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Jeebus, Krista. They should have given you a saved-our-bacon bonus.

Those of you who understood Krista's links might want to examine the debt service of CZR with an eye to shorting it.

Linky

Scroll past the talk of dueling Ferris wheels for the real meat.

 
Found in the e-cig thread:

For the people who've been at this for a while, what's your go-to cartomizer and atomizer these days?

I like the Boge 3.0's in my tanks, but I find them to be very inconsistent.
Still use Bloog MaxxFusion cartos at work on my 808s and either 2.5 or 3.0 Cisco 306s exclusively on my Kicked REO Grand.
This hobby seems complicated.0
:lmao: I'm pretty sure that entire thread is a bunch of guys trying to one up each other with fictional posts.
isn't that what we do here?
 
Found in the e-cig thread:

For the people who've been at this for a while, what's your go-to cartomizer and atomizer these days?

I like the Boge 3.0's in my tanks, but I find them to be very inconsistent.
Still use Bloog MaxxFusion cartos at work on my 808s and either 2.5 or 3.0 Cisco 306s exclusively on my Kicked REO Grand.
This hobby seems complicated.0
:lmao: I'm pretty sure that entire thread is a bunch of guys trying to one up each other with fictional posts.
isn't that what we do here?
It's gonna be great when you invite a bunch of internetters to your old folks home, which turns out to be nothing but an abandoned warehouse and the site of a Harrison Stevens fight club.
 
Jeebus, Krista. They should have given you a saved-our-bacon bonus.

Those of you who understood Krista's links might want to examine the debt service of CZR with an eye to shorting it.

Linky

Scroll past the talk of dueling Ferris wheels for the real meat.
Interesting... Looks like a ton of money has been made already though. I hate shorting stocks at a 52 week low too but let me think about this. Thanks GB.
Jeebus, Krista. They should have given you a saved-our-bacon bonus.
I'm quite sure she got something out of it.
What would that be?
An asspat, copy of the home game, and a coupon for Shake 'N' Bake?
:kicksrock: No coupon.
I hope they at least called you "Toots" after the asspat.
 
So, I'm kind of proud of myself this week. Sorry in advance for this. It's been a particularly horrible three weeks.

First, one of our business units had a huge acquisition (for them) that my tiny group was in charge of, and a few days before closing a major environmental issue arose. After two all-nighters, we closed the deal on August 1, only one day later than the ridiculous and unreasonable schedule our business guys expected.

After closing that in the morning, I thought I'd get a break, but then that afternoon learned that we were going to try to do a debt offering, originally targeted at $300 million (but rose to $1 billion) in one week. Seriously no way to express how impossible that seems to be, also especially given that one day before pricing that deal we were announcing our earnings and filing our quarterly report, for which my group is also responsible.

Somehow my little team got it done (with two more all-nighters last week) and priced a $1 billion dollar debt deal on August 8 at 6-1/8%. Unbelievable and awesome.

Now, I get to stuff that is completely public at this point, so I'm not pulling a Woz (sorry GB), but I have to be careful still. Wednesday August 8 we priced a $1 billion deal to close on August 17. On Monday, August 13, my boss learned that we had re-forecasted internally to an extent that it put our deal at peril because of this. Basically, we could try to close but the right thing to do was tell our underwriters of the change in circumstance. This is Monday afternoon.

By Wednesday we had gathered all facts and decided to pull the deal and relaunch based on new circumstances. To be clear, this was way more likely than not going to kill the entire offering and potentially put the whole company--and about 40,000 employees--at risk. But still it was the right thing to do and we did it. In one day, we pulled a $1 billion offering and replaced it with a $750 million deal, which turned out to be at a much higher interest rate (7%). I worked about 72 hours straight. But we got it done, and the deal was launched. It appears that no one--not our lawyers, not our underwriters (JPMorgan and others) have ever experienced something like this. Here's a not fun article about it discussing rarity, but the difference in ours was that no outside intervening force occurred, AND we managed to relaunch successfully.

All in all, the worst week I've ever had at a job. We're now scheduled to close Tues/Wed, so I'd appreciate thoprawishes to hope it happens. Pretty proud, in any case, that the company did what was right and also that my tiny, tiny team accomplished this (along with my boss).

ETA: Also, I'm really good at ordering pizza!!!!!!11111oneoneone
This is like a foreign language to me.Congrats?

 
So, I'm kind of proud of myself this week. Sorry in advance for this. It's been a particularly horrible three weeks.

First, one of our business units had a huge acquisition (for them) that my tiny group was in charge of, and a few days before closing a major environmental issue arose. After two all-nighters, we closed the deal on August 1, only one day later than the ridiculous and unreasonable schedule our business guys expected.

After closing that in the morning, I thought I'd get a break, but then that afternoon learned that we were going to try to do a debt offering, originally targeted at $300 million (but rose to $1 billion) in one week. Seriously no way to express how impossible that seems to be, also especially given that one day before pricing that deal we were announcing our earnings and filing our quarterly report, for which my group is also responsible.

Somehow my little team got it done (with two more all-nighters last week) and priced a $1 billion dollar debt deal on August 8 at 6-1/8%. Unbelievable and awesome.

Now, I get to stuff that is completely public at this point, so I'm not pulling a Woz (sorry GB), but I have to be careful still. Wednesday August 8 we priced a $1 billion deal to close on August 17. On Monday, August 13, my boss learned that we had re-forecasted internally to an extent that it put our deal at peril because of this. Basically, we could try to close but the right thing to do was tell our underwriters of the change in circumstance. This is Monday afternoon.

By Wednesday we had gathered all facts and decided to pull the deal and relaunch based on new circumstances. To be clear, this was way more likely than not going to kill the entire offering and potentially put the whole company--and about 40,000 employees--at risk. But still it was the right thing to do and we did it. In one day, we pulled a $1 billion offering and replaced it with a $750 million deal, which turned out to be at a much higher interest rate (7%). I worked about 72 hours straight. But we got it done, and the deal was launched. It appears that no one--not our lawyers, not our underwriters (JPMorgan and others) have ever experienced something like this. Here's a not fun article about it discussing rarity, but the difference in ours was that no outside intervening force occurred, AND we managed to relaunch successfully.

All in all, the worst week I've ever had at a job. We're now scheduled to close Tues/Wed, so I'd appreciate thoprawishes to hope it happens. Pretty proud, in any case, that the company did what was right and also that my tiny, tiny team accomplished this (along with my boss).

ETA: Also, I'm really good at ordering pizza!!!!!!11111oneoneone
This is like a foreign language to me.Congrats?
:goodposting: I understood the articles, preposition and a handful of the nouns, but was pretty much :whoosh: on the rest. I can tell it's impressive, though. Congrats, k4 - try to get some rest.
 
So, I'm kind of proud of myself this week. Sorry in advance for this. It's been a particularly horrible three weeks.

First, one of our business units had a huge acquisition (for them) that my tiny group was in charge of, and a few days before closing a major environmental issue arose. After two all-nighters, we closed the deal on August 1, only one day later than the ridiculous and unreasonable schedule our business guys expected.

After closing that in the morning, I thought I'd get a break, but then that afternoon learned that we were going to try to do a debt offering, originally targeted at $300 million (but rose to $1 billion) in one week. Seriously no way to express how impossible that seems to be, also especially given that one day before pricing that deal we were announcing our earnings and filing our quarterly report, for which my group is also responsible.

Somehow my little team got it done (with two more all-nighters last week) and priced a $1 billion dollar debt deal on August 8 at 6-1/8%. Unbelievable and awesome.

Now, I get to stuff that is completely public at this point, so I'm not pulling a Woz (sorry GB), but I have to be careful still. Wednesday August 8 we priced a $1 billion deal to close on August 17. On Monday, August 13, my boss learned that we had re-forecasted internally to an extent that it put our deal at peril because of this. Basically, we could try to close but the right thing to do was tell our underwriters of the change in circumstance. This is Monday afternoon.

By Wednesday we had gathered all facts and decided to pull the deal and relaunch based on new circumstances. To be clear, this was way more likely than not going to kill the entire offering and potentially put the whole company--and about 40,000 employees--at risk. But still it was the right thing to do and we did it. In one day, we pulled a $1 billion offering and replaced it with a $750 million deal, which turned out to be at a much higher interest rate (7%). I worked about 72 hours straight. But we got it done, and the deal was launched. It appears that no one--not our lawyers, not our underwriters (JPMorgan and others) have ever experienced something like this. Here's a not fun article about it discussing rarity, but the difference in ours was that no outside intervening force occurred, AND we managed to relaunch successfully.

All in all, the worst week I've ever had at a job. We're now scheduled to close Tues/Wed, so I'd appreciate thoprawishes to hope it happens. Pretty proud, in any case, that the company did what was right and also that my tiny, tiny team accomplished this (along with my boss).

ETA: Also, I'm really good at ordering pizza!!!!!!11111oneoneone
This is like a foreign language to me.Congrats?
:goodposting: I understood the articles, preposition and a handful of the nouns, but was pretty much :whoosh: on the rest. I can tell it's impressive, though. Congrats, k4 - try to get some rest.
:goodposting: I don't think think even the full force of the Hennepin County legal team could explain this to me, but great job nonetheless.

 
So, I'm kind of proud of myself this week. Sorry in advance for this. It's been a particularly horrible three weeks.

First, one of our business units had a huge acquisition (for them) that my tiny group was in charge of, and a few days before closing a major environmental issue arose. After two all-nighters, we closed the deal on August 1, only one day later than the ridiculous and unreasonable schedule our business guys expected.

After closing that in the morning, I thought I'd get a break, but then that afternoon learned that we were going to try to do a debt offering, originally targeted at $300 million (but rose to $1 billion) in one week. Seriously no way to express how impossible that seems to be, also especially given that one day before pricing that deal we were announcing our earnings and filing our quarterly report, for which my group is also responsible.

Somehow my little team got it done (with two more all-nighters last week) and priced a $1 billion dollar debt deal on August 8 at 6-1/8%. Unbelievable and awesome.

Now, I get to stuff that is completely public at this point, so I'm not pulling a Woz (sorry GB), but I have to be careful still. Wednesday August 8 we priced a $1 billion deal to close on August 17. On Monday, August 13, my boss learned that we had re-forecasted internally to an extent that it put our deal at peril because of this. Basically, we could try to close but the right thing to do was tell our underwriters of the change in circumstance. This is Monday afternoon.

By Wednesday we had gathered all facts and decided to pull the deal and relaunch based on new circumstances. To be clear, this was way more likely than not going to kill the entire offering and potentially put the whole company--and about 40,000 employees--at risk. But still it was the right thing to do and we did it. In one day, we pulled a $1 billion offering and replaced it with a $750 million deal, which turned out to be at a much higher interest rate (7%). I worked about 72 hours straight. But we got it done, and the deal was launched. It appears that no one--not our lawyers, not our underwriters (JPMorgan and others) have ever experienced something like this. Here's a not fun article about it discussing rarity, but the difference in ours was that no outside intervening force occurred, AND we managed to relaunch successfully.

All in all, the worst week I've ever had at a job. We're now scheduled to close Tues/Wed, so I'd appreciate thoprawishes to hope it happens. Pretty proud, in any case, that the company did what was right and also that my tiny, tiny team accomplished this (along with my boss).

ETA: Also, I'm really good at ordering pizza!!!!!!11111oneoneone
This is like a foreign language to me.Congrats?
:goodposting:

 
Rude, when's your draft in Vegas? That a Saturday thing? Friday? For some reason I can't recall the timing of things last year.

 
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So, I'm kind of proud of myself this week. Sorry in advance for this. It's been a particularly horrible three weeks.

First, one of our business units had a huge acquisition (for them) that my tiny group was in charge of, and a few days before closing a major environmental issue arose. After two all-nighters, we closed the deal on August 1, only one day later than the ridiculous and unreasonable schedule our business guys expected.

After closing that in the morning, I thought I'd get a break, but then that afternoon learned that we were going to try to do a debt offering, originally targeted at $300 million (but rose to $1 billion) in one week. Seriously no way to express how impossible that seems to be, also especially given that one day before pricing that deal we were announcing our earnings and filing our quarterly report, for which my group is also responsible.

Somehow my little team got it done (with two more all-nighters last week) and priced a $1 billion dollar debt deal on August 8 at 6-1/8%. Unbelievable and awesome.

Now, I get to stuff that is completely public at this point, so I'm not pulling a Woz (sorry GB), but I have to be careful still. Wednesday August 8 we priced a $1 billion deal to close on August 17. On Monday, August 13, my boss learned that we had re-forecasted internally to an extent that it put our deal at peril because of this. Basically, we could try to close but the right thing to do was tell our underwriters of the change in circumstance. This is Monday afternoon.

By Wednesday we had gathered all facts and decided to pull the deal and relaunch based on new circumstances. To be clear, this was way more likely than not going to kill the entire offering and potentially put the whole company--and about 40,000 employees--at risk. But still it was the right thing to do and we did it. In one day, we pulled a $1 billion offering and replaced it with a $750 million deal, which turned out to be at a much higher interest rate (7%). I worked about 72 hours straight. But we got it done, and the deal was launched. It appears that no one--not our lawyers, not our underwriters (JPMorgan and others) have ever experienced something like this. Here's a not fun article about it discussing rarity, but the difference in ours was that no outside intervening force occurred, AND we managed to relaunch successfully.

All in all, the worst week I've ever had at a job. We're now scheduled to close Tues/Wed, so I'd appreciate thoprawishes to hope it happens. Pretty proud, in any case, that the company did what was right and also that my tiny, tiny team accomplished this (along with my boss).

ETA: Also, I'm really good at ordering pizza!!!!!!11111oneoneone
The decision to void the deal is a rare one in the high-yield market. Only two other deals have suffered a similar fate since 2005, according to IFR records.
That is very very awesome. They have a great asset in you.
 
So I had new carpeting installed and now need to trim one of my freedom doors so that it closes easily. Seems about an 1/8th of an inch. Circular saw? How do I keep it from splintering?

 
So I had new carpeting installed and now need to trim one of my freedom doors so that it closes easily. Seems about an 1/8th of an inch. Circular saw? How do I keep it from splintering?
1/8 of an inch?hand planerhttp://www.toolstation.com/images/library/stock/images/24914.jpg
 
Don't know what happened, but I'm currently ####ting my brains out at the Cubby Bear in Chicago
I don't even know who this is anymore but I hope it's a chick.
I used to have 2 or 3 different aliai on your stupid enemies list
Got it. And it's not stupid you're stupid.
Refresh my memory - what did GM do to make it onto your list?
I don't remember either.
 
Rude, when's your draft in Vegas? That a Saturday thing? Friday? For some reason I can't recall the timing of things last year.
I'm drafting Thursday this year. Not sure what the plan is on Friday yet. Should be free all day Saturday. Sunday I think we are watching the games at the Palazzo sports book.
 
Just got an unsolicited UPS package from my mortgage company (Citi) setting me up with a lower fixed interest rate.

Should I be wary and suspicious of the big conglomerate bank wanting less money from me?

 
'Frostillicus said:
'YSR said:
'Frostillicus said:
'Annyong said:
Don't know what happened, but I'm currently ####ting my brains out at the Cubby Bear in Chicago
I don't even know who this is anymore but I hope it's a chick.
I used to have 2 or 3 different aliai on your stupid enemies list
Got it. And it's not stupid you're stupid.
Refresh my memory - what did GM do to make it onto your list?
I don't remember either.
Could it be that I called you after 1am PST on Friday night after half a bottle of Jameson and several beers to tell you I loved you? Because I did that to about 1/3 of my entire contact list before passing out in a chair outside, where I awoke in the rain by a steaming fire pit covered in marshmellow goop. And how do I know I called 45 people to express my emotions? Because all day on Saturday, people kept calling me back to laugh at me. :bag:So maybe that's why I'm on your enemies list. That or I forgot to include you in my update last week.
 
'Tecumseh said:
'YSR said:
'belljr said:
So, I'm kind of proud of myself this week. Sorry in advance for this. It's been a particularly horrible three weeks.

First, one of our business units had a huge acquisition (for them) that my tiny group was in charge of, and a few days before closing a major environmental issue arose. After two all-nighters, we closed the deal on August 1, only one day later than the ridiculous and unreasonable schedule our business guys expected.

After closing that in the morning, I thought I'd get a break, but then that afternoon learned that we were going to try to do a debt offering, originally targeted at $300 million (but rose to $1 billion) in one week. Seriously no way to express how impossible that seems to be, also especially given that one day before pricing that deal we were announcing our earnings and filing our quarterly report, for which my group is also responsible.

Somehow my little team got it done (with two more all-nighters last week) and priced a $1 billion dollar debt deal on August 8 at 6-1/8%. Unbelievable and awesome.

Now, I get to stuff that is completely public at this point, so I'm not pulling a Woz (sorry GB), but I have to be careful still. Wednesday August 8 we priced a $1 billion deal to close on August 17. On Monday, August 13, my boss learned that we had re-forecasted internally to an extent that it put our deal at peril because of this. Basically, we could try to close but the right thing to do was tell our underwriters of the change in circumstance. This is Monday afternoon.

By Wednesday we had gathered all facts and decided to pull the deal and relaunch based on new circumstances. To be clear, this was way more likely than not going to kill the entire offering and potentially put the whole company--and about 40,000 employees--at risk. But still it was the right thing to do and we did it. In one day, we pulled a $1 billion offering and replaced it with a $750 million deal, which turned out to be at a much higher interest rate (7%). I worked about 72 hours straight. But we got it done, and the deal was launched. It appears that no one--not our lawyers, not our underwriters (JPMorgan and others) have ever experienced something like this. Here's a not fun article about it discussing rarity, but the difference in ours was that no outside intervening force occurred, AND we managed to relaunch successfully.

All in all, the worst week I've ever had at a job. We're now scheduled to close Tues/Wed, so I'd appreciate thoprawishes to hope it happens. Pretty proud, in any case, that the company did what was right and also that my tiny, tiny team accomplished this (along with my boss).

ETA: Also, I'm really good at ordering pizza!!!!!!11111oneoneone
This is like a foreign language to me.Congrats?
:goodposting: I understood the articles, preposition and a handful of the nouns, but was pretty much :whoosh: on the rest. I can tell it's impressive, though. Congrats, k4 - try to get some rest.
:goodposting: I don't think think even the full force of the Hennepin County legal team could explain this to me, but great job nonetheless.
:lmao:
 
'Frostillicus said:
'YSR said:
'Frostillicus said:
'Annyong said:
Don't know what happened, but I'm currently ####ting my brains out at the Cubby Bear in Chicago
I don't even know who this is anymore but I hope it's a chick.
I used to have 2 or 3 different aliai on your stupid enemies list
Got it. And it's not stupid you're stupid.
Refresh my memory - what did GM do to make it onto your list?
I don't remember either.
Could it be that I called you after 1am PST on Friday night after half a bottle of Jameson and several beers to tell you I loved you? Because I did that to about 1/3 of my entire contact list before passing out in a chair outside, where I awoke in the rain by a steaming fire pit covered in marshmellow goop. And how do I know I called 45 people to express my emotions? Because all day on Saturday, people kept calling me back to laugh at me. :bag:So maybe that's why I'm on your enemies list. That or I forgot to include you in my update last week.
I did not receive a phone call. As such, you will now remain on the enemies list.
 
'Frostillicus said:
'YSR said:
'Frostillicus said:
'Annyong said:
Don't know what happened, but I'm currently ####ting my brains out at the Cubby Bear in Chicago
I don't even know who this is anymore but I hope it's a chick.
I used to have 2 or 3 different aliai on your stupid enemies list
Got it. And it's not stupid you're stupid.
Refresh my memory - what did GM do to make it onto your list?
I don't remember either.
Could it be that I called you after 1am PST on Friday night after half a bottle of Jameson and several beers to tell you I loved you? Because I did that to about 1/3 of my entire contact list before passing out in a chair outside, where I awoke in the rain by a steaming fire pit covered in marshmellow goop. And how do I know I called 45 people to express my emotions? Because all day on Saturday, people kept calling me back to laugh at me. :bag:So maybe that's why I'm on your enemies list. That or I forgot to include you in my update last week.
so glad I opted out of the text/phone call portion of my Jimtan membership.
 
'Frostillicus said:
'YSR said:
'Frostillicus said:
'Annyong said:
Don't know what happened, but I'm currently ####ting my brains out at the Cubby Bear in Chicago
I don't even know who this is anymore but I hope it's a chick.
I used to have 2 or 3 different aliai on your stupid enemies list
Got it. And it's not stupid you're stupid.
Refresh my memory - what did GM do to make it onto your list?
I don't remember either.
Could it be that I called you after 1am PST on Friday night after half a bottle of Jameson and several beers to tell you I loved you? Because I did that to about 1/3 of my entire contact list before passing out in a chair outside, where I awoke in the rain by a steaming fire pit covered in marshmellow goop. And how do I know I called 45 people to express my emotions? Because all day on Saturday, people kept calling me back to laugh at me. :bag:So maybe that's why I'm on your enemies list. That or I forgot to include you in my update last week.
so glad I opted out of the text/phone call portion of my Jimtan membership.
Yeah, I don't see anything good coming of that.
 
If anybody is interested in joining my football pool, send me your e-mail address. If you played last year and don't want to play this year, pleaselet me know too.

TIA

 
If anybody is interested in joining my football pool, send me your e-mail address. If you played last year and don't want to play this year, pleaselet me know too.TIA
rules?
Pick the winners, no spread. Weekly & yearly winners. Send me your e-mail, I'll send you the rules.
I keep trying to get off the text list, but they keep adding me back on.
You pretty much invented Wonderland, Alice.
I've always wondered this...what does "Through the looking glass" mean? I hear it a lot and just nod my head like I 'get it'. But I don't.
You have to go down the rabbit hole first.
 
'Aaron Rudnicki said:
Rude, when's your draft in Vegas? That a Saturday thing? Friday? For some reason I can't recall the timing of things last year.
I'm drafting Thursday this year. Not sure what the plan is on Friday yet. Should be free all day Saturday. Sunday I think we are watching the games at the Palazzo sports book.
Is this a good spot for games? I'll be VEGASING for CFB opener.
 
If anybody is interested in joining my football pool, send me your e-mail address. If you played last year and don't want to play this year, pleaselet me know too.TIA
rules?
Pick the winners, no spread. Weekly & yearly winners. Send me your e-mail, I'll send you the rules.
got the email... check only? GM alias?
Was interested until I heard I need to have a checkbook.
 
'Aaron Rudnicki said:
Rude, when's your draft in Vegas? That a Saturday thing? Friday? For some reason I can't recall the timing of things last year.
I'm drafting Thursday this year. Not sure what the plan is on Friday yet. Should be free all day Saturday. Sunday I think we are watching the games at the Palazzo sports book.
Is this a good spot for games? I'll be VEGASING for CFB opener.
I don't know, but I assume that it is pretty good. Some other FBG rented a private box in there so we reserved a spot. It's not cheap but I think it includes all food, drinks, plus private tvs and stuff.
 

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