[Toshi]

@Sandwich

Score a sporty new Fiat 500e at more than 30% off MSRP

It's no Ferrari, but owning a sporty little Fiat 500e is about as close to putting a Ferrari in the garage as most of us will ever get.

electrek.co

that could make for a cheap lease. get $1k or $2k off MSRP on top, $10,500 in lease cash + MA credit, and given a $35k MSRP even a 50% residual for a 24/12 lease or the like would still be cheap. if they're aggressive and do something more like 75% on the residual...

 

[Sandwich]

@Sandwich

Score a sporty new Fiat 500e at more than 30% off MSRP

It's no Ferrari, but owning a sporty little Fiat 500e is about as close to putting a Ferrari in the garage as most of us will ever get.

electrek.co

that could make for a cheap lease. get $1k or $2k off MSRP on top, $10,500 in lease cash + MA credit, and given a $35k MSRP even a 50% residual for a 24/12 lease or the like would still be cheap. if they're aggressive and do something more like 75% on the residual...

I'm all for cheap crap, but jeez the 500e ticks like none of my boxes. It sounds like the mini se was at least fun to drive.

Honestly I'm going to try and tough it out with the behemoth genesis or swap to a used polestar or keep my eyes peeled for a nice lease in the winter time. Seems like used car values go up in the early winter here and new car value goes down. If I can get over my deep hatred for elmo, model 3s now qualify for both rebates and have low finance rates too. Lease costs look low on a short range car as well.

 

[Toshi]

deep hatred for elmo

relevant

Ukraine discovers Starlink on downed Russian Shahed drone: Report

Iranian-designed Shahed-136 and the smaller versions of the attack drones have been a key tool in Moscow's arsenal.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Toshi]

I definitely think adding the hot tub has helped occupancy rates for the mountain house. Still waiting for someone to book it for spring break (while we'll be in Taos).

(the Nov 15-17 ostensibly owner block is one that a co-worker is taking for the price of the cleaning fee.)

 

[Toshi]

The moonlighting cash/available hours is going to dry up as we get more fully staffed (in September—two more come next July), but for now I’m partaking heavily. Busiest month yet. $30k in moonlighting alone this month, and I paced it out so as to not feel any more burnt out than my baseline.

so the moonlighting hours didn't dry up in September. no word on October hours availability yet.

I thus partook as much as I had tolerance for, and ended up a few hundred shy of $30k in moonlighting once again for this month, which will be paid out at the end of October in turn. definitely had a few nights these past few weeks where I had the time for it but didn't want to. so I didn't.

add the prime rate following the Fed target rate down by 0.5% (with the HELOCs tied to the prime rate at -0.76% and +1.3%, respectively) and my student loan payments wrapping up after either 2 or 3 more payments (not entirely certain am I, hmm) and everything's coming up Milhouse. except for me sacrificing much free time to this pursuit. hmph


edit: forgot I did a 5-10 shift as well. so I broke the record after all. $31.5k in moonlighting. I should work less eh but for the debts to service


edit 2: October hours released. I'll probably do about 1/3-1/2 of the hours that I pulled this month. which is probably healthier.

 

[Sandwich]

I definitely think adding the hot tub has helped occupancy rates for the mountain house. Still waiting for someone to book it for spring break (while we'll be in Taos).

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(the Nov 15-17 ostensibly owner block is one that a co-worker is taking for the price of the cleaning fee.)

You got the link? I wouldn’t mind finding a nice place to stay over the winter or spring. We don’t ski but we like stuff to do

 

[Toshi]

You got the link? I wouldn’t mind finding a nice place to stay over the winter or spring. We don’t ski but we like stuff to do

Sakura House - Tabernash, CO

Gorgeous mountain home with deck, pool table, fast WiFi & fireplace - near town

www.vacasa.com

 

[Toshi]

I wonder what this will go for

2016 BMW R1200RT Motorcycle

2016 BMW R1200RT Motorcycle VIN WB10A1303GZ194377 Mileage Actual Odometer Reads 41,462 Color White Engine 1170cc Fuel Type Gasoline Transmission Manual Noted Issues Horn Inoperable

bid.rollerauction.com

 

[Toshi]

leafs: peeped. past peak at Golden Gate now

green shirt is my buddy Todd. he is masters Enduro top 5 types of fast.

 

[Toshi]

it’s not super confidence inspiring when one’s question to the gifted and talented coordinator for why one’s kid didn’t get pulled out for math as expected results in this absolute word salad heap of verbal diarrhea

 

[6thElement]

"Greetings and salutations".

 

[Toshi]

actually doing some research-y stuff today for a change instead of just moonlighting all the time (making sure results of this AI tool are actually at the right level and have the proper segmentation.

we're looking at how body composition affects outcomes with a particular kind of cancer + chemotherapy.)

 

[Toshi]

Out with the old

In with the new (auto lock with a timer, remote lock/unlock, fingerprints, multiple users… and firmware updates)

 

[Toshi]

North Tabled. And kitties, because kitteh

 

[Toshi]

Can haz pls

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62505736/2026-mercedes-electric-van-testing/

 

[Toshi]

Drove up with the Very Long Box. Beat the 9 am start of rock scaling. Installed new window coverings. Only got delayed 11 min by rock scaling traffic hold on the way back—ducking out to the frontage road on the far side of Idaho Springs was the right call. Was backed up the other way from Idaho Springs to past the top of Floyd Hill.

then Costco-ed. Unashamedly returned the vertical blinds that I’d custom ordered via Bali from them in 2021. They really did suck. Got the essentials. We were out of butter as of this morning!

 

[Toshi]

Out with the old

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In with the new (auto lock with a timer, remote lock/unlock, fingerprints, multiple users… and firmware updates)

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Turns out this won’t lock if your kid doesn’t latch the door all the way to start. Gah. (I was home and caught it. But if I wasn’t a wind gust could have opened the door and let all 3 cats escape or allowed random people inside.)

 

[Toshi]

Saw no bears

made sure to not get sun deficient once home

now time to work a bit. Just a bit

 

[Toshi]

so I've bitched here before how my wife has an education degree and a masters yet has been working as a teacher's aide in the younger kids' preschool, and how this job seems to sap all excess energy from her (and then some).

well, she laid the groundwork for going to work as a legit full-blown teacher over this summer by taking the Praxis exams. apparently that's all she needed to do, 4 of them, all passed on the first try after some weeks of studying from books. but she said that for logistics and familiarity with this school she wouldn't want to work anywhere but at the kids' elementary.

turns out one of the 1st grade teachers, new this year, hasn't had a great time with it. said 1st grade teacher is thus quitting mid year, effective next month. the principal of the school, aware of my wife's desire to teach elementary there, has reached out to her as their first, internal choice. thus my wife shall be doing a long term sub gig in the 1st grade classroom until winter break, at which time she'll make up her own mind of whether this is something she wants to segue into as the official classroom teacher and all.

this is a positive thing, finally working with the benefit of her actual degrees (which are unrelated to early education in particular but count in the tally), and finally to make more money than the 401(k)/403(b) annual employee contribution limit. which she hasn't been to this point.