You’re in luck, half the city’s out of town this weekend for Burning Man. If you’re renting a car, don’t leave anything valuable or visible in it if you park it around town. It will get broken into.
For food, grab a burrito at El Farolito for the biggest and best burrito you’ll ever have. If you want good quality Chinese food and want to avoid the tourist trap of Chinatown, check out Hunan Cafe 2. It’s some of the best Chinese food in the city and only a few blocks from the beach; total hole in the wall place too. And if you’re trying to be somewhat fancy, check out La Mar on the Embarcadero for some solid ceviche/Peruvian food.
Parking my ass on the couch from 10 AM until 8 PM tomorrow to watch college football, then taking my girlfriend to a fancy restaurant (she’s been wanting an excuse to wear her new Jimmy Choos) for our anniversary dinner.
Sunday, brunch and movies.
Monday, the girlfriend is going to Napa for a friend’s 30th birthday so I’m playing video games in my boxers all day.
Pretty much. But if a client who’s about to give our company 7-8 digits decides to drop by and see the people who will be managing his 7-8 digits, you best be wearing a tuxedo.
Wait…but where’s all the drinking you supposedly do every day?
Also, can confirm about healthy people and Midwest. I’m still dumbfounded from my visit to Iowa a few years back where I discovered that even if a salad doesn’t list cheese as one of its ingredients, it will still come covered in it, thus removing any health benefits. Also, mayo. Mayo everywhere and on everything.
Shy girl: how do you know which car is his? If it were me, I’d get a bit creeped out if a girl whom I only spoke with once left a note on my car, especially if I never told her what car I drive or where my spot is. I’d wait until you run into him again (you live in the same building, I assume it’ll happen at some point) and ask if he’d like to go on a walk with you and your dog sometime.
Wedding: I’ve been to two weddings of friends where I knew how they were financed. One, the bride’s family paid for the food and venue and the groom’s family paid for the alcohol (it was an open bar). The other, my friend and his wife paid for everything themselves. I honestly never knew that the bride’s family pays for the wedding until recently. It’s probably a tradition from the old says where the bride’s family gave up the bride and paid for the wedding in exchange for the groom’s family providing a cow and as far as I know, we no longer exchange brides for cows in the US
Very true, although I would think that they controlled their sample size to account for this and didn’t arrive at their per capita numbers by literally taking the total volume of alcohol consumed and dividing by the population.
“As to why the U.S. wasn’t higher up on this? I’m not entirely sure, as people seem to find reasons to drink for basically any occasion these days.”
You touched on the answer to this in your second paragraph. This list looks like it’s purely alcohol consumed. For a given volume, beer has way less alcohol in it than spirits (5-10% vs. 40%), which are the drink of choice in many Eastern European countries and consumed more frequently. It’s not unusual to take a couple of shots a vodka during a casual dinner.
Also alcoholism is insanely rampant there. There was actually some controversy in Russia recently because the country raised its retirement age to basically the median life expectancy for men (65 for retirement, 66 for life expectancy). The life expectancy is so low because men frequently drink themselves to death and given how many Eastern European countries are on that list, I can’t imagine it’s much different there.
What are you and your girlfriend going to do for your wedding (assuming it happens) since you’re Jewish and she’s Presbyterian? Also unless your girlfriend converts, no non-Reform Rabbi will do a Bar/Bat Mitzvah since your kid won’t be considered Jewish.
Religion can really suck sometimes (a lot of the time).
I agree with that, but I think there’s a difference between struggling to put food on the table and being wealthy. No you can’t be poor to consider travel as a hobby, but you also don’t have to be rich.
And also since that’s median income, that means that half the population has a higher household income. Plus, people living in low cost of living areas also have lower expenses. My salary in San Francisco is higher than average, but my rent is also really high. I bet if you were to take a ratio of rent to salary, mine would be way higher than someone living in the Midwest. There’s a reason that you get asked your income AND your rent/mortgage payment when applying for a credit card.
Actually the median income is closer to 60K…and you can do it decently on a budget if you time it with flight/hotel deals or credit card. That’s what I alluded to when I said that planning it is half the fun. I didn’t pay for air fare to any of those places because I strategically planned my credit card spending/new credit card offers. In fact, both my flights and hotels for the New York trip were 100% covered via credit card points so that’s $2,000 that I didn’t have to spend.
I don’t think you have to be rich to consider traveling a hobby. I’m far from rich but this year I’ve been to Paris, London, Maui and now New York in the fall. There’s thrifty ways to do it and half the fun is researching the best ways to book flights/hotels and what to do once you’re there.
Yeah that’s what I was alluding to. Imagine if it predicts that you’re politically conservative and then starts to deem you as untrustworthy as a result.
Facebook has an algorithm that classifies your political views based on your post history. Someone with way more time than me needs to create some sort of script to figure out whether there’s a correlation between what Facebook says your political leaning is and how trustworthy it rates you. If there is a correlation, then there’s the real scandal.
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You’re in luck, half the city’s out of town this weekend for Burning Man. If you’re renting a car, don’t leave anything valuable or visible in it if you park it around town. It will get broken into.
For food, grab a burrito at El Farolito for the biggest and best burrito you’ll ever have. If you want good quality Chinese food and want to avoid the tourist trap of Chinatown, check out Hunan Cafe 2. It’s some of the best Chinese food in the city and only a few blocks from the beach; total hole in the wall place too. And if you’re trying to be somewhat fancy, check out La Mar on the Embarcadero for some solid ceviche/Peruvian food.
Parking my ass on the couch from 10 AM until 8 PM tomorrow to watch college football, then taking my girlfriend to a fancy restaurant (she’s been wanting an excuse to wear her new Jimmy Choos) for our anniversary dinner.
Sunday, brunch and movies.
Monday, the girlfriend is going to Napa for a friend’s 30th birthday so I’m playing video games in my boxers all day.
I wouldn’t mind a nice little two story in the burbs with a man cave in the basement. PGP.
Pretty much. But if a client who’s about to give our company 7-8 digits decides to drop by and see the people who will be managing his 7-8 digits, you best be wearing a tuxedo.
Wait…but where’s all the drinking you supposedly do every day?
Also, can confirm about healthy people and Midwest. I’m still dumbfounded from my visit to Iowa a few years back where I discovered that even if a salad doesn’t list cheese as one of its ingredients, it will still come covered in it, thus removing any health benefits. Also, mayo. Mayo everywhere and on everything.
I’d love to untuck my shirt at work, but we have a business casual dress code and untucked dress shirts with slacks just don’t work.
“I can’t just use up a week and a half of free time and do nothing but sit on my ass all day.”
Wait. Why not?
Shy girl: how do you know which car is his? If it were me, I’d get a bit creeped out if a girl whom I only spoke with once left a note on my car, especially if I never told her what car I drive or where my spot is. I’d wait until you run into him again (you live in the same building, I assume it’ll happen at some point) and ask if he’d like to go on a walk with you and your dog sometime.
Wedding: I’ve been to two weddings of friends where I knew how they were financed. One, the bride’s family paid for the food and venue and the groom’s family paid for the alcohol (it was an open bar). The other, my friend and his wife paid for everything themselves. I honestly never knew that the bride’s family pays for the wedding until recently. It’s probably a tradition from the old says where the bride’s family gave up the bride and paid for the wedding in exchange for the groom’s family providing a cow and as far as I know, we no longer exchange brides for cows in the US
Very true, although I would think that they controlled their sample size to account for this and didn’t arrive at their per capita numbers by literally taking the total volume of alcohol consumed and dividing by the population.
“As to why the U.S. wasn’t higher up on this? I’m not entirely sure, as people seem to find reasons to drink for basically any occasion these days.”
You touched on the answer to this in your second paragraph. This list looks like it’s purely alcohol consumed. For a given volume, beer has way less alcohol in it than spirits (5-10% vs. 40%), which are the drink of choice in many Eastern European countries and consumed more frequently. It’s not unusual to take a couple of shots a vodka during a casual dinner.
Also alcoholism is insanely rampant there. There was actually some controversy in Russia recently because the country raised its retirement age to basically the median life expectancy for men (65 for retirement, 66 for life expectancy). The life expectancy is so low because men frequently drink themselves to death and given how many Eastern European countries are on that list, I can’t imagine it’s much different there.
Fuck the targeting rule
Amen.
What are you and your girlfriend going to do for your wedding (assuming it happens) since you’re Jewish and she’s Presbyterian? Also unless your girlfriend converts, no non-Reform Rabbi will do a Bar/Bat Mitzvah since your kid won’t be considered Jewish.
Religion can really suck sometimes (a lot of the time).
Bar trivia is only the actual worst if you suck at bar trivia.
I agree with that, but I think there’s a difference between struggling to put food on the table and being wealthy. No you can’t be poor to consider travel as a hobby, but you also don’t have to be rich.
And also since that’s median income, that means that half the population has a higher household income. Plus, people living in low cost of living areas also have lower expenses. My salary in San Francisco is higher than average, but my rent is also really high. I bet if you were to take a ratio of rent to salary, mine would be way higher than someone living in the Midwest. There’s a reason that you get asked your income AND your rent/mortgage payment when applying for a credit card.
Actually the median income is closer to 60K…and you can do it decently on a budget if you time it with flight/hotel deals or credit card. That’s what I alluded to when I said that planning it is half the fun. I didn’t pay for air fare to any of those places because I strategically planned my credit card spending/new credit card offers. In fact, both my flights and hotels for the New York trip were 100% covered via credit card points so that’s $2,000 that I didn’t have to spend.
I don’t think you have to be rich to consider traveling a hobby. I’m far from rich but this year I’ve been to Paris, London, Maui and now New York in the fall. There’s thrifty ways to do it and half the fun is researching the best ways to book flights/hotels and what to do once you’re there.
Yeah that’s what I was alluding to. Imagine if it predicts that you’re politically conservative and then starts to deem you as untrustworthy as a result.
Facebook has an algorithm that classifies your political views based on your post history. Someone with way more time than me needs to create some sort of script to figure out whether there’s a correlation between what Facebook says your political leaning is and how trustworthy it rates you. If there is a correlation, then there’s the real scandal.
Also, fuck Facebook.
Someone’s going to post an Instagram story of Eric making out with a random girl at the wedding and Alyssa is going to see.