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Discussion in 'General' started by motion, Jul 22, 2022.

  1. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    I'm not quite there. I drive a well maintained 2003 F150 (115k miles) when I'm not in the company truck. My wife has a 2019 4runner with maybe 50k on the odometer.

    I will not hesitate to pay up for quality durable goods, and we live in a pretty decent house on 5 acres in the DFW exurbs.

    But we don't buy designer clothes, and we don't go to restaurants very often, and never to really spendy places. Whether I eat a wagyu ribeye or a peanut butter and banana sammich, it's going to be a turd the next day.

    Retirement is going to be an interesting adjustment. I'm going to try to loosen up the pursestrings, but I know that it is going to be a challenge.
     
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  2. Boman Forklift

    Boman Forklift Well-Known Member

    How soon are you retiring? Loosening the purse strings, I got a Boxster for ya!!!!!

    In that other thread, you never did tell my why Lubbock is better than Amarillo? I just googled the city sizes, you racist:D.....there are more crackers in Lubbock.
     
  3. Sweatypants

    Sweatypants I am so smart! S-M-R-T... I mean S-M-A-R-T!

    Went to a Moorish castle...

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    Looking at Google Maps I realized I was literally 15 minutes away from Estoril so wtf...

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    Missed WSBK by one week godamnit. I didn't even think about that like 4 months ago when planning this trip, probably should have planned a little better. Next time...
     
  4. eggfooyoung

    eggfooyoung You no eat more!

    So let me get this straight, you went to Europe and didn't cross-reference the MotoGP, WSBK or F1 calendars?

    Boy, you dumb! :crackup:
     
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  5. younglion

    younglion Well-Known Member

    Sunset in Nuevo Vallarta last night. IMG_4157.jpeg
     
  6. onesixsix

    onesixsix Mmm... trash!

    The ONLY reason to ever stop in Amarillo is to eat at https://itsapunjabiaffair.square.site/. Otherwise, keep driving...
     
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  7. Sweatypants

    Sweatypants I am so smart! S-M-R-T... I mean S-M-A-R-T!

    Nope hahaha. I would never care about going to F1 either way and I knew GP didn't go there any more, WSBK slipped my mind though as well as Estoril as a whole. We didn't go down near Portimao and I knew that one was a done deal anyways. I had too much going on this Summer, my wife wanted to go to Portugal, so I picked a week on the calendar that seemed like it would fit between a bunch of other shit, she did the general planning on this one. I was thinking about all the rest of my schedule, not planning a trip where I could maybe catch some bikes. Scoffed at myself on the day as i randomly decided to check the WSBK calendar. There was another dude there also just stopping to look at the track randomly on HIS vacation with his wife too while i was there. We lol'd to each other. I told my wife that next Europe trip I'd check ahead and we could do a day at the track, she's down for any of it, this one was all on me.
     
  8. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

  9. Robin172

    Robin172 Well-Known Member

    One of the first things I did when planning our trip to Portugal this year was to check if anything was happening while we were there. Unfortunately nothing was. Maybe next time.
     
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  10. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    Retirement is really too fuzzy of a concept to put a date on. I have multiple for profit hobbies, and let's be honest, driving around playing with dogs 30 hours a week ain't exactly what you would call a real job. I have more thoughts on this, but I just got home, and I have about 800 pounds of scrap metal in the back of the Ford to run to the scrapyard. :crackup::crackup::crackup:
     
  11. Sweatypants

    Sweatypants I am so smart! S-M-R-T... I mean S-M-A-R-T!

    to be honest, i've had quite a heavy year in some time comparatively to what i'd say was my normal. i had an awesome time on the trip, but my mind and heart wasn't in it all the way up until actually getting on the plane, so i ignored 90% of the planning and ooo'ing and ahh'ing at shit. i was in a zone of like, "do whatever you want, you figure it out, and i'm down for whatever, just tell me when to book something" rather than enjoying the planning process and such. Portugal was a place i wanted to see, but didn't really have a super passion for like "we have to do this, and this, and this" so i just let my lady map out the itinerary, then i helped her find cool hotels in each city, and then i blinked and i was in Portugal haha.
     
  12. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    My truck squat-o-meter is spot on.

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  13. pickled egg

    pickled egg There is no “try”

    Happy Halloween, mother truckers…
     

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  14. Bugslayer

    Bugslayer Well-Known Member

    Same to you.
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    Baja car doing Baja things.
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  15. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    So, more about how we landed on Lubbock.

    We were set on staying in Texas. We wanted to be in a city, with ready, quick access to medical services. That narrows it down to Amarillo, Austin, DFW, El Paso, Houston, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, and San Antonio. You might be tempted to keep places like Tyler, Abilene, and Wichita Falls in there, but we wanted actual CITIES, with good-size hospitals.

    We've lived in DFW forever, and it has become just too pricey. Same with Austin. Houston and El Paso were just hard NO off the bat. Midland is too oil&gas boom/bust. Odessa is a dirty, blue collar version of Midland. I lived all around the Amarillo area growing up and it just didn't draw me back at all. I confess we didn't give San Antonio a fair shake, not sure why.

    Lubbock, has a yuuuuuuge, world class hospital/medical complex. There's a Prominent University there. A national airport which can get you to Dallas toot-sweet to fly anywhere on the planet if that's what you need to do. I27 is being expanded through the ports to plains initiative, and Lubbock is the rail hub of north TX. I am just waiting for some tech giant to scoop up Reese Technology Center for onshore tech manufacturing. (I'm talking to you, Elon)

    So. That's how that choice was made.
     
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  16. Boman Forklift

    Boman Forklift Well-Known Member

    So, in other words, had you grown up all around Lubbock, Amarillo would have been the choice? :p
     
  17. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    Hey, I'm logically illogical. :D

    Doubt it, though, what with the medical community in Lubbock.

    Side note, I drove through Lewisville/Flower Mound yesterday for the first time in about 10 years. I didn't recognize the place! So much growth.
     
  18. Dan Dubeau

    Dan Dubeau Well-Known Member

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    About 120' up, 60' out. First time in a lift for work. Somewhere in the background is my house.

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    Looking west towards Toronto on Lake Ontario.
     
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  19. Boman Forklift

    Boman Forklift Well-Known Member

    That is so true. When I go visit Dominique, I still haven’t figured out if I can get to DFW airport the way I used to. The roads have been widened and changed so much.

    To me it’s really crazy to think the first house I ever bought in Flower Mound is only 3-4 miles away from the first house my daughter bought. She was initially looking near uptown Dallas, Knox/Henderson where she had been renting. Also looked out to Frisco, Prosper, Celina, Anna etc. At the time she got her place for 300k and I think the minimum in Knox/henderson was 400k and the schools weren’t as good out there?

    However, she told me the Knox/Henderson area has appreciated much more, which probably would have screwed her since it would have been a big stretch to spend 100k more and then to have taxes shoot way up in the following years, would have been too much for her budget.
     
  20. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    Our place is currently appraised at double what we paid for it 4 years ago. Just this past Wednesday evening I had a conversation with one of the multitude of cold callers looking to buy it. He's the first one that didn't immediately balk at our "buy it now" price of 3x appraisal.

    The 380 bypass being moved to basically my front yard is going to end up being the best thing that could have happened. This isn't going to be the quiet country estate that we envisioned, but it IS gonna be a helluva payday.

    My house is at the red arrow.

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