Suck...suck...suck!

It seems like this would make more sense if you switch it to suck from blow.

We saved $100 per month cutting cable, even after paying for the next faster tier of internet service. Never looked back. Now we just do Netflix and Amazon VOD. I’ve got no problems paying for whatever content on Amazon since we never get close to $100 per month in spending on it.

Its also a great way to figure out how to relate to and show love to your kids more effectively.

Doug Johnson had a pretty good backup career. Stayed in for the minimum 10 years to get a sweet pension when he retired at the ripe old age of...30? 35?

Oof...this reminds me of the worst flight we ever took with our kids. They behaved just fine. I was the exhausted idiot who kept forgetting I had a broken seat tray that tilted down.

Thank you for saying this. Let me go one step further and say fuck that stupid lion that got killed, too. Cats are stupid.

I don’t think pro athletes would even want sabbaticals...for financial reasons.

No leg room. Have to have leg room.

I agree, intuit has totally abandoned it. But unfortunately, no one (that I know of) has copied the paper billing/PO box concept from them. Its so much more useful than regular bill pay.

Paytrust for the total-automation win. I’ve been using it since the late 90’s. The killer feature is that they give you a PO Box to use as a billing address for the lame companies that don’t do e-bills.

There aren’t many things that people could have done to the grill surface that can survive the 500+ degree temps that the grill grates will soon be at. Just brush down the grates and go to. Use an extra hot fire if you are still worried.

Also something to point out, the Cree’s come with a 10 year warranty, so if they burn out before then, just return it for a replacement. I haven’t checked, but I don’t think the others come with one.

My wife was getting blood drawn recently, and started to pass out (she has a thing about needles). Our 7 year old sees this happening and decides its time for true confessions and starts rattling off a laundry list of stuff she’s been doing/not doing. The last thing my wife hears as her world goes dark is “....and I…

My wife was getting blood drawn recently, and started to pass out (she has a thing about needles). Our 7 year old…

Praising effort is good, but you want them to be results-oriented as well. An effort-only mindset fosters a “well, I tried my best, so it was okay to fail” mentality. And like you said, a results-only mindset tends to leave kids brittle in the face of failure, which will happen at times in life.

For the ADHD among us, paper and pen organization systems seem to work much better than any electronic system. I don’t know why, but its very common.

I’ve had a few negotiations that ended up following a similar path. A really high offer from Company X that I didn’t really want to work for (bad culture, bad work/life balance, etc), and Company Y that I did want to work for, but whose offer was signifigantly lower.

I was in my late 20’s, making decent income, and had decided I liked the town I was in and wasn’t planning relocating again anytime soon.

I’ve heard a lot of folks refer to unused vacation time as “layoff insurance.” As long as you are under the rollover cap, its not a bad thing to carry a couple weeks or a month worth of vacation time from year to year.

I had this situation at different startups over the years. I always did the IRA thing, but don’t give in to the temptation to not save at all for retirement if there is no employer match. Its too easy to not sign up for the 401k and then “forget” to setup an IRA with automatic deposits.