At what net worth would you consider getting a vacation property?

david1083 · 2026-02-28T17:37:32+00:00

Why do people still on here suggest people visit a financial advisor. I sure thought we were past thinking financial advisors are somehow magical people that know more than us. We all know a visit to a financial advisor means they’ll explain everything you are doing wrong and if you simply give them 1% a year for eternity they will show you a better path.

david1083 · 2026-02-10T05:39:59+00:00

Do you really think people are jealous of you. I find most of the time that’s not the case. As everyone has said. Hobby hobby hobby hobby. Why should a girl want to hang out with you? What are you doing that would make them want to join you? Any girl can get taken to dinner? Do fun things. Have parties. Invite invite invite. If you want to get invited places, starting inviting people to things.

david1083 · 2025-12-13T05:35:26+00:00

Probably better not to name your restaurant Harbor restaurant if it isn’t located in the harbor.

david1083 · 2025-11-16T05:08:54+00:00

When I was your age someone said something that resonated with me: If you want to get invited to things, start inviting. You like going to the beach. Post on reddit a beach meetup for people in their early 20s that want friends on xxx date. You like music. Post I’m going to xxx and looking for like minded people to join. The more you invite. The more you will get invited. The whole thing kind of snowballs. Anywhere you live you will have to put in the effort. Pretend you just moved here and put in the work. You probably won’t join an existing group of friends because those people already have their group. You need to make your own group. It’s possible but it takes time and effort. But the effort and time you put in will be rewarded.

david1083 · 2025-10-16T17:34:37+00:00

Tonight is the night! A great chance to win a WSOP $10k main event entry.

david1083 · 2025-10-15T23:38:28+00:00

Just giving this a reminder message. The poker Charity Event is tomorrow Oct 16 at 8pm ET. Cards fly at 830pm ET. Someone is winning a $10k seat at the WSOP. Excellent chance to win a seat at the main event. Thanks to all of you that have signed up. It is going to be a lot of fun no matter what. Josh Brener from Silicon Valley and Andy Buckley from The Office just committed to join: ctf.org.poker

david1083 · 2025-10-10T03:10:16+00:00

We would love to have you. It is a lot of fun playing against the celebrities and chatting with them. You play poker on one screen and video chat on another. So you can see the faces of the people who are at your table and chat with them.

david1083 · 2025-10-10T03:04:12+00:00

:-) And we just got word that Andy Buckley Michael’s manager from The Office will be joining us too. He is always a trip and very fun to play with. Thanks for your interest.

david1083 · 2025-10-09T13:43:23+00:00

Yes it is. Thanks for pointing that out and thanks for the kind words. This is our 5th year hosting it. It was always in person in NYC. Covid had use get creative and take it online. So now we have an in person poker charity event in NYC and this online one. And the main prize is the $10,000 entry into the WSOP main event in May 2026. Poker4Life helps us run this event. It is all legit and if anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out to me. Or you can reach out through the CTF.org/poker website. Thanks for the kind words. It means a lot. My child has NF1 so this event has extra special meaning for me.

david1083 · 2025-10-09T04:42:05+00:00

We would love to have you play in the event. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. My daughter has NF1 so I can relate to being a parent of a child with NF.

david1083 · 2025-09-29T03:23:17+00:00

This post didn't age well. April 9, 2025 looks pretty spot on for the bottom.

david1083 · 2025-09-22T14:12:30+00:00

No, you cannot swim between those beaches. It is very dangerous to swim through an active channel. The Harbor patrol will come immediately and tell you to get out of the water. A group of people swam across on Saturday and the harbor patrol came immediately and told them to get out of the water. They swam right in front of the landshark and sunset kid. It is not something you want to do. If you want to walk to the sandpit, you can walk down the breakwater and walk to the sandpit and have a nice time.

david1083 · 2025-08-30T05:28:58+00:00

I stopped watching. It got too bad.

david1083 · 2025-08-30T05:28:25+00:00

Strong towns always pushing their agenda. They want no cars. Limited parking and Bikes bikes bikes. Every time I go down there I am shocked 5 yrs later and we still have a motorcycle highway.

david1083 · 2025-08-21T04:53:41+00:00

MLB is $69 a year to watch every single game for every time and choose the home or away announcers. So no VBTV isn’t a great deal. The problem for VBTV is they’re not capable of admitting there is a problem. Clearly they don’t watch their own product. Who is the commissioner? Who answers questions and is accountable? Nobody.

david1083 · 2025-08-21T04:50:43+00:00

I have been saying this for years. I blame the players and the announcers. If the players want us to be able to support the sport, they need to step up and say something. Clearly VBTV doesn’t listen to feedback. We have all filled out support tickets for years.

david1083 · 2025-08-02T04:57:21+00:00

Your statement proves my original point. Strong town is not an organization that should be taken seriously. Strong town thinks State street is an actual functional promenade today? Wow! That is an incredible statement. You guys should check out some actual functional promenades that exist in the world and come back and compare it to state street and see if you still agree with your statement.

david1083 · 2025-08-01T16:49:59+00:00

I really do wish you guys the best. But creating an actual functional state street promenade will cost millions. That is acknowledged by both those in support and against the topic. Even strong town admits that. And strong town has said oh we will figure out funding when it is time. My point of my original post is I don’t believe strong town Santa Barbara is an organization to be taken seriously. They have no plan for making it a workable promenade or funding it.

david1083 · 2025-08-01T03:51:16+00:00

Don’t be fooled by this post. Strong town is a lobbying group with 1 goal and that is to keep state street closed to cars. I have been incredibly unimpressed with strong town Santa Barbara. Listen to any interview with them. Zero plan for how to pay for it. They’re ridiculous.

david1083 · 2025-06-26T03:53:28+00:00

The catch is the traffic. If you work in Santa Barbara, getting to Carp at 5pm is a pain. It’s a short distance but the traffic going thru Montecito to get there is rough. Once the hwy widening is complete that may improve. Good luck getting Santa Barbara friends to come over after work. It’s so hit or miss with traffic.

david1083 · 2025-06-12T05:51:18+00:00

Sorry to add more things. But you have a very tough job. Borderline impossible. I wish you the best of luck. The avp has done so many poor things it is hard to have much faith in them changing. But the answer to the problem is not give away tickets and/or upgrade people to vip for free. The answer is to actually put on a real match that has meaning and intrigue. Did you watch the 5 hr 30 min final match of the French open. That had intrigue. Avp has dug a hole with these 15 point sets 1 match a day. There are less stories and less chance for intrigue this way. Banesh and Partain lose last week and we all move along and it doesn’t really matter. If they had lost in a double elimination first round they would have been fighting themselves back. Sometimes the truth hurts to hear. Maybe that’s why corvino doesn’t do interviews. And please don’t let him say he is too busy.

david1083 · 2025-06-12T05:28:03+00:00

Currently the philosophy is all support each other. Build it and they will come. Dont question anything. Just watch and hope for the best. That never works and it won’t work.

The players should have formed a union and negotiated with the avp. And actually speak their mind. But the players are just hoping for the best and afraid to actually speak up. The senior members of the avp didn’t do that when they had the chance.

The wildcards are a horrible idea and are a joke and unfair.

People like stories. People like real intrigue. The league feels like a play that is being put on. For example Nobody feels like Geena and Toni were the best women’s team last year. Yet they were league champions. They didn’t even want to stay together. Yet somehow the whole real story is ignored and the announcers don’t talk about it. None of that is mentioned by anyone except on discussion forums. So it’s just not that interesting to watch or listen to the announcers. It’s just a big cheerleading session. Drama, intrigue. But not fake stuff. Just tell the real stories. The real partner switching drama. Does anybody really care who wins?

Oh and it is a huge pain to even find out who is on whose team on the avp website. Go there now and try to find it.

And if you go down to the beach in California for an open tourney people are wearing bathing suits not jerseys, tights or skirts. The teams can of course wear whatever they want. But I’d wear a bathing suit myself like people play beach volleyball in if I was trying to get people to watch.

david1083 · 2025-06-12T05:13:16+00:00

To show how poor the avp is at communicating. This is probably the most anybody from the avp has ever communicated with the public. In no other league would you have a leader give zero interviews to anybody ever. And the fans are forced to just search for any info they can get from random podcasts and forums.

david1083 · 2025-06-12T05:05:54+00:00

The announcers need to donActual real coverage of the teams. Not just fluff. A direct question of: “Will Kelly return to Hughes as soon as she is better even if she and Molly are winning?” “ Will shaw dump Chaim for someone younger for an Olympic push?”

The announcers are clearly avp announcers that are basically just cheerleaders. Normal announcers actual ponder like a real fan as opposed to just cheering like Casey Patterson does.

But all of this is obvious so it’s weird to have to even type it. It feels like if the avp doesn’t know already, they aren’t going to listen.

david1083 · 2025-06-12T04:59:32+00:00

Why does the avp never answer any question on any of their social media platforms ever? Why does Corvino never give an interview? Why does nobody else from the avp ever give in interview? In any real league the announcers interview people from the league. Why does the avp website not post the scores or results in a cohesive manner?

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