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Have a route out of houston. Great time to get in. The advancements in tech and aesthetics over the last few years is resulting in this becoming a standard amenity for luxury properties and they can get a small profit % but no additional responsibilities or cost. The closures of circle ks, DG, Walgreens, etc is great as well. For apartments, when you get one, you can get the sister properties fairly easy also.

1. Draw a Venn diagram

Getting up and drawing a Venn diagram is a great way to appear smart. It doesn’t matter if your Venn diagram is wildly inaccurate, in fact, the more inaccurate the better. Even before you’ve put that marker down, your colleagues will begin fighting about what exactly the labels should be and how big the circles should be, etc. At this point, you can slink back to your chair and go back to playing Candy Crush on your phone.

2. Translate percentage metrics into fractions

If someone says “About 25% of all users click on this button,” quickly chime in with, “So about 1 in 4,” and make a note of it. Everyone will nod their head in agreement, secretly impressed and envious of your quick math skills.

3. Encourage everyone to “take a step back”

There comes a point in most meetings where everyone is chiming in, except you. Opinions and data and milestones are being thrown around and you don’t know your CTA from your OTA. This is a great point to go, “Guys, guys, guys, can we take a step back here?” Everyone will turn their heads toward you, amazed at your ability to silence the fray. Follow it up with a quick, “What problem are we really trying to solve?” and, boom! You’ve bought yourself another hour of looking smart.

4. Nod continuously while pretending to take notes

Always bring a notepad with you. Your rejection of technology will be revered. Take notes by simply writing down one word from every sentence that you hear. Nod continuously while doing so. If someone asks you if you’re taking notes, quickly say that these are your own personal notes and that someone else should really be keeping a record of the meeting. Bravo compadre. You’ve saved your arse, and you’ve gotten out of doing any extra work. Or any work at all, if you’re truly succeeding.

5. Repeat the last thing the engineer said, but very very slowly

Make a mental note of the engineer in the room. Remember their name. They’ll be quiet throughout most of the meeting, but when their moment comes everything out of their mouth will spring from a place of unknowable brilliance. After they utters these divine words, chime in with, “Let me just repeat that,” and repeat exactly what the engineer just said, but very, very slowly. Now, that engineer’s brilliance has been transferred to you. People will look back on the meeting and mistakenly attribute the intelligent statement to you.

6. Ask “Will this scale?” no matter what it is

It’s important to find out if things will scale no matter what it is you’re discussing. No one even really knows what that means, but it’s a good catch-all question that generally applies and drives engineers nuts.

7. Pace around the room

Whenever someone gets up from the table and walks around, don’t you immediately respect them? I know I do. It takes a lot of guts but once you do it, you immediately appear smart. Fold your arms. Walk around. Go to the corner and lean against the wall. Take a deep, contemplative sigh. Trust me, everyone will be shitting their pants wondering what you’re thinking. If only they knew (bacon).

8. Ask the presenter to go back a slide

“Sorry, could you go back a slide?” They’re the seven words no presenter wants to hear. It doesn’t matter where in the presentation you shout this out, it’ll immediately make you look like you’re paying closer attention than everyone else is, because clearly they missed the thing that you’re about to brilliantly point out. Don’t have anything to point out? Just say something like, “I’m not sure what these numbers mean,” and sit back. You’ve bought yourself almost an entire meeting of appearing smart.

9. Step out for a phone call

You’re probably afraid to step out of the room because you fear people will think you aren’t making the meeting a priority. Interestingly, however, if you step out of a meeting for an “important” phone call, they’ll all realize just how busy and important you are. They’ll say, “Wow, this meeting is important, so if he has something even more important than this, well, we better not bother him.”

10. Make fun of yourself

If someone asks what you think, and you honestly didn’t hear a single word anyone said for the last hour, just say, “I honestly didn’t hear a single word anyone said for the last hour.” People love self-deprecating humor. Say things like, “Maybe we can just use the lawyers from my divorce,” or “God I wish I was dead.” They’ll laugh, value your honesty, consider contacting H.R., but most importantly, think you’re the smartest looking person in the room.

“ Under a provision of the LSU jersey retirement bylaws established Jan. 1, 2007, the retirement of an athlete’s jersey in a particular sport does not preclude a current student-athlete in that sport from wearing the jersey number in that or any other sport, subject to the discretion of the head coach. This provision applies only to jerseys retired after January 1, 2007. The numbers worn by Maravich, Pettit, O’Neal, Cannon and Bertman may never again be worn by future student-athletes in their respective sports.”

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I did it two years ago as part of a seven month trip across Europe with my gf. I scheduled the whole trip around a lot of events (Oktoberfest, Grand Prix, etc) and the San Fermin festival as a whole was easily the best experience. My advice for you:

1) the opening ceremonies of the festival were in many ways crazier and more exciting than the run and was one of the most memorable days of my life. If you can be there for the opening ceremonies and are a younger person (given you’re running I assume you are), then join the crowd outside the town hall where the mayor shoots a bottle rocket officially starting the festival. It’s bizarre and crazy, but it’s a 1/1 experience. You will be doused in sangria which is fun but it does get a bit sketchy since it’s essentially a mosh pit of crazy Spaniards so I would be towards the back of the crowd. My gf got me the framed pic of it for Christmas and we can see ourselves in it and it’s a prized possession of mine.

2) after what ignorant Americans call ‘dead man’s corner’ iirc is the final home stretch which is a straight shot into the arena. I would start halfwayish down there for a few reasons: a) there are photographers towards the end that take pics as the bulls are coming towards the arena and shortly after the race you can go to their store and buy the pictures of the bulls running by you if you are in the right spot. I didn’t know this but they are amazing pictures for runners actually photographed. I can’t recall the name of photographer but if you can find their store or website you can see where they will be by looking at last years pics (ik there’s a Burger King in the background of the pics for reference) b) as bulls and people are running into the arena, they close the gates once the last cleanup bulls go through so you won’t be able to run in the arena if you start at the beginning of the run (unless you are literally running with the bulls, which I would not do. Just hug the wall and let them all run by you and then jog with the crowd into the arena). Getting trampled by people is the real risk which is largely neutralized if you just hug the wall and let all the actual runners pass you and the bulls naturally run in the middle of the street.

“Under a provision of the LSU jersey retirement bylaws established Jan. 1, 2007, the retirement of an athlete’s jersey in a particular sport does not preclude a current student-athlete in that sport from wearing the jersey number in that or any other sport, subject to the discretion of the head coach. This provision applies only to jerseys retired after January 1, 2007. The numbers worn by Maravich, Pettit, O’Neal, Cannon and Bertman may never again be worn by future student-athletes in their respective sports.”

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I’m working remotely in europe for 8 months beginning in April and those are my last days in Spain so I’ll just train there from whatever city I’m at before. Haven’t booked other Spain accommodations yet

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