98eagle

It seems like the Never Not Pass might make you slightly more likely to get voted out. Maybe, maybe not, but if a group of people were have nots, and you get out of it with the pass, the other have nots might have a little bit of animosity or jealousy. Best case is that it doesn't advance you in the game one bit.

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His highlight reels to start the season have been crazy. Dude runs & looks like the predator

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For some reason a good bit of people liked this movie, but for me I hated "Runaway Train" with Eric Roberts. It was so boring. Almost the entire movie was in the train with its limited plot and the same scenes of the train over and over again.

Not sure if this counts, but Boston had massive harmonizing sound tracks. It was all done by lead singer Brad Delp who sang all of the lead and harmony/backing vocals himself by multitracking and stacking his own voice over and over on the tape.

What do you do to workout your calf muscles?

As part of my total workout with weights, I have been doing sets of calf raises with a cross bow machine (similar to a bow flex machine), plus I use an older basically antique Life Cycle 5000 stepping machine which is a great cardio and leg workout.

Recently immediately after doing the calf raises and stepper, I got on my wife's new mini trampoline and started doing slight bouncing calf raises on it. I was keeping the balls of my feet in contact with the trampoline and only lifting my heels with a slight bouncing calf raising motion. I thought that would be really easy, but immediately after working my calves, I was amazed how well calf raises on a mini trampoline thoroughly wear down your calf muscles to exhaustion. I had read that maintaining your balance on a trampoline activates something like 30% more of your muscles doing the same motion not on a trampoline.

We paid approximately $106K per square foot for our existing lake house and acerage that we bought in 2022. It needed a LOT of work, but it was worth it. It was an absolute steal considering what the house and property are like now. The house is really high end quality and on a gorgeous large lake lot, but it was neglected over 20 years and had some major issues. I mean you shouldn't flush a first floor toilet, walk down into the finished basement and see water pouring through the ceiling and through a flourescent light fixture in a laundry room during the showing. There were even old water stains in that ceiling, so the issue wasn't new.

There were plenty of issues with the house that made the cost very low, primarily water leaking into the finished basement through two walls, black mold and more. There were some large custom windows that needed replacing, some concrete that needed raising, some plumbing and brick work, major overgrown landscaping and more. I fixed the water issues (leaking main water line just outside the house and crushed underground gutter downspout PVC pipes). I also easily fixed the mold issue after the water leaks were fixed. There were a lot of other problems and I fixed a good bit of them myself outside of some work better done by contractors.

Everything I saw wrong with the house, I knew I could fix and a lot by myself, so I was happy to see everything wrong to get a great price and scare off competition for the house. I told my wife that the property is incredible and worth more alone without the house in my opinion, and that it was a great house after about $100K to fix it. She agreed and later the Home Inspector agreed as well.

After spending a couple of years and about $100K for fixes and upgrades, the house is now pretty much like a resort and worth at least triple what we paid. Even when it closed and still needing all of the work done, my agent asked me a week afterwards if we wanted to immediately sell it for double what we paid as another potential buyer found out about it from the sellers and wanted it badly but were too late. and would pay double. We said absolutely not.

If you find an existing house in the right location that is a Picasso in need of a lot of work, sometimes that can be the way to go if you can put in the time and effort.

My wife and I were looking at a new Landcruiser two years ago. What turned us off the most was that it had some cheap plastic on it that made quality a concern. As an example, I recall on the bumper there was some plastic piece that looked really low quality.

Yeah I actually like them, aside from having to clean up after them, plus they are killing birds and other animals that we like. The Foxes are beautiful and they remind me of dogs. My wife wants them gone. She's scared of them because the foxes aren't scared of people and they follow us at a distance of about 30'. She also doesn't like walking around the property constantly looking for Fox poop, because they like to poop in pathways. My wife is more important to me than having foxes around the house. So if she wants them gone, I will continue to try to scare them off. Good idea to tell the neighbors to quit feeding them.

Concerning the foxes killing vermin, I don't mind them killing mice, moles, and chipmunks. But they have killed a young otter, quite a few song birds, and I no longer see rat snakes around the house which I didn't mind. We have lots of big Native and Encore Azalea bushes, hydrangeas, Oregon grape hollies, Nandinas and other bushes all around the house under hundreds of mostly white oaks, maple trees and dogwoods. Birds are all over the place, with a lot roosting in bushes at night within reach of the foxes. Small wrens, chickadees, titmouse, blue birds, cardinals and other larger birds. I don't appreciate the foxes killing them.

When we were young kids and teenagers suntan lotion was more about getting a tan and not much about protection.

There was Hawaiian Tropic with like sunscreen 2, but many times we were using baby oil and sometimes mixing in iodine. We had no idea of long term skin damage.

Massive data centers and cameras everywhere plus AI is eventually the end game for freedom. Look at the evil idiots trying to gain control of our government right now and the recent Open AI rogue AI agent gaining access to the Internet and hacking into another AI application on it's own. It's only a mstter of time for evil doers or autonomous AI agents to do things that are very bad to anyone in their way that think differently than they do. They will be able to easily identify and locate anyone who is against them.