‼️Announcements‼️
Moved back into the Vacation House - send all mail there - I will not receive it if addressed to the Hood House
🗓️Weekly Rundown🗓️
Mowing Jfarms for the 1st time back out west and noticed someone put some Scagg Zaggs in Ms Jennys yard so the zig zags are back
Had my last idea sharing convo with Scrape in the Hood House - will be missed as they were my favorite part of the stay at the Hood House
2 truck loads to move out - whoever took the under 2.5 truckloads to completely move everything out - your bet hit
Memorable Hood House Moments:
The 1st week at the Hood House was brutal - the house right behind me had its door kicked down and raided by the SWAT team and a tree fell and would have crushed me if a power line didn't catch it and hold it up long enough for me to get out of the way
Moments that made me realize I'm lucky to have money like when bro heard Scrape put 40$ on pump 3 and said "damn boy, you gonna fill the whole tank today" or seeing people only ever buy the cheapest food like white bread and ramen
Hosting friends from OUSEMG, Run Club, Team Addicts, OG Pickerington people, Old OU People, Ms Campbell and others was very fun
After Ms Campbell helped me pack up some of the Hood House she helped me move in the Vacation House and saw the famroy
Scariest moment was when I walked upstairs to put something in my room and I hear Pops ask Ms Campbell a question in the same mischievous tone he asked Faith's friends to give him their elevator pitch - I feared something of that caliber was coming but was pleasantly surprised when it was just asking about her teaching at Central - feeling: relieved
Unpacking I realized I haven't worn my Yeezy Zebras since I left for the Hood House so if anyone wants a size 10.5 I'm selling ("Gently used DS" - some heel drag and sole yellowing 7.5/10)
Definitely losing muscle since I started running - I see older photos from OU when I was lifting and I have definitely lost a lot of size - but I can run a lot farther so trade offs I guess
There's a new guy cutting grass and he is the 1st person this season outside of Mike (245) that will stay working till dark with me and not get someone to pick them up in the middle of the day - he is passing the vibe check
Told CEO Jeff we found a guy to replace me at my current “role” so I could probably start before September now or travel - he recommended I travel… so can go abroad in August before I'm in the shackles of employment
I sold a lot of my shares of Barrick that have well into triple digit returns since I pitched it my head semester
Did some tax loss harvesting thanks to Hunker+TTD and a few other losers - my tax bill for realizing my gains on Barrick will be closer to $10 instead of a couple hundred #TaxSavings #GetBentUncleSam #RealizedGains
Ran 22 miles, 15 from the long run - to see it on STRAVA CLICK HERE
Friday I had 0 miles this week and 3 days later boom over 22
WBOTW: OSauer and Salberg - they did the Burning River events and O ran 50 miles on Saturday and Sal ran 100 miles in under 24 hours. Was kinda insane to see 2 people who seem like normal people do something I think is crazy. I was thinking a marathon was thinking big but Osauer doubled it and Salberg quadrupled it in a single run.
🦬High Low Buffalo🦬
High:
Friday was fun even though most of the day was just moving out
Low:
Apparently a mouse found my backpacking oatmeal and now my mittens have holes in them and smell like mouse piss
Buffalo:
Uploaded hecka new gas photos to Mama and the Grandmas aura frames so there are gas photos in rotation from my trips out west
🧠Something New I Learned🧠
There are Flock Cameras at both entrances of Champions Way at Central - I researched if they were constitutional and that is up in the air, still being decided in the courts, split decision, where they are saying Flock is unwarranted mass surveillance that tracks every single movement of people and cars going by at a level of detail that our 4th amendment suggests they would need a warrant to do.
The part that makes it more weird is the USA government seems against Flock but very for Axon. Axon are the exact same 4th amendment infringing cameras except our President happens to have bought millions of $ worth of shares of Axon this year, and I think I read they would be more willing to share data with the government than Flock, but not certain on that - fact check me before you cite me on that one.
Are we 1 step closer to a world like in 1984 by George Orwell?
You only think something is normal because other people around you are doing it - in different cultures there are insane things they thought were normal and we have normal things that are not normal. Normal is just what others do - doesnt mean its good. If you shift who you're around a marathon seems huge or small, same thing but different circles so different normals
🎵Song of the Week🎵
Good God, Hot Damn by Hayden Blount
Honorable Mentions:
Set in Stone by Travis Tritt
Might be rivalling George Strait's Cold Beer Conversation for my favorite song of all time - if it's not 1 it's 2
Starboy by The Weeknd
Just What I Do by Trick Pony
Till next time,
VB
Glossary
Vacation House: Parents house
Hood House: House I lived in with Scrape that was in a rougher area than Jfarms
Scagg Zaggs: zig zag mower stripes made with a Scagg mower
OUSEMG: OU's most prestigious group that manages the school's money
Run Club + Team Addicts: 2 different groups of friends but they do have overlap
Yeezy Zebras: coolest shoe ever made that used to have insane hype
DS: Deadstock - brand new and still in the box never opened/worn
Heel Drag: wear on the heel of the shoes
Barrick (B): a gold mining company I pitched when I was in OUSEMG that absolutely ripped, click here to read a 2 year old thesis
TradeDesk (TTD): a stock pitched that some people had high conviction would rip…. but instead it crashed over 80%
Tax Loss Harvesting: selling losers the same time you sell winners so they cancel out on paper so there seems to be no money to be taxed at capital gains rates in the IRS's eyes (limited to up to $3000 in gains)
Burning River: Cuyahoga races that were ultras like 50 or 100 mile races
Aura Frame: A digital photo frame anyone with your link can upload photos to
Flock cameras: cameras popping up that are for "safety" and traffic violations that use facial recognition and AI to track every person's movement and collect that data and resemble mass surveillance and breaking privacy almost too much
Axon cameras: same as Flock but different company that Trump owns millions in their stock