining, as the only thing I watch Twitch for is a twice weekly nighttime "just chatting" stream from three guys, all over 50 I believe. And the closest to "gaming content" they ever get is that they wrap each show with a Marbles On Stream game.

Any time you're having sex, you're paying for it. The only question is how explicitly you're paying for it.

Overindulgent Hobby Update! I tweaked a couple things. Added a retired handheld massager (previously used for calf cramping, but the massage head kinda broke) to the side of the Vac chamber. Now that vibrates things as they're being vacuumed which seemed to cause a LOT of of frothy bubbles...