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I’m 50 and I still have that self sufficiency mindset to a fault.

Looks like we’re good!

Yeah, so we decided to not buy that Traverse, but we found another one, same model year, 80k less miles, and a ton of regular service done to it throughout its life. It rides nice, looks nice, and it fits the bill so we bought it. The driving age kids don’t like it. I’m fine driving it if they don’t want to. :-)

In light of all the snow out there, nothing will stop me from getting my #coffee

Shopping for a car can be exhausting. I found a car, 2014 Chevy Traverse, that’s in decent shape and it’s at a good price, but it’s high mileage at around 233,000 miles. I’m pretty good at working on cars so the high mileage doesn’t concern me much. We have numerous teen drivers who don’t understand the value of things so I’m not keen on buying a newer and nicer car just so they can treat it poorly.

Carlin was wise beyond his years.

This is very true. People do not know their true power.

Yeah so I live in northern Ohio. This time of year we have ample supply of the patented Ohio gray. It’s pretty much cloudy most days, but today was an exception as it was sunny. We’re going to pay for that, however. Rain tomorrow and numerous days leading up through the weekend. A potential winter storm with rather cold temps appears to be coming our way in about a week.

Nope. I like how they put a cast iron pan with a steak and seasonings in it as if that’s going to dissuade people from wanting to eat more meat.

This something that I’ve not done enough of. It’s never too late.

I think my plant has grown enough that it’s blocking the light in my home office.

I’m most certainly don’t need any more toxicity in my life, I’ve got enough already, but I like the Bitcoin vibe.

They were idiots for chasing it in the first place.

What he said 👇 nostr:note19yal32qg02czquq7hft3kte0ka3ftvmpjv3m8kjv4wcqnkxgdm2s3mune8

Par for the course with this guy.

People who say this kind of stuff don’t understand #Bitcoin and what it represents. I get it. Finance isn’t the most sexy topic to think or talk about, and I’m no expert, but it’s not hard to understand. One just needs to spend a little time understanding how to connect the dots and understand what problems exist now and how Bitcoin solves these problems. It really doesn’t take all that long to get a good enough understanding of why Bitcoin is hard money. At the end of the day, we’re all tired of getting screwed by people who don’t care about us. Bitcoin goes a long way toward leveling the playing field in money and finance, much like the Internet leveled the playing field for numerous industries starting in the 90s, and maybe earlier. I’m excited to see what Bitcoin is going to enable in the future.

As a side note, I was walking past the Salvation Army guy ringing his bell today. I said to my wife, “They really need to accept Lightning.” I didn’t have any money on me to donate if I wanted to. Lightning payments will make payments a lot easier. I’m considering trying to come up with some hardware that the guys over at the artesian springs water place can attach to their coin machines to accept payments that way. What is a better use case to showcase Lightning payments than paying $0.25/gal for water via Lightning? I need $6 in quarters, give or take, every time I go to fill up our 5 gallon water bottles. It’d be better if the lightning payment terminal could be preloaded with some amount of money to get water and then refund whatever money is left over when I’m done with filling my water bottles. My concern with actually implementing this is that I would be the only customer using Lightning, but we have to start somewhere, plus I don’t know the owner(s) of the business so it’s not like they’d happily agree to participate in this just for me. Things to think about.

The unsettling part is we’re basically 31 days or less away from some potentially major event that none of us are prepared for. It’s going to be a long 31 days.

That’s fucked up. There are no other words. Why would you do that?

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