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[A Friend of Charlie]

Got lucky with a fortuitous second guess.

Wordle 1,304 3/6*

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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.

That's the one I was thinking. Check your texts.

[A Friend of Charlie]

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.

That sounds like a Herculean task. The kind I want to do, but will continue to put off until I'm no longer walking this green earth.

[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.

For those of you playing along at home, LTG suspected incorrectly.

[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.

For those of you playing along at home, LTG suspected incorrectly.

I'm officially 0-for-Monday.

[LuvTooGolf]

Mike Mccarthy is out as coach of the Cowboys.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Mike Mccarthy is out as coach of the Cowboys.

I was more surprised last week when they were saying he was staying.

[Travellin Dave]

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 way they can say they didn't increase taxes.

[LuvTooGolf]

Mike Mccarthy is out as coach of the Cowboys.

I was more surprised last week when they were saying he was staying.

Agreed, both this year and last.

[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 way they can say they didn't increase taxes.

Bastiges.

[Travellin Dave]

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.

And that is about twice what I pay which is less than I paid per quarter in NJ.

[Travellin Dave]

Got lucky with a fortuitous second guess.

Wordle 1,304 3/6*

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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.

For those of you playing along at home, LTG suspected incorrectly.

Now I have to do it today to get in on the discussion.

[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.

And that is about twice what I pay which is less than I paid per quarter in NJ.

[Travellin Dave]

Mike Mccarthy is out as coach of the Cowboys.

Yea, you're getting paid oodles of millions, but that would be a tough job to take.
Just like in college.  I do, but don't understand why an assistant coach making 2 or so mil a year in a stable, winning program would take a head coaching job for maybe twice that taking over a flailing program.  I like the stability (relatively) factor.

[Travellin Dave]

Blew right past page 3.  Sorry.

[Travellin Dave]

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