Lazy, lazy day. 81F with off and on showers for the next 36 hours.

Wife and I didn't wake up until after 11am, then laid around in bed for a while before getting up for the day. Ended up jumping in the pool while she swam laps, but no exercise for me until my ribs and chest are healed.

Scheduled for elbow surgery Friday [ram27bat] to correct the numbness in my pinkie and ring-finger. If it works, I am not a mandatory candidate for more neck surgery. 🙏

Anyhow, hope you are all doing well and relaxing this evening.

Anyone going to watch the NBA Finals?

He just completed his sophomore year. Finance major, going to minor in Economics.
He’s going after the Econ because he finds it fun. Fun. He’s an odd duck.

Exactly the same as my son! He's a data/analysis machine as a result of his education. He can do finance numbers and formulas in his head (finance)- while also being able to analyze monetary and non-non-monetary trade-offs (economics). All from his education.

Get your kid a respectable MBA and he will be in very, very high demand, if he won't already be just with his undergrad degree. My kid has an amazing finance management job right now (24 years old- only finance person) for a huge, 150 employee, business that grosses and spends like almost $20 million per year.

My son's best friend who did a 4-year finance degree at FSU with him works for IBM in Manhattan, and has been given raises to $120k after just two years out of undergrad.

Their key was belonging to the business fraternities and business school associations, attending speakers outside of class (to see if the industry is attractive- and sometimes to ask for a job, and going well prepared (and properly dressed) to every single recruiting event.

What school is he at?

Welcome back to Monday y'all.

Mornin' dudes.

Need coffee.

I need to lose some... 😟

Made it home from Michigan without a tow truck.

Washed the truck, mowed the lawn and was asleep before the sun went down.

Gonna try to get back to work on the patio. My whole body hurts from Gridlife festival buildout/teardown dunno how much I'll be able to do.

Happy Monday!

My own DDay 30 years ago today...](*,)

Congrats I think? Happy Monday, all

What's up?
Got a doc appointment for my ribs today. I'd say I am 80-85% improved, but still using the Rx lidocaine patches on my chest and ribs most of the time. Some errands to run too and a podcast at 11am.
Hope everyone has a great day!

Good Monday Morning! It's 74° on the way to 90° today. It's great to be back home after a week of visiting Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore, with stops in Deadwood, SD, Sturgis, SD, Cody, WY, we stayed at the Irma Hotel and the Big Horn Mountains.

Flying has not gotten any better.

The start of the trip was one big rushing cluster. Our flight started in Augusta, GA, flying to Atlanta, and then Salt Lake. We never flew out of Augusta. Three broke-ass planes caused us to miss our connection in Atlanta, and the second rescheduled connection to DC, then to Slat Lake.

The closest was got was getting on a plane, taxing around, and returning to the terminal with error codes that could not be fixed on the spot. Mechanics to fix the other planes with bad brakes were dispatched by car from Atlanta! There are plenty of high-end aircraft maintenance people in the area that maintain the Master Club member's jets, but Delta had to cheap out and not even fly them from Atlanta. That said, all the Delta personnel we came in contact with were very good and tried their best to get us to our destination.

There was a flight from Charlotte, NC, but it was 2.5+ hours away so a 90+ mph Bonzi run to Charlotte to catch a direct flight to Salt Lake. Our Chevy Traverse hauling six of us plus luggage did good getting us there, but I had to use valet parking at $35/day to barely make the flight in time. My wife was watching the Waze app for the popo. At one point she told me I was going over 90 mph, I just replied, "Do you want to make the flight or not?" From Salt Lake airport it was a 7 hour bus ride to Jackson, WY. We got to bed at 0430.


The rest of the trip was fantastic.

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Monday morning peeps. Up and out early to beat the sun. Phone says I did 5.8 miles in 76 minutes but I don't trust it. Back home by 6:40 and pool maintenance completed. Now on to the gym and a stop at my shpo before lunch.
I see floating in the pool in my future.

Ohhhh, boy. Our 33rd is on the 16th. Geeeeze.

Don't talk to me about pool maintenance. I am still not fully opened up for the summer due to my ribs. Pool looks like chit a couple few corners and I need go change out the filter and clean the salt/chlorine generator for the season. Just don't want to have to pay someone to do it, but just might have to this year...

Looks like to pool at my apt complex is open. Cover is off and the water is clear, all the deck chairs and tables and stuff are out. Haven't seen anyone in it yet. They were having a tough time finding lifeguards. The local schools are out for the summer or will be out this coming week so maybe they found some kids to fill the positions.

I think Ram is the lifeguard at his pool... 😟

He probably has a nice water park too, complete with a slip & slide and a few sprinklers. That's what I ran with in my backyard when the kids were toddlers. Squirt some dish soap, body soap, or kids bath soap on the slip and slide to get some nice slippery slides.

It's fun and you get a bath at the same time.

Be sure to clean up the dog turds in the back yard before deploying the slip and slide though.

Sounds like good advice... 😟

Fried chikens.. chips.. 😁

I’m making pho in a bit for lunch. Need to get the broth going soon.