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    Anybody Buying Yet? Where’s the Bottom?

    Watching the market very closely today. As of Friday the complete overhaul of my portfolio on 1/26 and 1/28 is up around 6.9-7.1%. I have a plan to sell the entire portfolio again and move to bonds, treasury, and large cap income, then hold that until the next crash/correction. With a little...
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    2026 Garden

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    Mrs. Fin is selling her walleye boat

    Wow, what are you upgrading to??
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    6.5 Creedmoor +Peak Poll

    Lowest tier Savage 6.5 + 143 eld-x was sub MOA, first factory ammo I tested. It is easy to overcomplicate. Some really enjoy the tiny adjustments of handholding - I’ll never understand why, but whatever floats your boat.
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    Iowa Office of Outdoor Recreation

    As our taxpayer reserve funds dry up, now accelerated by the 2Bn dollar 3-strikes law, there will be immense pressure to eliminate IWILL when our inevitable sales tax increase arrives.
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    Iowa Office of Outdoor Recreation

    https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2026-06-08/gov-reynolds-signs-executive-order Come 1, come all
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    2026 Garden

    7 Buttercup squash vines 10 sunflowers 10 potato plants 20 cucumber plants 63 okra stalks Everything is mulched. Had fresh dill with my chicken salad. Hopeful that my potatoes don’t drown/fail.
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    Iowa governor race- Montana connection

    Well, on Election Day I marked Lahn down as a throwaway vote against Steen and Feenstra. Wednesday morning:
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    AI tips, tricks, faults, and failures

    I also use this instruction prompt to strip away Gemini’s human-like tone, and give brutally critical answers. It sometimes begins to revert to the default algorithm, but you can command it to follow the initial instructions and it will revise its latest response in the thread: ADOPT THE...
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    AI tips, tricks, faults, and failures

    Failures of free Gemini: -confidently states as fact if 51% or more of the information available. -sycophantic to the point of fueling delusions about user ideas -Reinforces original response even if it is dead wrong. The more it repeats itself, the more confident it is (stubborn...
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    2026 Garden

    Tomatoes and peppers fruiting. Cucumbers and squash are nearly set. Have wood chips for the okra once it gets a little taller. Potato plants growing quickly. Carrots look a bit pathetic, might try and transplant to spread them out.
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    Hunting trips and hunting partners

    #2 I’d guess I’ve had 7 recent cross-country hunting trips in as many years. Maybe a few more. I’ve hunted alone I think 5 of them, 4 of those remote. Maybe try local BHA chapter to make some contacts. Finding a good partner is very difficult. Cross country trips means prioritizing your time...
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    Hunting trips and hunting partners

    There are 2 issues - one is your wife’s irrational fear of the dangers of you hunting alone. The other is comparability of hunting partners. #1 You are about x20 times more likely to get seriously injured or die traveling to your hunt from WV, then actually on your hunt. Fear is usually caused...
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    2026 Garden

    Making room for okra, winter squash, and sunflowers.
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    Hunting/Outdoors Mentor Misses

    Overwhelming I was blessed with multiple good mentors. No one is perfect though. “You should have shot”. Got that a couple times rifle deer hunting after I said I saw a moving animal for just a few seconds. No tree stand harnesses. I fell out once - I was 13 or 14 I think. It’s a wonder I...
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