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[kork13]

Congratulations on the promotion. Leaving the family is tough. Hopefully you can see each other sometime soon. How long will you be in Japan?

2-4 years, depending on if I get selected for a subsequent job there as a commander.

The good news is that I should be able to fly back to the states to see my family for a bit at least a couple times before they move out to Japan next summer.

[disneysteve]

After about a year of waiting since the selections were announced, I finally got promoted today! It comes with a ~4.5% pay increase, and about 3x more responsibility.

I'm moving to Japan for my new job over the next 3 weeks (sadly, my family will stay in Idaho f for the next year until DW finishes PT school) and really looking forward to the new opportunity.

Congratulations on the promotion. Leaving the family is tough. Hopefully you can see each other sometime soon. How long will you be in Japan?

[kork13]

After about a year of waiting since the selections were announced, I finally got promoted today! It comes with a ~4.5% pay increase, and about 3x more responsibility.

I'm moving to Japan for my new job over the next 3 weeks (sadly, my family will stay in Idaho f for the next year until DW finishes PT school) and really looking forward to the new opportunity.

[Fishindude77]

Just ordered a new RTIC soft side cooler.
They are giving (2) free insulated tumblers with the purchase.

[QuarterMillionMan]

This but you'd need a Magenta Max cell service plan as well.

[disneysteve]

Cellular home internet became available in our area finally, and we signed up. $30/month. It's been flawless. We're saying goodbye to our $96/month DSL bill that supplied 1/10th the speed of the cellular connection.

How does that work? Is it tied in with your cell phone plan? $30/mo would be awesome as we currently pay over $102 for internet so about the same as what you were paying.

[ua_guy]

I recently consolidated two vehicles down to one. Got $543 back from the insurance company yesterday.

Cellular home internet became available in our area finally, and we signed up. $30/month. It's been flawless. We're saying goodbye to our $96/month DSL bill that supplied 1/10th the speed of the cellular connection.

[srblanco7]

Played in a golf tourney last weekend, spent $10 to enter a raffle and won a Scotty Cameron putter (retail value $449).

I'd love to tell you it improved my scoring - but it seems to have more to do with the player and less with the club...

[QuarterMillionMan]

An example of almost 100% premium.

[QuarterMillionMan]

All - picked up a few more grams of silver today. It wasn't much, but I bought it with Amazon credit that I got from scanning my receipts. So its a nice "no cash out of pocket" win.

There is kind of a lot of packaging for only 5 grams of silver, but I guess thats that it takes to keep from getting lost.

James keep in mind that the smaller the pieces, the higher the premiums, but it was basically free for scanning receipts so this may be a moot point. This is the premium the US Mint charges Authorized Purchasers. The premiums though that we pay are almost 100% to the dealers for 1 oz SAE (silver American eagles). Smaller pieces such as your 5 grams may be closer to 200% or more.

[scfr]

My wife learned that our library offers free passes to a number of local museums and attractions. She went online today and ordered us passes to The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia for 6/13. We thought it might just be a single pass but it's a family pass good for 2 adults and 2 kids so we are going completely free. Advance tickets are normally $21/person so it's saving us $42 and giving us something interesting to do one day. We'll also save 10% in their cafe and gift shop if we buy anything. Now that I'm barely working, I think we'll take advantage of this more. Maybe once a month or so we can hit a different museum for free.

We've also enjoyed free museum passes from our library (not quite as valuable as the one you got but still very nice). Our library also has a couple State Park passes that I'm going to get on hold for; they are popular so the wait is kind of long, so we'll need to be flexible about when we use it. The nice thing about those is that they are for the car. The list of things we use our library for is long!

[disneysteve]

I got a notice a day or two ago that I would be receiving a settlement from the class action suit against Zoom. I don't even remember the details or what the case was about but I'll be getting $32.32. Fine with me.

[james.hendrickson]

My wife learned that our library offers free passes to a number of local museums and attractions. She went online today and ordered us passes to The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia for 6/13. We thought it might just be a single pass but it's a family pass good for 2 adults and 2 kids so we are going completely free. Advance tickets are normally $21/person so it's saving us $42 and giving us something interesting to do one day. We'll also save 10% in their cafe and gift shop if we buy anything. Now that I'm barely working, I think we'll take advantage of this more. Maybe once a month or so we can hit a different museum for free.

Thats a win for sure.

[disneysteve]

My wife learned that our library offers free passes to a number of local museums and attractions. She went online today and ordered us passes to The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia for 6/13. We thought it might just be a single pass but it's a family pass good for 2 adults and 2 kids so we are going completely free. Advance tickets are normally $21/person so it's saving us $42 and giving us something interesting to do one day. We'll also save 10% in their cafe and gift shop if we buy anything. Now that I'm barely working, I think we'll take advantage of this more. Maybe once a month or so we can hit a different museum for free.

[james.hendrickson]

All - picked up a few more grams of silver today. It wasn't much, but I bought it with Amazon credit that I got from scanning my receipts. So its a nice "no cash out of pocket" win.

There is kind of a lot of packaging for only 5 grams of silver, but I guess thats that it takes to keep from getting lost.