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I have very little confidence when Amazon says "...arriving by 10 pm"

90% of the time I get my stuff early from Amazon. But... Whomever delivers your Amazon packages in Michigan is probably parked under a tree smoking that weed...🤣

I saw some show with Dave Chappelle doing stand up and there was one white guy in the audience. He stopped the show and asked the guy how uncomfortable he was. It reminded me of the high school graduation here. There was one black guy in the audience. It must have been hell on him.

I really like that guy Ali SIDDIQ from Houston. He's hilarious!

The money I’m making now could really change things here. Jesus! I have just been bled dry for the last 20 years. Now it’s time to catch up. The first thing I want to do is to just fix everything I have, namely the tractor and Gator. I use the shit out of them and they’ve really taken abuse.

A good tractor is worth it's weight in gold.

This is basically the same tractor I have. It's small. 25hp diesel. But it's built like a tank, has rear and center pto's, three-point hitch, hydraulics for a bucket or anything else.  I had a big tractor but I rarely used it. Then one day as I was pondering my crisis de jour, a wealthy stranger drove up with his checkbook in hand and asked me if I'd sell him my tractor. He gave me 15 g's and an extra hundred to arrange to ship it to Traverse City. 

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I don't have the time, energy or inclination to try to keep an old diesel running when it's ten below. That's actually what fck'd the Germans at Stalingrad. They didn't see that coming - the effect of that kind of cold on their machinery. The Russians were hip to it. They couldn't do anything about it, but they were aware.

"Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School’"

"U.S. schools—and one prestigious institution in particular—have long offered up-and-coming Chinese officials a place to study governance, a practice that the Trump administration could end with a new effort to keep out what it says are Chinese students with Communist Party ties."

"For decades, the party has sent thousands of mid-career and senior bureaucrats to pursue executive training and postgraduate studies on U.S. campuses, with Harvard University a coveted destination described by some in China as the top “party school” outside the country."

This is basically the same tractor I have. It's small. 25hp diesel. But it's built like a tank, has rear and center pto's, three-point hitch, hydraulics for a bucket or anything else.  I had a big tractor but I rarely used it. Then one day as I was pondering my crisis de jour, a wealthy stranger drove up with his checkbook in hand and asked me if I'd sell him my tractor. He gave me 15 g's and an extra hundred to arrange to ship it to Traverse City. 

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  Bears a strong resemblance to my John Deere lawn tractor which has 25 horsepower as well. It has 50 hours on it so far.

The terrain is really rough here and I go as fast as I possibly can. A zero turn couldn’t handle this for any length of time.