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I too think that balance is important … Those catty social cliques are a “distraction” in high school, but they live on in the adult workplace. I think it’s important to learn how to deal with those power games without being consumed by them.

Isolating your kids from frivolous “mainstream” pop culture doesn’t do them any favors either. How can you market to the mainstream culture without understanding it? How can you make sound investment decisions without understanding consumer sentiment and investor psychology?

And music lessons … that’s a subject for another post entirely. Suffice it to say that IMO piano is left-brained and single-threaded, while guitar is right-brained and multithreaded. If you want your kid to grow up with half a brain, restrict him/her to piano. Better yet, restrict them to classical works written by dead guys in powdered wigs and silk stockings.

[AK]

[quote=ucodegen]True, provided that the stucco ends above the ground level. Otherwise capillary action will pull any moisture up the any small crack between the stucco and foundation. That said, I grew up in a house that was pre 1960, in California, that did have weep screeds.[/quote]

Good point … I grew up in an early ’60s house without weep screed, but it had a crawl space that kept everything ventilated. Slab-on-grade foundation would behave differently.

[AK]

[quote=ucodegen]True, provided that the stucco ends above the ground level. Otherwise capillary action will pull any moisture up the any small crack between the stucco and foundation. That said, I grew up in a house that was pre 1960, in California, that did have weep screeds.[/quote]

Good point … I grew up in an early ’60s house without weep screed, but it had a crawl space that kept everything ventilated. Slab-on-grade foundation would behave differently.

[AK]

[quote=ucodegen]True, provided that the stucco ends above the ground level. Otherwise capillary action will pull any moisture up the any small crack between the stucco and foundation. That said, I grew up in a house that was pre 1960, in California, that did have weep screeds.[/quote]

Good point … I grew up in an early ’60s house without weep screed, but it had a crawl space that kept everything ventilated. Slab-on-grade foundation would behave differently.

[AK]

[quote=ucodegen]True, provided that the stucco ends above the ground level. Otherwise capillary action will pull any moisture up the any small crack between the stucco and foundation. That said, I grew up in a house that was pre 1960, in California, that did have weep screeds.[/quote]

Good point … I grew up in an early ’60s house without weep screed, but it had a crawl space that kept everything ventilated. Slab-on-grade foundation would behave differently.

[AK]

[quote=ucodegen]True, provided that the stucco ends above the ground level. Otherwise capillary action will pull any moisture up the any small crack between the stucco and foundation. That said, I grew up in a house that was pre 1960, in California, that did have weep screeds.[/quote]

Good point … I grew up in an early ’60s house without weep screed, but it had a crawl space that kept everything ventilated. Slab-on-grade foundation would behave differently.

[AK]

Incidentally I did buy a made-in-USA Edsal steel storage rack from Lowe’s. After all I have to keep all those imported tools organized! Will find out about quality when I put it together tonight.

[AK]

Incidentally I did buy a made-in-USA Edsal steel storage rack from Lowe’s. After all I have to keep all those imported tools organized! Will find out about quality when I put it together tonight.

[AK]

Incidentally I did buy a made-in-USA Edsal steel storage rack from Lowe’s. After all I have to keep all those imported tools organized! Will find out about quality when I put it together tonight.

[AK]

Incidentally I did buy a made-in-USA Edsal steel storage rack from Lowe’s. After all I have to keep all those imported tools organized! Will find out about quality when I put it together tonight.

[AK]

Incidentally I did buy a made-in-USA Edsal steel storage rack from Lowe’s. After all I have to keep all those imported tools organized! Will find out about quality when I put it together tonight.

[AK]

[quote=flu][quote=patb][quote=flu]Guys. This isn’t nearly as messed up as a few of my friends who own very profitable businesses are doing..

They are selling high end products to high end consumers in china.

So these friends basically import then goods FROM CHINA to the U.S and then send it right back to china to sell.

Go figure.[/quote]

because the chinese have lousy internal distribution[/quote]

Well actually, it’s because some of the goods are only destined for U.S. and cannot be purchased directly from internal consumers.[/quote]

My brother told me a similar story … About a decade ago he and his very frugal wife decided not to buy any extra “digital film” for their honeymoon in China, figuring it would be cheaper at the source. As it turned out memory cards were unavailable even in Shanghai.

[AK]

[quote=flu][quote=patb][quote=flu]Guys. This isn’t nearly as messed up as a few of my friends who own very profitable businesses are doing..

They are selling high end products to high end consumers in china.

So these friends basically import then goods FROM CHINA to the U.S and then send it right back to china to sell.

Go figure.[/quote]

because the chinese have lousy internal distribution[/quote]

Well actually, it’s because some of the goods are only destined for U.S. and cannot be purchased directly from internal consumers.[/quote]

My brother told me a similar story … About a decade ago he and his very frugal wife decided not to buy any extra “digital film” for their honeymoon in China, figuring it would be cheaper at the source. As it turned out memory cards were unavailable even in Shanghai.

[AK]

[quote=flu][quote=patb][quote=flu]Guys. This isn’t nearly as messed up as a few of my friends who own very profitable businesses are doing..

They are selling high end products to high end consumers in china.

So these friends basically import then goods FROM CHINA to the U.S and then send it right back to china to sell.

Go figure.[/quote]

because the chinese have lousy internal distribution[/quote]

Well actually, it’s because some of the goods are only destined for U.S. and cannot be purchased directly from internal consumers.[/quote]

My brother told me a similar story … About a decade ago he and his very frugal wife decided not to buy any extra “digital film” for their honeymoon in China, figuring it would be cheaper at the source. As it turned out memory cards were unavailable even in Shanghai.

[AK]

[quote=flu][quote=patb][quote=flu]Guys. This isn’t nearly as messed up as a few of my friends who own very profitable businesses are doing..

They are selling high end products to high end consumers in china.

So these friends basically import then goods FROM CHINA to the U.S and then send it right back to china to sell.

Go figure.[/quote]

because the chinese have lousy internal distribution[/quote]

Well actually, it’s because some of the goods are only destined for U.S. and cannot be purchased directly from internal consumers.[/quote]

My brother told me a similar story … About a decade ago he and his very frugal wife decided not to buy any extra “digital film” for their honeymoon in China, figuring it would be cheaper at the source. As it turned out memory cards were unavailable even in Shanghai.

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