Yea got my ass fired ... surprised it lasted this long. Jan-feb was when I thought my number was up ... they went form nearly 200 to 135, to under 100 to 60 or so and then into the high 30's ... how the Fu(k I managed to hold on a 75% reduction I never know ...
So yea I am making all the stuff @ my house already get good and out and then new stuff ...
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Buddha.
Sorry to hear you lost your day job. Bummer.
When my daughter got laid off, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. If you calculate the money she saved on child care for her three kids plus the unemployment check, she is actually coming out ahead. Yesterday, she got word that they qualify for a restructured mortage that will lower their monthly payment by like $1200/month. The credit card companies cut them a deal too. As soon as she said "laid off" and "can't make payments" in the same sentence, they reduced the interest rate for them.
You may want to check the options you have in your state. I personally don't like these bailout programs but if they're going to give out money anyway, and you qualify, you might as well get as much as you can to ride out the tough times.
-Porkchop
Welcome back. Sucks don't it.
I've got about 3 months left until my unemployment checks stop. It's been a nice "vacation" from working. I still can't believe I WASTED 8.5 years at that hellhole, only for them to treat me the way they did.
Sucks ... yea ... and see I shouldv'e bought a new hyundai types ... I will now be so cool ... drive free and let em take it ...
I never had any debt to speak of except my house which is @ 5% on a 15 of which I am 6 years in and have hit extra 100+ each payment ... when Idiots say they're buying sheite to build credit history, I laugh. I have excellent credit and I never have got debt to get it.
Anyway, I am getting bikes and bike parts done now ... no stopping that train. Tommorow all the GS stuff gets mailed. The bars for greemstick, the stem for ineedanap, the repairs for others the this and that ...
Then I get the stack of carbs that are mocking me ... I show em who's boss ... - I figure by tuesday night this should be done and dusted ...
Then I do jetswing's GS for sergeremi ... 1 week kiddo, thanks for waiting patiently ...
Oh, today was savage day, tommorow it leaves ... booya.
Chopper is prowling the streets now, I plan to show and sell it in the next few weeks.
Virago and maxim ... on craigslist ... and prolly in cycletrader soon.
Then we attack the GR. Split and send for powder, then refit. Done double quick ...
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Buddha.
soundsl like you'll be able to keep busy for a bit then huh? sometimes being out of work for a bit can be a bit of a blessing in disguise. i'm currently furthering my education. i wanted to before but never seemed to find time to do it. well, be careful what you wish for i guess, cuz now i got the time. :thumb:
I am actually hoping I dont have any time ... I need to look for a job and get it and start ... yea yea carbs going out etc etc, that is tommorow ... I also have DMV trip and this and that ... yea all tommorow.
The thing is, if I get a jb now, I may make it OK, I get laid off around november I can get all these bigger projects done and I'm good. If I dont get a job before November, I wont find one till january ... PITA ... I am better off getting one now, working till end nov and prolly losing it then and stay idle till mid jan.
BTW there is tons of regulations comming down and the banks have to implement tons of BS ... has to be translating to jobs in a little bit.
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Buddha.
you know, with the unemployment rates so high, unemployment offices are complaining that they are over-worked and can't complete all the paperwork fast enough. why not give some of the unemployed jobs in the uneployment offices? isn't that simple supply and demand? :dunno_white:
True, or they can give me the job of keeping their software running @ blistering speeds. Yea plus the unemployed need to work the many desks @ the unemployment office.
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Buddha.
Hell ill put you to work tracking down that weird ass indian in north carolina :icon_lol:, buddha, been there. my job sucks right now, BUT im employed atm. and my employers are GOOD to me ( which is why im still there)
Well, Universal is trying to Buy out Stephen Spielberg's contract which means huge restructuring! Did you know he gets 2% of every ticket purchase here in Orlando, California, Dubai, Singapore, and any new parks opening in the future! Not to mention his base pay to make movies. They say 30 mil is a drop in the bucket and no one knows if he will even bite at any buy out esp. with the clause he can't go across the street and work for the Mouse!
I know I'm good through Halloween but Nov 1 well :dunno_white:. Tourism usually gets nailed hard in a bad economy but our profits went up 37% so fingers crossed becuase very few people will hire a sick person!
Mary
Well, at least you didn't go in a blaze of gunfire like some asshats :)
Quote from: Toogoofy317 on August 11, 2009, 07:22:26 AM
Well, Universal is trying to Buy out Stephen Spielberg's contract which means huge restructuring! Did you know he gets 2% of every ticket purchase here in Orlando, California, Dubai, Singapore, and any new parks opening in the future! Not to mention his base pay to make movies. They say 30 mil is a drop in the bucket and no one knows if he will even bite at any buy out esp. with the clause he can't go across the street and work for the Mouse!
I know I'm good through Halloween but Nov 1 well :dunno_white:. Tourism usually gets nailed hard in a bad economy but our profits went up 37% so fingers crossed becuase very few people will hire a sick person!
Mary
Yea I heard Steven Spielberg ... yea he answers only to god.
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Buddha.
Buddha, you are obviously a man with talent - work for yourself - if I can do it after 33 years of working for a multinational then anyone can it just takes a change of mindset, change, not good, not bad, just different. - Go for it and good luck to you.
First take some time to catch up on the cricket, it's an interesting year so far.
I really would rather do software engineering as a job ... not as a business. I may do bike stuff more and well ... sell ...
Software and bikes seem to have enough of an opposite thing built in ... so I am never left in the dumps by both.
Now I just have to brave the heat and the rain and get bike stuff made.
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Buddha.
buddha: shoot me a pm. I might have something you can look into. No guarantees but worth a look.
Yes drag another 100 year old thread out of the mothballs ... but the buddha always reuses, then recycles.
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Does this mean Buddha got canned again?????
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Michael
So did you ever find another job, or are you going to be selling me your stereo equipment????? :thumb:
Sheesh its been 1 day ... but pay up sucka ... what you need.
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Buddha.
I don't know, It depends what you're selling!! I'd love a marantz 4300/4400, 2330, Pioneer SX-1080, sx-1280, sx-1980, well........you get the idea. Marantz is on the top of my list right now.
Muaahahahahaha ... I am a hardcore marantz fan too. Both vintage and HT. 2325/2330/2385 is one more of those I am chasing too. I got a pair of ar TSW 910's that simply would love the power. But they are 4 ohm, and tailor made for my oink tx - sv 909 I'd say.
The 4 series marantzes IMHO over rated. The 4230 I got sounds quite a bit thinner and less sharp than the 2226 or the 2220. For a vintage quad I actually think a HK 800+ or its bigger/smaller brothers sound better. Of course a 2 series marantz has no equal ... 2230 especially. I have heard a 2230 but dont own one, I got a 2220 and a 2226. The other surprise from marantz is - the home theater amps - I have an sr 580 and it is easily the best sounding HT amp I have, and I have some serious HT amps, dsp 3090 (better than the dsp a1 if you ask me and a oink integra tx - sv 909 pro) and the 580 easily sounds better. The weird thing is, the sr5000 and sr4500 are 1 year newer than the 580 I wanna say and dont sound as good.
Dude 1980 - everyone wants a 1980, the closest I got is a 950, I am fixing this guy's 1250, he also has a 1980 needing a rebuild. Seriously I like the 80 series sound more than the 50, I cant see why the 50 is more valuable.
I also like the R series yamaha and 1000 series oink. And the 30 series HK's. In fact I am surprised how nice that sounds compared to most any marantz.
You do know mailing any of these anywhere is gonna be 100 bucks or so right. Just troll the yard sales enough and these will turn up. Here is one more thing in favor of buying them up cheap.
These things were made in the 70's. They were bought by people who were atleast 20 (at a very minimum) in the 70's. Those people now are atleast 60. Guess what people who are 60 and older do - they retire and move to florida. Here is somehting else I know for a fact. No one I know has 1 vintage amp. Yes, no one has 1 old amp. The minimum number seems to be 40, and I know of atleast 4 people in a 50 mile radius that have that much under their coffee table.
Seriously the market for this crap is very very very thin. People have no clue, they want Ipod and little ass crap. You show them a 40lb monster the first thing they ask is - does it have hdmi ? WTF :cookoo: ... anyway when the "collectors" get sick of holding 300 of these, guess what ebay or no ebay, it will turn up for 20-30 bucks in your backyard. I wont pay to ship it, it wont be worth it.
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Buddha.
Wow, good response buddha! Of course the Unicorn sx-1980 would be nice. My buddy found a yard sale sx-1250 for $100 in MINT condition. It is an absolute beast and would be all kinds of happy with that thing. I am going for newer speakers and older gear because I flat think it out performs the current markets stuff unless you start to get into the ridiculously high end gear which I refuse to pay for because I'm cheap. I just keep my eye out and continue to use my sx-535 in my garage as a little man cave out there, and for now I'm still into the newer gear but am slowly changing things around in my HT gear but its tight due to money and having a baby on the way!
You can seriously do better than a 535 ... I actually love old speakers too. There is nothing in the world that can out run my heils for transient highs, or with the ev sp12's except for a ev15 or a variety of other speakers of the 60's that used the same drivr compliment (JBL, klipsch, altec lots of em) or the early 80's acoustic Pro audio 3212C or the acoustic research tsw 910 beasts I have. Now If you plonk down 5g you can beat it, a set of martin logans will do nicely, but ML's need power and lots of it. That again costs. ML also is a tricky load. Wildly varying impedance very susceptible to a dusty environment and more. No thank you, I'll take my heils. I used to like infinity, but I find their non ribbons bland and the ribbons are again a hard load to drive.
Anyway I just got a nad 2400 power amp, it can drive 4 ohm well, I'll figure out what I drive wiht it soon enough. I think I am going 4 ohm in all speakers. Heils are 4, Big AR is 4. In advertently I am a 4 ohm user now.
Anyway look for a 50 series pioneer or better yet an 80, 780, 880, 980 etc all are usually cheap, tx3000, 4000 oinks also dont carry much $. They sould like a marantz - close enough, but are much cheaper. R series yamaha too, but they are poor at driving complex loads.
The thing is these end up @ GW after a sale fails to happen either off CL or ebay or what not. So They never go for much ... the ever revolving supply pool keeps it that way.
I paid 25 for my 950, I have this 1250 sittng here dead on a and c, but B works, and sounds like that 950, besides I cannot push a 100 watts into any of my speakers in my house, the cops will show, that is if the house dont fall down first. Oh yea, I dont ahve inefficient spekaers, all of mine are 95 db/w/m and up. The PS3212 is near about 105db/w/m. tear your ears out, and it is a prefectly steady 8 ohm load to an amp. Heils too are all resistance and very steady loads. Easy to drive high, easy to drive low, and easy to drive loud and easy to drive soft. I kinda find and buy speakers that are ruler flat impedance. Dont want to deal with no dead amp, cos I got a lot of good amps. Its the spekaers fault IMHO if it kills an amp.
1980 - plenty were made and sold, they are not going to rocket in value. I'd take it easy and one is bound to show up. No one has 1 old amp, the minimum is 40 and I think I am in danger of being penalised for dropping below the minimum. BTW this year superb owl I didn't own anything made before 2000. Now I have so many I cant count em, sadly I dont think I am unique at finding this crap. There is quite a few that have filled up buildings upon buildings wiht this. Guess what, when they die, or get divorced, or move or just get fed up carrying a 60lb monster - it gets set curbside. My ar tsw 910 was free from a friend who was getting divorced and she ordered him to throw it out. Thorw it out is my middle name.
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Buddha.
Well, that makes more then one of us riding the unemployment train. I got canned a week ago, enjoying the time off but obviously concerned about the future! On the upside I just ordered some parts for my bandit and might do a trip. I'm thinking either Baton Rouge to the Great Lakes or BR to Seattle. Washington would be a hell of an adventure at over 5000 miles. Yes indeed, times are a changing...
-Ash
Ehh buddha even hitler and his goons couldnt outrun a heil :flipoff: but i agree