#225: Strategic Default to the Head

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This photo is from last week when I had new headshot photos taken.  That look on my face?  That is me realizing I look exactly like I did in high school.  In high school when I was made up to portray a middle aged man in the school play, that is.

I had to fit this recording in before my kids’ “Harvest Festival.”  A “Harvest Festival” is where all the kids dress up in costumes and celebrate…the harvest.  Yeah, that’s it…

I have to admit, I went on a somewhat lengthy rant about a couple that are on the brink of a “strategic default.”  A strategic default is where you decide to stop paying your mortgage payments because you don’t feel like it any more. So much for keeping your word.

I have no idea how we can help our friend David Potts, but you can at least keep tabs on his squatter situation at his website, Struiksma.

Finally, sometimes taking one for the team lands you on the team.  Even if it’s only for a little while, you still get to suit up…

PREMIUM EDITION: 47 min.

7 thoughts on “#225: Strategic Default to the Head

  1. Is there an audio problem with this one? Sounds a bit tinny to me. Could just be me, I’m about 5 minutes in as I type this.

  2. Cleared up in the end, maybe it was just the phone noise before you turned it off. I could just be losing it also.

  3. The vision of you cooking hamburgers on the grill at 7 in the morning makes me giggle every time – and feel sorry because I HATE making the lunches. I have kids that eat exactly like that – no sandwiches please garcon. One word man – quesadilla. Cooked chicken, tortillas, cheese. Done. You can even put together some ingredients real fast in baggies and freeze. Pull out and put in the fridge the night before – next morning cook in non stick pan with non stick spray. Cut with pizza cutter and wrap in aluminum foil. Small bag of chips and small container of salsa packed up the night before. All essential proteins and I get the stuff from Trader Joes so I can say healthy.

    By the way – why did you buy a dog? I would have shipped you my slightly neurotic Maltese. The kids might miss him but so what? The dog is too stupid to know that he is the kids’ dog and not MY dog. He loves me too much. Never a moment to myself – fantastic.

  4. That couple that decided not to pay their mortgage are crazy, but think about this Dan, we are in SUPER CRAZY times – the ones where huge banks and corporations are essentially prevented from failing (which they deserve to) by the Government (yours and mine) essentially handing them free money – which they have, in time honored fashion, “trousered” for their bonuses this year. So is it a surprise when ordinary Americans think, “why can’t I have some of that bailout money because the investment I made has gone bad?” – this is precisely what the situation is with the banks – they fucked it up and we all pay so they can carry on just as before. What a crazy world.

    Oh, and that BMW gig sounds awesome – remember Dan, that kind of work should be VERY well paid. The kind of pay that means you don’t need another gig this year.

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