Talk about your day thread

[doug rr]

very nice peeps..one day I hope to get one

[Rangi Guy]

built this last night

nice fence!

Nice griddle. I'm a fan of less burners too - 2 burners makes for simple heat/cool zone cooking.

I have gone full on into the charcoal side of life lately, but I can see how versatile that BBQ would be too. I (somehow) have 4 BBQ's right now, do I need another though? Hmmm...

Yup - Charcoal is where it's at. We still have our gas BBQ, but I can't even remember the last time I used it - it's just sitting outisde rusting

[Higgs]

I (somehow) have 4 BBQ's right now, do I need another though? Hmmm...

This is the most Australian thing I've ever read.

Proud of you, shag.

Sitting here waiting for a thick NY Strip to get up to temp so I can sear it after a rest. Using the smallest BBQ I have, the Weber Go Anywhere.

That's one of the things I love about charcoal is the constant wait times. Gotta light the coals - that's a beer. Coals in, gotta get the BBQ to temp - another beer. Then cooking itself is however many beers it takes. I love coals.

But that griddle seriously has me thinking. Super versatile, never cook break inside again, perfect for random snack ham and cheese toasties. I am tempted, I tell ya. But I think the wife might kill me. We have our 25th wedding anniversary in 3 weeks - I probably have other things I should be buying...

[Bi_3]

I (somehow) have 4 BBQ's right now, do I need another though? Hmmm...

This is the most Australian thing I've ever read.

Proud of you, shag.

Sitting here waiting for a thick NY Strip to get up to temp so I can sear it after a rest. Using the smallest BBQ I have, the Weber Go Anywhere.

That's one of the things I love about charcoal is the constant wait times. Gotta light the coals - that's a beer. Coals in, gotta get the BBQ to temp - another beer. Then cooking itself is however many beers it takes. I love coals.

But that griddle seriously has me thinking. Super versatile, never cook break inside again, perfect for random snack ham and cheese toasties. I am tempted, I tell ya. But I think the wife might kill me. We have our 25th wedding anniversary in 3 weeks - I probably have other things I should be buying...

Get a pink one.

[Higgs]

Brilliant! A loophole!

[The Argonaut]

Got a pension buyout offer from my old employer. Not great, only covers about 4 years worth and would be subject to tax, but I am considering it. It's not guaranteed the pension fund will even existing when I hit the retirement age so better a bird in the hand?

Difficult conundrum. Someone give this bottom-paged poster some advice

[Chris_H_2]

Got a pension buyout offer from my old employer. Not great, only covers about 4 years worth and would be subject to tax, but I am considering it. It's not guaranteed the pension fund will even existing when I hit the retirement age so better a bird in the hand?

Difficult conundrum. Someone give this bottom-paged poster some advice

he definitely came to the right place

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Got a pension buyout offer from my old employer. Not great, only covers about 4 years worth and would be subject to tax, but I am considering it. It's not guaranteed the pension fund will even existing when I hit the retirement age so better a bird in the hand?

Difficult conundrum. Someone give this bottom-paged poster some advice

he definitely came to the right place

[Bi_3]

-How is the pension structured (%private equity, real estate, public markets, etc). If you can’t find this info, DM me the name of the pension and I can probably get it through a database I have access to

-What’s the target growth rate of the fund managers?

-What’s the current value?

-When are payments supposed to kick in for you? Would it keep growing once those payments begin, or is it effectively moved over to a separate non-interest bearing account?

-Is there any way you could have a financial planner roll this over to another account to avoid taxes?

I think this is what I'll ultimately do as it appears it can roll into an IRA without paying taxes right now.

[Peeps]

-How is the pension structured (%private equity, real estate, public markets, etc). If you can’t find this info, DM me the name of the pension and I can probably get it through a database I have access to

-What’s the target growth rate of the fund managers?

-What’s the current value?

-When are payments supposed to kick in for you? Would it keep growing once those payments begin, or is it effectively moved over to a separate non-interest bearing account?

-Is there any way you could have a financial planner roll this over to another account to avoid taxes?

I think this is what I'll ultimately do as it appears it can roll into an IRA without paying taxes right now.

it may stink to consider what you can do with the money now but it will pay off when you get it later.

ive taken to a budget and dumping as much as i can into my 401. these next 15-18 years are going to sneak up on me and i need to be prepared

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Chris_H_2]

-How is the pension structured (%private equity, real estate, public markets, etc). If you can’t find this info, DM me the name of the pension and I can probably get it through a database I have access to

-What’s the target growth rate of the fund managers?

-What’s the current value?

-When are payments supposed to kick in for you? Would it keep growing once those payments begin, or is it effectively moved over to a separate non-interest bearing account?

-Is there any way you could have a financial planner roll this over to another account to avoid taxes?

I think this is what I'll ultimately do as it appears it can roll into an IRA without paying taxes right now.

Yeah I think this is the smart choice. All the other questions were just to identify if you could reinvest elsewhere and offset the tax hit.

trag once spent $200 to make his own tonkotsu

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[tree_]

Took off work a couple hours early. Going to take the kayak out on the lake with my wife and then spend the rest of the evening Without the kids making her listen to Weezer while I play video games and she sweepstakes most likely or maybe will watch a movie or a concert or something

[Chris_H_2]

making her listen to Weezer while I play video games

that's so hawt

[wease]

Worked the Ed Sheeran show last night. My duty was to cook the hot dogs for the booth. As task I’d never done before. So the booth lead was showing me the process, which, as it turns out, was incorrect and I, unfortunately found out why. They come frozen 25 to a pack and he showed me to basically cut a hole in the bag and put bag and all in the steamer. So when you went to take them out of the steamer scalding hot dog juice poured out of the bags and onto my leg. Got some nice second-degree burns on my ankle. So that was nice.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I hope it didn’t change the shape of you

[Jorge]

I hope it didn’t change the shape of you

NO

[E.H. Ruddock]

I hope it didn’t change the shape of you

NO

Sorry. I was just thinking out loud