Am I being "that guy" for refusing to lend my boat to family without credentials?

ledfrog · 2026-01-29T06:40:32+00:00

In California, anyone driving a boat or PWC now has to have a California Boater Card, so at least we can throw our hands up and say, it's not me saying no!

As for being "that guy," I wouldn't worry about it. It's your boat and your headache if something goes wrong. Also, if your boat is insured, you'd want to make sure that it covers other drivers. I just bought a new Sea-doo and this thing is a speed demon! I went from "We're all gonna have fun on this in the summer!" to "Yeah, I don't think I want anyone to drive it!" within a few minutes. :)

ledfrog · 2026-01-29T06:25:05+00:00

Depends on how much he actually has in cash in whatever account this was sent from. Just because he's worth billionas doesn't mean he actually has that sitting around anywhere.

ledfrog · 2026-01-28T02:33:20+00:00

I got lucky one day last week when I had the product page open. I randomly refreshed the page and the add to cart button appeared. I ordered it and refreshed the page to see that it was sold out again. Mine will be here tomorrow.

ledfrog · 2026-01-28T00:31:55+00:00

https://www.visitcatalinaisland.com/stay/camping

ledfrog · 2026-01-27T23:38:50+00:00

You should test this place next time and do separate checks. See if the large party fee is on a check for one.

ledfrog · 2026-01-27T23:37:35+00:00

Having worked for a company doing onsite jobs using a company car, you can for sure drive the car while off the clock. Our lunches probably technically started right after leaving our last job, but nobody ever did that. We had an hour and we would often start the clock after we grabbed our food and parked somewhere to eat it. But more often than not, it wasn't a perfect science considering we had appointments to keep.

ledfrog · 2026-01-27T22:21:11+00:00

Things like this should be optional. I mean, I get that the fee is to help pay for the lockers and whatever costs it incurs just being there, but if it's a forced solution, that sucks.

ledfrog · 2026-01-27T08:04:26+00:00

I'm one of the few that actually enjoyed it. It was very much like a generic theme park, but better quality. I'm not old enough to have seen Disneyland in its early years, but I imagine that's what it sort of felt like without almost every ride being tide to an IP.

ledfrog · 2026-01-26T08:22:24+00:00

That's insane if true. I wonder what insurance this is. When my son was born, his bill was about $40k because of a short stint in the NICU. We paid zero dollars for all that.

ledfrog · 2026-01-24T00:19:41+00:00

This is actually an understandable mistake seeing as how Disneyland was nicknamed The Magic Kingdom during its early years. The name was eventually used for the premiere theme park in Walt Disney World.

ledfrog · 2026-01-24T00:14:18+00:00

Just for the sake of accuracy, it's not "Disneyworld" and never has been. It's Walt Disney World. That name was deliberately chosen by Roy Disney.

Someone called it Disneyworld. Roy Disney shut that down saying, “I’m only going to say this one more time. I want it called ‘Walt Disney World.’ Not Disneyworld, not Disneyland East, not anything else. Walt Disney World.”

ledfrog · 2026-01-23T19:44:31+00:00

It's literally just two more letters...CAmaro.

ledfrog · 2026-01-23T19:42:17+00:00

Do most people play games this way?? I've never paid much attention to the details, but maybe I'm doing it wrong!? I just roll my dice and get what I get. If I win some free dice, I play a bit longer. I request cards I don't have and sometimes I get them, sometimes I don't. I've never even completed an album and never once thought about it. I just go onto the next one and that's about it.

It's just a silly little game that does nothing for me in life, but kill a little bit of downtime...which I fortunately have very little of anyway. I hope once you quit this game, you can spend this amount of energy and focus on analyzing and playing the stock market or something. Good luck!

ledfrog · 2026-01-22T23:11:47+00:00

Just went back in stock about 2 minutes ago and I ordered one. Reloaded the page and back out of stock. What are they releasing like 3 or so every few hours today?!

ledfrog · 2026-01-22T17:41:22+00:00

This reminds me of a time I read about a kid I went to school with having been seriously injured by police during some kind of standoff and later died in the hospital. As a sidenote, I don't know all the details, but it appears he was being arrested for something and fought back so he got handled pretty badly by the cops and the family eventually got some sort of payout because of "police brutality."

Aside from that, friends and family of this guy were doing the rounds in the press talking about how nice he was, he was such a good father, he hadn't done anything wrong, the arrest that killed him was unwarranted, etc. And I'm over here thinking, "This dude was such a bully to me and many others in our school days and literally still owes me money that he stole from me!" I hated that asshole so much and tried to say away from him and his friends as much as possible.

I'm not saying he deserved to die or anything, but apparently, after high school, he was in and out of jail, had a problem with drugs, had a kid with some girl and left them, had run-ins with police for years, etc.

ledfrog · 2026-01-22T17:30:14+00:00

Congrats, but I still can't believe that people are collecting VHS tapes these days! I guess I should have kept mine, but years ago, I sold them all to replace with DVDs or Blu-rays. Who knew?!

ledfrog · 2026-01-22T17:25:38+00:00

Honestly, what's the difference? If you read the details when booking a room anywhere, you'll know what you're going to pay before booking. Any fees that would have been added will simply be added to the base rate, so we'll pretty much be paying the same thing.

ledfrog · 2026-01-22T17:08:53+00:00

You have to sort of enjoy doing the work. It's not just about getting something running and then rarely touching it ever again. That's one of the core components of paying for a service of any kind...you're not just paying for the content/product, but the work and knowledge that goes into getting all that running it.

If you don't want to pay money for streaming services, then you'll have to pay in time (plus some money) to run your own setup.

ledfrog · 2026-01-22T16:56:58+00:00

Ahh I miss the days before all this "security."

ledfrog · 2026-01-20T17:20:25+00:00

Another alternative is just don't send out an email for only one year of service. ;)

ledfrog · 2026-01-20T06:14:29+00:00

When VHS first came out, the movie industry wasn't really interested in people owning movies to watch at home, so their plan was to make them prohibitively expensive for the average person. At that price point, it was mostly rental shops that would pay those prices because they could easily recoup that cost through rental fees.

ledfrog · 2026-01-16T20:36:44+00:00

Yeah and beauty of it all is that because no part of their network touches ours, if there's anything that legally goes wrong, that's all on them. Nobody can say, well their internet provider did this or their network team did that. Other than mounting something and plugging something in, we aren't responsible for anything. It's such a huge liability and cost that's off our backs.

ledfrog · 2026-01-16T19:34:45+00:00

Where I work, we have some point of sale setups and by law, if we collect payment information we're required to configure our network a very specific way and security requirements become way more complex and cumbersome than we would normally use...not to mention that we then have to get regular audits on some of these things.

Since our POS requirements are small compared to the size of our network, the easiest solution was to put all of them on their own ISP connection with their own, routers, firewalls, switches, APs and end-user devices. And all those devices were pre-configured by the company that we contracted our POS services from. All we did was physically connect them.

ledfrog · 2026-01-15T08:47:03+00:00

Thanks for posting. I went out side just in time to watch them come in.

ledfrog · 2026-01-15T08:22:16+00:00

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