OK, no reason for posting this other than it had my wife and me almost 'in tears', and I thought perhaps a few folks here might at least get a grin out of it, though I know not everyone shares my sense of humor.
A 'bonus' posted at the end of JVL's Triad over at The B today...
(Note: I used to enjoy stopping at a particular Waffle House down in Ohio for a cup of joe and maybe a bite to eat pretty regularly on my trips back and forth to KY years ago. Haven't been for quite a while. Might just have to make it a point to make the drive again soon, since part of the charm was the 'people watching' I engaged in during my usually 'late night' visits, though admittedly it never was quite as entertaining as this.)
Also, we have snow flurries, but, it isn't really as cold as it has been, and I hate the darker mornings and my circadian rhythm is already off...lol...and I spent 10 minutes trying to fix the clock in my car...lol
Happy Monday ( Today is National Nap Day, ...I wish)
I woke up with a new pain that could be bad news...sigh....Motrin is working for now
I hate economics...ok, I don't actually hate it, I just find it boring ( I took the intro to it in college, that was enough...lol), and I can hear the gasps now from many on this tread...I could care less about money and finances at that level...money is just a tool I have to have to pay my bills and entertain myself. I wish it didn't exist , but it does, and I am not too attached to what money I have. it has come and gone several times in my life, and I survived...and I was taught not to worship it, that there were more important things in life. This is one of the two major areas where I do not lean to the right on.
Your example does sound clearer than most.
I love Scott for instance as a person, but, I often don't understand a dang thing he is saying, and I don't care enough to work that hard...lol...sometimes I don't even understand the charts...lol
I haven't had much control over how the economy is going my whole life, I don't expect that to change any time soon, if at all, I just focus on surviving when bad things happen
I read in the WSJ that Signature bank failed as well. I'm not surprised, they focused on diversity, not a diverse portfolio. But the outcome was not in doubt when they put on their board a purple dinosaur named Barney, Frank I tell you the outcome was not in doubt.
Warning: Sportball reference! (Viewer discretion is advised).
My youngest son Carson is a high school senior. He was varsity soccer and basketball. The OHSAA basketball tournament has one week left (state finals), but Carson's team was eliminated early. All the teams in our conference, and in our area have all been knocked out.
A week ago Carson was in the dog house. He let us know Sunday, rather casually, that he had been selected for the annual all-conference all-star game (he won some minor awards as well), on Monday night. I teach two courses Monday nights, and Katie works 8am-7pm on Mondays. The game was being held 35 minutes from where we individually work. I scrambled to make teaching arrangements, notifying the class, who were gracious for letting me put them in team work groups for an upcoming assignment, rather than hearing me lecture, or doing in class exercises.
I got there 2 minutes before they announced the starting lineups. Katie missed the first 4 minutes of the game, but got there before Carson entered the game. My prayers for the game was that there would be no injuries for either side, they'd have fun, and that Carson would make his last shot. The last one sounds silly, but when we would shoot at home, we always 'ended on a make'. Where soccer had been wonderful, the basketball team underperformed expectations, so my prayers were that the all-star game would let him end his basketball career on a better note.
Being on an all-star team, everyone wants to shoot! There was not much passing, other than from Carson. He took three shots, all 3 pointers. He hit the first, and missed the second. Mostly he passed the ball to his teammates, tossing some nice assists, including a lob for a dunk, and (showing off) a no-look pass for a layup. Watching him on the bench, he laughed and joked the entire time. Whenever his teammates hit a three he celebrated with the 3-pointer gesture. Some of these were kids he's battled on the court for 9 years, but tonight they were all friends, all teammates.
With just under a minute left, the score 83-86 (yeah, defense was not a priority tonight), Carson snagged a rebound, and passed it up court to a teammate. That kid was a shooter, so he'd probably pull up. But the other team went for the steal, so the player flipped the ball back to Carson. He crossed midcourt, still in the mid court logo when a smile broke out. The other team "knew" he'd pass, since he had done so all night, so they sagged off a step. With a hard pound he hit his last dribble, bringing the ball up quickly for a shot, the opposing team closing on him, but a half step too late. He flicked his wrist, full extension, perfect form. He released a rainbow that hung in the air, before barely swishing the net cords for the tying basket. Carson had landed and already was back-pedaling to get back on defense before it went through. Everyone on both benches cheered, his teammates all high fived him. The look of joy on his face, I felt good for him.
The game ended in a tie (it is an all-star game), so Carson hit the last shot 25 seniors would ever take together (only 2 appear they will play in college). My prayer was answered; Carson ended on a make.
Wonderful story and beautifully told. "End on a make" is, I think, a universal law. The corollary is that you have to know when to walk away. Kim's grandson was taking shots in the driveway and I went out and put up my hands to signal for a pass. I took one shot, made it and backed away. He passed me the ball again, the "make it take it" courtesy, but I passed it back and told him to practice. You see, I explained, I had made 100% of my shots so he needed to practice. Best part is that this whole scene repeated itself weeks later and the funny part is that I was not a baller when I was younger. But, being 60 years his senior, I knew when to quit. Yours is a wonderful story, Now go find a hoop and play him, for you can't lose. If you win, you will have long-lasting bragging rights. If he wins, he beat his father. So?
I’m not into sports at all, but that was wonderful! You remind me of how good some of those sportscasters are on TV/radio. They can even manage to get me a little excited. Congratulations to Carson!!
Reading about the Florida education laws: How about a different approach: Demonstrate you can teach reading and math effectively and then we'll talk.
Pithy but not realistic and not even desirable - you have to have something read, write and cypher about. Art, science, social studies all work well for that.
I saw that, too. I only read the first visible page, so my guess as to what was said overall, is definitely a “guess.” I didn’t read any of them very carefully, but even skimming, it was pretty easy to figure out.
The ones I just read had a few of those, but , also some refuting it, it was pretty civil compared to what NYT"s comments used to be, it has toned down a lot, lots of disagreeing , but less ad hominem attacks...
Thanks for this, Phil. I always enjoyed reading French when he was at The Dispatch. Good head on his shoulders, and a pretty reasonable guy in my book. Don't subscribe to NYT, so I probably wouldn't have seen - or been able to read this if I had - if not linked from a NYT subscriber. Think he was dead-on about the bedrock civil liberties thing.
This monkey-see-monkey-do legislative culture war crap is bad for every single one of us as individuals and for the country as a whole.
The downside was reading the responses. There were a couple that were good, but mostly it seems like people just want to go with whatever *their side* supports. That was depressing.
I honestly find myself wondering if David is going to last there.
He'll be ok, other right leaning writers have gotten much worse in the past... I read both opinions on it...some of the comments just now, some say that, others don't and it was pretty civil focusing on disagreeing with David rather than attacking each other...it is much better than it used to be.
David is probably lasting as long as he has at NYT because he is willing to call out conservatives (and the evil twin of conservatives, the MAGA Right). The David French who wrote conservative articles for NR and who was asked to run for President in 2016 as a conservative alternative, would not have lasted at all.
So, how long do you give him? The people commenting seemed to be about 80% negative (and that might be generous), but I didn’t look ant all of them. What amazes me is just how differently people see things. No matter how badly their own side behaves or performs, the other side is worse.
Based on Kevin Williamson's experience at The Atlantic, my guess is that David will last unless/until someone unearths a quote of his (or he slips and makes such a quote) that angers the "woke" mob at NYT.
I am seeing less and less of the woke mob there since the latest dust up at the Times, I stopped subscribing due to their behavior, and some have left and others have toned it down a lot
Baby capybaras! It is interesting that, according to the keeper, males aren't involved with their offspring in the wild, but the father in the Gladys Porter Zoo is participating with the pups, helping them learn to swim, etc.
Good morning. Matt Levine has a similar outlook as applies to mark-to-market issues, but he points out that SVB had a unique problem---most of its depositors (start-ups) had no need for loans, since they had gotten piles of cash from investors. So SVB went long on long T's. But when the economy slowed, the start-up needed their money at the exact wrong time for SVB. Ruh-roh. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine?.
Sad to say, a friend and former neighbor was General Counsel of SVB. He had been at Citibank during the 2008-9 financial crisis and was widely credited with doing a an excellent job working through that crisis.
I expect the General Counsel of SVB will have plenty to do in the coming months.
The people involved in this situation knew what they were doing: taking risks on the assumption that they'd get good outcomes rather than bad ones. Oh well. Someone - David Bahnsen, Thomas Sowell, P.J. O'Rourke - has explained the pernicious practice of privatizing gains and socializing losses. I hope Janet Yellen's "no bailout" from yesterday hasn't flipped by this morning.
From one old lady with a good haircut to another, Secretary Yellen, here's your line: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Then smile and offer the poor dears a hot beverage.
If you had more money in the bank than the FDIC coverage limit, you chose to take that risk. However, I expect #Empathy will prevail, and the taxpayers will save the depositors from upset.
Sadly, she already announced it would. Oh, they won’t wanna call it a bail out, but the Fed has plenty of ways of doing bailouts without calling them that.
The tell will be depositors who placed more than $250k with the bank. If they are made whole then a bailout occurred. I have read Depositors what to expect a 20% loss on their deposits. Everything above that will be the Fed bailing them out.
One way the fed can do this is by buying securities from the bank at full price, not market price.
I’ll believe Yellen when I see how the Fed does transactions.
Kling points out this morning that Yellen already approved a depositor bailout—FDIC will cover everyone’s deposits ignoring the statutory upper bounds.
I wonder if actions like these will leave gov open to law suit in the future, when they don't step up and go beyond the $250k. I can imagine the arguing attorneys pointing to precedents.
It wasn't the depositors who played the stupid games. And Yellen also said that neither management, shareholders nor bondholders will be protected. That seems right.
Gonna disagree a bit. Many of the depositors were start-ups and the knock-on effects of not protecting their deposits would mean the inability to make payroll (that was already happening this weekend) meaning that their workers would be out of jobs. I'm sympathetic to them, though not to the shareholders, bondholders or management.
Excellent article, Cynthia. The part about keeping low interest rates reminds me of what happened to the housing market. And what a mess that ended up being.
😂 I see some light snow right now, and we have a fair amount on the ground. Yesterday, it was a sloppy mess, and I believe we’re getting more snow and rain this week. Yuck.
Heh. I don't know what it's like outside yet, except that Jake said it's cold, which I knew because it's cold inside.
I feel for the young people on the street corners in the dark this morning, with all the drivers who are running late, speeding and blowing through stop signs even more than usual. What happened to "if it saves one life ...," huh? Why do we have to do this idiotic futzing with the clock?
And the solution they seem to want is to make DST permanent, rather than making Standard permanent. I have no opinion, but I am firmly in the Anti-Futzing camp.
Wait a minute. When I recently suggested we split the diff on DST and Standard, you wanted to do 22 minutes or something, since your middle name is Havoc. If that's not some industrial strength Futzing, I'm not sure what is.
Well yeah, I think we've established that. Is Futzing one of your hobbies? If so, do you engage in it while skiing? Or do you just do it as a stand-alone thing? Futzing around on the slopes sounds a little dangerous to me. :-D
In my opinion, if the clock-time was this one all winter long, organizations would change their schedules, at least in parts of the country where it's not completely dark all winter.
OK, no reason for posting this other than it had my wife and me almost 'in tears', and I thought perhaps a few folks here might at least get a grin out of it, though I know not everyone shares my sense of humor.
A 'bonus' posted at the end of JVL's Triad over at The B today...
(Note: I used to enjoy stopping at a particular Waffle House down in Ohio for a cup of joe and maybe a bite to eat pretty regularly on my trips back and forth to KY years ago. Haven't been for quite a while. Might just have to make it a point to make the drive again soon, since part of the charm was the 'people watching' I engaged in during my usually 'late night' visits, though admittedly it never was quite as entertaining as this.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNFqmu2toI
Also, we have snow flurries, but, it isn't really as cold as it has been, and I hate the darker mornings and my circadian rhythm is already off...lol...and I spent 10 minutes trying to fix the clock in my car...lol
Happy Monday ( Today is National Nap Day, ...I wish)
I woke up with a new pain that could be bad news...sigh....Motrin is working for now
I hate economics...ok, I don't actually hate it, I just find it boring ( I took the intro to it in college, that was enough...lol), and I can hear the gasps now from many on this tread...I could care less about money and finances at that level...money is just a tool I have to have to pay my bills and entertain myself. I wish it didn't exist , but it does, and I am not too attached to what money I have. it has come and gone several times in my life, and I survived...and I was taught not to worship it, that there were more important things in life. This is one of the two major areas where I do not lean to the right on.
Your example does sound clearer than most.
I love Scott for instance as a person, but, I often don't understand a dang thing he is saying, and I don't care enough to work that hard...lol...sometimes I don't even understand the charts...lol
I haven't had much control over how the economy is going my whole life, I don't expect that to change any time soon, if at all, I just focus on surviving when bad things happen
An economist who speaks plain English.
So, MG, do you get credit for the discovery of a new species? How 'bout it, Cynthhia? You gonna' do a TSAF on this guy?
Definitely deserves immediate 'protected' status.
I read in the WSJ that Signature bank failed as well. I'm not surprised, they focused on diversity, not a diverse portfolio. But the outcome was not in doubt when they put on their board a purple dinosaur named Barney, Frank I tell you the outcome was not in doubt.
I was going to let this go, but Josh forced my hand. 🚪
I have to hand it to you.
It was a tyrannosaurus wrecks.
That's what I get for letting Jay's near-pun slide. No good deed goes unpunished. 🚪
Warning: Sportball reference! (Viewer discretion is advised).
My youngest son Carson is a high school senior. He was varsity soccer and basketball. The OHSAA basketball tournament has one week left (state finals), but Carson's team was eliminated early. All the teams in our conference, and in our area have all been knocked out.
A week ago Carson was in the dog house. He let us know Sunday, rather casually, that he had been selected for the annual all-conference all-star game (he won some minor awards as well), on Monday night. I teach two courses Monday nights, and Katie works 8am-7pm on Mondays. The game was being held 35 minutes from where we individually work. I scrambled to make teaching arrangements, notifying the class, who were gracious for letting me put them in team work groups for an upcoming assignment, rather than hearing me lecture, or doing in class exercises.
I got there 2 minutes before they announced the starting lineups. Katie missed the first 4 minutes of the game, but got there before Carson entered the game. My prayers for the game was that there would be no injuries for either side, they'd have fun, and that Carson would make his last shot. The last one sounds silly, but when we would shoot at home, we always 'ended on a make'. Where soccer had been wonderful, the basketball team underperformed expectations, so my prayers were that the all-star game would let him end his basketball career on a better note.
Being on an all-star team, everyone wants to shoot! There was not much passing, other than from Carson. He took three shots, all 3 pointers. He hit the first, and missed the second. Mostly he passed the ball to his teammates, tossing some nice assists, including a lob for a dunk, and (showing off) a no-look pass for a layup. Watching him on the bench, he laughed and joked the entire time. Whenever his teammates hit a three he celebrated with the 3-pointer gesture. Some of these were kids he's battled on the court for 9 years, but tonight they were all friends, all teammates.
With just under a minute left, the score 83-86 (yeah, defense was not a priority tonight), Carson snagged a rebound, and passed it up court to a teammate. That kid was a shooter, so he'd probably pull up. But the other team went for the steal, so the player flipped the ball back to Carson. He crossed midcourt, still in the mid court logo when a smile broke out. The other team "knew" he'd pass, since he had done so all night, so they sagged off a step. With a hard pound he hit his last dribble, bringing the ball up quickly for a shot, the opposing team closing on him, but a half step too late. He flicked his wrist, full extension, perfect form. He released a rainbow that hung in the air, before barely swishing the net cords for the tying basket. Carson had landed and already was back-pedaling to get back on defense before it went through. Everyone on both benches cheered, his teammates all high fived him. The look of joy on his face, I felt good for him.
The game ended in a tie (it is an all-star game), so Carson hit the last shot 25 seniors would ever take together (only 2 appear they will play in college). My prayer was answered; Carson ended on a make.
For a moment there—and thanks to mild dyslexia—I thought the federal safety people were running high school kids in basketball on the side.
Wonderful story and beautifully told. "End on a make" is, I think, a universal law. The corollary is that you have to know when to walk away. Kim's grandson was taking shots in the driveway and I went out and put up my hands to signal for a pass. I took one shot, made it and backed away. He passed me the ball again, the "make it take it" courtesy, but I passed it back and told him to practice. You see, I explained, I had made 100% of my shots so he needed to practice. Best part is that this whole scene repeated itself weeks later and the funny part is that I was not a baller when I was younger. But, being 60 years his senior, I knew when to quit. Yours is a wonderful story, Now go find a hoop and play him, for you can't lose. If you win, you will have long-lasting bragging rights. If he wins, he beat his father. So?
That’s awesome!
I’m not into sports at all, but that was wonderful! You remind me of how good some of those sportscasters are on TV/radio. They can even manage to get me a little excited. Congratulations to Carson!!
Jay, what does it tell you that your class was glad to have skipped your lecture? 🙂
Phil might get called for hanging on the rim.
😂 But honestly, something tells me his students probably love him.
Courtesy of John M at the mothership comments section, here is the latest David French column at the NYT: https://tinyurl.com/2p9y6z6z
Title: Don’t Let the Culture War Degrade the Constitution
Reading about the Florida education laws: How about a different approach: Demonstrate you can teach reading and math effectively and then we'll talk.
Pithy but not realistic and not even desirable - you have to have something read, write and cypher about. Art, science, social studies all work well for that.
Done curmudgeoning.
Scanned a few of the comments and seeing a few say “false equivalence” made me stop.
I saw that, too. I only read the first visible page, so my guess as to what was said overall, is definitely a “guess.” I didn’t read any of them very carefully, but even skimming, it was pretty easy to figure out.
The ones I just read had a few of those, but , also some refuting it, it was pretty civil compared to what NYT"s comments used to be, it has toned down a lot, lots of disagreeing , but less ad hominem attacks...
To make clear, any NYT subscriber can generate an unlocked URL for a given story/article. John M is a subscriber. I am not, I just relay the URLs.
It worked for me, thank you.
Well, whoever turned the key, I appreciate you posting it.
Thanks for this, Phil. I always enjoyed reading French when he was at The Dispatch. Good head on his shoulders, and a pretty reasonable guy in my book. Don't subscribe to NYT, so I probably wouldn't have seen - or been able to read this if I had - if not linked from a NYT subscriber. Think he was dead-on about the bedrock civil liberties thing.
This monkey-see-monkey-do legislative culture war crap is bad for every single one of us as individuals and for the country as a whole.
Thank you, Phil.
That was very balanced.
The downside was reading the responses. There were a couple that were good, but mostly it seems like people just want to go with whatever *their side* supports. That was depressing.
I honestly find myself wondering if David is going to last there.
He'll be ok, other right leaning writers have gotten much worse in the past... I read both opinions on it...some of the comments just now, some say that, others don't and it was pretty civil focusing on disagreeing with David rather than attacking each other...it is much better than it used to be.
The whole point of the Constitution's protections was the the Founders knew that people are instinctively tribal and think, "It's good when we do it!"
Yes, but it’s a “living constitution,” and the founders had no idea that they had no idea! 🙄
David is probably lasting as long as he has at NYT because he is willing to call out conservatives (and the evil twin of conservatives, the MAGA Right). The David French who wrote conservative articles for NR and who was asked to run for President in 2016 as a conservative alternative, would not have lasted at all.
The comment section lately has actually improved also...used to be far more nasty, people are disagreeing, but not attacking each other
So, how long do you give him? The people commenting seemed to be about 80% negative (and that might be generous), but I didn’t look ant all of them. What amazes me is just how differently people see things. No matter how badly their own side behaves or performs, the other side is worse.
Based on Kevin Williamson's experience at The Atlantic, my guess is that David will last unless/until someone unearths a quote of his (or he slips and makes such a quote) that angers the "woke" mob at NYT.
I am seeing less and less of the woke mob there since the latest dust up at the Times, I stopped subscribing due to their behavior, and some have left and others have toned it down a lot
Morning all. Good article on the SVB crisis. The mothership also has a good article on it this morning.
It was excellent. I only found out the whole SVB thing on Friday, and my first thought was, “Guess I’ll read about it on Monday.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E28s0g8PGiI
Baby capybaras! It is interesting that, according to the keeper, males aren't involved with their offspring in the wild, but the father in the Gladys Porter Zoo is participating with the pups, helping them learn to swim, etc.
That is cool on all levels
When they’re tired, are they nappy-baras?
That counts as animal cruelty. 🚪
Au contraire: upon hearing my puns, they become clapping-baras.
You're still here? Begone!!
Hisssss!
The hideous light of the 🚪-star!
Good efforts.
Thank you!!! I’m so tired of bad news (even though I want to be informed), and this is the best antidote. 😊
It's hard to go wrong with baby animals.
That is so true. When we were watching the video, I said to my husband, “I want one!”
As feared, drag queen story hour led to the loss of traditional male identity.
😂
Nice! You get a ⭐ !
I like how you use positive reinforcement, too!
I get all too few opportunities, with this crowd.
I know what you mean. 😉
Well played!
Good morning. Matt Levine has a similar outlook as applies to mark-to-market issues, but he points out that SVB had a unique problem---most of its depositors (start-ups) had no need for loans, since they had gotten piles of cash from investors. So SVB went long on long T's. But when the economy slowed, the start-up needed their money at the exact wrong time for SVB. Ruh-roh. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine?.
Sad to say, a friend and former neighbor was General Counsel of SVB. He had been at Citibank during the 2008-9 financial crisis and was widely credited with doing a an excellent job working through that crisis.
I expect the General Counsel of SVB will have plenty to do in the coming months.
The people involved in this situation knew what they were doing: taking risks on the assumption that they'd get good outcomes rather than bad ones. Oh well. Someone - David Bahnsen, Thomas Sowell, P.J. O'Rourke - has explained the pernicious practice of privatizing gains and socializing losses. I hope Janet Yellen's "no bailout" from yesterday hasn't flipped by this morning.
From one old lady with a good haircut to another, Secretary Yellen, here's your line: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Then smile and offer the poor dears a hot beverage.
I am more concerned about the people who had money in the bank and didn't get it back, that would sure upset me personally
If you had more money in the bank than the FDIC coverage limit, you chose to take that risk. However, I expect #Empathy will prevail, and the taxpayers will save the depositors from upset.
Sadly, she already announced it would. Oh, they won’t wanna call it a bail out, but the Fed has plenty of ways of doing bailouts without calling them that.
The tell will be depositors who placed more than $250k with the bank. If they are made whole then a bailout occurred. I have read Depositors what to expect a 20% loss on their deposits. Everything above that will be the Fed bailing them out.
One way the fed can do this is by buying securities from the bank at full price, not market price.
I’ll believe Yellen when I see how the Fed does transactions.
Kling points out this morning that Yellen already approved a depositor bailout—FDIC will cover everyone’s deposits ignoring the statutory upper bounds.
ETA: https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/banking-and-moral-hazard?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=338673&post_id=107988791&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
I wonder if actions like these will leave gov open to law suit in the future, when they don't step up and go beyond the $250k. I can imagine the arguing attorneys pointing to precedents.
Well, crap. I take back the compliment on her haircut.
It wasn't the depositors who played the stupid games. And Yellen also said that neither management, shareholders nor bondholders will be protected. That seems right.
The depositors knew what the FDIC guarantees were, and they had other choices regarding where to make their deposits.
Gonna disagree a bit. Many of the depositors were start-ups and the knock-on effects of not protecting their deposits would mean the inability to make payroll (that was already happening this weekend) meaning that their workers would be out of jobs. I'm sympathetic to them, though not to the shareholders, bondholders or management.
David Bahnsen says something very similar:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/the-real-reason-silicon-valley-bank-collapsed/
And good morning. It's dark and cold here.
Excellent article, Cynthia. The part about keeping low interest rates reminds me of what happened to the housing market. And what a mess that ended up being.
Don't worry, we'll be having another run-though on that one before long.
Morning. We’ve got wet snowflakes—and I don’t just mean the high school kids!
ha ha
So, do we...lol..it doesn't really feel bone chilling cold though at least
Speak for yourself! 😉
I am?...lol
😂 You know I know that!
😁
😂 I see some light snow right now, and we have a fair amount on the ground. Yesterday, it was a sloppy mess, and I believe we’re getting more snow and rain this week. Yuck.
Looking for a big snowfall here. Maybe I should take up skiing...
I hear that's kind of an expensive hobby, especially in the south or the plains states.
The price of the boat adds substantially to the overheads.
Break out another thousand ...
That’s assuming you get something that doesn’t need to be kept at a marina. Kayaking is popular around here.
Yes, the best way to save money on skiing is to not ski.
Cross country skiing is more reasonably priced -- all you need is a climate that snows regularly. No hills or chair lifts required.
Boring. I like snowshoeing better.
Heh. I don't know what it's like outside yet, except that Jake said it's cold, which I knew because it's cold inside.
I feel for the young people on the street corners in the dark this morning, with all the drivers who are running late, speeding and blowing through stop signs even more than usual. What happened to "if it saves one life ...," huh? Why do we have to do this idiotic futzing with the clock?
I completely agree!!!
And the solution they seem to want is to make DST permanent, rather than making Standard permanent. I have no opinion, but I am firmly in the Anti-Futzing camp.
Wait a minute. When I recently suggested we split the diff on DST and Standard, you wanted to do 22 minutes or something, since your middle name is Havoc. If that's not some industrial strength Futzing, I'm not sure what is.
Consistency is NOT my middle name.
Well yeah, I think we've established that. Is Futzing one of your hobbies? If so, do you engage in it while skiing? Or do you just do it as a stand-alone thing? Futzing around on the slopes sounds a little dangerous to me. :-D
In my opinion, if the clock-time was this one all winter long, organizations would change their schedules, at least in parts of the country where it's not completely dark all winter.
That would be acceptable. As a "semi-retiree" I will do a memo to myself and change my schedule.
As a “full retiree,” let me say that waking up at 7:00 was good. And, we’ll probably be into the time by midweek, if not sooner (thanks to the dog).
I've read that skiing in the dark is pretty dangerous.
I expect Son B's "digging holes in parking lots" activity will be oriented toward the daylight hours, too.