Sunday morning. It's really early. July 22nd I think, probably was it 6.50 a.m. not quite as early as some days I've gone up this week. But we have a day of meetings ahead of us here in San Jose and I have a pile of stuff I need to get rid of out at the curb. Some more stuff in the backyard I need to drag out. Yeah. So that's a thing. I'm letting the husband sleep in. He hurt his back again. He wasn't doing anything in particular. Literally just reaching down to pick something up off the floor. It's got a good sign. Anyway, I think that's it for the moment. I can't think of anything else right now. I'll be back. So I've got this pile of stuff out here. Where is it? There it is. I've got to make go away. So it's already at the curb. I need to take some pictures and post it on nextdoor.com. Hopefully by the end of the day that whole pile has gone across your fingers. Okay. Our morning business meeting is over.  We have a bunch of stuff we're giving away at the curb. And now we're going to go head out to go arrange for new flooring for this house. Finally after 26 years. Because the flooring is really bad. Anyway, so we're going to go do that and arrange for that to happen probably in September. And then I think I just want to come home and chill. I think I'm done for crazy. I'm also trying to get all the laundry done because we're painting the laundry room tomorrow. And I have to have everything out of the way. So yeah. It's just going to be a day. All right. I'll be back. Everybody. It is blasting hot again. So I know you can hear the air conditioner. It's almost 80 degrees before 10 a.m. this morning. Just anyway, I 400 feet. Turn right on. You must drive. Turn right. I have a doctor's appointment this morning. So I am trying to get out of my driveway without smacking my car or anything. A truck in one side and a planner box on the other side. And it's going to be challenging. Good Monday morning, everybody. It is Monday morning, July 23. Don't get excited. I only know that because I have my doctor's appointment. It's actually nothing. It's wrong. It's just a standard mammogram boob squishing type appointment. So we're going to go do our due diligence and have our annual checkup and get that over with. And then I have to go to the store, pick up some snacks. And I've got to figure out what I'm going to do for dinner. More scrounging around in the freezer. Although I think I have an idea that we'll use up some freezer and some pantry stuff. Turn right on to a vineyard drive. And I think that's a good thing. And if you hear whispering in the background, it's my navigation app. So anyway, because Jesus is trying to tell me where to go. Again, that's a thing. I get lost a lot. I've already edited last week's vlog. This morning it's rendering and saving right now. And I will get that scheduled for Wednesday morning again. I'm going to try to do them on Wednesdays every day from now on in case you haven't noticed. And yeah. In one mile. Keep left on Tuesday. For the moment. Good morning everybody. It is 7.25 in the morning, Tuesday, July 24th. Don't get excited. I'm looking at the iPad. We're workmen are coming over this morning to do some more things. I think today is a shorter day than we've had with them in the house. There's not as much to do. They're going to finish painting the laundry room and doing some work in there. And there's some... I told you all that there's a chip in the whole bathroom toilet in Amal. So they're going to try to fix it. If it doesn't pass mustard, they're going to have to replace the toilet. Yeah. I've got Etsy order stuff to do to take care of this morning. I want to try to get that done here after I'm done filming this. And I have to go fax some documents this morning. Yes, an old fashioned fax. So I need to go over to the place where I pick up my mail because they do faxing there. I want to get the Etsy orders done so that I can drop them off while I'm there. And I want to try to get all that done before the workers come so that I can, after they get here, I can go run and do that really quick. I think that's it. I can't think of anything else at the moment, but I haven't had all my coffee yet. So give me five minutes. All right. I'll be back. Good morning, everyone. It's Wednesday morning, July 25th. And of course, I've already been up for a while. I'm still not sleeping well. Yeah. You know, the usual. The handyman's been in gone this morning. He was only here for a little bit to touch up a couple more things and of course get paid. And I've already had a barrage of business phone calls and computer work to do and sort of that sort of thing. My friend, Shannon Green came out with some new stuff for her custom keepers this morning. I'll link her Etsy shop in the description below. Go check it out. She's got some brand new notebook inserts and pocket inserts for her custom keepers that are super fabulous. And she's coming out with a plain white custom keeper. It's a little bit thinner, but it's great for painting and drawing on. And she's got some examples in a video that she just did that were done by some friends of mine, Peg Robinson, Vicki Brown and Cindy Utter. So I will link the video that I saw this morning for that and then also in the description below. So go check it out. And I've got some errands to run and stuff to do and anyway, at least my today is going to be a stressful day and I may or may not put it in the vlog. I don't know right now. If I do, you'll understand if I don't, I apologize in advance, but it today is not going to be a fun necessarily a fun day. It's going to be stressful for me. That being said, at least there's no people in my house for a change. I just, you know, I like the peace and quiet. I need it to chill. I need it to relax and I need it to de-stress. When you have anxiety disorder and you're unmedicated, you just can only handle so much, even with medication. So those of you who have it know exactly what I'm talking about. And as of yet, I am unmedicated. That may be changing soon. Anyway, that's it for the moment. I'll check back in with you in a bit. This is the clip. I may cut out of the vlog. I don't know yet. It might depend on how things turn out. So fun fact. I had a mammogram on Monday and I think I said already that there was either and I may not if I don't know now. My anxiety is off the charts. I have now officially on a low dose of lorazepam as needed. I haven't taken any yet because not supposed to drive when you're taking it. Anyway, I had a mammogram on Monday and the breast tissue in the right breast was and I quote dense and they need to get a better image. It's probably nothing. They think it's probably assist, but yeah, that doesn't make it any less stressful. So I'm back. I'm sitting in the parking lot right now and I'm going to go upstairs in a minute and hurry up and wait basically because they squeeze me in between other appointments. Because I explained to them I have anxiety issues and after multiple phone calls from me and my doctor, they decided to not make me wait a week and to come in today that I could come in today. Now, just the fact that they said that I could come in next week for the retest means that they probably don't put a high priority on it being something dangerous because it wouldn't make you wait a week necessarily from what I understand. So anyway, yeah, because I just need one more thing on my plate. All right, let's go see what's up and I will be back. So honestly, if it had been bad, I don't know if I could be vlogging about this to be really honest and straightforward with y'all, but it's a water pocket, a very small one.  Do yourself checks. I didn't and can't feel this on myself checks. So if it wasn't for getting my annual mammogram, I wouldn't have even known it was there. Thankfully, it's nothing, but it could have been something to get your checks. All right. That's one big stress off my plate. All right, so I'm going to go. I have to make a couple phone calls now to tell my husband and daughter what happened and that the results are clear. And then I need to get something for dinner because we actually have hardly any food now. So that's it for the moment. I'll be back. I do want to add one more thing for you gentlemen out there. You do have your own set of annual private parts checks. You're supposed to be getting once a year. It's not just the women out there. I know lots of men in my life who have had issues with lumps and tubers in their privates and prostate issues and whatever. Get your annual checkups better to catch it early than late. All right. Lecture's over for the day. I'm going to go buy some dinner. Hey guys. Good morning. It is Thursday morning, July 26. I'm sitting in front of the computer, so I'm booting everything up so I can do my daily postings and everything. I have a day this week where there's no workmen here. And I finally got a night's sleep because I didn't have to worry about the mammogram thing. So anyway, a nice quiet day to just chill. Maybe actually get some art done, you think? That might be nice. All right. I'm going to get going, get dressed, put some actual clothes on, and I'll be back. Okay. So I'm dressed and showered. Obviously my hair is wet. I kind of don't know what to do with myself this morning because for the last few weeks, weeks, literally not days, weeks, I've had meetings, financial paperwork, workmen, like something, right? And I finally have a quiet day and it's weird. Is it just me? I don't really have any errands to run, but I'm thinking I'm not busy enough. I should go somewhere and do something. I don't know. It's weird. I'll promise the husband I would water the potted plants in the front yard before I did anything else today and I forgot. Don't tell him. Okay. I'm going to do it now. Got myself out of the house for a little bit. I mailed my daughter a few things that she forgot when she moved. And yeah, I don't really have anything else to do.  I think I'm going to just go home and have lunch and then try to catch up on daily drawing or something. I might pack a few boxes later, but I think I'm just going to take a break this morning. So anyway, that's it for now. I'll be back. Good morning. It is 8.43 a.m. and it's already 70 degrees outside. It's going to be warm again. It could be worse. I could be in Texas where it's probably already like 90 plus, right? Or Arizona. Anyway, it is Friday morning, July. I almost said June. I think it's July 27th. Pretty sure, even though I really haven't paid any attention this morning. So the drywall guys are early by like half an hour. No, more than that. 40 minutes. So anyway, that just means I'll get done early, right? My husband is home, thankfully. And so he's going to take care of chatting with them and paying them and all that jazz. So anyway, it's going to be another eventful day. But I am glad to have had a break yesterday where it wasn't that I didn't have things to do, but I didn't have workmen in the house. So that was pretty handy to just have that mental break. And you know, I have to say, they showed up early and my husband is texting me. I haven't only got two blocks in the car and I've had to pull over twice to answer text messages. I just think it's a good thing I had a break yesterday. Today's going to be one of those kind of days. Lord Almighty. Okay, we're at a coffee creamer, which is bad, people. That's really bad. And I need more bubble wrap because I've got more fragile stuff. I've got to get out of people's way and yeah, I need bubble wrap. So anyway, I thought I just did this last year and I wasn't going to have to do it again for a while. I was wrong. All right, let's go run some errands and I'll be seeing flashing lights up ahead. That can't be good. And a car turned sideways. Hope everybody's okay. I should say that the other thing that's helped my mood today is I've had pretty bad insomnia going on three weeks now. And the last few days of that time period, I got almost no sleep. In fact, one night, I don't think I slept hardly at all. And the last two nights, last night and the night before, while I didn't sleep great and I did not sleep straight through, I did get a lot more sleep than I've been getting. So that has helped. That's probably the one symptom of menopause that actually makes me completely crazy. And of course, the anxiety disorder doesn't help because it already makes you stressed out anxious and on edge anyway, which isn't conducive to good sleep. And then you factor menopause in and that just doesn't help at all. So, yeah, so, but I got two nights of, you know, better sleep. So my mood is much better today. I also got a little bit of art done yesterday. So that's all good. I'm thinking I'm going to sit and sketch this afternoon while the workmen are doing some more interior work on the house. We've got another bedroom that's getting some dry wall repair. Our house was built 49 years ago in 1969. So, you know, I need some maintenance. All right, that's it for the moment. Let's go to Lowe's and buy some bubble wrap. Good Saturday morning everybody. It's Saturday morning, July 28th. Don't get excited. I'm at the computer. That's the only reason I know and it is 824 a.m. I'm supposed to be on the way to the Red Cross to donate blood. My husband went and I not only woke up feeling asthma-y. Is that a thing? I'm just not up to being poked at today, to be honest. So I am opting to stay home. He's going to run a couple of errands, too, on his way back. And I'm going to stay here and work on laundry. Exciting, I know. We're taking the dog into a vet appointment, which terrifies me because he is getting older. And every time we take him in for something, I worry that's going to be the last time. So I hate to say that out loud, but there you have it. So I'll let you all know what happens. Poor Mr. Bandit. He's not getting any younger. And I think he's almost completely blind. So yeah, that's a thing. All right. That's it for the moment. I'm going to finish my coffee and I'll be back. Hey, Pooch. Say hey, Bandit. What's up, Pooch? So Mr. Bandit had his checkup. He's old and cranky, but he should be able to be around for quite a while yet. He just needs a little medication help. So it's all good, right? Exactly. And he's actually not doing too badly riding in the car, which is not his favorite thing to do. So at first we see these vintage motorcycles on the road, which is pretty cool. Right there. A little while ago we saw the black one try to pop a sidecar wheelie because that's really smart. All right. So we've had an eventful week, an eventful Saturday. Thankfully Mr. Bandit is going to be with us a bit longer. And yeah, we're happy for that. We just sat home the rest of the day and had pizza for dinner. Had a meeting here at the house with somebody. Otherwise just tried to chill and relax. It's been a crazy hectic stressful week. Anyway, we hope you've all had a good one and that you continue to have good ones. And if you have any questions, comments or concerns, leave them in the comments here on the video. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe and hit that little bell icon. If you want notifications for new videos, I do have a new series that will be coming out soon. I have to edit it. It'll be coming out sometime in mid-August, I think. Mid to late August. And it's a blog style series. So anyway, non-art again. But there are art videos coming. Never fear. That's it for the moment I think. There's a lot going on. Again, some of it will be explained shortly. And yeah, have a great week everybody. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.


Coming off the other night and then to kind of have a repeat performance, what did you kind of feel like you were still in that groove early in the game tonight? Really, when I hit my first two-threes, I came out. Came out hot early, so I knew. I didn't know it would be another 40, but I knew I'd probably get a little, you know, have a great game again.  You know, letting me make decisions down the stretch. I can make a little bit better decisions down the stretch, but, you know, that's what it is.   So that's what I'm gonna keep doing.


This happens when you discard the narcissist there are reasons why a person would decide to discard the narcissist There are certain things that happen Which then lead to you discarding them It gets to a point where you realize that if you don't do something about it Nothing is going to change This is one of the main reasons why a person would discard the narcissist Because of everything they seem them do You're having the same arguments every day You've been on this never-ending emotional rollercoaster Until you finally accept that you need to take action You have to do something about it when a person decides to discard the narcissist It's usually because they're fed up of being exploited They're fed up of being taken advantage of They don't want to do that anymore and they understand that they have to do something about it So when you get to that point You just remove them from your life You cut them off But they don't expect this to happen They're expecting you to remain lacking judgment and understanding of What they're trying to do They don't actually believe that you're going to leave But at some point you realize That it's the only way that this is going to end Because although the narcissist may always have something to complain about They have no intentions of leaving you Because they've trained you to focus on their feelings and needs Where it's become difficult for you to focus on anything outside of them Which has then kept you under their control But when you finally clear your mind and you're able to think clearly You realize that you need to leave But the narcissist doesn't think you're going anywhere and that's why it's such a shock to them when you do leave Because they felt like they had complete control over you. They felt like they had you under their command They're not even thinking that you're going to leave So when you do leave it causes them to panic They might try to steal your money or possessions To make it difficult for you to leave Or they may call the police and make false accusations against you or they may just return to the love bombing They may try to manipulate you in that way again To lure you back in To make you question your decision to leave them To make you think that maybe they're not so bad after all And they will do that by showing you the false character That they show to you in the love bombing phase But if you don't fall for it And you continue with your decision to leave them That's when they will really panic They will become very abusive They will insult you They will call you all sorts of names They will say and do whatever they think will hurt you the most They will bring up anything that you confided in them They will use it against you They will do anything to hurt you So that it makes you want it to stop They want you to feel like the only way you can remove the threat is by returning to them As though that's the only way that this pressure will go away And many people do return to the narcissist Because it takes so much strength and courage to get out of there in the first place That you haven't got much energy left to deal with what comes after that You haven't got the energy to deal with all the insults But if you still decide to keep it moving That is when they will make false and damaging statements about you To anyone who will listen And they're hoping that this will somehow get back to you They're hoping that you will feel responsible for all the chaos and drama that they're trying to cause They're doing this because they're in panic mode They're losing their source of supply If you go no contact after you leave They will really try to destroy you They will do whatever it takes to bring you down But if all of their efforts fail It means that you have left them without a primary source of supply Which means that they have to find someone else to replace you Even though they may not want to do that They may not have enough time to evaluate Whether or not they have a suitable target for that position Which is why they prefer to be in control of the discard They want to be the ones to discard you When they're ready When you've discarded the narcissist You've messed up all of their plans And that is why they go into panic mode Because they've lost control of you When they needed to have everything play out in the way that they wanted But once the narcissist finally accepts that you've moved on They have no choice but to replace you And they will triangulate you with this new person In an attempt to pull you back in They will bring up all of these situations and events that have occurred Even though you may have been gone for just a few days And this should tell you that they just can't hack it on their own They don't have the qualities needed to do a certain task or cup of the situation Which is why they targeted you in the first place They were just using you the entire time that they were with you But they managed to convince you to think that you were the one who needed them Yet when you leave They will take all of these difficulties that they're dealing with And use it as though it's something that you have caused They will use it so that they can play the victim To make you feel like you have abandoned them without any help or support But if that doesn't work They will be forced to move someone else in And it will be out of desperation They have to find someone else to replace you Because they didn't expect you to leave It was a shock to them But even though they may find someone else This new person doesn't have to be romantically involved with them It could just be a friend or family member that they are using to replace you To meet their financial or emotional needs This new person will be employed to do everything that you are doing for them Once they know that you're not coming back They have to do this There's no way that they can just move on on their own They have to get someone else Because you managed to escape You got off the plantation So they move forward with this new source of supply Where the cycle starts all over again They love bonding this new source They devalue them Until finally the new source gets fed up and leaves Or the narcissist discards them They've done this to people before you And they will do it to other people after you leave You're not the first And you're not going to be the last You're just a part of the cycle And the cycle never ends Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching queries You can email me at coaching.narksurvivor.uk Thank you for watching And I'll talk to you soon


The first order of business is the minutes Okay That's article 27, okay Okay Okay, are there any other corrections on the minutes? He on other matters I Guess the first one. I'm not sure but it's an argument to make it 7 or 18,000 from state to fix potholes I don't remember the number being that high that does seem very high to me go south And then you got would like to build a large 40 B housing development not 20 B 40 B And why don't you just say Arlington may get some funds from the state to fix potholes I Can't remember the number was but I agree that's that's a lot of money Sorry Okay, so put in 118 Okay, there are any other corrections on On the top the rescind voting I'm just wondering if it would be better to say Resin borrowing the Thompson accounts are not yet closed And I would just add the words and us should not be rescinded yet and Then delete the next line About the treasure. I don't think it really adds anything and then under minute man article 28 Voted to reconsider the vote. Oh of March 2nd. That's Sorry misunderstood Okay, is there any other corrections on the minutes drive a motion? So Okay, moved and seconded to accept the minutes as corrected any further discussion Followers in favor, please say aye closed Okay okay, Gloria could This is the budget for the arts and Cultural Center It was added to the warrant article, but you know, everybody looked at the warrant article and said it's the same warrant article We always had and we missed it. So They are now before us I can see right here, okay By the way, it's on the back of one of the handouts I tried to save paper so it's on the back of the Human rights Commission Why we did what we did?  Okay? This is our first budget We've been in existence with the meeting since 2013 And we've kind of gone along with zero budget and a couple people You know, we've obviously paid out of pocket for things like getting a website going we got a volunteer Does a fabulous calendar? It's going to get better with time, but it's and she Does her time is totally free. We still have her luckily But there are costs that we anticipate And for example We did try to go to the end and cultural council which gets money from the state the state cultural council And they we we gave them a request for ways to cut our What we've given you now as a budget request when they said no, we won't do that You're the town should be they said the town should be covering those costs. So We're Basically charged among other things with coming up with a cultural plan for the town you're aware of the master plan Well cultural plan will be falling on its heels at some point and and that's where we have I think the biggest item a consultant we feel Just having spoken to a similarly sized town not that similar but made it they used a consultant That was forty five hundred dollars took a couple of years. So we were thinking that would be The order what we would do. We're already starting right now to work without any consultants on a process of We're having a discussion this Thursday with various arts and cultural organizations in town and businesses To consider having a applying to the mass cultural council for a cultural district designation Which I could describe at the point being that it's a start to get the various organizations in town to Talk about similar purposes and to create to sort of bring every awareness of all the groups up by creating a more a little bit more structure to so that we can Interact better and people know about what's going on in town There are all these wonderful organizations and part of our part of the commission's job is to let everyone know Already and to help it all along because we believe arts and culture enriches everyone so and then there were some very other There's very spelled out items that we thought would be helpful to have to have a tent at Town Day and take care of little Administrative costs as they come up. I just wanted to add that that part of it you know going through cultural district status and then having a cultural plan and and someone who can Really, you know help interview the all the organizations in town assess their needs and and figure out You know how best we can work together and create partnerships Those are the kinds of partnerships that position us better for grants in the future from organizations like NIFA and from the MCC New England, you know, New England Foundation for the arts, sorry So for larger amounts of money Adams grants as well and our town grants. Yeah So this is I guess is that everything we were gonna. Yeah I just say, you know, that's that really is our our position in town It's really what we've been charged to do But we really do need some support to to do these big long-range projects for the town So any questions? Okay, there are any questions from the committee? We're just spreading it over two years So we're doing 50% this fiscal year Are you have you contacted or are working with the Tourism Committee? We are Working with them. They're co-sponsoring this meeting that we're putting together this Thursday and so we are Kevin what other organizations in town do you plan to collaborate with? Oh, there are many but the Arlington Center for the arts the Arlington historic Society history works aside Old Schwann mill some businesses in all all around the town There's the library The Arlington friends of the drama, what did you say? Yeah, I mean we have yeah, there's a very long list But that gives you a sense of it where we would you know, but we're trying to be totally inclusive ultimately Would you do would you do things like trying to coordinate with? The region theater or the Arlington or the What's the thing on Academy Street? Oh Drama yeah with local restaurants and get discounts and try to work with them together Everything is possible. It's really just finding thematic reasons to connect different organizations and businesses and Which is obviously a Ted's mission the tourism and economic development group as well You know, we're charged to particularly to To advise the board of selectmen. That's how we're different from a Ted and we have but we have a big overlap and yes, we would cultural district would be a big way to involve business and and Arts and culture together and I mean discounts who knows I'm sure people come up with many ways to Lengthen because there is supposed to be a marketing plan in connection with the cultural district And so that is that would probably fall under that marketing plan So you definitely get a miscellaneous item. I don't know that you get to use it to buy refreshments We don't even get our party, but do other do other groups get to Yeah, I assume so as long as it's not alcohol Okay, is there any other questions Tom? I mean, I know this is Kind of crazy, but I thought of it too.  We don't even get it I agree what you're trying to do But the like refreshments Well, it's not for us. I mean it's for the public meetings that we're holding. Oh, yeah This this process of the cultural district process and the cultural plan process will involve several public meetings for the public much The way the Arlington Public Art Committee started doing that when they were publicizing and you know doing some education around public art in town So that's what that's what that would be for but you can call it miscellaneous or we can get donations I have a problem paying for any kind of water For a committee There's several committees in town that Cokes and stuff like that. I put away and refrigerators behind the scenes That's so I I think it does happen We won't take it to our own pockets largely anyway, just nice to know that there, you know, there are some expenses Are there any other questions? Our first budget we hadn't had one before Arlington Public Art and the Chamber of Commerce other big organizations will be working Okay, any other questions? Okay. Well, thank you very much for coming Okay, what's the will of the committee? I Okay, all moved and seconded 431 60 any further discussion Dean the only thing I'll point out is They can't submit their first two line items for reimbursement because they're prior year expenditures So we should probably mention that to them just so they don't Run into the pothole when they go talk to Ruth and feel silly over So just take so I mean keep it in there I just don't want them to you know, they like they're starting up this committee. They're new there Yeah, I don't want them to submit them to the Comptroller and then feel like they got beat up. Yeah Gloria could you give them a call afterwards? With our vote and mention the fact that they might have trouble getting reimbursed for prior year expenditures By the way, I suppose people have heard that Ruth Lewis is retiring Yeah, they're gonna cost us so It's we're losing a valuable town employee who's been here for many years and That'll be that'll be too bad, but I'm sorry I'm sure we'll find out Okay, any further discussion all those in favor of the 3160 for the arts mission on our art and culture we say aye posed Okay, unanimous Okay, next is collective bargaining Mr. Andrew Who paid for that water I Thank you, Mr. Chairman What I'd like to do quickly is just let you know what I've provided the committee with information tonight, and then I'll walk through it And go through some of the details. So you should have a memo from me which basically all begins by outlining what our strategy has been in terms of Conducting collective bargaining negotiations since we began them back in September of 2014 We've currently reached agreement with two of the unions There are Robbins librarians professional association and local 1297 Which is the fire union? I'll go through this in more detail Then I have a draft article 20 which does a couple of things one it proposes funding The agreement with the librarians association funding the agreement with the firefighters Funding cost of living increases with the end schedule employees and non-union employees Funding full-time elected officials cost of living increases and then lastly Basically setting aside the balance of the seven hundred thousand dollars that was included in the manager's budget For future collective bargaining. We're actively engaged with all the unions right now We hope to reach agreement In the coming months Whether or not we've got agreement with all the unions before Tom meeting. I would go ahead and say it's probably unlikely at this point But we're meeting on a weekly basis across the board and hopes to making some progress So with that, let me just walk through the memo That I've provided to the committee basically our our strategy and our approach Has been based on two principles one Providing cost of living increases that are consistent with historic CPI, which is about two percent We've applied that across the board and then we have Adhere to a commitment we made with all the unions Back in 2000 we began in 2012 actually meeting with the unions and it continued many many months until we actually performed an actual Compensation study for all town in school positions and one of the things we said they were very actively involved in deciding who our Comfortable communities would be We took in a bunch of factors some demographic information. That's particular to each union and then our community ability to pay And we came up with our combo. We've referred to as our comparable communities And what we've done is we've looked at where we stand against those and where we are able to and where it's necessary One of our goals has been to try to make We've been calling parity adjustments To bring people to what we we have defined as parity, which has been the average the average rate of pay for those communities So what I'll do is I'll walk through Some of The particulars of the agreement we've reached and then I'll show you a document that's a laughing included Which basically compares the fire agreement adjusted for FY 2016 basically if the agreement is ratified this week by the union and then funded by town meeting Where they'll be compared to the comparable communities So I'll begin with the Rob Robin's Library of Professional Association. There's really Two funding components to that a 2% cost of living increase in each year of the agreement FY 16 FY 17 and FY 18 And then they have a fixed rate for longevity A lot of the other unions it's based on a percentage. So what we've done is we've increased it at each increment So for 600 it's 800 800 a thousand and so forth. There's currently five union union librarians who are receiving Longevity so the impact of that that component of the agreement if you just about a thousand dollars the cost of living Increase comes in just about a dollar below 12,000. So I rounded up. So you'll see the cash outlay for FY 16 is $13,000 and what I've done as we've done the last time we went through a Complete round of collective bargaining negotiations. I've basically tried to show the compounding impact over time of the collective bargaining agreement So that's I don't know if we want to answer any questions fix the librarians or if you prefer if I move on to The fire agreement which has a little bit more Okay, there are any questions on the library contract, okay the What's the impact in the first year of the $200 Three percent it's about 2.2 a little less actually, but it's only a thousand dollar cash outlay beyond What we're currently paying So would it be the first year of 2.2 percent and then after that a student too? Yeah, okay Any other questions on the library? See the question members are in the the librarians Association well Okay, I'm sure we'll go on to the firefighters Okay, so the fire union is one area in which a salary study Identified a pretty significant inequity in the compensation for mainly ranking offices and ranking offices include Firefighters the low but not nearly as low as ranking offices ranking offices include Tenants captain tenants. We have 15 captains. We have seven and deputy chiefs. We have five so one of our Our goals was to get pretty creative in how we determined The financial components of our agreement in a way that they were within budget But yet Helped us not maybe achieve complete parity with the average by the communities But make a significant step forward which I think we were able to do so the Again sticking with the cost of living piece. There's a 2% increase cost of living 15 16 17 beginning of July one of each of those years 16 FY 17 by 18 respectfully the biggest piece is The implementation of a new step system. So the way The step system works currently is that there's three three steps for firefighters Minimum midpoint and max Basically a $5,000 difference. So and then basically you achieve each step Each year. So if you're a new firefighter you come in at Step one in a year you go to step two in a year's your third year You go to step three and that's max firefighter max and then all the Ranking differentials are applied to firefighter max So one thing we did is we basically threw out that step system recreated a step system as a six step system Step one is still entry level won't change from what it is this year. So the 2% won't apply to it Step two will be again second year firefighter Again won't change much from what it is right now So basically as a result of that by not increasing step one and two by two percent They will forever be anywhere between fifteen hundred two thousand dollars less value of that step moving forward Step three, which was the former max we increased that by two percent And then we came up with three new steps one beginning at ten years Which is a one point two percent increase over step three One at fifteen years is a one percent increase over step four the first new step and then lastly after twenty five years another one point two percent Increase so what that was able to do is really bring us to market with regard to firefighters And then basically based on those that new firefighter max we applied the rank differentials and they give you an idea what those are Lieutenant is sixteen percent above max firefighter Captain is fifteen percent above Lieutenant and then deputy chief is fifteen percent above captain One thing I'm working with the union. I mean we we met Hours and hours and hours and hours hundreds of hours maybe with the fire union and their priority in going into this was meet, you know slow the rate of increased firefighters potentially Increased the rate of pay for her within year one for the officers because that is what the salary study shows to be the inequities. So one thing I'd like to turn your attention to is a one-page art provided Right here that shows all of the comparable communities to Arlington What their pay would be adjusted to FY sixteen and what the actual pay would be for the highest paid Employee at each rank within the Arlington fire department. So I'll walk through those very quickly Beginning with firefighter the highest-paid firefighter based on this agreement would be paid seventy thousand five hundred fifty one dollars next year That's just under eighteen hundred dollars over the average interestingly. It's a bit of an outlier That firefighter it's a thousand dollars more than any other firefighter based on a combination of some components of pay So if you really Called him an outlier You'd be about seven hundred dollars from the average Lieutenant pay you'll see we're just at the average Captain pay we're still twenty one hundred dollars below the average While it's still below the average we made significant progress towards reaching the average And then depth deputy chief pay Is still fifty eight hundred dollars below the average again? We may put a deal of progress in getting closer to the average, but yet we're not there yet One of the ways we're able to do this was to do something that's applied similarly in other public safety unions, which is to Education stipend education stipends the way it works in the fight of primitives you can earn up to sixty Credits which is equivalent to an associates degree That's the max and the associates degree must be in fire science. So it has to be applicable What we did is we tied that rate to rank so a firefighter who may have his or her sixty credits will receive Lest essentially done a deputy chief who has The same sixty credits and one thing that was able to do is help us a little bit further close close the gap in terms of what we're a What we're trying to do in terms of a cheap parody so in year one the total increase Considering the two percent cost of living in the market correction of the parody adjustment It's three point four seven above what was been appropriate or what is going to be recommended to be appropriate in FY 16 in FY 17 and in FY 18 it's a two percent increase each year and Going back to my memo. You'll see the value actually despite salaries increase in the way it's been structured and This whole idea of newcomers coming on board in the fire department making a lesser rate of pay. You'll see that 203,201 in FY 16 that includes a hundred and sixty-four 998 for the cost of living in the new steps system plus the 38,000 for school credits Next year it's a hundred and fifty seven thousand and that encompasses all the all the impacts of this year and then a hundred and twelve thousand So those are basically the Overview of both the agreements we've reached one thing that's included in the Warren article is cost of living increase adjustments for like I said M schedule non-union and full-time elected it's two percent Over the next three fiscal years and that that lastly that leaves us 397,143 dollars that is basically set aside until we're able to reach agreement with the four remaining units bargaining units And in which people obviously had to go back to both the finance committee in the town Meeting to request that it gets moved into the departmental budget So that's the overview Okay, so this comparison is after if the agreement is made correct John A couple questions about the comparison chart Said that the Arlington is for the highest paid In the free train And for the other towns is that also the case or is that the and Do you know what the numbers are for Arlington before the adjustments in other words? How how did it look compared to the comparable average? Sure, oh you firefighters between 500 and a thousand off when the study was completed in 2014 Lieutenants were off just over 3,000 captains were off Just about 7,000 indebted chiefs were off just about 15,000 so below the the comparable average Thank you. Okay. Oh, there are people Paul Again the numbers for the comparable towns So basically what we've done we've adjusted at the study was done on that for NFI 14 We increased it at 2% each year and talking to the other towns. That seems to be the pretty much Okay, other questions Caroline. Where does this money come from? Where do we keep? Potential funds needed for collective bargaining sure so When we proposed the operating budget within that budget we set aside and the personnel line Lump sum of seven hundred thousand dollars in the case of this year That has just been set aside. It has been including any departmental budget What will happen is if everything is approved? Here and then a town meeting the controller will move the funds necessary into the departments and the balance of that It will be left in a In account that we call it'll be called collective bargaining article 20 ATM 2015 and not moved until further action by comedy Steven question on the comparison into For the deputy chief positions for those communities would know things listed Do they not have deputy chiefs and they just go right to from captain to chief or or in one case lieutenant chief So, right the position just doesn't exist. Okay. Thank you John First question is how do you get this information? Sure. So in In summer of 2012 we began meeting with all the units that unions to define what our comparable communities would be and what What data categories we use to measure up against other places and once we came to an agreement on what those would be We wanted to contract with a Massachusetts firm That concentrates just on Wage and classification systems salary studies and there's not a lot of players in this field in the state But the one we went with has a pretty vast array of experience And we contracted with that firm and then they developed Basically a survey a Saudi survey That we is the town approved the unions approved and then that was sent to all these communities And they responded and basically the the carrot there is that Providing they respond with the data in a family fashion that we can complete the study because I mean we we surveyed ourselves against a hundred positions So it's a big undertaking for whatever town to respond to the survey We shared the information with them upon its completion. So it's not only a useful tool for us But for our comparable to me was it participated As I understood what you said For example a Brookline number of for a firefighter at seventy thousand nine hundred forty three That means there is one such firefighter that makes that amount of money And that's more than any other such firefighter that Forces that right given the different the components of the air collective agreement. It could be one They could be ten in our case. There's just what I can tell you. There's just one Right So the way The consultant presented how she most accurately does these things is to basically look at what the the greatest rate of pay would be for every rank and It gets a bit complicated with the public much more so than really any other positions in town It gets complicated with police and fire because of all the particular components where you get the base pay Night differential shift differential weekend differential EMT D5 holiday pay longevity. I mean there's eight and nine categories of pay. So Basically the way we approach it was let's fully load it and see what we measure how we measure against that fully loaded Granted there's really only one person in our own to right now An individual who's done here 30 years that is fully loaded based on longevity having the full 60 credits Okay, what? Based on the pattern of the humans today. Do you think 400 is going to be enough for the other I do interestingly enough we we did a quick analysis today and basically everybody covered under article 20 comes to 43 percent of the town's workforce and We're just at about 43 percent of the 700,000. So it worked out pretty well So I think we're on target when we came up with that $700,000 number We took them a bunch of things into consideration So I think we'll get it done with everybody else Okay, is there any other questions? Okay, and I suppose is there any other questions on the end schedule non-unions and full-time elected They seem pretty Straightforward at 2% Just to refresh my memory. Was it two years the town employees took zeros? Yes Okay, so we have been brought to bargaining is this article that you'll be voting on That'll be in the finance committee recommendation Is there a motion from the committee? Seconded, okay moved and seconded for the collective bargaining for Roberts library Firefighters and schedule a non-union and full-time with the numbers as opposed here. Is there any discussion? Okay, all those in favor of that. We say aye opposed Okay, so favorable action unanimous Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay Okay, the next issue is the finance committee budget Alan and I have been going and John have been going through all the budgets and all the finance committee reports I've sent everything out to the you know to the Western world for comments I got comments back from several of you. So thank you very much And all of a sudden you know I was looking You know trying to compare make sure everything fits and In discussions with Peter, I realized That our budget was not going up three point two five percent. It was going up four four and a half percent and Here we were you know making sure that everybody else is doing three and a quarter and You know, we weren't even close Now so what Peter and I would like to recommend to you is That we cut a hundred and fifty five dollars from Expenses, so in 20 instead of twenty five hundred is twenty three forty five And the total budget would be 12,000 two zero six, which would be a three point two three percent increase I Think that'll still provide plenty of money to do our job And keep us right in line with with the three and a quarter, so Peter and I would like to recommend that to you Any questions? Motion Okay, any further discussion Okay favorable action all those in favor, please say aye opposed Okay, unanimous Okay, two three Four human rights executive director article 33 I sent this to you about a week ago by a few days ago actually and I handed this out It's on the back of the arts culture budget So Remember we were talking about this We looked at the number of five, you know actions that the human rights has to take which is not a huge amount We pose we already passed a budget for them I think of forty five hundred dollars that handles all the you know sort of basic administrative work for the for the committee And the director of human services basically acts as the executive director And we thought it would be good if just the board of select one could approve the Approve the manager's recommendation to appoint her as the executive director as the by-law state and The issue would be soft for reasons That are a little bit of a mystery to me and The board of select one decided not to do that So I put together a vote you got to take a vote as you know appropriation on it That's before you now Voter that the board of select one investigate the position of executive director you and rights commission report its findings The next annual town meeting the board should determine the need for the position Whether it's position or duties to be handled by the existing member of the human services staff if the board determines the position Is not needed for the commission to fulfill its responsibilities.  They either Come back with a new solution next year But it seems to me to be a reasonable solution to the issue On that so with that I recommend This vote under 33 with this comment Okay, is there a second second, okay here In the past I've run into a problem with the Directing other parts of the town The town meeting apparently has some limitations You could get around I don't know what that applies to You get around it by saying by softening that requested The board of select one is requested Well, yeah, it's not meeting asking them not us Okay, so the board of select one is requested to investigate the position of the executive director of a law requested to submit Okay, any other discussion John It doesn't sound as though it's complete in other words says the board should determine the need for such a position and Whether this position and its duties going to be handled by an existing member of the human service And the board determines this position is not needed Followed by It could they could determine that it is needed, right? Put in appropriation So we just we'll worry about that look that You're not going to say it If they decide that it after researching that it can be appointed that it can be done by a human services staff member Then they could go ahead and appoint that person to serve in this position I mean they have that authority now. I see what you say. Okay. Yeah, all right Okay, any other questions Okay, well Do we know what position the select would have taken on article 33? I don't think they have It's an appropriation article, so I don't think you know they haven't they haven't taken any position Yeah, there's another article back in their side that deals with the town, but it's not an appropriation article. It's a Selectment policy issue Okay, motion's been Made and seconded for to article 33 motion as presented All those actually in favor. I'm sure I think you want to start again can be amended it Thought as presented it does we just did it to the orange is oh adopted as amended Okay, I'll accept that as a friendly amendment Okay, so the board of selectman is requested to Okay, all those in favor of adopting the vote as amended please say aye opposed Okay Anonymous okay, that's four five a special education You remember when the school committee was here they had the superintendent mentioned that's their intention to take any surplus monies they have and Put that into the special education stabilization fund At which point I started grab my warrant and went through it quickly because I couldn't remember such an article well after Getting home and researching it a little bit more thoroughly. No, there was no article so I talked with the controller and I talked with the town council and The controller really didn't think we could use the budgets to do it and Both of the other stabilization fund articles that are in there Really very specific in the warrant, you know one is specifically the long-range Stabilization fund and the other is specifically the override stabilization fund So I was talking with the superintendent And I made the suggestion that why don't you We could increase the reserve fund by two hundred thousand dollars which actually if they wanted your suggestions John and That the board and of course what that would do is draw down the fiscal You know money going into the fiscal stability fund and then the school department promises to turn back at least $200,000 to free cash So, you know we lose a little money on the fiscal stability fund But we increase the free cash So it's it's a wash and then next year at their request we could transfer the money to them They could either you have to use it for special education or they can Next year make sure they put the warrant article in and transfer it into that And since I think most people are in favor of the school having reserves for special ed since it's such a volatile issue I Make this recommendation that we increase the reserve fund We should add a lot of comment on that that you know It's been increased as a reserve for special education in the schools And then the school department promises to get back, you know at least 200,000 back into the Into that they were hoping to do more. Unfortunately. I guess may is a very April and May is very busy on the special education front so they was not sure exactly how much Um Theoretically it's possible for them to come back and you like the first week in May and said we've got 300,000 We can do and we could amend the motion first here and of course and then in town meeting so I'd like to recommend that we increase the reserve fund by 200,000 to be set aside for special education Based on the so on the school department's promise on the free cash So most second, okay, so moved in second. Is there any questions? Well Email was to reduce the Contribution to the override stabilization fund by that 200,000 that's right. Why don't we just well, we're going to get to the override stabilization funded a minute and In the I sort of it's already in here. So we have that Tying in so we'll vote on the override stabilization fund in a minute Why don't you just $200,000 more out of free cash Because that 200,000 is going to come back on July 1st anyway So we'll be exactly with free free cash exactly where we plan to be And then we can keep the same Contribution to override stabilization as we had planned Well, we got to we got to do another vote anyway because you'd have to vote to redo free cash Or you vote to do the override stabilization Which we have to do anyway, so I guess that's the way I've told everybody I thought that we could do it it's No, no, it's what is the $200,000 they are not spending this year We'll just flow into free cash on June 30th As well No, you have to certify free cash after the fiscal year closes By November 15 for years beginning July 1st Take a year. Yeah, it does. Yes So so the money that the departments that any department Does not spend in 2015 Does not get counted as free cash. It does not it doesn't get certified until November right out The free catcher is certified, you know some place in the fall and then gets used in the next year in fist in physicals Skip see there's a lot of keeping goes on so so so what I'm saying is Kind of accomplishes essentially the same thing that it means that as of November when they certify we will have exactly the same amount of free cash as we plan to if they weren't doing this 200,000 other thing at all It sort of goes away from you know using half our free cash every year, which I yeah, I mean yeah Sort of policy that we've had I mean, I guess if we if we're earning the same amount of Interest on our money in free cash that we're earning on override Stabilization is the same difference Yes The amount of money that you're earning is fairly trivial anyway, so I don't think it makes that much difference You're right it does the same thing oh Then the only thing is I think the school department and The chairman of the school right now would be happy it if we had the money and we could transfer it It's guaranteed they got to get it Oh, no, it's no question that we put the 200,000 into the reserve fund Yeah, it's a question of what other part of the budget do we take it out of to put it in the reserve fund for next year? Take it out of free cash, or do we take it out of the override? So yeah, it's not the boat on the reserve. He's just you know wonder where it comes from Kevin how often do we end up dipping into free cash as opposed to the stabilization fund in an emergency? uh Once more, please. How often do we dip into free cash if something happens like say the microburst or some other? Unforeseen Well free cash we basically we basically have over the years just used half of it and you know to be used against the budgets The in the physical stability fund basically has the same Performs the same function when you can't dip into either without a vote at the time You can't just dip into it. Yeah Anybody else I Guess the motion now is to well motion We're looking at now is to increase the reserve for a third fund to a million children. Is there any discussion on that? Okay, I think this motion been made Okay, the motion has been made to decrease the reserve fund by a million two All those in favor, please say aye. I posed Okay, so that's Favorable action unanimous Okay, and That takes care of item five item six Okay, so go to your summary page Which has these votes all fake Okay, so you can see Basically, if you look in the bottom right-hand corner Alan zeroed out override stabilization fund and Therefore what's remaining is two million seven eighty two seven sixty three So in other words, that's the money remaining over That's the money that would go into the overrides table that we vote to go into the overrides stabilization fund and that already takes into account the The million two for the reserve fund the 3,000 160 for their fun for the cultural fund all the budgets are done You modify the Fincom right the Fincom cut So everything is done what we have to do is appropriate two million seven eighty two seven sixty three into the Overrider fiscal stability stabilization fund now, you know, I know less You'd like to do with the free cash in which case then we take up the the free cash vote Reconsider it and put it there and adjust but this by 200,000 This would be just one vote, you know, we got plenty of time, so Okay, so does anybody have any questions on the on this Then was there any plan on this no deficit? We got reimbursed in the feds, sir Right now, okay. That was a good question I had planned in the reserve fund I had set aside we had 80,000 set aside for the fire department retiree buybacks Do you Paul do you have any more feedback on that actually it's gotten a little worse Well, an additional firefighter Okay So what kind of money is that we talking about I think another $20,000, okay, so let's say a hundred so Okay, so we got a hundred thousand this hasn't been voted this I just sort of set it aside and then I got 500,000 for snow and ice and I think that means the the manager You know still has to come up with some additional funds and we've got about a hundred and fifteen thousand left So I think between the five hundred thousand and the additional money that the Manager is going to have to transfer from other budgets And then we still have a hundred and fifteen thousand in reserve I think we're in good shape there But just mention that whatever we vote might have to be tweaked when the house budget comes out. Oh, right say morning. Yeah Comes out Wednesday morning And we're going to tweak that So we'll we'll be tweaking this fiscal stability fund either up or down depending on how the house-based and means committee Comes out I'm hope we're all hoping that they basically go with the governor's numbers And we'll see how the closer well Do we want to Come up with a number for a roof Lewis buyout that we might have to do for It will roll into next year You know, I think I'm trying to remember now. We had set aside funds in a fund because of the Five and two percent Pay raises, you know, they accumulate to a 21 and I think Ruth has been here long enough that she'd probably qualify. So we have that fund of Why don't I ask Carolyn? I'll go to Marma boy Tomorrow about a buyback buyout Of Ruth Lewis and if Funds left in that account Okay, Carolyn, you want to do that? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I thought you were asking me to okay guys Okay. Yeah, so if you could call Carolyn's toy Ask her about the buyout for the Ruth Lewis Buyout and find out what that that's going to cost us and then I'll check with accounting I'll check with accounting on that account It was back in 85. There was a 5% because there was a zero raise, you know, and in 91 or 92 there was a 2% and So 95 05 30 years. Yeah, she probably qualifies for the for the 21 1% Okay, so if you could if you could check that out and email it To me I'd appreciate that Yes Well, the question came up about the She's retiring Well, she's retiring in May Okay, so the question came up on the whole reserve fund So after the fire department, do you have a sense of when they'll know Haven't a more exact figure That they can't cover He's looking at it every month depending upon overtime So he's optimistic because he has five new firefighters So he's believes he will have less overtime than they initially thought but he's monitoring it month by month and send sent an email every month That can mean Okay, so Anyway, after the 500 we vote we vote that we have a hundred and fifteen left in the reserve fund And then Sometimes we just take it out of next year's money. I you know, we fit the situation before Then eventually it's the manager's problem with the money Oh Okay, any other questions on the fiscal stability fund Do I have a motion? I'm sorry the overwrite fiscal stability fund 2,000,782,763 to be modified by now and I based upon the House Ways and Means Committee numbers on Wednesday Okay, moved and second any discussion Okay, all those in favor of 2,000,782,763 into the fiscal stability fund We say aye opposed action unanimous and just want to note I Long-range projection that the manager gave us on February 4th and it was at that time a little less than this We're doing okay, and I think big reason for that is the governor You know recommendation so hopefully The house will support that and I think if the house does I think the Senate will But that's I've been mildly wrong in my political forecast of the past Okay, that is The end of my agenda is there any other business before the committee? I think The goal is that we're going to go to print on Wednesday Either Allen or I will pick them up at the printer on Thursday morning if they could do it We're going to walk out We're going to get them down to while the selectments office on early Thursday morning as we can and they're going to stuff it together With the board of selection report or the redevelopment report that are all going out together for the first time in life forever If anything goes wrong with that they'll be out in the seats of the town meeting when they first come in But it's a combination of a smaller warrant and the timing of everything so I think that would be great The first meeting of the finance the next meeting the finance committee will be 730 in the Lions hearing room Before town meeting we will meet a half hour at 7 7 30 every night of town meeting which hopefully will be I'll get predictions now of five nights. We'll see how that goes. Gloria. Are we are we posted for all that? Okay, and I Can't hopefully I haven't missed anything, but I think I've got we've gotten it all Any other questions?


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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBreaks.com, coming at you with some Panini VIP National Gold Packs, 15 of them. This is random letter break number five, got some more gold packs back in stock, we've done a few four breaks already, a little while ago. So we're going by the first letter of their first name, first name, first letter, a couple combos right there, multi-sport. Big thanks to this group for making it happen, appreciate you. And there are the letters right there, let's roll it, randomized names and letters, three and a three, six the hard way, one, two, three, four, five and six, got a BK, got a BK, three and a three, six the hard way for the letters, one, two, three, four, five and six. Remember, trade window is open but trade at your own risk. All right, Brian, you have W, Ryan with IV, Kenny, Kenneth, Kenneth with E, Scott with B, got really friendly there, got really casual, Chad with C, Stephen K with P, Nicole with J, last spot, Mojo, Brian with A, Scott with D, Chad B with NO, Chad D has C, Brian with T and S, Scott with K, Eugene with L, Roger with Z, Greg with M, Stephen K with F, G and Brian with R, R. Let's sort these alphabetically, we're going to pause the video just for a moment when we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades, he is up for trade, by the way, and then we'll have the break. Now remember, just as a note, let's see which stack we're going to do, any, many, many, we'll do the stack right here, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. All right, so remember, these were produced in 2021 but we got these in 2022, I don't think the national happened in 2020 or maybe we weren't there or they didn't have them ready by then or something like that, but you'll see the same thing in the first four videos as well, but these are from 2022. All right, we're going to pause the video, we'll see you on the other side. All right, welcome back everybody, no deals were done, so that list right there remains the same here on a Monday. First letter, first name, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. All right, good luck, obviously all cards shift. We got Mac Jones and Bryce Harper, four out of five, just like that. Train whistle. That's going to go to Scott and the letter B. Nice, and Scott, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Mac Jones rookie card, going to letter M, Greg with that one. Excuse me a little sniffly, allergies. And we got KG and Fernando Tatis Jr. The velocity pattern here, it's going to go to F for Stephen K. Hands off the glass, KG, that'll go to Scott. Nice, Lionel Messi. There's Barcelona gear and a rookie, Obi Toppin, Hyper. Lionel Messi, of course, playing MLS now. I don't know when his first game is going to be, but it's coming up, yeah. AI and James Hardin. L, by the way, Eugene with the letter L for Lionel Messi. There's Andrew Vaughn and a cracked ice, Russell Wilson, Seahawks edition for Brian and the letter R. Coworking Jr., so these first ones aren't numbered and the second one is usually a parallel, some sort of Patriots, Tom Brady. Brian K with the letter T. Jerry Rice, Niners edition and some Peacock. Mike Trout Peacock. Nice Peacock. Trout. Animals, you know? Animals. Animals. Letter M, Greg with Mike Trout. I'm watching the Angels game right now. Let's see how Mike Trout is doing. Oh, wait for it. Mike Trout is... What do you think Mike Trout is doing today? Scores 1-1. I look at Dylan Cease's card. Yeah, you saw Dylan Cease's... I got a pretty good day at the house. I'm going to go 0 for 2 with a walk. 0 for 3. No strikeouts, no walks. Dylan Cease is quite good to be honest. There's Kate Cunningham and another Bryce Harper, cracked ice to 99. Kate Cunningham going to Chad in his Oklahoma State gear. Kate Cunningham? Yeah. No? He looks crazy. What do you mean he looks crazy? You spent your Torkelson for the Tigers. I don't think Warriors will do it justice. You should just see like... What's Torkelson doing? 0 for 4 with a walk and a run scored. Every time I think he's heating up, he cools off again. He's on my fantasy team. That's true. Steve Amaladon and Patty Mahomes. Tigers be the Rangers though, 7-2. There's Mookie and Barry to 99. Letter B, Scott. These are fun ladies and gentlemen. We've got another set of 15 in the store right now. Patrick Mahomes and Mickey Mantle. Hyper parallel, part of him. And we've got Christian Polisic. He might be on the move this summer. And Anthony Davis Snakeskin. Brian Kay with AD. You've got Christian Polisic and Christophe. That's a good one. That's true. That's Kyle Hitz. They're always injured. Tom Brady Giraffe. Giraffe? Giraffe print. That's Buccaneers edition going to Brian and the letter T. I feel like I remember the giraffes are, along with the peacocks, one of the more shorter printed animal prints in these gold packs. My memory serves me correctly. And there's Jimmy Hardin and LeBron James. 49 out of 50. For the letter L, that'll be for Eugene. There you go. Some nice stuff out of here. More in the store. Jasby's casebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. And I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


And the way I used it on my particular hair caused some issues for me. Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. Rice water ruined my hair. Not exactly, but I couldn't help it. I had to take a dig at all the hair ruination videos we've been seeing lately. But that is a whole other topic that I will get back to in my year-end roast. I think I'm finally gonna do one, so look out for that. But in the meantime, let's get back to this rice water. And I'm going to responsibly state that something didn't quite work for me. Rice water didn't ruin my hair, but it did create some difficulties for me, which we'll talk about right now. But first, let's go back to the beginning. Why I wanted to try it, what I did, how it worked, everything. Just for your information and entertainment, I guess. Right now. So like all of you, I'm a member of the natural hair community on social media, which means I heard all the buzz about rice water. Maybe six months ago, a year ago, I don't know how long it's been being talked about. I guess ever since VIXX, rice water was right after VIXX. So, you know, it's been a while. I was curious. People were talking about like to length hair like Japanese and Chinese women who had like really long hair using rice water. People were saying that they were getting really great definition and their hair was growing so fast and all that. And it was just amazing and everybody wanted to try it. So for me personally, I don't really care about growth. I don't really care about kill definition. But the claim was acted like a protein treatment, one of the claims. So I was thinking that this would be a nice DIY strengthening treatment that I can do every now and then instead of doing a protein treatment. I wanted to try it out to see how it worked for me. Some of the claims were that, of course, it grew your hair. It reduced hair breakage. It helped control dandruff. It helped fight the effects of hard water by introducing magnesium which helps to get rid of like extra calcium. Some said it even delayed gray hair, like graying. What else? It helped increase blood circulation to the scalp. It was just doing everything. Doing everything. Everything, you know. The main part of I found interesting was that rice water contains inocital which is supposed to penetrate the strand and help to strengthen the strand similar to like a protein treatment and also stay in the strand after washing or after a few washes just like a protein treatment. So that's why I was interested because I was like, hmm, okay. A nice, easy DIY protein treatment. Sounds interesting. Plus, hey, if it wants to do all the other things like stimulate my scalp and it's supposed to even like reduce stress. Girl, I was doing everything. Hundreds of people were saying it was so amazing. So I was like, okay, well, you know, give it a try. It took me like six months or something.  But I found out from someone else that you can just make it in the refrigerator. So I was like, okay, that's a little more doable for me than making it and hoping that I happen to wash when I think I'm going to wash. So I made it. I'm going to show you how I made it. And within like a day or two I used it and I'll show you how I used it. I was going to find the first week and I was like, let me use it for like a month. So I'm going to know how it really does and like if it's really working and stuff. I didn't even make it to the month. Let me just tell you that the first time I did it like I shampooed my hair and I tried to spray it on eventually it was like down to the on left it on for 20 minutes rinsed it out and then deep conditioned. So the first thing I noticed my hair did seem softer, smoother. Definitely was easier to detangle, which was kind of weird because it didn't have a slip in itself. But after I put my product and I was like detangling, finger detangling through or waking through, it was definitely like much easier to detangle, much easier to rake my hands through. So I'll definitely say that for it like if you're doing any kind of manipulation if you've done it right before it's a lot easier. The cuticles did seem even lower. Remember that. The cuticles did seem even like smoother and it did seem easier to rake once I added product with slip. And I'm not seeing any amazing immediate wow, but it did seem a little better so let me keep going. The second week I did the same thing except my rice water. This time I think I just down to them and then immediately put my conditioner over it. So it basically stopped for 20 minutes with my conditioner. The same thing, my hair felt smoother. It was easier to detangle. But then I noticed that my hair seemed a little bit drier during the week. So I was like hmmm like my hair doesn't get dry during the week like it really doesn't get dry during the week. So I'm like hmmm, okay. I think I have used some Eco Styler that way so I was like okay maybe it's the products. Next week I'm gonna use like a Trident True or something like that. So the next week I did it again. This time my hair actually even felt a little bit hard. So on top of like losing moisture and losing definition, like usually my washing goes always last week. Midweek my hair was kind of dry, was frizzy so I was like what's going on? I guess never happens to me. Even in some of my videos you can see that water was just like rolling off my hair and nothing was penetrating. So it was just not letting anything in. So that was kind of scary to watch. I was like okay, that's it for this experiment. I'm not even gonna make it to fourth week. I just abandoned so it's only been about a week or two since I stopped. But already my hair is doing better, like feeling more moisturized and getting a little bit of definition back and everything. So I think it's great for high porosity. I think it's great for normal porosity. Hey, it may even be good if you have water maybe. But for my ultra low porosity, for my hair it really just wasn't doing what it was doing for everybody else. I would say if you have low porosity, definitely be cautious.  And if you overdo it like do it too often, I feel like that can kind of build up in your hair and just not allow as much water to penetrate your strand. So I do think I want to try it again but not every week. I think the every week part was what killed it for me. So I've been seeing people using it every week. I've been seeing people even leaving it in using it as a leave-in and just leaving it in there and having great results. But for my wiring low porosity hair that was just too much for me. So I want to get my hair back on track, back to its usual moisturized self and its usual level of definition. And then I do want to use it maybe once a month as a strengthening treatment. I'm not going to say protein treatment because I'm not sure if it's the protein or the inositol that's really having the strengthening effect. I couldn't see any research that said that the actual protein in the rice water was hydrolyzed or was small enough to penetrate your strand. But I know I read that the inositol does penetrate your strand and does act similar to protein in terms of strengthening the strand. So I probably still do like microillusion protein treatment and stuff now and again as well. But I do think it'll be a good thing to add to my regimen just not that often. So I'll keep you guys posted on my rice water progress but as of right now at least weekly rice water is a no for me and I'm going to be using it with caution get my moisture back then try using it maybe once a month or something. But yeah that was my experience let me know how rice water worked for you. I know a lot of people love it and most people love it. I only see like a few people who said it was a no for them so let me know if you experienced anything I experienced or just if you loved it. So I hope this was fun or just was informative. Let's check in the comments below and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.