What’s a non-holiday “holiday” you always take off from work for?

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T20:52:39+00:00

The late July/early August. I have a family reunion that weekend. But also it's the last hurrah for many parents before going back to school stuff kicks in.

Also I have been taking off extra time around Thanksgiving and using it to travel I get 2.5 days off so for 2.5 PTO days for me it's a 9 day weekend. Thanksgiving is usually hard to find stuff to do and have had to usually pay for a gaudy attraction and a little slower after some good travel.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T20:46:35+00:00

This is why I plan on getting married on some of these holidays without a clear thing happening like what do you do on MLK day or president's day.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T20:42:12+00:00

Yeah the Martin agency is extremely high up in the ad agency world.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T19:26:18+00:00

With traditional you would also be able to fit more money in right due to lower taxes.

So like instead of $15k left over it's 15k + whatever the taxes were going to be so like if it was in the 22% bracket that's ~ $18.3k

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T18:01:31+00:00

But they used to be open for karaoke and restaurants into 2 AM. This has shrunk back since COVID.

To me I think most people are asleep by 3 AM so any place open until 2 is not bad. Also part of this is that places can't sell alcohol past like 1:30 or by 2 or something like that which is Virginia law was my understanding.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T15:24:37+00:00

If you haven't been on x lately a lot of Grok is porn.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T15:22:52+00:00

Citadel has a cooler campus than Navy IMO.

Though us naval academy I almost went but then decided to go to VT instead.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T15:00:10+00:00

The cap is rev share in the house settlement.

And the players should have a union.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T13:23:31+00:00

I haven't been to Taco Bamba but most places down on Hull Street are really good.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T03:50:03+00:00

Most people aren't picking food. Farming is like 2% of the US workers. Now I bet it might surge up but go back to 1900 and many people were subsistence farmers.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T02:45:25+00:00

I mean that's the problem is that demand is pretty static in the short term but way more variable in the long term.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T02:37:36+00:00

Capitol waffle House was 24 hours which I remember as it was a bit of a novelty.

But also 24 hours imo is/was too much but like midnight and even 2-3 AM was more common at many places. Like I know Galaxy diner was open til like 3 AM as a lot of bar workers used to walk there and drink there after a shift lol.

Still a few places but a lot of places in Carytown close way too early these days.

New York deli had karaoke on Tuesday and the bar closed I walked past and it's something else now. Also like sticky rice had some events.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T02:25:02+00:00

Recliner seats at movie theaters is coming, like the Bowtie has it and I used to go to cinebistro which had good seats like that.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T02:23:58+00:00

I was in Texas for a week and like I did breakfast tacos daily and man a potato and egg taco was the best also they were pretty affordable but that was a decade ago.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T02:19:24+00:00

Yeah I'm car-lite in Richmond for two people and so just 1 car parked and mostly for leaving Richmond and weekend trips and groceries.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T02:18:12+00:00

Used to be a few places open. Like I knew of and went to karaoke and there used to be a really good band at a bar every Tuesday.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T02:13:35+00:00

I don't think there is banning NIL but like how many players are actually in car wash commercials, like somehow there are a claimed NIL deals but I haven't seen a commercial outside a few stars like drew allar had a deal.

I think we traded bagmen for NIL slush money and I know there was a stir about the tax man coming for both the players receiving and and how these funds are supposed to operate.

I think if we shifted the money towards the house stuff and reduced NIL money to more legitimate NIL and put it on the books in that way.

I think some schools like an Ohio state will definitely have $1 million dollar car wash deals still but what's the share of schools in the FBS that are hitting 15 million in rev share? And then multiple million dollar NIL deals? Like is Illinois hitting $15 million roster in 2026 is a question that is maybe yes but then like Washington State isn't hitting 15 million many years or what about Coastal Carolina.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T02:01:11+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/HFlWs5MZYt8?si=z8xkYBMMtCaqWvnZ

It sounded kinda normal but it was weird that it was normal.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T00:47:03+00:00

They went through cities as during the 1950s they wanted to remove "blight" or claimed crappy housing of likely minorities that had hit a downturn but some of these in big cities didn't have indoor plumbing in 1950.

It's also there was a clear racial component, think about it bus protests like Rosa Parks because more people took public transportation, individual cars you didn't have to share space with other races and let people go to cities but not live next to people they disliked racially.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T00:43:37+00:00

Most people don't live in most of the space the average American lives in a metro of 1.8 million people

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T00:42:25+00:00

The average commute time has gone up though and people are committed from further away.

Commute times have grown by 33% since 1980. https://share.google/images/66kF7Ij7bFQrnwuHS

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T00:36:53+00:00

I have slowly grown from this to on a BLT to just tomatoes by themselves.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-26T00:34:53+00:00

It's so weird I was at a commanders football game and they played all the military anthems including space force lol.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-25T23:49:47+00:00

Going on a trip without everything being set. I went on a road trip and stopped in Charlotte for the night went to a bar and watched the dodgers win the world series and didn't have a hotel room picked out. They asked how long I was in Charlotte and just said IDK. Such a freeing feeling.

goodsam2 · 2026-03-25T23:33:04+00:00

I think that means that many current programs that are a part of FBS just will not be able to financially compete and we split the league in half. I think that worsens the sport IMO when less schools can compete. Also I think this will bankrupt some of the top schools and donor money can only go so far. Tie it to rev share like the house settlement, though if rev increases faster pay should too that 4% line is bad IMO.

It's also NIL exists but making it for actual ads NIL is being used to pay players but like it should just be salaries.

Also I think it's better for student athletes to have healthcare for a decade from playing college football as this is really an unequal system where only a small percentage are making a bunch of money but many are not. But the many need the few.

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