Would you scandanavians say that having a sea around you helps or hurts? I hear of some absolutely awful storms that happen with waves crashing over and freezing and whatnot...but i have to imagine it keeps temperatures at least reasonable.

I'm landlocked, and absolutely wish I was by some sort of temperature relief...January averages 4 fahrenheit as the daily low temp

Embarrass, MN

At least I don't live up north a bit...where the average daily low is -14 fahrenheit in January...JWEfnalkansldkfnwef

I know the "Hunt for Redline" was a couple months ago but I found it...

~gtp

Sea helps only a bit, because it makes winter storms absolutely horrible. The moisture also means that the long dark of fall is around longer. No snow you see. Just black sleet. The temperature bump
takes the sharpest edge off, but that's about it.

This region would be utterly inhabitable without the Gulf Stream. Now it's only barely habitable.

it doesnt count for your kind and you know it. your redline goes up cuz your incessant squeezing!!!

http://zenhabits.net/

I have always called myself a minimalist, I think it's time to really mean it.

I want to travel (as you may know) so I need to stop acquiring things that will prevent me from traveling.

I need to stop buying clothes/watches/shoes (recently dropped about $700 on re-doing my wardrobe, but don't really feel any happier for it). I need to stop going out to nice restuarants/bars if they do not bring any more happiness than going to a cheap restaurant/bar would, or especially if they aren't any better for me than staying in with friends playing games.

I need to start saving more money so that I can live in Vienna this summer, and see all of you eurodonks

New Year's resolution: Spend a month writing down every thing you buy. That's everything, down to getting a soda out of the machine. It isn't the big leaks, it is the small leaks that kill your SR (think of it as WR).

Examples:

Bring your lunch instead of buying each day: $3/work day * 200d/y = $600/y
Buy coffee from Starbucks each day: $3.50/day * 365d/y = $1277.50/y
Buy soda each work day instead of bring it: $200

There's about $2000 a year and you can't say that really is going to impact your life. There's lots more you'll find when you start writing things down.

i did this for about 3mo this year...and it was odd that i stopped buying dumb stuff because i felt guilty everytime i wrote it down.

however, as soon as i stopped writing it i starting buying the dumb junk again, lol

Except "bring it from home" isn't free either. Yeah you'd probably save some money, but bringing it from home doesn't automatically reduce your expenses to 0.

I do this currently and you're right, it's amazing how the little things add up. Everyone at works kinda kids me about bringing Pasta+Granola Bar+Banana+water everyday...EVERYDAY to work, but it costs me about $1.25 for food for the entire workday :-\

My monthly budget is fairly precise, except for a bucket called "random junk" that is $250/month...it's funny; each month I will find a new gadget to purchase (camera lens perhaps, my bicycle, some video games). After each of these I say "Ok, now I can't see myself buying anything else, I don't need anything else"...

Sure enough the next month I figure something else out that I'll need to buy. For the most part the purchases are +EV, in that they have brought me more happiness than I expected (my bicycle is a joy, and was only $225, my camera+lens' are a passion of mine that I would gladly spend money on), but the taking friends out to dinner/drinks might need to stop...Or just tone down the quality of restaurants I eat at.


EDIT: Jaron, his $3/day figure is likely the result of $6 cost of buying at work - $3 cost of bringing from home (IMO)

I spend $2.32/day on coffee and $5/day on cigarettes. It drives me insane when I see my bank statement and its never ending list of these purchases. OTOH, I am well and truly addicted to both. I would dearly love to get off the cigarettes, though.

If you want it, you can do it. I quit after smoking a pack a day for like 15 years. No surrogate drugs, not weaning off, no nothing. Just takes will power. For me a change of place worked (start of the holidays). 4.5 years and counting

The $3 represents the difference. Should have made it clear.

please to be imparting wisdom, sir.

+10^googleplex

I'm fullstacking 50NL now... no more SSing unless I need points ...

All but 3K hands of this sample are full stack 50NL...

~gtp

rly? i saw you midding at 100NL the other night (20-45bb stacks)

glgl with the fullstacking!

Yeah... the previously mentioned hands when I still thought I had a chance of making my 100K prop bet (at ~75K)...

Hopefully with the changes that FullTilt are implementing it won't even be an option for rakeback anymore... that will remove the temptation and allow me to focus on developing my full-stack game...

TYTY sir... what are you doing for NYE and are you back in the city?

~gtp

really not sure what im doing for NYE...im still on the east coast and dont get back till Vegas till next week.

will b nice to get out of the snow, lol

whatre you up for NYE? and did u go down for the opening of city center?

NYE party and home game donkament.

mixed together that sounds like a flipfest to me =)

Brag: Just left my wife.
Beat: Left my kids, too.
Variance: Currently homeless and jobless

Happy New Year everyone!

that sounds sad if true =(

vvv samkim on xbox live if anyone ever wants to play MW2

Canga, please clarify

Not sure how to make it any clearer.

temporary/permanent?

Either way i'm sorry