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[A Friend of Charlie]

Morning, muchachos.

Good morning, Raz.

[LuvTooGolf]

Big property tax reevaluation this year for the county. Everyone got a huge boost in their value, probably because the county is running out of money. Mine went up over $1600 for the year, which is about a 50% increase or so. Ouch.

That's a huge increase. They keep reassessing here too, but it generally only means it's going up between 2 and 8%. With that said, my little 100'x32' piece of property is being taxed about $12K per year.

In that case, I'll keep my complaining to folks more local.

[razgueado]

Morning, muchachos.

Morning, Page2Raz.

Morning, Dave.

[razgueado]

Morning, muchachos.

Good morning, Raz.

Good morning, T.

[razgueado]

Big property tax reevaluation this year for the county. Everyone got a huge boost in their value, probably because the county is running out of money. Mine went up over $1600 for the year, which is about a 50% increase or so. Ouch.

That's a huge increase. They keep reassessing here too, but it generally only means it's going up between 2 and 8%. With that said, my little 100'x32' piece of property is being taxed about $12K per year.

Jaaaaayyyyzus.  $12K?  And I thought $6K on my third-of-an-acre was bad.

Well, I mean, it IS bad.  But you're getting sodomized.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Big property tax reevaluation this year for the county. Everyone got a huge boost in their value, probably because the county is running out of money. Mine went up over $1600 for the year, which is about a 50% increase or so. Ouch.

That's a huge increase. They keep reassessing here too, but it generally only means it's going up between 2 and 8%. With that said, my little 100'x32' piece of property is being taxed about $12K per year.

Jaaaaayyyyzus.  $12K?  And I thought $6K on my third-of-an-acre was bad.

Well, I mean, it IS bad.  But you're getting sodomized.

Unfortunately, that's normal in Jersey. And yes, we are being sodomized. I have a buddy with a quarter acre who was paying over $60K in Tenefly, NJ. That's about 20 minutes from here. He was paying that about 10 years ago, I can only imagine it's gone up.

[LuvTooGolf]

Big property tax reevaluation this year for the county. Everyone got a huge boost in their value, probably because the county is running out of money. Mine went up over $1600 for the year, which is about a 50% increase or so. Ouch.

That's a huge increase. They keep reassessing here too, but it generally only means it's going up between 2 and 8%. With that said, my little 100'x32' piece of property is being taxed about $12K per year.

Jaaaaayyyyzus.  $12K?  And I thought $6K on my third-of-an-acre was bad.

Well, I mean, it IS bad.  But you're getting sodomized.

Unfortunately, that's normal in Jersey. And yes, we are being sodomized. I have a buddy with a quarter acre who was paying over $60K in Tenefly, NJ. That's about 20 minutes from here. He was paying that about 10 years ago, I can only imagine it's gone up.

Good gracious.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Close call... Phew!

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[LuvTooGolf]

Got lucky with a fortuitous second guess.

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[A Friend of Charlie]

Got lucky with a fortuitous second guess.

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I hope that fortuitous guess didn't have anything to do with how you spent the weekend. 

[LuvTooGolf]

Got lucky with a fortuitous second guess.

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I hope that fortuitous guess didn't have anything to do with how you spent the weekend. 

It definitely didn't, thankfully. Though, I suspect you may be thinking of a different word.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Got lucky with a fortuitous second guess.

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I hope that fortuitous guess didn't have anything to do with how you spent the weekend. 

It definitely didn't, thankfully. Though, I suspect you may be thinking of a different word.

Oh yeah, it would have to be. Silly me. Hmmm...

[LuvTooGolf]

Got lucky with a fortuitous second guess.

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I hope that fortuitous guess didn't have anything to do with how you spent the weekend. 

It definitely didn't, thankfully. Though, I suspect you may be thinking of a different word.

Oh yeah, it would have to be. Silly me. Hmmm...

It's something I COULD'VE been dealing with all weekend, as a homeowner. If that helps.

[razgueado]

I spent a lot of time over the weekend cleaning up ten years' worth of "data sprawl."  The problem began when my studio gear was disassembled and stored in 2014.  There was a lot going on then - my mom had died,  #1 son was going to college, my part-time staff role at the church expanded, the Hubcaps went on hiatus, I wasn't doing much writing or recording.  And then I busted my leg. The wife and sons rearranged the den to accommodate my recovery, and the recording gear got stuffed away.  I backed up all the data - there was a lot - from the computers to external hard drives.  Since then, the pile of backed-up data has expanded as computers, tablets, and smart phones got upgraded and swapped out.  It's always the plan to sort through the data, but I never got around to it.  The studio data is massive amounts of large audio files, and toward the end my sons were using it a lot for school projects.   

Now I'm bringing the studio back online, so I had to start sorting through it.  There was a massive amount of deduplication that needed to happen in the music libraries, owing to format conversions. I got half of it done over the weekend.  It will take several months to deal with the rest.  And I also got halfway through the accumulation of recording projects that the boys had left.  That will be a little quicker to resolve. 

The good news was that I found a forgotten re-arrangement for one of my songs, dating to 2009.  That was fun.  It was good work. 

[LuvTooGolf]

I spent a lot of time over the weekend cleaning up ten years' worth of "data sprawl."  The problem began when my studio gear was disassembled and stored in 2014.  There was a lot going on then - my mom had died,  #1 son was going to college, my part-time staff role at the church expanded, the Hubcaps went on hiatus, I wasn't doing much writing or recording.  And then I busted my leg. The wife and sons rearranged the den to accommodate my recovery, and the recording gear got stuffed away.  I backed up all the data - there was a lot - from the computers to external hard drives.  Since then, the pile of backed-up data has expanded as computers, tablets, and smart phones got upgraded and swapped out.  It's always the plan to sort through the data, but I never got around to it.  The studio data is massive amounts of large audio files, and toward the end my sons were using it a lot for school projects.   

Now I'm bringing the studio back online, so I had to start sorting through it.  There was a massive amount of deduplication that needed to happen in the music libraries, owing to format conversions. I got half of it done over the weekend.  It will take several months to deal with the rest.  And I also got halfway through the accumulation of recording projects that the boys had left.  That will be a little quicker to resolve. 

The good news was that I found a forgotten re-arrangement for one of my songs, dating to 2009.  That was fun.  It was good work.

Sounds like a productive weekend, well done.