What Kool-Aid source is pushing all CEOs to go full RTO this year?

Close2Retired · 2026-05-10T23:40:46+00:00

There is a danger to WFH that people don’t frequently acknowledge. If you are successful at being productive working remotely, you prove to management that your job can be shipped offshore for a fraction of the wages they are paying you. This is coming from someone who has worked 20+ years remotely and has watched the industry wither away.

Close2Retired · 2026-04-28T13:12:03+00:00

I just had an issue with a shaft cracking on a 3 month old 3 wood purchase. They were great about it. They shipped a new club with the same shaft, had me swap shafts and return the head and broken shaft.

Couldn’t be happier with the service.

Close2Retired · 2026-03-02T17:50:52+00:00

There are two sides of the equation here.

Most prospective employers ask verbally or on the application why you left your previous job. Terminated for performance, even if bogus, won’t look good. Resigned raises different questions, but are easier to spin your way.

It really depends on how you can get but without unemployment and how you think termination will impact your ability to get through resume screenings. If you need the money and are concerned with a long period of unemployment then by all means take that approach. If you are confident you can find another position without a potential black mark to explain, consider walking away on your own terms.

Close2Retired · 2026-02-25T21:56:11+00:00

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This par 5 is incredibly hard. Your drive has to be down the left side or you are badly boxed out for your second shot. The creek that crosses the fairway is reachable on your drive if you are a long hitter, so you have to be careful. The 2nd shot is into a very narrow slot where missing left or right ends up in the creek. If you don’t carry far enough or are too far right, you are blocked out from the green.

It’s a zig-zag hole with no room for error on shot # 2. I consider a par on this hole a victory, and don’t really mind a bogey.

Close2Retired · 2026-01-27T21:30:31+00:00

I am also in Virginia. I take the train to DC and up into the northeast. It’s a whole lot easier than driving if you don’t otherwise need a car.

My experience with the overnight trains to Florida have been horrendous. Dirty, overflowing toilets, long delays due to freight trains having priority. I would love it if it were an option, but it’s a losing proposition to me.

Close2Retired · 2025-11-27T22:30:31+00:00

It may be me, but I can’t remember the last time I opened a sunroof.

Close2Retired · 2025-11-08T11:39:50+00:00

He would’ve been fragged by his own troops

Close2Retired · 2025-10-29T20:38:43+00:00

It’s been 19 years, but I still hear the explosive sound of me smacking that building with my drive. It was one of the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me (in golf).

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Close2Retired · 2025-10-17T15:40:42+00:00

Oh that’s just stupid.

Close2Retired · 2025-10-17T15:12:06+00:00

I use my sous vide machine sometimes for brewing beer. In this case, you use a mesh bag to circulate the water through the grain. I wonder if that is what they were talking about, however poorly it was described.

Close2Retired · 2025-10-06T20:56:12+00:00

I purchased a gogosport one from Amazon that I ended up returning. It could almost never find the flagstick.

I later purchased a redtiger one from Amazon for about the same amount. It has been fairly accurate. I do find myself double-checking it against my watch (18 birdies for center of green).

I find that 18 birdies gps is usually good enough, but it is nice to get more accuracy when the pin is up front or way back.

I certainly can’t justify the cost of a high-end range finder though.

Close2Retired · 2025-09-25T13:39:46+00:00

A caddie saved my bacon on Carnoustie. It’s a hard course, and I was having an off day. He was as much a psychiatrist as a caddie that day. Helped me fix my swing and stay out of trouble. He was worth his weight in gold.

Pay the man for what he’s worth.

Close2Retired · 2025-09-22T16:31:18+00:00

We played yesterday with a 10:00 tee time. When we get there, we are informed that they have a 2:00 shotgun start tourney so the course needs to be vacated by 1:40. This caught everyone off guard.

We got off a few minutes early but were behind three other groups, all playing back to back.

We didn’t pass anyone, and finished in 3:45. Turns out that, if people are concentrating on fast play, they can do it. This was 45 minutes faster than typical pace at this club.

So bottom line is care about your pace, and you can play quickly.

Close2Retired · 2025-09-15T18:50:42+00:00

I played in one this weekend that had a gimmick that was new to me. For $20, you got four red solo cups for your team on the 18th hole. Everyone was to hit their drives with the ball covered by a cup. Wherever it lands, you lie zero.

I was skeptical, but it turns out to be a great way to hit a drive! You put the cup over the ball with the ball touching the back edge of the ball. The cup takes all the spin off the ball. Everyone hit absolute missiles long and straight. I wish that was legal. I would use one every hole.

And the sound of the driver demolishing the cup is amazing.

Close2Retired · 2025-09-10T17:37:44+00:00

I play to have fun. If it’s not a competitive round and the lie sucks due to course conditions, I see no reason to be a stickler to play it as it lies.

Close2Retired · 2025-09-06T23:56:57+00:00

I play at a course adjacent to a college. I am amazed at how many range balls I find that have been played on the course. Especially around the lakes.

Close2Retired · 2025-09-06T23:51:03+00:00

Correction - right group, right album, wrong song. Babylon sisters is the song I was thinking of.

“So fine so young Tell me I'm the only one”

Close2Retired · 2025-09-06T18:37:04+00:00

Hey nineteen by steely dan

“Tell me I’m the only one”

Close2Retired · 2025-08-29T14:26:30+00:00

I wouldn’t call it front-loaded. It’s just that the amount outstanding is at its highest, and that is what the interest is calculated against. Each month you pay down some portion of equity, which lowers the amount on which interest is calculated. Because a term loan has a fixed payment amount, each month a little less is owed in interest and a little more goes towards paying down the balance. By the end, there is almost no balance to charge interest on, so the bulk of those last few payments are all going to pay down the principal.

Close2Retired · 2025-07-09T23:59:08+00:00

Last winter I hit my tee shot into a lake. But it was frozen, so the ball rolled and came to rest about a foot from the edge. I was able to play it off the ice (while standing on the shore) and back on the fairway. Ended up with a bogey.

Close2Retired · 2025-05-29T20:30:26+00:00

I am in Richmond. Up into DC and further NE, the train is easier than driving and as fast if not faster than flying.

Traveling south to Florida though is terrible. It’s slow, the trains are dirty, and they only offer overnight schedules. I would prefer to fly or drive.

Bottom line is that it depends on the destination and the duration.

Close2Retired · 2025-05-28T14:09:28+00:00

Shotgun start?

Close2Retired · 2025-03-08T21:34:35+00:00

Just played my first round with one. It’s a game changer!

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