Life Thread v2.0

impulse418 wrote: Didn't get the job, still stuck at my depressing job of helping people with their healthcare. Grandpa ended up in the ICU. Went to the cardiologist, he said my palpitations are from stress and anxiety. So gym membership here I come. But I am going to my buddies property this weekend to shoot guns and ride my atv. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

That's **edited** mate. Chin up and carry on.

Btw is the level of interviewing you had to go through standard where you are? That sounded really intense and unnecessary.

scotchyscotch wrote: impulse418 wrote: Didn't get the job, still stuck at my depressing job of helping people with their healthcare. Grandpa ended up in the ICU. Went to the cardiologist, he said my palpitations are from stress and anxiety. So gym membership here I come. But I am going to my buddies property this weekend to shoot guns and ride my atv. So I've got that going for me, which is nice. That's **edited** mate. Chin up and carry on. Btw is the level of interviewing you had to go through standard where you are? That sounded really intense and unnecessary.

I just bought an immediate post-war Hi-Standard Dura-Matic M100. Got it for just under $200 because the grips are chipped and someone took a wire brush to it at some point, so the finish is fonked, but it's going to be a range plinker and squirrel killer, so I don't care about looks. Otherwise it's fine with a great bore and excellent overall mechanical function. Repro grips are coming in next week thanks to eBay. Always wanted one ever since the original Medal of Honor games back in the late 1990s.

tallen702 wrote: I just bought an immediate post-war Hi-Standard Dura-Matic M100. Got it for just under $200 because the grips are chipped and someone took a wire brush to it at some point, so the finish is fonked, but it's going to be a range plinker and squirrel killer, so I don't care about looks. Otherwise it's fine with a great bore and excellent overall mechanical function. Repro grips are coming in next week thanks to eBay. Always wanted one ever since the original Medal of Honor games back in the late 1990s.

agentwhale007 wrote: We're buying a house, so that's cool.

Say goodbye to free time! It's great owning a house, but regular maintenance eats away at nights and weekends like you wouldn't believe.

Still, congrats! I wouldn't want to be anything other than a homeowner. For us, it's been the best investment we've ever made. Our home's value has shot up $100k in the 6 short years we've owned it.

I got a new job, and I'm really happy. I hope I still like it after the honeymoon phase

agentwhale007 wrote: impulse418 wrote: agentwhale007 wrote: We're buying a house, so that's cool.  Congrats! Pics or shens!  I'll post some once everything is finalized and we have keys. Our offer was accepted, we're shopping around for mortgages now. Our credit scores are 830 and 775 and we have the cash to put about 12 percent down, so it's mostly been an issue of seeing who will give us the best rate on a 30-year fixed.

I'm doing the homebuying thing too. Two or three weeks ago I threw like four lenders into the thunderdome to see who would come up with the best deal. It's a huge pain in the ass, but totally worth it. Sending loan estimates to other loan officers, waiting for them to hear back about special exceptions, etc. I ended up dropping 5/8 of a point on my interest rate from the first lender I talked to, but you can probably rely on 1/4 to 1/2 a point lower when you start playing lenders off each other.

Edited by Hairball!!! - 08 March 2019 at 12:43pm

I like it!

Very nice, Whale!


On a less wonderful news note, I had a ureteroscopy a week ago. I highly recommend avoiding one of these as much as possible. Long story short, I had to have a kidney stone removed from my ureter. It was essentially a stone the diameter of a .223 round. It wasn't blocking the ureter completely, so there wasn't any pain, but anything else that came along and got hung up on it was going to put me in a world of hurt. The surgery was easy, but the recovery suuuucks. I woke up from general anesthesia just fine and felt fine, but you piss razor blades and a horror-show's worth of blood for a couple of days regardless of the medicines they give you, then when that pain stops, you get a new, and even worse pain in your kidneys every time you hit the head from your urine refluxing up the stent they put between your kidney and bladder to help speed healing. Once you finally get the stent removed (which they do while you're wide awake) you feel fine for the first day, and then like crap for the next 5.

My doctors were awesome, but man does the recovery suck.