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I used to do a huge portion of my travel with NetJets when I still owned my company. Allowed me to be in 3-4 states in a day and still get home to my own bed. Twice a year my business partner and I would fly 3 friends each down to AZ for a 4 day golf trip. I miss it every time I get on a commercial flight.
Other buddy of mine picks me up when he invites me on golf trips. As you said, knowing a rich guy rocks!
Taxes in California are weird. Buddy of mine near San Jose knocked down all but one wall of his house when we went from 1200-3200 sqft because then he was still being taxed at the 1200sqft rate.
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That’s because he didn’t rebuild, which would have led to a reassessment. He merely “remodeled”. Saw a lot of that in the '80s. Properties are reassessed for tax purposes upon sale or rebuild. So my family home has it’s assessed value frozen at 1975 value, plus minor (like 1%) annual adjustments. But if she sold, the new owners would pay tax on the current value.
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My last job had 2 jets for employees to travel from North Dakota to our plants in Wyoming. Pretty much had enough demand for both jets to run 4-5 days a week (one to each plant). Like you, I also loved being able to sleep in my own bed the same night.
They wouldn’t fly the jet though if it was just one person going, so one time when I needed to go to a site to do literally 45 minutes worth of work (that would’ve been a 16+ hour round trip + lodging/food) I asked a coworker if they wanted to go kill a day and had them put in a separate travel request.
They got somebody to give them a tour of the site while I did my work, we had a long lunch and then flew back.
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One hour closer to God
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Buddy. Where ya been.
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Excited for sure. I thought Jack in the Box had the sourdough market cornered with their Sourdough Jack.
Cheers to blissfully waiting until Summer 2024 to try this
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We’ll get you through Midwest boot camp at the Ope. You’ll be dropping seamless “you betchas” into casual conservation when we’re done with you.
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Is the “yeah no” and “no yeah” covered in that class?
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No yeah it is.
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Class is at 8
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wait. Ive been pronouncing it as O-Pee to my wife.
major mea culpa on my part gang.
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…honestly it’s kind of a reasonable error for someone who’s only seen the spelled out onomatopoeia of a polite grunt spelled out to mispronounce it.
But I’m shook by your pronunciation.
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The 201 level of the class is learning how to end every statement with a question, right?
Then there’s a couple of elective graduate level seminars on passive aggressiveness, and unspoken guilt trips.
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Contrarian takes - Ope Edition: I dislike Charlie Berens very very much. Dude is from Elm Grove (posh Milwaukee suburb) and not up north! He’s laughing at us and not with us all the way to the bank.
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Being basically from Manitowoc, I completely agree. No one in the Manitowoc/GB area talks like that, it should have been the Marinette Minute.
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Grew up in Marinette/Menominee, this checks out
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Preach!!
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