I’m 6 years sober this month

Thanks for the reminder

I think it’s something like they but the car for $20k from the factory, it sells for $35k new, but instead they let it sit and sell it as used for $25k. I think they get some sort of refund or something from the manufacturer if the new car doesn’t sell within x days or something like that.

The way it was explained to me in they’re making almost nothing on each sale, but they’re the only place in the area that can get decent cars in right now so enough people are coming in and doing this where it makes sense to keep it up.

Sadly I thought this was the US and was genuinely shocked that they received any kind of punishment, even an arrest. I came to the comments to look for the “they’ve been released and charges dropped” comment.

I have never just clicked around in a gui unless its me testing something I’m building. I would suggest finding some better tutorials.

Today I added a few features and fixed a couple bugs.

We have a screen where users can basically click through a list of contacts to send out emails. The list is system generated, and sometimes users want the email to go out to other contacts not on the list. So I added a section to the screen with a typeahead input box to search through all the companies in our system. Once the user selects the company it has to be broken down by branch (region) so I had to build out a small api for getting the company branches and filtering by some criteria to see if they’re even eligible to receive these types of email, so with that data returned I generated a drop down to select the branch, from there another api call to generate a list of checkboxes for each contact at the selected branch. Then I had to build out a mysql table to store the additional contacts to email and work that logic into the code that sends out those types of emails.

Right there you have perl, mysql, html, CSS and JS.

Another thing that everyone’s gonna lose it for when it goes live but took me no more than an hour. A lot of our accounting pages are historical reports, there’s only a few that are updated in realtime, and almost all of them were super slow to load because of all the heavy calculations. I added a couple tables and a cron job to run daily and populate them. So now instead of doing calculations on the fly those pages just pull the data from the db and load instantly.

My brother in law works at a pretty big dealership in the area. He said the markets so stupid right now that they’re buying new cars from wholesalers and holding them for 30 days so they can sell them as used. Somehow this has been incredibly profitable for them. I don’t really understand how but it apparently works out that the customer gets a hefty discount on an essentially new car without the manufacturer warranties and the volume is big enough to where the dealership is hitting record numbers.

None of it makes sense.

My deductible is something like $2,500 per person, $13,000 for the family deductible. Once we reach our deductibles we have the joy of coinsurance kicking in where insurance will pay for 50% and we pay the rest. I took a trip to the ER earlier this year for chest pains. They took a chest xray and had me on an EKG for an hour. I got a separate bill for each little thing they did from like 5 different companies (???) Totaling ~$4,000.

A few years ago when I went to actually use the GPU in my laptop I realized I never installed the drivers. I think it was a 3050 or something pretty low end.

It took maybe 20 minutes, most of that time was waiting for things to install. I’ve heard the horror stories so I wasn’t excepting it to work and was ready to give up at the first sign on resistance but there really wasn’t any. That was on Fedora, a bit later I switched to Debian and I remember running into an issue getting it to work but it was small enough that I don’t remember what the issue was.

I’m moving soon from a small town with nothing but a Circle K on the main road where last year 6 people died trying to cross the street, to a pretty big town with a bustling downtown and sidewalks the whole way to my new house ~2.5 miles away.

I’ll be a 5-10 minute walk from a shopping center with a grocery store, a sports complex, a public library and a lot more.

I’m absolutely stoked. I grew up in the city and the sort of strandedness the last few years has really affected my mental health.

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Socks at all times. The plain black ones that end right above the ankle and I change them about 3 times a day even if I’ve spent all day sitting at my desk.

fuck this guy

Very cool. Godspeed to the real heros.

So I was telling my wife about this weird daycare and she suggested it was probably preschool. I thought about it for a bit but I remember preschool fairly well. It wasn’t like a real school, it was some rinky dink Catholic school thing at the church my grandma went too and I think they rotated teachers and my great aunt was one of them.

I do remember there was a billboard outside or very close to the daycare with a dog dressed like Peter pan or something of the sorts.

This place haunts me for some reason…

Okay so this isn’t internet related but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately so I’m sharing.

I vividally remember going to a daycare as a young kid. I don’t remember much of the activities and playing, but I remember the nap room like it was yesterday. There was a mean old lady who was in charge of watching the kids nap, everyone had to nap at the same time and the other daycare staff would go out to lunch or something. Most of the kids had sleeping bags and stuffed animals, some had foam houses where they would sleep in. It was just a room with those gym mats on the floor, I remember just having a thin throw blanket so one of the kids who had a foam house would share his stuff with me.

I remember it so well because the old lady was cruel, she wouldn’t let kids go to the bathroom, I guess because she had to stay there and we couldn’t wander to the bathroom alone. Everyday there would be kids who peed themselves and it just got chalked up to kids wetting the bed.

Looking back on it was so weird. The issue, I asked my mom about it a few years back and she said I never went to daycare, we were always dirt poor and no way could she afford it, but she was also heavy on drugs at the time and there’s a lot of stuff she doesn’t remember. But I don’t see how I would’ve been in daycare, or why, she hasn’t worked since I was born, in that time period we were in and out of shelters or staying with her friends… I don’t know but I remember it and stand by it with my whole heart.

Daniel Tiger is another good one. It’s pretty slow with very easy to follow lessons in each episode.

Usually charger brick or just brick

Im in the process of buying my second house, much bigger on a nice chunk of land. I make good money nowadays but we absolutely 100% would not be able to afford anything at all if we didn’t already own a house to sell. We bought it for $100k in 2021 from a grumpy old guy who wouldn’t leave during showings and scared everyone off. Thankfully I grew up around grumpy old guys and he liked us enough.

We’re now selling that house for $230k, granted I also entirely rebuilt it the last 4 years and I think we could get more but I like the people buying it. We got lucky all the way through.

My son once took all the cards our of my wallet and put them in the printer/scanner that we never use. I only found out 2 years later when I finally went to print something and there was a jam, opened the scanner lid to get inside and boom.

Could be there.

I always wanted to have a farm and be well off enough that I could take a good portion of the yield and just give it out in my old neighborhood.

Kids there are starving, most of them have never seen an eggplant, it’s cheap ultraprocessed food or half moldy apples from the food banks.

I know there’s a lot of other stuff too, but I think food education is pretty important, most of the adults I knew didn’t know how to cook resulting in everyone eating worse for more money, thinking they couldn’t afford to eat any healthier.

Although at this point my old neighborhood has been gentrified and filled with $3000/m studio apartments. I’d probably also buy out the neighborhood and give it back to everyone who lived there 10 years ago.