I thought the whole urine in jars thing was just a Vinny quirk. But Google Gemini confirms it's a great way to tend to your plants and garden.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 8:53 am PAGING Mountaineer!!!!


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lol!

mathjak107 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 06, 2026 3:36 pm interesting as i see it playing on the post in the forum.

let me try a different way

https://photos.smugmug.com/FAMILY/n-cK5 ... 8-1280.mp4

Wow. That's intense. Again, you and your family are okay.

Mathjak, it looks like you appended some media to your last post but it looks like the forum is unable to parse it.

Is anyone else able to view Mathjak's attachment?

Yikes, I'm really glad you're okay mathjak. And the missus for that matter.

Seeing the dashcam footage would indeed be interesting.

One can always count on Xan to come into a thread and drop some mad knowledge.

Bitcoin has more whiplash than a car accident.

One of the reasons why I love this forum is because it's an unbiased record of both my brilliance and dumbassery.

Keeps me accountable.

Look at those declines. Holy crap, my dudes.

MicroStrategy (Strategy) stock also looks like a potential bitcoin value play. Down 80% or so from its peak.

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 10:40 am I wish I had been smart enough to buy BTC every time it got pummeled in the past.

Indeed. It's gone down so much that I'm thinking of buying back in.

Not at the same magnitude I did before (like 80%+ of net worth), but enough to have a bit of skin in the game.

I was definitely in that camp.

Fortunately dualstow talked some sense into me before the big drop and I went back to diversified investing.

Looks like a big rise in the after hours.

My concern with long-term treasury bonds in the PP has always been that their volatility and risk profile are not constant. They're both higher when rates are lower, and lower when rates are higher. Fortunately, I found a solution here in Canada. I'm sure similar solutions exist in the U.S. I found ...

A reminder to us all that anything can happen in markets.

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 2:15 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:13 am Are you guys planning any trips/travel this year?

China. Bit of medical tourism (nothing serious, just testing). And a bit of regular tourism. Trying to iron out the dates right now, actually.

I like it. I just rebalanced into emerging markets earlier this month!

Agree with Mathjak

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:56 am

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:13 am Are you guys planning any trips/travel this year?

I might leave my house / property.

LOL

Are you guys planning any trips/travel this year? Costco. Local grocery store. Church. Gas station. Friends. Restaurants. I’m going out on a limb here, but I might even take trips to the TV room and bedroom and bathroom. 😉 Hahahhaa! touche! I want to go to New York this year! But the missus doesn't...

I would personally make it intermediate-term treasury bonds instead of short-term, but this is a perfectly valid approach too.

Are you guys planning any trips/travel this year?

Yeah it was inevitable. In markets, I'm just along for the ride, and enjoying it!

Back to good ol' Breaking Bad memes. O0 bb meme.jpg I never understood the hate for Skyler. When the show was still putting out new episodes, Vince Gilligan even tried to shield actress Anna Gunn(sp?) from social media. I thought she was great, but maybe they did write a lot of angry lines for her....

lol also:

Back to good ol' Breaking Bad memes.