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Q-Tip in the garden

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remembering the guy on reddit who found a dead cherry tree with a burl and thought the burl was chaga. he made tea out of the sawdust and gave himself mild arsenic poisoning. chaga mostly grows on birch and is on living trees

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Went morel hunting last Sunday and got no mushrooms but found a showy orchis. Can’t eat it but it’s a fair bit rarer. Going to go back this weekend to see if it’s blooming.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

refinanced $20k of student loans last year when rates were roughly at peak I went with a variable rate since it was a point below the rate for fixed and I didn’t think rates would go higher :/ glad I’ve paid half of it off already

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

non-technical people keep asking in meetings is “AI” can help with data reporting stuff and I’m not doing well

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

had a semi-expensive dental procedure done (apicoectomy) last month but they weren’t sure how much insurance would cover so I paid for it from my HSA ($1,800) Insurance covered more than they thought so they just mailed me a check for $700 idk what I do for taxes

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Tom Emmer can never sit still when he’s in the background of this stuff. It’s amusing.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Get to take an 18 worksheet excel “dashboard” with a dozen+ manual spots to paste data from 4 source systems and make into an actual dashboard that reads from a real data warehouse

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

quantitatively: $8.500M = $8,500K visually: $8.500M > 8,500K

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

read a Facebook post about grass-fed/finished pigs* versus grass-fed/grain-finished pigs. the carnivore diet people were arguing amongst themselves about whether the post was villainizing animal fats unfairly *this isn’t a really thing. you’ll starve a pig this way.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I have to do a lot of work with original vs revised budgets and dislike that the professional shorthand would be “Orig” for original when OG is shorter and reads as original for me more than Orig (we also use an application called Origami for added confusion)

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

good news for my mom if she wants another mini cooper I guess (doubtful since they discontinued the manual transmission)

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I had four hours of meetings Monday, five yesterday, and six today. Not okay.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

promoted today. I’m no longer mister financial analyst, now I’m mister senior business intelligence developer.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I know corporate greed is a justifiably popular line but Trump’s tariffs will raise prices of lots of domestic goods. There isn’t a product that is wholly uncoupled from international markets unless you figure out how to sell something without using fossil fuels in the supply chain.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

his droopy upper eyelid make him look like one of the NPCs from Schedule 1

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Lutnick is a pos

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Trump take Bluey

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Q-Tip in the garden

remembering the guy on reddit who found a dead cherry tree with a burl and thought the burl was chaga. he made tea out of the sawdust and gave himself mild arsenic poisoning. chaga mostly grows on birch and is on living trees

Went morel hunting last Sunday and got no mushrooms but found a showy orchis. Can’t eat it but it’s a fair bit rarer. Going to go back this weekend to see if it’s blooming.

refinanced $20k of student loans last year when rates were roughly at peak I went with a variable rate since it was a point below the rate for fixed and I didn’t think rates would go higher :/ glad I’ve paid half of it off already

non-technical people keep asking in meetings is “AI” can help with data reporting stuff and I’m not doing well

had a semi-expensive dental procedure done (apicoectomy) last month but they weren’t sure how much insurance would cover so I paid for it from my HSA ($1,800) Insurance covered more than they thought so they just mailed me a check for $700 idk what I do for taxes

Tom Emmer can never sit still when he’s in the background of this stuff. It’s amusing.

Get to take an 18 worksheet excel “dashboard” with a dozen+ manual spots to paste data from 4 source systems and make into an actual dashboard that reads from a real data warehouse

quantitatively: $8.500M = $8,500K visually: $8.500M > 8,500K

read a Facebook post about grass-fed/finished pigs* versus grass-fed/grain-finished pigs. the carnivore diet people were arguing amongst themselves about whether the post was villainizing animal fats unfairly *this isn’t a really thing. you’ll starve a pig this way.

I have to do a lot of work with original vs revised budgets and dislike that the professional shorthand would be “Orig” for original when OG is shorter and reads as original for me more than Orig (we also use an application called Origami for added confusion)

good news for my mom if she wants another mini cooper I guess (doubtful since they discontinued the manual transmission)

I had four hours of meetings Monday, five yesterday, and six today. Not okay.

promoted today. I’m no longer mister financial analyst, now I’m mister senior business intelligence developer.

I know corporate greed is a justifiably popular line but Trump’s tariffs will raise prices of lots of domestic goods. There isn’t a product that is wholly uncoupled from international markets unless you figure out how to sell something without using fossil fuels in the supply chain.

his droopy upper eyelid make him look like one of the NPCs from Schedule 1

Lutnick is a pos

Trump take Bluey

another one for the Hibernian Conspiracy, scheming to keep rentier wealth low in order to grow their economy faster than other advanced economies

I’ll take a ~6% shift

Oh no, we’re gonna have to build the ai god to get through this recession