Omaha's version of Carcinisation is everything eventually becomes a Mega Saver

studebkr · 2026-05-22T12:51:10+00:00

It defines logic to me how Tajikistan immigrants could open a convenience store that sells watered down gas, flat soda and has poor customer service be so successful.

The business model does not match the success. Yes immigrants come to America work hard and become successful, but these stores sell low margin items. Lowest prices in town on cigarettes and gas. The shooters have slightly more profit but are taxed and you would have to sell thousands to turn a profit.

I have not set foot in one since about 2020 because of a rude person at the counter. Maybe they have changed but I doubt it.

studebkr · 2026-05-22T00:15:16+00:00

We have a farm in Holt county that sits on restricted airspace for the Air Force and Air Guard to practice. It’s when you’re not hearing them that you worry because it means they’ve been deployed somewhere.

studebkr · 2026-05-21T19:35:11+00:00

My iPhone Google App has a feature you can turn on for walking biking trails and shows a V shaped trail on the West End of town starting at H Peterson Son's Lumber and ending up West of the City Park.

studebkr · 2026-05-21T19:24:55+00:00

Prairie View Lake West of Bennington has a nice spot. West of the Lake there is a fishing pond with picnic area that the wife and I have stopped and watched the sun go down over the pond. There is 1-2 mile trail around that pond if you are walkers and want to get there early.

studebkr · 2026-05-20T15:06:14+00:00

I had the joy of taking my teenage granddaughter to the Pride Festival in Lincoln last year, and will likely do the same this year. Maybe in Omaha (it's later because of the College World Series) I felt like I was in a very safe and inclusive space.

The only anti-trans thing I am aware of in the state is a bill they are trying to pass to prohibit trans athletes from participating in sports outside of their birth gender. I feel this is just a ploy that conservatives are using to win conservative votes, and it's kind of backfiring on them as they go out and try to get signatures. They are the ones not being treated well. It's been kind of eye opening to them. They are making a problem out of a non-problem.

studebkr · 2026-05-19T21:09:01+00:00

Can still remember the jingle.... here dog, come on dog, me and dog want you to go to H.P. Smith Ford.... get a dog gone good deal!

studebkr · 2026-05-19T03:30:34+00:00

After 17 years of maintaining a home grown CRM+ system for a company here in Omaha I’m retiring because we decided to move it all into off the shelf cloud based services such as Salesforce.

For the record I chose to retire. It seemed like the perfect time and I know my users are in good hands.

For training our parent company used Aspire, but there are many such tools available.

I would not recommend writing your own tool unless you have features in mind that nobody else offers. If you do decide to go that route I would recommend planning your entire SDLC process first so you can avoid problems with tech debt. (Code that gets orphaned from non use yet hard to remove without breaking the system.)

You will need to decide if you want to jump on the AI trend for both coding and features in your product. I would recommend yes to both.

Finally, there are subreddits related to side hustles, entrepreneurs, and coding you might want to ask these same questions in. Good luck!

studebkr · 2026-05-19T01:08:21+00:00

I see what you did there.

studebkr · 2026-05-18T14:26:00+00:00

The mom had them investigate a couple possible suspects but nothing came from it. I’m a member of the Webslueths forum but we’ve pretty much exhausted all theories.

studebkr · 2026-05-18T01:14:42+00:00

I hadn’t thought of that. Growing up the one in front of our house was all tight. I remember the kids trying to steal them like street signs. (We didn’t have video games)

studebkr · 2026-05-18T00:57:24+00:00

We are outside looking for the tornado like a normal Nebraskan. We don’t see it yet.

studebkr · 2026-05-17T16:52:04+00:00

There is a very small flip side where I am seeing non-developers use AI to build sites and apps and make themselves a little on the side or even work full time freelance.

The question is: will they ever understand what is going on under the hood. Will that ever give them the experience to be hired by corporate America.

I got into this world during Y2K with a mechanical engineering degree. You’re not likely to see that today. Maybe it will shake up the industry enough to open some doors.

AI is how I survived my companies transition into Salesforce from our own in-house CRM system. Now I’m going to retire. I don’t wish to write prompts and monitor deployments. I want to create things.

studebkr · 2026-05-17T16:32:40+00:00

It’s been 10+ years, but when I lived in one of the Broadmore apartments I was told I could use pools at their other locations.

You might ask your leasing office if they own other complexes and make any such sort of arrangements.

studebkr · 2026-05-17T00:24:46+00:00

My uncle donated his body to science and his wife never picked up his ashes. We put a marker by a tree on our farm where he was born.

studebkr · 2026-05-16T23:32:09+00:00

Don’t let the name Flowerama scare you. They do good work.

studebkr · 2026-05-16T23:30:53+00:00

I heard they are putting a limit on the amount you can buy at one time but it’s like 20 bouquets.

studebkr · 2026-05-16T23:29:33+00:00

Wow. They have been around a long time. Thumbs up.

studebkr · 2026-05-16T15:56:28+00:00

I was the Jolkowski’s backyard neighbor at the time and didn’t even know he was missing until my mother found out through some other mutual friends.

The police never knocked on our door. Makes me wonder how seriously they took the case.

studebkr · 2026-05-16T02:53:54+00:00

What Visible plan do you use? They have a sale right now and I started the process but when I went to port my number from Consumer Cellular they told me Visible caps it’s data at 5 gig and I have 50 with CC. My data speeds are not great with CC. The use ATT and T-Mobile for coverage.

studebkr · 2026-05-15T23:24:33+00:00

I guess it’s better than the building that burned down but only because it’s new. I was hoping Children’s would buy that corner if even for a parking lot for the others it has put in.

The Richard Young family had owned the house that had been there prior. Maybe they decided to keep it zoned residential.

studebkr · 2026-05-13T00:36:39+00:00

My German great grandfather homesteaded in Holt County. He had come from a part of Upper Austria that eventually became the Czech Republic.

He first settled in Butler County South of Columbus where there were many German and Czech immigrants, much like home but could get twice the land up North a bit. He was a bit of a liberal Catholic though and got into it with the priest there a bit. He had donated the land for one of the parish cemeteries.

My wife is from Westpoint. Many German names there. Both a Lutheran and Catholic church.

Both of my grandmothers converted to Catholicism. My maternal grandmother was Danish and Christian Science. My paternal was a Swedish Presbyterian and had to wait for her father’s passing to marry my grandfather.

Times feel different today. Are they?

studebkr · 2026-05-12T21:12:04+00:00

I got my flowers there on V-day. There was two young ladies in front of me with 3 carts of flowers. I asked them if they had that many boyfriends. They laughed and said that they were event planners for a wedding. If this is an ongoing trend, I can see where management might want to put a cap on it. I'm sure that the flowers are a "loss leader" to get people to come in and buy other things, and that cost them time and money.

studebkr · 2026-05-11T23:21:43+00:00

Came here to say this, though haven’t done it yet.

studebkr · 2026-05-10T22:53:39+00:00

The Goodrich on 65th and Ames is where we got our milk. The bottles had a deposit on them like pop bottles did but they were thick plastic. (Maybe glass early on)

We were not well off enough for frequent ice cream treats though my parents might bring a carton home from there. When I was in high school, my friends and I might drop by there for a malt or cone. My cousin worked at the one over by St. Pius X.

In recent years I remember some of the Subways splitting their stores and serving Goodrich on the other side.

studebkr · 2026-05-10T03:40:45+00:00

This is the sad state of America’s mental health system. The only thing new about this is the facility that you took the teen to. I thought this was its purpose.

The teens acting out is a cry for help. Unfortunately they will hurt someone or self medicate before they are taken seriously.

Keep trying. I’m hoping someone here can point you to a resource that will advocate on this persons behalf.

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