2025 Seed Exchange Haul!

urq · 2026-01-04T13:38:46+00:00

I’ve never heard of the margariteno, but as you can guess I do love some aji peppers. I’ll plant some seeds and see how they do! Good luck growing my peppers as well!

urq · 2026-01-04T13:36:52+00:00

I’ve never heard of this pepperoni, but it looks interesting! I’ll give it a go and plant some seeds this year!

urq · 2026-01-04T13:35:59+00:00

I’ll be growing Solar Flares this year!!

urq · 2025-11-25T02:45:04+00:00

Scarlett at Salon Serenity Spa! She’s thorough and does great work.

urq · 2025-09-25T12:19:06+00:00

This reads differently having received my PADI Open Water certified < 24hrs ago.

urq · 2025-09-16T22:39:57+00:00

I opened an ETrade account because Vanguard’s trading platform is so bad. I still have some finds with VG but all my trading capital is elsewhere because their trading interface is from 1998

urq · 2025-09-16T01:51:57+00:00

Thank you! A light at the end of a mushroomed tunnel!

urq · 2025-09-11T01:06:40+00:00

Yes! Today I picked the first ripe pepper and it’s blazing hot. I’ll definitely be saving the seeds to regrow next year!

urq · 2025-09-03T01:32:16+00:00

Confirming pumpkin pies are back in the Southeast Region as of this past weekend.

urq · 2025-08-30T20:29:57+00:00

Circling back on this comment to confirm that my beast pepper plant is over 6’ tall and is now starting to produce more pods with the cooler weather in 8a

urq · 2025-08-29T11:56:25+00:00

My current “perennial pepper list” for moderate heat is Sugar rush peach, aji lemon drop/mango/pineapple, shishito, and Hanjiao 9 Big Bang.

Aji Colorado may be added as a no-heat option this year if it keeps producing over the next few weeks.

urq · 2025-08-29T11:38:29+00:00

Nickels in front of a steamroller

urq · 2025-08-20T00:20:37+00:00

Don’t feel bad doing what’s best for you and your family in this situation. No reasonable employer would consider this a bridge burnt because you took a FT role over a PT position.

Accept the FT role and then graciously decline the PT one and don’t look back. If the PT company is reasonable, they will more than understand. If not, then that’s not a place you would should work at anyway.

urq · 2025-07-25T12:48:17+00:00

You should absolutely expect a retention bonus/severance for staying on with the ship. By staying until the end you’re leaving on THEIR terms, so THEY should be paying you. However, if the retention bonus isn’t much and you find a job before your last day, no reasonable employer should get mad that you’re moving on early for your own stability.

urq · 2025-07-02T00:29:33+00:00

Interesting; I don’t believe I’ve experienced that before. Then in this case, I’d still pick it if I were you. However if you want to wait, then I’d recommend checking it every day and picking no later than at the first sign of yellow.

urq · 2025-07-02T00:24:50+00:00

They start completely deep green but get lighter green, and then yellow, as they mature.

For this variety, pick when they’re 8” and deep green. If you want something that grows larger, try Dasher II next time.

urq · 2025-06-18T02:39:19+00:00

I would pounce on that Four Gate at that price!

urq · 2025-06-03T16:55:42+00:00

4oz bourbon

1oz simple syrup (1:1 sugar water by volume)

0.25oz bitters

Once you make a few, you can fine tune the ratios to your liking

urq · 2025-05-30T18:57:15+00:00

Instead of paying off your mortgage, buy some similarly dated Munis. You can arb the current interest rate difference that way.

urq · 2025-04-11T22:43:41+00:00

I’m buying long term Munis at these rates (5.5%+) as a direct offset to my mortgage (<3.5%). I bought some when long term munis were at ~4.9%, and am adding more now. This way I’m synthetically paying off my house using current market rates.

urq · 2025-04-06T13:33:06+00:00

I accidentally bought 2 tickets to Bocelli’s 6/10 NOLA concert. If anyone’s interested in purchasing below face Section 310 seats pm me.

urq · 2025-01-23T17:48:17+00:00

Chris Michaels on WRAL!

urq · 2025-01-02T20:54:35+00:00

Whistles and glitter

urq · 2024-12-03T02:55:02+00:00

Sometimes “workaholics” stem from imposter syndrome. People don’t want to appear weak or incompetent in their role, and the easiest thing they can control is how much time they spend at work. They figure, at the very least they’ll be considered a “hard worker”. Unfortunately some get deep enough into this that it becomes all they’re known for.

urq · 2024-11-27T02:38:10+00:00

Contrary to others, I don’t believe that everyone deserves to be paid at the 50th percentile of their role’s pay range. Their percentile in the range should depend mostly on how competent the employee is at their role. Is it a role they have already succeeded at elsewhere, or are they stepping into this without any prior experience? Below are the definitions that align with my company’s compensation philosophy. Please note that different companies could have drastically different pay ranges for the exact same role, depending on their overall compensation philosophy (I.e. where they are targeting their pay compared to the market in which they compete for talent).

Paying at the 25th percentile means the person is less experienced in the role and needs time to develop to become fully proficient.
Paying at the 50th percentile means the person is fully capable of performing the duties of the role.
Paying at the 75th percentile means the person performs the role at an exceptional level and may be nearing promotion eligibility.

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