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This blows my mind.

I almost wrote this yesterday but got lazy (and also was a bit worried I sounded a little snobby and/or insensitive): On Ellen, she tricked this family into coming to the show saying the daughter won some "I'm the biggest Taylor Swift" fan. So she calls the teenage daughter up on stage and gives her tickets to Taylor's next concert, backstage passes, etc... Much crying ensues from the daughter and her teenage sister. Even the parents were standing up and cheering. Then she calls the rest of the family on stage and has the daughter read a letter she wrote talking about how her dad's a chauffeur and her mom's a diner waitress in Long Island, they both have been laid off at different times in the past two years and because of that and medical problems they had to declare bankruptcy. Very sad. Ellen gives them a trip on a cruise for 7 days. You'd think they won the lotto.

Then Ellen's like wait, there's more, and then gives them $20k cash to help out with their bills. The way this family reacted I'm surprised they didn't need to call an ambo. They're all crying, I'm crying, Seth's crying because I'm crying. It was really beautiful. Yeah it's a tax writeoff for Ellen's show but I don't care. Cash is cash and that family obviously needed it.

But after I was thinking about how 20k doesn't seem like a life changing amount of money unless it was for a transplant or meds or to smuggle your family out of an oppressed country maybe. But to a regular family in Long Island? I was just surprised by how excited they were. And a bit embarrassed by how jaded I felt.

And now in that Casper thread, look at the money people are flashing! They whipped it out to show Casper what an absolute fool he is but it was more than double the amount that that family received. Money they have sitting at home - for whatever purpose - is life changing to other people. Not sure where I'm going with this but it set me off on this big internal dialogue about money. I'm starting to think the whole concept of cash is a very fucked up thing.
 
durito
fwiw i dont usually have 25k sitting around. ive been collecting. and today im visiting wu and mg all day.
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fair enough

I've had to have somewhat big stacks of cash sitting at home at random times during the past 2 years and it just blows my mind thinking about how the meaning of it is so relative. People kill over that amount of money in that thread. People kill over 25 bucks. A guy sold his artificial leg on some pawn shop show last night in detroit for $50. Brought along crutches in the hopes he'd sell. Fucking common.

it's paper yet if you gave your stack to someone it could literally change the course of their lives for awhile, or maybe forever, but you could also choose to burn it, loan it to Casper, snort it, whatever. Just piss it away into the universe. And I'm not saying any of us should just give huge chunks of money away to random people. Just that the concept is weird.

this shit is tripping me out - i imagine this is how dopers feel when they have those deep thoughts about random things and get fixated on it for awhile
 
It's kind of a screwed up situation. Certain motions are okay and others are uncomfortable - and not in a way one might expect. For example I could pick up a 50 pound box off the floor and put it on a workbench no problem, but if I go to tape it up, pressing down on that strip of tape is quite uncomfortable. Any kind of downward pressure is bad.

Actually, for all the physical stuff involved in work, the most painful things have been getting into bed, getting out of bed and rolling over in bed.

Anyway, it has improved significantly. Things are going in the right direction. I just have to not do anything stupid. I need to keep taking it easy for awhile and not do anything to re-tweak it and set me back where I started.

Thank you for asking.
 
Listening to the radio earlier today, there was a guy who had the solution to Tiger Woods' problems with his golf game. Basically, this man said, what Tiger needs to do is play like he did in 2000-2001.

The guy made a pretty strong case. When Tiger was playing that way, he was dominating the tour and at one point won 4 consecutive majors. Now he's not playing that way and things aren't going so well.

So it makes logical sense that things would go better if he played that way :light:



Some extreme genius coming over my radio this morning.
 
Sure. Not sure where I left off with this story but okay, I got my car back yesterday. It is looking good and running smooth.

As far as the financial side of it, I contacted GM head office. Even though my warranty is expired I said I thought they should cover it on the grounds that a transmission with 23K miles on it should not be exploding. I bounced around between a few people and what they finally offered was to pay for the part but I would pay for the labor.

So that's what I paid yesterday. That was like $1100. So between that and a couple of tows and a rental car I had to pay for until they could get me a courtesy car, the ordeal has cost me ~1500.

That is quite a bit better than GM's first estimate of ~3200, and quite a bit better still than the very first estimate I had at another joint which was almost 4K.

However I would prefer to pay nothing at all. After listening to that radio guy earlier and applying some of his extreme logic, I conclude that paying nothing would be even better than $1100.

So I don't know how to feel.

I still have someone at GM head office who is going to bat for me (supposedly) to get me reimbursed for those labor charges so maybe there will be some news on that next week, but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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