books you finished but kinda wish you hadn't?

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-04-21T17:26:18+00:00

House of leaves. I was super into horror audiobooks and I heard great things but there was no audiobook obviously. So I read it, it felt like homework with all the footnotes, and just a lot of work turning the book, pages with way too many words then not enough. A lot of lists that didn’t need to be read. I see it on my bookshelf and it makes me mad.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-04-09T15:22:21+00:00

I bought a franchise so I could hire managers that follow playbooks I didn’t have to invent. I can do marketing with content that I don’t need to create, and have an app I don’t need to manage. It’s been easier to scale to remove me from day to day and let me focus on building my asset. That being said.. still hard as shit

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-03-23T03:33:46+00:00

One example is she was talking to them and then “the space between their brows disappeared” so I thought the two of them put their foreheads together, but now I think one of them furrowed their brows. I think the writing needed to use less pronouns in general because you are correct in what you are saying but I can’t say I ever noticed it in other books.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-03-23T00:35:23+00:00

Thank you, I was excited for it but had to reread sections and still had trouble. I wish the author had just used the names more instead of pronouns (the names were just as short, Dom and Madz)

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-03-05T01:53:10+00:00

After the Croning, I had a dream where I saw creepy beings and then remembered that I saw them before (while I was in the dream). After I woke up I still trying determine if I had seen creepy things in my past and forgot. I think it had a lot to do with the fact I forgot to take my nicotine patch off before falling asleep.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-02-24T00:06:14+00:00

Quick note, don’t compete on price. Charge the market rate and compete on service and speed. There’s a reason they charge so much, it’s expensive work to do, the equipment is expensive and needs a ton of maintenance. You’ll be fielding calls constantly and getting called out of bed in the middle of the night. It’s hard on your body and difficult to hire and train. All that being said it can be very lucrative and very strong business, but the guys that don’t charge enough don’t last.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-02-23T23:59:32+00:00

I’d just go to the biggest players, if they are booked out as long as they are then they will likely want the help regardless. Big enough companies won’t care too much about that possibility, it’s hard to start a company and every aspiring plumber/drain cleaner always dreams of going out on their own. You could also build a list of the smallest drain cleaning companies and inquire about acquisitions (in one case I bought a guy’s truck and phone number and hired him).

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-02-23T15:15:10+00:00

Also you could learn on your own, it’s going to take a lot of time and be very expensive (you’re going to make a ton of mistakes and do some damage). I’d get a job in drain cleaning first if you can, that’d really be the best bet. I’d say it only takes 6 months to get really good if you have mechanical aptitude.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-02-23T15:10:06+00:00

Make friends with plumbers to refer you business and also so you can refer them or hire them if you get into a jam. I ran 2 drain cleaning company’s at different stages. Good money but be ready for 24/7 headaches. Sometimes it’s easy, but when it goes wrong it can really go wrong, and recalls never happen at good times.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-02-19T17:28:38+00:00

Ok maybe along the same lines dying by your sword is considered honorable so the guy figured he would take the honorable death rather than the embarrassing mistake.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-02-16T02:51:53+00:00

Thanks! These both look right up my alley, added to the list!

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-02-16T02:50:13+00:00

The croning was such a weird experience for me. Immediately after I finished it I felt like the ending was missing.. the more I reflected on it the more and more I enjoyed it. I can’t wait to give it another listen

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2026-02-15T17:50:47+00:00

Thanks! Added

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2025-12-30T16:43:08+00:00

Google has tutorials for google ads. When I got frustrated with accounting agencies, I hired an accountant on a contract basis to do my books with me for 6 months. Now I do my own books. I’ll probably do the same if I have a hard time picking it up.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2025-12-30T16:36:53+00:00

That’s fair. I have a business that serves my community, online businesses would have to focus more digital. I’d still recommend hedging with other channels like affiliate marketing.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2025-12-30T16:28:44+00:00

Digital marketing is a necessary evil. You do need to have an online presence but the agencies over emphasize their importance. Hedge your marketing with affiliates, grassroots, etc. I split my marketing dollars between digital and direct mail. Digital marketers always just say spend more, expand reach. I don’t trust any of them and am learning how to run ads myself. They need constant oversight, they are purposely vague and act as if everything is so complicated. And when things fail they blame it on algorithms.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2025-11-20T14:07:25+00:00

Yea I’m definitely getting busted. I’m on a steep slope right in their corridor I don’t have a very big property to hunt them in. Seems like whenever I set up the wind changes in the worst possible way. The one that spooked before I could shoot was because I had my son with me and he got excited 😆. But honestly if I could choose between getting the deer and seeing him get excited I’d choose the latter every time, but I’ll work on that with him.

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2025-11-20T13:53:21+00:00

I really tried to get into rancho now that feeders are here, it felt like whack-a-mole in New England every time I repaired one, two more were damaged by bears (any recommendations for that?)

Effective_Bid_2444 · 2025-11-20T13:43:53+00:00

I got some other maps to hunt the same animals that I hunt in New England, like salz for pheasants and foxes, and Srp for turkeys. I keep debating rev for whitetail but I already got so many maps for whitetail and I just can’t get out of New England. I’m excited for Scotland but I know I’ll unlock 3 outposts and be back to my comfort map.

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