wacky1980

usually happens in early march. might be closer to late march if this keeps up. and i can't do a damn thing elsewhere until the plumbing is completed.

i just need the frost to leave the ground so we can bring in the plumber for our venue. he won't cut thru the alley and tap the water/sewer until the frost is out. at this rate, it won't ever happen.

we're supposed to get -2F and 8" of snow sunday night. you're welcome to shove spring down my throat anytime.

for the record, that lol react is your friend, and he's trying to keep shit light. but he feels your pain.

nah

if i have to listen to one more self-important mother go hysterical over this whole momo thing, i might just have to kill a bitch and perpetuate the challenge myth. for FUCK's sake people. get over it.

...k

if the smoke shop won't refund the charge (and ideally, they should be the ones fixing it and not your bank), the bank is required by law to submit the dispute on your behalf. sucks from the bank's perspective, because those disputes can cost the bank as much as $25 to file. if the total is <$25, the bank usually just ends up eating the charge themselves.

when i was a kid, i had a checking account at a bank that got bought up by "us bank" and at first i was all excited because it meant we got access to all the new account features, like photocopies of checks instead of the actual, canceled checks in a pile inside the envelope. then i went overdrawn one day and didn't realize it because i wasn't paying attention. one item drew the account negative by like $20 and by time i had it all cleared up, i was into the fees for like $150. i got the balance back up to $0 and closed that little fucker right down. haven't had a checking or savings account at anything larger than a community bank since then.

BofA was never really bad to me. the card was actually pretty decent (7.5% and no annual fee) but it just developed its own stigma from being tied to debt that was essentially a big, expensive mistake / learning experience. i've never had any other accounts with them though, so i don't know how they are for actual banking.

this guy gets it.

you finally get that big credit card paid off in full. been carrying a balance on that card since i almost got married to the dumb one in 2009. dodged a mario-sized bullet there, but ended up with a lot of credit card debt since i'd already financed the entire wedding on plastic. i hated that card, and i went for several years autopaying the minimum on it because it was easier to forget about it than to face it directly. when wife and i had our first kid five years ago, i decided it was time to pay the god damn thing off and be done with it. at that point, it had a balance of about $10k on it. it took a little longer than i'd planned because life would keep happening and i'd need to stop paying here to pay there instead. but the last couple years have been pretty good to us, and we're finally servicing our debt like we should be. this morning, i sent off one final payment for the remaining balance. best $509.10 i ever spent. and now my paycheck is gonna seem that much bigger every month too, since i won't be sending payments off to bank of america anymore. it's gonna be a good day, skeeter.

shit, i grew up at the end of one of those roads.

i'm doing pretty well over here, never having owned an iProduct. my pixel 3xl is an all-around badass.

please. pretty please. shit, i got $20 for the person that makes this happen for the next 30 days. mods included.........

some people are of the opinion that mayo is no more volatile, biologically speaking, than regular mustard. it's just that it dries / breaks down and starts to look funky. i disagree though; one should not fuck with the mayo. if it's left at room temp for more than 2 hours, i toss it. been food poisoned off bad mayo like three different times, and i'm not ready for a fourth.

some home-made items remain shelf-stable for years with simple canning / pasteurization techniques. not sure that mayo fits that bill, but i've used jellies, vegetables, marinara, and salsa up to two years after canning, and it's been fine (flavors dull / change a bit over time, but otherwise ok).

my sister makes a lot of that same stuff. she has a farm outside nashville where they do all sorts of fruit/veg, goats/pigs/chickens/etc, and a few colonies of bees. she's always making soaps, balms, canned goodies, sauces, whatever. i wish i had the time or space to do anything fun like that. if you canned the sauces, would they be able to travel a bit without spoiling?

i use condiments... *WINK*WINK*

that's what happens when you're in one of the top tax brackets. ~~~ still waiting on my shit. guesstimating our schedule k-1 papers, it's looking like our return should be going up about 25% over last year. but i could be guesstimating really badly. this is only our third year filing k-1 papers and i'm not really sure what to expect with the new corp process.

an acceptable mic can be had for relatively cheap (i'm using headsets and they've been ok so far, so i haven't bought an external mic just yet...that's for next time). studio lighting isn't too hard to come by, but the cheap stuff isn't very bright, so you'll need to buy brighter bulbs. and then there's the editing software...maybe i was gifted a copy of premiere pro last week. still getting into it, but it's a really good platform, and i've only started to scratch the surface. haven't really explored youtube's new editor. i'm using it for endcaps but that's about it. much easier than premiere pro.

wife has fights with kidney stones a couple times a year, so this is kinda normal. not fun at all, but normal. ugh. we've been lucky enough to avoid the flu this year (so far), but i konw it's been a nasty one. you folks keep that shit to yourselves! we're still pretty new to youtube, but i've hobbied with audio and photo/video for maybe15 years. my best advice at this early stage is to pick up a halfways decent camera. and if you're going to be outdoors at all, make sure it's waterproof.

we just launched the channel a week ago. i don't expect much out of it, but the boys have a lot of fun with filming and it gives me a reason to build out a recording studio in the spare bedroom, and sit up there til 3am editing and pounding beers. so everybody wins. i almost had to take the wife to a doctor this week. she picked up a stomach bug or ate something that messed her up, whatever. but all the throwing up dislodged a kidney stone, and she's been out of commission since wednesday. she's mostly back to normal today, except for the kidney stone thing. but that will pass in a couple days. tomorrow is laundry day. yaaaay.

it got above 50F for the first time in a loooong time, but it was raining all day so we stayed inside. bought a few more pieces of studio gear and recorded another gameplay video with the kiddos for the yt channel. ordered pizzas for supper. lazy day.

it's fucking bright! i can't look at that without getting a little blinded. how do you put up with that?