@AutoMechanic, I would suggest talking to a certified financial planner.
What are you doing right now?
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Just watched a news clip on one of the 24/7 "news" channels and got a chuckle. The headline under the talking heads reads "European Soccer Fans Love American Food". Every soccer fan interviewed was a native of Asia. 
Most banks will allow sub-accounts for different money pools someone wants to create. First step is actually saving money, or the accounts will have zero balance.
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Yeah and them big fat MericansJust watched a news clip on one of the 24/7 "news" channels and got a chuckle. The headline under the talking heads reads "European Soccer Fans Love American Food". Every soccer fan interviewed was a native of Asia.
These people come here and eat like pigs....even the women...
Buy we are the clueless low count creatures .....
I got torqued with the Germans and the Swiss Miss.... i hope they all got
Projection diarrhea ...other than that what lovely people...
I'm not new to this... its another merican invasion just like the 60s but via Social media... fleece-orama
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I’m having breakfast at McDonald’s and laughing about the crazy dreams I had last night. Will Ferrell was trying to kill me but I negotiated with him and then we became best friends. Then we sat down and ate a ridiculous amount of yellow Starburst 
After that I met Erik Estrada and saw his apartment which looked like it was stuck in the 70s with shag carpet and red painted walls 
After that I met Erik Estrada and saw his apartment which looked like it was stuck in the 70s with shag carpet and red painted walls 
Waking up. Should I walk or ride e-bike this morning. 58°F this early AM
If there is no wind ride the E-bike.
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I’m having breakfast at McDonald’s and laughing about the crazy dreams I had last night. Will Ferrell was trying to kill me but I negotiated with him and then we became best friends. Then we sat down and ate a ridiculous amount of yellow Starburst
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Hop in the Maverick instead
What's it like to ride an e-bike if there is wind? Whenever I ride my bike and there is a breeze... I feel like god is smiling on me when I have a tailwind, and that I've somehow annoyed them when I have a headwind. Is it any different on an e-bike?
Just clamped my exhaust up in a temp $6 fix as I am out of town and it cracked along a weld in front of the muffler.
"And remember, this fix is only temporary... unless it works." ~Red Green
AutoMechanic
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Just listed some tires for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Don’t have the truck anymore so don’t have a need for the tires anymore. Probably won’t sell them because they are 8 and 10 years old but in perfect shape, I’d run them lol. Tomorrow plan to uncover the Beetle and take good pictures of it and probably list it for sale. I made a goal for myself and that goal is pay off my credit cards and my car and then get my credit really good so that way if I find one in really good condition I can either already have the money saved or get a loan easily to be able to get it. I love my Beetle but I just don’t have time or motivation to work on it. It would be smart to sell it and use the money for debt.
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I would not run 8 and 10 year old tires. About to pull 5 year old tires off my newest vehicle because I don’t trust them.
Also don’t expect to sell them for much if you do. I am selling 3 year old tires with only 12k miles on them and had to drop to $175 to get any interest.
Also don’t expect to sell them for much if you do. I am selling 3 year old tires with only 12k miles on them and had to drop to $175 to get any interest.
AutoMechanic
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I listed them for $30 each. We have tires from 2007 on our van lol. It’s been sitting since 2019 but they haven’t failed yet it seems. The tires on the Beetle are from 1995 and I think either 1997 or 2000 on some of them.
Maybe I will keep my tires when I get new ones and list them for $30 each. Cheaper than paying the tire shop to throw them away. Just need someone who doesn’t mind old tires to come around lol.
As a programmer for 20 years, I learned that the temporary fixes/workarounds are the ones that lasted the longest.
Then again, another mantra is "if it works, don't [self-censored] with it" and that may be why my first line is true...
There's a corollary rule about optimizing performance last. Somehow, I never met a PM that knew about budgeting time in the schedule for that part...
For a while I was tasked with maintaining a VB6 program that was about 6k lines of Chef Boyardee code in a single file. I think there had been about a dozen guys there before me and there were a lot of comments in there like:
'Don't you @#$!-ing dare touch this line of code!!
'I can't figure out what it does but everything blows up without it
