AlDente67

really? Stopped in my local BK for a late lunch. I love their shakes and whoppers every once in a blue moon. I got one with cheese, small fries. And small shake.....$11.50!!! That's a value meal? That's insane Did they switch to Kobi beef recently??

There is a building for sale down my street. It used to host a moving company and is fairly secluded. Not large enough for an indoor range but certainly good enough for work area/car storage, etc. Been for sale since I was born, not sure why. This is just north of 295/rt 130. I've always intended to call the agent to get the ask, but just never followed up.

Mine is in Mercer...but I guess you want local.

You are right, lol. I was working from memory. D'oh!

Also to add...Roth is good if the market continues to rise until the time you would like to draw down, since you already paid the tax upfront. If the market tanks (assuming whatever individual investments along with it), you will get hit on both ends. No way to tell without the old crystal ball. But keep in mind, the market is basically a giant legal Ponzi scheme unless the invested items pay dividends. Going back to my days as a stockbroker (think red suspenders, gordon gecko, and loads of white powder), the value of a stock share includes the present value of future distributions (dividends), among other variables. We had to calculate this on paper before they told us to just hit these 3 buttons on your calculator, lol. In my opinion, any investment (especially stocks) that does not (or do not) pay dividends are merely going to rise and fall purely based on the same principles of demand. The original theory was that fledgling companies would plow their net profits back into capital investment, and the returns would come later. But that morphed into a pure speculation play over time, so any price gains are based on whether or not another person is willing to buy your shares, and someone else theirs, and so on...similar to bitcoin. Microsoft, for one example, has never paid a dividend, so why does it rise in value? But I'm cynical that way.

One example in the article is an outlier for sure, in that a van full of guys driving to a range should have enough sense to know not to be waving one out the window on a public street. Heck, even I would jump behind a large tree if I saw that. Thats drive-by methodology for any gang looking to settle a score. Just my opinion. But I think most on this forum are not dumb enough to post things on Facebook, lest their current or potential employer now use social media monitoring as part of background investigations. Last few jobs I agreed to as a temp contractor even had that consent right in the boilerplate offer letter. Even my Millenial age kids post nothing more than a cute dog picture on Instatagram from time to time.

I tasted some canned dog food (yes, I said it). It was very bland. Needed salt or hot sauce. Or something. The dry kibbles...no way.

I like the progresso soups right out of the can cold. But too bad I missed that sale because the normal prices are ...very pricy. For water, I have 35,000 gallons out in the pool. That might require a posted sentry because the zombies will head for it. I keep a low level of chrorination close to city water because I'm cheap and chlorine is expensive. As long as I don't get a green tint coming on, I am good. We have a big problem with little ants that come out of the walls at the first sign of any food left out. It is amazing how fast they appear. So to help with stored food like cereal and things like that, we now use these hard plastic containers that have a sort of suction lid. It is vac packed, but it does keep thing from getting stale, and no ants. But if I leave out an empty bowl that had my breakfast cereal in milk, they teleport in within 10 minutes from another dimension. Then there are 90-100 ants covering the bowl. One time I put the bowl in the microwave set on high for 3 minutes and at least half of them were still wandering around. Tough little things. They probably came from Bed, Bath & Beyond because the wife loves that place. The containers, not the ants. My college roommate was in ROTC, and he hated the MRE packs they gave out during the field trips, so he brought them back to the dorm and let me have them. Always loved loooking through the stuff in the pack. Years later, I looked it up online and was shocked at how much they go for. 8-10 each!

damed commie....left us behind.

Let me get back to you....Im in no hurry, but will reach out when needed. Jeep, its for a jeep.

Changing a set for winter rims. You know what I meant. Stop busting my nads.

They picking on subway cars now? lol.

And you get me helping out.

Somewhat related... You see the ads for the car insurance discount based on your driving style Guy I know has it in his work van. Got dinged for speeding (75 in a 65) on the turnpike. Nobody does 65 on the turnpike.

One of my college roomies ws in the National Guard training program as a helo pilot. He mentioned to me that a helicopter is "10,000 parts trying to separate from each other" oh my.

Exact same eyes as Adam Shifty. yes?

Not a peep? oh my.

Ironically, I had a locomotive that sounded like a RAV4 at speed.

East windsor

Need a wrench to do some wheel changing. I have one somewhere in my hoarders mess of a garage. Just need a wrench/breaker bar for a one off. 150lb+ ideally. Also will buy it outright if you prefer.

Th bent ones are half price.

Good point. "Hey mister, I will take 3 loaves of bread. Got change for a thousand?" Then again, if it came to that, youmight not be getting change anyway.

About 78 cents stuck in my butt. Posting pics....

(caveat: all coinage is protected by guard dogs and claymores) Have a bunch of coins collected from pocket change over the years. Just regular change, nothing collectable. Would like to transform into paper and stick it in the vault. Last time I did this, I had a cheapy coin counter where you had to load up a sleeve of pennies, then write your account number on every sleeve and tote them all to the local bank for deposit. The damn machine usually shorted the count by 2 or 3 pennies. All in all, a major hassle, and the teller would groan in frustration at the thought of processing all that chump change.. So the Wally World has a Coinstar, which makes it easier once you get the 100 pound container inside and dump it. But now Coinstar wants 12% off the top as a service fee. Used to be 9% not long ago. Pretty steep. What would you do?