RickAstley

One hot summer night years ago I went to a beer tasting. I drank 4 IPA pints and ate some of the greasiest fried pickles I've ever had. I walked a half mile back to my apartment and promptly puked my guts out afterwards. It took me about 8-12 months to stomach the sight and smell of fried pickles and IPAs.

Now if you offered me those, I'd drink 2 IPAs and maybe a handful of pickles. That's about all it takes for me to be content with life.

I landed an 8 point with about 5 minutes before the end of legal shooting light. I had no action up until about 20-25 minutes left and then the deer started pouring in. Fun hunt in the cold. I've got the deer gutted and hanging overnight. I'm sleeping in tomorrow and will get after skinning him when I wake up in the morning.

One plus was getting my 5-year old out there. I knew where the deer was, but I didn't tell him. I just pointed him to where the blood trail started and I had him help me follow the blood trail to the deer. He was doing a great job of finding new blood, but he was also stomping all through the trail making it hard to come back and find later if we really needed it. He was pumped when his flashlight found the buck. That was an unexpected bonus tonight getting to enjoy the end with him.

I made it into a food plot for the evening hunting with a 30-06. I feel kind of lazy hunting the same spot but this spot has been busy with deer activity on colder weather days in the past. I'm hunting anything legal this afternoon. 41 degrees with temps dropping and a steady wind from the west. I ate a pile of fried chicken for lunch and the desire to nap is getting to me.

For the past 3 seasons except his year, most of the deer I've killed were in January. I'm still hoping to get one to two more this year. Hunting in January is becoming my favorite time to get in the woods for deer season.

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Warm up a frozen deer burrito over the Mr Buddy for the win.

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Might become my goal for next season. Deer burritos sound heavenly right now. Although I could see myself getting burrito all over my gun.

Seems unfathamoble to me to leave a rifle in a stand. Caring for my rifle was something I was taught early on from my father. If we went hunting and returned without a rifle, we were as good as dead.

That sounds like a fun hunt. My family sold off a 150 acre lot that I grew up hunting on and I never thought it wouldn't be there. Hurt bad losing the property when it was sold. Thankfully my in laws have land, but I know now not to expect to have it forever.

I saw a doe and two yearlings. Someone shot real close to me two minutes after legal light. No telling if it was on the property I was on or the neighboring lease. There was a sketchy group of hunters hanging out by the road on my way out. Put some bad vibes on what's already been a disappointing few weeks of hunting. We've also had an uptick of dogs on camera in recent weeks. Some collared and some are not. I might let some lead fly on the ones without collars if they come out during a hunt.

I'm not 50+ but I'd go back and take better care of my hearing. From cutting grass all day without hearing protection, hunting with guns and no hearing protection, listening to loud music, sleeping with earbuds in playing music, etc... I'm in my 30s and have some noticeable hearing loss compared to people older than me.

What are some ways you keep yourself active and alert throughout the day and avoid the 2:30 feeling? I will get the occasional sinking spells at times. It's not consistent each day on timing, but I can almost expect it if I eat a big lunch or don't sleep well the night before. However, sometimes it's unpredictable. I'm just looking for some feedback on how people keep themselves level in a given day.

Is it simply something from the following list
- More sleep/better sleep
- Less alcohol
- Increased caffeine
- Introducing new products to your diet such as a pill or mushroom coffee
- Drink an energy drink

The things that I know help me are:
- Better sleep
- Managing caffeine intake
- Avoiding big lunches

I just don't know how to keep myself functioning closer to 100% at all times even when I check those three boxes. My typical workday is sitting behind a desk 6-8 hours just as an added reference.

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Everyone here is a millionaire! I hope to get to 200k networth this year.

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I started reading this board out of college and it helped set me on the right path financially. Personally it took a long time to hit those magical numbers like a $100k net worth, but building the right habits early on has been the difference maker for me.

One big mistake I made early on was not contributing to my 401k. I was missing out on a 3% company match. Once I started using common sense and broke the fear of investing in the stock market, my goals shifted to seeing if I could contribute 10% of income instead of 6%. All of that to say, I'm squeezing way more out of my paychecks today towards retirement and savings than I would've imagined 10+ years ago. Much of where I am is thanks to the advice of this board. Simply prioritizing investing habits like getting your company's 401k match, contributing to roth IRA, build emergency funds, not buying a brand new car after your first paycheck, etc... will make other goals attainable.

Going back to actuals, I have found that going from $100k to $200k net worth was a lot faster than $0 to $100k. It's the snowball effect we speak of for knocking off debt, but in this case your investments are growing as fast as you can contribute.

53 degrees and sitting in a sniper tower overlooking a food plot and cutover. By the far the best looking spot I have access to hunt but has been one of the least productive locations over the last 5 years. I've only seen one deer in this spot before. I have no idea if it is that bad or it just gets hunted so rarely making it unproductive.

Good luck to yall this afternoon.

Congrats!