Geeeene.
Sassy!

I think that was the biggest cigar I've ever smoked. 7x60. Wasn't great, but had a good story. Watched the hobbit in the garage.

I buckled and ordered a play one for home. Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D Printer to play around with. Nothing big. It can do about 6" X,Y,Z with 4 color/different filaments.

The competition was a Prusa or a Bambu. Prusa has been around for a while. It's open source and has a large following. Bambu is rather new and took what Prusa and the community has developed. They took both the hardware and software "best of" stuff and packaged it their own machines and software

Downside it they are new and it's not open source.

Upside is they picked the best of what Prusa and the community developed and made a plug and play system.

A common comparison is Apple's business model. If you buy and iPhone, you are kinda stuck in the Apple ecosystem (phone, Mac, iPad, iPods, Apple ear thingies).

I'm all for open source but Prusa sat on their heals. Bambu took that and ran with it to create their own ecosystem. In my opinion Prusa needs to play catch up on what Bambu has developed

Happy Thursday fellas

7 minutes early but I'm going to bed. It's tomorrow on the east coast.

😎 Dudes...

Morning folks. It's a 45/61 clear day and a big 'ol Wolf full moon lighting my morning walk.

64 degree dog walk was a nice change of pace. Got 33 zone minutes yesterday on the walk and at the gym. Got 41 today, just walking. 🤔

Seems the ticker likes it better when I really put it to work. I dunno... but the BP and HR are good... so fuggit.

Might be the 2 glasses of bourbon I had yesterday, too. 😰

Morning 500 peoples.........8-[

Coupon for oil change $70 at the dealer. Only $10-20 and an hour of my time driving/sitting and staying clean n dry vs doing it myself and getting wet and dirty. They can do it.

I was planning to do it myself today but woke up to an email from them with the coupon. Changed my air filter and cabin filter this morning, I do those every January on my cars. Wrote the date in paint marker on the edges of both filters. Can't wait to see if they try to upsell the filters. Ram dealer did that, told me the filters were dirty and needed to be changed. I told them to show me the filters. They did not come back to the waiting room with the filters. I've never been in the Honda service department so not sure if they're gonna be scummy fvcks like the Ram people.

Already above freezing.

Friend of mine uncelebrating a 60th birthday, having a chat this morning.

Will get the ice chipper and shovel back out to do some more Arctic Edging.

Also on the agenda, a phone call to an insurance company. The last one was good. Hoping for two straight.

Random calls..?? 😕

Just about done with taxes. Waiting on a W2 from Gridlife. They used ADP to pay me, but there's no paystub or anything in that ADP account. Hopefully I get it in the mail. Also not sure if I'm going to have to file for every state I worked in or if it's just going to be for Illinois since that's where they're based out of. I did have to fill in tax forms for them in CA but not MI, WI, OH, or KY.

My taxes are going to be extremely simple. W-2's for Navy pension and CalPers pension + bank interest income on my accounts. That's literally all I have that's taxable. Didn't pull any money out of our 457/401's.

Paid very little in taxes, so if I get anything back it won't be but a couple hundred bucks.

Good Thursday Morning, Almost Noon, To all!

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Won an auction at the other place on some T52 coronets half price. $65

I forgot that place collects indiana tobacco tax. $25

Final price with shipping = full price. ](*,)

Thank god I got outbid on one of the 2 lots.

Ring camera just got my wife saying "what the hell" in a disapproving tone as she took in a package of cigars that ups just dropped off. She gonna give me an earful when I get home.

Welcome to the club danm.#-o

LOL 😂

When I was working, I used our shop’s address for all my cigar activities but I’mma guessing that’s not a real option for you.

Wanted to see if their refrigerator was running.

Wife and I keep our finances apart. One account for mutual bills in which we both contribute. Works for us.

She wants a sweater, she pays for it. I want cigars, I buy them.

It’s not that hard.