What Are You Doing Right Now
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@penguinwrangler Wow nice savings
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@penguinwrangler hell yeah. I drive 30 minutes to work, and work in a rather rural area, so there's not really that option around me. Man I kind of wish there was, though.
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@fiyafly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@penguinwrangler hell yeah. I drive 30 minutes to work, and work in a rather rural area, so there's not really that option around me. Man I kind of wish there was, though.
Best part is that there is a bus stop literally right outside my work. Right now it isn't too bad weather wise goes. But soon when it is hitting upper 90s + humidity, waiting on the bus won't be fun.
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@penguinwrangler agreed, but still. You manage to fix your entire travel budget for work. I just recently had to get a loan for a car for work. I probably could have made do with it for everything else, because I live on the edge of a city, so if that were an option for me I'd be saving about $600 a month!
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@fiyafly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@penguinwrangler agreed, but still. You manage to fix your entire travel budget for work. I just recently had to get a loan for a car for work. I probably could have made do with it for everything else, because I live on the edge of a city, so if that were an option for me I'd be saving about $600 a month!
$600!? For a single car? My wife and my car with insurance is just over 600$/month! We have new-ish vehicles too both from 2014.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fiyafly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@penguinwrangler agreed, but still. You manage to fix your entire travel budget for work. I just recently had to get a loan for a car for work. I probably could have made do with it for everything else, because I live on the edge of a city, so if that were an option for me I'd be saving about $600 a month!
$600!? For a single car? My wife and my car with insurance is just over 600$/month! We have new-ish vehicles too both from 2014.
Yep. About $240 a month for the loan, and I live in Michigan, so not only do I get initially screwed on insurance, my driving record over the last 5 years includes about 8 claims, with one being my fault. However, no fault state, so it doesn't matter if I did it or not. Deer? Rates go up. Dude pulled out in front of me and totaled my car? Rates go up.
Then the icing on the cake is that, due to that totaling, I didn't have insurance for a few months. So, rates went up. I'm currently paying $380 a month for insurance. Just me and the one car.
EDIT: And, didn't turn 25 until just after getting insurance, so rates are up for that too.
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@fiyafly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fiyafly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@penguinwrangler agreed, but still. You manage to fix your entire travel budget for work. I just recently had to get a loan for a car for work. I probably could have made do with it for everything else, because I live on the edge of a city, so if that were an option for me I'd be saving about $600 a month!
$600!? For a single car? My wife and my car with insurance is just over 600$/month! We have new-ish vehicles too both from 2014.
Yep. About $240 a month for the loan, and I live in Michigan, so not only do I get initially screwed on insurance, my driving record over the last 5 years includes about 8 claims, with one being my fault. However, no fault state, so it doesn't matter if I did it or not. Deer? Rates go up. Dude pulled out in front of me and totaled my car? Rates go up.
Then the icing on the cake is that, due to that totaling, I didn't have insurance for a few months. So, rates went up. I'm currently paying $380 a month for insurance. Just me and the one car.
EDIT: And, didn't turn 25 until just after getting insurance, so rates are up for that too.
Damn, that's unfortunate.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fiyafly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fiyafly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@penguinwrangler agreed, but still. You manage to fix your entire travel budget for work. I just recently had to get a loan for a car for work. I probably could have made do with it for everything else, because I live on the edge of a city, so if that were an option for me I'd be saving about $600 a month!
$600!? For a single car? My wife and my car with insurance is just over 600$/month! We have new-ish vehicles too both from 2014.
Yep. About $240 a month for the loan, and I live in Michigan, so not only do I get initially screwed on insurance, my driving record over the last 5 years includes about 8 claims, with one being my fault. However, no fault state, so it doesn't matter if I did it or not. Deer? Rates go up. Dude pulled out in front of me and totaled my car? Rates go up.
Then the icing on the cake is that, due to that totaling, I didn't have insurance for a few months. So, rates went up. I'm currently paying $380 a month for insurance. Just me and the one car.
EDIT: And, didn't turn 25 until just after getting insurance, so rates are up for that too.
Damn, that's unfortunate.
Downright insane. lol. But, to me it rolls back to a saying I've adopted and accepted:
"My life is an adventure, and that isn't by choice." -
In a weekly staff meeting.
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@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Eating a Kangaroo sausage in a bun (en-us kangaroo hotdog)
Really? Do you think I can get that one in Gold Coast or Brisbane?
Yep, sure can. I know they can be found in Coles, Woolworths, and IGA. Some local butchers might have them too.
They also go by the name Kanga-bangas.
okay, that's on my list now.
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@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
45 mins on treadmill, day off, lining up coffee #2, listening to dm stith.
Don't you like running outside?
Hi @Joy I don't have the knees for running or the lungs haha.
are you crawling on the treadmill?
I thought you supposed to be running in treadmillWalking is another possibility... people have been known to walk on them too
I don't like walking on treadmill nor running.
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@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Eating a Kangaroo sausage in a bun (en-us kangaroo hotdog)
Really? Do you think I can get that one in Gold Coast or Brisbane?
Yep, sure can. I know they can be found in Coles, Woolworths, and IGA. Some local butchers might have them too.
They also go by the name Kanga-bangas.
okay, that's on my list now.
Since you'll be on the Gold Coast, you could always visit Bundaberg's and get the best ginger beer in the world.
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@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Eating a Kangaroo sausage in a bun (en-us kangaroo hotdog)
Really? Do you think I can get that one in Gold Coast or Brisbane?
Yep, sure can. I know they can be found in Coles, Woolworths, and IGA. Some local butchers might have them too.
They also go by the name Kanga-bangas.
okay, that's on my list now.
Since you'll be on the Gold Coast, you could always visit Bundaberg's and get the best ginger beer in the world.
Great, that makes me even more excited.
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@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
45 mins on treadmill, day off, lining up coffee #2, listening to dm stith.
Don't you like running outside?
Hi @Joy I don't have the knees for running or the lungs haha.
are you crawling on the treadmill?
I thought you supposed to be running in treadmillWalking is another possibility... people have been known to walk on them too
I don't like walking on treadmill nor running.
It's like walking many hours but still stuck in one place.Nah, you're doing it wrong. I've setup an old PC infront of the treadmill. I watch all this stuff on Youtube. I watch for entertainment, but you could spend the time doing an online course or watching the news etc etc.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
45 mins on treadmill, day off, lining up coffee #2, listening to dm stith.
Don't you like running outside?
Hi @Joy I don't have the knees for running or the lungs haha.
are you crawling on the treadmill?
I thought you supposed to be running in treadmillWalking is another possibility... people have been known to walk on them too
I don't like walking on treadmill nor running.
It's like walking many hours but still stuck in one place.Nah, you're doing it wrong. I've setup an old PC infront of the treadmill. I watch all this stuff on Youtube. I watch for entertainment, but you could spend the time doing an online course or watching the news etc etc.
Brilliant idea, I never consider that.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just rode the bus to work for the first time. They opened a nice new park n ride station near my house and my work will pay for a bus pass, which means I don't have to pay for parking, which was $100 a month.
Riding bus in Seattle is $5.50 a day at least. 6 really since nobody uses change.
Car Insurance 45 dollars/month. Full can of gas 64 dollars(16 gallons@4/gal) which lasts the whole month usually unless i drive out the city.
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@siringo
I have Total gym setup in my living room. Get on that while watching some NF or Prime. Dont even realize i am exercising. -
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
45 mins on treadmill, day off, lining up coffee #2, listening to dm stith.
Don't you like running outside?
Hi @Joy I don't have the knees for running or the lungs haha.
are you crawling on the treadmill?
I thought you supposed to be running in treadmillWalking is another possibility... people have been known to walk on them too
I don't like walking on treadmill nor running.
It's like walking many hours but still stuck in one place.Nah, you're doing it wrong. I've setup an old PC infront of the treadmill. I watch all this stuff on Youtube. I watch for entertainment, but you could spend the time doing an online course or watching the news etc etc.
A little PC stick could do that, too.
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@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo
I have Total gym setup in my living room. Get on that while watching some NF or Prime. Dont even realize i am exercising.I've always wanted a Total Gym. Do you like it?
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@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Eating a Kangaroo sausage in a bun (en-us kangaroo hotdog)
Really? Do you think I can get that one in Gold Coast or Brisbane?
Yep, sure can. I know they can be found in Coles, Woolworths, and IGA. Some local butchers might have them too.
They also go by the name Kanga-bangas.
okay, that's on my list now.
Since you'll be on the Gold Coast, you could always visit Bundaberg's and get the best ginger beer in the world.
No need to drive 6+ hours to get to Bundaberg. Pick 'em up when you pick up the kanga-bangas
