[Toshi]

Why not something like I posted so you can carry a couple of bottles and omit carrying your monster back pack?

I’m willing to ditch my backpack (in which I don’t carry water!). Even willing to not have my first aid kit and third of a roll of emergency Charmin—haven’t needed either in a long while.

just need phone and key storage to be covered since the flat tire/tool aspect is good with my frame mounted gadget

 

[6thElement]

0.8L one of these is what I used to have on my DH bike for phone/keys/snack etc. Keys used to be in something else to avoid interacting with the phone. If you're heading past our house you can check one out.

Multi Frame Pack WP

EVOC waterproof Multi Frame Pack WP attaches easily to bike frames with velcro straps, for bikepacking, gravel, mountain bikes, with space for tools & snacks.

evocsports.us

I use these all the time with car keys:

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[Toshi]

thanks

 

[canadmos]

0.8L one of these is what I used to have on my DH bike for phone/keys/snack etc. Keys used to be in something else to avoid interacting with the phone. If you're heading past our house you can check one out.

Multi Frame Pack WP

EVOC waterproof Multi Frame Pack WP attaches easily to bike frames with velcro straps, for bikepacking, gravel, mountain bikes, with space for tools & snacks.

evocsports.us

I use these all the time with car keys:

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I need one of those bags with a magnet, so I can leave the car key under the car while riding.

99% of the time I pocket the key, but I'm always afraid of it somehow falling out, which would royally suck.

Most places outside of the city here I'm okay with leaving the key there, but my car will unlock itself if the fob is anywhere under the shadow of the body - great for not being able to lock yourself out, annoying otherwise. In Tennessee I covered the key under a rock a few feet from the car, while I was on the park.

 

[6thElement]

I need one of those bags with a magnet, so I can leave the car key under the car while riding.

99% of the time I pocket the key, but I'm always afraid of it somehow falling out, which would royally suck.

Most places outside of the city here I'm okay with leaving the key there, but my car will unlock itself if the fob is anywhere under the shadow of the body - great for not being able to lock yourself out, annoying otherwise. In Tennessee I covered the key under a rock a few feet from the car, while I was on the park.

So get one of those little pouches like I linked. In one of those they won't damage my phone banging against it in the frame bag. But they block the signal so you could stash under the car too.

 

[Toshi]

West Elm furniture: never again. Now out in the yard awaiting Large Item Pickup day

 

[6thElement]

West Elm furniture: never again.

I think our pull out sofa bed is from them, also never again.

 

[Toshi]

I don’t ride my minibike often, but when I do it’s invariably to the local 7-Eleven to acquire lottery tickets

 

[Toshi]

My sweet Baby Aya is going to be the tiniest kid in Comp Center

 

[Toshi]

Giant couch has arrived

JD Vance intensifies

snuggling with middle child before couch arrived

 

[canadmos]

I don’t ride my minibike often, but when I do it’s invariably to the local 7-Eleven to acquire lottery tickets

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Can it do a wheelie?

I kinda want a pit bike for around here. Totally legal to ride off road vehicles within certain distance of the lake for some reason, assuming because of ice fishing access.

 

[Toshi]

it has a pretty gradual roll on of power, so it can definitely not do a wheelie without much, much outside help

but it is amusing. even if I've put all of 18 miles on it. a very underutilized toy

 

[Toshi]

most of my moonlighting is solo work. just me and a number of cases I have to sign for each hour for which I want to get paid.

these 5-10 shifts instead are of a fixed duration and you just read a bunch off the ED and inpatient lists during that time period. (on these shifts I read everything but neuro, so MSK and chest imaging, too, noting that we read chest imaging as part of combined chest/abdomen/pelvis scans routinely.)

anyway, when it's solo there's no one with whom work should be shared, but on these 5-10s there are 3 of us, 1 of which is not really in the same pool as they're dedicated to neuro imaging for the most part. which brings me to my point: the other of the non-neuro attendings on tonight is slow and lazy, not pulling their weight.

I have 3 more 5-10 shifts from December through Jan 1. none of them are paired with this lazy other attending. and I won't be signing up for any further shifts unless I know I'm not on with them, as this is quite annoying.

 

[Toshi]

Giant couch has arrived

JD Vance intensifies

Soft grey boy on soft grey couch

 

[Pesqueeb]

Even willing to not have my first aid kid and third of a roll of emergency Charmin—haven’t needed either in a long while.

It's like you're asking for trouble.

 

[Toshi]

Santa 2024. Eldest unamused and then some

 

[Toshi]

Kitty status update

 

[Toshi]

did a refundable $500 deposit, got them to check out ductwork sizes and electrical panel capacity and all, and we ended up here, $1,800 creep upwards (because resistive strips and the Denver circuit rebate somehow dropping out).

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I countered to get it back down, using my knowledge re the state credit (which requires at least a third of the $1,500 to be passed to the consumer but by no means limits it to that):

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Continuation of the above

 

[Toshi]

Kittylove (middle kid febrile yesterday so home today)

 

[Toshi]

set another record for moonlighting last month. this month will be comparatively lighter because of weekend ski season starting and because I'm in Seattle for a bit.

speaking of which, want to grab dinner some night, @Westy ? wife was unamused by us just chatting so probably won't haul out the whole family

 

[Westy]

set another record for moonlighting last month. this month will be comparatively lighter because of weekend ski season starting and because I'm in Seattle for a bit.

speaking of which, want to grab dinner some night, @Westy ? wife was unamused by us just chatting so probably won't haul out the whole family

When and where?

If I thought I was supposed to amuze I would have brought my kazoo.

 

[Toshi]

When and where?

If I thought I was supposed to amuze I would have brought my kazoo.

I fly in Dec 22, out 28. will have minivan, can drive. got a favorite Thai place on your side of the metro?

 

[canadmos]

Soft grey boy on soft grey couch

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Hello

 

[Toshi]

Does yours also only have two braincells, with one of the two dedicated to the task of being fuzzy

 

[canadmos]

All brain cells accounted for in this one, she's pretty smart. Except for when it comes to thinking that leaves blowing around outside are living things.

Perhaps she got the braincell from the orange that passed?

 

[Toshi]

VW lease program data for the ID.Buzz is finally out as of Nov 26.

awaiting updated and local-specific numbers for me, but from the one quoted looks like they're passing through the Fed credit (and no more), aren't subsidizing the interest rate, and are setting residuals to push for 36 rather than 24 month terms.

(for a Pro S Plus 4Motion in 14534: $7.5k lease cash, 0.00330 MF so just under 8% APR equivalent, 56%/49% RV for 24/36 months at 12k/year)

https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/71445/volkswagen/id-buzz/2025-vw-id-buzz-lease-deals-incentives-rebates-and-prices

 

[Toshi]

VW lease program data for the ID.Buzz is finally out as of Nov 26.

awaiting updated and local-specific numbers for me, but from the one quoted looks like they're passing through the Fed credit (and no more), aren't subsidizing the interest rate, and are setting residuals to push for 36 rather than 24 month terms.

(for a Pro S Plus 4Motion in 14534: $7.5k lease cash, 0.00330 MF so just under 8% APR equivalent, 56%/49% RV for 24/36 months at 12k/year)

https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/71445/volkswagen/id-buzz/2025-vw-id-buzz-lease-deals-incentives-rebates-and-prices

oof. got my first written quote back. Greeley Nissan/Volkswagen.

straight MSRP of $72,473, no ADM. $699 + $693.67 mysterious dealer fees

VW $7,500 + CO $5,350 rolled in.

0.00386 MF <-- he claims this is the current month correct figure
49% RV for a 36/12 lease.

and with the CO credit included that's $1,261/mo for a 0 down.

ooooof.

 

[6thElement]

oof. got my first written quote back. Greeley Nissan/Volkswagen.

straight MSRP of $72,473, no ADM. $699 + $693.67 mysterious dealer fees

VW $7,500 + CO $5,350 rolled in.

0.00386 MF <-- he claims this is the current month correct figure
49% RV for a 36/12 lease.

and with the CO credit included that's $1,261/mo for a 0 down.

ooooof.

No Buzz for you!

 

[Toshi]

No Buzz for you!

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or on second thought maybe i

YOLO, yo

going to put down a bit to reserve the other cabana blue/white First Edition from Greeley if and only if I can get it in writing that there’ll be no ADM and that the money factor will be at the native VW finance level

 

[Toshi]

Ok, got it in writing as MSRP + no ADM. He wouldn't budge from marking up the money factor by 0.0004. Which is ultimately fine.

Given the disparity between the effective APR of this lease (with the 0.96% extra tacked on by the dealer) and DCU's refinance rates of 4.74% for EVs, if we like it and its range is adequate then I might buy out the lease early and pay for it with significantly cheaper money.

 

[Pesqueeb]

1300 a month, for a lease? On a Volkswagen?

 

[Toshi]

1300 a month, for a lease? On a Volkswagen?

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It’s basically the same terms for their ID.4 leases… just scaled up to a $72k MSRP. Everyone else is juicing their lease numbers by throwing tons of extra lease cash, depressing the money factor, and/or propping up the residual. VW isn’t deigning to do so

anyway, it’s just money/a bit of time, and I would like to do this so shall.

 

[Toshi]

anyway, it’s just money/a bit of time, and I would like to do this so shall.

as promised:

just made it official: put down a $1k refundable deposit with Greeley Volkswagen on this particular 1st Edition AWD ID.Buzz, Cabana Blue/Candy White two tone over the Dune interior. ok, not the one in the press photo, but the one listed in the dealer order sheet, fine, be picky

no ADM but they will mark up the money factor a bit, for better or worse. (this will be a lease, because no Federal incentives for purchase both due to its site of manufacture/battery content and because of me. CO incentives are the same for buy/lease. might buy it out if it works well.)

ETA is 1/15/25-2/4/25 so if this holds then it'll be fully in time for this ski season.

NB: having the deposit be refundable is key as if VW pulls the rug out come Jan 1 with the changing political winds and axes lease cash then that'd change the economics... but only marginally, honestly. it's going to be expensive either way, but I want this. so it will happen.

 

[Toshi]

just made it official: put down a $1k refundable deposit with Greeley Volkswagen on this particular 1st Edition AWD ID.Buzz

in full disclosure I'm actually playing two dealers against each other. one just got back to me later than Greeley. putting $1k down on one coming in to Grand Junction as well... it's supposed to arrive 12/24.

it has an annoying $1k mandatory fabric/paint protection add-on but dealer fees are lower so really a wash. $500 shipping to here. the kicker is that if it's before the new year then the IRA pass-through credit definitely applies and CO's credit is $5,350 instead of $3,850.

 

[Toshi]

might buy it out if it works well.

did a little reading on how early lease buyout works:

"They will give you a credit for the unused rent charge as well (should be close to $10K bc of the high money factor). So it’s residuals + remaining payments - unused rent + sales tax. The buyout number should be close to your original cap cost figure, depending what you rolled into the lease."

thus the smart move financially given the high money factor that equates to 9+% would be to lease it, make one payment/get account set up online, get the payoff quote, and immediately buy out the lease using a 4.74% DCU car loan.

(this is assuming it indeed has sufficient range for our uses.)


another way of thinking of doing it the above way with the month-in lease buyout would be that it'd be like buying at $62,851 + the shipping fee + the one month rent charge which would be on the order of ~$275 or so. this as opposed to straight buying it for $69k and change given the above fees/shipping and only the CO credit in play.

 

[Toshi]

attn @Nick in particular given your weekend trip

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www.powder.com

self extracted. yikes.

 

[SkaredShtles]

attn @Nick in particular given your weekend trip

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www.powder.com

self extracted. yikes.

Skiing Mines on a Considerable day is not wise...

 

[Toshi]

Skiing Mines on a Considerable day is not wise...

And from the blurb sounds like he was solo?

 

[SkaredShtles]

And from the blurb sounds like he was solo?

Yep.

 

[Toshi]

I’m thinking post-snow spring will be the time to have the mountain house repainted from its current salmon-box state. Green main body color, brown accents (doors, window surrounds, the faux beam horizontal element on the sides, masonry below deck), then a dark protective stain on the deck’s wood structure to sort of match.

It won’t be this exactly because it’ll need EIFS-compatible paint. But this is the idea.