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With the experience you have, I'm sure you'll be able to land something better. I was laid off late last year from a job I hated and it felt like it was the end of the world because I did enjoy the salary. However, that layoff ended up becoming a blessing because the job that followed has been the most rewarding position I've ever held. Keep your head up!

Yah Demoner, there are a lot of really good festivals scattered throughout the US. For the last few years I've gone to Lollapalooza in Chicago which is always a blast and there's also Coachella (which is HUUUUGE) and Austin City Limits

Cool. I was at Lollapalooza last year as well. I ended up seeing:

Soundgarden

MGMT

Cypress Hill

Yeasayer

Mutemath

Switchfoot

Mumford & Sons

When will this nauseous feeling go away?

Morning sickness is no joke, Unclean. If you are unsure, pee on the stick.

I was listening to "The End" by Black Eyed Peas and got 11min into it before losing. Boom Boom Pow is great for this game.

Thanks, I'll try that.

I can't get close to 4 million point on this game for survival. Any tips?

As for music, I've been playing mainly Avenged Sevenfold and Slipknot since those drummers are constantly kicking = no down time.

Lets see how many of the originals we can stir up...yerm0th3r isnt allowed to play! <3

 

Post here if you have an early forum join date! (Or if you just wanna say hi)

 

but but butt...

 

They never let poor yErMoTH3r join in any reindeer games.

If we had this same contest about Facebook, would you let Mark Zuckerberg join in?

Anybody here going this year to Lollapalooza on Sunday?

http://2010.lollapalooza.com/events/2010/08/08/

I'm actually going this year. I've wanted to go every year, but couldn't justify buying a $90 ticket for 1 headlining band I wanted to see. This year, though, there are enough bands I want to see on Sunday to justify a $90 ticket in my mind. This is my tentative schedule of bands I want to see:

1:00-2:00 Switchfoot @ adidas MEGA Stage

4:00-4:15 Perry Farrell @ Kidzapalooza Stage

4:15-5:00 Violent SoHo @ BMI Stage

5:00-6:00 Mutemath @ PlayStation Stage

6:00-7:15 MGMT @ Budweiser Stage

6:00-7:00 Wolfmother @ South Stage

7:00-8:00 Cypress Hill @ adidas MEGA Stage

8:00-10:00 Soundgarden @ South Stage

8:30-10:00 Arcade Fire @ Budweiser Stage

I thought most people go to school so they can get a house, not the opposite?

Thanks for the help so far! Free is better

Hey,

I was wondering how I would go about setting up message boards just like this one that GC uses for a small organization I work for. Do I need someone to host them (ie: paying a server monthly?) or is this something I can do for free?

Another familiar face on Retro. Also, welcome to the forums!!

 

Now treat yourself to an amazing birthday by joining GC!!!

Happy belated!

Gotta avoid the lava!

!!!

pretty indeed

Unclean, yeah he has been a good role model for me financially. I've taken his financial advice most my life and I've been debt free my whole life. Heck, I didn't even buy my car until I had the money saved up first. The only problem with living this life style is that moving out from my parent's house is taking longer than for most people. The reason is because I want to avoid renting. So, instead I'm trying to save up as much as I can for a down payment for a townhouse or house before I take that step out of the house. It sucks now because myself and my girlfriend of 7 years can't live together, but in the long run I think it'll be the better decision.

NOFX, You are correct that with larger risk comes larger reward. Unclean's idea of investing small over a long period of time is great, but it's not for everyone. That's the conservative way to do it. That's the way my dad did it. You seem, however, to want to live for today, etc. So, that method might not be best suited for you. If you want to live your life with the bare minimums in terms of possessions, that's perfectly fine. That might actually be a more rewarding life for you in the long run in terms of not being tied to your possessions. My only concern is that you hopefully don't neglect the essentials like a roof over your head. You mentioned paying rent over owning a property. I would be wiry of this decision only because you are basically paying your landlord's mortgage with the same money that you could be using toward paying off your own mortgage.

Great points, Unclean. You seem to be making the same type of financial decisions my father has made his whole life. He has been very conservative, but it has paid off, because he gets to live in a large house, have a nice car, go on vacations at least once a year, etc. All the things you mentioned and doing so with no debt.

NOFX, you have a lot of great ideas, but the one thing you seem to be missing from them all is investments. I know it's very hard to invest with the economic situation this country is in, but that's the best way to get ahead. That's how people move from "working for the man" to becoming the "man." There is nothing more rewarding than making money off of your own money. Like you mentioned with savings earlier in this post, investing too can become a nice addition.

Plain and simply: In your post, you seem to want to know the best way to get rich. You now do. Investing is what separates the rich from the middle class and the poor.

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You both are wrong apparently, but Hoo Hoo sounds closer than Hee Hee

If nothing more, it'll make a good multiplayer game for the Wii. I rememeber I unlocked everything in the original game. I think after Counter-Strike, GoldenEye was probably the game I spent more hours playing than any other game I own.

hey again

About 40,000 feet in the air at the moment. Having wifi on a plane is just weird.

No in-flight movie, huh?

Don't beat yourself up.. i did a little 'research' over the weekend.. apparently paying 1:2 for hitting green on a colored bet varies per casino

I see. Either way, the dealer took all the money and shook his head at me, haha.

Last year in Vegas I lost $250 in Mandalay Bay on a game of roulette. I bet Black and it freaking landed on Green. Not Red..... Green....

 

atleast you only lost half..

 

Oh no. I lost all of it. I placed everything on black, haha. I'm just saying, the odds of hitting Green are so small that I would have been less angry if it had landed on Red instead. Oh well, can't win 'em all!

 

 

Hitting green when you bet red/black always pays 1:2.. sounds like you got so mad that it hit green you walked away from the table.. and left $125!

FAIL

indeed