
Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
United States • Age 49
Joined myLot 5 years ago
Just a simple guy with nothing better to do than to waste a little time with my myLot friends. Dabble in some music here and there, and just lead a simple life.
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
2 Feb

Don't ask me why I spelled it that way in the title. Probably just to get your attention? Is that click bait?
Who knows? Either way, you are here, so let's chat, shall we?
It is my wife's birthday that is coming up. No, that's...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
2 Feb

Well, the long and short is that I know a thing or two about the topic. How to earn, how best to spend, how to plan and budget, how to save and invest...
And I like to share it. Why? Because hopefully it helps someone.
Because I...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
31 Jan

This is something that occurs to me from time to time. It's who's advice some people tend to weigh more heavily on when it comes to financial matters.
Take me. I listen to the words and follow the activities and ideas of people...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
30 Jan

Laurels, motives and ulterior motives are all great things. So are convictions and principles.
But at the end of the day? When there is money involved? Sometimes you just suck it up and do what you got to do.
I have always said...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
30 Jan

Have you ever heard of the term, "Go slow?" It is a term commonly used in a workplace environment when workers become unsatisfied with work conditions, pay, or other issues that they feel are important to them that are being...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
27 Jan

Sometimes when you are on the Internet, in social media circles, someone shares something that you expect will probably not be something remarkable or interesting. One might say, "Why, Porwest. You do that all the time when you...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
26 Jan

If I have not mentioned it, I got to have my coffee. And when I travel on business it is not uncommon for me to ask for extra coffee packets so I can have as many cups as I want.
Many of the hotels have coffee available in the...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
24 Jan

Perhaps it is a first-world problem of sorts? Of course, it is really just a minor inconvenience. Still, it sucks. Let's just be honest here.
As you know from my previous post, I will be headed off to Kansas for work and of...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
23 Jan

Well, here we are again. Another work trip. This time to Wichita, Kansas and then to Kansas City and back home, meeting with customers.
Lucky me, there is a bit of a "winter storm" in development, and it looks like I might get...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
23 Jan

Meanwhile, at the office of Dumb and Dumber, marketers emeritus, Tom Dumb calls over Bob Dumber to discuss an issue with him.
"Do you see what I see?" asks Tom Dumb.
Bob Dumber scans a photograph containing his ad design for...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
21 Jan

You know, the topic of ghosts got brought up as topics of ghosts often do. I was reminded of an episode of The Rizzutto Show on the local alternative radio station here, which is quite funny actually.
They were of course, talking...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
19 Jan

In the state of Illinois there is a little lottery called the Lucky Day Lottery. It starts at $100,000 and goes up from there every time there is not a winner. Sometimes it gets over $1 million, but it is rare.
It's $1 per...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (62911)
• United States
18 Jan

No. No. Not here! Just sit right back down, will ya? I know half a ya's probably knocked your chairs over when you saw that title and stood straight up.
[i]"He finally admitted it! The bastige finally admitted...
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