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| May 12th, 2020 at 8:04:10 AM permalink | |
| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 5748 | Since I've hijacked this thread I'll try and get it back on track. My wife just got her tax refund for 2019. So IRS clearly has her info. As a part timer, she made less than $75k last year. So should qualify for the $1200. Went online to 'check your stimulus payment'. It basically said.... "Don't bother us. If you qualify you will eventually get it." My sister works for a summer camp. Over the course of the year she interviews hundreds (thousand?) kids/young adults to get staff for the camp for the summer. She is one of 8 full time employees that work year round, the 400 or so she hires of course only work July and August. If camp is canceled the owner is out 7 figures. He needed these 8 employees, legal, accounting, mortgage, capital upgrades, supplies, advertising, insurance, real estate taxes, maintenance, etc... She does not know if they will be allowed to open, and if so, how many kids will be allowed, or how many kids will come even if allowed. For the last many years they have filled up, turning kids away. She has taken phone calls from parents, and few are in the middle. "No way I can send Johnny this year, sorry!" to "This is so important for Johnny to be able to go this year, I pray you are open!" |
| May 12th, 2020 at 9:04:24 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
Early for me would be 2 pm. I never golfed without drinking, why would anybody drink at 8 am. Golf and beer go hand in hand. Without drinking golf is pointless, why bother. Golf is pointless anyway, it's just an excuse for most men to get away from the fam.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 12th, 2020 at 11:34:46 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 |
Today was a wonderful day of golf here. Was done with our round at 10:am came home and jumped in the pool. Winds were about 20, but not too bad for golf Now the problem is what to do the rest of the day.. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| May 12th, 2020 at 11:45:16 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
I played golf from 1969 to 1984. It just got too crowded and too expensive and very hard to find a friend to play by that time. Golf was always a social event for me. Friends and beer good times. Always an afternoon event. In the 80's it was getting too crowded for me. Wait and play, wait and play. Screw that. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 12th, 2020 at 12:09:36 PM permalink | |
| Shrek Member since: Aug 13, 2019 Threads: 10 Posts: 1855 |
Wouldn't surprise me either haha Aren't you the guy who camped outside of scientology headquarters and spied on them with binoculars?? 🤣🤣🤣 |
| May 12th, 2020 at 12:25:58 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 76 Posts: 12501 |
I'm playing Thursday. Never crowded on the weekdays. Now that I am retired, never consider playing on a weekend. I find this game incredibly relaxing I just love being on a course. Playing music in the cart because other players always a few hundred yards away. Even though using a cart, still walking quite a bit getting good exercise. Just a couple deadheads hitting a ball around a course not keeping score. Life is good, love being retired. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| May 12th, 2020 at 12:51:32 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 |
I am also playing again on Thursday. Sunday too. This will be the first time I have played three rounds in a week in a long time. I got my first unemployment check so what better to spend it on than golf. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| May 22nd, 2020 at 12:59:36 AM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/washington-state-loses-hundreds-millions-nigerian-unemployment-claims-fraud-scheme They should hire these guys. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| May 26th, 2020 at 9:25:24 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 | I am still so bored that I just agreed to play golf tomorrow at 3pm. Tomorrow's forcast is 107 degrees at 3pm. At least heat stroke may give me something to do, hospitals are nice this time of year. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| May 26th, 2020 at 11:08:23 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22942 |
I think I'd be using a cart. Somehow women wear full covering burka's in that kind of heat in the Middle East. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |