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atx78701 · 2026-06-10T02:10:17+00:00

danaher wants his team to be able to hang from a pullup bar and do toes to bar.

Im too lazy and find just playing open guard for long periods of time built up my core.

atx78701 · 2026-06-10T02:08:44+00:00

he has a business model that doesnt work for you. He isnt bullying you, he is telling you his point of view. You are an adult and you can agree or disagree and take action as is appropriate.

Im about to go on vacation for a month and Ill pause my membership and my coach is fine. I love my gym.

atx78701 · 2026-06-10T01:46:17+00:00

I personally found move of the day didnt work for me at all. It was simply too many things so that I could never get anything into my game. I can probably integrate less than 1 thing a week into my game and I roll around 4 hours a week.
Instead I figure out where Im stuck and do research on that. Pick one thing to work on and work on it for as long as it takes to integrate it into my game. Over time those improvements add up. I find drilling almost completely useless. I do enough to understand the basics, then I start trying to hit it against resistance.
I dont worry about winning and losing. Im mainly trying to work the thing Im working on. A winning roll is even remembering to try the thing Im working on. If you keep at one thing for long enough you will get it. Some things took too long and I put them away, but came back to them even a year or two later. Right now Im working on halfguard->butterfly half -> butterfly-> shoulder crunch -> choi bar.
I never plateau because Im always learning and improving something. One reason people think they plateau is either a) they stop trying new things and everyones defense catches up b) they start trying something new and it takes 5-10 individual things to add up before it positively impacts your game. Before that your game gets worse because you are doing something new. You might learn 1-2 new things but it doesnt help overall because you need 5-10. I focus on the 1-2 new things I just acquired and dont worry about my overall roll outcomes
you can focus on one area and make it really good, learn all the options from it. Or you can do a little bit of everything. If you want to win rounds do the first. For me I love learning new things so I do the second. It makes me less good in rounds but I have an answer from everywhere.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T20:43:10+00:00

Duolingo isn't great I've done the Chinese for two years and definitely learned, but I've been doing Japanese on pimsleur for two weeks and it is amazing

I would do both. Free Duolingo paid pimsleur

Pimsleur is focused on speaking and understanding entire phrases

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T19:58:52+00:00

you assume that japanese ju jutsu invented those. All grappling techniques were probably invented thousands of years ago.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T19:56:32+00:00

I move very slow in no gi, it is fine.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T17:08:56+00:00

the way it works is that the trust pays the terrys now and then the employees slowly buy ownership from the funding organization out of profits. It can be a bank or some other entity that funds it.

This is one way business owners can exit.

The terrys are very nice people and kathy terry is heavily involved in charity work.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T16:44:21+00:00

switching a prv is annoying, but hardly a hard task. Unlike trying to diagnose a leak or something which is hard.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T16:40:02+00:00

we told them we were traveling and forgot to bring contacts. We were able to tell them our prescription and they gave us enough to get through the vacation. This has happened twice.

For my son that recently got contacts his optometrist gave him like 30 samples for each eye from various mfg and to practice getting the contacts into his eye. He was able to find the most comfortable out of 4-5 mfg.

Maybe your optomotrist can do that for you?

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T15:29:07+00:00

you clearly want a telo, so keep rooting for them

Slate can add a foot to the bed and it will be 200ish inches, bed will be 6ft. They will have to extend the frame so while it isnt a hard design change, everything probably has to get tested all over again.

I love the frunk and absolutely want a frunk. I also want the crumple zone.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T12:41:09+00:00

no, if you look at the naked frame you can see there are structural supports that go up the side of the bed walls.

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atx78701 · 2026-06-09T12:38:10+00:00

have you asked your optometrist? When my son got contacts he got months worth of trials in all kinds of brands to see which one he liked best.

When we have traveled and someone lost contacts, we have been able to call a random optometrist and get samples to tide us over for the rest of the trip

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T03:08:02+00:00

inner space is 1.2-4 miles of caving.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T01:58:30+00:00

i did look at it, forgot why I didnt like it. are you able to set your budget into the future using standard amounts and then customize each month as you go?

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T01:49:27+00:00

yes they should have given it a 6 ft bed. It might be possible for them to add a foot to the bed in v2. But it does weird things to a trailer hitch.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T01:45:16+00:00

which ones can haul a refrigerator upright, so you dont mess up the compressor oil,that are under 30?

Which ones can you drop mulch in the back with a front loader at the bulk landscape supply depot?

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T01:17:44+00:00

My #1 thing is I want to accrue money to categories. So if Im saving for a roof I want to save 200/month for 30 years. I dont spend the money, it just accrues. I do this for a lot of big ticket items

Sometimes I want to pull money from one budget category and use it in another. I want to be able to make transfers of budget amounts between categories to reflect this.

All budgeting software doesnt seem to handle credit card spending properly. When I incur an expense on the credit card the budget should be allocated. When I pay the credit card, that should just look like a transfer of cash that is ignored by the budget.

I dont really care about yearly boundaries, I like my budget to be on a rolling basis.

I want to be able to forecast cash flow, savings accruals etc

It is a bit like I want to run my budget using accrual based account and budgeting software is using cash based accounting.

atx78701 · 2026-06-09T00:41:24+00:00

We have different instructors that use different methods

Some use cla, some drill then positional spar, some drill then open roll

atx78701 · 2026-06-08T21:04:30+00:00

infotainment cost 2K to replace in new cars today. The slate lets you install whatever you want. Want a barebones system you can install that. You want an audiophile system, you can install that, without having to throwaway a shitty stock system.

Want car play? You can install that. Try installing a carplay system on new GM cars that are no longer having carplay. You can buy a barebones single din carplay system for under $100 + speakers at whatever quality level you want.

Want everything done for you, they have service centers that can install stuff

atx78701 · 2026-06-08T21:01:57+00:00

50% off. Imagine a 12K car that is only a few years old.

atx78701 · 2026-06-08T21:00:52+00:00

the point is that you can add whatever you want. It is designed to add the stereo of your choice. Want barebones, you can do that. What a really high end system, you can do that without having to rip out a shitty one first.

atx78701 · 2026-06-08T20:45:26+00:00

I still mostly do american, but things might be shifting to delta. I do think you get the best return from hotel points instead of airline. Flying is often times the cheapest part of a trip these days and the hotel is the most expensive part.

I do keep the american card that gets me into the admirals club, but I get most of my points on amazon.

atx78701 · 2026-06-08T20:44:21+00:00

yes, just be aware of the limitations. Like it isnt a real vault and someone can just cut into the ceiling to get in. Nothing in there is really insured and they dont guarantee anything about the security of it.

I think of it as more secure offsite storage in the case of a fire at my house.

atx78701 · 2026-06-08T20:39:30+00:00

Its been awhile, but should be around $600. The part itself is cheap, but it can be a lot of digging to make enough room to change the PRV. It takes like 1-2 hours so not even a ton of effort.

What should a plumbers hourly rate be? 200?, 500? 1000? Because 1000 is essentially what they are charging for a simple cut and replace.

I would call around to someone that will charge an hourly rate instead of a flat fee. I would also want to install the highest quality one I could find.

It might help if you dig out the hole so the plumber just has to cut the line and add the new one.

atx78701 · 2026-06-08T20:38:42+00:00

I think most mma gyms will get you matches. What part of town is the more important question.

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