Feeling a little off again, perhaps the ride yesterday wasn't such a great idea? Eff this bacteria and virus season.
Early morning road rides are the bomb as there is no wind, little traffic and few witnesses.
maybe by you. morning traffic here starts at 5am. still wouldn't ride the roads. plus my kid usually up between 6-630
I actually thought we would owe a significant amount due to nice bonus and capital gains. Thanks Obama. 
dunno, but poke around youtube. a lot of those older videos are turning up there. NWD 10 is there. i know for a while there was some stuff on netflix as well.
People suck, is there any way you could not live near people?
The wife and I are still on the fence about this one. My neighbor moved out to the sticks on the lake with nobody visible on almost every side. But now his commute is 90 min each way and he can't decide how he should do it since the Dodge Ram 3500 isn't all that fun on the back roads. My vote is either fun car or motorcycle, that's what I did
College fund.Morning Monkeys.
Part of me feels like a total grandpa and part of me feels like a jackass. I can't for the life of me justify that damn 16" Quadangle other than the fact that it is not only adorable, but pimp as hell. It's $420 and that is just crazy. The Lil PK Ripper is $340. I had a PK and a Flyer 8th-10th grades. The Quad was just bitchin and one of my rich friends had one. The idea of lil Man having one at 4 just seems crazy. Not that it wouldn't last until he's ready for 20", but spending $400+ on a kids bike does seem silly. But part of me wants to do it because I kinda can (total Grandpa mode). It's so bad ass, though.
unfortunately for now my livlihood more or less requires i be in the vicinity of major metro areas.
@jimmydean This. We do a 50/50 split when Haley gets money gifts - half to her 529, half to her. If you use this logic, you help them now on bikes and later when it matters too.
This is an interesting concept as neither my folks nor my grandparents did that (folks did help me while I was in school, though). Bman went to a semester of community college when he considered becoming a welder, but that was it. He made ok money when he was cooking (no school, scratch kitchen) and the only reason he stopped was the lack of advancement as a chef. Not saying lil Man won't go to college, but it will be interesting to see where he (and the world) is in 14 more years. He could use a bike right now.
This is a great idea. Still not 100% on the stash point, yet. Lil Mans mom has a heap of student loan debt, a Masters in something almost useless and is now a manager at a plasma donation clinic (medical was not her major). He doesn't come from overly educated genes (Bman not being bio-son and bio-pops being career criminal), so it will be interesting to see how he takes to school. He loves to read and count and we spend a lot of time teaching as good parents/grandparents do. But he will likely be a mechanic, welder, electrician, job with his name on his shirt type gig.
Read and count? A career in management is what that boy needs, no education required.This is an interesting concept as neither my folks nor my grandparents did that (folks did help me while I was in school, though). Bman went to a semester of community college when he considered becoming a welder, but that was it. He made ok money when he was cooking (no school, scratch kitchen) and the only reason he stopped was the lack of advancement as a chef. Not saying lil Man won't go to college, but it will be interesting to see where he (and the world) is in 14 more years. He could use a bike right now.
I plan to teach him all I can about his bike and cars/trucks/motorcycles as he gets older. His dad has the same aversion to management as I do, no idea where he got that from.Read and count? A career in management is what that boy needs, no education required.
and thus the poverty cycle continues
Time to GTFO and ride NOW. Nothing even a Sys Admin can do without power.Bike, beer, clothes, shed and cookies are all loaded in the car for a ride tonight.
Of course, the power decides to go out at one of my buildings today. Besides a virii outbreak or something, this is probably the worst situation for any sys admin. Shit just does not work without that wonderful electricity stuff. Half the factory is out, including the server room. No one knows where the problem is.... Perhaps this will be incentive for them to purchase better UPS units.
Time to pound back coffee and wait this shit storm out.
This. Fortunately, each job change tends to bring more $$ to deal with the bullshit. Probably one of the *few* advantages of getting older^H^H^H^H^Hwiser.
I think it will be interesting to see the state of the education system when he gets to high school. I'll be pushing for STEM because that is where the future is likely heading. But if you look around these parts, there are a lot more tech jobs available that no longer ask for a degree than there used to be. Technology moves too fast for traditional education. Kids finishing 4 year degrees in Computer Science will likely have less valid experience than kids who are either self taught or go to online boot camps for coding.
And yet, there was a lot of truth to that statement, though. Just look at my ex.
I would if there was any sort of trail around here. I'm elbow deep in the city.
Teach him to do the robot. By the time he's ready to join the workforce perhaps his robot imitation game will be so strong he can get hired to fill one of the myriad of jobs people used to do.
