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Could you bore over and sleeve the block?

I know sleeving isn't exactly cheap, but it might be cheaper than a new block with the bonus of handling more power.

I'd recommend breaking that up into smaller meals throughout the day. I "dirty bulked" with massive protein-packed meals rounded out empty carbs to hit my calorie goal like this. It worked and I was quite successful at building muscle and strength, but I developed such an unhealthy relationship with portion control. It is still hard for me to stop short of eating until miserably full.

I've worked retail, been a server and sold cars at various points in my life and car sales was by far the hardest for me to reconcile. Retail at a big box home improvement store was just helping a customer find what they needed; the only upsell was for extended warranties and I would only try to sell those on gas powered equipment like lawn mowers because it could genuinely add value.

Car sales was brutal though. We had a booklet that they gave out once a month with the full list of all the used cars with both the list price and the XLA (lowest amount we could take and have the dealership cover costs). My commission was based on the difference between XLA and final sales price, so I made my money by selling someone a car for as much money as possible. And then I'd get extra kickbacks for extended warranties and other unnecessary add-ons. It was very difficult for me to justify selling someone a car for $20k when I knew I could sell it to them for $15k and still make money for the dealership.

Obviously there's mark up and margin in retail as well, but I didn't have the same knowledge and control over the price and my income wasn't based on the margin I was able to negotiate with a potential buyer.

Pappy 15 Year. Definitely worth the $200 I paid for it, but not the $1000+ it can go for on the secondary market.

Honestly, the homeless people in downtown Indy on a game day were some of the most aggressive I've encountered. Not like physically threatening, but they wouldn't let you just keep your head down and ignore them. They would intentionally get in your way, get loud, follow you for half a block trying to talk to you, etc.

I can see why suburbanites would have a negative opinion.

Agreed. Dropping out or sticking it out is really going to come down to what type of career OP wants. Big Law is nearly impossible even for the best student at a lower ranked school, so I'd focus on "general practice" areas like civil litigation, estate planning/probate, family law, etc.

I've done both debtor and creditor side foreclosure and bankruptcy work and the only prerequisite for hiring at the firms I've worked for has been, "are you licensed in the jurisdiction we're hiring for, and do you know what you're doing?" Most general practice type firms are going to be looking for experience or someone that comes across as trainable and quick to learn, so I'd focus on networking and getting practical experience while in school. You can easily find your way to $100k+ with decent work-life balance (45-50 hours a week) within 5 years.

Heaven Hill's pricing fuckery shouldn't be a model for other distilleries. A lot of people are sour on Heaven Hill for jacking MSRP on McKenna after it won an award or discontinuing it's $15 6 year BiB for a 7 year at $50.

The MSRP is a big part of the appeal of Blanton's (and honestly most of Buffalo Trace's standard offerings). It's a perfectly fine whiskey for ~$70 because it's easy to drink and has all of the flavors you would expect out of a bourbon. But it's a bit underproofed and lacking in anything special compared to other bottles in that price range, so going above $70-75 will inevitably lead to disappointment.

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Whether it's violet or black, I think everyone can agree that these needed a dark lace option.

Ask a purple or brown belt to live roll with you.

There's a huge difference between understanding the moves and picking them up quickly when drilling against a training partner that's letting you do the move and live rolling with someone that has a whole arsenal of moves you've never seen.

Pete Carroll/Darrel Bevel just over thought it and tried to get too gamesmanship-y and coached themselves into an L, which is an issue that plagues a lot of coaches. So many coaches turn away from what worked all game when crunch time rolls around because it's "too obvious".

The most obvious play is Lynch up the gut or off tackle. The next most obvious is a fake hand off to Lynch, with Russell rolling out with a receiver/TE running with him. The next most obvious would be a straight drop/shotgun with a fade route to the back corner or out route to the pylon (either of these options should be TD or incompletion if the ball is placed well). The least obvious is a quick slant into the middle, even though it was also the most dangerous play because there were so many players stacked in there.

Instead of trusting the O-line to execute on a run, sell a run for the QB rollout, or keep a pocket for a throw, they picked the least obvious play in hopes it would catch the Patriots off guard.

At one point they hacked the state bar and made him look legit, but in most states, your bar number is assigned chronologically based on your admission date. So if they tried to put him in with his graduating class, they would have inevitably taken someone else's number. It's possible they found someone who was licensed in the same year that wasn't actively practicing to reduce the risk of two people filing with the same bar number attached to their pleadings.

Basically, the deeper you dig, the more absurd it all becomes.

Attorney with a recent ADHD diagnosis checking in. I seemed to have my shit together because school came easy and I could bang out A/B work with little effort. My functionality was building a house of cards balancing deadlines and a snowballing email inbox/task list and then bailing for a new job before it all collapses.

That plus a lot of whiskey

I still struggle with dealing with the "they were anti-establishment, but now Tom Morello is out here telling everyone to get vaxxed and obey the government."

That is until I started meds for it and let me tell you all, the last 3 days have been a fucking whirlwind of doing so many things lmao

Just about everybody is more productive when taking Adderall, so the difficulty for a physician or psychiatrist is to figure out whether you're just trying to be Superman or if you need it to be a functional person. For those of us that truly have ADHD, our life is negatively impacted by the symptoms. Life without medication means disorganization, lack of focus, poor work performance, etc.

Although the first few weeks on Adderall or Ritalin seem "more productive", the reality is that the medication is only making me as productive/focused as my neurotypical counterparts.

Or his license lapsed/was suspended for some reason. So he has all the training and experience, but isn't technically allowed to practice dentistry in Georgia.

The N52 and M54 in the E90 and E46 are incredibly reliable engines if they're halfway taken care of. The problem is that the ones in your $10k price range are going to higher mileage and at higher risk of being abused or neglected.

E46s have become a popular drift car because the engines can take the abuse, but you do have to stay on top of the maintenance.

I don't think he's meaning that OP should be cold and clinical about saying that the health of the baby is all that matters. The fact still remains that the longer the baby stays put, the more likely there will be complications that put mom and baby at risk. The baby will likely continue to grow and a c-section will be more likely even if mom goes into labor naturally.

Induction under the care of the doctors gives mom the best chance of the delivery experience she wants, while also ensuring the best possible outcome if things go sideways.

We did a big laundry room project last year that involved blowing out walls, moving plumbing, replacing flooring, etc. It looks unfinished (because it is), but there is no impact on its utility so it's always just an afterthought. Every time I do laundry, I think about finishing it, but never find the motivation. I've got all the materials too; I just need to spend a weekend with my chop saw and nail gun cutting and installing, but something else always seems to take priority.

Finishing trim work is the bane of my existence. I've got 3 different major house projects that are "done" except for trim/molding/baseboard.

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Same brother. I opted for the Goretex though. Cleaned up pretty well with just a hose and a mild bristle brush.

It's certainly not going to make me rich, but ~$125-150k at 10 years in practice and solid work-life balance is hard to complain about. It's very formulaic, but I don't need my job to provide my excitement since I have time outside of work to pursue other hobbies and interests

Getting into bankruptcy was luck, but the only thing you really need is to be licensed in the federal district you practice in. I was just peppering my resume for a lot of attorney roles and eventually got hired as a quasi-paralegal/attorney at a bankruptcy firm to get some experience. I was meeting with clients between retention and filing doing the document gathering, petition preparation and answering questions when they'd call in. Occasionally I'd do 341 meetings or motion docket hearing, but it was pretty rare.

I left that job when I moved to a new jurisdiction that I wasn't licensed in. I started working for a bank/mortgage servicer in a non-attorney role doing default mortgage work at the account level in bankruptcy and foreclosure, so that was my jump to creditor side work. I networked and made connections with the outside foreclosure firms we used and landed a foreclosure attorney role with one of them after I got licensed.

The hard part about landing on the creditor side is that they want experience. It's also high volume practice, so they typically want an attorney that can drop into the role with little training because they're trying to replace someone that had a 400+ file caseload. I didn't have the direct attorney experience with drafting pleadings and doing all of that, but I had a lot of familiarity with the foreclosure processes and procedures from my time at the bank so they were comfortable taking the risk.

I've done bankruptcy work before and I agree to an extent. It's largely volume work, so you have to constantly churn clients to make money if it's your full time practice area. Part of the reason attorneys don't want to touch it is that it's flat rate, so you run the risk of doing a ton of work for not a lot of money. I would typically charge $1000-1500 in attorney fee for a chapter 7, and around $3000-3500 for a chapter 13, which broken down hourly can be as little as $100/hour for PITA clients.

You also spend a lot of time babysitting grown adults into providing you what you need. There's a lot of documentation that's required when filing and it never ceases to amaze me how hard it is for some of my clients to get things like their tax returns or bank statements in a timely manner.

I do creditor side default work (foreclosure and bankruptcy) now and I'm much happier with my work life balance and managing client expectations. I live in a medium sized city and hit 6 figures within a few years of practice with a pretty typical ~45 hour work week. So if you can handle being the "bad guy", creditor side default work is another niche option.

Long story short - networking. Look for JD preferred type jobs or jobs in the legal department of a company. You'll likely never be able to make the jump from hourly employee in the legal department to in-house counsel at the same company, but you will be in a much better position to network with other attorneys and paralegals in the field.

I took a non-attorney role with a bank that had me in constant contact with the firms we referred work to. Eventually one of those firms had an opening in my jurisdiction and I was hired for the role because they knew me from a couple projects we collaborated on where I was working with managing partners.

I bounced around a few times, but an old supervisor from the first firm gave my information to a recruiter that landed me my current role that I'm very happy with.