Bear Down Wildcats

97cats wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 12:38 pm

Chicat wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 12:35 pm That’s some excellent forethought. You just better hope the Zags don’t lose and spoil your plans.

i figure if they do i can resell and buy again - lmmfao...i just know the tickets i got are going to be outrageous the week of....and, Chi - i got two full strips

Oh man do I want this meet up to happen. It would be incredible.

one of Kansas or Baylor should get the South at this point unless something crazy happens

I have already taken days off. Next will be the outrageous purchase for tickets.

I can't believe Chicat and 97Cats are sending me 1st class round trip tickets to Chicago, court-side tickets to the games, hotel suite and all the steaks I can eat.

You guys are the best!

Alieberman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:57 pm I can't believe Chicat and 97Cats are sending me 1st class round trip tickets to Chicago, court-side tickets to the games, hotel suite and all the steaks I can eat.

You guys are the best!

No more big tourney game Chicago hotel suites for you.

Alieberman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:57 pm I can't believe Chicat and 97Cats are sending me 1st class round trip tickets to Chicago, court-side tickets to the games, hotel suite and all the steaks I can eat.

You guys are the best!

im not sitting courtside, Al... but i do have very, very good seats...and the flights & accommodations, well ill just leave it at that

Longhorned wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 2:07 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:57 pm I can't believe Chicat and 97Cats are sending me 1st class round trip tickets to Chicago, court-side tickets to the games, hotel suite and all the steaks I can eat.

You guys are the best!

No more big tourney game Chicago hotel suites for you.

Fuck Wisconsin

Alieberman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:57 pm I can't believe Chicat and 97Cats are sending me 1st class round trip tickets to Chicago, court-side tickets to the games, hotel suite and all the steaks I can eat.

You guys are the best!

That's nice. I had to tell my daughter to downgrade her College choices because Daddy will soon have a couple of pretty big expenses.

Alieberman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:57 pm I can't believe Chicat and 97Cats are sending me 1st class round trip tickets to Chicago, court-side tickets to the games, hotel suite and all the steaks I can eat.

You guys are the best!

Is this one of those “speak it into existence” The Secret things?

Curious to find out if it works…

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 12:09 pm Just bought the wife a diamond ring for Mothers Day.

Fucking outrageous what it costs to buy something that’s not even remotely rare.

Just picked it up. I get short of breath just thinking about it.

Moissanite. You're welcome

Chicat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:39 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 12:09 pm Just bought the wife a diamond ring for Mothers Day.

Fucking outrageous what it costs to buy something that’s not even remotely rare.

Just picked it up. I get short of breath just thinking about it.

You already know this: value and cost are often entirely unrelated. What it means to her is what matters. And you knew that too.

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:06 pm

Chicat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:39 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 12:09 pm Just bought the wife a diamond ring for Mothers Day.

Fucking outrageous what it costs to buy something that’s not even remotely rare.

Just picked it up. I get short of breath just thinking about it.

You already know this: value and cost are often entirely unrelated. What it means to her is what matters. And you knew that too.

Ten years ago on Mother’s Day I gave her a different ring, so this one should go over well. I just hope she likes the cut and setting. Although if she doesn’t, the store will buy it back and put what I paid toward whatever she wants.

I proposed last month with a ring that was a moss agate main stone, moonstone side stones, and moissanite accents. Fiance absolutely loves it, and we both really dislike diamonds. $340 for the whole thing. Why get a boring diamond when you can get something with some color?

ASUHATER! wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 3:19 pm Why get a boring diamond …?

Because my wife likes diamonds.

Chicat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:47 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:06 pm

Chicat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:39 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 12:09 pm Just bought the wife a diamond ring for Mothers Day.

Fucking outrageous what it costs to buy something that’s not even remotely rare.

Just picked it up. I get short of breath just thinking about it.

You already know this: value and cost are often entirely unrelated. What it means to her is what matters. And you knew that too.

Ten years ago on Mother’s Day I gave her a different ring, so this one should go over well. I just hope she likes the cut and setting. Although if she doesn’t, the store will buy it back and put what I paid toward whatever she wants.

And the store also sells bourbon....

Just ordered a new tent for our Colorado trip.

I'm putting in a new pool liner. Definitely goes under outrageous purchases...

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:56 am I'm putting in a new pool liner. Definitely goes under outrageous purchases...

One of my Tucson brothers had his pool redone. 5 figures.

I don't live in a hot climate, but about 10 years ago I filled my inground pool in once my kids got older. Bet decision I ever made.

Pretty sure I'll have to re plaster my pool and redo the pool deck within the next 5-10 years. Not looking forward to it. Oh and also a new AC is in the cards too.

Merkin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:14 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:56 am I'm putting in a new pool liner. Definitely goes under outrageous purchases...

One of my Tucson brothers had his pool redone. 5 figures.

I don't live in a hot climate, but about 10 years ago I filled my inground pool in once my kids got older. Bet decision I ever made.

And after waiting 2 months because they were backed up the liner doesn't fit and they have to order a new one.
I'm going to kill someone. Wait, do I have to take this now to the venting thread?

Just finished moving from Phoenix, AZ to Charlotte, NC. Wife and I are subleasing an apartment for two months. The outrageous purchase was a new build 4400sqft house 5bdr 4bath that should be done in August.

**EDIT**
1200 of the sqft is the basement which I demanded if I was going to move across the country.

That's a big house. We're hoping to downsize to the 1,000-1,200 sq ft size upon retirement.

Now where did I put my AMEX...

https://www.jomashop.com/patek-philippe ... xOfDB8WXww

Oh well it's 3% off, a steal.

Merkin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 7:08 pm Now where did I put my AMEX...

https://www.jomashop.com/patek-philippe ... xOfDB8WXww

I've always lusted after a Patek Phillipe, only one of more traditional design.

Nice ride. Do you ever get to drive it?

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:46 am Nice ride. Do you ever get to drive it?

I'm lucky if she let's me look at it.

Not financially an outrageous purchase, but more so suspicious in ethical and professional terms.

I am buying an AI Writing Assistant in order to automatically produce sentences and paragraphs.

I write a lot. For work and outside of work. Emails, Message Boards, Power Points, Reference Material, Journals, Social Media, Reports, Home Work, Research, Creative Projects. All day, every day.

My goal with this AIWA will be to address the most tedious part of writing. Not the editing but rather the structuring of sentences and the stringing of sentences into flowing paragraphs. This is supposed to be the strength of AI writing programs. Human inputs topical info, AI spits out readable drivel.

We’ll see where it goes. For now I’m expecting AI outputs to serve more as prompts to be rewritten by creative effort.

CatsbyAZ wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:57 am For now I’m expecting AI outputs to serve more as prompts to be rewritten by creative effort.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the drawer so I need some help with this. AI is going to generate prompts for you to rewrite? How are the original inputs to AI generated? By you? I find this a curious relationship in which the efficiency and causal benefit is unclear.

https://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Funny-Po ... B01E65UUSQ

What a world when it's easier to Photoshop a sign on your lawn than to actually use the real sign to take an image of.

Getting married next week and trying to decide on a honeymoon destination for late August. Current leaders in the clubhouse are Maldives and Bora Bora. Anyone been to either or have any other recs?

Congrats LK! Although I thought you were a confirmed bachelor for life.

Grand Cayman is real nice.

Have you thought of Gila Bend?

Mayan Riviera.

Bora Bora if only because the flight must be five hours shorter.

Maldives are great. But I recommend Exmouth in Western Australia. Diving and snorkeling is probably as good as the Maldives (but a different coral mix), but you get to swim with the Whale Sharks too.

RichardCranium wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:46 pm Maldives are great. But I recommend Exmouth in Western Australia. Diving and snorkeling is probably as good as the Maldives (but a different coral mix), but you get to swim with the Whale Sharks too.

And even more important when contemplating the staggering breadth of conjugal reality is the temporal context implicit in witnessing the Shark Bay stromatolites conveniently en route to Exmouth. Young lovers need ponder our planet's oldest living life forms. I can only imagine that standing with one's betrothed there in the windy silence of Australia's remote Western coast as the origin of oxygen-based terrestrial life quietly continues to labor at life itself will give perspective to love's endeavor.

In Western Australia, 3.5bn-year-old stromatolites built up the oxygen content of the Earth’s atmosphere to about 20%, giving the kiss of life to all that was to evolve.

The kiss of life is but a moment endlessly repeated. The breath of love is infinitely longer.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/2021 ... -lifeforms

Wow, you're a poet too!?!

Nah, just an asshole with decades of an SWMBO and a weakness for Australia(ns).

Few weekends ago in Vegas was in the Venetian and bought a wallet for $480. Engraved with my initials.

CardiacCats97 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:16 pm Bora Bora if only because the flight must be five hours shorter.

It’s like 10 hours shorter but to the Maldives we’d be taking Qatar business class….versus United to Bora Bora. So that seems about even.

CatsbyAZ wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 7:48 am Few weekends ago in Vegas was in the Venetian and bought a wallet for $480. Engraved with my initials.

Wow. This is certainly consistent with the thread title.

LK - I hear nothing but fabulous things about Bora Bora. It’s on my bucket list after I rob a bank…

Couples Retreat was shot there. Love the huts with the floor “water view”.

legallykenny wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:13 am

CardiacCats97 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:16 pm Bora Bora if only because the flight must be five hours shorter.

It’s like 10 hours shorter but to the Maldives we’d be taking Qatar business class….versus United to Bora Bora. So that seems about even.

Mmmmm. I've fantasized about Qatar business class. Give us a report afterward.

Yeah, I could probably manage it.