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Why do I save my money? Because I would much rather spend the money my money makes than the money my ass does.
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@Porwest in July 2021
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Taking a lazy man's approach to dinner tonight. Chicken salad. lol. Just going to bake some chicken nuggets, cut them up, and toss them into a salad. Sometimes meals like this are just what the doctor ordered.
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Just feeling burnt out at work. Hoping a vacation I have coming up next month recharges the batteries. Or maybe I will just do that semi-retirement thing finally that has been on my mind for some time. Who knows? We shall see. Headed to Cape San Blas, Florida for a week in August.
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"Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest one of all?" I asked my mirror this morning. It just cracked up.
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Love our warehouse/office cat, Cal, to the moon and back. But how am I to get any work done, I wonder?
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Wifey and I are going out tonight with my sister and brother-in-law. No idea what we are eating, what we are doing, or where we are going. It's always great to not have a plan. Ugh. lol Meanwhile I am just sitting enjoying a beer (or two, or three, or four...) until the wife gets home from work.
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Is it a sign one is getting older when the first thing they reach for to put into their cup of coffee are scoops of Benefiber? lol
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Welcome to my new channel, the Dividend Stock Corner. If anyone likes to invest, and wants to learn about how to beef up those portfolios and make income from stocks, this should become a fun place to post and share thoughts.
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"Catch a man a fish and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish and you lose a wonderful business opportunity." —Groucho Marx
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By no means does it top my list, and usually any kind of "fruity" beer is just not my thing. But this one is actually not bad. Ever had one of these? If not, it may be worth a sip or three. **Picture is mine
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Going to be a very busy day it seems. Both the wife and I will get haircuts, we have grass to cut, we're going to install a skimmer on the pool...and I am sure I am missing something.
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QUESTION: I am new here, so I just don't know. If one has broken a rule here that results in having their wallet or noise.cash tips suspended, does admin send a message stating so? I am just curious since if that is the case, I think it would be helpful for one to know if they HAVE broken a rule resulting in suspension of their wallet or noise.cash tips so that future mistakes or missteps could be avoided.
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I told my wife I loved her and she flipped me off. That DOES mean I love you back, right?
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My gosh. I swore I had probably heard just about every "your mama" joke there is. But my co-worker nailed me with a hilariously new one this morning. He told me my mama's so slow it took her nine months to make a joke. I died laughing. lol
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Perhaps it is my age, or the fact that I have been in the stock market for roughly 30 years, and so when it comes to making money, and understanding money, I feel I have a very good handle on it. When it comes to business, and understanding how they make money, and what that means for investors like myself, it is not a hard thing to figure out and understand. Nor are the inner workings of the markets, and the numerous strategies one can employ to reduce risk, mitigate loss,…
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Our warehouse and office cat, Cal, likes to take little adventures during the day outside. Normally when he does this, he frequently returns. Especially during lunch time. I swear he can hear the microwave firing up a mile away. Our day ends at 5pm, and most days even if we have to call out for him to return or look a bit for him, he is usually found before closing the doors and gets to spend the night in the office. He does come home with me on Wednesdays and on weekends to…
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I thought, this morning, perhaps I would post a picture of Jeff Bezos' rocket and write a little something about my thoughts on his little voyage into space earlier today. But after seeing the rocket I thought I might risk my account by having it flagged as porn.
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My wife and I play the lottery a LOT. We play the Powerball and the MegaMillions. We play the little Lotto. We play scratch offs and the smaller payout Lucky Day Lotto. Any of these lotteries is worth thousands of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars. Our chances of actually winning, especially on the big ones like the Powerball and the MegaMillions are so astronomically not on our side you would think the brain would kick in and say, "No. This is just dumb." But we…
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A women's handball team in Norway was fined by the European Handball Federation for its players showing up to a game wearing shorts instead of the required bikini bottoms. While I applaud the girls for "standing up" to what could easily be defined as a silly rule, I also have to admit that any appeal for women's handball is NOT to watch the girls play the game... But to watch them play their game in those bikinis. It's like the Olympics, you know. Many men like to watch the…
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I really shouldn't. But the wife and I do keep quick and easy meals in the house when you jusrt don't feel like cooking. So I have these baked fish filets I got from Walmart which we will have for dinner tonight with a tossed salad. I have a salt restriction and take medication for high blood pressure, so I have to keep an eye on it. But I do go to the cardiologist twice a year and so if my blood pressure is high he would tell me. And so far the medication seems to be doing…
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So far, as far as cryptocurrency goes, I have only invested in four coins. Bitcoin, Amp, Doge, and Ethereum. I do not own any Ethereum as of this writing, and among the coins I do currently have positions in, Doge has the most appeal for me right now. But Bitcoin Cash is quickly becoming one that is piquing my interests quite a lot, and perhaps even more than Dogecoin has. It seems to me that one thing any of these coins is going to have to overcome is the certain stigma…
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I swear, the guy in the office next to mine is such a frigging tool. Not a minute goes by he has to come into my office and tell me he got another sale and how much, and that he is coming for me. Sales is competitive. We are competitive people. It's sort of a criteria for this kind of a job. And competition is good for business, and good for motivation. But I just want to sock this guy in the mouth. That's good for my satisfaction. lol
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A guy bragged to me today that he only pees twice a day. Congratulations, buddy. You are dehydrated and retaining water. lol
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I am a man, not unlike any other man. I put my pants on one leg at a time. Unless I am hopping. Then I try to look cool and hop into my pants two legs at a time. But this often does not work out. When I try to hop two legs at a time into my pants I usually trip and fall on my ass. There is nothing cool about a man crumpled on the floor in his underwear with his pants on the ground and his face planted into the carpet groaning.
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The funny boys on the radio this morning were going over funny questions people asked their doctors and one struck my funny bone more than others. A woman apparently called her doctors office and asked, "Will my hemorrhoid cream work while I am on vacation?" When the nurse asked her why she thought it wouldn't, the woman replied, "Well, it says on the back of tube to only apply it locally."
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There are times when I read or hear something and think to myself, "No. That just can't be." Such as today's signing into law in New York, by governor Andrew Cuomo, banning child marriage and raising the age of marital consent to 18. At first, since I am no fan of Cuomo, I wanted to cry, "Well, no duh, buddy." But then I learned that in the United States, at present, only five other states fully ban this sort of thing. And that struck me. Because I have always been under the…
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I was going to mess around with read.cash a bit this morning, but I signed up on my computer at work, and when I tried to get in this morning it wants the seed phrase or wants me to add another wallet. I do not want to add another wallet. So, I guess later on I will stop by my office and get the seed phrase I saved on my computer there. I have to run in there anyway to pick something up, so all will be good. But it was a little disappointing.
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We all have certain 'talents.' Some people like to write. Others take wonderful photographs. There are some wonderfully gifted and talented poets out there. The common denominator is that we all like to share what we do. In some ways it is part of the 'fun,' if not the only reason we do it. For example. I enjoy playing my guitar and writing music. Or what I like to CALL music. It's my own thing regardless of who it reaches that might call it otherwise. And I enjoy putting…
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The Path To Financial Independence: An Odyssey Pt. 1 It all started with make believe For reasons that are unknown to me, from a very young age I always had a profound interest in money. And it wasn't just in the *making* of money. I had an interest in the inner workings of it as well. Somewhere in all of that, I also understood that business was a key factor in how the vast majority of people obtain wealth. Although, I was far too young to understand business fundamentally…
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I finally did it. I wrote my first piece on read.cash. Nothing to write home about. I have not written longer pieces in a while so I think I am a bit rusty. But nonetheless, I decided to start a series which I will slowly add to. I decided not to commit myself to anything like a weekly update or anything like that. I do not like deadlines. So, I will write the parts as I can, which will actually probably be quicker than one might expect—I write fast. Either way, if anyone…
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My wife has three bottles of Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey in storage, 1/2 a bottle in the liquor cabinet, and two party buckets full of airplane bottles sitting just outside the liquor cabinet... And she calls ME an alcoholic? Don't even get me started on the Truly, Seagrams, Mike's Hard Cider, and whatever else is in the fridge in the garage next to my 30-pack of Busch and a handful of other brews.
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It is amazing to read that had one invested $1000 in Bitcoin 10 years ago, that investment would now be worth roughly $2.8 million USD. Of course, such things as this are merely anecdotal. And that $2.8 million would have been worth quite a lot more when Bitcoin peaked around $68k. Ethereum is of course the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap and has had some interesting gains of its own. With the saturation of coins now in the entire market, it makes one wonder what…
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Friday morning the wife and I will roll out to Cape San Blas, Florida for a week's vacation. Going to be a bit pricey, but YOLO, right? The house we rented cost $9,000 for the week, but we divided it up amongst our groups to a per room price. So my cost is approximately $1800 for the house. We are taking $3,000 spending money. $2,000 left in the checking account for expenses and $1,000 in cash. I do NOT think we will spend hardly any of this. BUT, we are taking it…
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Did you know that the estimated value of all currencies in the entire word is roughly $1.2 quadrillion USD. That is a massive amount of money floating around out there. Putting this into a little bit of perspective, consider that 1 quadrillion is 1000 trillion. 1 trillion is 1000 billions. So, 1 quadrillion is roughly 1 million billions. What does this all mean? That's a lot of f*cking money! lol
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CRYPTO QUESTION: So, as I have mentioned before, I am fairly new to the crypto world. One thing I have been wondering about is what happens with a coin that has a limit on the amount of coins in circulation, such as Bitcoin at 21 million coins, when that limit is reached? How does it trade? How does it's price become affected? Does that also limit the potential market cap? How does it affect supply? Anyone care to enlighten me?
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Looking at taking some profits this morning in WEC and WPC despite the dividend yields . WEC us up 7.79% and WPC is up 6.12%. Thing is, I am selling at a gain and can jump right back in when I want to. I may put the proceeds into QYLD which provides about a 12% yield in the meantime.
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As I have mentioned before, I enjoy dabbling in music. And I like recording and just having fun. That's really the reason I do it. I know I will never be on some stage somewhere, rocking out and collecting millions while adoring fans slobber all over me. And when I do covers, which this is one, I don't always want to shoot for emulation of the original. Instead I like to put my own spin on it, for whatever it is worth, for good or bad, and who knows what else? I will take…
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Last day of work today before the wife and I head to Birmingham, Alabama tomorrow for the first leg of a 13 hour drive to Cape San Blas, Florida for a week of vacation. Not necessarily looking forward to the drive, but the vacation is much needed and we will have a lot of fun.
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I love vacationing with my sister and brother in law. But the one thing that irks me is they always want to plan things out. Screw that. The last thing I want on a vacation is a schedule and plans. I'd much rather just do whatever I want as it strikes me in the moment. Ugh.
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Some things in my work day just make me giggle. Like looking up from my desk to see this view of our office/warehouse cat, Cal, lounging on top of the hutch on my desk. Ah, the little things in life just to bring a wee little smile and add a little bit of sunshine to one's day. :)
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Nice to see BCH having a bit of a run up today and moving opposite BTC and even Doge. I am still considering making an investment into BCH, but have yet to pull the trigger. I want to watch it for a bit longer before I decide what I want to do.
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Amazon's slip is a good buying opportunity. I'd be a buyer at $3300 per share. The company is still massively profitable, and continues to grow, which just means the shares are on sale. Lots of potential upside for this company and this stock to be seen in the future.
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So, the wife and I are all packed up and ready to finally embark on our week long trip to Florida for a bit of sunshine, memories, fun, and of course relaxation. We will be starting the first leg in a couple of hours, driving to Birmingham, Alabama which will take about 6 1/2 hours. We may stop for a bit in Nashville, but if I have my way we will just head straight to Birmingham. Saturday we should arrive in Cape San Blas which is about an hour and a half east of Panama…
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The first leg of our journey to Florida went well enough. Took us about 7 1/2 hours instead of 6 1/2. But that could be in part because we actually stayed in Fultondale, Alabama. Looks like the last leg to Cape San Blas in Port St. Joe will take us about 5 1/2 hours—more likely 6 with a couple stops. Stayed at the La Quinta in Fultondale. Not a bad room. We made the decision that we will probably stay at the same hotel on the way back so long as it is available. We shall…
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I do enjoy these QR tip challenges, and like everyone else, very much enjoy the reward. But what I hope we all get out of it, beyond appreciating the reward, is appreciating QR tipping as a daily practice regardless of a reward for doing so. I think at some point in the future it will matter.