mmmmm...beer

Yup... the days of free ebay, mercari, poshmark flips are over.

He focking knows that. My shadow is just a @sshole that needs to spread his toxic sludge to all. The only thing I can think of is jealously my life is better than his. Otherwise... why focking care? Why try so hard to come in to each and every thread I produce once every few months and b!tch like I took his woman? Move on. Focking loser...

Yeah FB marketplace is absolutely the way to go. Especially for bigger items. Also... no 1099 cut.

And many people try it and fail. So... wanted to see if it took. Was fairly easy.

Figured it will give me something to do in tetirment that's not "getting s other job".

Unless its easily apparent. I bought a whole box of an old Wii system with 2 consoles in there, 4 controllers a couple of guns, and like 20 games for $10. Sold 5 of the games for $130. Sold the rest of the 13 suck games and the Wii/accessories for $110. Have a balance board, Wii Fit and another game, plus the extra console alone left to sell out of that lot.

So google lens to figure out exactly what it is. Then copy that to eBay and search for it. Once stuff returns don't pay too much attention to what they are "selling" for, but rather go to filter and down to "Sold" listings. It'll shown you how much they are really selling for and how many have sold recently. You find an item with 100 solds lately? More than like it will move fast and consistently for the solds prices. Can't find something or if you do there's one sold in the last 90 days? Pass... It sounds complicated but if you do it a few times you can get pretty quick.

Yeah we've already been doing that. I've had to drop to under 25 a few times.

Meh... I've suggested it for the last couple years to get the can kicked down the road. So we vote. If it passes great. If it doesn't fine. I'm just tired of... we'll look at it next year.

Really? Like I suggested last year and the absolute end of last season? Yeah... there's 5 of us left from the original. I may be done. I'm getting over it....

The start of the league year is 30 spots. How you get to them is up to you. If you want to trade away all 5 of your draft picks every year and fill those spots with veterans, IE you have no rookie spots to draft, then so what? Do you not have 30 guys at game like everyone else?

Forcing dropping 5 is silly. If I have zero draft picks why would I drop anyone off my roster? My whole goal is to develop a bench. Now I have to dump my developers off my bench so you can pick them up? That's dumb. I've made my dynasty moves through the year UTILIZING my draft picks to pick up people for those spots. Now I have to drop people out those spots I filled using my draft picks? If that's the case... no more trading draft picks.

Herro?

Intital observations after being gone awhile. I really forgot about how out of hand this tipping culture in the States has become. Anyone who hands you something apparently deserves extra compensation. It's like a horrible late night law commercial. "Have you ever had to hand something to someone? You may be entitled to compensation!" I guess I'm spoiled by Japan. You don't tip. Tipping in Japan is generally considered rude and is not expected. This is because Japanese service culture emphasizes "omotenashi", which means hospitality and ensuring customers are well taken care of, without the expectation of additional compensation. Japanese culture emphasizes harmony, humility, and mutual respect. Offering a tip can unintentionally disrupt that balance. Fast food prices went off the rails! $17.20 for two softshell tacos, some OLES, and a pop?! Food portions are restaurants are huge. Both my daughter and I could no even come close to finishing the food. Aaand... last but not least, my 16 year old daughter said, "Why is everyone so fat? Most of the girls I see my age are HUGE?!" Anyway... weathers nice. It was getting humid as fuh in Japan. We'll be here in Minnesota/North Dakota until the second week in July. Then drive down and visit the boy in the Space Force in Colorado Springs. Then out to say hello to my Mah in Washington State. Most likely driving back in Minneapolis through ID MT, and ND to fly back out to Tokyo sometime at the beginning of August. It is good to be home and be understood/understand everything. You start too feel too damned stranger in a strange land after awhile.

Yeah I've noticed. Its the freaking middle of June and chilly.

Sapporo... but I pretty much quit drinking last year. Just meh... no bang for the buck. Catch a little buzz and feel like hot garbage for days.

Thanks Bro... how come Gypsy isn't fixing our site?

You bring zero positive to this place. All you are is a negative space. It's not wonder you all sit here jerking each other off over and over. What focking pathetic existence you must lead. You are ignored.

Annnd your a negative fock. So... go away.

Japan is still cool. We've been all over the island, and still lots of stuff to see. Honestly the food is meh... once you get past the ramen/sushi stage, it's just a lot of fish and rice. Same same all around. I will say I really like how they do sweets/desserts here. Much less sweet, but just sweet enough you know? And really... I haven't found a bad cup of coffee here. They really took to the coffee scene and aren't afraid of strong coffee. Coming from the pacific NW coffee scene we didn't know what to expect. Really pleasantly surprised. We went to Thailand for the Christmas week. That was a lot of fun. Stuck around Bangkok and just did day trips out to the sites. I will say, Bangkok is like Vegas's older seedier brother. That place is wild. Sooooooo many silver haired dudes walking around with 18 year old Thai's... I would say chicks but I dunno. Hahaha... definitely the main destination for "passport bros" it seems. We want to go to Bali, Singapore, or the Philippines next for a long vacation. We can take military hops over to South Korea and may do so over one of these long weekends. Wife and daughter dig K-dramas on netflix so I'm sure there's something to do with that over there. Anyway... got my first interim retirement check last month, so that alleviated a ton of stress wondering if I was going to have to wait 6 months to a year to get paid like some folks have. I've also gotten access to my TSP (.gov 401k) and have started drawing from there as well. Not really any bills here so just living the dream really. I may stop taking that TSP, as I don't know that I really need it. Though... that's the switch I need to turn off in my head right? What did I save all this for if not to eventually use it? I guess that's one of the big things with retirees, being able to switch from save mode, to spend mode. Anyway... living life. How you folks been?

And... can we do what was proposed and everyone agreed too? You drop only the amount of players you have picks for. IE you only have 3 draft picks, you only need to drop 27.

When do we vote on these?

Wait... I thought this was my line?

Man yesterday looked great for awhile. Looked again after the market closed... boooo.... Retirement account is down quite a bit, but I'm just going to ride through this one. I've focked up trying to time the bottom before.

Sounds like it went as well as it could Jerry. Glad you updated.