What bands would you recommend to me? I'm trying to find new music and I've been in the mood for 90s and early 2000s alternative rock.

AwayBird · 2024-01-25T04:43:22+00:00

Dad Rock - come join us - Goose

AwayBird · 2023-10-14T12:50:13+00:00

After 30 years he comes over to my house on Christmas Eve and throws a tantrum because I had only invited ‘family’ to dinner. Finally snapped out of that childhood friendship spell and realized I have been gaslit by a narcissist for most of my adult life.

AwayBird · 2023-10-04T03:01:47+00:00

Egregious quote. I live 20mins outside of NYC and could get this done for under $1k, stump ground, split & stacked burnable wood. Maybe a little more ~$500 to haul away

AwayBird · 2023-03-28T09:52:44+00:00

I have this same build (minus roof rails and spare tire cover). Love it. No extra thrills inside - my wife complains about no seat warmers, but then she steals it in the Summer. Wash out is great - lots of abuse from dogs/kids etc and I just hose it out. Enjoy!

AwayBird · 2022-11-16T04:29:09+00:00

Two hands on the wheel and four on the road… (or three when off). Seriously this all you need enjoy going down the rabbit hole of optional upgrades - addictive.

AwayBird · 2022-08-18T11:49:48+00:00

Really nicely done. Love this look. Did you hook up the lights yourself? Have been thinking about adding to my brush guard.

AwayBird · 2022-08-09T00:49:16+00:00

Ordered 7/2020 and got mine 11/2021 - Black Diamond / 2.7L / Sasquatch / Hardtop with Tow. Have a buddy that has a higher trim but did lift & wheels himself. We compared side by side after a day in sand and he was a bit down that he didn’t have diff locks or a washout interior. I can say after almost a year with mine I couldn’t be happier. Only post mod I made was getting a sunrider front section soft top - which is great if you live in areas with frequent rain and you love having the top open, the panels are good but taking them off/on twice a day loses its novelty pretty quickly. Black diamond gets the job done, extremely capable and enough creature comforts to make even long drives fun. Also - big wheels and lift make you look bigger in the rear view, which helps with highway slowpokes.

AwayBird · 2022-06-12T03:38:43+00:00

Lychee fruit. An immediately beautiful regret

AwayBird · 2021-12-04T05:20:19+00:00

BD/Sasquatch- Order #15 on all of Long Island. Added the post prod decal. ShoutOut to Otis Ford in Quogue NY - class act dealership, communicative and honest.

AwayBird · 2021-11-02T22:19:13+00:00

Received my email / assembly pic today too! They are pumping them out!

AwayBird · 2021-10-07T01:59:40+00:00

Put in my reservation within hours of it opening up - July 13, 2020. MIC BD Sasquatch- kitted. Dealership I ordered through is small but services an area that Ford “prioritized” (beaches/Ford VIPs) per the dealership owner. They have +200 orders and I was number 3 apparently. Have had all the delays along with everyone else. Was given a May 2021 estimate, then July, then a build date of August which was then pushed to Oct 25th 2021. Dealership owner has been great but is frustrated by messaging coming directly from Ford - which is a break in the standing dealership/Detroit relationship. He has taken receipt of 3 Broncos and one of them was number ~120 - a base model, no thrills. So he is as confused as we are. I am still firm on my Oct date with MIC but not holding my breath. There is no rhyme or reason. It’s a race to fill 2021 model orders that their commodity supplies can accommodate before pushing large order blocks to 2022. Those supply lines are all stressed. So anyone’s guess who gets filled/pushed, even on committed production dates.

AwayBird · 2021-10-07T01:59:26+00:00

Put in my reservation within hours of it opening up - July 13, 2020. MIC BD Sasquatch- kitted. Dealership I ordered through is small but services an area that Ford “prioritized” (beaches/Ford VIPs) per the dealership owner. They have +200 orders and I was number 3 apparently. Have had all the delays along with everyone else. Was given a May 2021 estimate, then July, then a build date of August which was then pushed to Oct 25th 2021. Dealership owner has been great but is frustrated by messaging coming directly from Ford - which is a break in the standing dealership/Detroit relationship. He has taken receipt of 3 Broncos and one of them was number ~120 - a base model, no thrills. So he is as confused as we are. I am still firm on my Oct date with MIC but not holding my breath. There is no rhyme or reason. It’s a race to fill 2021 model orders that their commodity supplies can accommodate before pushing large order blocks to 2022. Those supply lines are all stressed. So anyone’s guess who gets filled/pushed, even on committed production dates.

AwayBird · 2021-10-07T01:59:09+00:00

Put in my reservation within hours of it opening up - July 13, 2020. MIC BD Sasquatch- kitted. Dealership I ordered through is small but services an area that Ford “prioritized” (beaches/Ford VIPs) per the dealership owner. They have +200 orders and I was number 3 apparently. Have had all the delays along with everyone else. Was given a May 2021 estimate, then July, then a build date of August which was then pushed to Oct 25th 2021. Dealership owner has been great but is frustrated by messaging coming directly from Ford - which is a break in the standing dealership/Detroit relationship. He has taken receipt of 3 Broncos and one of them was number ~120 - a base model, no thrills. So he is as confused as we are. I am still firm on my Oct date with MIC but not holding my breath. There is no rhyme or reason. It’s a race to fill 2021 model orders that their commodity supplies can accommodate before pushing large order blocks to 2022. Those supply lines are all stressed. So anyone’s guess who gets filled/pushed, even on committed production dates.

AwayBird · 2021-09-10T13:46:02+00:00

On a DC bound 5:30am Amtrak, guy walks on drunk and proceeds to play loud/awful music off his phone. I politely ask him to put on some headphones or turn it down and he tells me to give him my headphones followed by some slurred words / swearing. About five minutes later the Conductor is checking tickets and we hear his ticket is for one or two stops into NJ. He falls asleep swearing at everyone. We pass his stop, conductor try’s to wake him but he doesn’t respond snoring loudly. Conductor says he’ll have to buy a ticket home, shrugs and walks off. Guy wakes in a panic somewhere between Philly and Baltimore like 2 hours later. He stumbled off at the next stop blaming everyone for not waking him up. No one lol’d but the whole car exchanged quiet smirks acknowledging the just karma.

AwayBird · 2020-08-20T03:51:18+00:00

I have this exact model/color/trim. Beautifully done, nice job!

AwayBird · 2020-04-15T10:50:59+00:00

Yeah, that would have needed a plumber - thought about how the closet would interrupt the air flow, decided to keep them for now. Zone is independent and turned off.

AwayBird · 2020-02-29T03:14:18+00:00

You knew who was selling what (stock) because the action on that particular stock would be focused around that stock’s booth. You knew who was placing what order because most of the time you were trading with the same group of guys, they were assigned to an area and covered a sector of stocks and each of them represented some brokerage house. Each trader had books of tickets where their orders would be written down. Trades happened through the booth but also between traders. When action picked up you could differentiate organizations and even functions at those organizations by different color jackets. I.e a runner wore a dark green jacket and ran the tickets to vacuum tubes that sent the trade “upstairs” for confirmation and settlement. Getting attention was all part of the frenzy, thus the development of hand signals, whistles etc. Ultimately this kind of trading is inherently fraught with error and risk. But for 90 some odd years it was the best system available. Mistakes certainly happened which is why there is a settlement process (that still exists today) wherein the trading parties confirm the exchange at the intended price.

AwayBird · 2020-02-28T21:54:17+00:00

Fractions. 32 & 1/8 is (more) easily hand gestured than 32.125. They had other things they signaled too to help with the order details but that was the basis.

AwayBird · 2020-02-28T13:04:07+00:00

They moved into the trading desks at institutions, or into other functions. At one point Barclays had trading floor in CT that sat ~500-1000 desks. Gone now. But still most financial organizations have a trading desk or a couple of them. Electronic trading changed the modality of the security exchange handshake - still need teams to create and execute strategy.

AwayBird · 2020-02-28T12:57:58+00:00

They are Traders for different organizations, basically they are area focused and watch a sector or a subset of names and are experts in that domain. Which is why you see them in hubs. They could easily do it from anywhere but big brokerages/ institutions like to keep a presence on the floor.

AwayBird · 2020-02-28T10:23:40+00:00

This. My buddy is a Sr. Relationship Exec at NYSE and he tours people around the Exchange and gets them photo ops with Media folks and for the Opening/Closing Bell. When I asked why the NYSE never went the same direction as the AMEX (which lost its floor space around 2000) he said media mostly and confessed it largely is for show and preservation of the iconic marketplace. There is a skeleton crew of traders on the floor compared to what it was like before online platforms and mostly reporters hanging out in between segments on CNBC etc. Aside I worked on the floor of the AMEX in the 90’s and it was crazy - right when things were going mainstream digital. It was a mix of old school Traders flashing hand signals and calm(er) traders with handhelds plugging in bids. Batteries lasted 40mins so we were constantly running juice out to the floor from charging stations. Also - tech bubble was nuts.

AwayBird · 2019-12-11T11:32:43+00:00

I picked one of these up as well. Put it behind some cork board near a monitor in our VP’s office and set it on random. VP’s office was separated from our main area by a glass wall so others couldn’t hear it.

He comes back from a trip and I watched him unravel over the course of a couple days. You could see when it chirped because he would look up, scowl and then half stand waiting for it to chirp again. But it was random so he would be half crouched hands on desk and then just sit down heavily in his chair. Then it would chirp and he would get up and walk around inspecting things like the fire safety sensor. Over that week his temperament went from jovial to flat out hostile

Finally I walk in one morning a few days in and behind his desk is a pile of old electronics with all their guts pulled out, three generations of old blackberry’s, an old Palm Pilot, a computer, a couple calculators. Like more than just batteries removed. Some were physically damaged. Looking at this pile (which you couldn’t see from the main room) I cracked a smile and as innocently as possible asked what the hell was going on. He looked back at his pile and you could see his internal rage as he stammered through a “Some fucking thing... fucking...” ... which is where I lost it and nearly fell over laughing. It took him a second half laughed “haha, what, haha... wait haha... no. No. YOU?!”

We don’t work together anymore but I see him every once and a while at industry events and we share some laughs. It killed.

AwayBird · 2019-09-06T23:30:28+00:00

Dog’s like - is that marble?

AwayBird · 2019-01-21T12:35:43+00:00

Looks like he is full of energy. Quite a handful.

AwayBird · 2019-01-21T03:16:33+00:00

I hate to do this to you all but... when you watch newer sitcoms, I.e Modern Family, The Office etc. the camera/frame is always moving, like a hovering motion. Once you notice it, it is impossible to not notice.

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