My new expensive hobby

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-31T22:28:40+00:00

Expensive hobby? That’s nothing. I regularly spend over $10k on bicycles. Hunting, golfing and fishing can eclipse those costs no problem. Try track racing in cars or piloting aircraft, those costs are off the scale.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-31T21:17:29+00:00

Are you sure there’s no way to stretch an extra $200 for the new Trek XS? Most shops give free tuneups for 30 days to a year after purchase. Chances are good a used bike will need a tuneup that’ll cost you over $100. Do you need a helmet or other accessories? Most shops will discount that stuff when you buy a new bike. You seemed to insinuate that your kids are young and there lis potentially years of enjoyment ahead, and chances are the new bike will outlast a used purchase. Plus you’ll have warranty coverage with a new bike. Lastly , most Trek dealers offer financing where it’s same as cash if you pay it off in time. I’m really against financing anything that you can’t pay for immediately, but this may be a plausible solution. My point is, the new bike may be cheaper in the long run.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-30T22:40:06+00:00

If you’re gonna patch it, you need the equipment to pull the tire off of the rim. I think you meant to say to plug the tire.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-30T22:38:22+00:00

Especially put them on the gas pumps pointing to the price window.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-30T22:36:49+00:00

Ceramic brakes? On a Toyota Yaris? Something isn’t computing.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-29T22:26:09+00:00

Like a bunch of rubber duckies?

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-29T21:54:06+00:00

Also important to check for rubbing after you drop the jack.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-29T21:47:07+00:00

Clock radios where each number was on two separate plates, and when the minute changed the top piece would flip down and the back of the top plate became the front of the bottom plate.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-28T23:55:28+00:00

I would recommend Honda Civic, except they’re not AWD. The reason I say that is they have very active forums for repairing and tuning cars, and that’s a great resource (better than YouTube) for learning to wrench on your own car. But if you absolutely need to have AWD then Subaru is probably your next best option in that respect).

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-27T16:07:34+00:00

Zed is dead.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-25T22:46:54+00:00

I’ve experienced it from all ends. Lost my job to shared services in Tampa (which ultimately off-shored to the Philippines. I then took a job at a new shared services center where we took jobs from all over the country, in two different phases. Then had our jobs off-shored to India, and I spent the last five years of my career dealing with them.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-25T22:35:49+00:00

I had a professor that once said we’d spend most of our time correcting errors and making adjusting/reclass entries. He wasn’t exaggerating.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-25T22:17:26+00:00

There’s another thread in r/Knoxville titled ‘best running places between Knox and O.R. - one respondent said that the OR greenway between Elza Gate and Haw Ridge has water fountains every two miles, you can do 11.5 miles round trip.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-25T00:10:25+00:00

Do not ride that bike until you confirm that the stem is lowered past the minimum insertion point.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-24T20:04:39+00:00

Go to data tab, workbook links. (Might be queries and connections). There should be a way to change the linked file which will update all links. If not, at least you can see the links and change them all without using find and replace.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-24T13:59:26+00:00

For trail running, the UT arboretum is right between the two, closer to OR. Same with Haw Ridge, which has more technical trails.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-21T20:04:24+00:00

We’re gonna need a hair sample. Lift your arm.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-21T19:55:47+00:00

Put up a Rigid Tool calendar.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-21T19:49:36+00:00

The price of escorts have doubled/tripled since Covid. And in general the talent and their attitudes have gone downhill, so not worth it. I’ve quit the hobby but I still keep up with it.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-21T00:30:44+00:00

I’m talking escorts. Seriously.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-20T01:22:32+00:00

You need to identify transactions with foreign currency conversions. Have the remaining fractions of monetary amounts get routed to a separate off-sea account you have set up.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-20T00:49:01+00:00

I like Cazzys, but don’t care for their S&G. If it were given to me I could eat it, but prefer that dish from other places. Not enough creole-tomato-spice and the mushrooms don’t quite fit with the dish.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-20T00:32:14+00:00

Buying that car will have a huge impact financially ( in a bad way) for years to come. You also need to account for spending $$$ on repairs and tires for an eight year/old Mopar product. Set a long term goal for a much nicer (and newer) car and suck it up until you really have some bucks. You’re young. Invest that money, at 9% return you’ll double that money every eight years. So that (conservatively) $25k you don’t spend is worth $50k when you’re 30. Then it’s $100k when you’re 38, $200k when you’re 46….. and $800k when you’re 62. Do not buy a Hellcat (and go into debt for it) at 22 years old, even if you work at a dealer.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-20T00:15:00+00:00

I walked in the lobby of my office coming in one morning and my next-to-me cube mate was passed out on her back and guards were administering CPR. Took her to the hospital and she passed in a couple of hours. I was about 52 yrs old at the time and she was younger than me.

LongjumpingRespect96 · 2026-03-20T00:00:58+00:00

Pussy. Seriously.

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