Well fortunately, I don’t think that caused me any burn, IMO the big mistake I did was not shopping around for financing, I just took waht the dealership gave me, it was so bad, they called me in to negotiate a lower interest rate and added a full warranty and it SAVED me money...I was RAPED, and it wasn’t me not…

The first car I bought, I did a GREAT job getting the best price possible. However I did a HORRIBLE job with financing...I was fleeced. I knew my credit was bad at the time, but had little understanding of what was “fair” to me at that moment. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to get other offers…

I loved the first one...the second one bored me as it went more RPGish, I don’t want to play inventory whore with leather boots, and do a bunch of stat counting. The first game was pretty much a GoW rip-off and it was great as that.

Its been interesting for my daughter...we don’t have cable TV or anything, we just have youtube, netflix and amazon prime, so she’s simply unfamiliar with “commercial breaks”...she started flipping out when she would click something (PPAP) and it wouldn’t pop up.

meh that’s another can of worms, we both want another kid (1) and (2) I already had surgery down there once and don’t want it again. I’m more just frustrated that as middle class I can’t really afford a third kid due to cost of daycare. It hurt doing my taxes and seeing last year’s total billing...oooohhh.

Yeah, and even above that, I have to keep mini-me in my pants because even at our middle class income we can’t afford a third kid.

Chicken. Baked or grilled chicken. Plain. Making something plain - memorable - is more skill (at least IMO) than something super fancy that is just a recipe you can google. I have those too - My truffle mac-n-cheese is a stand out I match with the chicken, along with my - again - simple - brussel sprouts or…

I won’t lie, this is one of the reasons, I have so little interest in a new car as my Ac starts to age (2010). there are important things they do right, huge obnoxious buttons I wager are a good thing for cutting down on distractions, and dials help with this also, in my car, I use a dial for everything - coupled…

It’s kind of weird, I want to write something, I feel like I’ve been battling through hell as a parent, yet I can’t sit here and say my wife and I missed something in our discussions before having kids. Are there things we would have done a little different - sure, we banged those issues out on the first one, to get…

*only taking a 5 minute brain break at work so I didn’t read everything*

Depends on where you are in life and finances. For the people discussed in the article, maybe. For me personally no. No side job that I would get, would go on my resume, nor would they really fit.

I’d agree with that. I think its part of what makes positive and negative people so annoying in general is they build on themselves. I *personally* fall into the “try so hard to be positive that I escape the gravitational pull of confirmation bias, but still don’t trust that the next thing will be…

Where we part ways is the testing...you don’t “wait” for something good/bad to happen. I’m a somewhat negative person, but I TRY and try HARD for those positive things despite my negativity...I just don’t assume that Positive Action A will drive Positive Action B, instead I do Action A, hoping Action B happens, but…

I’m going to be that guy, because I am that guy.

Being empathetic is a quick way to become a negative thinker. #ExperienceTalking

Eh...I’m only a little removed from doing the stay at home job searches, and there is a HUGE overselling of how much time that actually takes these days. There is little “hit the pavement” going on, go to a job and they tell you to go to their website. call HR, get told to go to website. either you already have a…

Yep Yep yep. I started doing this after my second time moving after college. I had taped a bag of the screws for something to it and it worked out so well that I started taping everything. For furniture, I tape all the special tools AND EXTRA PARTS to the underside, so if the bag has several extra screws or nails…

And I chose my words carefully, I didn’t insinuate in the slightest that I’m doing more for my family than my wife, only that my schedule is more rigid. And sure, location and who you know will skew what you see - when I lived in the DC area, I operated under the assumption (and it was visible) that everyone worked a…

Don’t disagree, don’t question that ... I just question the the data behind the data. If something is worth the same to two people, but person B has less time/flexibility, then person A has a higher chance of executing. I fully believe and can understand the first layer of data, I would assume that in general women…

Its pretty easy to see actually. Beyonce has a team of writers...most notably her sister (who IMO had Rnb album of the year, if not Top 3), who is “Woke” if you will, and not only has been through her own relationship drama, has seen - as an insider and outsider - their marriage, so as a close sister, her reaction…