{"id":15951,"date":"2024-12-17T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=15951"},"modified":"2024-12-20T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:23:10","slug":"overheard-at-the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/overheard-at-the-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard At The Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t noticed, I\u2019m dialing back the blogging a bit to close the year. I\u2019ve been working on my Favorite Songs list. I\u2019m hoping to squeeze out one more RFTS post before the year is over. And general end-of-the-year busyness is keeping me from sitting down at the keyboard too much.<\/p>\n

That said, I had an encounter today I thought was interesting and worthy of a quick post. <\/p>\n

I have all kinds of stories from the gym. There are a lot of older people at the one I frequent, so there is some interesting behavior from them, especially the old dudes. There\u2019s a story I will not share that is one of the more disgusting things I\u2019ve ever encountered in public. Trust me, you don\u2019t want to know. <\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s locker room there is a little lounge area with a couple couches and a TV. I hear and see all kinds of interesting shit here on the days I wear layers and have to use a locker to store them while working out.<\/p>\n

Today a couple old guys – well into their 70s I guess – were talking about investments. One guy, loud and a little obnoxious, was telling his buddy about the guy he uses to manage his money. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe learned from Michael Milken<\/a>, if you know who that is.\u201d
\n\u201cYeah, that name sounds familiar but I can\u2019t remember why I know it.\u201d
\n\u201cHe basically invented high-risk\/high-yield investing,\u201d Loud Guy said before pausing for a long moment. \u201cHe did get a little carried away, though. In fact he went to prison for a little while because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

OH SURE, I\u2019m going to give ALL my money to a guy who apparently learned at the foot of a man who went to prison for securities fraud and insider trading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t noticed, I\u2019m dialing back the blogging a bit to close the year. I\u2019ve been working on my Favorite Songs list. I\u2019m hoping to squeeze out one more RFTS post before the year is over. And general end-of-the-year busyness is keeping me from sitting down at the keyboard too much. That said, I had an encounter today I thought was interesting and worthy of a quick post. I have all kinds of stories from the gym. There are a lot of older people at the one I frequent, so there is some interesting behavior from them, especially the old dudes. There\u2019s a story I will not share that is one of the more disgusting things I\u2019ve ever encountered in public. Trust me, you don\u2019t want to know. In the men\u2019s locker room there is a little lounge area with a couple couches and a TV. I hear and see all kinds of interesting shit here on the days I wear layers and have to use a locker to store them while working out. Today a couple old guys – well into their 70s I guess – were talking about investments. One guy, loud and a little obnoxious, was telling his buddy about the guy he uses to manage his money. \u201cHe learned from Michael Milken, if you know who that is.\u201d \u201cYeah, that name sounds familiar but I can\u2019t remember why I know it.\u201d \u201cHe basically invented high-risk\/high-yield investing,\u201d Loud Guy said before pausing for a long moment. \u201cHe did get a little carried away, though. In fact he went to prison for a little while because of it.\u201d OH SURE, I\u2019m going to give ALL my money to a guy who apparently learned at the foot of a man who went to prison for securities fraud and insider trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-15951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-misc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15952,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions\/15952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}