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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: XJDenton on October 23, 2017, 03:02:50 AM
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Old one here:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=49547.0
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Yo
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:zydar:
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:jingleboy:
3rd!
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4th!
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4th!
Name the 4th man on the moon.
Didn't think so.
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Page 1!!
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Page one yo....
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Mmmmm. Smells fresh and unspoiled in here. Let's fuck it up some.
Morning.
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:corn
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4th!
Name the 4th man on the moon.
Didn't think so.
Alan Bean but I really wanted to say Zod.
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4th!
Name the 4th man on the moon.
Didn't think so.
Alan Bean but I really wanted to say Zod.
I forgot that some of us are old enough to have lived through that being news. :lol
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:lol
As a kid I loved Astronauts and Dinosaurs. Weird combo but you know some jackass will make a movie out of this idea.
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Not a weird combo at all. What kid didn't love astronauts and dinosaurs? Most of us STILL love astronauts and dinosaurs! :metal
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Not a weird combo at all. What kid didn't love astronauts and dinosaurs? Most of us STILL love astronauts and dinosaurs! :metal
Yup, how could you not love those two? But yea, Jurassic Apollo Park seems like something coming soon from Hollywood.
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Tom Hanks in Jurassic Apollo 13 Park. Where no Dinosaur has been before....
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Morning new chat thread!
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Morning Jay.
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4th!
Name the 4th man on the moon.
Didn't think so.
Alan Bean but I really wanted to say Zod.
Well, both would be inaccurate, since Megatron was the first one on the moon. :biggrin:
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4th!
Name the 4th man on the moon.
Didn't think so.
Alan Bean but I really wanted to say Zod.
Well, both would be inaccurate, since Megatron was the first one on the moon. :biggrin:
I said man not MACHINE! It's clear that mere men cannot compete with our robot overlords.
Also no. :lol
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:lol
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I said man not MACHINE! It's clear that mere men cannot compete with our robot overlords.
Also no. :lol
I knew you had that loophole to the argument, but I just had to bait you with a Transformers movie memory. Be careful not to ever make reference about the Knights of the Round Table.
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If you're going to bait me with a Transformers memory, can it at least be one I want to remember?
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And can it be the cartoon as well, not the crap fest from Michael Bay?
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If you're going to bait me with a Transformers memory, can it at least be one I want to remember?
Constructi-testicles?
"Give me your face"?
"You've got the touch"?
Parachuting dead Optimus Prime?
Transforming humans?
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If you're going to bait me with a Transformers memory, can it at least be one I want to remember?
Constructi-testicles?
"Give me your face"?
"You've got the touch"?
Parachuting dead Optimus Prime?
Transforming humans?
WE ARE DIRECTLY BELOW THE ENEMY'S SCROTUM.
At least you stuck in one good one. YOU'VE GOT THE POWEEEEEEEEEEER! YEAH!
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If you're going to bait me with a Transformers memory, can it at least be one I want to remember?
Constructi-testicles?
"Give me your face"?
"You've got the touch"?
Parachuting dead Optimus Prime?
Transforming humans?
WE ARE DIRECTLY BELOW THE ENEMY'S SCROTUM.
At least you stuck in one good one. YOU'VE GOT THE POWEEEEEEEEEEER! YEAH!
Had to throw you a boned.
Hey, post 38,000!
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Oh you meant me. I don't even notice post count. After the first 10k, it's all the same. :neverusethis:
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Oh you meant me. I don't even notice post count. After the first 10k, it's all the same. :neverusethis:
Just think... if you and King didn't have the GD chat thread, you'd both be in the low 20k range! Only 2000 or so to go to catch Hef. You should have it done by Christmas, since he hasn't posted in almost 2 months. :sadpanda: I, on the other hand, still have 4500 or so to go to catch Kotow.
BTW... I still giggle uncontrollably at the post you made about him a long time ago when he mentioned how he'd just found out he was allergic to something... "Is it happiness. I'll bet it's happiness". POTY candidate right there.
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:lol I'm proud of that one.
I doubt I'll catch up very quickly. I don't post nearly as much as I used to even though I'm still around as much, and even then mostly in the chat thread these days, which are the first to go when posts get culled.
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That was glorious. :lol
Also I have to keep up with my post count. :biggrin:
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It's not even 11am and it's already pushing 90F... uuugh.
I decided to take advantage of the slow morning (and the company car's AC) and do some errands that I've been putting off. Had to pick up a few things that were on my list things my boss gave me the okay to pick up, as well as pay a vendor that my old supervisor never paid (walked off with $135 worth of Golf Cart tires and never actually paid them... like WTF!) as well as gassed up / ran the car through the car wash. Sent in the receipts, now just waiting for bossman to realize that I spent $200 in one trip :lol
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now just waiting for bossman to realize that I spent $200 in one trip :lol
:lol I know the feeling, my expense reports are around $25k a year and everytime I submit one I have that feeling of "Oh is the boss going to be OK with this?" even though I've never had a report rejected, it's always in the back of my mind especially since I front the money (well, i guess my credit card does but it's in my name).
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I think he likes the fact that I try to save him money. Case in point- our bike here at work has a flat. My old supervisor would have loaded it into the Prius, taken it to a shop on the other side of town, left it there for a week, and then get charged like $50. I just went to fucking Wal-Mart and bought 2 inner tubes for like $15 total.
When we need something, I shop around, instead of just buying the first thing that I find.
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Hi
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'elloz
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Evening guys
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Love that brand new thread smell.
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Surprised we haven't fouled it up yet with our own stench yet.
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Morning all.
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Wtf.
It's over 90° F AND THE SUN ISN'T EVEN UP YET
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On the road in New York right now heading to P.A.
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On the road in New York right now heading to P.A.
Take me with you. I have a friend in Western PA who says it's in the mid 60's and rainy there.
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Hi all. Hooray for a crippling tech outage at work.
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Hi all. Hooray for a crippling tech outage at work.
Yikes. Someone's getting the ax from IT. If someone took down any money making business during business hours when I worked in IT for a few different banks, it was grounds for termination and I've seen it happen a few times.
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We are under a microscope like that as well. Part of job is keeping record of all banker activities and we discovered a massive loop hole last week, well it turns out dev overlooked it on deployment, if it was our team that would've fucked up there would have been hell to pay.
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Today was Day 2 at our new site out in the burbs. Last week, I had my own window office in an urban high-rise with mahogany furniture...this week, I have a workstation in an open-office in suburbia. Sigh. It could certainly be worse (I mean, I have a job), but it's definitely an adjustment.
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Wait. You're not happy in suburbia?
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Wait. You're not happy in suburbia?
Hmmm...high rise w/ Manhattan skyline views vs. suburbs, with a partial view of a parking garage and maybe some trees in the distance, plus a much more complicated commute...
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Well, sorry for the complicated commute. That can kill the whole deal, but....I'm definitely a suburb guy.
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Good morning everyone
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Morning.
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What's happening blob?
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The usual. So, nuthin'. :lol You?
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Morning peeps.
Hired another new guy. Really chill old (even old compared to most of you) dude. He's a retired dude who got bored, so he wants to pick up some of our special shifts that I sometimes only get 24 hours notice on. Win win for both of us. Plus he lives like 3 minutes away.
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Evening guys. Going go-karting as a work event tomorrow which means I get to bail work early, no complaints from me.
In other work news I found out today that they are probably firing one guy who is newer member of the team. I can see why they are going to fire him (if they do) but it still sucks, he is a good dude but it's not the right fit. I do believe they are going to merge my role with his and promote me, which I'm not sure how I feel about.
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Good morning everyone.
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Morning. Driving home today. 9 hour drive.
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Morning king. It just started pissing down rain here. :hat
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My wife told me we've had 4 inches of rain in 2 days. That's a crazy amount .
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Can’t wait to get out of work early today.
We had a ton of rain too this past Monday, it’s weird here in NC when it rains it just rains non stop
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Well, sorry for the complicated commute. That can kill the whole deal, but....I'm definitely a suburb guy.
Suburb guy as well, but these NJ commutes can be miserable.
Saw DT changed the setlist a bit last night and I'm all :omg: now
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Well, sorry for the complicated commute. That can kill the whole deal, but....I'm definitely a suburb guy.
Suburb guy as well, but these NJ commutes can be miserable.
Northern NJ is brutal. My college roommate lived in Wayne. I mean, just to go to buy beers was ridiculous.
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Morning.
I'm lagging in getting ready for work. It's going to be a long day. One of the things I've gotta do is let a guy know that he doesn't have a job as of Monday. Nothing he did wrong. The client is wanting to save money and cut hours at that account. 3 dudes are affected... But this guy the most. Sucks too because he just quit his second job to go full time with us in Oct.
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Sucks to deliver that kinda news. :-\
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I might be able to keep him on part time, and move him to our main account. The only problem with that is our main account requires a certain degree of computer proficiency, which this guy is severely lacking in. What I KNOW I will do is put a good word in for him elsewhere. I've got a buddy who is an account manager at another company. I'll give him a call and personally recommend this guy.
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Hello from Vermont! The Queen and I are celebrating 23 years married. Tomorrow is the official day.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/550x700q90/924/SQdAmB.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/f/poSQdAmBj)
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Awesome Joe!!
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Screw Joe... Awesome for the Queen! :lol
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Yeah, but she has to be with him...
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That's why I'm the king.
Heading to a killer restaurant to meet up with family.
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Congrats King!
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Thanks guys!
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Congrats Joe (and my sympathies to Lisa), enjoy all those VT beers!
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Congrats King enjoy your weekend, better be lots of bang bang :hat
Big college football game today, PSU vs OSU and as soon as that ends heading to north jersey with the gf to see 311. We are dressing up as ketchup and mustard for the concert.
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Mornin’
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP AT THIS TIME??
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Believe it or not I’m actually working. I’m doing server patching with TNG running in the background.
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Damn, that sucks.
It's starting to get really hot and humid here. Fucker Spring/Summer. I can't even pretend I'm doing work today. :lol
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It’s going to be down to 0C later today, I can’t wait
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Wanna trade a bit of that?
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I don't think I need all that heat blob
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No, just some of it. I don't want 36C tomorrow.
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Screw that heat. Yuck.
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Morning guys. It's a cold morning and I did not get enough sleep last night.
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Morning.
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Morning, guys
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What’s happening Blob?
Prof it’s good to see you posting.
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What's new?
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Power outage here where i live. My basement is flooded. Still no power. Great.
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Power outage here where i live. My basement is flooded. Still no power. Great.
Yikes, that's terrible. Big storm here overnight and Im sure it's hitting you guys up north as well. Lots of trees down and flooding.
Took tomorrow off work so just got to survive till 5pm then heading north of NYC to catch 311 for the 5th and final time this year.
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I'm here at work. Too much going on here. Once the power is back on I'll take care of it tonight. So thrilled.
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Power outage here where i live. My basement is flooded. Still no power. Great.
I assume both were weather related? Or did the power outage somehow cause the flood - you don't have a running water mill in your basement, do you?
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Morning ya'll.
Dealing with an employee who decided he dictates the hours in his shift. Client decided to restructure when they want security at that site (used to be 2 shifts, a swing and a grave, per day with 24 hour coverage on Sundays). Starting this week, they cut out everything but the graves, and modified the shift (used to be 11p-6a. Now it's 10p-6a).
He argued with me about it over the phone on Friday, and then sent me a text on Saturday sayin "Hey boss I'm not going to be going in at 10p on Fridays lets keep it at 11p thanks"
Really? I explained that I have no say so in the shift. Neither does the owner of the company (whom I am keeping in the loop with all of this.)
Some people....
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People are the worst!
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People are the worst!
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I hate people.
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Power outage here where i live. My basement is flooded. Still no power. Great.
I assume both were weather related? Or did the power outage somehow cause the flood - you don't have a running water mill in your basement, do you?
No power so the sump pump can't work. I have a generator but I should be there when it's running and I'm at work.
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Power outage here where i live. My basement is flooded. Still no power. Great.
I assume both were weather related? Or did the power outage somehow cause the flood - you don't have a running water mill in your basement, do you?
No power so the sump pump can't work. I have a generator but I should be there when it's running and I'm at work.
Is your basement flooding normal? It's definitely something I fear personally. I have two sump pumps and both have battery back up, but many of my neighbors get flooded basements and given the land being on top of water, it was always something I was told would be possible with my basement but have yet to experience.
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Yup. We are a mile away from a lake. We have water that flows below and when we get hard rain like this past week the ground gets saturated. Now if we had power I'd be ok. But we don't.
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Solution: Drain the lake
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Solution: Drain the lake
If only I had that power Jay.
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Solution: Drain the lake
If only I had that power Jay.
Well duh. You're electricity is out.
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:lol
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:lol
Goddammit! I'm talking superpowers!!! :lol
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:lol
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Solution: Drain the lake
If only I had that power Jay.
Well duh. You're electricity is out.
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You're quoting Jay, Chad? Oh how the mighty have fallen. :lol
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Fuck. Got the generator started in a part in the carburetor broke pissing fuel everywhere. So we're screwed.
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So now you've gotta drain a lake, basement, AND clean up fuel..
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So now you've gotta drain a lake, basement, AND clean up fuel..
It's good to be the King?
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So now you've gotta drain a lake, basement, AND clean up fuel..
It's good to be the King?
Just for a while ...
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Just got home borrowed my buddies generator house has electricity. now I got to try to find the pot tomorrow and I'm draining the basement right now. Oh the joys of owning a home.
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I feel for ya dude. Thankfully, we've never had any issues like that. No water issues requiring a sump pump for us. I take it your basement isn't finished, since this isn't the first flood you've had?
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Yes it's not finished and not our first flood. Think I'm going to invest in a battery backup if this happens again.
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King I'm glad you were able to get your hands on a generator. How often do you flood?
Good morning guys.
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Only when we lose power for a long period of time and if the ground is saturated with water which it was.
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Morning
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Hey John!!
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Yes it's not finished and not our first flood. Think I'm going to invest in a battery backup if this happens again.
Not sure battery backups even work.
That sucks Joe! I feel your pain.
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Hey John!!
What's the good word?
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Lots of water downstairs and noise from the generator.
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That's rough. How bad is the leak?
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Are we allowed to talk about leaks?
:riskybiz:
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:lol
We lost power and my generator crapped out so with no power the sump pump can't work and the basement flooded.
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Are we allowed to talk about leaks?
:riskybiz:
You're allowed to discuss leaks, as long it's not in JP's basement, and also don't give any specific hints on where your basement is leaking from.
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I'm going to go take a leak and then talk more about your leak while we read scripts from season 8 of Game of Thrones.
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So apparently Dave Grohl dressed as David Letterman in the most convincing possible costume ever.
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Just looked it up, that is awesome. I really hope I get to see FF this tour.
Morning guys.
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Morning
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Morning. Got power back last night around 10pm.
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How long were you without power all up, king? (besides "too long")
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Morning.
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Afternoon.
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How long were you without power all up, king? (besides "too long")
2 days, 18 hours. I did borrow a generator and had power Monday night around 11pm. Basement was flooded by then.
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Nice. Glad to hear it.
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Now I'm behind on a lot. Wife's birthday party is Saturday.
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How long were you without power all up, king? (besides "too long")
2 days, 18 hours. I did borrow a generator and had power Monday night around 11pm. Basement was flooded by then.
Holy shit, I didn't realize it was for that long! That sucks.
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The big problem was the water in the basement. I have to throw out a lot of stuff now.
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Morning ya'll.
Dealing with an employee who decided he dictates the hours in his shift. Client decided to restructure when they want security at that site (used to be 2 shifts, a swing and a grave, per day with 24 hour coverage on Sundays). Starting this week, they cut out everything but the graves, and modified the shift (used to be 11p-6a. Now it's 10p-6a).
He argued with me about it over the phone on Friday, and then sent me a text on Saturday sayin "Hey boss I'm not going to be going in at 10p on Fridays lets keep it at 11p thanks"
Really? I explained that I have no say so in the shift. Neither does the owner of the company (whom I am keeping in the loop with all of this.)
Some people....
What did you do? I would have texted back "Not your call, not my call. Customer's call. See you at 10p on Fridays, or not at all thanks."
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Morning ya'll.
Dealing with an employee who decided he dictates the hours in his shift. Client decided to restructure when they want security at that site (used to be 2 shifts, a swing and a grave, per day with 24 hour coverage on Sundays). Starting this week, they cut out everything but the graves, and modified the shift (used to be 11p-6a. Now it's 10p-6a).
He argued with me about it over the phone on Friday, and then sent me a text on Saturday sayin "Hey boss I'm not going to be going in at 10p on Fridays lets keep it at 11p thanks"
Really? I explained that I have no say so in the shift. Neither does the owner of the company (whom I am keeping in the loop with all of this.)
Some people....
What did you do? I would have texted back "Not your call, not my call. Customer's call. See you at 10p on Fridays, or not at all thanks."
This completely. You can't let the inmates run the prison.
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And when he was late I'd have a counseling ready and tell him he will show up at this time. He has no say.
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Yea, got to admit it takes some balls to tell the boss what time you are showing up, but the guy shouldn't expect to have a job if that's the way he acts.
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New Boss, pushing the limits. Jay, stomp him now. Show him you are in charge.
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Cram, King, there's some of that in my response. Right now, it's "I'll be there at 11". Next time it's "I'm taking lunch now". Next time after that it's "I can't come in on that holiday, we're having it at my house". It'll never end. Then, it'll be the other guy that this guy talks to at break. Fuck it, if the first guy can get away with it, so can I!
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Morning ya'll.
Dealing with an employee who decided he dictates the hours in his shift. Client decided to restructure when they want security at that site (used to be 2 shifts, a swing and a grave, per day with 24 hour coverage on Sundays). Starting this week, they cut out everything but the graves, and modified the shift (used to be 11p-6a. Now it's 10p-6a).
He argued with me about it over the phone on Friday, and then sent me a text on Saturday sayin "Hey boss I'm not going to be going in at 10p on Fridays lets keep it at 11p thanks"
Really? I explained that I have no say so in the shift. Neither does the owner of the company (whom I am keeping in the loop with all of this.)
Some people....
What did you do? I would have texted back "Not your call, not my call. Customer's call. See you at 10p on Fridays, or not at all thanks."
This completely. You can't let the inmates run the prison.
That's racist.
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:lol
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Hahaha
I pulled him off that shift all together.
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Evening guys
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Evening. Sharing 16 oz cans of beer greatness with the wifey.
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Sounds like a good time King. I’m happy your power is back up and running.
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So are we!
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Good morning
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Morning folks
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Hey Jay. What's up?
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BLOB!
Just working.
Someone hacked into one of our camera servers and overlaid "CUNTS" and "YOU GOT HACKED" on some of the cameras.
It's funny, but really annoying.
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Hahaha
I pulled him off that shift all together.
Someone hacked into one of our camera servers and overlaid "CUNTS" and "YOU GOT HACKED" on some of the cameras.
I'm not Jim Rockford, but I see a pattern...
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BLOB!
Just working.
Someone hacked into one of our camera servers and overlaid "CUNTS" and "YOU GOT HACKED" on some of the cameras.
It's funny, but really annoying.
:lol Yeah, about how I'd describe it. Are they going to upgrade the security so they can't do that again?
Stad might be onto something here........
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:lol
Where there's smoke.....
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There's only one employee we've had, whom actually came BACK to work for me when I got promoted, who would have the skills to do this. And I know for sure that it wasn't him. According to the camera/IT guys, it looks like it was a random attack, and they've seen it a lot lately.
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So I probably shouldn't be too flirtatious with Property Manager's assistant via emails which the Property Manager is CCed to.... what do ya'll think? lol
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Kotowboy is back from the dead?
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Good evening guys
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Good morning guys
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Morning Reap. What's up?
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Morning.
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Nothing much Blob, happy it's friday, get to sleep in tomorrow.
What's happening King?
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Blob Skype just shit on me again, *sigh*
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In the Drive-Thru at Dunkin Donuts. Heading into work. Boooo.
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I wish there was Dunkin close to my work, I prefer their regular coffee over starbucks.
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Blob Skype just shit on me again, *sigh*
You mean after you said it had already shit itself? :facepalm:
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Yup, by that time I had to go to work, which I’m now at work.
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I wish there was Dunkin close to my work, I prefer their regular coffee over starbucks.
Yes I agree.
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Almost lunch time!
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Morning peeps.
Thank Petrucci it's fucking Friday.
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Almost lunch time!
Yummmyyy love Friday lunches. Getting Columbian food soon with my coworker.
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My building is hosting an animal shelter adoption center in the lobby. Almost came home with another dog today.
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Getting Columbian food soon with my coworker.
In my day, a Columbian lunch would have just given you the munchies. :)
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Getting Columbian food soon with my coworker.
In my day, a Columbian lunch would have just given you the munchies. :)
And lots of energy? :lol
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:lol Got me some columbian coffee too to stock up on in my office on the way back from lunch
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Good evening guys.
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Morning!
Getting Columbian food soon with my coworker.
In my day, a Columbian lunch would have just given you the munchies. :)
And lots of energy? :lol
No, you're thinking Peruvian lunch, King.
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:lol
Morning.
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Good morning everyone
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What's happening, King & Reap?
I'm considering throwing some soap at my car and moving it out in the rain just test TAC's theory.
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Morning gang! What's up, Reap?
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Hey, Blob. Good evening.
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Evening? Close enough!
So it's one of them human weekends, right? What plans have you guys got?
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It's like 1:00 am, right? I can't say good night, that would be too much like I was dismissing either you or me.
And yes, we work-a-day humans are at our weekend. Just bought tickets to go see Ragnorak in just a few hours. :squee:
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We were supposed to have my wife's birthday party but she's sick with a fever of a hundred degrees and throwing up. Happy birthday....
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It's like 1:00 am, right? I can't say good night, that would be too much like I was dismissing either you or me.
And yes, we work-a-day humans are at our weekend. Just bought tickets to go see Ragnorak in just a few hours. :squee:
I'll be up for another 5 hours yet, so evening is close enough. :lol
You talking about that Thor movie? I don't watch comic book movies, so I don't know if it's supposed to be good or not, but I hope you enjoy it. :hat
The only new movie I have planned for the rest of the year is Star Wars.
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We're pretty stoked for The Last Jedi too. :soon:
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I'm not super excited about it, I think it could go either way at the moment, but I'm definitely interested in seeing what direction they take the story.
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I'm not super excited about it, I think it could go either way at the moment, but I'm definitely interested in seeing what direction they take the story.
Did you guy your head or something? Not excited?
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I'm not super excited about it, I think it could go either way at the moment, but I'm definitely interested in seeing what direction they take the story.
Did you guy your head or something? Not excited?
Did I do the what to my what now? :lol
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FUUUUUUUUU :lol
Did you hit your head or something?
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Did YOU hit your head or something? :lol
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I just thought King was having a Kevin Spacey moment there and thought it best not to comment.
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If that is the case Blob I've hit my head for 49 years. :lol
Oh no, unlike Kevin Spacey I post all my dumb stuff on Facebook.
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Nothing new over here. I just got back from the dog park, cleaned up the house then heading to an orchard for some cider.
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Morning (errr... afternoon?) guys!
Going to my monthly No Tap Bowling Tourney tonight. :metal
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What is No Tap Bowling?
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Standard 10 pin bowling, but if you get a 9, it counts as a strike.
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So it's bowling for people who can't count to double digits? :neverusethis:
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No Fap Bowling?
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Millennial bowling ... "close enough".
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I would never go to s no "Tap" bowling.
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Standard 10 pin bowling, but if you get a 9, it counts as a strike.
How does that work. Aren't most bowling alleys computerized now?
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Standard 10 pin bowling, but if you get a 9, it counts as a strike.
How does that work. Aren't most bowling alleys computerized now?
Computers are programmable to count to 9 as well. :biggrin:
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Computers don't understand 9, they only understand 1 and 0.
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Morning guys.
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Morning Reap. What's up?
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Computers don't understand 9, they only understand 1 and 0.
No way. :lol
Morning.
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Nothing much, woke up super early because of daylight savings, at the dog park now. I have some yard waiting for me at home.
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Hey guys!
Nothing much, woke up super early because of daylight savings, at the dog park now. I have some yard waiting for me at home.
I have some winterizing the yard to do myself, Reap. I'm happy to have all the leaves vacuumed up and mulched, which was yesterday's chore... and yes, Tim, my leaf blower can be reversed to pull up leaves, mulch then and bag them.
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Nothing much, woke up super early because of daylight savings, at the dog park now. I have some yard waiting for me at home.
That is dull bro.
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I'm happy to have all the leaves vacuumed up and mulched, which was yesterday's chore... and yes, Tim, my leaf blower can be reversed to pull up leaves, mulch then and bag them.
So your leaf blower blows and sucks? Is this another thing I've never heard about?
Nothing much, woke up super early because of daylight savings, at the dog park now. I have some yard waiting for me at home.
That is dull bro.
That is true, bro.
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So your leaf blower blows and sucks? Is this another thing I've never heard about?
Not surprisingly, yes, Bromain Lettuce.
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I don't even want to know. :lol
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I'm sending this link to Mrs. TAC so she can get you off DTF and go clean up the yard.
ELECTRIC BLOWER VACUUM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plbcf6MFt2U)
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I'm happy to have all the leaves vacuumed up and mulched, which was yesterday's chore... and yes, Tim, my leaf blower can be reversed to pull up leaves, mulch then and bag them.
So your leaf blower blows and sucks? Is this another thing I've never heard about?
Nothing much, woke up super early because of daylight savings, at the dog park now. I have some yard waiting for me at home.
That is dull bro.
That is true, bro.
I’m an old man now bro
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I have one that does the same brotato chip.
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Franklin Delano Broosevelt.
:hifive:
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I'm happy to have all the leaves vacuumed up and mulched, which was yesterday's chore... and yes, Tim, my leaf blower can be reversed to pull up leaves, mulch then and bag them.
So your leaf blower blows and sucks? Is this another thing I've never heard about?
Nothing much, woke up super early because of daylight savings, at the dog park now. I have some yard waiting for me at home.
That is dull bro.
That is true, bro.
I’m an old man now bro
Stop being old. You're not allowed to be old yet. Why would you want that. Stop.
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I’ve tried to stop but I can’t, it’s inevitable.
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I’ve tried to stop but I can’t, it’s inevitable.
Only if you let it happen by falling into the traps of life.
I think I might stream some DK stuff in a bit. Pretty sure I can't accidentally get old by doing that. :lol
The true test will be when TAC asks what that actually means. That's how you know you're still young. :biggrin:
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Sweet, I’ll be home soon so if I’m not outside I’ll turn it on and have a look.
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I'm sending this link to Mrs. TAC so she can get you off DTF and go clean up the yard.
ELECTRIC BLOWER VACUUM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plbcf6MFt2U)
Oh, I see. That looks like so much fun..
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The true test will be when TAC asks what that actually means. That's how you know you're still young. :biggrin:
In all fairness, it's not just the young people's culture he's clueless about, we're having to bring him along with the fogey stuff too. [see above]
:lol
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:lol
It's not like Tim hasn't worked in the grocery store is whole life and seen a billion milfs.
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We were watching football yesterday and a Showtime advertisement came on for their series SMILF. Mrs. P said, "You guys aught to pool your money and buy that forum guy a subscription to Showtime. :lol
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It's not like Tim hasn't worked in the grocery store is whole life and seen a billion milfs.
It's actually how I met my wife. ;D
We were watching football yesterday and a Showtime advertisement came on for their series SMILF. Mrs. P said, "You guys aught to pool your money and buy that forum guy a subscription to Showtime. :lol
"That forum guy". :facepalm: :lol
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Well look at that.....
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Has anyone watched Superior Donuts? Any good?
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I wasn't too intrigued by it when I watched a few episodes and I usually like sitcoms that focus on a business, but it just didn't do much for me.
We should do a show on grocery guys like us, TAC. I'm sure we all have stories that could be good television.
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Good evening guys
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Good morning peeps. Sorry for going MIA yesterday. Put up our Christmas Lights.
So basically No Tap bowling is scored by the computer. If you get a 9, it scores it as a 10 and clears the pins for the next bowler. The thing about No Tap, is that most No Tap Tourneys are held on a sport oil pattern. Making it incredibly difficult compared to a normal house oil pattern.
I bowled like shit. Complete and utter shit. As did my partner.
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Got to work the entire from home today, sweet! I'm listening to meetings on mute while playing guitar.
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Jelly.
I am working on going over all of my guys' timesheets for payroll. This is turning into a bigger project that I anticipated.
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Morning eeryone
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Morning.
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Morning Blob!
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Morning king! What's up?
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Yello!
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PODAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
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Morning king! What's up?
Not much. Seeing DT next week. I'm meeting up with Rumbo.
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Hey, Blob
Have you seen The Code? If so, do you know if another season will be or has been produced? Netflix only shows the one season. The wifey and I binged the series over the weekend and really enjoyed it.
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Hey, Blob
Have you seen The Code? If so, do you know if another season will be or has been produced? Netflix only shows the one season. The wifey and I binged the series over the weekend and really enjoyed it.
I've never heard of it. Is it scifi? I only know scifi. :lol
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I should have realized. :blob:
I think it's an ABC show. It certainly produced and acted by Aussies and is set somewhere in NSW. It's kind of a "procedural" show but from a reporters view rather than a cop. Cyber crime, espionage, government mismanagement, etc..
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Never mind. I just Googled it. Seems they made a season 2 in 2016...it's probably just a matter of time before Netflix picks it up.
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Oh, an Australian show. I don't watch anything made in this country. We only do dramas and crime shows with the same 5 actors.
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At work. Meeting time :/
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Morning king! What's up?
Not much. Seeing DT next week. I'm meeting up with Rumbo.
I was going to hit you up about that and come up (I'm an hour or so from Boston). But I have to be in Toronto for work instead. :( After seeing the setlists, I was really thinking that's going to be a great show.
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Word up, fools.
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Good Morning Nerds
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Good Morning Nerds
Who you calling a nerd? IT BETTER BE ME
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You're the king of nerds.
Nerdiness Prime.
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NerdVanDam
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Howdy all.
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What it is Bill.....
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Almost time to go home, can’t wait to make some dinner and enjoy the cool rainy weather
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So one of the reasons for me to come to Denver was to replace a rack switch that we a bad port and we needed it for a bandwidth upgrade. So due to political reasonings they are making me wait until Friday morning at 10am EST to complete this, but last night we had a leaf switch die in my home base in NJ where no one is since I am in Denver, coworker on vacation in Hawaii and my manager working in Tokyo this week. So now I have to fly home after I do my work Friday morning then replace the leaf switch at 10pm EST in NJ. I feel like I am going to go down in technical operations history at my company for doing this in one day :lol
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Look at Mr. MVP right here...
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Cram, you need to get you one of those leaf blowers from the other thread.
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Cram, you need to get you one of those leaf blowers from the other thread.
:clap:
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:lol
In the elevator leaving my hotel this morning a Gradnma looking lady asked me if I had rolling papers :lol Said her brother and her came out to Denver for the marijuana but forgot to buy papers.... this is 7am
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You should have said, "No, but I've got an empty beer can and some aluminum foil back in my hotel room." :)
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Who you callin crusty?
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Hey Chad!
How goes it?
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It goes splendidly. Just made a rather large batch of meatballs. jingle.son will be pleased.
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Mmmmmmm
Balls of meat.
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BALLS
OF MEAT
IN MY MOUTH
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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okay
*unzips*
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:lol
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Good morning, starting the morning off with paying bills and having coffee.
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Your morning sucks.
My morning consisted of skipping morning and waking up at 3pm.
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Blob you heartless SOB. :lol
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Blob you fucking rebel
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Blob you fucking rebel
I don't play by anyone's rules. Not even my own. Because I'm too fucking lazy to write any rules. Or follow them.
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Morning, *nods to Blob*. Morning *nods to King*. Morning *nods to Reap*.
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#upwardheadnod
Been up since 4am - MRS.jingle gets terrible lower back pain every so often. She ended up taking a Perc (that she had leftover from an unrelated issue a long time ago). Then the dog barfed. Then it was wake up time.
Getting the winter tires put on one vehicle today. It’s gonna be -10C tomorrow morning!
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Hey, Chad. Sorry about Mrs. J's pain. Hope she feels well soon.
Yeah, I need to get winter tires on the truck, but the price tag is making me flinch. I don't drive the Merc through the winter...too squirrely on snow.
Come visit, it'll be 16C here today and tomorrow.
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What is this Celsius you talk about......
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What is this Celsius you talk about......
5/9ths - 32 of the dumbass Farenheit you turd-nuggets use.
@ Gregg... A) Winter Tires are mandatory in most Canadian Provinces. B) Even if it wasn't, the first winter I had my own car, and had winter tires, I vowed never again to drive in the winter without them. Had to get new ones on our car this year, and I needed new rims. $1700 later ....
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:biggrin:
We're getting your arctic cold Friday night.
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Hey, Chad. I just started the DLC for Dishonored 2 this morning...after almost a year of not playing it, I feel no drop off in my assassin skills! :blob: It looks like the DLC is going to be a fun ride. I almost called in sick to work. :lol
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Hey, Chad. I just started the DLC for Dishonored 2 this morning...after almost a year of not playing it, I feel no drop off in my assassin skills! :blob: It looks like the DLC is going to be a fun ride. I almost called in sick to work. :lol
:lol I finally started it a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had the chance to get back to it. I'm still on the opening mission. Might see if I can give it a go on the weekend. Come the 27th, I won't have hardly any time to dedicate to gaming
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Good Morning.
Chad, what is "winter"?
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Good Morning.
Chad, what is "winter"?
What you wish you had to break the 90F+ days of hell on earth.
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Hey, Chad. I just started the DLC for Dishonored 2 this morning...after almost a year of not playing it, I feel no drop off in my assassin skills! :blob: It looks like the DLC is going to be a fun ride. I almost called in sick to work. :lol
:lol I finally started it a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had the chance to get back to it. I'm still on the opening mission. Might see if I can give it a go on the weekend. Come the 27th, I won't have hardly any time to dedicate to gaming
Are you playing as Emily or Korvo? They are equally deadly, but in completely different ways. The first mission is a bitch if you're playing stealth/non-lethal (of course that could be because I always play on the most difficult setting). The second mission is way more fun once you start getting void powers.
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Good Morning.
Chad, what is "winter"?
What you wish you had to break the 90F+ days of hell on earth.
:lol
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Hey, Chad. I just started the DLC for Dishonored 2 this morning...after almost a year of not playing it, I feel no drop off in my assassin skills! :blob: It looks like the DLC is going to be a fun ride. I almost called in sick to work. :lol
:lol I finally started it a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had the chance to get back to it. I'm still on the opening mission. Might see if I can give it a go on the weekend. Come the 27th, I won't have hardly any time to dedicate to gaming
Are you playing as Emily or Korvo? They are equally deadly, but in completely different ways. The first mission is a bitch if you're playing stealth/non-lethal (of course that could be because I always play on the most difficult setting). The second mission is way more fun once you start getting void powers.
Emily. I'm playing on the 2nd hardest difficulty setting - I don't want it to be too easy, but I don't want to be dying every 3 minutes either. And (just as with the first), I'll play a combination of stealth and lethal.
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Good morning everyone.
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Morning Reap. What's up?
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Nothing much, just sitting here having some coffee
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Morning. I'm getting ready to leave for work.
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Morning King.
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Morning. Time to make the protein shake and hit the road.
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Both you guys have already done more than I have today. :blob:
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-7C on the weather station this morning. Thankfully, no roads appear to be fairly clear.
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well that might not be true, have you worked on the DK video at all?
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-7C on the weather station this morning. Thankfully, no roads appear to be fairly clear.
That is pretty chilly, it's 0C here and it feels amazing outside.
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Both you guys have already done more than I have today. :blob:
That's a given.
Thus is my jealous post.
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well that might not be true, have you worked on the DK video at all?
I have not. All I've done is watch Youtube and '90s TV shows.
I got 4 and a half hours of work done yesterday though. I'm not motivated to start today yet.
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What shows were you watching?
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The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr.
AMIRITE?
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I got everything done at work yesterday so I’m going to attempt and not do anything at work.
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Morning. Brisk 57°F here right now...
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Morning. Brisk 57°F here right now...
That's shorts weather.
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Morning. Brisk 57°F here right now...
That's shorts weather.
No shit. I'm one of those guys; I was wearing shorts all day yesterday and I don't think the temp got above 45. I'll wear shorts until it's below, say, 25 or there is snow on the ground.
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Any weather pattern that puts Kingshmegland and Stadler in shorts should qualify as a natural disaster.
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Any weather pattern that puts Kingshmegland and Stadler in shorts should qualify as a natural disaster.
Global warming, baby!!!
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So for some ungodly reason, I am witnessing The Price Is Right with Drew Carey on TV right now.
He FUCKING blows!
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Any weather pattern that puts Kingshmegland and Stadler in shorts should qualify as a natural disaster.
Global warming, baby!!!
I am windy.
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Any weather pattern that puts Kingshmegland and Stadler in shorts should qualify as a natural disaster.
Global warming, baby!!!
I am windy.
That is dis"gust"ing.
:neverusethis:
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I talk mostly from that area.
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I talk moistly from that area.
Fixed! ;D
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It's glorious though.
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Morning. Brisk 57°F here right now...
That's shorts weather.
I usually start wearing pants once it starts dipping down below 45-40
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Sweet, got out of having to go back into work tonight when I get back to NJ. Only another hour at work here in denver then I get to go home and enjoy my ride home (hopefully).
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Hour left on the day and on the road early tomorrow morning for RI Comic Con :chino:
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Evening everyone
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Howdy
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What's happening Jay
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Sitting here browsing reddit whilst my (whatever she is) watches American Horror Story.
I have zero interest in this show.
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Funny i was just watching it as well, my gf is into it this season, I haven't given it a chance this season.
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I've never been able to get into it. She's watching Cult (or whatever it's called). I just.. can't do it.
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Morning.
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Morning.
What's the good word my liege.
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Morning, chaps. What's the weekend plan?
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Hopefully sweet fuck all. Slept in for the first Saturday since Labour Day - the market that jingle.son had been working at (starting at 6am) finished last week, so I didn't drag my ass up until the dogs started whining to be fed at 7am.
Chores, working out is all that's on tap. Gotta help mrs.jingle with a few things before we go away on Thursday (as a womang, she's already stressing that there's not enough time to get things done before we leave :lolpalm:). Hockey tonight (my team vs Joe's), and getting a few more things off the DVR.
You?
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7am. Slept in. :lol I didn't even get to sleep until 7am.
I'm considering doing some work for the day.
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Since Lisa was sick last weekend for her birthday the family taking her out for dinner tonight.
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7am. Slept in. :lol I didn't even get to sleep until 7am.
It's all relative my man.
Since Lisa was sick last weekend for her birthday the family taking her out for dinner tonight.
CAKE!!!
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YES!
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Morning guys
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Hey Reap.
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What's happening King?
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Carpet cleaning today. Getting a cake for the wifey for her birthday party.
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Carpet cleaning today. Getting a cake for the wifey for her birthday party.
I hope that's a euphamism. :heybaby:
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Alright, 5 and a half hours straight of work done. Reap can even verify I was doing stuff! :blob:
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Carpet cleaning today. Getting a cake for the wifey for her birthday party.
I hope that's a euphamism. :heybaby:
:lol That would be waxing hard wood floors.
Unfortunately I'm using the steam cleaner. Boooo.
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Good afternoon gang.
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Hey Bill! Enjoying some great beers?
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Hey Bill! Enjoying some great beers?
Indeed. I was supposed to be in Brooklyn this afternoon because my homebrew club is doing a collaboration brew at a small brewery out there, but it's too damn cold. Currently huddled under a blanket and catching up on the DVR. I've got a bowl of beef stew and a can of Hill Farmstead George. Will switch over to some Tree House cans afterwards.
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Nice. Going to the Throwback Brewery for dinner. Lisa's birthday. Her pick.
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Alright, 5 and a half hours straight of work done. Reap can even verify I was doing stuff! :blob:
It's true he was!
Again, it's awesome watching you work blob ;)
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Day trip to Oz??
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Alright, 5 and a half hours straight of work done. Reap can even verify I was doing stuff! :blob:
It's true he was!
Again, it's awesome watching you work blob ;)
If you say so. :lol At least you saw the slightly more interesting bit.
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Morning. Cake was had last night.
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Morning. DT will be seen and heard tonight.
No matter how James sounds, it's still gonna be a better show than the last time they came around for TA.
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Morning.
Have fun Chad. You going with the Missus or any of the young-jingles?
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I can't wait to see them Wednesday. Meeting up with Rumborak for dinner before the show.
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I didn't even know they were still out on tour. Have fun, guys!
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Morning.
Have fun Chad. You going with the Missus or any of the young-jingles?
Nah... none of them are 'in' to music the way I am - and certainly not the kind of music. I almost always fly solo to the shows I go to. But tonight, I'm actually going with the guy that got me into DT 21 years ago (along with his wife). Dinner/drinks first, then the show. Looking forward to it.
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Morning. DT will be seen and heard tonight.
No matter how James sounds, it's still gonna be a better show than the last time they came around for TA.
Good morning, I wish they were coming close by to me.
My buddy is going to the toronto show
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Morning. DT will be seen and heard tonight.
No matter how James sounds, it's still gonna be a better show than the last time they came around for TA.
Good morning, I wish they were coming close by to me.
My buddy is going to the toronto show
I know... I just said I was going. :lol
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:lol
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Speaking of seeing DT. I needed to fly 2k more miles to keep my status with United next year... so I used my chase rewards and got a flight to Dallas to catch the last show of the tour. :metal that is of course after I see DT twice this week on Thursday in NYC and Saturday in NJ.
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Started today with a mac and cheese burger at brunch. Fried mac and cheese patty underneath the burger, and more mac and cheese on top. Totally content to not move from the couch now for the next few hours :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/39u0cxH.jpg)
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Fuck that looks amazing
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I'm getting fatter looking at it.
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:metal Fred G. Sanford :metal
S-a-n-f-o-r-d-period.
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It was so good you guys. So good.
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Personally, I couldn't eat a burger with mac & cheese on it. Not sure I would enjoy the squishy noodles between my bun and burger. The cheese, sure.
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Fuck that looks amazing
and to think I was loving the costco mac and cheese I ate last night :lol That burger looks amazing. What's the beer?
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Fuck that looks amazing
and to think I was loving the costco mac and cheese I ate last night :lol That burger looks amazing. What's the beer?
Nothing fancy on that front, an Allagash White.
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I need to go and restock my booze for the holidays.
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Mmmmm
Boooze
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-walks in as a guy who never drinks-
-looks around-
-leaves sad-
:sadpanda:
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Mmmmm
Tofu
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Mmmmm
Tofu
:heart :-*
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-walks in as a guy who never drinks-
-looks around-
-leaves sad-
:sadpanda:
Why? I look at you and think you are a man that knows what he wants.
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Morning
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Morning.
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I can't help but think of this scene every time I see a 'morning... morning' series of posts.
(https://cesess.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/fishtank.png)
Look! Howard's being eaten.
Just gotta say... lol DT-side. Would one of you kindly bitch-slap me whenever I go over there?
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How was the show yesterday? My buddy sent me some videos and it looked like a great time.
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Just gotta say... lol DT-side. Would one of you kindly bitch-slap me whenever I go over there?
Gladly. I accidentally made the mistake of looking in there the other day for the first time in weeks. Skimmed one thread and regretted even getting out of bed that day.
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Top notch. As I posted over in DT-side, James sounded great... though, I had *reasonable* expectations. :biggrin: Other than the opener it was an incredible setlist, and everyone was on fire. Just incredible. Best or 2nd best DT show I've seen. The opener was the only thing that blew - but just because it's easily Top-3 most disliked DT song for me.
Just gotta say... lol DT-side. Would one of you kindly bitch-slap me whenever I go over there?
Gladly. I accidentally made the mistake of looking in there the other day for the first time in weeks. Skimmed one thread and regretted even getting out of bed that day.
:lol DT-side makes baby Jesus cry.
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morning
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Well, my dad's other lung has a malignant tumor. Ugh.
They are setting up radiation. I've got to stay positive.
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I’m so sorry to hear that King, Stay positive and I hope for nothing but the best outcome for your Dad
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Well, my dad's other lung has a malignant tumor. Ugh.
They are setting up radiation. I've got to stay positive.
Oh dude... so sorry to hear that. :brohug:
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Cancer can suck it.
So who wants to come in and work for me right now?
I wanna go home.
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Well, my dad's other lung has a malignant tumor. Ugh.
They are setting up radiation. I've got to stay positive.
Prayers to you and your family.
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I don't want to go to work. I hate it! I want to go back to bed and maybe sleep. Maybe just zone out for a few hours.
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Well, my dad's other lung has a malignant tumor. Ugh.
They are setting up radiation. I've got to stay positive.
All my best, Joe. Thoughts and prayers.
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Thank you everyone. I'm so frustrated right now. First he's battling lung cancer, His MS is progressing fastest every day and is dementia is getting worse as well. He had a plummer coming over. My brother and I told him not to go down cellar. My sister in law would be there for the plumber and there he was down in the cellar. He's so physically weak we are afraid he will fall down the stairs. He doesn't listen to us.
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Morning Folks
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Morning guys.
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Morning!
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Morning. DT tonight!!
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First snowfall of the season today...
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First snowfall of the season today...
My condolences, good sir.
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Thank you everyone. I'm so frustrated right now. First he's battling lung cancer, His MS is progressing fastest every day and is dementia is getting worse as well. He had a plummer coming over. My brother and I told him not to go down cellar. My sister in law would be there for the plumber and there he was down in the cellar. He's so physically weak we are afraid he will fall down the stairs. He doesn't listen to us.
It's so sad to see our parents decline as they age - mentally and physically. Mrs.jingle has seen her mother go downhill mentally and emotionally over the past couple of years, and it's killing her. No real diagnosis like dimentia or anything, but she clearly doesn't use her brain or wits the way that she use to, and just makes the most asinine comments and decisions.
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Ah ha, that's what is wrong with my mother! I never made the connection.
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Thank you everyone. I'm so frustrated right now. First he's battling lung cancer, His MS is progressing fastest every day and is dementia is getting worse as well. He had a plummer coming over. My brother and I told him not to go down cellar. My sister in law would be there for the plumber and there he was down in the cellar. He's so physically weak we are afraid he will fall down the stairs. He doesn't listen to us.
It's so sad to see our parents decline as they age - mentally and physically. Mrs.jingle has seen her mother go downhill mentally and emotionally over the past couple of years, and it's killing her. No real diagnosis like dimentia or anything, but she clearly doesn't use her brain or wits the way that she use to, and just makes the most asinine comments and decisions.
He doesn't know how much it's affecting my brother and I.
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Thank you everyone. I'm so frustrated right now. First he's battling lung cancer, His MS is progressing fastest every day and is dementia is getting worse as well. He had a plummer coming over. My brother and I told him not to go down cellar. My sister in law would be there for the plumber and there he was down in the cellar. He's so physically weak we are afraid he will fall down the stairs. He doesn't listen to us.
It's so sad to see our parents decline as they age - mentally and physically. Mrs.jingle has seen her mother go downhill mentally and emotionally over the past couple of years, and it's killing her. No real diagnosis like dimentia or anything, but she clearly doesn't use her brain or wits the way that she use to, and just makes the most asinine comments and decisions.
He doesn't know how much it's affecting my brother and I.
I'm sure the daily stress and worry is palpable. :-\
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It's worse for Brian. He's obsessing. He's going to give himself a stroke.
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So sorry to hear Joe, you and the family will be in my thoughts.
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Thanks Bill. At DT right now waiting for them to take the stage.
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oops wrong thread...
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Thanks Bill. At DT right now waiting for them to take the stage.
Sorry to hear further bad news about your father, hope you can enjoy the show to get your mind off things
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oops wrong thread...
I thought so when I saw that last night.
Fuck it's early. Off to the airport... Costa Rica baby! Really looking forward to this.
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Good morning.
Jingle I hope you have a blast, I love Costa Rica and can't wait to get back there.
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Morning
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Morning guys.
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Morning, Giuseppe
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Morning John! I saw DT last night. Stupid old man I am. 6 hours of sleep. Why can't I sleep in?
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heheh How was it?? I'm seeing them Saturday.
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Musically tight. The banter between songs was amazing. James struggled but I expected that.
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I figured that, too. I give him credit for agreeing to do the album. I'm sure he knew from the beginning that it would be a struggle. I'm sure JP knew that, too, but it could not have been easy for James to prepare doing the album for a whole tour.
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Morning. Mini concert vacation starts today. Had to burn vacation days as the year winds down so why not for 3 back to back to back concerts? Dream theater in NYC tonight.
heheh How was it?? I'm seeing them Saturday.
And I'll be there as well. :metal
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Awesome. Perhaps I'll run into you. Where are your seats?
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Awesome. Perhaps I'll run into you. Where are your seats?
7th row JP side. Going solo to that one so I'll be around to meet up at some point, if not before, then during intermission.
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I'm working that day so I'll probably get there just before showtime. I'll also have my ex's daughter with me. I've promised her for years that I would take her to see Dream Theater. I have to check and see where are my seats.
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Morning friends, from Toronto, where everyone looks like Keifer Sutherland and carries either a man-bag or a backpack. I've never seen so many BACKPACKS!
(I say all of this in fun; Toronto is one of my favorite cities in the world, and I have to say, it's probably the best collection of good looking people - men or women - I've ever seen, including LA. Cities - especially northern ones - have a way of making people look beaten down, but not here. At dinner last night there were four servers - one man and three women - in the area we sat. The guy could play Superman in the movies (he actually looked a bit like Henry Cavill) and the three women were all model-capable.)
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At work, leaving in a couple of hours to do some go karting.
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Morning peeps.
I know it's going to be a long day, when I've had to spend 20 minutes on the phone with my boss before 8AM.
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cram, prog, we should grab beers before and/or after the NJ show or something. I'll be there second row JP side with my cousin :metal
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cram, prog, we should grab beers before and/or after the NJ show or something. I'll be there second row JP side with my cousin :metal
Yea, lets figure something out. Just got to my hotel in NYC for the next two nights. Waiting for my buddy and the drinking will commence. :metal
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OMW
Wait...
no.
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Stads... you're in Toronto, and dint look me up!?!?!?
Not that it matters, I'm on a balcony listening and watching monkeys eat their dinner here in Costa Rica.
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Getting your tan on I hope.
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Sun's already down. Heading for dinner shortly.
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Well enjoy my friend. Say hello to Elaine from Lisa and I.
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Stads... you're in Toronto, and dint look me up!?!?!?
Not that it matters, I'm on a balcony listening and watching monkeys eat their dinner here in Costa Rica.
I'm back in December; would be glad to see you.
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Stads... you're in Toronto, and dint look me up!?!?!?
Not that it matters, I'm on a balcony listening and watching monkeys eat their dinner here in Costa Rica.
I'm back in December; would be glad to see you.
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Good morning and Happy Friday!
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Happy friday and good evening. Awesome DT show last night in NYC and spent the day here as well. Walked about 5 miles this afternoon through central park, although cold, it was a beautiful day. Back in my hotel room pre-gaming for concert #2 this weekend. HIM and CKY. Never been a fan of CKY's music but was a huge fan of their videos back in the day (before they sort of merged and became Jackass on MTV) but it was CKY's videos that featured HIM's music that got me starting to like them. If anyone hasn't seen CKY videos before, they are mostly prank videos mixed with skate footage. They are pretty hilarious, but if anyone is interested:
CKY4 Video featuring HIM;s song Sigillum Diaboli (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abfp91f4-bc)
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CKY is awesome.
I wish I coulda caught this tour.
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CKY is awesome.
I wish I coulda caught this tour.
96 Quite Bitter Beings was always a sick song, but was never able to really get into them, then again I haven't tried to in at least 10 years. Was really excited though when I found out they were touring with HIM on the final HIM tour. Felt right given CKY was a big reason why HIM got such huge exposure in the USA.
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Sit and listen to Infiltrate. Destroy. Rebuild... and then come back and tell me you still can't get in to them. I'D BET MONEY YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SAY IT.
Sorry. Long day.
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WTF is CKY?
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They're a... Rock band? Not sure how to classify them.
https://youtu.be/WwQNEzY8Z_E
I really into that particular album when I was in high school.
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and the line was soooo long to get in, about a 30 minute wait. Completely missed CKY and HIM came on early IMO. Concert was packed, maybe more so than I've seen DT, 311, and Nightwish in the same venue.
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Good morning dudes
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Morning.
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Morning king.
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Howdy Blob. How's the DK game coming along?
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Getting there. Fixed up some code/bugs today. I apparently did 7 hours of work on it yesterday but it felt like I got nothing actually done, I was having such a shit day. Hoping to have it finished in 2-3 weeks.
Got any plans for the day? :cake:
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Going to see the Justice League movie then going over my friends house for the football game.
Do you tend to have those issues with making games?
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Morning.
What's this DK thing you speak of. Are you making a Donkey Kong game, Blob?
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Going to see the Justice League movie then going over my friends house for the football game.
Is Aquaman part of the Justice League, or is he part of another group? I loved Aquaman.
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Yea he is. He's a manly actor. Google it.
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How on earth did we go from this:
(https://comicvine.gamespot.com/api/image/scale_super/4407569-2661575147-Aquam.jpg)
to this?
(https://news.toyark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/11/Mezco-JL-One12-Aquaman-Figure-001.jpg)
They don't even look alike. This movie is a fake. I'd skip it.
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Jason Momoa > clean cut cartoon pansy
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It's more based on a later day Aquaman. Long hair little more violent against anybody who is not from Atlantis.
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Does he ride a dolphin, or does he now ride a great white?
Hmm....
Jason Momoa > clean cut cartoon pansy
He's a manly actor.
(https://www.icytales.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/aml9v1.jpg)
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Tim he was awesome in Game of Thrones. I'm actually watching him now on a British talk show called The Graham Norton Show.
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It's more based on a later day Aquaman. Long hair little more violent against anybody who is not from Atlantis.
You mean Atlantis as in Stargate Atlantis right? That's what Jason Momoa is from. :blob:
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:lol
Only you Blob, only you.
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JASON MOMOA IS RONON DEX DAMMIT AND HE's GOT A COOL GUN AND HE SHOOTS THE WRAITH IN THE FACE
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Tim he was awesome in Game of Thrones.
What's Game Of Thrones?
;D
Actually I HAVE heard of it. Just have never actually WATCHED it.
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DT were fantastic last night in jersey. I probably had more fun at the NYC show, but I think their performance was a bit better in NJ. Sooo close to catching a JP guitar pick. I need better hand eye coordination.
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JASON MOMOA IS RONON DEX DAMMIT AND HE's GOT A COOL GUN AND HE SHOOTS THE WRAITH IN THE FACE
Sheeeeeeiiitt! I did not know that.
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Tim he was awesome in Game of Thrones.
What's Game Of Thrones?
;D
Actually I HAVE heard of it. Just have never actually WATCHED it.
An amazing HBO show from a book series.
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JASON MOMOA IS RONON DEX DAMMIT AND HE's GOT A COOL GUN AND HE SHOOTS THE WRAITH IN THE FACE
Exactly. Stupid posers who found about him from GoT.
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:lol
Damn you Adami. I can't watch every show. I'm trying. :lol
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:lol
Damn you Adami. I can't watch every show. I'm trying. :lol
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/65da12acb559199da0a02362e2295463/tenor.gif?itemid=5888157)
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:lol
My wife and I we're just talking about all these new shows you'd like to see but the DVR is full. I probably should cut some shows out.
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So I don't think I've signed in here for over five years. Hi. Apparently I still have a smiley. :dz:
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Hey. :D Not sure if you'll come back again (wouldn't blame you if you didn't :lol), but it's nice to see a familiar face return!
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Good morning everyone
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Good morning
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Not sure if I’m going to want to leave work today. The in laws are in town.
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Hey guys, I have a question and I really did not want to create a thread just for this, but here goes.
I'm trying to fill out an employee benefits thingamabob for the first time ever and I have no clue what's going on. Can anyone give some tips in terms of what the cost of this is out of my paycheck?
Say for instance, I'm looking at filling out medical benefits for an HMO and my deduction will be for $56.10. Does that mean $56.10 will come out of every paycheck and the company of my workplace covers the rest?
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Ugh. So worked half a shift, then drove down to City of Industry for my (gf?) 's grandfather's wedding... There were only 6 of us there. Long story. Then had dinner at this resort on top of a hill overlooking the San Gabriel Valley. Fucking beautiful views, as well as a delicious $45 dollar steak were had. Then had to drive back home so I can sleep for work tomorrow. Just got home. Tomorrow is going to fucking drag.
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Hey guys, I have a question and I really did not want to create a thread just for this, but here goes.
I'm trying to fill out an employee benefits thingamabob for the first time ever and I have no clue what's going on. Can anyone give some tips in terms of what the cost of this is out of my paycheck?
Say for instance, I'm looking at filling out medical benefits for an HMO and my deduction will be for $56.10. Does that mean $56.10 will come out of every paycheck and the company of my workplace covers the rest?
Chances are yes that's going to be the out of pocket deduction each paycheck.
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Morning guys.
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Morning.
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Morning everyone!
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morning
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I swear people only go to meetings to bicker.
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Hey guys, I have a question and I really did not want to create a thread just for this, but here goes.
I'm trying to fill out an employee benefits thingamabob for the first time ever and I have no clue what's going on. Can anyone give some tips in terms of what the cost of this is out of my paycheck?
Say for instance, I'm looking at filling out medical benefits for an HMO and my deduction will be for $56.10. Does that mean $56.10 will come out of every paycheck and the company of my workplace covers the rest?
Chances are yes that's going to be the out of pocket deduction each paycheck.
One, you should have an HR person to help you through that. But generally, for healthcare coverage items, it is a per-paycheck deduction, before taxes. You have to check if the "$56.10" is per week, per paycheck, or monthly (my company gives the amounts as "per month" and it's up to me to multiply by 12/26 to determine how much comes out each paycheck. Because it's likely "pre-tax", the actual reduction of your pay might be something less (because you will be paying taxes on a lesser amount).
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Can’t believe I’m up at this hour
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Hey. So early.
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Hey. :D Not sure if you'll come back again (wouldn't blame you if you didn't :lol), but it's nice to see a familiar face return!
I did actually end up forgetting to check to see if anyone replied. But then I remembered!
I also seem to remember these chat threads being a lot busier than this!
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I'm sure all of DTF was much busier last time you were around. :lol It's pretty dead lately. Glad you came back though. :D
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The more the merrier here at DTF
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I guess that's why it's not so merry. :neverusethis:
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And this is why I make sure I keep my United status if I can each year.... free first class upgrade to Jacksonville this morning. The last one of the family to head down there for an extra long weekend.
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My gf travels for work and I"m jealous of her status with airlines, she has status with both Delta and American. When we fly together she'll often get bumped to first class and she'll say "I love you but I'm leaving you for first class"
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:lol I don't blame her
Happy Thanksgiving DTF!
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Happy Thanksgiving chat thread
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Happy Thanksgiving day, muricans. Was my gameplay earlier some kind of Thanksgiving day miracle?
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Leaving paradise this morning. :sadpanda: back to reality.
And then back to working next week. Mixed feelings about that, but a paycheque will likely help me feel better.
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Safe travels Chad!
Bird is in the oven. Time to make the stuffing.
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Happy Thanksgiving ya'll.
Except you non Americans. Happy Thursday.
Making the 2 hour drive down to the same place i went on Monday for a wedding, eating, then driving back and going to work...
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Had so much booze and so much food followed by so much booze.
The best Thanksgiving so far.
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Evening guys
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Evening all.
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Morning Blob.
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Did you just assume my online status??
Morning king!
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It's not like your name is hilighted in green below when you are on DTF. :lol
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I didn't even realize I had checked DTF recently enough before your post to show up, but I can't dispute it. :lol
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:lol
You are inferior on the internet?
WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TOO? :lol
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*to :biggrin:
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I should look before I hit send. :lol
Going to see 3 bands that my buddy drums in 2.
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Weekend... Christmas decorating to do, and cleaning this house after having two teenagers be the only ones living in it for the week. Gonna try and pound out most of Punisher too.
Last two days of 'retirement'. Back to the grind on Monday. Good thing is it should be a slow start for the month of December, then the company mandates 3 vacation days between Boxing Day and New Year's - so a week off after four gruelling ( ::)) weeks.
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Better to ease in Chad.
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Good luck with the new job, jingle!
Better to ease in Chad.
And use lube.
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Good morning guys
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Good luck with the new job, jingle!
Better to ease in Chad.
And use lube.
Year's of Porn has finally paid off.
Wait a second....
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*Years
*porn
*have
*whacked
Morning Reap!
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Good luck with the new job, jingle!
Better to ease in Chad.
And use lube.
Year's of Porn has finally paid off.
Wait a second....
just "a second" ??
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*Years
*porn
*have
*whacked
Morning Reap!
I don't know what's going on here but I'm interested.
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*Years
*porn
*have
*whacked
Morning Reap!
I don't know what's going on here but I'm interested.
:lol I was just correcting the many errors in king's post. But it's way better out of context.
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Story of my life. :lol
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Morning
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Morning!
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Morning.
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Hey king. What's happening?
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Being lazy. Having a cup of coffee watching Bob's Burgers.
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Too lazy to find something watchable, I see. :biggrin:
It was too hot to do anything today, so I didn't!
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Morning
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Too lazy to find something watchable, I see. :biggrin:
It was too hot to do anything today, so I didn't!
You take that lazy comment back! :lol
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Too lazy to find something watchable, I see. :biggrin:
It was too hot to do anything today, so I didn't!
You take that lazy comment back! :lol
DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! Because you know I'm too lazy to do it. :lol
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Yup. :lol
I'm ready to be lazy today.
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Wish I could be. Gotta finish some Christmas decorating, chores around the house, workout, laundry, and try to enjoy my last few hours of retirement.
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Your head must be swimming today Chad.
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Back home from the dog park. My gf wants to put up the Christmas tree, I must be the only person who doesn’t like putting up a tree. I like it when it’s there but it’s a huge pain in the ass to do so.
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Im not a fan of putting up the tree either, in fact, since my ex moved out 3 years ago, I hadn't put up a tree.
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We have this
https://www.hobbylobby.com/Seasonal/Christmas/Christmas-Trees/Alpine-Pre-Lit-Christmas-Tree---6/p/80831233
It has 2 pieces. Takes 5 minutes to pull it out of the rafters and put it up.
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These next few days at work will suck!
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These next few days at work will suck!
Yea, going straight to work after I land at 830am tomorrow but I expect a huge mound of work the rest of the week then I work alone next week and expect the are kicking to continue
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Insurance for the employees with a rep here. Oh course these kids are clueless on what to do and never read up even though I give them the tools to do so. So in the end I will be here to hold their hand and walk them through it.
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Like health insurance? That's sometimes complicated
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No, Health, dental, eye.
Seriously. They are helpless.
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Hey yo. I went a full day without DTF, and lived.
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How was day one as being a working stiff again?
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Stiff alright. ;D Fairly non-eventful... spent most of the day getting access to systems/applications, setting up my machine and phone, talking with my boss, and some intro's to team mates. I did get scheduled into a planning session tomorrow, and calls most of the day on Wednesday, so my feet will be getting sloshy pdq.
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You're alive!!! :lol
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You're alive!!! :lol
For the time being.
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Tomorrow I have a 7am to 8pm day.
Crap.
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Hey yo. I went a full day without DTF, and lived.
But it wasn't the same, was it? :)
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Had a hell of a weekend. Spent two nights at Mohegan and saw TSO while I was there. Lost my shirt on a craps table, and when walking to the poker room, stopped at another craps table. I ended up winning back triple what I lost. I hate/love gambling. I'm glad I live 75-90 minutes from the casino, otherwise, I think I'd have a legitimate problem with sneaking out to there.
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Nice, what ever happened to the DTF casino trip :lol
Made it to work in NJ today from Jacksonville this morning, I am so dead tired and not motivated to get work done. Also really sucks to have spent 5 days with the whole family and now won't see any (besides my brother who lives with me) until Christmas.
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Good morning peeps!
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Morning Jay.
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How goes it?
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How goes it?
I'd much rather be in bed. Care to join?
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I would. But I'm too busy.
I just had to postpone an interview (even though I desperately need to hire someone) so I can prep for 3 meetings tomorrow with my boss.
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Fine. I see how it is.
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You're losing your touch Adami.
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You're losing your touch Adami.
I've got the touch!
I've got the powaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah!
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I wouldn't mind getting touched by Adami.
No Homo.
Okay maybe a little.
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:lol
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What up nerds?
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Well fine then...
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Not a lot of traffic here. Blob isn't even blobbing.
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Not a lot of traffic here. Blob isn't even blobbing.
I'm blobbing, I'm just blobbing elsewhere. DTF doesn't have a lot of blob-appeal these days.
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Ouch blob, that hurts.
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What are you complaining about? I chat with you every day on Skype! :lol
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Morning gents and Blob.
Jay. HAHA! :lol
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Not a lot of traffic here. Blob isn't even blobbing.
I'm blobbing, I'm just blobbing elsewhere. DTF doesn't have a lot of blob-appeal these days.
Wife: Honey, how come we don't have any sex?
Husband: Well, I'm having a lot of sex. I'm just having sex elsewhere. You don't really have a lot of sex appeal these days.
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Harriet.
Sweet Harry-et.
Hard-hearted harbinger of haggus.
Beautiful, bemused, belicose butcher.
So knowing, so trusting, so lov-ed.
He wants you back he screams into the night air, like a fireman going to a window that has no fire, ‘cept the passion of his heart.
I am lonely, It’s really hard.
This poem sucks.
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...and blows.
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Hey bosk1, HEEEEEEDDD!!! MOOOOOOOOVVVEE!
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That boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts!
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Harriet.
Sweet Harry-et.
Hard-hearted harbinger of haggus.
Beautiful, bemused, belicose butcher.
So knowing, so trusting, so lov-ed.
He wants you back he screams into the night air, like a fireman going to a window that has no fire, ‘cept the passion of his heart.
I am lonely, It’s really hard.
This poem sucks.
Woah man.
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Morning, folks.
This morning I'm helping Mrs. P with her homework (typing up her research notes), trimming the tree and other hall decking activities. Later I'll take a load of junk to the dump and then a bit of sport drinking this evening.
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Good morning everyone. On a bus heading to Buffalo for the Patriots vs Bills game.
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Go Pats!
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Right now go beers! Dear God. 3 beers in already.
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On plane heading towards Dallas, last night of images and words :metal
It's not every year you get to see your favorite two bands 3 times each including the final shows of their tours. (The other being Iron Maiden). I'm a grateful cramx3 this morning.
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I expect a Twitter video.
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I'll see what I can do. Read security is lax at this venue so should be able to. Bringing my new camera to test it out in a concert setting. I've got a lot of footage from the first two shows so I'll be making a nice long dt images and words and beyond YouTube video sometime next week.
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afternoon
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Evening
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Appropriate time of day to you all.
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Happy Sunday to all. Pretty sure it's still Sunday in Oz
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For 11 more minutes it is. :D Morning, jingle! What's the plan for the day?
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For 11 more minutes it is. :D Morning, jingle! What's the plan for the day?
Gonna watch the hockey game that I recorded last night shortly, then pack up and ship out my Secret Santa gift, then wing it. jingle.girls are gonna be decorating our trees today, which means I'll have a helluva mess to cleanup when they're done. Dog walking and TV watching later.
You? Still a few more hours of blobbing before bedtime?
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Morning. 3 cups of coffee and I'm ready to tailgate in Buffalo!! WOOOOTTTT!!
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Morning. 3 cups of coffee and I'm ready to tailgate in Buffalo!! WOOOOTTTT!!
Since your in Western NY, Timmie's I hope?
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For 11 more minutes it is. :D Morning, jingle! What's the plan for the day?
Gonna watch the hockey game that I recorded last night shortly, then pack up and ship out my Secret Santa gift, then wing it. jingle.girls are gonna be decorating our trees today, which means I'll have a helluva mess to cleanup when they're done. Dog walking and TV watching later.
You? Still a few more hours of blobbing before bedtime?
I woke up at 5pm today, so I'll be up for a while yet. Still deciding whether I want to do any work for the day.
No tree up for us yet.
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Appropriate time of day to you all.
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Morning. 3 cups of coffee and I'm ready to tailgate in Buffalo!! WOOOOTTTT!!
Since your in Western NY, Timmie's I hope?
Had breakfast in the hotel. No Timmie's.
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Morning. 3 cups of coffee and I'm ready to tailgate in Buffalo!! WOOOOTTTT!!
Since your in Western NY, Timmie's I hope?
Had breakfast in the hotel. No Timmie's.
:tdwn
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Had a sick weekend in Dallas, about to take off back home. Dreading work in the morning.
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Good morning all
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Morning Reap!
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Morning. On the bus getting ready to head home.
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Short week for me this week. Going to Connecticut this weekend.
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Had a sick weekend in Dallas, about to take off back home. Dreading work in the morning.
"Sick" as in "delete these photos, what went on in Dallas stays in Dallas", or "sick" as in "your average 4th grade classroom sometime around early December"?
Did El Barto corrupt you further?
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Short week for me this week. Going to Connecticut this weekend.
Whereabouts, if you don't mind my asking?
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Had a sick weekend in Dallas, about to take off back home. Dreading work in the morning.
"Sick" as in "delete these photos, what went on in Dallas stays in Dallas", or "sick" as in "your average 4th grade classroom sometime around early December"?
Did El Barto corrupt you further?
No corruption, maybe if I had met him in the parking garage, but instead we chilled during intermission surrounded by some really good looking Texas ladies.
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Short week for me this week. Going to Connecticut this weekend.
Whereabouts, if you don't mind my asking?
Heading to Norwich. My gf is working there this weekend and I had some pto to burn so I’m going with her. Gotta find some good places to eat.
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Romantic? Go to the Griswold Inn in Essex. Been in operation since 1776 (yes, you read that correctly) and their tavern is often mentioned in "best bars for each state" things. It's got a nice fireplace and is very warm and cozy. You will miss it, but in February, the restaurant does a "game menu" and it's pretty special (if eclectic).
The Black Seal - just up the road - used to be very good. When I was married the first time and spending a lot of time down by the shore, that was a go-to place. Sorry, but Norwich itself is kind of a dump, and everything around it is pretty nice. If you have some names and want to run them by me, PM me. You also have the two casinos there (Foxwoods and Mohegan). Not very romantic or New England-y, but they are always packed for a reason.
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Thanks! I wasn’t expecting much but it will be nice to get away from work. I’ll shoot you a PM if anything.
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Morning everyone
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Morning Reap.
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Morning
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Morning Jay!
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How goes it?
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How goes it?
Christ you're up early!
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Hm so he is. And he's not even an old fogie!
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/12/05/us/ventura-county-fire-california/index.html
I haven't slept.
I'm in the next city over.. But I know a lot people who've been evacuated.. As well as my other half's father, who refuses to leave.. The mandatory evacuation zone ends a block from him.
We've been listening to the scanner.. This is devastating. I'll post photos later.
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Sorry to hear about that Jay. We've had a couple of close calls with fires ourselves, and it sucks. I hope everyone stays safe.
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Wow thats crazy, stay safe
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Just got to make through today and tomorrow and it’s five days off for me
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Just got to make through today and tomorrow and it’s five days off for me
YEAH WHOOOOOOOO What's the occasion?
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Just had some days at work I had to use. I got pretty lucky because there is a software release that was supposed to happen a few weekends ago but it got pushed to this weekend. My days were already approved so they couldn’t take it back.
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Love it when that happens and hate it when you are stuck with the work when it happens for someone else. You win some and you lose some in life.
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Listening to wil Wheaton do a podcast on the madden football games at work. Need this day to be over
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Greetings and salutations
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John!
Morning. Taking out all 4 shifts to a banquet tonight for 2 years osha safe.
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Good morning guys
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Morning Reap.
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What's happening blob?
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Trying to do some programming, but it's the pain in the ass stuff left. :(
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Morning guys!
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Morning.
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Trying to do some programming, but it's the pain in the ass stuff left. :(
You think you’ll get the video out this year?
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Trying to do some programming, but it's the pain in the ass stuff left. :(
You think you’ll get the video out this year?
I'm still aiming to have it out in a week. Coding is just about done now, and I just have to tweak a few animations, and sort out the title screen. I can't wait!
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Cool. :tup can't wait to see it!
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Marilyn Manson was guest on a TV program here in Italy, and being a land of ignorant bigots, everyone cried against "Satan" being allowed to guest on TV and blablabla.
Best trolling ever: someone made a post claiming that Marilyn Manson shouldn't be invited, but another singer no one talks about, Brian Huges Warner, should be because of all the nice and charitable things he did. And people completely fell for it and agreed with him :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
It's like "Why people give attention to shock horror and macabre icon Alice Cooper? we want the devout christian Vincent Furnier instead!!!" :lol
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Actually, it's now devout Christian Alice Cooper.
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I'm sorry, but "devout Christian" or not, there are very few people in this world that (seem to be) cooler than Alice Cooper. I saw him on Road Trips with Sammy Hagar, and he just seems so.... level headed and down to earth. Self-aware, humble...
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Watched an interview with him on Eddie Trunks show around the time when he played here last summer and he comes off as such a cool person, great performer as well. Thought his show was much better than Deep Purple who played after him.
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I actually admire the person Alice Cooper. Aside his impressive musical catalog, he's very intelligent, as you said level headed, and all around one of the most brilliant minds of the scene. I love how this almost 70 years old dude, with wife and children, who plays golf, supports difficult youths, and never ever went back to the booze or any kind of vice after he quit, from time to time puts on the mascara, the make-up, the extravant clothes and becomes the ultimate wickedly funny entertainer.
He speaks of Alice Cooper in third person, not because of pride or vanity, but because to him (Vincent) Alice Cooper is a character, a persona. He's fully aware of that, he knows when to be Vincent and when to be Alice, on the other hand many people just don't know where to stop - to quote him from an interview I've read, Jim Morrison was Jim Morrison all the time, and well, he's dead at 27 and Alice next February hits 70.
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I agree with all of that, but the greatest thing? And something that many can't pull off (as much as I love him, Paul Stanley falls into this category): it never rings false. When you have a guy "playing a character" like that, it is SO easy to fall into a rut and rely on clichés to the point where it's just a joke. I might even put Ozzy here (the "Prince of Darkness!" Ozzy). Alice seems to have found that perfect middle ground where it doesn't come off like a gig or an act.
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I absolutely agree! :tup
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Morning folks. Waiting to board my flight.
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Howdy all. Much needed quiet day off on the couch after a two day offsite leadership seminar. Two days of public speaking, group discussion and role play (preemptive no not that kind :P) is pretty much my idea of hell. So a quiet day off today, and then leaving for an overnight beer adventure to MA and VT.
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Got a shipment of 3 pallets of random boxes from Tokyo, essentially our entire very small data center we had their that my boss decommissioned last month and all the stuff he saved made it here today. And surprise, I need to dig through all of it to find the one item I need to install immediately without any notice. Half the boxes were labelled in Japanese :lol but luckily I found it in one of the first ones I opened so it wasn't as bad as it looked like it was going to be. Install is happening now, but the positive about work today, is they are giving everyone a paid holiday Friday the 22nd. We already have the whole following week off as the company gives everyone a legit winter break so that just extends that by a day, which is really awesome and generous. I think I have one more vacation day to burn so maybe add that Thursday.
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Just got to my hotel in CT, expecting some snow on Saturday. Can't wait to really blob this weekend.
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I got some much needed blobbing in today. About to get up and go cook dinner though. Challenge is not to drink too much before the food's done :lol
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Jay, that's some fucked up shit with the fires. Hope all is as well as can be for you and (loved?) ones.
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I'm sorry, but "devout Christian" or not, there are very few people in this world that (seem to be) cooler than Alice Cooper. I saw him on Road Trips with Sammy Hagar, and he just seems so.... level headed and down to earth. Self-aware, humble...
Watched an interview with him on Eddie Trunks show around the time when he played here last summer and he comes off as such a cool person, great performer as well. Thought his show was much better than Deep Purple who played after him.
I actually admire the person Alice Cooper. Aside his impressive musical catalog, he's very intelligent, as you said level headed, and all around one of the most brilliant minds of the scene. I love how this almost 70 years old dude, with wife and children, who plays golf, supports difficult youths, and never ever went back to the booze or any kind of vice after he quit, from time to time puts on the mascara, the make-up, the extravant clothes and becomes the ultimate wickedly funny entertainer.
He speaks of Alice Cooper in third person, not because of pride or vanity, but because to him (Vincent) Alice Cooper is a character, a persona. He's fully aware of that, he knows when to be Vincent and when to be Alice, on the other hand many people just don't know where to stop - to quote him from an interview I've read, Jim Morrison was Jim Morrison all the time, and well, he's dead at 27 and Alice next February hits 70.
I agree with all of that, but the greatest thing? And something that many can't pull off (as much as I love him, Paul Stanley falls into this category): it never rings false. When you have a guy "playing a character" like that, it is SO easy to fall into a rut and rely on clichés to the point where it's just a joke. I might even put Ozzy here (the "Prince of Darkness!" Ozzy). Alice seems to have found that perfect middle ground where it doesn't come off like a gig or an act.
So I'm loving this Alice Cooper talk. Thought I'd share a picture of me shaking hands with the man, taken literally 21 years ago. He was totally cool too. I was dreading some sort of let down, but it was an even cooler experience than I could've imagined. He had a great comment when I handed him my Zipper Catches Skin CD cover. He said, "I don't even remember making that".
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:metal that's awesome, and where were you? :lol He just seems like such a genuinely nice dude
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He was doing an appearance at Spooky World. This was 1996, and it was held out in East Bumfuck, Masachusetts. It was all sorts of exhibits of horror movies/Halloween type stuff. They always had people like Elvira, the guy who played Jason, etc... The night we went, we also saw that big dude from the James Bond movies. When I found out Alice was coming, it was a must go to.
In later years, Spooky World was actually set up in the Gillette Stadium parking lot.
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So I'm going through the awful process of applying to internships. Got the worst rejection e-mail today ever.
Why was it the worst? Because the subject of the email was "interview".
The rejection letter had a subject that just said "interview".
Come on.
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Probably better than the subject line "You suck", no?
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Probably better than the subject line "You suck", no?
Nope! Because "you suck" wouldn't have made me think I was getting an interview only to find out I wasn't.
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Ah...good point.
Sidenote: I figured you were older than someone applying for internships.
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Ah...good point.
Sidenote: I figured you were older than someone applying for internships.
For a doctoral program? I'm 33. But I'm coming off of two Masters' as well.
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Ah...good point.
Sidenote: I figured you were older than someone applying for internships.
For a doctoral program? I'm 33. But I'm coming off of two Masters' as well.
Gotcha! ;)
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Yea, the internship is the final year of the program. It's insanely competitive.
I'm trying like hell to get out of California with it, hoping to end up East Coast, but knowing my luck I'll end up somewhere awful like Boston.
...actually I applied to Boston, hoping to get an interview there.
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Yea, the internship is the final year of the program. It's insanely competitive.
I'm trying like hell to get out of California with it, hoping to end up East Coast, but knowing my luck I'll end up somewhere awful like Boston.
...actually I applied to Boston, hoping to get an interview there.
Boston is awesome, bro! Spent the day downtown last Sunday. Lots going on!
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I would hug you if you ended up in Boston.
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Morning, king.
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So I'm loving this Alice Cooper talk. Thought I'd share a picture of me shaking hands with the man, taken literally 21 years ago. He was totally cool too. I was dreading some sort of let down, but it was an even cooler experience than I could've imagined. He had a great comment when I handed him my Zipper Catches Skin CD cover. He said, "I don't even remember making that".
Nice that you met him! :hefdaddy and well, even Wikipedia quotes him as saying that he doesn't remember making Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin and DaDa, he was really lost in a bottle in those times. Luckily he came out of it and stayed sober ever since!
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Morning, king.
Hi there my friend. I see you are close to finishing. Can't wait.
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Morning, king.
Hi there my friend. I see you are close to finishing. Can't wait.
I aim to have it done within a week. Not much left to do, but I want it as good as possible. :blob:
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Very cool.
We going to have our first snow storm Saturday night. Booooo.
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We're supposed to have a 41C day on Thursday. That's 106F for the US peasants.
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If rather have snow.
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As I've never seen snow in my life, I can't answer that one. In either case, you know I'm staying indoors. :lol
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No, not that kind of snow Blob.
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:lol I'm getting deja vu.
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Yea, the internship is the final year of the program. It's insanely competitive.
I'm trying like hell to get out of California with it, hoping to end up East Coast, but knowing my luck I'll end up somewhere awful like Boston.
...actually I applied to Boston, hoping to get an interview there.
Boston is awesome, bro! Spent the day downtown last Sunday. Lots going on!
I think Boston is an awesome city. I'd like to make a stop up there again sometime next year.
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Yea, the internship is the final year of the program. It's insanely competitive.
I'm trying like hell to get out of California with it, hoping to end up East Coast, but knowing my luck I'll end up somewhere awful like Boston.
...actually I applied to Boston, hoping to get an interview there.
Boston is awesome, bro! Spent the day downtown last Sunday. Lots going on!
I think Boston is an awesome city. I'd like to make a stop up there again sometime next year.
Speaking of Boston, I'll be there Monday. I can't wait to explore.
Good morning everyone.
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Yea, the internship is the final year of the program. It's insanely competitive.
I'm trying like hell to get out of California with it, hoping to end up East Coast, but knowing my luck I'll end up somewhere awful like Boston.
...actually I applied to Boston, hoping to get an interview there.
Don't worry, it's not a big college town.
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:lol
also it seems sometime in 2018 marijuana legally goes for sale in the state :hat
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Damn! I'm going to visit too early.
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Yea, the internship is the final year of the program. It's insanely competitive.
I'm trying like hell to get out of California with it, hoping to end up East Coast, but knowing my luck I'll end up somewhere awful like Boston.
...actually I applied to Boston, hoping to get an interview there.
Don't worry, it's not a big college town.
:metal
Oddly, I'm applying mostly to colleges (to do therapy there) but Boston was one of the few non-colleges.
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Yea, the internship is the final year of the program. It's insanely competitive.
I'm trying like hell to get out of California with it
What the hell? What's wrong with California? We have all the best fires....
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Yea, the internship is the final year of the program. It's insanely competitive.
I'm trying like hell to get out of California with it
What the hell? What's wrong with California? We have all the best fires....
I did hear all the Cali internships were desperate to find people, having a fire sale.
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:lol
also it seems sometime in 2018 marijuana legally goes for sale in the state :hat
Looks line picked a bad time to give up smoking weed.
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Herbie Hancock!
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6th rejection came in. I'm officially not moving anywhere in Pennsylvania.
10 more to wait for. Not a terribly fun experience.
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I'll never reject you :heart
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I'll never reject you :heart
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6th rejection came in. I'm officially not moving anywhere in Pennsylvania.
10 more to wait for. Not a terribly fun experience.
Yeah, no kidding. I must've fired out 60+ resumes during my job hunt. I'd say 1/2 never even responded. 1/2 of the rest were a very polite FOAD, we decided to pursue candidates that more closely matched our needs - which is a hard pill to swallow WHEN MY RESUME COVERED OFF 100% OF WHAT WAS IN THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION! :zeltar:
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6th rejection came in. I'm officially not moving anywhere in Pennsylvania.
10 more to wait for. Not a terribly fun experience.
Yeah, no kidding. I must've fired out 60+ resumes during my job hunt. I'd say 1/2 never even responded. 1/2 of the rest were a very polite FOAD, we decided to pursue candidates that more closely matched our needs - which is a hard pill to swallow WHEN MY RESUME COVERED OFF 100% OF WHAT WAS IN THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION! :zeltar:
Yup! This is a bit different, cause I need an internship to keep going and it's a whole process. So luckily they all have to reply to me, but it's just a matter of how much shame/frustration I'll have to experience till I land a place.
Also keep in mind most places require 500 clinical hours, and I applied with about 1400. Yet still nothing. It's mostly due to my school not having as great a reputation as major universities, which I'm sure are automatically moving to the top of the pile.
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Morning.
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Good morning. Enjoying the snowfall this morning.
Had one hell of a dinner last night at David Burke's Prime, steak was on point.
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I'm heading out in about an hour twin to winterize the porch in the yard.
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As someone who moved to Charlotte last year from Florida, how do you winterize a porch?
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Screen in porch doesn't have covers for the windows which is just screens. So I put this thick plastic and have stainless steel staples and do all the Four Square Windows so that no cold air can really get through. Plus the snow.
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jingle.girls are doing the Christmas baking this weekend. Lots of scraps and dough to pick through.
:drool:
Gonna run a few errands, do some chores, and chill the fuck out. This working shit sucks. Jingle.son and I are gonna watch The Force Awakens in prep for The Last Jedi later this week. He's going with his pals... not sure when we'll get a chance to go together.
Time for cup o' joe #2.
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I'm just starting my coffee as well. Going to be a slow and relaxed weekend.
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Cup #1 just finished for me, it hasn't started snowing here so I ran out quickly and got some things for the day in. (more club soda for cocktails later)
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Just got the Christmas tree up and decorated. A cup of coffee sounds like a great idea.
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Still no sign or mention of the Christmas tree here yet. I'd actually forgotten all about it. I've only bought for 1 person and got half of someone else's gift, and haven't thought at all about what I want.
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Cup #1 just finished for me, it hasn't started snowing here so I ran out quickly and got some things for the day in. (more club soda for cocktails later)
It started snowing but then almost immediately stopped.
I had a co-worker text me that they got a wintery mix in Charlotte and the city pretty much shut down. I'm sure they are helicoptering in bread and milk to the grocery stores now :lol
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:lol yea I saw Atlanta got snow and was thinking they are probably in a state of emergency with one inch :lol
It just started coming down hard now, but its early. My local forecast calls for up to 6 inches and snow until tonight. We'll see.
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Morning. 6 inches of snow here. We've got to dig out here put in drive down to my dad's and take him out. After that we're all getting a wreath put on Mom's grave and we're all going out for lunch.
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Morning king. Is today a specific anniversary for visiting your mother's grave, or do you visit regularly?
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For the Christmas season we as a family get together and get a Christmas wreath and go to Mom's grave. Then we go out as a family and eat. It's my brother, sister-in-law, nephew and my dad.
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Blob, see my retweet I just posted. Tweet of the year! :lol
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For the Christmas season we as a family get together and get a Christmas wreath and go to Mom's grave. Then we go out as a family and eat. It's my brother, sister-in-law, nephew and my dad.
Very nice.
6 inches of snow here.
We have probably 3 down here. But the muck at the end of the driveway from the plows requires firing up the snow blower.
Blob, see my retweet I just posted. Tweet of the year! :lol
WTF is a tweet??
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Tim, using Twitter is the best way to get all the sporting news faster than anything else. I have all the beat writers for all the sports all the radio shows. Great way to get information.
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For the Christmas season we as a family get together and get a Christmas wreath and go to Mom's grave. Then we go out as a family and eat. It's my brother, sister-in-law, nephew and my dad.
That's a nice idea.
Blob, see my retweet I just posted. Tweet of the year! :lol
I saw it. :lol But you know, you could have retweeted the tweet instead of taking a screenshot of a retweet of a tweet. :lol
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The reason why I did that is you couldn't see the response tweet if you retweet it doesn't show both tweets so I wanted to have the full scope of that joke there.
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It showed both the original and the response right there in your feed. It should have showed up the same if you retweeted the response, shouldn't it?
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No it doesn't. I wish it would. That's why to took a screenshot.
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I really have no use for the Twatter.
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Tim, using Twitter is the best way to get all the sporting news faster than anything else. I have all the beat writers for all the sports all the radio shows. Great way to get information.
So I usually go on the TSN site for the NHL free agent day, or the trading deadline, and open up their twitter feed. It is very informative.
That's why to took a screenshot.
What is the joke?
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One guy tweeted that Star Wars The Phantom Menace was 18 years old today.
Second guy tweeted finally it can be tried as an adult.
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Forget I asked. :lol
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Time to go watch the Leafs game that I recorded last night. Back in a few hours.
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Forget I asked. :lol
:lol
Come on man! That's funny!
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#Starwarsgeeks
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Good morning everyone. 6 inches of snow here, looks beautiful
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Just finished snowblowing myself.
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You blew yourself?
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If I could do that boy would I be making a lot more money.
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If I could do that boy would I be making a lot more money.
Or you'd be broke.
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Good morning all. Sure did appreciate that snow yesterday turning what should have been a six hour drive home into an eight and a half hour drive.
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Morning
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Morning Reap.
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On the flight heading home can’t wait to take a nap
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Morning chumps.
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Morning King Chump.
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That's HRH Chump to you.
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I had to Google that one, sir. :lol
The coolest day forecast for the next week is 33C/91F. It's going to be a long week.
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For the Christmas season we as a family get together and get a Christmas wreath and go to Mom's grave. Then we go out as a family and eat. It's my brother, sister-in-law, nephew and my dad.
Very nice.
6 inches of snow here.
We have probably 3 down here. But the muck at the end of the driveway from the plows requires firing up the snow blower.
Blob, see my retweet I just posted. Tweet of the year! :lol
WTF is a tweet??
Have I ever mentioned that TAC is my favorite poster here? "WTF is a tweet?". Man after my own heart. Not in a gay way.
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WTF is a tweet??
Have I ever mentioned that TAC is my favorite poster here? "WTF is a tweet?". Man after my own heart. Not in a gay way.
For you, this seems sig-worthy.
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I had to Google that one, sir. :lol
The coolest day forecast for the next week is 33C/91F. It's going to be a long week.
-6C here when I woke up this morning, and snow in the forecast for tonight. It too is going to be a long week.
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Well the attempted terrorist attack has been fun, made my commute absolutely miserable, but the video of his attempt, while scary cause of how serious it could have been, is actually kind of funny cause of how big of a failure that guy is.
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I had to Google that one, sir. :lol
The coolest day forecast for the next week is 33C/91F. It's going to be a long week.
-6C here when I woke up this morning, and snow in the forecast for tonight. It too is going to be a long week.
WHAT? I'm going to be in Toronto this week; can we do something about that weather?!?
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I had to Google that one, sir. :lol
The coolest day forecast for the next week is 33C/91F. It's going to be a long week.
-6C here when I woke up this morning, and snow in the forecast for tonight. It too is going to be a long week.
WHAT? I'm going to be in Toronto this week; can we do something about that weather?!?
Pucker up, buttercup.
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Home. After waking up at 3am to catch an earlier flight. Trying to enjoy the rest of the day before work tomorrow.
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Ugh, travel.
- Five level parking garage; first four levels full, so I have to part on the fifth, open, deck. Upshot? THREE chances for snow before I come home. I will be in that fucking parking lot at midnight shoveling out my car, I can see it now.
- TSA Precheck line is longer than regular security. Woman going through with wrapped food; they have to unwrap and look at each one. Guy in front of me - I swear to you this is true - asks - IN THE EXPEDITED LINE - "Do I have to take off my belt"? Kicker: he's wearing sweatpants with an elastic waistband. I want to scream.
- Work credit card declined buying coffee (not my fault!)
- Flight delayed for an hour due to ground stop.
I want to go home and go to bed. Or drink.
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Just wait until you land. We got about 6 inches last night.
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Ugh, travel.
- Five level parking garage; first four levels full, so I have to part on the fifth, open, deck. Upshot? THREE chances for snow before I come home. I will be in that fucking parking lot at midnight shoveling out my car, I can see it now.
- TSA Precheck line is longer than regular security. Woman going through with wrapped food; they have to unwrap and look at each one. Guy in front of me - I swear to you this is true - asks - IN THE EXPEDITED LINE - "Do I have to take off my belt"? Kicker: he's wearing sweatpants with an elastic waistband. I want to scream.
- Work credit card declined buying coffee (not my fault!)
- Flight delayed for an hour due to ground stop.
I want to go home and go to bed. Or drink.
Flying out of Bradley?
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That sucks, Stad. Some trips are like that and I hate it.
I was going home from Vegas one time, early morning, and the Pre check like was about 20 people and the other security scan line was completely empty. I went to it, and the TSA guy says, "Uuuu, sir, you have a pre check ticket." I asked him if that kept me from going through regular security and he shrugged. After I zipped through, the other people in pre check, who were waiting for a couple to finish fucking with their baby stroller and shit, jumped the line to standard security. The lady who was sitting at the scanner, winked at me as I was slipping my shoes back on. :lol
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Sounds miserable, and it's funny how all the small frustrations add up quickly
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Ouch Stadler.
I'm sitting here waiting to go take the work car in for servicing. It came to my attention that in the year and a half that we've had this particular vehicle, It has NEVER been serviced. The brakes need to be done. The front tires are going out. The alignment is fucked. My boss is talking about coming up here to meet with me about a few things... I am trying to convince him to do so while I am at the shop... and meet "over lunch." :lol
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Ugh, travel.
- Five level parking garage; first four levels full, so I have to part on the fifth, open, deck. Upshot? THREE chances for snow before I come home. I will be in that fucking parking lot at midnight shoveling out my car, I can see it now.
- TSA Precheck line is longer than regular security. Woman going through with wrapped food; they have to unwrap and look at each one. Guy in front of me - I swear to you this is true - asks - IN THE EXPEDITED LINE - "Do I have to take off my belt"? Kicker: he's wearing sweatpants with an elastic waistband. I want to scream.
- Work credit card declined buying coffee (not my fault!)
- Flight delayed for an hour due to ground stop.
I want to go home and go to bed. Or drink.
Flying out of Bradley?
Yes; usually that's a cake walk. I usually get the third level of the garage - that's the level of security, so it's a straight walk - and TSA is the "haha, I mock you peons in regular security" experience, but today... no dice.
Some good news: the delay was a ground stop in Detroit, but now it's nice and sunny here, so while I'm not counting chickens yet, we're optimistic.
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Ugh, travel.
- Five level parking garage; first four levels full, so I have to part on the fifth, open, deck. Upshot? THREE chances for snow before I come home. I will be in that fucking parking lot at midnight shoveling out my car, I can see it now.
- TSA Precheck line is longer than regular security. Woman going through with wrapped food; they have to unwrap and look at each one. Guy in front of me - I swear to you this is true - asks - IN THE EXPEDITED LINE - "Do I have to take off my belt"? Kicker: he's wearing sweatpants with an elastic waistband. I want to scream.
- Work credit card declined buying coffee (not my fault!)
- Flight delayed for an hour due to ground stop.
I want to go home and go to bed. Or drink.
Flying out of Bradley?
Yes; usually that's a cake walk. I usually get the third level of the garage - that's the level of security, so it's a straight walk - and TSA is the "haha, I mock you peons in regular security" experience, but today... no dice.
Some good news: the delay was a ground stop in Detroit, but now it's nice and sunny here, so while I'm not counting chickens yet, we're optimistic.
Nice. I usually park in lot C for like $7 a day (and print out a free day of parking coupon from the website) because I'm a cheap bastard.
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I do that for personal flights; don't have to for work.
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Ugh, travel.
- Five level parking garage; first four levels full, so I have to part on the fifth, open, deck. Upshot? THREE chances for snow before I come home. I will be in that fucking parking lot at midnight shoveling out my car, I can see it now.
- TSA Precheck line is longer than regular security. Woman going through with wrapped food; they have to unwrap and look at each one. Guy in front of me - I swear to you this is true - asks - IN THE EXPEDITED LINE - "Do I have to take off my belt"? Kicker: he's wearing sweatpants with an elastic waistband. I want to scream.
- Work credit card declined buying coffee (not my fault!)
- Flight delayed for an hour due to ground stop.
I want to go home and go to bed. Or drink.
Flying out of Bradley?
Yes; usually that's a cake walk. I usually get the third level of the garage - that's the level of security, so it's a straight walk - and TSA is the "haha, I mock you peons in regular security" experience, but today... no dice.
Some good news: the delay was a ground stop in Detroit, but now it's nice and sunny here, so while I'm not counting chickens yet, we're optimistic.
Nice. I usually park in lot C for like $7 a day (and print out a free day of parking coupon from the website) because I'm a cheap bastard.
I flew out of Bradley at 6am yesterday morning and it was a shit show at the AA counter.
CT was a fun visit, got some snow, had one of the best Italian subs of my life and won a bit of money at Mohegan.
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Morning gang
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Yo
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CT was a fun visit, got some snow, had one of the best Italian subs of my life and won a bit of money at Mohegan.
Where? There are some good delis in CT, but having lived in Philly, and having Sarcone's on the regular, I'm curious.
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You're just another Parental Advisory sticker surfing beach boy.
Yo
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CT was a fun visit, got some snow, had one of the best Italian subs of my life and won a bit of money at Mohegan.
Where? There are some good delis in CT, but having lived in Philly, and having Sarcone's on the regular, I'm curious.
This place called Irenes in Norwich near the hospital my gf was working at for the weekend. It didn't look like much and my expectations weren't great but I was incredibly wrong.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g33872-d828713-Reviews-Irene_s_Family_Restaurant-Norwich_Mystic_Country_Connecticut.html
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Snowy morning here heading into NYC on the train. Making my rare appearance at the company headquarters as we have our holiday party tonight. These are usually pretty crazy but this year may top it all since they are celebrating 10 years so they flew remote offices in (my Amsterdam and Los Angeles coworkers are here who I never actually see). Plus we are allowed to bring a +1 so my gf is meeting up later at our hotel, yes they are letting me expense a hotel room for the night, and the party is at some crazy hotel that's used for an interactive off Broadway theater. Should be a fun day, then used my last vacation day tomorrow before I only have to work 4 days next week then 11 days off for winter break. My job routinely kicks my ass but this is when it pays off.
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Dude
We're getting snow here too!
oh... nevermind... that's just ash.
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Took me 2 hours and 20 minutes to drive the 31 miles to work this morning.
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Evening everyone
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Hey Reaper.
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Yo!
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Ho!
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Hey king!
I'm so tired. I've only had about 3 hours sleep because it was too hot. Yesterday was the hottest December day ever on record here, and the night was equally brutal. Today is much nicer.
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I was curious why you were up so early
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Hey king!
I'm so tired. I've only had about 3 hours sleep because it was too hot. Yesterday was the hottest December day ever on record here, and the night was equally brutal. Today is much nicer.
Man, you've got to splurge and buy an AD. $100. That's all.
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Hey king!
I'm so tired. I've only had about 3 hours sleep because it was too hot. Yesterday was the hottest December day ever on record here, and the night was equally brutal. Today is much nicer.
Man, you've got to splurge and buy an AD. $100. That's all.
$100? Not in this country! :lol
Oh hey, I should be uploading my finished video in a few hours. :hat
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Sweet! Can;t wait to see it!
Seriously, no cheap AC's? Man that's nuts!
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There are cheaper ones, but not THAT cheap. Everything's more expensive here.
I want to sit here and keep tweaking this video, but I gave myself a deadline and I intend to stick to it.
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Sleeping at night is cheap ;)
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Sleeping at night is cheap ;)
After a 43C day, the second floor of our house is legitimately unlivable at any decent sleeping hour. Our house takes a long time to acclimatize to the outside temperature. It wasn't until the middle of the day I could even bear to go up to my bedroom.
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I couldn't stand that.
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It sucks. Downstairs is usually mostly bearable even on a fairly hot day, but you feel the difference as you walk up the stairs, and it gets even hotter as you walk down the hallway and then into my room. Then once it cools down at night, it doesn't get much cooler inside.
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Sleeping at night is cheap ;)
After a 43C day, the second floor of our house is legitimately unlivable at any decent sleeping hour. Our house takes a long time to acclimatize to the outside temperature. It wasn't until the middle of the day I could even bear to go up to my bedroom.
I was being a bit facetious , knowing the hours you keep. I have done the same myself :lol
I do remember what it's like working all day in an upstairs office with temps of 40+ and no cooling - just me and my PC. Then trying in vain to sleep in an upstairs bedroom. I just used to camp downstairs with all doors/windows open (just wire security doors locked) but when the overnight low is around 30 that's of limited use I suppose.
The weather is nuts lately. Biggest November (spring) heatwave in Melbourne ever - 7 days without a day below 35 , then the coolest first 10 days of summer for 50 years and then straight up to 40 the other day. We haven't reached 43 yet but I'm sure it's not far off :)
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Sleeping at night is cheap ;)
After a 43C day, the second floor of our house is legitimately unlivable at any decent sleeping hour. Our house takes a long time to acclimatize to the outside temperature. It wasn't until the middle of the day I could even bear to go up to my bedroom.
I was being a bit facetious , knowing the hours you keep. I have done the same myself :lol
I do remember what it's like working all day in an upstairs office with temps of 40+ and no cooling - just me and my PC. Then trying in vain to sleep in an upstairs bedroom. I just used to camp downstairs with all doors/windows open (just wire security doors locked) but when the overnight low is around 30 that's of limited use I suppose.
The weather is nuts lately. Biggest November (spring) heatwave in Melbourne ever - 7 days without a day below 35 , then the coolest first 10 days of summer for 50 years and then straight up to 40 the other day. We haven't reached 43 yet but I'm sure it's not far off :)
Crazy, that's the opposite of what we've got. We got really mild temperatures right up until Summer officially hit in December (I think the coolest November in a long time), then suddenly the Summer temps hit and we get the hottest December day ever on record. Got a couple more 40+ days in the next week too. Once it's above 40, what's a couple of degrees? It's all shit. :lol
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Want to trade Blob? It was -15.56 Celsius when I got in my car this morning.
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.........Yeah, I think I'm good.
To be fair, I've never been in -15C temperatures in my entire life, so maybe it's great! :P
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:lol
It sucks starting up the call let me tell you. It takes a while for the heat to work.
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I wouldn't even be able to start myself up in that weather, never mind the fucking car.
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Want to trade Blob? It was -15.56 Celsius when I got in my car this morning.
Was that air temp or with wind chill?
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Nope. Just the temp.
I wouldn't even be able to start myself up in that weather, never mind the fucking car.
Blob wouldn't turn over. :lol
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Throwing a bone to my man Jingle; I was in Toronto this week, and while I couldn't meet up with him (we were in a mediation, so it was not my schedule; I had to be in the main room when everyone else was, be it 9:30 in the morning, or, like the last night, 9:30 at night), Toronto is now my favorite city.
On the train from the airport... the ticket lady? Very attractive. At the hotel there were three young ladies at the desk. Two out of three? Hot. Went out to dinner first night with our lawyer. Ordered a glass of wine from the bar. Bartender? MODEL hot. Server? Very attractive. After dinner; went for a drink. Bartender? Very attractive. Next day; there were about 30 people in the mediation, three women. Two? Hot. That night, our server was an old guy, but we went for a drink after, and the bartender? Hot. The woman serving the tables? Hot. Next night, I get out of my mediation around 11:00 pm (we won!) and literally sitting in the atrium of the office building is a woman. MODEL hot. Just sitting there, surfing on her phone. I'm walking to Union Station underground (Love that idea, Toronto! Walked three blocks and never put my coat on!) and stopped into a bar called the Dukes of Dixon. Bartender? MODEL hot, and dressed like an elf. Bartender just coming off shift? Very attractive, but older; in her day, no doubt, MODEL hot. Server on the floor? Very attractive.
I think you see the pattern. Ridiculous.
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King, it's done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG6lVNJSe04
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Currently rejected from 13 of the 16 sites I applied to. Still waiting to hear from 2 in the next few weeks. :(
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:hug:
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Throwing a bone to my man Jingle; I was in Toronto this week, and while I couldn't meet up with him (we were in a mediation, so it was not my schedule; I had to be in the main room when everyone else was, be it 9:30 in the morning, or, like the last night, 9:30 at night), Toronto is now my favorite city.
On the train from the airport... the ticket lady? Very attractive. At the hotel there were three young ladies at the desk. Two out of three? Hot. Went out to dinner first night with our lawyer. Ordered a glass of wine from the bar. Bartender? MODEL hot. Server? Very attractive. After dinner; went for a drink. Bartender? Very attractive. Next day; there were about 30 people in the mediation, three women. Two? Hot. That night, our server was an old guy, but we went for a drink after, and the bartender? Hot. The woman serving the tables? Hot. Next night, I get out of my mediation around 11:00 pm (we won!) and literally sitting in the atrium of the office building is a woman. MODEL hot. Just sitting there, surfing on her phone. I'm walking to Union Station underground (Love that idea, Toronto! Walked three blocks and never put my coat on!) and stopped into a bar called the Dukes of Dixon. Bartender? MODEL hot, and dressed like an elf. Bartender just coming off shift? Very attractive, but older; in her day, no doubt, MODEL hot. Server on the floor? Very attractive.
I think you see the pattern. Ridiculous.
Dude, we have our share of Rebel Wilson's around here too.
Next time you're here, come in a few hours early, will ya? I live really close to the airport (15 mins away), so we could even connect in that area. And yeah, the PATH underground system is pure joy for the downtown core - especially this time of year. Largest underground mall in the world.
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King, it's done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG6lVNJSe04
I will spread the word!
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Throwing a bone to my man Jingle; I was in Toronto this week, and while I couldn't meet up with him (we were in a mediation, so it was not my schedule; I had to be in the main room when everyone else was, be it 9:30 in the morning, or, like the last night, 9:30 at night), Toronto is now my favorite city.
On the train from the airport... the ticket lady? Very attractive. At the hotel there were three young ladies at the desk. Two out of three? Hot. Went out to dinner first night with our lawyer. Ordered a glass of wine from the bar. Bartender? MODEL hot. Server? Very attractive. After dinner; went for a drink. Bartender? Very attractive. Next day; there were about 30 people in the mediation, three women. Two? Hot. That night, our server was an old guy, but we went for a drink after, and the bartender? Hot. The woman serving the tables? Hot. Next night, I get out of my mediation around 11:00 pm (we won!) and literally sitting in the atrium of the office building is a woman. MODEL hot. Just sitting there, surfing on her phone. I'm walking to Union Station underground (Love that idea, Toronto! Walked three blocks and never put my coat on!) and stopped into a bar called the Dukes of Dixon. Bartender? MODEL hot, and dressed like an elf. Bartender just coming off shift? Very attractive, but older; in her day, no doubt, MODEL hot. Server on the floor? Very attractive.
I think you see the pattern. Ridiculous.
Yes. Apparently someone needs to get laid.
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I have never step foot in one of these chat thread before, so hello.
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What's happening wolf?
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What's happening wolf?
Im sitting in the chiripractors reception waiting for my appointment haha.
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I have never step foot in one of these chat thread before, so hello.
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mabj80gscl1qasxjlo1_500.gif)
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Sup.
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sup
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ups
oops
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Go to bed. You're drunk.
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Nah, I'm good. Watching the Celtics getting their asses kicked.
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Yeah I saw this girl on Twitter been watching dvr'd shows.
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Wut?
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Girl. Lol damn talk to text. Score.
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:lol
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Go to bed. You're drunk.
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If only. I post gramaticly better when I'm drunk. :lol
Or angry.
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If only. I post gramaticly better when I'm drunk. :lol
Or angry.
Jesus... you mis-spell even when you're not typing!?!?!
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That's how most of it starts Chad. All it takes is me proofreading . Who the fuk hasn't time to proofread? :lol
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Hasn't??
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Again, isn't that the proof Tim?😂
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Again.
'Night, bro.
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Night my friend.
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Nothing like staying in boozing on a cold Friday night
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Not heavy for me tonight. Tomorrow night for sure.
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What’s the occasion for tomorrow?
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The weekend? :lol
Hey Reap.
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Sup Blob!!! You’re up early. What’s the count?!?!
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Early? I posted that at 3:39pm!
My video is at about 380 views so far. Hopefully it picks up over the weekend.
It is the weekend right? Days are hard.
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been the weekend for me since thursday afternoon :hat
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It's been the weekend for me since 2007. :neverusethis:
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The weekend. LOLOLOL
I'll be home. I got home so late I didn't want to drink much.
Morning.
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Morning king!
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Morning Blob!
I've got a kid that works for me that does computer animation he was wondering what program you use?
This is his work.
https://youtu.be/E0wHxWTqVC4
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I use 3DS Max for my 3D animation, very different to the 2D stuff.
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I'll let him know! Thanks!
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Howdy all.
Blob, that video is awesome :hefdaddy
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Howdy all.
Blob, that video is awesome :hefdaddy
Thanks. I've already had two people from Rare who worked on the original game retweet it. :metal
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That's pretty awesome :tup
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Blob that is awesome!!!
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Yeah... really cool vid.
Just sitting here sipping my morning coffee courtesy of my SS - Hawaiian Coconut. Yum yum. Gonna chill this morning, then go to the gym. Company benefit pays up up to $320 for a gym membership, so I signed up at the college down the street - $250 for the year. Hella cheaper than the $600 that the 'big-name' clubs would charge, and just as good for my needs. First time in a gym in about 3 years. jingle.girls are baking banana bread today 44 loaves I think is what they have enough bananas for - yum yum to that too.
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That video is amazing Blob. I love the attention to detail, the animations are spot on and even the physics when the Kongs jump look very much like in the original game. :tup
I remember seeing a prototype a while ago of Jungle Hijinxs, did that turn into this or are you working on more DKC stuff?
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That video is amazing Blob. I love the attention to detail, the animations are spot on and even the physics when the Kongs jump look very much like in the original game. :tup
I remember seeing a prototype a while ago of Jungle Hijinxs, did that turn into this or are you working on more DKC stuff?
I stopped halfway through making Jungle Hijinx and turned it into DKC2 instead, but I plan to finish that one off some time. I'm not very good at seeing projects through. :lol
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Where’s the link to Blob’s video? Did I miss it?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG6lVNJSe04
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Cool. Thanks. I’ll watch it when I get home.
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You probably won't get it anyway. You'll be like "What's a Donkey Kong?" and "What's a video game?" :biggrin:
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(https://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/014/675/dankey.jpg)
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You probably won't get it anyway. You'll be like "What's a Donkey Kong?" and "What's a video game?" :biggrin:
^ He's right, ya know.
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I fucking know what Donkey Kong is, assholes. It’s the one with Chewbacca right?
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I fucking know what Donkey Kong is, assholes. It’s the one with Chewbacca right?
And the hedgehog.
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There's an Indiana Jones dude swinging from vines over alligators for gold or something.
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Wooo Santa just came down my street! I've caught it every year I've lived in my house, but my brother missed it as he stepped out to grab food for his gf who totally ignored me as I ran outside telling her to come see Santa :lol
https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/942167591254216704 (https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/942167591254216704)
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Why were you hiding in the bush? :lol
You do know that Santa sees you wherever you are.
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:lol yea, it really does look like I am hiding
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Throwing a bone to my man Jingle; I was in Toronto this week, and while I couldn't meet up with him (we were in a mediation, so it was not my schedule; I had to be in the main room when everyone else was, be it 9:30 in the morning, or, like the last night, 9:30 at night), Toronto is now my favorite city.
On the train from the airport... the ticket lady? Very attractive. At the hotel there were three young ladies at the desk. Two out of three? Hot. Went out to dinner first night with our lawyer. Ordered a glass of wine from the bar. Bartender? MODEL hot. Server? Very attractive. After dinner; went for a drink. Bartender? Very attractive. Next day; there were about 30 people in the mediation, three women. Two? Hot. That night, our server was an old guy, but we went for a drink after, and the bartender? Hot. The woman serving the tables? Hot. Next night, I get out of my mediation around 11:00 pm (we won!) and literally sitting in the atrium of the office building is a woman. MODEL hot. Just sitting there, surfing on her phone. I'm walking to Union Station underground (Love that idea, Toronto! Walked three blocks and never put my coat on!) and stopped into a bar called the Dukes of Dixon. Bartender? MODEL hot, and dressed like an elf. Bartender just coming off shift? Very attractive, but older; in her day, no doubt, MODEL hot. Server on the floor? Very attractive.
I think you see the pattern. Ridiculous.
Yes. Apparently someone needs to get laid.
Read me like a goddamn comic book. :)
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:lol
RELEASE THE VALVE!!
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There's an Indiana Jones dude swinging from vines over alligators for gold or something.
Pitfall? Showing your age with that one. :lol
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:lol
Yo don't know the half of it.
Morning.
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Morning king!
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Pitfall was AWESOME!
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Pitfall was pretty cool for the time. Our first console was actually an Atari 2600 because we were way behind on everything in our house, so I played that game plenty, along with all of the other games, like Adventure, Pacman, Frogger, Space Invaders, etc.
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Adventure was my favorite. One Christmas day 10 years ago my nephews got and updated Atari 2600 with a hundred games on it. So they're playing Maze Craze and they didn't know that if you press the button you can go faster. so I destroyed them. I told them that they are in my realm. Lol
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Adventure was my favorite. One Christmas day 10 years ago my nephews got and updated Atari 2600 with a hundred games on it. So they're playing Maze Craze and they didn't know that if you press the button you can go faster. so I destroyed them. I told them that they are in my realm. Lol
Adventure was one of my favs too, but those damn dragons scared the fuck outta me on the harder difficulty. :lol (I called them ducks because they looked more like angry ducks)
I loved Maze Craze too, and even I don't remember the button making you go faster!
So many games I had fun with, along with about 100 that made no fucking sense whatsoever. :lol
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Oh my God my brother and I used to call them angry ducks as well. :lol
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Good times. :lol
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Honestly... never played Adventure. Had to Google it to see what it was.
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The bridge to find the little dot. All the little secrets.
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Just found this picture of Cram shooting his next video!
(https://lolsnaps.com/images/upload_pic_new/5660.jpg)
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:lol
Tough to get those likes on youtube these days
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I had an atari when I was like 6 and never played Adventure either. Pitfall however I remember really well. River Raid was another I really liked.
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who is that lady with the sweaty arm pits?
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who is that lady with the sweaty arm pits?
Your sister.
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Fergie I think.
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I knew listening to Taylor Swift was a bad idea.
https://www.ibtimes.com/taylor-swift-told-me-kill-him-claims-man-alleged-stabbing-2629500
Well, we now know what Bolsters looks like. ;D
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Good morning everyone
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Morning Reap! What's up?
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Morning everyone.
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What up king?
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Nothing much, working on a game in the morning now I’m at work.
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Working. Took my dad to get the radiation mapped out so he can start the treatments after the new year.
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How is your Dad King? I haven’t been following this thread as much so I’m sorry if I missed any updates.
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Nothing much, working on a game in the morning now I’m at work.
Working on a game you say?.......
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Yea lol. I’m forcing myself to put time into it every day if possible. How are the video numbers?
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Yea lol. I’m forcing myself to put time into it every day if possible. How are the video numbers?
Up to 14k views, mostly from Brazil for some reason. :lol It's been on a constant rise since I uploaded it though, so I'm hoping for even better numbers.
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How is your Dad King? I haven’t been following this thread as much so I’m sorry if I missed any updates.
Not good. My dad has lung cancer. He has a 1/3 removed of a lung on his right side now he needs radiation on his left side. He has MS and slight dementia and is physically falling apart. We are talking to him about selling his house to move in with us but his is being a stubborn mule.
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Yea lol. I’m forcing myself to put time into it every day if possible. How are the video numbers?
Up to 14k views, mostly from Brazil for some reason. :lol It's been on a constant rise since I uploaded it though, so I'm hoping for even better numbers.
Nice :tip
How is your Dad King? I haven’t been following this thread as much so I’m sorry if I missed any updates.
Not good. My dad has lung cancer. He has a 1/3 removed of a lung on his right side now he needs radiation on his left side. He has MS and slight dementia and is physically falling apart. We are talking to him about selling his house to move in with us but his is being a stubborn mule.
I remeber you talking about how stubborn he is. It’s probably be for the best if he did move in with you.
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Good Morning people.
Today I've learned that some people are just plain stupid.
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You learned that just today?!
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You learned that just today?!
:lol
Dealing with Payroll and the fact that people just magically expect money to appear in their bank accounts even when they don't fill out their time sheets.
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You learned that just today?!
:lol
Dealing with Payroll and the fact that people just magically expect money to appear in their bank accounts even when they don't fill out their time sheets.
Have the same problem every week. The amount of staff I have that just forget every week and I have to remind them or else they won't get paid is incredible. It's their fucking pay and they can't even remember to fill out a form that takes 5 minutes, unreal.
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That whole exchange was priceless: the girl with the sweaty pits, Jingle's helpful identification, the arm trying to get a skirt shot, TACs helpful identification of Cram....
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That whole exchange was priceless: the girl with the sweaty pits, Jingle's helpful identification, the arm trying to get a skirt shot, TACs helpful identification of Cram....
Oh jeez... I never noticed the guy trying to get the upskirt shot! Makes my post even funnier.
Or creepier.
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That whole exchange was priceless: the girl with the sweaty pits, Jingle's helpful identification, the arm trying to get a skirt shot, TACs helpful identification of Cram....
Oh jeez... I never noticed the guy trying to get the upskirt shot! Makes my post even funnier.
Or creepier.
That was the whole reason/joke that I posted the pic!
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I realize that now. I was wondering what the point of it was all along.
Paying attention: I suck at it.
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Good morning guys. Working from home today, nothing beats playing video games while casually looking at my email.
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:metal
Last day of work until January 2nd, 11 straight days off :metal Today is pretty much a nothing day either, no one is working and going to do a nice lunch with my coworker, probably leave a little early.... then gaming for me tonight
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You learned that just today?!
:lol
Dealing with Payroll and the fact that people just magically expect money to appear in their bank accounts even when they don't fill out their time sheets.
Have the same problem every week. The amount of staff I have that just forget every week and I have to remind them or else they won't get paid is incredible. It's their fucking pay and they can't even remember to fill out a form that takes 5 minutes, unreal.
The problem is this guy doesn't forget. He just doesn't give a flying fuck. His response to my night lead (whom I had talk to him about it) was "Why can't they (meaning me?) just pay me based off the calendar?"
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If that's the way he wants it, tell him "Pay" = a participation ribbon.
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Got an internship interview in NY! (not the city, but the state)
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:metal
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You learned that just today?!
:lol
Dealing with Payroll and the fact that people just magically expect money to appear in their bank accounts even when they don't fill out their time sheets.
Have the same problem every week. The amount of staff I have that just forget every week and I have to remind them or else they won't get paid is incredible. It's their fucking pay and they can't even remember to fill out a form that takes 5 minutes, unreal.
The problem is this guy doesn't forget. He just doesn't give a flying fuck. His response to my night lead (whom I had talk to him about it) was "Why can't they (meaning me?) just pay me based off the calendar?"
Well fuck him. Don't pay him at all and see if he likes that.
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Got an internship interview in NY! (not the city, but the state)
Woot woot!
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Last day of the year at work for me! :metal and last day before Christmas as well so there's a party in the office, or better, there's the break room filled with goodies and candies and obscenities to eat :D
This reminds me of a similar situation back in the previous company, which was bigger, we group of people who were used to hang out in lunch break all together ate so much at the buffet, that we all agreed to just skip lunch and walk around instead during the break. However the other guy of the group that was on a different floor than us "didn't get the memo" so to speak, he had saved his belly for lunch, and so he had to tag along to the rest of us 'cause we ate like there was no tomorrow :lol :lol :lol
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Good morning guys.
Stepped on the scale this morning and the weight gain from the holidays is starting to do some real damage.
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It's all muscle mass.
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Like arnie in his prime?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrsafL1ZQxE
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:lol
Morning
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:lol
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Morning king!
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Morning King
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After today, I'm off until the 2nd. Woot woot. Working is alright, but time off is much better.
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Well duh. :hat
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Hello, Gents.
Last work day before the Christmas break, I'm anticipating that it will be pretty boring as traditional. I guess I'll have time to screw around with MS Paint though, which was actually kinda fun yesterday (once I stopped swearing at the primitive tools).
I have the usual invites to celebrations at local vendors, but I'm thinking the last thing I need now is more food. We'll see when lunch time rolls around, it's hard to pass on free food when you're hungry.
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Im already off till the 2nd :P Just getting my day started with a coffee, and by starting the day, I guess I mean blobbing as I've got nothing to do and no one else is off today
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All you guys with your time off, I’m off until Tuesday and then back at work.
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Every year I give my employees and business partners Honeybaked smoked turkey breast for Christmas. I went to the Honeybaked store at 6:30 am this morning and waited for them to open at 7:00. I was the second person in line and it was about 19° F. By the time I made my purchases, there were nearly 100 people waiting behind me!
One of our newest employees (4 years on the job) thanked me when I gave him his turkey this morning, but I detected a little bit of a letdown in his voice. So I asked him if something was wrong and he told me that he's allergic to poultry! I said, "Goddamit, Chuck, I've been giving you these for three years straight. Why didn't you tell me?" He said it seemed ungrateful and that his wife really likes it and usually eats the whole thing. :lol
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Every year I give my employees and business partners Honeybaked smoked turkey breast for Christmas. I went to the Honeybaked store at 6:30 am this morning and waited for them to open at 7:00. I was the second person in line and it was about 19° F. By the time I made my purchases, there were nearly 100 people waiting behind me!
One of our newest employees (4 years on the job) thanked me when I gave him his turkey this morning, but I detected a little bit of a letdown in his voice. So I asked him if something was wrong and he told me that he's allergic to poultry! I said, "Goddamit, Chuck, I've been giving you these for three years straight. Why didn't you tell me?" He said it seemed ungrateful and that his wife really likes it and usually eats the whole thing. :lol
:lol
I feel bad for laughing....
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Howdy all. Less than 45 minutes until I'm free for the holiday weekend. I'm jealous of all you who have off straight through the new year. I'm off Monday and then get to work a very light half day from home on Tuesday on account of it being a holiday in Europe (where most of our big clients are based). Wednesday through Friday are regular (albeit quiet days). I am taking Jan 2nd off, which will be nice given that there's usually a good bit of merriment on both NYE and NYD.
Really though I'll just be happy to hit the couch tonight and crack a couple beers.
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Aw yeah, my video views have spiked way up today. First some Japanese site shared my video and I got a shit-ton of views from Japan. Then some Nintendo fan site posted my video which got some more views, and it's gone way up since Kotaku posted it. :metal
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Yeah I saw that on Twitter - it's gotten some great mentions :tup Well deserved.
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Well obviously I had to retweet it and stroke my own e-peen. :zydar:
I figure by the time I wake up tomorrow, it'll either have 100k views, or it'll be taken down and I'll have a C&D from Nintendo in my inbox. :lol
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:lol nice, good stuff. :metal
finished my christmas shopping so back to blobbing I go
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Yeah, I definitely have some stuff I should be doing around the house, but I've got a beer and the allure of blobbing is just too strong right now.
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Blob trending? Trump President? The world has gone mad!!
Blob congrats man!!!
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Blob's video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG6lVNJSe04
So obviously, I would have no idea what to do if someone told me to make a Donkey King video, so for that...amazing. I don't mean to be rude, so please don't take it this way, but what exactly is the point? Is this similar to a guitarist covering a song and putting it on youtube?
Also, for a 3 1/2 minute video, how long did it take to put that together?
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Tim I would say you're not a gamer and for us it is like watching somebody recreate something. Difference is I put a ton of time into this is very hard to do and even the creators of the game dig it and that's really saying something.
It's sort of like Brian May given the nod to Dream Theater on the cover tune.
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Tim I would say you're not a gamer and for us it is like watching somebody recreate something. Difference is I put a ton of time into this is very hard to do and even the creators of the game dig it and that's really saying something.
That's an understatement. ;D
Yeah, I didn't mean to sound like a dick. Is this a thing "gamers" do? Try and re create parts of the game from nothing? I mean, starting from scratch, that's amazing.
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I think i lot of people like to recreate games to give a modern look to it. There a lot of timeless games I played as a child that I would love to see a remaster of.
It’s also a way of paying homage to older games, or a great learning tool.
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I think i lot of people like to recreate games to give a modern look to it. There a lot of timeless games I played as a child that I would love to see a remaster of.
Huh. That's actually very interesting. Id love to see Intellivision's D&D remastered.
BLOB......How long does a video like that take to make??
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Yeah, I didn't mean to sound like a dick. Is this a thing "gamers" do? Try and re create parts of the game from nothing? I mean, starting from scratch, that's amazing.
I would say "gamers" are more likely to have an interest in such a video, but no, most gamers aren't actually making such videos. Blob's doing something more unique and challenging than what other gamers (like myself) put on youtube (which is typically their own gameplay). Other than using the game as inspiration, Blob's video is his own creation and animation which takes a lot of time and dedication.
Anyway, drinking my coffee then hitting the battlegrounds for a bit before heading to my Aunts in Long Island for the traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner.
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Other than using the game as inspiration, Blob's video is his own creation and animation which takes a lot of time and dedication.
Right. I can appreciate that.
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So we had an inch or two of snow fall last night. It's pretty fluffy and I could probably shovel it by hand but I've got quite a lot of driveway to clear before the kids arrive for Christmas breakfast (Ebelskivers) and I'm not getting any younger. I'm tempted to fire up the Cub Cadet and clear the driveway but it's such a peaceful morning outside and the snowblower is really loud. What do you guys think, is 7:00 on a Christmas morning too early to make that kind of racket?
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lol probably but then again, I don't know your neighbors, maybe it's appropriate
Merry Christmas DTF!
Really odd here since my parents moved to Florida so we are doing it at my house, yet everyone went to their own homes (parents went to my sisters) last night so Christmas morning is actually pretty lonely today. Heading to my gf's parents soon then coming back before my family gets here.
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So we had an inch or two of snow fall last night. It's pretty fluffy and I could probably shovel it by hand but I've got quite a lot of driveway to clear before the kids arrive for Christmas breakfast (Ebelskivers) and I'm not getting any younger. I'm tempted to fire up the Cub Cadet and clear the driveway but it's such a peaceful morning outside and the snowblower is really loud. What do you guys think, is 7:00 on a Christmas morning too early to make that kind of racket?
Yeah, too early. We got about 8-10 inches last night. No doubt the snow-thrower is seeing more action than me today.
wait, wut?
Gifts opened; coffee drank; cinnamon rolls consumed. Chill time now.
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We're getting 8 inches of snow right now.
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lol probably but then again, I don't know your neighbors, maybe it's appropriate
Merry Christmas DTF!
Really odd here since my parents moved to Florida so we are doing it at my house, yet everyone went to their own homes (parents went to my sisters) last night so Christmas morning is actually pretty lonely today. Heading to my gf's parents soon then coming back before my family gets here.
Since I graduated college I used to always work Christmas and give my staff the day off (this is when I lived in Florida). I like the quiet, I usually watch some movies play some games and do some drinking.
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Just got back from my gf's parents house, which was really nice. I feel bad for them, my gf's two sisters didn't come for Christmas so the parents were kind of bummed so it was nice for us to spend the morning with them. Now my entire family is coming here soon so the drinking and cooking will start soon enough.
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So we had an inch or two of snow fall last night. It's pretty fluffy and I could probably shovel it by hand but I've got quite a lot of driveway to clear before the kids arrive for Christmas breakfast (Ebelskivers) and I'm not getting any younger. I'm tempted to fire up the Cub Cadet and clear the driveway but it's such a peaceful morning outside and the snowblower is really loud. What do you guys think, is 7:00 on a Christmas morning too early to make that kind of racket?
Yeah, too early. We got about 8-10 inches last night. No doubt the snow-thrower is seeing more action than me today.
wait, wut?
It wouldn't if you had 8-10 inches to offer. ;D
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More than a mouthful is a waste.
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Just after I posted in here yesterday I heard my neighbor fire up his four-wheeler with the plow on. So I started the CC and cleared the driveway. By the time I cleared the sidewalk around the north end of the property, I noticed everyone up in the cul de sac was out with there snow machines. I guess that's one advantage to living in a *cough* mature neighborhood. You can reasonably assume everyone is up by 5:00 am. :lol
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:lol
The things you notice as you get older.
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Just after I posted in here yesterday I heard my neighbor fire up his four-wheeler with the plow on. So I started the CC and cleared the driveway. By the time I cleared the sidewalk around the north end of the property, I noticed everyone up in the cul de sac was out with there snow machines. I guess that's one advantage to living in a *cough* mature neighborhood. You can reasonably assume everyone is up by 5:00 am. :lol
So basically it's bizarro world - if there were any youngins on the street, they'd be all :getoffmylawn:
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Good Morning Krusty Krew.
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Good morning
So Christmas at my house turned into a slumber party. My mom hurt her knee trying to pick up my toddler niece (my mom had knee replacement surgery over the summer, but this was her "good knee") and rebooked their flight back to Florida for today instead of Thursday and since I live closer to the airport than my sister, everyone just decided to sleep over. First Christmas at my house was a mixed bag. Not sure it's going to happen next year, I think my parents are tired of the traveling and trying to see everyone for the holidays so now they want us to come to Florida next year. Now everyone left and it's just me and the cat, which kind of feels depressing a bit.
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Now everyone left and it's just me and the cat, which kind of feels depressing a bit.
Yeah, I pretty sure the cat is thrilled too. ;D
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Now everyone left and it's just me and the cat, which kind of feels depressing a bit.
Yeah, I pretty sure the cat is thrilled too. ;D
Well, he really is actually. My sister's dog was here and while they don't have issues, they certainly aren't friends as Buddy is very territorial with the house so he is loving having his house back.
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So my best friend finally proposed to his girlfriend of like 8 years over the Christmas weekend. I'm so stoked for them, but also slightly annoyed, as he has had this planned for months, and another friend of ours knew the entire plan, and I didn't :lol
Now everyone left and it's just me and the cat, which kind of feels depressing a bit.
Yeah, I pretty sure the cat is thrilled too. ;D
:lol
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Good afternoon everyone. All the family left the house and its finally empty. I think my gf and I have decided that next year we are either traveling for the holidays or just skipping it and taking a vacation.
After two years of hosting everyone at our place, it’s too much.
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Good morning
So Christmas at my house turned into a slumber party. My mom hurt her knee trying to pick up my toddler niece (my mom had knee replacement surgery over the summer, but this was her "good knee") and rebooked their flight back to Florida for today instead of Thursday and since I live closer to the airport than my sister, everyone just decided to sleep over. First Christmas at my house was a mixed bag. Not sure it's going to happen next year, I think my parents are tired of the traveling and trying to see everyone for the holidays so now they want us to come to Florida next year. Now everyone left and it's just me and the cat, which kind of feels depressing a bit.
Where in Florida?
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My parents moved to Jacksonville, if we go to Florida for the holidays though, they want to go closer to Miami so the weather is warmer.
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What up?
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Hey, Chad! Morning.
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Morning, friends.
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Hey, Blob!
Loved, loved your last project. It made my thumb itchy. Whatcha working on now?
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Last day at work (3 hours left) before a 10 day vacation. Oh yeah.
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Last day at work (3 hours left) before a 10 day vacation. Oh yeah.
:tup :tup
Did you have a nice Christmas, Zy? I hope Saint Nick brought you some upholstery cleaner.
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Hey, Blob!
Loved, loved your last project. It made my thumb itchy. Whatcha working on now?
Oh thanks! I started messing around with another level from the game, but with the Christmas season + the hot weather here, I haven't done much of anything this week.
Last day at work (3 hours left) before a 10 day vacation. Oh yeah.
:metal Nice. Doing anything in particular, or just going to blob?
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Last day at work (3 hours left) before a 10 day vacation. Oh yeah.
:tup :tup
Did you have a nice Christmas, Zy? I hope Saint Nick brought you some upholstery cleaner.
I had a fine Christmas with my family. Lots of food and laughs.
I think the upholstery was spared pretty good this year :zydarscouch:
How was your Christmas?
Last day at work (3 hours left) before a 10 day vacation. Oh yeah.
:metal Nice. Doing anything in particular, or just going to blob?
Just blobbing sounds pretty darn awesome right now. Sleep, watch TV, just relaxing.
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Blob approves. :tup
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How was your Christmas?
Great! Atheists always have great, low stress, Chistmases. It's in our bylaws.
That was a lot funnier in my head
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How was your Christmas?
Great! Atheists always have great, low stress, Chistmases. It's in our bylaws.
That was a lot funnier in my head
We mustn't have gotten the memo. :lol Christmas is always the most stressful day of the year in this house by far, although this year surprisingly went quite smoothly. Last year was one of the worst days ever though.
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+ the hot weather here,
Will gladly trade. -22C (pre-windchill factor) when I woke up this morning.
@ Gregg... I'm very thankful God made me an Atheist. :biggrin:
As for Christmas stress... we got rid of that by just not seeing/talking to extended family that treats us like shit. Christmas is VERY low-key around here.
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+ the hot weather here,
Will gladly trade. -22C (pre-windchill factor) when I woke up this morning.
@ Gregg... I'm very thankful God made me an Atheist. :biggrin:
As for Christmas stress... we got rid of that by just not seeing/talking to extended family that treats us like shit. Christmas is VERY low-key around here.
We don't seem to get that option, since the deadbeat part of our family just invites themselves over (sometimes with extras) and brings their own drama, and my parents are too nice to say no to them. If it was up to me, I'd tell 'em all to fuck right off.
It was 36C today (which wasn't bad inside), going to be 39C tomorrow. Not sure I'd want -22C, especially as that's 20C colder than any weather we've ever had here in my entire life even in the middle of the night in the middle of winter Maybe we can just average them out?
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It's going to be a balmy 10° (50f) here today. Very unusually warm and the talk has already begun about drought here. No storms in the long range forecasts, but then, technically we live in a desert! ::)
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Morning guys! -20 Celsius this morning.
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Good morning guys, cold morning this morning. I wish I was home chilling by the fireplace.
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Morning.
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What’s up Jay?
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Not much. I've got a lot of work to get done, but most of it involves communicating with people who aren't calling me back or responding to emails.
So instead of working, I am mentally preparing myself for NAMM in a month :caffeine:
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Just got back from a wake, my grandaunt passed away Christmas night. She was pretty sickly, but I feel so bad for my granduncle who has Alzheimers really bad and they haven't even told him yet.
Well, onto something more positive, the last concert of 2017 for me, a sold out Clutch yearly NJ holiday show, but the real reason I am going is because one of my favorite musicians, Devin Townsend, is opening for them. :metal :metal
It was a great 2017 for concerts for me, going to end it with a bang (hopefully)
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G'morning all. Working from home today because it's a quiet week at the office and I've had enough of commuting in this cold :lol
Christmas itself is usually a great day for us, what can be ugly is my mom stressing out in the days ahead of Christmas over getting the house ready (we host every year on Christmas Day and have a dinner for anywhere from 15-19 people on the nice china and all that).
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Morning peeps.
I feel a sore throat coming on.
fml.
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I feel a buzz coming on. Lol
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I feel a buzz coming on. Lol
Take it to the drinking thread! I'm trying to be all healthy and responsible tonight!
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On a Saturday night? Dear God man! :lol
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Worked out before dinner, ate relatively healthy, now drinking a recovery drink. Tomorrow I'll be having my scotch sampler Christmas gift, and a traditional New Year's Day breakfast - Costco muffin! :lol
Until then, Ima gonna be a good boy.
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A recovery drink??
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Chad, a protein drink or something else?
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Chad, a protein drink or something else?
Yeah...
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That did not answer my question, you.
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I think the not answer was all the answer you need. :lol
Oh hey. 7 minutes till 2018 here.
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6 Minutes now blob
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That did not answer my question, you.
Actually, it did. It was a BCAA drink. Probably not the kind of protein drink/shake you were thinking of, so it was technically both protein, and something else. :P
Happy 2018 Blob (in 90 seconds).
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Ok, so far in 2018 no celebrities have died or raped anyone, so that's a good start.
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Man you're a jinks Blob.
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Ok, so far in 2018 no celebrities have died or raped anyone, so that's a good start.
Any BTTF hoverboards in sight?
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Man you're a jinks Blob.
I have to get in while I can, because who knows how much longer it will remain true. :lol
Ok, so far in 2018 no celebrities have died or raped anyone, so that's a good start.
Any BTTF hoverboards in sight?
Does the Lego Dimensions hoverboard sitting on my desk count? :lol :blob:
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Lego Batman on right now on HBO. I'm Blobing it having coffee.
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Ok, so far in 2018 no celebrities have died or raped anyone, so that's a good start.
Year is looking good right now Blob.
I'm sitting down for my first coffee of the day.
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Lego Batman on right now on HBO. I'm Blobing it having coffee.
Nice. I got it in DVD but haven't rewatched it yet. Been watching old Doctor Who all day.
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When is the new season starting?
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When is the new season starting?
Later in 2018, that's all the info so far.
I'm just up to the 4th Doctor and I've already spotted several references the new series has made. And of course Tom Baker is awesome.
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Tom was my first Dr. Who as a kid. That show and Space 1999 and Star Trek was my youth until Battlscar Galactica and V.
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NEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!!
Not interested in most of those, except obviously Trek and Who. I've still got around 400-500 episodes left to watch dammit!
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There goes your work. :lol
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It's taken me 2-3 years to get this far into the original series, so it's not like I'm binging on them. :lol I mostly watch it at the moment when it's too hot to work and I want something to pass the time. The half hour episode length is perfect for that.
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Then the next thing you know you're five episodes in.
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I only watched 3 episodes today and maybe 5 yesterday, and it's a half hour show. The other night I got through the entire new season of Black Mirror in one 6 hour sitting though. :hat
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Happy nee year and goodnight!
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YOU GUYS! MP and JP are together for New Year's and it's almost sad how happy that makes me.
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Happy New Years....
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YOU GUYS! MP and JP are together for New Year's and it's almost sad how happy that makes me.
Nice!
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Hey Zydar. What are you doing up? You should still be unconscious after partying the year out. :zydar: Although I guess you could not have gone to sleep yet, you wild man.
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Hey Zydar. What are you doing up? You should still be unconscious after partying the year out. :zydar: Although I guess you could not have gone to sleep yet, you wild man.
:lol
Last night is pretty much a blur - I found some Asian females in the bathroom a while ago. They looked dead tranquil and relaxed to me.
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I also found some Asian last night, on the Google. :zydar:
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I also found some Asian last night, on the Google. :zydar:
So you had a Happy (Endings) New Year?
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Happy 2018 gang. Hope it's another great year.
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Same to you Chad and the family.
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Happy 2018 gang. Hope it's another great year.
Did you just assume my 2017?
I also found some Asian last night, on the Google. :zydar:
So you had a Happy (Endings) New Year?
Actually no, I just wanted to make the joke. :zydar: I wasn't in an Asian mood last night anyway.
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YOU GUYS! MP and JP are together for New Year's and it's almost sad how happy that makes me.
This is cool. I'm sure the DT-side ought to be entertaining for a while! :lolpalm:
Happy 2018 gang. Hope it's another great year.
Did you just assume my 2017?
Every year is a great year when you're Blob(ing).
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YOU GUYS! MP and JP are together for New Year's and it's almost sad how happy that makes me.
This is cool. I'm sure the DT-side ought to be entertaining for a while! :lolpalm:
Oh god, why did you have to ruin a nice thing by saying something like that? :lol
Happy 2018 gang. Hope it's another great year.
Did you just assume my 2017?
Every year is a great year when you're Blob(ing).
It's possible to have a bad year even when blobbing, although 2017 wasn't a bad year for me, and ended quite well. :hat
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You just said ending. Giggity.
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YOU GUYS! MP and JP are together for New Year's and it's almost sad how happy that makes me.
This is cool. I'm sure the DT-side ought to be entertaining for a while! :lolpalm:
Oh god, why did you have to ruin a nice thing by saying something like that? :lol
It's only ruined if you go over there.
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Go over. It's funny.
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Go over. It's funny.
NEVER!
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YOU GUYS! MP and JP are together for New Year's and it's almost sad how happy that makes me.
This is cool. I'm sure the DT-side ought to be entertaining for a while! :lolpalm:
Oh god, why did you have to ruin a nice thing by saying something like that? :lol
It's only ruined if you go over there.
Oh good, I'll be safe then! I can't even remember the last time I looked in there.
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Go over. It's funny.
NEVER!
I did. I giggled.
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Good morning guys and happy new year. Had a fun last night but I’m pretty sure I got food poisoning.
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Happy New Year, I haven't touched alcohol in a few days since I've been pretty sick. Shitty way to start the year.
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Damn cramx I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully you'll feel better soon
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well the wife and I were putting up 6mm plastic and all the windows on the porch. 7 degrees but we're both maning up. Mindy staple gun broke so I had to go out and get a new one. Happy New Year! LOL
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We are cleaning the house and putting away Christmas decorations. Not the relaxing day I thought it’d be.
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Happy New Year, I haven't touched alcohol in a few days since I've been pretty sick. Shitty way to start the year.
jingle.son caught something, and now mrs.jingle is pretty much down for the count. My throat is gettin a little scratchy. >:(
We are cleaning the house and putting away Christmas decorations. Not the relaxing day I thought it’d be.
That's what we were going to do today, but see above. Prolly gonna have to wait a few days, if not the weekend.
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G'morning all and happy new year! Went to brunch with my cousin and got a good buzz on. Now home and about to nap on the couch. :hat
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Happy thing and shit
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Yo Jay. How was your lack of sleep because of the neighbors?
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Yea Jay did they settle down eventually?
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Throw a beard on this guy and you have me.
(https://i.redditmedia.com/iuWUrFbG1m55deDapx6KUtIsaH2VlhnBa1t5pH2AZSw.jpg?w=859&s=e73f1fd6b81cabb442e6c65c3af78a9d)
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That's assuming you return...
I've been sick the last four days and called out. What a way to start the year. My 11 days off ended up really sucking with a death in the family and then sickness, couldn't even enjoy new years. Yay 2018
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I’m right there with you cram, I’m still feeling like shit from the food I ate on New Years.
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I took off today ahead of time to get a bonus day of blobbing in after all the holiday shenanigans.
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Yea Jay did they settle down eventually?
Yo Jay. How was your lack of sleep because of the neighbors?
I dont remember them shutting up. I wound up working on 3.5 hours of sleep yesterday. Also had several people call in "Sick" and wound up working a 12 hours shift. I hate people.
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Morning
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m37t0tg7qk1qlwmyko1_400.gif)
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Morning John. How's it going?
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Hey, bro. Happy New Year. I'm doing alright. What's new with you?
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Trying to get through the 2 weeks of craziness at work before it slows down and dealing with my dad's lung cancer. Radiation 3 times next week.
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My father went through that. They removed half of his lung. He didn't have to go through the radiation, though, since it was such a small area and they were able to remove it successfully. They removed as much as they did because it wasn't showing up on one of their screenings so they just played it safe and removed more than they had to.
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They removed a 1/3 of his right lung. This spot is in the left. They've been monitoring it and saw it grew a little so they are going with radiation.
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Are they hopeful about it being removed completely?
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The prognosis a 75% chance the cancer comes back in 5 years. We're taking it one day at a time right now.
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Thinking about you, buddy.
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How is he actually feeling? I know my father always tries to be Mr. Positive so he'll never admit to how he really feels.
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Thinking about you, buddy.
Thank you.
How is he actually feeling? I know my father always tries to be Mr. Positive so he'll never admit to how he really feels.
My dad has MS. He really doesn't feel pain. That's added to the drama. He's not taking care of himself and the MS is made him very weak. Oh he is a stubborn man. We've been talking to him about selling the house and moving in with us. We want to take care of him but if he's in a wheelchair, and with him not helping himself. It's going to happen soon and he'll have to move to assisted living.
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Wouldn't he rather stay with family?
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Wouldn't he rather stay with family?
No. i think the pull of the house we grew up as a family and he's comfortable there.
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Good morning guys. Really rough night, my food poisoning came back (is that even a thing)
I had a bite of soup after getting better the past couple of days and now I'm right back to as bad as it was on new years.
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I had food poisoning once... I feel your pain. Ended up going to the hospital to get IV fluids I was so depleted. I feel for ya man.
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Morning. Worked 11 1/2 hours during a blizzard here. We got 15 inches of snow. Got home and just snowblowed the driveway and walkway. Sat down at 815pm. Long day.
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Morning king!
I wake up early at 1pm and then got super tired and took a 3 hour nap at 8:30m. It's been a tough day for me too.
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:lol
You son of a....
I'm gassed. I've been fighting a cold as well. I'm worn down. Got my godson Saturday and Sunday. We are meeting up with the family to see Star Wars again. I'll have 2 godsons with me. I love seeing their eyes light up.
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If they have any taste, their eyes won't light up with this Star Wars movie. :neverusethis:
The forecast for the next few days is 42°C, 45°C, 41°C, 36°C (108F, 113F, 106F, 97F), and today was 36C/97F. I'm gonna be wiped without even doing anything. Which is good, because you better believe I'm not doing anything.
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:lol
You should see the snow here. Winds at 30 MPH so it's swirling everywhere.
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Morning people.
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Brutal day here, and from what I understand, tomorrow will be worse. High of like 5 degrees, nightly low of around -10 Fahrenheit. I'm lighting a fire and opening a bottle of wine.
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Jesus
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Brutal day here, and from what I understand, tomorrow will be worse. High of like 5 degrees, nightly low of around -10 Fahrenheit.
Ex in town?
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-33C windchill factor here this morning, which translates to about -28F. Luckily, no bomb-cyclone or anything. Atlantic provinces are getting hammered with 70MPH winds I hear. Lots of power outages.
Brutal day here, and from what I understand, tomorrow will be worse. High of like 5 degrees, nightly low of around -10 Fahrenheit.
Ex in town?
:clap:
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:lol
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:lol
The cold is bad, this storm was miserable. But damn, the roads are clear and people still drive like it's a blizzard out.
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Less than two hours until I go home and get into bed.
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Brutal day here, and from what I understand, tomorrow will be worse. High of like 5 degrees, nightly low of around -10 Fahrenheit.
Ex in town?
:lol
Same for me, the weather that is.
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Brutal day here, and from what I understand, tomorrow will be worse. High of like 5 degrees, nightly low of around -10 Fahrenheit.
Ex in town?
Nicely done. :)
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Brutal day here, and from what I understand, tomorrow will be worse. High of like 5 degrees, nightly low of around -10 Fahrenheit.
Ex in town?
Nicely done. :)
:adami:
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Morning. Shitty day yesterday and last night.
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Morning. Shitty day yesterday and last night.
I read your FB status - that did suck ass. Hopefully nothing more than that.
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Morning. Shitty day yesterday and last night.
I read your FB status - that did suck ass. Hopefully nothing more than that.
Just read that as well. Hope things take an upswing for you.
Good morning guys
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well Walmart's not taking care of the yard moves and so out of control that my guys had no work this morning and we only got a third of unload that we normally get last night. so the suckfest continues.
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Good.... Something... Peeps!
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Good morning guys!
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Damn you were up late there Jay. At least, I hope it was 'late', and not early.
Just trying to re-arrange the layout of my home office to be a little more functional. Not sure I'm making any progress. Yesterday was busy as hell - putting all the xmas stuff away. jingle.girls got the trees down on Thursday, and we polished off the rest of it yesterday. Now time to clean. Plus I got some errands to do, workout, and pack - got my first business-related trip in over a year this week.
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Nice Jingle where are you going?
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Calgary
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Flames game??!!!!!!
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Damn you were up late there Jay. At least, I hope it was 'late', and not early.
Just trying to re-arrange the layout of my home office to be a little more functional. Not sure I'm making any progress. Yesterday was busy as hell - putting all the xmas stuff away. jingle.girls got the trees down on Thursday, and we polished off the rest of it yesterday. Now time to clean. Plus I got some errands to do, workout, and pack - got my first business-related trip in over a year this week.
Going anywhere good/fun/warm?
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Stads, the answer is above. ;D
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Stads, the answer is above. ;D
Ah.... I didn't put two and two together. Slow morning. :)
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Damn you were up late there Jay. At least, I hope it was 'late', and not early.
Late. Very late. Went in and worked overnight.
Big mistake. I'm fucking dead tired now.
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Up at 8am wut.
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Blob what is going on with you waking up at these insane times?
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Blob what is going on with you waking up at these insane times?
Summer.
I woke up at 9:30am yesterday morning after only 3 hours sleep and couldn't get back to sleep because of the heat, so I was fucking wiped out last night and went to bed at 11pm even though it was still hot as hell upstairs, and instantly crashed and just woke up.
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Yes, 9:30am such an insane time :lol
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For me it is! :lol Usually I go to bed after 6am.
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Evening
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Hey sexy.
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Is that for me, Tomi, or Haley? :lol
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For you baby. :-*
I take care of my Italian bitches.
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Evening Prog and King
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Hi Reap! I should go to bed since I'm getting up at 5am.
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For you baby. :-*
I take care of my Italian bitches.
Oh, Kingy. You make me blush. :blush
Evening Prog and King
Yo
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Well, Jameson on the rocks and then bedtime.
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Hi Reap! I should go to bed since I'm getting up at 5am.
I don't know how you do it, I would've fallen asleep the moment I was in any type of seating position
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I told myself I'd wake up at 6am and get a head start on my massive amounts of work I need to do. Today seems to really be the start of the new year as I am done with my sickness of the last two weeks and the workload is now expected to get completed. Yet, I didn't wake up until 7:45. Ooops. Oh well, I am solo the next three weeks and have 2.4 million dollars of the latest generation of server and network equipment that I need to get running. Let the fun begin.
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I told myself I'd wake up at 6am and get a head start on my massive amounts of work I need to do. Today seems to really be the start of the new year as I am done with my sickness of the last two weeks and the workload is now expected to get completed. Yet, I didn't wake up until 7:45. Ooops. Oh well, I am solo the next three weeks and have 2.4 million dollars of the latest generation of server and network equipment that I need to get running. Let the fun begin.
Do you actually set up the server hardware, or do you do software? If you do hardware, you should check out r/cableporn on Reddit.
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I told myself I'd wake up at 6am and get a head start on my massive amounts of work I need to do. Today seems to really be the start of the new year as I am done with my sickness of the last two weeks and the workload is now expected to get completed. Yet, I didn't wake up until 7:45. Ooops. Oh well, I am solo the next three weeks and have 2.4 million dollars of the latest generation of server and network equipment that I need to get running. Let the fun begin.
Do you actually set up the server hardware, or do you do software? If you do hardware, you should check out r/cableporn on Reddit.
We purchase the racks fully loaded and cabled already, the work these guys do would qualify for cableporn (I've seen the reddit and have done plenty of nice cable work myself but not quite as good as what's on there). They do such an awesome job and the new design is a real pain in the ass for cabling, but they still nailed it well. Most of my job is on the network side and setting up the servers to be accessible to our data base and we have automation tools to install base OSs on them once I get the network online. Then it's off to systems engineering to do the real software work and get the servers doing whatever they are supposed to do (this case, all my hardware is for ad serving).
Today I've got everything powered up (the power up process is a PITA just because I am not allowed to touch any of it and I need the building engineers to confirm everything before they energize new racks). Got half of my network configs approved by engineering (the other half I wrote up but didnt put in for approval yet since Im trying not to kill these guys and gal today). Got all my uplinks in place (the only cabling I really need to do, these are all 100GB connections, 40 meter cables ran across the top of the room). And I am starting to load my network configs onto the new switches so I can hopefully turn everything online tomorrow if all goes well.
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Blob, saw that video of the cat that you commented about. I agree, I loved the strut but the back legs look weird walking in unison with the front legs.
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Blob, saw that video of the cat that you commented about. I agree, I loved the strut but the back legs look weird walking in unison with the front legs.
Do you creep everything I do on the internet? Geez. :lol
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It was in my feed dammit! :lol
Oh Blob you would know if was creepin'. :lol
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Morning gang. Raining today and I'm working from home.
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Morning.
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What's happening blob?
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Morning guys. What's cookin' this morning?
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Morning king.
Nothing up here. Doing nothing. :blob:
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Well I'm jealous. Busting out my production and leaving work. The wife and I are taking Dad to his radiation treatment today.
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What's happening King, I'm sitting at home drinking coffee and trying to log into my work laptop.
Goodluck with your dad today!
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Thanks Reap. Man I need a vacation from life. Blob, I need to Blob.
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Calgary is colder than a witches cunt ... -27C, and the windows in this hotel room are about as useful as a mint flavored suppository. I've got the thermostat cranked to 24.5C (it's as high as it'll go), but it sure as hell is fighting a losing battle against the windows.
Hope things go as well as they can with radiation on King Sr.
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So far, so good. Damn Chad, that's beyond cold!!!
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-35C with the wind-chill factor.
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Goddamn that is cold Jingle.
We just got a break from our cold weather which is nice.
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Yea this week we finally got out of the freezing weather and while only 40F it feels like summer. The snow should be gone by tomorrow as it's supposed to hit the 50s.
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Working from home is the best, I'm more productive and relaxed.
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Good morning peeps.
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Morning Jay
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Good evening my fellow humans (this doesn't include you Jay, since you're so far beyond merely human).
Also good evening Jay.
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I think I finally got this hotel room warmed up. I only had one meeting today, so I was cooped up in here most of the day. I took a couple of opportunities to work elsewhere (hotel restaurant, and an adjoining atrium) because it was just too damned chilly in here. Now that I'm about to get under the covers, it's finally a comfortable temperature.
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From the temps you posted I'd only leave the room to go to the hotel bar :lol
good morning gang
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Morning Reap!
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Yo! Morning!
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Morning king!
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Morning, so happy for Friday and a 3 day weekend :yarr
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Morning cram!
I legitimately have not known what day it is for about the past week. Everyone in my house is currently off from work, and most TV shows are on break, so I have no frame of reference! :blob:
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you must have a clock on your pc lol
power went out at somepoint in the middle of the night and reset the clocks, luckily my phone alarm is fine so there was no issue, but i was a bit confused
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you must have a clock on your pc lol
power went out at somepoint in the middle of the night and reset the clocks, luckily my phone alarm is fine so there was no issue, but i was a bit confused
I have a clock on my PC, but I have to hover over it or click it to see the day (at least on the laptop. The PC displays it permanently, but I've barely gotten to use that lately).
I mean, I eventually figure it out, but every day when I wake up, it's very disorienting at first. Not that it makes much difference to me.
I disregard any clock in the house that is not battery backed up and synced to the internet.
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Sounds confusing, I don't really like that feeling, sort of like when you nap too long and you don't know what day it is when you wake up
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Stop flaunting Blob! :lol
Happy Friday. I'm going to a brewery on Saturday morning, then to a 50th birthday party then to my friends for the football game. Yay for grown up stuff!
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Sounds confusing, I don't really like that feeling, sort of like when you nap too long and you don't know what day it is when you wake up
I've had that recently too, and it's the worst! I slept for 12 hours, and when I woke up I didn't have any idea whether it was really early morning, or really late afternoon.
King, I'm not flaunting, I'm blobbing.
Although not so much at the moment. At the moment I'm coding. :blob:
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12 hours of sleep? Man i can't get more than 8 ever!
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Stop flaunting Blob! :lol
Happy Friday. I'm going to a brewery on Saturday morning, then to a 50th birthday party then to my friends for the football game. Yay for grown up stuff!
Grown up stuff sounds fun
I've got no plans for the long weekend. Trying to find something to do Sunday with the GF, was thinking of going to Atlantic City. We'll probably just end up on my couch, but I think both of us are kind of itching to do something besides just chilling in.
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This is the time of year that Ii love going for a ride to Vermont. I just love the snow and the mountains.
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12 hours of sleep? Man i can't get more than 8 ever!
It's very rare I can or will sleep for 12 hours, but that was when I'd only gotten 3 hours of sleep the previous night. I'm basically wrecked if I get less than a solid 7-8 hours because my body is weak.
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I operate best on 7-8 hours of sleep. Anything more or less and I feel groggy, but sometimes you need that extra sleep.
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I wish I could Blob. I just wake up now. Old age dammit.
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I wish I could Blob. I just wake up now. Old age dammit.
I woke up at quarter to 4 today. Afternoon of course. None of this morning shit. I didn't go to bed until 6:30am.
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10:30pm I went to bed. I woke up at 5:50am. That's average for me.
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10:30pm I went to bed. I woke up at 5:50am. That's average for me.
Weak as shit. :lol
SOMEBODY TELL ME HOW TO PROPERLY INITIALIZE A CLASS ARRAY BECAUSE IT KEEPS GIVING ME A NULL REFERENCE EXCEPTION
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:lol
I do not speak Vulcan Blob. :lol
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Neither do I, king. Neither do I. :(
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G'morning all. Hopefully quiet day at the office before what turns out to be not quite a three day weekend. I have to work on Monday, but it will be a very light day (only working 12-6) that I'll do from home while mostly being able to watch Netflix the whole time. And I get an extra vacation day out of it. So I'm calling that a win.
Joe, which brewery are you going to?
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Treehouse. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
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Treehouse. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Limits lately have been crazy, full allotment was over 100 cans yesterday and it's looking to be up there again today. You and Lisa can send your extras to me :biggrin:
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Howdy folks.
Sorry I comment and then disappear :lol
I've been super busy. It's like as soon as I get a second to relax at work, Something else happens.
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Treehouse. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Limits lately have been crazy, full allotment was over 100 cans yesterday and it's looking to be up there again today. You and Lisa can send your extras to me :biggrin:
She's working. :'(
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Afternoon guys.
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Hi Reap. With the old man taking him to see his doctor.
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How has he been doing lately?
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Ok. One more radiation treatment. Physically very bad. The MS is ravaging his body and his memory is fading.
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Ok. One more radiation treatment. Physically very bad. The MS is ravaging his body and his memory is fading.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I've seen that first hand and wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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Yeah Joe, I am very sorry to hear that.
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Wow Joe I’m really sorry.
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Sorry, that's really sad
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It's sad since he's only 71.
I'vegot a fever, aches and chills. No fun today that I had plans for.
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Sorry as well, going through a tough time and what you could really use is some fun, but a fever is the worst. Rest and take care King.
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It's game day Cram!! NOOOOOOOOO.
You try the beers yet?
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Not yet, had meant to last Sunday but opted to just stay sober :lol Maybe tonight since I think I'm blobbing today
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:lol
I'm going to make Blob look like an amateur today.
The bourbon barrel is 10% the Helles is 4%.
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Nice, was wondering how strong they would be :yarr
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:lol
I'm going to make Blob look like an amateur today.
Go ahead and try, chump.
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I am buddy. I am. My head is pounding. My body is aching and im fevering. Good times.
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Good afternoon guys
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Morning. Well all the evil has left me in every way possible. Weak, very weak right now.
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Heathen.
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Call me what you'd like. I have no energy to fight. :lol
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Morning. Well all the evil has left me in every way possible.
Hopefully not simultaneously! That's the worst.
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They alternated to make my life miserable.
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They alternated to make my life miserable.
Simultaneous can be a pretty miserable mess to clean up. Especially if the toilet use started with vomit.
#ewwwww
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Hye King, enjoyed the Ann Marie on Friday night, definitely my type of beer. Nice and golden and smooth. I'll try out the stout maybe tonight.
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Nice. It has a slight malty sweetness to it. It is a very drinkable beer.
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Dolores O'Riordan from Cranberries and solo artist has passed away today. Shitty way to start 2018.
I especially love her solo albums. Thank you for your voice Dolores.
This is just not an ordinary day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxc3O4mQV74
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Dolores O'Riordan from Cranberries and solo artist has passed away today. Shitty way to start 2018.
I especially love her solo albums. Thank you for your voice Dolores.
This is just not an ordinary day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxc3O4mQV74
She was young!! How did she pass away?!
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No details yet. All we know she was found dead in a hotel room.
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I thought I read this wrong. Wow. I saw her live way back in the early 2000's, as an opening act and she was really really good. Those early Cranberries records are really good.
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Dolores O'Riordan from Cranberries and solo artist has passed away today. Shitty way to start 2018.
I especially love her solo albums. Thank you for your voice Dolores.
This is just not an ordinary day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxc3O4mQV74
She was young!! How did she pass away?!
I just saw this an hour ago, sad news. I was never a huge fan but she was young.
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I saw her at a exclusive radio Christmas party 2013. Piano, acoustic guitar and her angelic Celtic voice. She was mesmerizing.
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Yeah, so was digging through my portable hard drive, and I found all the old Duncan thread pics that I thought got lost with the whole photobucket thing... also found all my old avatars :biggrin:
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I love that one!
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Yeah, so was digging through my portable hard drive, and I found all the old Duncan thread pics that I thought got lost with the whole photobucket thing... also found all my old avatars :biggrin:
THRUSTY!!!!
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Good Morning peeps.
I'm totally screwing around this morning and not working much.
I'm going to NAMM in a week and a half and am already in "vacation" mode. I've spent the last hour trying to find info on after parties and such. All of the venues around Anaheim wind up hosting shows and what not during that weekend. Schecter usually sponsors the biggest ones (Saw Kings X and Zakk Sabbath last year. Free booze. Edgar Winter- I shit you not was standing behind me for most of the show.) The closest thing I can find is Metal Allegiance and a couple local bands (including one of my buddy's old bands), but that is on Thursday, the day we are driving down there. Don't really wanna go to a show on Thursday.
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What other bands can you see Jay on the other days?
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Morning guys. Working from today due to the snow which is fantastic because I'm really sick
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What other bands can you see Jay on the other days?
It all depends on who's in town.
There's the Bonzo Bash and the Randy Rhoads Bash (All star tributes), And then I know Victor Wooten is playing a show on Saturday as well, but tickets to his show are pretty expensive ($45, when most of the NAMM related shows are usually really cheap or free with your NAMM badge).
As it stands currently, we are going to try to make it down in time for Metal Allegiance on Thursday, And hopefully whatever Schecter Party on Saturday night (If the bands dont suck)... And we still need to find something to do on Friday night. The Rhoads Tribute kinda fits in with the schedule, but it's also in another town (Driving) and I dont think there are any names there I want to see.
What really sucks is there's usually some form of bass event going on, but I haven't seen any advertising for one this year.
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Morning. After my production I have to copy all my files from the laptop and load it to my new computer. I get to keep the laptop at home for work.
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Kinder Joy Eggs are not a good replacement for Kinder Surprise Eggs. In fact, I'd say they are more of a choking hazard the way they are packed. Furthermore, they aren't even that good.
I miss Kinder Surprise Eggs.
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Or....
...you Kinder miss them. :neverusethis:
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Morning. I'm making jalapeno poppers with chorizo today.
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I'm not.
Gonna have some breakie, then head to the gym. Chillin, and ordering pizza later for dinner + TV. That's all that is on tap for the day.
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Football party. We all bring a dish. I was asked to make an app.
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Guess I could/should change my xmas avatar, eh?
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Football party. We all bring a dish. I was asked to make an app.
So everyone else just has to bring food, but you're expected to bring a piece of software to function on mobile hardware? That seems unfair.
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:lol
Only you Blob. So everybody can have a byte?
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Guess I could/should change my xmas avatar, eh?
I was lazy this year and didn't change it.
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Morning. I'm making jalapeno poppers with chorizo today.
yummmy
I snored so bad last night, the GF couldn't sleep at all so now shes sleeping and I got up and left her there for some peace and quiet. Time for some coffee
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I snored so bad last night, the GF couldn't sleep at all so now shes sleeping and I got up and left her there for some peace and quiet. Time for some coffee
Sounds like the perfect way to start a Sunday ... peace and quiet!
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:lol
Only you Blob. So everybody can have a byte?
I still legit don't know what you meant to type. :lol
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:lol
App as in appetizer.
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Yo DTF.
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Yo. ZY!!!!
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Yo DTF.
:zydar:
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Howdy all. Umphrey's McGee show last night was absolutely top notch, and I had cheesecake for breakfast this morning, so it's been a pretty good weekend so far :hat
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Afternoon guys. Watching the game now, going for a nice steak dinner tonight at Capital Grille.
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Good morning peoples.
Anyone have any experience with nerve damage / issues in their hand? Specifically the ulnar nerve (pinky / ring finger)? My pinky and ring finger have basically been going numb for the last few month- On and off, and now more consistent. I'm also have issues gripping things in my right hand- Which also happens to be my bowling hand, which I've been having other issues with for years. It's gotten to the point where I'm getting worried.
(Yes, I plan to see a doctor when I can... but that'll still be a month from now)
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Afternoon guys. Watching the game now, going for a nice steak dinner tonight at Capital Grille.
Going there next Saturday with a group of friends. CANNOT wait. I already know what I'm getting (the kona encrusted strip steak).
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Anyone have any experience with nerve damage / issues in their hand?
Sorry... I got nothing for ya. Get that shit checked out man.
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Yea, no info from me with that. Sucks it takes so long to see your doctor.
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It only takes long because I still haven't gotten health insurance set up yet :lol
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Evening guys
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Morning guys.
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Morning guys. What's happening
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This flu crap sucks. 2 weeks. I am gassed.
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That’s no joke King, I finally feel better as of yesterday, I forgot what it was like to feel good.
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3 hours minus 8 minutes 'til my working day ends. If I could somehow watch an Evening With DT show, by the time it would be over I could go home ;D
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That’s no joke King, I finally feel better as of yesterday, I forgot what it was like to feel good.
It's been 2 weeks of this. I'm seeing my doctor again today.
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That’s no joke King, I finally feel better as of yesterday, I forgot what it was like to feel good.
It's been 2 weeks of this. I'm seeing my doctor again today.
Brother, my wife is in her THIRD week of this. It was January 5th or thereabouts when she first started to feel shitty, and while she went to work Monday and Tuesday, she's home today to go back to the doctor. I feel so bad for her, for you, and anyone that got hit with this.
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It's just lingering. it feels like it's in waves. I feel better then it gets worse.
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flu season has been pretty wicked this year. Didn't hit too bad in the jingle household - jingle.daughter was on anti-biotics for a chest infection that just wrapped up. The rest of us had something for a brief period, but have thus far managed to avoid needing medical intervention.
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It's just lingering. it feels like it's in waves. I feel better then it gets worse.
YES! Same with my wife. She felt great Sunday, went to work, felt pretty good, went to work, felt okay, woke up today and felt as bas as she has.
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I've had two people today reschedule meetings because they came down (or are coming down) with this shit. One of the meetings was just scheduled yesterday!
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Morning guys.
I think I finally have my NAMM concert schedule put together.
Driving down tomorrow after work to catch Metal Allegiance and Superfix. Friday night it's Night Two of the Bass Bash. I'm stoked to see Julie Slick play again. Saturday night its the Schecter After Party with The Adicts headlining (weird choice, as it's usually a metal show). And then Sunday is recovery day :lol
Oh and during the daytime we'll actually be at NAMM and doing... things... but the evenings are what I'm looking forward to :JayOctavarium:
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The Metal Allegiance show should be fun :metal
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The Metal Allegiance show should be fun :metal
The first night of Bass Bash is the same time as Metal Allegiance. John Patitucci, Abe Laboriel, Mohini Dey all in one night. That was really tempting. But in the end we decided we wanted to balance things out. Metal on Thursday, Jazz on Friday, and Punk on Saturday.
Plus we know the guys from Superfix, as my buddy played bass with them for a short period, and Kalen Chase, The singer, was his vocal coach for years back in the day. There's a chance we might be able to get back stage and chill.
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Anyone else not seeing any profile pics on the forum today? Or is it just me?
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Seems fine for me
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Seems fine for me
Huh, must just be me then. No clue why that's happening :lol
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All's fine for me too
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Forgive my stupid questions, I know nothing about this stuff. This is the error message I'm getting. The whole site is working well for me except there's an error when trying to display people's avatars.
This is what it says -
403 Forbidden
Server configuration does not allow access to this page.
COMMON POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THIS ERROR:
The location you attempted to access has incorrect folder and file permissions set on the server, OR
The page you attempted to access is breaking a security rule, OR
You may have attempted to access something with incorrect credentials, OR
You may have attempted to access something something you do not have permission to.
If you are the webmaster please contact your host.
If you are a visitor please contact this web site owner.
I'm browsing at work, so is this something on my company networks end?
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Most likely
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Thank god it's Friday, ready for the weekend
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I hear ya. Any decent plans?
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Morning gents and Zydar.
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Yea looking forward to the weekend, this week and whole month has been rough. I'm just looking forward to blob a bit.
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No plans for me aside from going to dinner with the gf and getting the dog groomed. It’s going to be a slow weekend.
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Morning chumps.
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Howdy doody.
Went to see Classic Albums Live do Zeppelin IV. Bliss. Pure bliss. 2nd set included Since I've Been Loving You, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song, The Ocean, Song Remains the Same, and they closed with How Many More Times. Killer show.
All-Star competition today, chores, working out... maybe watch Avengers - jingle.son and I are running through ALL the MCU movies on the run up to Infinity War.
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My brother saw Get The Led Out a few weeks ago. He said they were amazing.
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I saw Train cover Led Zep 2 on the train cruise a couple years ago and it was pretty damn amazing.
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Evening folks. Great day taking the old man for seafood. I wish I could take you all on the seacoast ride. If your my friend on Facebook, you'll see the great pic I posted of the ride on the coast.
I love the view.
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If your my friend on Facebook,
What is that? Is that Illuminati?
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Evening folks. Great day taking the old man for seafood. I wish I could take you all on the seacoast ride. If your my friend on Facebook, you'll see the great pic I posted of the ride on the coast.
I love the view.
*loads fb app*
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It is an amazing view
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Yea King it really is
Good morning guys
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Morning!
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Morning Blob!
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Morning!
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Surfing my craigslist for random cars. I think if I was rich I'd buy a bunch of random cars I've always wanted to drive and just sell them.
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Howdy all. Got a good run in this morning, now going to spend the afternoon with my guitar and doing some prep for a homebrew competition before friends come over for beers and the Royal Rumble tonight.
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Morning, i plan to blob all day and play video games with some friends. I should clean my house, so maybe that'll happen when I eventually rage quit the video games.
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Welp, 90 minutes with JP's Rock Discipline and my left hand and self esteem are both shot.
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Oh man that’s a classic.
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Even just some of the stretches in his left hand warm-up routine are brutal.
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Good morning folks!
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Greetings and salutations!
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'ello ole chaps!
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Dudes and duderinos.
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After 10ish days of unseasonable warm(ish) weather, cold and snow is upon us again. 10-15cm is being called for.
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I wish we had some snow here, it'd be nice to work a few more days from home.
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Word up, mofos. Been lurking, but realized I hadn't actually posted in a month or two.
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Word up
I feel like a kid today, I bought tickets to see the Misfits and also tickets for WWE today.
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Word up
I feel like a kid today, I bought tickets to see the Misfits and also tickets for WWE today.
Can I ask how much tickets were?
They were outrageous here in LA.
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Word up
I feel like a kid today, I bought tickets to see the Misfits and also tickets for WWE today.
Can I ask how much tickets were?
They were outrageous here in LA.
Outrageous :lol I paid $124 after fees for one ticket in literally the last row of the arena. Was going to get two and find someone to come with me, but I think this price point knocks out any casual fan (such as anyone I know), well besides my dumb ass I guess, but I'm all into getting to see a cool concert experience. I think this show will be nuts.
It is funny though, on my commute to work, theres a digital billboard and they are advertising this show on it. A huge misfits logo over the NJ turnpike is something to see. I wanted to get a pic, but it changed and the traffic finally moved so maybe tomorrow.
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Yea I couldn't justify the $150 they were charging in LA. There's just something about paying THAT much to see a Punk Band that I can't get behind. I am a HUGE Misfits fan (Graves Era > Danzig Era... Fight Me) and have seen Jerry's Tour 2x (broke my toe moshing to Misfits when I was like 16- that's a rite of passage lol). I know these shows are about the money. Nothing else.
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Yea, don't think you are wrong. This may be the most expensive punk show I can think of. I had a chance to see Misfits with Graves (I would say both eras are fairly even for me) but for some reason showed up thinking I could buy tickets at the door. I had gone with a bunch of friends before anyone had a drivers license so our parents dropped us off. All but two of us had tickets so my friend and I spent the evening in the parking lot listening to the few seconds of when the back door would open and some drunk would get kicked out. I'd say it was a memorable evening, but it wasn't exactly seeing the band in any way. I think there's generations of people who want to see this. It's a hot ticket because most never had the opportunity.
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Which is why they should just put on a tour. Even if it's just like 8 dates across North America. Announce them all at once so people can plan. I'm willing to bet money there are people from the east coast who are PISSED because they flew to Vegas or LA and now there's a show so much closer. Plus Glen's "No Camera" policy... it just screams money grab.
To be totally honest, I think Michale Graves announced a show in Hollywood around the same time the big show in LA was announced a few months ago. I am more excited to see Graves in a room that holds less than 500 people than I was for the Misfits announcement :lol
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More importantly, what WWE event did you get tickets for?
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More importantly, what WWE event did you get tickets for?
Summerslam at Barclays. After reading about and being a little invested in the Raw 25 episode at Barclays, I guess the internet knew about this, and I got an email for the presale code for Summerslam and on a whim got two tickets. Figuring it will sell out and I can decide later if I actually go or not, but for now, I see no reason not to attend.
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Should be a good time. I usually go to the PPV their developmental brand has the Saturday night before Summerslam.
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Should be a good time. I usually go to the PPV their developmental brand has the Saturday night before Summerslam.
There's a ticket package for that, summerslam, raw, and smackdown all 4 nights in a row at Barclays. Not badly priced considering it's four nights of live events, but that's for the hardcore fan which I am not.
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Yeah, I don't know if I could even go for four nights in a row. I usually have a few friends come over for pizza and beer for the Sunday PPVs, may get a ticket for Raw the night after though.
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Yeah, I don't know if I could even go for four nights in a row. I usually have a few friends come over for pizza and beer for the Sunday PPVs, may get a ticket for Raw the night after though.
Yea, so do you have the wwe network? I didn't know about this, but I guess at 10 bucks a month you get the PPVs? That's a sweet deal considering I used to pay the 50 bucks or whatever it was to watch the PPVs as a kid (and by pay, I mean mow the lawn for the month so my dad would pay). Plus you get all the old PPVs to stream. A new friend of mine is big into WWE and was telling me about this the other night.
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
What happened?
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Yeah, I don't know if I could even go for four nights in a row. I usually have a few friends come over for pizza and beer for the Sunday PPVs, may get a ticket for Raw the night after though.
Yea, so do you have the wwe network? I didn't know about this, but I guess at 10 bucks a month you get the PPVs? That's a sweet deal considering I used to pay the 50 bucks or whatever it was to watch the PPVs as a kid (and by pay, I mean mow the lawn for the month so my dad would pay). Plus you get all the old PPVs to stream. A new friend of mine is big into WWE and was telling me about this the other night.
Oh yeah, I've had it since day 1. It's an awesome value because you get all the PPVs streamed live, plus on demand viewing of any and all old WWE/WCW/ECW PPVs going back to the beginning of PPVs. Plus the developmental brand they have down in Florida (NXT) is legitimately awesome and a Network exclusive. It's a better wrestling product than Raw or Smackdown these days.
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
What happened?
I'm guessing the news that DT will be in the studio in May? I saw a blabbermouth about that.
Yeah, I don't know if I could even go for four nights in a row. I usually have a few friends come over for pizza and beer for the Sunday PPVs, may get a ticket for Raw the night after though.
Yea, so do you have the wwe network? I didn't know about this, but I guess at 10 bucks a month you get the PPVs? That's a sweet deal considering I used to pay the 50 bucks or whatever it was to watch the PPVs as a kid (and by pay, I mean mow the lawn for the month so my dad would pay). Plus you get all the old PPVs to stream. A new friend of mine is big into WWE and was telling me about this the other night.
Oh yeah, I've had it since day 1. It's an awesome value because you get all the PPVs streamed live, plus on demand viewing of any and all old WWE/WCW/ECW PPVs going back to the beginning of PPVs. Plus the developmental brand they have down in Florida (NXT) is legitimately awesome and a Network exclusive. It's a better wrestling product than Raw or Smackdown these days.
Oh thats cool, didn't realize that about NXT. Is that sort of like an ECW? I always thought ECW had better wrestling back in the day.
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Yeah, I don't know if I could even go for four nights in a row. I usually have a few friends come over for pizza and beer for the Sunday PPVs, may get a ticket for Raw the night after though.
Yea, so do you have the wwe network? I didn't know about this, but I guess at 10 bucks a month you get the PPVs? That's a sweet deal considering I used to pay the 50 bucks or whatever it was to watch the PPVs as a kid (and by pay, I mean mow the lawn for the month so my dad would pay). Plus you get all the old PPVs to stream. A new friend of mine is big into WWE and was telling me about this the other night.
Oh yeah, I've had it since day 1. It's an awesome value because you get all the PPVs streamed live, plus on demand viewing of any and all old WWE/WCW/ECW PPVs going back to the beginning of PPVs. Plus the developmental brand they have down in Florida (NXT) is legitimately awesome and a Network exclusive. It's a better wrestling product than Raw or Smackdown these days.
Oh thats cool, didn't realize that about NXT. Is that sort of like an ECW? I always thought ECW had better wrestling back in the day.
Yeah so they built a whole state of the art performance center down in Florida where all their signees/recruits go and train. The best of the people working down there get airtime on a one hour program that airs every Wednesday night on the Network, and then they run a few "PPV" events a year, usually on a Saturday night in the same arena that a proper PPV is happening the next night. It's a lot of fun because even the experienced indie scene guys who can already kill it in the ring get sent down there for a little while to learn wrestling for cameras and a large audience and how WWE does things, and Vince pretty much leaves Triple H alone to run it, so there's a lot of good stuff going on. Can't recommend the Network highly enough :tup
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Cool, I have no plans on buying it, but I think that's great for the fans. I'm only interested in the live show at this point as those have always been fun, and even more fun now that I can enjoy a beer with the show (most of my live experiences are from before I turned 21).
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
What happened?
I'm guessing the news that DT will be in the studio in May? I saw a blabbermouth about that.
Yeah, that.
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Hello bat shit crazy fans.
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
And that's different to usual how?
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Morning your Blobness.
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
And that's different to usual how?
it's not... just an easy prediction to make.
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
And that's different to usual how?
it's not... just an easy prediction to make.
It's like shooting robotic fishes out of a mechanical barrel.
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
And that's different to usual how?
it's not... just an easy prediction to make.
It's like shooting robotic fishes out of a mechanical barrel.
I've been a part of this forum for a while (like 5 years or so I think), but the one thing I still haven't gotten used to is this attitude that some posters have against the DT section of the forum. It seems weird to me that people that have literally posted to a DT fan site tens of thousands of times still find the need to point and make fun of other DT fans.
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I think it's the obsessiveness of some fans that the older guys rank on. I always go over there.
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I think it's the obsessiveness of some fans that the older guys rank on. I always go over there.
I find this entertaining, I enjoy the DT side
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I think it's the obsessiveness of some fans that the older guys rank on. I always go over there.
I find this entertaining, I enjoy the DT side
That's kinda where I fall. It's great to see (often times) newer fans obsess over DT. We've all been there at some point in our DT journey. I know when I first discovered the band, I dove in deep and it was great. It would have been kinda disheartening to find an online community of DT fans at that point in my discovery just to find I'd be made fun of for caring about the band to much.
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I dont think anyone makes fun of people for loving DT so much, I think it's moreso the ridiculousness that leads to arguments. Like the SOA thread was ridiculous for awhile, but I found it very entertaining.
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Well, I guess DT-side is about to go bat-shit crazy with theories and speculation.
And that's different to usual how?
it's not... just an easy prediction to make.
It's like shooting robotic fishes out of a mechanical barrel.
I've been a part of this forum for a while (like 5 years or so I think), but the one thing I still haven't gotten used to is this attitude that some posters have against the DT section of the forum. It seems weird to me that people that have literally posted to a DT fan site tens of thousands of times still find the need to point and make fun of other DT fans.
Many people have been around these forums for 10-15 years (or more) in one version or another, following it from one site to another, many of whom are no longer hardcore DT fans, but stick around for the community. And when you've been around that long, and seen every single repetition and iteration of garbage possible, you'd be pretty jaded too. :lol :getoffmylawn: I haven't even clicked in DT side for a month or two, so I have no idea what's going on, and I'm pretty happy with that.
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Many people have been around these forums for 10-15 years (or more) in one version or another, following it from one site to another, many of whom are no longer hardcore DT fans, but stick around for the community. And when you've been around that long, and seen every single iteration of garbage possible, you'd be pretty jaded too. :lol :getoffmylawn:
I understand what you are saying, but nah. If people want to discuss MP's departure to death or who the best DT keyboardist is/was, or whatever... doesn't bother me at all. More power to them for finding a good place to have the discussion, it has nothing to do with how long I've been a forum member or how many times I've engaged in the same conversation. Why would I let my prior experiences and conversations affect how I treat others when they have a desire to have similar conversations? Generally speaking, I would try not to.
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When we're at the point of seeing threads like "How many calories to play Images and Words + ACOS?", it's for the best I don't even bother. If you don't have anything nice to say etc etc.
For the record I haven't clicked in the thread, so maybe it's super duper awesome, but that's a chance I'm willing to take for the sake of my sanity, and not straining my eye muscles from rolling them too hard.
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When we're at the point of seeing threads like "How many calories to play Images and Words + ACOS?", it's for the best I don't even bother. If you don't have anything nice to say etc etc.
For the record I haven't clicked in the thread, so maybe it's super duper awesome, but that's a chance I'm willing to take.
Yea, it's a science experiment where they were legit tracking this on MM. Kind of cool actually, not some fan theory or something.
Many people have been around these forums for 10-15 years (or more) in one version or another, following it from one site to another, many of whom are no longer hardcore DT fans, but stick around for the community. And when you've been around that long, and seen every single iteration of garbage possible, you'd be pretty jaded too. :lol :getoffmylawn:
I understand what you are saying, but nah. If people want to discuss MP's departure to death or who the best DT keyboardist is/was, or whatever... doesn't bother me at all. More power to them for finding a good place to have the discussion, it has nothing to do with how long I've been a forum member or how many times I've engaged in the same conversation. Why would I let my prior experiences and conversations affect how I treat others when they have a desire to have similar conversations? Generally speaking, I would try not to.
I'm not really sure anyone is treating anyone poorly. It's merely a matter of opinion of some people to just not care for that side of the forum. I don't think those same people are going over there and doing anything to treat the people over there poorly. At least I haven't seen it. Just the occassional LOL from people in threads like this talking about what's going on over there.
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For many of us, the most respectful thing we can do is ignore it.
Also that thread sounds perhaps even worse than I thought. :lol
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When we're at the point of seeing threads like "How many calories to play Images and Words + ACOS?", it's for the best I don't even bother. If you don't have anything nice to say etc etc.
For the record I haven't clicked in the thread, so maybe it's super duper awesome, but that's a chance I'm willing to take.
Yea, it's a science experiment where they were legit tracking this on MM. Kind of cool actually, not some fan theory or something.
Many people have been around these forums for 10-15 years (or more) in one version or another, following it from one site to another, many of whom are no longer hardcore DT fans, but stick around for the community. And when you've been around that long, and seen every single iteration of garbage possible, you'd be pretty jaded too. :lol :getoffmylawn:
I understand what you are saying, but nah. If people want to discuss MP's departure to death or who the best DT keyboardist is/was, or whatever... doesn't bother me at all. More power to them for finding a good place to have the discussion, it has nothing to do with how long I've been a forum member or how many times I've engaged in the same conversation. Why would I let my prior experiences and conversations affect how I treat others when they have a desire to have similar conversations? Generally speaking, I would try not to.
I'm not really sure anyone is treating anyone poorly. It's merely a matter of opinion of some people to just not care for that side of the forum. I don't think those same people are going over there and doing anything to treat the people over there poorly. At least I haven't seen it. Just the occassional LOL from people in threads like this talking about what's going on over there.
Yeah, I don't know. This isn't just a comment based off of this discussion. It's kinda something I've seen accumulating for years. A comment here and there, a conversation here and there.
Anyway, I probably shouldn't have said anything, soooo carry on ya'll.
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I'm not really sure anyone is treating anyone poorly. It's merely a matter of opinion of some people to just not care for that side of the forum. I don't think those same people are going over there and doing anything to treat the people over there poorly. At least I haven't seen it. Just the occassional LOL from people in threads like this talking about what's going on over there.
That's not entirely true. I bowed out after a while, but there are subjects over there where it's black and white: if you're not with them you're against them and that's not always conducive to a thoughtful conversation.
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I'm not really sure anyone is treating anyone poorly. It's merely a matter of opinion of some people to just not care for that side of the forum. I don't think those same people are going over there and doing anything to treat the people over there poorly. At least I haven't seen it. Just the occassional LOL from people in threads like this talking about what's going on over there.
That's not entirely true. I bowed out after a while, but there are subjects over there where it's black and white: if you're not with them you're against them and that's not always conducive to a thoughtful conversation.
Yea, but that's not a matter of "DTF regulars who don't follow the DT side because of the craziness" but a matter of the "craziness"
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wrt to DT-side, I have a few beefs (AND I'M GONNA TELL YOU ABOUT THEM!)
1) The thing with DT-side is it's often filled with n00bs that bring up topics of discussion that I have seen (here, or with other DT friends) dozens of times.
2) n00bs that don't last. I'm not overly interested in having the same dialogue, or reading through the same(ish) threads with and from a new set of users every album/tour cycle. I don't need to read for the 27th time someone who needs to tell us all the reasons why Scarred is a Top 5 song - and I sure as shit know that Blob doesn't want or need that! :lol
3) maturity - I've had too much exposure over the years with immature children - while that's great to see new/young kids as fans of the band, it's not all that interesting to me from a discussion point of view.
3) What Stads said. If you're not with me, you're against me. Short-tempered, quick to be agitated.
Yes... I'm a grumpy old curmudgeon (as far as being a DTF poster) in this regard. I (and others) have earned it. I came for the DT discussion in 2005; I stay for the community that has evolved past being here for JUST that.
No problem bringing it up Mike... totally fair point/question to make. And to clarify, for the most part it's the discussion that I rolled my eyes at, not the fans themselves.
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The first thing I ever did on DTF (well, it was the official forum on its last days back then) was post about what DT DVD I should get as I was a new fan. I can only imagine that had been discussed before, but I enjoyed the feedback I got and I stuck around. I'd like to think anyone else who may be doing the same name gets the same respect from the people here. I know that is the case and not being talked about in this discussion, but just wanted to state that as long as some have been around, we were still all new at one point.
I still think this board is one of the most civilized communities on the internet. Sure you get some assholes and trolls, but they don't overrun the site and the community here is strong.
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The first thing I ever did on DTF (well, it was the official forum on its last days back then) was post about what DT DVD I should get as I was a new fan. I can only imagine that had been discussed before, but I enjoyed the feedback I got and I stuck around. I'd like to think anyone else who may be doing the same name gets the same respect from the people here. I know that is the case and not being talked about in this discussion, but just wanted to state that as long as some have been around, we were still all new at one point.
I still think this board is one of the most civilized communities on the internet. Sure you get some assholes and trolls, but they don't overrun the site and the community here is strong.
Agreed... and I'll leave it up to others with more patience to be welcoming of the new(ish) people and discussions on the DT-side. I'm doing my part to make this a welcoming place by staying away.
Gimee five Blob.
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We should have a grumpy old curmudgeon club... or is this it? :)
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We should have a grumpy old curmudgeon club... or is this it? :)
I think there's an old fogey thread somewhere :lol
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That's the over 40 thread . Lol
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I don't need to read for the 27th time someone who needs to tell us all the reasons why Scarred is a Top 5 song - and I sure as shit know that Blob doesn't want or need that! :lol
Wait..
Are you telling me that
BLOB DOESN'T LIKE SCARRED????????
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I don't need to read for the 27th time someone who needs to tell us all the reasons why Scarred is a Top 5 song - and I sure as shit know that Blob doesn't want or need that! :lol
Wait..
Are you telling me that
BLOB DOESN'T LIKE SCARRED????????
Seems someone needs a 28th time...
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I just don't understand what they were trying to achieve with any part of the song, either individually or as a whole. You know what? It's the Platypus of Dream Theater songs. That bill doesn't go with that tail, or that strange little furry body, or those webbed feet, and oh god why does it have venomous spurs!? And then you find out it lays eggs too. The difference is that the Platypus is somehow functional despite being a crazy mishmash or leftover animal pieces
-BlobVanDam on "Scarred"
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Wait..
Are you telling me that
BLOB DOESN'T LIKE SCARRED????????
Wait..
Are you telling me that
MIKE PORTNOY IS JEWISH???????
Gimee five Blob.
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Doing our part by not being a part!
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Morning dudes
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yay for friday
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Morning!
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Man, it's one of those Fridays where I can't find an ounce of motivation. I'm sitting at my desk stuck between neutral and reverse.
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Morning, folks.
Mrs. P's dissertation has been accepted by her doctoral committee and her defense has been setup for the 20th of February. The long slog through the labyrinth of academia is nearly over! It looks like we'll be traveling to Boston for the hooding ceremony in May. Champagne will be consumed this weekend.
Now, if Friday would just get out of the way we could get started on the celebrating.
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Nice, congrats to the Mrs. :metal
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Man, it's one of those Fridays where I can't find an ounce of motivation. I'm sitting at my desk stuck between neutral and reverse.
Word.
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Morning, folks.
Mrs. P's dissertation has been accepted by her doctoral committee and her defense has been setup for the 20th of February. The long slog through the labyrinth of academia is nearly over! It looks like we'll be traveling to Boston for the hooding ceremony in May. Champagne will be consumed this weekend.
Now, if Friday would just get out of the way we could get started on the celebrating.
Boston eh? Maybe a meet up then!
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Boston eh? Maybe a meet up then!
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That's terrific news Gregg.
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Man I haven't seen that one in a long while ;D
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Morning, folks.
Mrs. P's dissertation has been accepted by her doctoral committee and her defense has been setup for the 20th of February. The long slog through the labyrinth of academia is nearly over! It looks like we'll be traveling to Boston for the hooding ceremony in May. Champagne will be consumed this weekend.
Now, if Friday would just get out of the way we could get started on the celebrating.
Boston eh? Maybe a meet up then!
I'd love that, King.
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That's terrific news Gregg.
It sure is!
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No problem bringing it up Mike... totally fair point/question to make. And to clarify, for the most part it's the discussion that I rolled my eyes at, not the fans themselves.
Good clarification Chad. I apologize if anyone took my questioning the wrong way, I had merely noticed it for a long time and thought I'd mention it yesterday. Probably because I was in a cranky mood yesterday :lol Our almost 3 year old daughter, who has slept well her whole life has recently decided she doesn't like sleeping anymore and is up constantly at night. :facepalm:
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Morning, folks.
Mrs. P's dissertation has been accepted by her doctoral committee and her defense has been setup for the 20th of February. The long slog through the labyrinth of academia is nearly over! It looks like we'll be traveling to Boston for the hooding ceremony in May. Champagne will be consumed this weekend.
Now, if Friday would just get out of the way we could get started on the celebrating.
Boston eh? Maybe a meet up then!
I'd love that, King.
Gregg, when it gets close to the date let me know and we can set something up. If my wife is off we can go to dinner in Boston.
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Joe,
We usually try to stay at The Parker House when we're in Boston, but I think Mrs. P (or should it be Dr. P now) might want to stay closer to North Eastern University this time due to all the meetings she's likely to be involved in. If memory serves, there's a really nice whiskey bar out that way? Near the BMOA?
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Joe,
We usually try to stay at The Parker House when we're in Boston, but I think Mrs. P (or should it be Dr. P now) might want to stay closer to North Eastern University this time due to all the meetings she's likely to be involved in. If memory serves, there's a really nice whiskey bar out that way? Near the BMOA?
Mmmmm... whiskey.
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Let me research!
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Howdy all.
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Good morning everyone. Can't wait for all the bad food that awaits me this evening.
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I'm making pizza tater tots for our party.
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That sounds so good, you have a recipe?
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We're baking, not frying
Whoa, check out this recipe video!
https://i.prypl.com/recipe/tp/recipe/716/view.html?id=716
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I'm making pizza tater tots for our party.
Why? What party? :neverusethis:
We're baking,
I bet Cram is as well! :D
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:lol
Oh, and the beers are chilling.
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:lol
Oh, and the beers are chilling.
How is that different than the other 6 days of the week?
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I would say this day, they will taste a little bit better than the other 6 days.
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I would say this day, they will taste a little bit better than the other 6 days.
Or bitter if things don't go as planned. :biggrin:
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I stopped drinking last year at the half. :lol
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That looks so good King
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I'm worried about rolling them up
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We're baking,
I bet Cram is as well! :D
morning :hat
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Sorry to say it....
But we really need to update our Discography section. We got a picture from Photobucket that's out of date....and its not updated with new DT albums after Black Clouds. Come on.....
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Good morning gang
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Good morning guys. I got some sad news, my uncle who lives in Lithuania passed away this morning. I wasn't really close with him and I only met him once in my adult life but my mom and grandma are devastated. He wasn't even 50 yet.
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Dayum... that's some shitty news. Hits close, as a handful of us here are at or coming up on 50. Way too young.
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Can people go back to saying "brutal" now? It's much less annoying than "savage".
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Sorry for your loss Reaper
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Good morning guys. I got some sad news, my uncle who lives in Lithuania passed away this morning. I wasn't really close with him and I only met him once in my adult life but my mom and grandma are devastated. He wasn't even 50 yet.
Damn, bro. Sorry to hear.
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Thanks guys. I spent most of the day one the phone with my mom arranging travel. He wasn't in the best shape so it wasn't completely sudden, he has had medical issues in the past but 48 is pretty young.
Anyway, is it time for beer yet?
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It's never easy Reap. Tip one back for him.
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Good morning guys
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Morning.
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What's good blob?
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Nothing much lol. Again I'm pretty much wiped out from the weather and it's only 11pm. Is this what it's like for normal people? This sucks!
What about you?
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Maybe you should go to bed Blob at a reasonable time if you are wiped out Blob! :neverusethis:
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Maybe you should go to bed Blob at a reasonable time if you are wiped out Blob! :neverusethis:
Oh no, I've fallen into that trap before! If I go to bed this early, I'll wake up far too early without getting enough sleep because my body rejects the silly notion of sleeping this early, and then I'm even more wiped out the next day. I must resist the sleep illness as long as possible and go to bed at a normal Blob hour.
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:lol
Resistance is futile!
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Good Morning folks.
So... I bought this Strawberry flavored energy shot drink thing. It's like a large 5 Hour Energy (8oz). I figured I'd sip on it throughout the day. It wound up being pretty tasty.. and my weak willed ass downed the entire thing. Now I am wired as fuck.
I've also been too productive, and am running out of things to do at work.
Help Me.
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I need a productive afternoon if I want to get out of here on time, seeing as I'm taking tomorrow off.
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Good morning gang
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Howdy. Got a pretty slack day ahead of me (I hope). Then friends coming over after dinner - drinks and conversation... continuation of the chill.
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Nice :tup
How is the new job treating you? Are you settled in yet?
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Yeah, settled in for sure. Things are going pretty much as I suspected. Same shit, different smell. :lol
I kid, so far I'm still in a bit of the honeymoon phase. I can over-look some of the annoying aspects of the job/company - A) I'm too new to cause much of a ruckus and B) some of those things are likely to change/evolve. My boss is great, decent team-mates (who are all remote), and the colleagues I interact with on a regular basis are all pretty cool and welcoming the things that my role complements to their responsibilities.
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Morning Chad. A nice quiet weekend for me. I'm looking forward to it.
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Today is a heavy heart day. The 7 year anniversary of my mom's passing. It seems like yesterday.
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Thoughts are with you, King. Yesterday I had to have a heart to heart with my dad about "that time". He's 79, mom's 81, and as I know you are well aware, the sand does not slow down as it moves through the hourglass.
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Dealing with that with my dad. He's 71, has MS and is battling lung cancer right now.
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Today is a heavy heart day. The 7 year anniversary of my mom's passing. It seems like yesterday.
Extending an internet hug your way :heart
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:hug:
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Just got word from the bossman that we can take off 2 hours early today :metal
Anyone got anything exciting going on this weekend? V and I decided this year that we weren't going to buy each other stuff for valentines day. Instead, on Saturday, we're going to an adult super store and buying a bunch of new stuff (toys, outfits, etc). Then we're going to head to the casino, get sauced, and degrade every corner of the hotel room. Should be a good time :hat
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Just got word from the bossman that we can take off 2 hours early today :metal
Anyone got anything exciting going on this weekend? V and I decided this year that we weren't going to buy each other stuff for valentines day. Instead, on Saturday, we're going to an adult super store and buying a bunch of new stuff (toys, outfits, etc). Then we're going to head to the casino, get sauced, and degrade every corner of the hotel room. Should be a good time :hat
Pics or it didn't happen. :lol
Other than getting sauced tonight, my only other plans this weekend are 1) finishing Altered Carbon; 2) working out; 3) shaving the dogs. Sadly, the last one is not a euphemism at all. Literally, shaving my 2 pooches.
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Hopefully some of you will remember this, but as I read Chino's post, all I can think of is that episode of the Office where they went to a conference or something, and Michael Scott was going to throw a "party" in his room and he brought a black light. He turned it on and there was a huge "sploosh" mark over the headboard.
Bri, here's hoping that Sunday morning is an exhausted, breathless recovery period.
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Hopefully some of you will remember this, but as I read Chino's post, all I can think of is that episode of the Office where they went to a conference or something, and Michael Scott was going to throw a "party" in his room and he brought a black light. He turned it on and there was a huge "sploosh" mark over the headboard.
Bri, here's hoping that Sunday morning is an exhausted, breathless recovery period.
:rollin I love that episode.
I'll be consuming 1/10 of my body weight at Mohegan's behemoth of a breakfast buffet.
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Just got word from the bossman that we can take off 2 hours early today :metal
Anyone got anything exciting going on this weekend? V and I decided this year that we weren't going to buy each other stuff for valentines day. Instead, on Saturday, we're going to an adult super store and buying a bunch of new stuff (toys, outfits, etc). Then we're going to head to the casino, get sauced, and degrade every corner of the hotel room. Should be a good time :hat
:lol fantastic
I've been feeling so stressed and exhausted lately from work. I'm having a relaxing night in with a drink and :hat Hanging with the gf tomorrow then going to Denver Sunday morning for a week of work out there. Amazingly, the work load is much less for Denver than my home data center so it might actually be a relaxing trip and really help with my stress atm.
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So if there are any Canadians hanging around these parts I could use some quick help with something. I'm trying to steel broadcasting from y'alls fine national broadcasting network to watch the Olympics. I'm coming up with a generic "technical difficulties" message on any live stream or replay that I click. Most likely it's related to my VPN provider, but I suppose it's possible that somebody got fucked up on Molson and borked the whole thing. Could somebody with a proper Canadian ISP check and see if the streaming actually is working right now? Here's one featuring one of y'alls cute Canadian curling girls.
https://olympics.cbc.ca/video/todays-events/curling-feb-mixed-doubles-can-fin/
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Howdy all. Took today off from work and have spent it doing fuck-all so far. About to go put some pants on and head into the city for my club's homebrew competition. One judging session tonight, two more tomorrow, and then the awards ceremony Saturday night. Probably in for a quiet Sunday :lol
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So if there are any Canadians hanging around these parts I could use some quick help with something. I'm trying to steel broadcasting from y'alls fine national broadcasting network to watch the Olympics. I'm coming up with a generic "technical difficulties" message on any live stream or replay that I click. Most likely it's related to my VPN provider, but I suppose it's possible that somebody got fucked up on Molson and borked the whole thing. Could somebody with a proper Canadian ISP check and see if the streaming actually is working right now? Here's one featuring one of y'alls cute Canadian curling girls.
https://olympics.cbc.ca/video/todays-events/curling-feb-mixed-doubles-can-fin/
That link doesn't give me a live stream - just a replay video... which I can watch just fine. There isn't anything live until 7ish ET tonight that I can tell.
Here's all the vids - https://olympics.cbc.ca/video/overview/
So yeah... it would appear you are the one who's "borked". :lol
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Going to the Celtics game tonight!
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So if there are any Canadians hanging around these parts I could use some quick help with something. I'm trying to steel broadcasting from y'alls fine national broadcasting network to watch the Olympics. I'm coming up with a generic "technical difficulties" message on any live stream or replay that I click. Most likely it's related to my VPN provider, but I suppose it's possible that somebody got fucked up on Molson and borked the whole thing. Could somebody with a proper Canadian ISP check and see if the streaming actually is working right now? Here's one featuring one of y'alls cute Canadian curling girls.
https://olympics.cbc.ca/video/todays-events/curling-feb-mixed-doubles-can-fin/
That link doesn't give me a live stream - just a replay video... which I can watch just fine. There isn't anything live until 7ish ET tonight that I can tell.
Here's all the vids - https://olympics.cbc.ca/video/overview/
So yeah... it would appear you are the one who's "borked". :lol
Yup, that's pretty much what I figured. Thanks. And even the replay vids are geo-locked. Can't watch any of it. Have a ticket in with my VPN, so hopefully they'll get something straightened out.
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Whats the reasoning for watching the canadian telecast? Commentary? Or they are showing a sport you can't catch here?
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Whats the reasoning for watching the canadian telecast? Commentary? Or they are showing a sport you can't catch here?
I can't catch any of it here. If you don't have some sort of paid TV NBC won't let you watch. I can watch the OTA broadcasts during prime-time, but those generally suck. Besides, I'd rather watch some of those cute curlers than the stupid opening ceremony. This is one of the few ways the old guard have left to stick it to us cord-cutters.
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Ah true. I did put on curling last night, was just flipping channels since I've yet to cut the cord, and a guy on the korean team fell by tripping over one of the "pucks" I don't recall the name of the thing they push on the ice and I know they are not called pucks. I was laughing so hard :lol
Got to watch the Swedish female team. I'm sure they are smokin
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Ah true. I did put on curling last night, was just flipping channels since I've yet to cut the cord, and a guy on the korean team fell by tripping over one of the "pucks" I don't recall the name of the thing they push on the ice and I know they are not called pucks. I was laughing so hard :lol
Got to watch the Swedish female team. I'm sure they are smokin
A) Rocks, or stones.
B) Canada's got a hotter team
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Today is a heavy heart day. The 7 year anniversary of my mom's passing. It seems like yesterday.
Extending an internet hug your way :heart
I second that huge King :heart
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Thank you everyone. My mom was what I aspire to be like every day.
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Thank you everyone. My mom was what I aspire to be like every day.
Bro hug, Joe.
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Thanks Tim.
Did I tell you I sure do love a Twitter fight?
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Howdy all. I've got a pretty good buzz going :hat
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Good morning guys.
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Morning, the rain is really depressing, non stop all weekend. About to take off to Denver which apparently has better weather. Really looking forward to this work trip surprisingly.
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Cram, you should get a hold of Jackie for a meet up.
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Cram, you should get a hold of Jackie for a meet up.
It'll be one of your best DTF meetups ever.
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No. We've missed each other. Next time she's in VT well meet up. We were supposed to last summer with Bill but she couldn't meet up. Bill and I met up at Hill Farmstead in VT.
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G'morning gang.
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Supposedly, freezing rain on the way today, and more snow later tonight. Gonna try to squeeze a workout in, then going to a political rally later this afternoon with mrs.jingle.
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Cram, you should get a hold of Jackie for a meet up.
It'll be one of your best DTF meetups ever.
We met up before out here, theres a pic somewhere in the pic thread. She hasn't really been active here so I didn't really think about it.
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Girlfriend is a month late. 3 negative pregnancy tests so far.
Feeling: confused with a side of anxiety
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Really not sure what response is appropriate here? Congratulations? Run?
Not sure if there's costs involved, but any harm in getting a full-on blood test from her GP? Mrs.jingle was a week late, and went to get it done and know for sure.
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Really not sure what response is appropriate here?
My thoughts exactly :lol
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Brian's mind is swimming right now.
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All because his swimmers had a mind of their own :lol
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All because his swimmers had a mind of their own :lol
:clap:
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:lol
It takes two to swim um, I mean tango!
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Really not sure what response is appropriate here?
My thoughts exactly :lol
So... jokes about the mailman are inappropriate right now?
Kidding; been there, bud. Know the feeling exactly. Nothing to say, really, except that human bodies do not operate like they say in the text books. A month isn't really determinative, especially if the pill is involved. If stress is high, you might take Mr. Jingle's advice, though at this stage, so many things can happen. At this early stage, you can even get a positive and two weeks later, find that things changed.
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Really not sure what response is appropriate here?
My thoughts exactly :lol
So... jokes about the mailman are inappropriate right now?
Kidding; been there, bud. Know the feeling exactly. Nothing to say, really, except that human bodies do not operate like they say in the text books. A month isn't really determinative, especially if the pill is involved. If stress is high, you might take Mr. Jingle's advice, though at this stage, so many things can happen. At this early stage, you can even get a positive and two weeks later, find that things changed.
She's saying it's likely due to her getting her IUD swapped out three or so months ago. She's a little worried about it. Truth be told, if it turned out she was pregnant, I'd be ecstatic.
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I'd be freaking out a bit myself. We had a little scare with my high school girlfriend where the peroid didn't come, she wasn't on the pill and we just used the pullout method so it really wasn't far fetched to think I knocked her up. It was a really nervous and anxious week, but the period came and we were both relieved.
At least you and your gf are in a much better position than a high school couple if this ends up being legit. You two would probably make better parents than most so even if it ends up being unexpected, I think you guys could handle it and end up being in a good spot at the end of the day with a family. Sometimes things happen for a reason.
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Really not sure what response is appropriate here?
My thoughts exactly :lol
So... jokes about the mailman are inappropriate right now?
Kidding; been there, bud. Know the feeling exactly. Nothing to say, really, except that human bodies do not operate like they say in the text books. A month isn't really determinative, especially if the pill is involved. If stress is high, you might take Mr. Jingle's advice, though at this stage, so many things can happen. At this early stage, you can even get a positive and two weeks later, find that things changed.
She's saying it's likely due to her getting her IUD swapped out three or so months ago. She's a little worried about it. Truth be told, if it turned out she was pregnant, I'd be ecstatic.
Three months seems like a while. I'll be watching this thread for news Chino :lol
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I thought we had an Olympics thread?
Anyways guess I'll watch the Nordic Combined and Double Luge online as NBC is too busy covering Columbine 2.
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I thought we had an Olympics thread?
Anyways guess I'll watch the Nordic Combined and Double Luge online as NBC is too busy covering Columbine 2.
Start one? There's been ones in the past. A lots been going on with them, but I have been pretty busy and not really watching.
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Good morning everyone. It's almost Friday and I didn't realize until today that it's a three day weekend.
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Morning!
What's the occasion for the three day weekend?
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Presidents’ Day on Monday. Which means I know have three days of home projects to do :lol
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What kind of home projects?
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I’m building a shelf for the dining room, I’m then putting together a shelf upstairs in loft.
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How menial. :lol
I was hoping for something a little more exciting, like digging a moat around your house, or programming a robot goose.
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"You only have three days.... MOAHAHAHA!"
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How menial. :lol
I was hoping for something a little more exciting, like digging a moat around your house, or programming a robot goose.
A robot goose? :lol What in the ............ :lol
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How menial. :lol
I was hoping for something a little more exciting, like digging a moat around your house, or programming a robot goose.
A robot goose? :lol What in the ............ :lol
Is this not what other people think about doing in their free time too? :blob:
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"You only have three days.... MOAHAHAHA!"
:lol yea definitely looking forward to the three day weekend, I really only have to work tomorrow morning since my flight home's at 3pm. First concert of 2018 Sunday, got a Valentine's Day deal yesterday which was 2 for 1 tickets to Less Than Jake so the gf is coming as well. Looking forward to a fun weekend, but work on Tuesday is setting up to be disastrous.
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How menial. :lol
I was hoping for something a little more exciting, like digging a moat around your house, or programming a robot goose.
A robot goose? :lol What in the ............ :lol
A robot woman or a killer robot....yes! But a goose? :lol
Is this not what other people think about doing in their free time too? :blob:
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My co worker just brought some of the most delicious donuts. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a delicious donut.
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How menial. :lol
I was hoping for something a little more exciting, like digging a moat around your house, or programming a robot goose.
A robot goose? :lol What in the ............ :lol
Is this not what other people think about doing in their free time too? :blob:
"Robot goose"? Is that what the ladies are calling them these days?
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Morning duders
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Morning! What's up?
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Nothing much, can't wait for the day to be over. It's felt like a long week.
What's happening with you blob?
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I got a 1/2 day of work, then fucking off early to go see Black Panther with jingle.son.
Right now though...
:vfs:
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Nothing much, can't wait for the day to be over. It's felt like a long week.
What's happening with you blob?
It *only* got up to 32C today and cooled down quickly, so I can actually use my PC tonight. That's the highlight of my day. :blob:
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I got a 1/2 day of work, then fucking off early to go see Black Panther with jingle.son.
Right now though...
:vfs:
Sunday the Queen and i will see it.
Morning Blob, morning Reap.
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Morning King and Jingle
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'sup
:upwardheadnod:
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RoSfest tickets have been purchased.
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My teeth hurt.
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Tooth hurty?
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Tooth hurty?
Boom de toothy... den crashded da Tooth hurty... den banished.
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The best part of working from home is afternoon telecons with scotch in hand.
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They said it couldn't be done, they said I was crazy! But just now I pounded out an outline for a musical based on radio hits from 2008-2016!
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Just her to pimp my new game thread in the Movie/TV section for all you movie buffs.
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They said it couldn't be done, they said I was crazy! But just now I pounded out an outline for a musical based on radio hits from 2008-2016!
Let me ask you in a 70's musical. "Tell me more, tell me more"!
Just her to pimp my new game thread in the Movie/TV section for all you movie buffs.
I will check it out!
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Oh, yeah! I'm not much of a composer, but I'm a writer, so it helps that the songs already exist I'm basically just adapting them. It'll be (mostly) a traditional love story, but with characters singing stuff like Call Me Maybe and Forget You.
We'll see if I ever finish it. :p
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Oh, yeah! I'm not much of a composer, but I'm a writer, so it helps that the songs already exist I'm basically just adapting them. It'll be (mostly) a traditional love story, but with characters singing stuff like Call Me Maybe and Forget You.
We'll see if I ever finish it. :p
Dadda Dia?
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The weekend is here - and a long weekend at that! Which of you US folks have Monday off as well?
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Yes we do Jingle which means I have an extra day for the gf to give me stuff to do :lol
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Yes we do Jingle which means I have an extra day for the gf to give me stuff to do :lol
Would've been far better if the ending emote was :heybaby:
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It would be but I don't typically feel that way building furniture.
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What a perfectly good waste of a weekend. :blob:
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It would be but I don't typically feel that way building furniture.
You're using the wrong wood.
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Maybe I'll surprise here with some Lithuanian wood :heybaby:
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3 wood? :lol
Birthday party for my brother and sister in law. Blob, cake will be had!
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3 wood? :lol
Birthday party for my brother and sister in law. Blob, cake will be had!
THIS GUY GETS IT.
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Sounds delicious King!
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Maybe I'll surprise here with some Lithuanian wood :heybaby:
It's a hard one I hear.
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Those Canadians love hearing about wood.
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Dammit!
I was actually excited to read the insanity that was the complaints about the band or whatever thread. Then as soon as I sit down to read it, it's gone.
Crap.
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Knowing that it was gonna be deleted, I did get the first two pages saved as a .pdf. I think I may have missed the last 8-10 posts
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Knowing that it was gonna be deleted, I did get the first two pages saved as a .pdf. I think I may have missed the last 8-10 posts
Ohhhh, can I see them? It seemed pretty glorious.
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That dude was no balanced to say the least..
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Knowing that it was gonna be deleted, I did get the first two pages saved as a .pdf. I think I may have missed the last 8-10 posts
Ohhhh, can I see them? It seemed pretty glorious.
I wouldn't mind having a look at that either, Chad. There was still only one page when I last saw the thread.
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What thread did I miss?
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The one that Tempus deleted on DT-Side. There are no words to describe the awesomeness of the trainwreck that it was. PM me your email address, and I'll forward what I have.
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I didn't read through it cause as soon as the OP got going I was out, but now that it's gone, I guess I should have.
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We'll never know what happened with the "person from craigslist" he was meeting!!
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We'll never know what happened with the "person from craigslist" he was meeting!!
:lol
I just wish I'd gotten RJ's last bit of wisdom. It was brilliantly worded (100% serious for those that didn't see it).
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Holiday Monday! Glad for one more day off. Was a bit of a stressful weekend for mrs.jingle ... a very close friend and work colleague had a very close friend of their's go missing since Thursday morning. 73 years old... didn't have her phone or wallet - or medication. Amazingly - and thankfully - she was found yesterday. Still not quite sure on the entire story - something to do with falling in a parking lot. Methinks there's a memory gap though, because one doesn't lie on a parking lot from sometime on Thursday until Sunday afternoon. Regardless, it ended up about as good as could be hoped for.
Now, a chill day. Gonna watch Justice League (finally... though I'm not looking really excited for it), and Winter Soldier as jingle.kids and I continue our quest to watch all the MCU movies before Infinity War.
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Damn that is scary. I see the gaps in my dad's memory and it's heartbreaking.
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Good morning everyone, got the day off, I think I'm going to head to Guitar Center later but other than that I'm just going to blob.
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Good morning everyone, got the day off, I think I'm going to head to Guitar Center later but other than that I'm just going to blob.
I am Blob and I approve of this message.
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I've been blobbing for an hour already
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I am pissed that I can't Blob. I will go on a rampage!!! :lol
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Good morning DTF!
I recently left my retail job and started a new career in a school district. I have nine days off in a row! No idea what to do with my free time.
Hypothetically speaking, if through your sleuthing skills you found that a member of a band your spouse recently tried out for is a member of this board, would you contact them and let them know? Or is that too stalkerish?
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I am pissed that I can't Blob. I will go on a rampage!!! :lol
Have a snickers... or some leftover cake.
Cecillia... hypothetically speaking, who cares if it's stalkerish?
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The one that Tempus deleted on DT-Side. There are no words to describe the awesomeness of the trainwreck that it was. PM me your email address, and I'll forward what I have.
Can I have this too? No idea what happened but DTF trainwrecks are the best
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Jingle, that thread is gold
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The one that Tempus deleted on DT-Side. There are no words to describe the awesomeness of the trainwreck that it was. PM me your email address, and I'll forward what I have.
Can I have this too? No idea what happened but DTF trainwrecks are the best
On it's way.
Jingle, that thread is gold
Inorite? I even PM'd Tempus asking for it to be Archived instead of deleted. He gave a form response that it was pretty nasty stuff to the band so not going to be kept. I just wish I'd gotten it all, because the dude's final post was something else. Thankfully, I did copy that one sentence... "you <all of DTF> have such low self-esteem, you equate masochism and self-hatred with humility"
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You couldn't get the last page from your browser cache, Chad? Or anyone else who saw it for that matter.
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I should go exercise but I just can't seem to find the motivation, so I won't
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I should go exercise but I just can't seem to find the motivation, so I won't
I am Blob and I approve of this message.
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You couldn't get the last page from your browser cache, Chad? Or anyone else who saw it for that matter.
Nah... I tried, but no luck. I went to chrome://cache to find all the links to that particular thread, but every time I tried to open those pages, it was just garbled random text and codes. Now it looks like it's been flushed from my cache, because I can't find the topic at all.
:dunno:
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You couldn't get the last page from your browser cache, Chad? Or anyone else who saw it for that matter.
Nah... I tried, but no luck. I went to chrome://cache to find all the links to that particular thread, but every time I tried to open those pages, it was just garbled random text and codes. Now it looks like it's been flushed from my cache, because I can't find the topic at all.
:dunno:
That guy really needs help, and we need to get that last page somehow
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Cecillia... hypothetically speaking, who cares if it's stalkerish?
I just don’t want it to be too stalkerish, where I creep him out lol.
He hasn’t logged in in about a month anyway.
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Cecillia... hypothetically speaking, who cares if it's stalkerish?
I just don’t want it to be too stalkerish, where I creep him out lol.
He hasn’t logged in in about a month anyway.
Well you did check to see the last time this person was one so.. :lol
Send a message anyway!
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I even PM'd Tempus asking for it to be Archived instead of deleted. He gave a form response that it was pretty nasty stuff to the band so not going to be kept. I just wish I'd gotten it all, because the dude's final post was something else. Thankfully, I did copy that one sentence... "you <all of DTF> have such low self-esteem, you equate masochism and self-hatred with humility"
I figured it was going bye-bye, given the inflammatory nature of things he said about members of the band. I just enjoyed the ride that was the train wreck while it lasted. :lol :lol
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Well the first two pages were brilliant. Thanks Jingle!
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I even PM'd Tempus asking for it to be Archived instead of deleted. He gave a form response that it was pretty nasty stuff to the band so not going to be kept. I just wish I'd gotten it all, because the dude's final post was something else. Thankfully, I did copy that one sentence... "you <all of DTF> have such low self-esteem, you equate masochism and self-hatred with humility"
I figured it was going bye-bye, given the inflammatory nature of things he said about members of the band. I just enjoyed the ride that was the train wreck while it lasted. :lol :lol
Oh, I know... that's why I printed the first 2 pages to .pdf. I knew it would be gone as soon as a mod got online. It was quite the trip.
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Evening fellas
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Hey. What's happening?
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Nothing much, just surfing the forum before bed. What's happening with you?
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Today is the first day I've been able to use my PC in over 2 weeks, so I'm happy. :blob: Also I sketched up a character for a game idea last night and it turned out not shit.
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Nice :tup you getting some relief from the heat?
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Morning. Damn Blob. The heat must be unbearable.
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Nice :tup you getting some relief from the heat?
Only for a few days. Today was 24C, then tomorrow 29C, then back to 30+ for the foreseeable future.
Morning. Damn Blob. The heat must be unbearable.
It's the shits! Technically Summer finishes at the end of this month, so hopefully it doesn't take long for it to fuck off entirely.
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Nice :tup you getting some relief from the heat?
Only for a few days. Today was 24C, then tomorrow 29C, then back to 30+ for the foreseeable future.
Morning. Damn Blob. The heat must be unbearable.
Me and Joe are saying the same thing about winter. It's warm(ish) and rainy here for the next couple of days. One more month and we should be on the upswing for warmer weather. Just need to get through the muck and shmeg of everything melting/thawing.
It's the shits! Technically Summer finishes at the end of this month, so hopefully it doesn't take long for it to fuck off entirely.
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It's already happening here Chad. Dirty, melting snow everywhere..
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We got a few inches saturday night but all melted by Sunday, now we have a high of 72 tomorrow. The weather here is wacky.
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We are setting record highs here in Charlotte. Feels strange with it being so warm.
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We got a few inches saturday night but all melted by Sunday, now we have a high of 72 tomorrow. The weather here is wacky.
Just a few inches? :eyebrows:
I can has pdf of the trainwreck thread?
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We got a few inches saturday night but all melted by Sunday, now we have a high of 72 tomorrow. The weather here is wacky.
Just a few inches? :eyebrows:
I can has pdf of the trainwreck thread?
PM me your email address
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Morning dudes. Working from home today, getting stuff done at the house. I love not getting dressed for work.
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We've had loads of snow and it's really cold. 13° F (-10 C) right now.
But that shit can't ruin my mood 'cause I now have a Doctor in the house. Mrs. P successfully defended her dissertation yesterday. I'm so happy for her, and she's the cheeriest she's been in a long, long time.
Have a good day, everyone.
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Have a good day Podaar!
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We've had loads of snow and it's really cold. 13° F (-10 C) right now.
But that shit can't ruin my mood 'cause I now have a Doctor in the house. Mrs. P successfully defended her dissertation yesterday. I'm so happy for her, and she's the cheeriest she's been in a long, long time.
Have a good day, everyone.
WOOOOOOTT!!!!!!!!
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We've had loads of snow and it's really cold. 13° F (-10 C) right now.
But that shit can't ruin my mood 'cause I now have a Doctor in the house. Mrs. P successfully defended her dissertation yesterday. I'm so happy for her, and she's the cheeriest she's been in a long, long time.
Have a good day, everyone.
WOOOOOOTT!!!!!!!!
:panicattack:
:woot:
:happydance:
:fistpump:
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Haha, -10 isn't really cold. In Finland it was -23 celcius degrees this morning. THAT'S COLD.
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Its 73F and beautiful out today, sadly I'm miserable at work inside. Just getting hammered with work and work and new issues. Luckily the day is closer to being over every second.
Looking forward to watching some PSU hoops tonight. A late season surge has gotten the team right on the outside of the bubble. A win tonight and I think they are a legit bubble team going into the big ten tournament which will make next week fun and exciting. Or they just lose tonight and end up in the NIT :\
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It's in the mid 70's here too. I took my lunch break to play fetch with my dog, I miss the warm weather :lol
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So in late July, I'll be moving to Grand Forks, North Dakota for a year.
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So in late July, I'll be moving to Grand Forks, North Dakota for a year.
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Porquoi?
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So in late July, I'll be moving to Grand Forks, North Dakota for a year.
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Porquoi?
No thanks, I'm Jewish.
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So in late July, I'll be moving to Grand Forks, North Dakota for a year.
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I'm so sorry.
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So in late July, I'll be moving to Grand Forks, North Dakota for a year.
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Porquoi?
No thanks, I'm Jewish.
Haha.
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So in late July, I'll be moving to Grand Forks, North Dakota for a year.
.... :-\
Porquoi?
No thanks, I'm Jewish. And North Dakotan soon. Sioux Indian will run through your blood!
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So in late July, I'll be moving to Grand Forks, North Dakota for a year.
.... :-\
Porquoi?
No thanks, I'm Jewish.
And North Dakotan soon. Sioux Indian will run through your blood!
Then I shall finally have my revenge on the white man!
Also fixed your quote.
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This white man needs an editor in is life. Thank you "Fixes With Words".
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Hey King, next Saturday I am coming up to Boston to the House of Blues for the Sabaton/Kreator/Cyhra concert. Have you ever been to that venue? Looks like it's by Fenway park which seems pretty cool.
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Hey King, next Saturday I am coming up to Boston to the House of Blues for the Sabaton/Kreator/Cyhra concert. Have you ever been to that venue? Looks like it's by Fenway park which seems pretty cool.
Yes. It's right behind the green monster. Thin venue. Cool area.
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Hey King, next Saturday I am coming up to Boston to the House of Blues for the Sabaton/Kreator/Cyhra concert. Have you ever been to that venue? Looks like it's by Fenway park which seems pretty cool.
Good bars:
Cask 'n' Flagon
Boston Beer Works (I think it's actually Beerworks Brewing Co. now)
Landsdowne Pub
Is Avalon still there? Sam Adams Brewery? Who's On First?
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I've been to the Sam Adams brewery before, was really cool especially since it was free. Enjoyed that more than the Heineken brewery. The first band is Cyhra, then Kreator, and Sabaton headlining. I really want to see Cyhra the most though, I probably wouldn't go to the concert otherwise although I've been really loving Sabaton lately which has made me even more excited for the show. :metal If King were available would totally meet up for a beer.
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I love how I’d been gone from DTF for roundabout three years but I still have an average of 4 posts per day.
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Let me talk to the wife. She is planning on taking her mom for her birthday. I might be able to hang in the afternoon.
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Motherfucker. I was mincing up a bunch of serrano peppers for dinner, and apparently didn't wash my have well enough before taking a leak. :censored :censored :censored
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Sounds exciting if your married a long time.
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Motherfucker. I was mincing up a bunch of serrano peppers for dinner, and apparently didn't wash my have well enough before taking a leak. :censored :censored :censored
I believe it was this exact scenario that brought about the lyrics for "Burning for You".
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Damn, I know the feeling from just touching your nose and the burn :lol good luck and yea, hopefully the wife helps ease the pain. Got to suck the venom out essentially
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Dip it in Scotch first.
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Evening guys
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Ok, i won't die. But that was the least sexy application of lotion to these region in quite some time.
Ironically, Burnin' for You was in while i was mincing the peppers.
I'll say, though, it was worth it, it was some awesome Indian food.
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BOC FTW! :lol
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Morning crew. Heading down to wine country for "Days of Wine and Chocolate" festival. Dinner out with mrs.jingle, then going to grab a hotel room rather than drive all the way home. First time we've left jingle.kids on their own over-night. They were pretty much on their own when we went on vaca back in November ... mrs.jingle's mother slept over here, and was around periodically 'just in case' - though, she only lives 5 minutes away anyway.
So Joe... I'm likely going to record the game and not be watching it until tomorrow lunch-time (provided I avoid hearing the score). Don't spoil it for me.
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No spoils . Morning.
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Sounds awesome Jingle I hope you guys have a great time.
Coming from immigrant parents who worked all the time I was left alone for 8 hour stretches from 7 years old on :lol
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Party at the Jingles tonight! :yarr
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Good morning guys
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'sup.... *upward-head-nod*
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Mornin'.
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Not where you are!
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Nope, but it' morning to you! I'm never even awake when it's morning here. :biggrin:
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Sup. Still feeling like shit. When is this madness going to end. 3 visits to the doctors and the fever and aches and nasal dripping continues.
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I got some new couches yesterday, a hand me down from a friend but a huge upgrade over my current living room set up since I hated my couches. However, in the process of moving them, I seem to have hurt a muscle in my lower back which is making this morning really uncomfortable
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It gets worse the older you get. :lol
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I seem to have hurt a muscle in my lower back which is making this morning really uncomfortable
The hotel that mrs.jingle and I stayed at on the weekend has the worst beds in the history of hotel beds. Neither of us got any semblance of sleep, and at 4:30am we were both contemplating driving home. We finally ended up getting out of that torture rack around 7ish, and were on the road before 7:30am. My back was killing me all day yesterday.
It's the only decent hotel chain in the area (everything else is bed and breakfast stuff), and I had points so at least the room was free. Thankfully, 2 new hotels are opening up in the spring, so we'll at least have some choice in the future.
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It gets worse the older you get. :lol
I strained my shoulder pouring cream in my coffee this morning, then slipped a disk pulling my toast out of the toaster.
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It gets worse the older you get. :lol
I strained my shoulder pouring cream in my coffee this morning, then slipped a disk pulling my toast out of the toaster.
Totes believable.
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:lol yea, I won't lie that the thought of "damn I'm getting old" came through my mind a bunch of times this morning.
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It gets worse the older you get. :lol
I strained my shoulder pouring cream in my coffee this morning, then slipped a disk pulling my toast out of the toaster.
Oh yeah! Well I strained my eyelids waking up this morning. :lol
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Evening everyone
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I haven't slept past 5:30 for almost two weeks. I think there's something wrong with me.
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Anything at all different that could be messing up your schedule?
I go to bed after 5:30am, and woke up after 4pm today, so I have no idea.
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I've been having some sleep issues as well. Been going to bed early at like 10:30, but waking up at 3 and struggling to sleep until like 5 then sleeping late until 7:30 because I keep snoozing from 6:30 since I'm tired from not sleeping much before. I'm sleeping at the gf's tonight and don't expect that to help.
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Anything at all different that could be messing up your schedule?
I go to bed after 5:30am, and woke up after 4pm today, so I have no idea.
So like everyday. :lol
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I've been having some sleep issues as well. Been going to bed early at like 10:30, but waking up at 3 and struggling to sleep until like 5 then sleeping late until 7:30 because I keep snoozing from 6:30 since I'm tired from not sleeping much before. I'm sleeping at the gf's tonight and don't expect that to help.
Welcome to the last 15 years of my life.
Wild, back-pain inducing, sweaty, monkey sex is the only cure.
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Anything at all different that could be messing up your schedule?
I go to bed after 5:30am, and woke up after 4pm today, so I have no idea.
So like everyday. :lol
The bed time part yes, the waking up bit is highly variable. Yesterday was 11am, hence the 4:30 today. :lol
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I'd love your variable. Lol
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My sleeping has been all over the map. More nights than not, I spend a good portion lying in the dark staring at the ceiling. I go through phases like that, and I know that, but it doesn't make it any less stressful, or make the lack of sleep any less of a pain in the ass.
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I get more sleep when I'm sick. Otherwise it's 6 to 7 hours a day.
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Good Morning
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Morning Peeps.
Jay what's happening, it feels like a long time has passed since I've seen you around these parts.
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Morning Peeps.
Jay what's happening, it feels like a long time has passed since I've seen you around these parts.
Howdy!
I've just been busy as shit with work... and work is usually my prime posting time.
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How is working going?
Morning dudes.
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Morning. We were supposed to get a shit-ton of snow, but there's barely a dusting on the ground. :fistpump: Hoping the white stuff stays away for the rest of the season.
:friday:
Should be a fairly chill day.
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We are literally on the line; one degree either way is the difference between 12" of snow, or 2" of rain. Right now it's looking like rain. :(. I'd rather have a foot of snow than 2" of rain and 34 degrees.
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We are literally on the line; one degree either way is the difference between 12" of snow, or 2" of rain. Right now it's looking like rain. :(. I'd rather have a foot of snow than 2" of rain and 34 degrees.
One degree either way is the difference between me getting to go home early or not!
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The ground is covered with a dusting. Turning to rain here now.
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My drive in started with rain, then turned to hail. For a bit it was then snowing like crazy when I was here and now it's back to rain. Seems its supposed to stay rain now for the rest of the day
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Yeah, it was a nasty wintry mix for me during the morning commute. I probably would have worked from home but for the fact that I'm going to a charity hockey game tonight and it'll be easier to get there from the office. $23 ticket gets me a voucher for two free NJ Devils tickets, and probably a voucher for two free NY Yankees tickets as well (the latter is only for the first 5K people who show up).
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I decided that I wasn't fucking around with the weather, given that my commute involves waiting outdoors at bus stops and train stations...so working-from-home it is! Form what I hear, there are something like five people in my part of the office today, so most others had the same idea.
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I just grabbed some lunch and my street the data center is on is partially flooded. Today has been pretty much a nightmare from the start and the afternoon is looking gloomy as well. Can't wait for the day to be over and the weekend begins.
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Morning!! Cram and I are meeting up today for a few hours!!
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Sweet! What's the occasion?
Good morning btw
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Morning!! Cram and I are meeting up today for a few hours!!
Neato!
Also, morning.
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What's good blob?
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Morning!! Cram and I are meeting up today for a few hours!!
Gonna be the best morning of Cram's life.
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Yup, about to get my car oil changed and then going to begin the drive up.
Hey Joe, is where we are going a secret? :lol I'm curious but also, PSU beat Ohio State last night and therefore surprisingly moved on and has a big game against Purdue at 4:30 (I think if PSU wins they may have played themselves into the NCAA tournament), was hoping to be able to catch that somewhere before the show. I got to imagine there's a sports bar somewhere close by. Also, thinking I may find some time to through tea in the harbor :lol
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One of the great breweries south of Boston has an indoor beer garden. The summer one they have outside in Boston is amazing. Too bad it's March.
https://www.trilliumbrewing.com/trillium-garden
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What's good blob?
Not the temperature lol. Another day of fuck all for me.
Sounds like most of you have pretty good weekends planned though. :hat
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Another sweat your ass off day Blob?
I see Timeless is premiering it's second season here March 11th.
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I got nothing going on as well. With Billy Grahams funeral and the CIAA happening this weekend charlotte is packed.
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Another sweat your ass off day Blob?
I see Timeless is premiering it's second season here March 11th.
I didn't realize it had been that long yet. Oh well, one more mediocre show I feel obligated to watch. I'll add it to the list along with TWD. :lol
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:lol
I can't wait to read you going insane over the descrepancies.
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:lol
I can't wait to read you going insane over the descrepancies.
So back to the usual? :lol
I'm a sucker for time travel, and it's a fun show, but boy do they suck ass at time travel mechanics. :blob:
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You must be soooooo torn.
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You must be soooooo torn.
No more than usual. :blob:
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I'm watching Rocky III right now. I love Clubber Lang.
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I'm watching Rocky III right now. I love Clubber Lang.
No way, I watched Rocky 1 on TV today. I'm hoping that means they'll run the rest too. They play them so often, but every time I have to watch Rocky 3 and 4, especially 4. :lol
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:lol
I can't wait to read you going insane over the descrepancies.
So back to the usual? :lol
I'm a sucker for time travel, and it's a fun show, but boy do they suck ass at time travel mechanics. :blob:
I was actually thinking about adding that to my list. The girl looks pretty hot, and that's usually enough to get a show a couple watches (though not enough to keep it in the rotation). It kind of bugs me when the producers/writers ignore basic continuity things (I don't just mean "time" but any time they take us for idiots, like we won't notice that Dr. Jason Bull can supposedly tell a liar by talking to them once, but when the hot chick walks in he falls for her shit in like 9 seconds).
Also, a girl in one of my daughters old classes is named "Trillium" and I haven't completely ruled out the connection with the brewery (I'm being serious).
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:lol
I can't wait to read you going insane over the descrepancies.
So back to the usual? :lol
I'm a sucker for time travel, and it's a fun show, but boy do they suck ass at time travel mechanics. :blob:
I was actually thinking about adding that to my list. The girl looks pretty hot, and that's usually enough to get a show a couple watches (though not enough to keep it in the rotation). It kind of bugs me when the producers/writers ignore basic continuity things (I don't just mean "time" but any time they take us for idiots, like we won't notice that Dr. Jason Bull can supposedly tell a liar by talking to them once, but when the hot chick walks in he falls for her shit in like 9 seconds).
She's not good looking enough to compensate for how poorly done the show is. :P
It's kind of a fun light show if you're really into the concept, but I wouldn't really recommend it. The first episode is representative though, so you don't have to stick with it long to see if it's your thing. It breaks its own established rules pretty quickly, and most of those rules were arbitrary fluff to avoid the simple logic questions to begin with.
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Had some nice beers with King this afternoon, thanks Joe for driving me around and taking me to a chill spot. Just got my free drink at the hotel room and going to head out to the concert here in Boston soon. :metal :metal
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Enjoy the Marc!!
I just posted the pic as well.
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Nice :tup Have fun.
I was planning on doing nothing but somehow painting the downstairs bathroom.
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Morning guys
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G'morning Reaper.
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The TACs have not had power since Friday afternoon. :censored
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And another one on Wednesday, this one with possibly more snow. This bombo Genesis stuff sucks. I prefer Phil and Peter Genesis.
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I prefer Exodus. :metal
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Morning axe! What’s happening with the power Tac?
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Morning axe! What’s happening with the power Tac?
Major wind storm on Friday.
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The TACs have not had power since Friday afternoon. :censored
Damn, you got hit hard then.
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The TACs have not had power since Friday afternoon. :censored
Damn, you got hit hard then.
Yeah. We just got it back an hour or so ago. Almost two full days. I wouldn't have cared except I had to keep my sump pump running. Friday night, I got up every hour on the hour to fill the generator. Last night, I got away with 90 min intervals. I am fucking tired.
But when the TAC's have no power, I bought the perfect product!
(https://i.imgur.com/SvgsQ00.jpg)
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I need to buy a sump pump with a battery backup
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You need TAClights!
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Your lights are everywhere! I just finished painting the bathroom ceiling.
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I need to buy a sump pump with a battery backup
Not sure how long a battery backup lasts. Our sump pump ran constantly. We got a monsoon's worth of rain on Friday.
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It would help whole I'm asleep like last time. 5 inches of water in the basement by the time I got the generator started.
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Yea, was saying how I have the battery back ups on both my sump pumps. I think it's like 5 hours worth if I remember correctly. Not going to survive a weekend, but can help get by.
Back home from Boston and am dead tired. What a show last night, wild crowd.
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Back home from Boston and am dead tired. What a show last night, wild crowd.
Where was the show, Marc?
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Back home from Boston and am dead tired. What a show last night, wild crowd.
Where was the show, Marc?
House of Blues, besides the ridiculous 80 minute wait to get into the venue, I really liked it there.
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Besides the bullshit amount of time it took you to get in, how was the venue for you?
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Besides the bullshit amount of time it took you to get in, how was the venue for you?
House of Blues, besides the ridiculous 80 minute wait to get into the venue, I really liked it there.
;D
I've never been there. They knocked down two classic clubs, Axis and Avalon, to build it.
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I was telling Marc that and yes Tim I read that but we had a conversation about that venue and was looking for details.
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I used to love Avalon. Not necessarily my kind of music, but a fun time always.
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I used to love Avalon. Not necessarily my kind of music, but a fun time always.
Saw Kiss there in '92! Awesome show.
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I used to love Avalon. Not necessarily my kind of music, but a fun time always.
Last show I saw there was King's X and Dishwalla opening I think in 96.
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I only saw a handful of shows there.
KISS '92
Dream Theater '93
David Lee Roth '94
Anthrax '96
Tesla '96
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I was telling Marc that and yes Tim I read that but we had a conversation about that venue and was looking for details.
It was a nice set up, lots of bars and the balcony had a nice view and room. I was free to go GA into the pit as well. Kind of like that freedom in a concert. It was a good size too. Bartender made me strong drinks.
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That's everything I dug about that place. :lol
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Evening dudes
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I only saw a handful of shows there.
KISS '92
Dream Theater '93
David Lee Roth '94
Anthrax '96
Tesla '96
Every time I went - and I never went specifically to see a band - it was more dance-clubby or grunge. I would have given my last nut to see Kiss there.
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How is working going?
Morning dudes.
Sorry for the late reply lol. Friday was hectic (worked my normal shift 7-330, and then came back in that night at 10... I was dead...)
Work's been going okay. I'm working on restructuring my "Management Team". Right now I have myself and 2 guys under me as my leads. I am going to rework them into "Assistant Supervisors", and promote 2 others up as "Leads"... so things are 3 tiered.
I know I am going to piss people off, as the 2 people I am promoting haven't been here long, and they are young (21 and 23). But they show initiative. They ask all the right questions. They learn from their mistakes. They know how to DEAL WITH PEOPLE (which is a big plus). I know I am making the right decision.
Now I need to schedule a day to bring them in and train them on their new duties. BUT before I do so... I need to come up with a list of their new duties... since I am basically creating a new position.
The great thing is... when I brought this up to MY boss, he showed no hesitation. He basically told me to let him know what I want to do and when to do it, and he'll make the changes on his end.
It's still weird having this much power. :lol
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JAY'S ALIIIIIIIVVEEE!!!!
Afternoon.
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I wanted to say hello to Kingshmegland.
HELLO my friend.
all the best to all the nice people of DTF
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JAY'S ALIIIIIIIVVEEE!!!!
Afternoon.
I am?
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I wanted to say hello to Kingshmegland.
HELLO my friend.
all the best to all the nice people of DTF
Holy shit.... there's an old username that hasn't been around in a while!
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I wanted to say hello to Kingshmegland.
HELLO my friend.
all the best to all the nice people of DTF
Holy shit.... there's an old username that hasn't been around in a while!
well I had to be reincarnated and I found this planet again..it was a long journey. : ) The view was EPIC!!
I do lurk from time to time as I consider everyone here a friend. I hope you are well and the group is well.
Peace Ya'll...
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EPICVIEW, long time no see!
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I wanted to say hello to Kingshmegland.
HELLO my friend.
all the best to all the nice people of DTF
Holy shit.... there's an old username that hasn't been around in a while!
well I had to be reincarnated and I found this planet again..it was a long journey. : ) The view was EPIC!!
I do lurk from time to time as I consider everyone here a friend. I hope you are well and the group is well.
Peace Ya'll...
I swear I read that word as "re-incarcerated", and thought..."dayum... he went all TTP on us" :lol
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I wanted to say hello to Kingshmegland.
HELLO my friend.
all the best to all the nice people of DTF
Holy shit.... there's an old username that hasn't been around in a while!
well I had to be reincarnated and I found this planet again..it was a long journey. : ) The view was EPIC!!
I do lurk from time to time as I consider everyone here a friend. I hope you are well and the group is well.
Peace Ya'll...
I swear I read that word as "re-incarcerated", and thought..."dayum... he went all TTP on us" :lol
TTP walks amongst the free once again!!*
Hi, Epicview!
*or he has FB access in jail
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EPICVIEW, long time no see!
TAC... Glad you are well my friend. You are the best
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I wanted to say hello to Kingshmegland.
HELLO my friend.
all the best to all the nice people of DTF
Holy shit.... there's an old username that hasn't been around in a while!
well I had to be reincarnated and I found this planet again..it was a long journey. : ) The view was EPIC!!
I do lurk from time to time as I consider everyone here a friend. I hope you are well and the group is well.
Peace Ya'll...
I swear I read that word as "re-incarcerated", and thought..."dayum... he went all TTP on us" :lol
TTP walks amongst the free once again!!*
Hi, Epicview!
*or he has FB access in jail
HI Millah...! you are sweet.. glad you are well
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I wanted to say hello to Kingshmegland.
HELLO my friend.
all the best to all the nice people of DTF
Holy shit.... there's an old username that hasn't been around in a while!
well I had to be reincarnated and I found this planet again..it was a long journey. : ) The view was EPIC!!
I do lurk from time to time as I consider everyone here a friend. I hope you are well and the group is well.
Peace Ya'll...
I swear I read that word as "re-incarcerated", and thought..."dayum... he went all TTP on us" :lol
JB,
I am a bad ass.. but no.. just had to travel to another galaxy after having my dna scrambled, lucky I did have my decoder ring and back up 8 tracks of Doobie Brothers to use for coordinates to land back in the Nile, I then took a Vespa 9000 miles to my final destination.
From my EPICVIEW I was able to see you all and was sending love to you all.
peace and love to all at DTF, this is one of the finest and nicest groups.
LET LOVE BE YOUR GUIDE, : )
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My love opens the door!
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I wanted to say hello to Kingshmegland.
HELLO my friend.
all the best to all the nice people of DTF
Hey hey!! What's up EPICVIEW!!
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JAY'S ALIIIIIIIVVEEE!!!!
Afternoon.
I am?
Alive with power!
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My love opens the door!
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Jay it's awesome to hear you kicking ass at work. Keep it up :tup
Epicview, it's good to see you again!
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Good morning everyone
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Morning!
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What's good blob?
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The weather!
What's up?
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Nothing much, dreading going to work especially since I'm going to have an incredibly stupid meeting with out dev team at 1:30.
Long story short, I sent offshore a list of things to do over the weekend, they did none of those things and now are telling me that those things I want done are not possible when really it's because they are lazy.
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People suck.
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People suck.
We long ago established that people are the worst. I've converted mrs.jingle to our philosophy too.
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People suck.
We long ago established that people are the worst. I've converted mrs.jingle to our philosophy too.
Yes, I learned it long ago. I try not to repeat it too often, because tbh it's always relevant. :lol
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I’m jealous of one of my buddies here who does .net, he just chills in his cube and works.
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In our office in NYC today. Been here for 4 years and every 2 years they swap out your laptop (we lease the laptops, so they just swap it out with a new one of the same model). But also, today is the techops team outing so the group is going bowling with an open bar and food later. Hoping for a snow day tomorrow.
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Hope you get a snow day tomorrow as well.
We replace laptops as needed, I just got a new one because my old laptop had a lose hard drive connection which was giving me some BSOD's. I fixed the issue and now I have two work laptops so I don't have to carry a laptop to work.
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Morning guys. Working from home today, finally getting our washer and dryer delivered after about 3 months of waiting.
I got some good news yesterday, I'm getting promoted with a substantial salary increase (roughly 25k a year)
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:metal Congrats!
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Morning guys. Working from home today, finally getting our washer and dryer delivered after about 3 months of waiting.
I got some good news yesterday, I'm getting promoted with a substantial salary increase (roughly 25k a year)
Fuckin eh!!!
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Yup I’m pumped, just in time for me getting a new car :lol
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Morning guys. Working from home today, finally getting our washer and dryer delivered after about 3 months of waiting.
I got some good news yesterday, I'm getting promoted with a substantial salary increase (roughly 25k a year)
Congrats, that is a very large increase :metal
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Good Morning peeps.
And Grats Reap!
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Morning guys. Working from home today, finally getting our washer and dryer delivered after about 3 months of waiting.
I got some good news yesterday, I'm getting promoted with a substantial salary increase (roughly 25k a year)
Congrats ReaperKK... thats great news my friend.
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EPICVIEW... is it cool, or is it disturbing that there are so many of us still here that you (surely) recognize, 5 years later? :)
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Morning guys. Working from home today, finally getting our washer and dryer delivered after about 3 months of waiting.
I got some good news yesterday, I'm getting promoted with a substantial salary increase (roughly 25k a year)
That is awesome! Congrats! :metal
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EPICVIEW... is it cool, or is it disturbing that there are so many of us still here that you (surely) recognize, 5 years later? :)
It feels like that since last May baby.
Also, the wife and I are in for Progstock!!!!!!! :metal :metal I'm driving from my conference that Friday morning and the Queen will fly in and I'll pick her up!
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Also, the wife and I are in for Progstock!!!!!!! :metal :metal I'm driving from my conference that Friday morning and the Queen will fly in and I'll pick her up!
Woot woot! We gotta get a gang together - inclusive of cheffy-poo. I'm about 95% certain I could make it work. Mrs.jingle is going to be bat-shit crazy in September and October with a variety of things in her (unpaid!) career.
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Oh man, prog party in my backyard :lol
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Oh man, prog party in my backyard :lol
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I will nerd the hell out of you Bill.
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Oh man, prog party in my backyard :lol
No way, this is my backyard! :lol
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Now, now boys. No fighting over us.
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Now, now boys. No fighting over us.
There's plenty of shmegland to go around. :lol
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Thanks everyone!
Evening guys!
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Hey yo. Just on my way to the basement (home gym) to workout. Thinking of putting in a DT blu-ray. Breaking the Fourth Wall seems in order.
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Now, now boys. No fighting over us.
There's plenty of shmegland to go around. :lol
I'll take your breath away. Literally.
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Hey yo. Just on my way to the basement (home gym) to workout. Thinking of putting in a DT blu-ray. Breaking the Fourth Wall seems in order.
I've been listening to the Score for the first time since the album release. I can't believe so much time has passed.
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Hey yo. Just on my way to the basement (home gym) to workout. Thinking of putting in a DT blu-ray. Breaking the Fourth Wall seems in order.
And I was there for that show.
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Hey yo. Just on my way to the basement (home gym) to workout. Thinking of putting in a DT blu-ray. Breaking the Fourth Wall seems in order.
And I was there for that show.
I was at R40 recording. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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E like we didn't talk about that in Montreal and I drunken stupor. as I have your chocolate salty balls.
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Morning.
My back hurts like crazy after sleeping last night. I wonder if it's the mattress, urgh, I hate getting old.
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SUCK SHIT OLD MAN
oh wait....
Morning!
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Morning.
My back hurts like crazy after sleeping last night. I wonder if it's the mattress, urgh, I hate getting old.
Tell me about it. I started feeling like real shit last night after I finished shoveling/blowing. I got a new blower but the snow was so thick and wet that I still needed to shovel a bit, but either way I think my body broke down last night and Im still feeling it today and called out of work.
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I was IM with another Site Manager a few minutes ago and you know you've been in this forum too long when you type "blobing" instead of "blowing" when talking about removing snow. :lol
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I was IM with another Site Manager a few minutes ago and you know you've been in this forum too long when you type "blobing" instead of "blowing" when talking about removing snow. :lol
As long as you don't start sending messages about getting a blob job, it's all good.
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That would mean that King would be talking to another site manager about getting Blow Jobs.
Ummm...
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I was IM with another Site Manager a few minutes ago and you know you've been in this forum too long when you type "blobing" instead of "blowing" when talking about removing snow. :lol
As long as you don't start sending messages about getting a blob job, it's all good.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996359/
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That would mean that King would be talking to another site manager about getting Blow Jobs.
Ummm...
I didn't mean messages to managers. :lol But whatever floats his boat.
And Wtf Zydar. :lol
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That would mean that King would be talking to another site manager about getting Blow Jobs.
Ummm...
you silly Californians no nothing of snow. Plus I don't have to talk to get one. :biggrin:
I was IM with another Site Manager a few minutes ago and you know you've been in this forum too long when you type "blobing" instead of "blowing" when talking about removing snow. :lol
As long as you don't start sending messages about getting a blob job, it's all good.
Well a blob job would never happen if you blob.
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Morning DTF.
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Morning Zydar
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LOL That's amazing. Morning.
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Morning bitches. What are you up to on this fine....... whatever day of the week it is.
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#1 bitch checking in! For my birthday my brother bought tickets to see Eric Johnson tonight and we are hitting a brewery first.
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Sounds like a good time King. I think Eric is coming here but I won’t be in town when he does.
Nothin new here, I’m just waiting for lunch time so I can hit up my favorite deli.
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One of my oldest friends is getting married in June and I am the best man. As a gift, I wanted to put together a really classy poker set for him as he currently has/uses my old secondary set.
I ordered 500, 14 gram clay chips with specific patterns and denominations for this custom set. The chips come in sleeves of 25. My package came heavily damaged, and in my email to the company I said something close to the following; 7 of my x25 count sleeves broke open during transit and some chips fell out of the hole in the box. I am short x4 of the $100 chips, and x10 of the $500 chips (14 chips total).
After nearly two weeks of going back and forth (the initial support guy I dealt with got the flu and ghosted) I received a confirmation email last night saying my replacements have been shipped out. As a replacement, they're sending me;
- 7 rolls of the $25 chips
- 4 rolls of the $100 chips
- 10 rolls of the $500 chips
They appear to be sending me 525 replacement chips when only 14 were missing from my original order of 500. This is usually the type of thing I'd be honest about, but I'm having a hard time wanting to reach back out to this company. The second time I called them I had to deal with a really grumpy guy that couldn't speak English well (this is a US based company), and this happened as a result.
The extra chips are kind of useless seeing as the wooden case I got as part of the gift only holds 500 chips, and I already have a set of my own. Granted, these new chips are way nicer than the ones I have, so I might just order a few extra rolls and make myself a nice set as well.
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Yea, I think going back and trying to sort that out for thier benefit isn't worth it for you and maybe not even for them since the shipping costs back and maybe their own time spent on understanding the situation just isn't worth it.
Yesterday I went to McDonalds drive through for breakfast and my local McD has a two lane drive through the merges before you pay. The guy in one lane ordered after me yet proceeded to cut me off in the merge point. I didn't resist, jsut figured whatever. I pay and realize that I paid only 1/3 of what I was supposed to. Then I see the guy in front of me getting what looks like my food. It becomes obvious his cutting me off lead to him paying for and receiving my larger order. The guy didn't say anything even though his order was for one sandwich alone, mine was for two and a coffee and orange juice. The guy didn't say anything probably because he thought he was getting free stuff. He paid for it that's for sure. I pull up to the pick up window and explain what happened and told them i'd pay my difference, but they let me go with my original order and only paying for what they other guy ordered. Shit happens. The honest person walked out with the better deal.
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People are the worst.
Funny how that's always relevant. :lol
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I definitely have a conscience about this kind of stuff - I try to always give back wrong change, whether it benefits me or not, etc. - because while I don't literally believe in "karma" as it's usually presented, I do believe we reap the energies we sow, and besides, selfishly, it makes me feel better. But having said that, in dealing with businesses, I've sort of rationalized the difference between "honest human mistake" and what you might call "benevolent customer service". I certainly am not going to let a cashier take the hit to his/her tray because of a miscount in change; I can help him/her with that. But for example, I got a wrong CD once from a vendor on Discogs. When I contacted him about it, he acknowledged it, gave the refund, and said "keep the original disk". And I did, without compunction. I suppose I could have done him a solid and sent it back anyway, but he's a businessman, he can make that decision.
If I was in your spot, I would try to figure out if it was a mistake, or if it was "customer service" (I don't think you said, but it also depends on how much the difference between 525 and 14 is; if they are $7.50 a chip, I'm probably calling them. If it's $0.10 a chip, not a shot.)
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I definitely have a conscience about this kind of stuff - I try to always give back wrong change, whether it benefits me or not, etc. - because while I don't literally believe in "karma" as it's usually presented, I do believe we reap the energies we sow, and besides, selfishly, it makes me feel better. But having said that, in dealing with businesses, I've sort of rationalized the difference between "honest human mistake" and what you might call "benevolent customer service". I certainly am not going to let a cashier take the hit to his/her tray because of a miscount in change; I can help him/her with that. But for example, I got a wrong CD once from a vendor on Discogs. When I contacted him about it, he acknowledged it, gave the refund, and said "keep the original disk". And I did, without compunction. I suppose I could have done him a solid and sent it back anyway, but he's a businessman, he can make that decision.
If I was in your spot, I would try to figure out if it was a mistake, or if it was "customer service" (I don't think you said, but it also depends on how much the difference between 525 and 14 is; if they are $7.50 a chip, I'm probably calling them. If it's $0.10 a chip, not a shot.)
They're $0.31 per chip. The chips by themselves were $155 dollars before shipping. I bought the case, the timer, the buttons, and the card decks elsewhere.
This was 100% due to a breakdown in communication between the customer service department and the warehouse. In my original email I included a picture of the damaged box, a picture of the box open with a bunch of lose chips at the bottom, and then all the chips colored out next to the invoice. In both the email and on the invoice I was very specific about how many of which chips I was missing, and provided photographic evidence of it as well.
I could post the original reach out email once I'm home tonight.
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I'm kinda of the belief that it's not my job to fix a mistake made in my favour. If it's simple enough for me to correct (someone gives me a $20 in change when I should've only gotten $10), I'm honest about it. I'm with Stadler in his approach - I'm not going out of my way (or out of my pocket) to help someone rectify an error they made on my business.
Good deal for you Bri. :tup
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What a fucking suck-ass start to the day. 5:20am ... eldest dog barking to be let out cuz the fucker wouldn't get off his ass at midnight to go for a whiz before bedtime. 6:25am... said dog is now whining to be fed - had to get up and put him in his place, which he could tell by the pace of my footsteps he was in trouble, and slinked ashamedly to his pillow. 7:30am, I finally get up to feed them and brew coffee... oh wait, coffee maker sez "fuck you". It's on the fritz. Had to go to Timmy's for a couple of coffees, and now have to go coffee-maker shopping - most of what I see online is crap.
So far, Saturday can go fuck itself.
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Fuck. Bad start there Chad.
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Fuck. Bad start there Chad.
Yeah... and four stores later, no one has a decent coffee machine. Found one online at BestBuy (exact same model we have right now), so I'm going down to that store to get it. Not the way I intended to burn my Saturday morning.
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The gf booked an airbnb in Cape May for the evening, we went to an alpacca farm and just did a tour of Cape May Brewing Co, which was really cool. Now enjoying a flight together. :yarr
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Fuck. Bad start there Chad.
Yeah... and four stores later, no one has a decent coffee machine. Found one online at BestBuy (exact same model we have right now), so I'm going down to that store to get it. Not the way I intended to burn my Saturday morning.
Get a French press.
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The gf booked an airbnb in Cape May for the evening, we went to an alpacca farm and just did a tour of Cape May Brewing Co, which was really cool. Now enjoying a flight together. :yarr
I'm not sure I can trust her! :lol
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while I don't literally believe in "karma" as it's usually presented, I do believe we reap the energies we sow,
WUT?? It's the same fucking thing!!! :lol
Don't try and confuse us! That's bad karma. Or energy... ;D
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while I don't literally believe in "karma" as it's usually presented, I do believe we reap the energies we sow,
WUT?? It's the same fucking thing!!! :lol
Don't try and confuse us! That's bad karma. Or energy... ;D
Stadler's motto - if you can't convince 'em ... confuse 'em.
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I see you have a new sig. :lol
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I see you have a new sig. :lol
For the moment. ;)
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Morning gang. Lost an hour today, feels like my day has been thrown off.
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Morning Reap. I was so gassed last night I went to bed at 930pm.
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Morning! I went to bed really early at 3:30am because I was super tired, then woke up at a stupidly early am hour and couldn't get back to sleep, so I'm already tired.
And Reap, I couldn't sign in to Twitch on my laptop today because of that stupid two factor authentication where I used your number thingy, and I couldn't disable it because that also requires your number thingy. :lol
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Morning Blob. I have too many passwordsthese days to remember.
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I have way to many as well, mainly from my job. My corporate iPad, blackberry, laptop all require a different set of 8 character length passwords changed every 90 days. It's a huge pain in the ass especially since I only use my work blackberry once a month and my ipad only for software releases.
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I have way to many as well, mainly from my job. My corporate iPad, blackberry, laptop all require a different set of 8 character length passwords changed every 90 days. It's a huge pain in the ass especially since I only use my work blackberry once a month and my ipad only for software releases.
Dear lord, THIS!!! Bugs the crap out of my that my company doesn't have everything linked to a SSO. Now that I just passed 90 days on the job, I'm unsure which systems are taking my new password, and which are still on the original one I setup.
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lol we have this too. We have an encryption at the boot of the BIOS, the issue is I'll change my SSO password on my laptop and it'll never update the BIOS encryption password so a month down the road I'm trying to scramble to try and remember what my old password is.
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I have way to many as well, mainly from my job. My corporate iPad, blackberry, laptop all require a different set of 8 character length passwords changed every 90 days. It's a huge pain in the ass especially since I only use my work blackberry once a month and my ipad only for software releases.
Dear lord, THIS!!! Bugs the crap out of my that my company doesn't have everything linked to a SSO. Now that I just passed 90 days on the job, I'm unsure which systems are taking my new password, and which are still on the original one I setup.
I just go one number higher with each update. Let's say for example my original password was "Authenticate.". My password now after 3.5 years is "Authenticate.14".
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Ahh lol I've tried that but it checked for too many of the same characters, it's a real motherfucker.
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I have way to many as well, mainly from my job. My corporate iPad, blackberry, laptop all require a different set of 8 character length passwords changed every 90 days. It's a huge pain in the ass especially since I only use my work blackberry once a month and my ipad only for software releases.
Dear lord, THIS!!! Bugs the crap out of my that my company doesn't have everything linked to a SSO. Now that I just passed 90 days on the job, I'm unsure which systems are taking my new password, and which are still on the original one I setup.
I just go one number higher with each update. Let's say for example my original password was "Authenticate.". My password now after 3.5 years is "Authenticate.14".
Yea, that's what I do. Also my company made a new policy that if your password is 12 or more characters then you only have to change it once a year so I went that route with a number in the middle of the password that I keep updating every time. And luckily we have SSO tied to everything so I only need one PW.
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GE was truly SSO: one password, and I, like some here, just increased one number each time. My new company is nominally "SSO", but I still have about five different passwords, with different protocols, and it's obnoxious. Ironically, in my view, it's LESS secure, since I have no choice but to write them down, carry them with me... it's really just a matter of finding my post-it and BOOM.
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I use Password Keeper. So if anyone can crack my password there, I'm fucked 8 ways to Sunday.
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I use Password Keeper. So if anyone can crack my password there, I'm fucked 8 ways to Sunday.
Morning. Is that an app Chad?
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I use Password Keeper. So if anyone can crack my password there, I'm fucked 8 ways to Sunday.
Morning. Is that an app Chad?
Yup... on my phone, web-based, sync's across any device. Allows me to share specific folders with people (eg, jingle.kids ... I can track their passwords for them, but not grant them access to all of mine). It's called KeeperSecurity. $30/year.
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I use Password Keeper. So if anyone can crack my password there, I'm fucked 8 ways to Sunday.
Morning. Is that an app Chad?
Yup... on my phone, web-based, sync's across any device. Allows me to share specific folders with people (eg, jingle.kids ... I can track their passwords for them, but not grant them access to all of mine). It's called KeeperSecurity. $30/year.
Mmnnnn. I might look into this. Thanks.
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Happy Birthday Joe!!
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Happy Birthday Joe!!
Thank you Brian! The big 50.
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Happy Birthday Joe!!
Thank you Brian! The big 50.
You gotta get a pic with your bro, and him shaping his body like a "5". lol
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Happy birthday! :yarr
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Happy Birthday Joe!!
Thank you Brian! The big 50.
You gotta get a pic with your bro, and him shaping his body like a "5". lol
I always say we look like the #10 when we stand next to each other. LOL
Happy birthday! :yarr
YAR! Thank you!
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Good morning folks.
Annnnd Happy Birthday Joe.
Today is going to be a long one. Gotta catch up on a bunch of shit from the weekend, then off at 3:30, going home, showering, shaving, and putting on a suit, and then have to come back to work by 5 or 5:30. Meeting my boss and then some big meeting with our client here. We are completely in the dark in regards to what it's about though.
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Happy Birthday Joe! I hope you have a killer night.
What's happening Jay! Good luck with whatever is happening tomorrow.
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Happy Birthday Joe!!
Thank you Brian! The big 50.
Yeah, baby! Milestone!
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Happy Birthday Joe!!
Thank you Brian! The big 50.
Yeah, baby! Milestone!
Thre wife keeps bugging me, "Do you feel different"? I told her, "No, I'm not a girl and think about these things". :lol
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Of course you don't feel any different. You've been feeling like you're 50 for the last 10 years! ;D
I know I have.. :lol
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Of course you don't feel any different. You've been feeling like you're 50 for the last 10 years! ;D
I know I have.. :lol
No joke! :lol
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I'm stuck 15 feet in front of my driveway. The town did not plow my road yet and I slid sideways and I am close to a ditch. New tires and all. Luckily, I have AAA and I'm waiting for them to tow me 15 feet.
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:lol that's terrible, I guess at least you can wait in your home
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I'm in my car. :lol
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First full day of being 50, and he drives into a ditch! :facepalm:
Instead of AAA, try AARP!
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Put your old man glasses on and read again. I'm not in a ditch. I'm near a ditch and if I try to drive I'll slide again and then I could go in it. Not taking a chance. So I have AAA I will use AAA
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Evening everyone
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Morning. 27 inches of snow. We got the mother load in NH.
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:omg:
Sounds miserable
Beautiful day here outside NYC. Leaving a bit early today and heading right to the city for the Nightwish show then I took the next two days off since I have so much vacation time I need to burn this year so what the hell, long weekend :metal
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Yikes. That's rough, King!
Sitting at home waiting for Mrs. P to pick me up and drive me to my endoscopy appointment. My mouth is dry, my stomach is making a ton of noise...I just want this shit over with.
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Yikes. That's rough, King!
Sitting at home waiting for Mrs. P to pick me up and drive me to my endoscopy appointment. My mouth is dry, my stomach is making a ton of noise...I just want this shit over with.
Been there. I had that and a colonoscopy at the same time 10 years ago. It was like a pig roast. :lol
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:lol
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Yikes. That's rough, King!
Sitting at home waiting for Mrs. P to pick me up and drive me to my endoscopy appointment. My mouth is dry, my stomach is making a ton of noise...I just want this shit over with.
Been there. I had that and a colonoscopy at the same time 10 years ago. It was like a pig roast. :lol
Yeah, I got DP'd about four years ago, too. When I woke up, the Doctor came in and told me everything was okay and handed me a piece of chocolate. I looked at it, then at him, then back at it, and said, "Where did you find this?"
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:lol
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:lol
If the doctor was Bill Murray it came from the pool.
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Yeah, I got DP'd about four years ago, too. When I woke up, the Doctor came in and told me everything was okay and handed me a piece of chocolate. I looked at it, then at him, then back at it, and said, "Where did you find this?"
He should've answered "million to one shot".
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Evening guys, had one hell of a day today.
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That was my yeaterday Reap. What happened?
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This morning we had an eaco call which means it's production issue and everyone has to be on deck trying to figure out what's going on. It's a pain in the ass because these calls disrupt our normal work and 99% of the time it's something that our offshore team did. Then we had to do some testing for our upcoming software release however our most senior colleague never does any testing and when she does, she has no idea what she is doing. She is the type that has been with the company forever and just does enough work to scrape by.
We were also peppered with stupid ass questions from other departments trying to side step major compliance policies. It was mentally draining due to incredible amount of collective stupidity.
How was your day King?
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First shift was quiet. Second shift started out shaky. One guy ask to be late since he lied where you live so his kids can go to a better school and now they found out and they going to kick his kids out and then another employee whose 19 has an abscess tooth it is too dumb to call dentist which he has insurance through us and get something set up.
I'm like a dad and have the setup things for him.
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How many people do you manage king?
Morning my dudes
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Morning.
Doc says I've nothing to worry about, just some irritation in my stomach lining. Then he said, just in case, he took some biopsy material from my esophagus, stomach and small intestine. I hope he's not talking out of both sides of his mouth. :|
Anyway, when he was done talking, he handed me a couple of bite sized chocolate bars--you know, like the ones you give out at Halloween--and I said, "Do you remember what I said the last time you handed me chocolate?" He really studied my face for a few seconds--almost like it was the first time he was seeing a person rather than an assembly line object--and started snickering, shook his head and mumbled, "Where'd you get those."
Close enough. :)
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How many people do you manage king?
Morning my dudes
23 employees.
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Good Morning.
So... had an attempted burglary on Tuesday- which I thwarted. The vehicle the suspect was driving is a 4 door porche owned by another resident on the property. I've spent 3 days now working with Police investigating this as we believe it's connected to a string of Burglaries from last month.
And I currently have 12 unmarked cop cars sitting on my property... a state insurance fraud search warrant getting served.
OH AND I have a vandalism I am looking into from last night.
IT NEVER ENDS
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So much bad people in the world Jay.
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People are the worst.
I say that a lot, but it continues to be true.
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People are the worst.
I say that a lot, but it continues to be true.
And so sad to say or type. it really is.
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People are the worst.
I say that a lot, but it continues to be true.
And so sad to say or type. it really is.
Eh, my cynicism has made me indifferent to the whole thing.
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We all get numb to it.
I just booked the hotel for the musical festival I'm going to in May.
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23 employees is no small feat.
What festival are you going to?
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We all get numb to it.
I just booked the hotel for the musical festival I'm going to in May.
Sweet. Now get your ass to Morsefest in September so we can hang out. :hat
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You know what. Sometime we will do that Kev!
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23 employees is no small feat.
What festival are you going to?
RoSfest in Gettysburg PA. Got another festival in NJ in October.
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You know what. Sometime we will do that Kev!
Yes, at Morsefest this year, right? RIGHT?? :coolio
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I just googled Morsefest. God that looks awful. I see Matt Smith is performing. He is amazing.
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You know what. Sometime we will do that Kev!
Yes, at Morsefest this year, right? RIGHT?? :coolio
Not this year. 2 festivals and a new porch. Money is flying out of our wazzoo.
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I just googled Morsefest. God that looks awful. I see Matt Smith is performing. He is amazing.
Wrong! It is Neal Morse, therefore it'll be great! I mean, what other musician could get me to a church for a concert?? :lol :lol
Not this year. 2 festivals and a new porch. Money is flying out of our wazzoo.
Excuses, excuses! :P
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But, but, but it's a good excuse!
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I just googled Morsefest. God that looks awful. I see Matt Smith is performing. He is amazing.
The 11th Doctor Who? ???
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Finally friday!
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Morning Reaper.
Gonna be a hot weekend here. 37C and 41C. And it's not even Summer any more!
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That sucks Blob, it's going to be a cold and wet weekend here. I want to start riding my bike to work but it's still too cold.
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Tomorrow morning it will be -13.33 Celsius.
You want that Blob?
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Tomorrow morning it will be -13.33 Celsius.
You want that Blob?
I don't know. We've never had that temperature ever. :lol
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:lol
You are ready for fall, I am ready for spring.
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I'm always ready for Winter, man. Even in the middle of Winter, I'm glad as fuck it ain't Summer. :hat
But, you know, that's an Australian Winter, not like a real Winter. :lol
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I would say that but Buffalo and Canada would mock me. :lol
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And Antarctica would mock them. And then the absolute zero of space would mock them all.
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I know you're not a big superhero guy but I DVR'd the new series Krypton on SYFY.
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I assume it has something to do with red/blue underpants man? Hollywood needs to get over the superhero fad already.
On the plus side, I found out today that one of my favourite current scifi shows, Travelers, has started shooting its third season. :metal
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You won't see him though. It's about the demise of Krypton.
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Just what we need; another unnecessary prequel nobody asked for! This is why we can't have nice things.
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Just what we need; another unnecessary prequel nobody asked for! This is why we can't have nice things.
Hey, If I don't like it I can easily delete the recording. Did I tell you my DVR is my mistress?
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FUCK YEAH!!!
MY WIFE JUST GOT A NEW JOB FOR $4 MORE AN HOUR!!!!
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Awesome!
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FUCK YEAH!!!
MY WIFE JUST GOT A NEW JOB FOR $4 MORE AN HOUR!!!!
That's awesome. Congrats!!!
(Now MORE money can come out of that wazoo of yours!!! At least that's how it works in my fam.)
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The money is always welcomed but her psyche was more important here. The place was killing her.
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Good Morning Peeps.
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Brother, I know the feeling; my wife went through that about a year and a half ago. She finally found a gig she likes and it's like a different world. I sincerely hope your wife can find that "sunlight".
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Just what we need; another unnecessary prequel nobody asked for! This is why we can't have nice things.
Hey, If I don't like it I can easily delete the recording. Did I tell you my DVR is my mistress?
I thought cake was your mistress. How many mistresses do you have?
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Joe is a whore.
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Just what we need; another unnecessary prequel nobody asked for! This is why we can't have nice things.
Hey, If I don't like it I can easily delete the recording. Did I tell you my DVR is my mistress?
I thought cake was your mistress. How many mistresses do you have?
When you're the king, you leave bitches everywhere.
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Joe is a whore.
Yup. Hey jay!
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Brother, I know the feeling; my wife went through that about a year and a half ago. She finally found a gig she likes and it's like a different world. I sincerely hope your wife can find that "sunlight".
She is sooooo damn happy right now. She just went in and gave her notice and is now going out with my dad for lunch getting seafood right next to the ocean. I love that restaurant she is going to.
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Just what we need; another unnecessary prequel nobody asked for! This is why we can't have nice things.
Hey, If I don't like it I can easily delete the recording. Did I tell you my DVR is my mistress?
I thought cake was your mistress. How many mistresses do you have?
When you're the king, you leave bitches everywhere.
I can verify this.
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Brother, I know the feeling; my wife went through that about a year and a half ago. She finally found a gig she likes and it's like a different world. I sincerely hope your wife can find that "sunlight".
She is sooooo damn happy right now. She just went in and gave her notice and is now going out with my dad for lunch getting seafood right next to the ocean. I love that restaurant she is going to.
You don't have to give specifics, but where is "ocean" for you? Boston has some great restaurants along the water, and I lived in Portsmouth, NH for a while and LOVE some of the restaurants there. There's one in downtown where you can sit on the dock, eat fresh seafood and watch the boats come in. That's my idea of the perfect afternoon.
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NH. The town is Rye, N.H. The drive is right on the coastline. You see the mansions and the ocean. It's a beautiful view. It's right past Hampton Beach.
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FUCK YEAH!!!
MY WIFE JUST GOT A NEW JOB FOR $4 MORE AN HOUR!!!!
Hmmm, sounds like money that could be well spent...on going to Morsefest!! :metal :metal
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:lol.
Trust me. The wifey would love to.
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Evening guys
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Hey yo. Just watchin the Raptors, hopefully pull out another OT win against team with a terrible record.
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Celts just beat Orlando. Score doesn't tell the tale of a blowout that it was.
We were just in the Amway Center for Magic/Knicks last month. Holy crap is that arena huge!
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I'm trying to think if I want to go on the huge St. Patty's day pub crawl. I guess it really depends on the weather
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When I think of 'pub crawl', Officer Murtaugh's famous quote instantly comes to mind
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Now I'm watching Transformers Age of Extinction. I hate myself right now.... I'm not quite sure why I subject myself to this filth.
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Now I'm watching Transformers Age of Extinction. I hate myself right now.... I'm not quite sure why I subject myself to this filth.
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
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:lol
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Thank god that's over with. Stanley Tucci was the only redeeming quality of that movie.
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Morning gang, looks like it's going to rain so I'm going to pass on the bar crawl and just have some bloody marys at breakfast.
What's on everyone's plate today?
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Morning Reap. I'm getting my car inspected. Then having a late lunch with the wife's adoptive parents and watching a movie later.
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Nice King. My gf got her car inspected a few weeks ago and I went with her, it's a pretty simple process. Thank god my car is still registered in Florida because it wouldn't pass inspection :lol
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Lol. 1 1/2 more years and I'll get s new truck. I don't want 2 payments.
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Goin to the gym shortly... then Costco ... the walk the dogs (once it gets above 0C)... then freetime ... then watching the Leafs destroy the Habs.
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I approve of that destruction.
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I wasn’t planning on going to the dog park today but my dog was able to convince me it was a good idea
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Morning suckas.
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Morning king.
And who you callin' sucka, sucka?
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Morning king.
And who you callin' sucka, sucka?
Whoever it is, I can dig it.
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(https://media0.giphy.com/media/YCM6aRw2Chenu/200.gif)
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I feel like I need to continue this conversation as Clubber Lane.
My prediction? Pain.
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I feel like I need to continue this conversation as Clubber Lane.
My prediction? Pain.
Nah...
(https://media.giphy.com/media/QdgNYNjbUtTMc/giphy.gif)
Clubber Lang vs Ivan Drago would've been a helluva bout.
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If he dies, he dies.
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Go for it.
Blob, I'm watching Counterpart the series that I told you about. Ma, I think you'd love this series.
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You calling Blob a Mutha?
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Ma, man. Mouth fucker.
Sure!
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Go for it.
Blob, I'm watching Counterpart the series that I told you about. Ma, I think you'd love this series.
You know my stance on American scifi. My stance is that they suck at it. :lol
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Doesn't all scifi suck ?
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Go for it.
Blob, I'm watching Counterpart the series that I told you about. Ma, I think you'd love this series.
You know my stance on American scifi. My stance is that they suck at it. :lol
This is filmed in Germany. The American actor is J.K. Simmons. He's an amazing actor. Not your average scifi.
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Morning dudes
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Morning Reap!
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Go for it.
Blob, I'm watching Counterpart the series that I told you about. Ma, I think you'd love this series.
You know my stance on American scifi. My stance is that they suck at it. :lol
This is filmed in Germany. The American actor is J.K. Simmons. He's an amazing actor. Not your average scifi.
Oh... I've seen the preview for that. Seems pretty cool. Sadly, it's only available on Crave here in Canada (streaming service), and I ain't paying for any more of those.
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What's happening my dudes?
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Doesn't all scifi suck ?
No. You suck.
Go for it.
Blob, I'm watching Counterpart the series that I told you about. Ma, I think you'd love this series.
You know my stance on American scifi. My stance is that they suck at it. :lol
This is filmed in Germany. The American actor is J.K. Simmons. He's an amazing actor. Not your average scifi.
I don't care where it's filmed, it's still Murican!
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(https://media0.giphy.com/media/YCM6aRw2Chenu/200.gif)
Awwwww shucky ducky!
G'morning all.
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Blob, blob, blob, blob. I'm serious. This is "that" good.
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I will second king's recommendation. It's really good.
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Blob, blob, blob, blob. I'm serious. This is "that" good.
You know I'm a fussy son of a bitch.
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The attention to details is pristine. Read up on it a bit and try 3 or 4 episodes .
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The attention to details is pristine. Read up on it a bit and try 3 or 4 episodes .
I ain't going to that much trouble to see if a show is worth watching or not. I'll give it one episode. Maybe. If I feel like it. And only because I like you.
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That's all I can ask for.
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Alright king, I just watched the first episode. For the most part it was quite good, and has a lot of potential to be great depending on which direction it goes from the basic setup. Can't tell yet.
My only real gripe was how unbelievable the flower thing was. He had so many chances to recall such an obvious part of his routine, it just felt forced for the sake of giving that chick something to notice was off. Besides that, I liked everything else about it. I especially like that there's a parallel universe that has a recent divergence point to explain why it's relatively so similar. It never makes sense in parallel universe type stories that you still somehow have the exact same characters despite how different the universes fundamentally are.
First episode gets a B+ from me. I'll watch more and see how it goes.
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Excellent. There is so much more that comes with each episode. I think the soft Howard Silk is so naive that he could miss that type of detail.
There's a lot of espionage in this series and the why is interesting.
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Excellent. There is so much more that comes with each episode. I think the soft Howard Silk is so naive that he could miss that type of detail.
I excused it when he missed that detail at the house. Then the dolt finally remembered the flowers. Ah good, he's going to tell him now. Nope, he remembers he brings flowers, still entirely forgetting the part of his routine where he leaves a flower at the desk. Ok, it's a huge stretch, but whatever. Then last minute he remembers oh, btw let me tell you the name of the nurse there. OK BUT HOW DO YOU REMEMBER THIS WITHOUT REMEMBERING THAT IT'S RELEVANT BECAUSE YOU LEAVE A FUCKING FLOWER AT THE DESK. FUCK.
Sorry, that one just grinds my gears. The one bit of majorly dud writing in an otherwise good episode. It would have been a case of less is more, because there were just too many chances for him to correct himself for me to suspend my disbelief there.
I don't care about espionage. Give me split screen double parallel universe shenanigans and more glowy scifi stuff! :lol
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Just wait. The espionage leads to darkness. So much deception.
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I DON'T WANT DARKNESS, I WANT SCIFI SHENANIGANS!
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Not like that that yet, there are hints but I'm not sure where they will go with it. Still worth the watch.
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Morning.
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Morning king!
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Trying to knock out work today. I've got to go to a wake for an employee's dad today. 55 years old. Too young to die.
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That's a shame. What was the cause?
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Cancer. I'm upset with my company because he couldn't get bereavement pay because it was his step dad. His step dad brought him up since he was 6 years old. To him, it's his dad.
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Yea that’s ridiculous King.
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Morning, guys.
Hey King, because the hotels are so expensive in Boston during graduation season (dirty, money-grubbing, bastards), the kids and Mrs. P decided to rent an apartment through Air B&B. Good price, plenty of beds and all, but what is your gut reaction to it being in Chinatown?
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Wice is weal fuckin tasty in that awea of city.
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It's a shame since our company boasts of 5 values and one is Family.
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Morning, guys.
Hey King, because the hotels are so expensive in Boston during graduation season (dirty, money-grubbing, bastards), the kids and Mrs. P decided to rent an apartment through Air B&B. Good price, plenty of beds and all, but what is your gut reaction to it being in Chinatown?
My experience is that if you said that 15 years ago, we'd say "Ooooohhhhh, you may want to rethink that..." and now it's "wow, cool! Enjoy your stay in Boston!" I could be wrong, but that's my impression.
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Morning, guys.
Hey King, because the hotels are so expensive in Boston during graduation season (dirty, money-grubbing, bastards), the kids and Mrs. P decided to rent an apartment through Air B&B. Good price, plenty of beds and all, but what is your gut reaction to it being in Chinatown?
I've been down to Chinatown for food. You are close to the waterfront and Faneuil Hall. I suggest looking at the T. It's the trains that go throughout the town.
What Stadler said. The area is very nice now.
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That was my guess as well, but it's nice to have some confirmation from you guys.
The apartment is just a few blocks from Boston Common, so if the kids want to walk the freedom trail, it will be nice to start from there. Otherwise, I think there a couple of train stations nearby so getting around won't be difficult.
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Park Street is the train station at the Common. It connects bother the Green and blue lines. There are 4 lines. You are also close to the theater district as well.
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This week is already dragggging. I leave on Thursday for our annual Vegas trip :metal :hat
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Good Morning Folks.
Twas an interesting weekend. On Saturday, other half and I went to Red Lobster for her work (Basically getting paid to talk about their "Lobster Fest" promotion. $150 worth of food.
And then Sunday we went down to a taping of an America's Got Talent Audition taping. It was interesting. Fun Fact- When there are "Golden Buzzer" crowd shots throughout the auditions, it's the same crowd. Doesn't matter what episode. They do one take of the crowd for the golden buzzers. LOOK FOR MY FAT ASS.
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This week is already dragggging. I leave on Thursday for our annual Vegas trip :metal :hat
I love Vegas, my buddies and I trying to plan a trip before my buddy has his first child.
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I kept fighting and got my guy his bereavement pay.
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Good on ya Joe :tup
Oh man, I'm way overdue for a trip to Vegas.
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I kept fighting and got my guy his bereavement pay.
The sign of a great manager / leader. Well done sir
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I kept fighting and got my guy his bereavement pay.
The sign of a great manager / leader. Well done sir
Nice, and yea, that's a very good manager going to battle for your guys.
I got a raise today! 4.4% which is much better than any previous yearly raise I've gotten as my year review was also much better than previous ones (I have no idea why I got rated more highly than before as I feel my work efforts have slightly gone down over the years) but I am happy with it. Also they changed our stock option plans so part of my raise also include stock that is just given to me, not options that I need to buy. So for that, I am even happier. :metal
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I kept fighting and got my guy his bereavement pay.
You're a good guy. At least that's some small consolation for him during such a bad time.
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I kept fighting and got my guy his bereavement pay.
The sign of a great manager / leader. Well done sir
Word. I'm really impressed. Nice job.
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I kept fighting and got my guy his bereavement pay.
The sign of a great manager / leader. Well done sir
Word. I'm really impressed. Nice job.
I completely disagree. Not impressive at all.
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:lol
Adami, I forgive you.
Thanks guys but it's really not about me, it's about my employee who deserved it.
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When I grow up, I wanna be just like Joe.
So... I'm looking at pulling a 16+ hour shift on Wednesday night. A good portion of it would be with my 2 new leads I am promoting. Working at night during a storm and planned power outage.
It's going to be a team building exercise! Lmao
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Who says I've grown up?
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Grow round?
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Fo sho. Like Homer.
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Morning. More damn snow tomorrow. Enough with the white stuff.
Blob, not your white stuff.
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I kept fighting and got my guy his bereavement pay.
You're a really good manager and great guy King!
Morning everyone. Nursing a hangover :/
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Morning. More damn snow tomorrow. Enough with the white stuff.
Blob, not your white stuff.
You mean Zydar's white stuff. I keep my nose clean.
Morning chumps!
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Morning. More damn snow tomorrow. Enough with the white stuff.
Goddamn!
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Morning. More damn snow tomorrow. Enough with the white stuff.
Blob, not your white stuff.
You mean Zydar's white stuff. I keep my nose clean.
Morning chumps!
So you snort clean? :lol
Morning. More damn snow tomorrow. Enough with the white stuff.
Goddamn!
When a Canadian responds like this it's bad. Lol
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Morning. More damn snow tomorrow. Enough with the white stuff.
Blob, not your white stuff.
You mean Zydar's white stuff. I keep my nose clean.
Morning chumps!
So you snort clean? :lol
The only thing I snort is air.
And occasionally cocaine, but don't we all?
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Funny thing, I never tried. I saw other friends and saw how it affected them and I said no bleeping way.
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This is going to completely shock you, but I haven't either.
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Yea, looks like I may be working from home tomorrow with the snow
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This is going to completely shock you, but I haven't either.
Not shocked at all. Food is my drug. I'm working on changing that.
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Funny thing, I never tried. I saw other friends and saw how it affected them and I said no bleeping way.
This is me; I had a pretty varied group of friends in college (I didn't really hang with my dorm mates, I hung with another dorm) so I saw a lot. One crowd were drinkers (my crowd), one crowd were the Dead Heads (shrooms, weed), and one crowd were the harder drugs. Those guys were fucked up, man. It just wasn't a world I wanted to hang in. No judgment , you be you, but in my little pea brain, cocaine really is the Devil's Dandruff. I didn't mind being around drunks, I didn't mind being around people that were high, but being around people coked up was a) never fun, and b) almost never led to anything good. It always seemed so... dark.
EDIT: Plus Lenny Bias died when I was a freshman (well, summer between freshman and sophomore) so there's that role model, too.
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This is going to completely shock you, but I haven't either.
Not shocked at all. Food is my drug. I'm working on changing that.
My drug is the humble PC. I am not working on changing that!
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The wife an I are staying up in Vermont for a night just to get away. Leaving Saturday morning and coming back Sunday. Beer will be plentiful.
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The wife an I are staying up in Vermont for a night just to get away. Leaving Saturday morning and coming back Sunday. Beer will be plentiful.
If you find yourself near Manchester CT in the morning, stop at the Cosmic Omelette for breakfast. I promise you won't regret it.
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Damn not heading that way. I should do a brewery tour in Conn and meet up Brian.
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Damn not heading that way. I should do a brewery tour in Conn and meet up Brian.
We got a ton of them in this state!
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Damn not heading that way. I should do a brewery tour in Conn and meet up Brian.
We got a ton of them in this state!
I know. I've been meaning to rate then and hit a few of the higher rated breweries.
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Staying in Waterbury Joe?
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Funny thing, I never tried. I saw other friends and saw how it affected them and I said no bleeping way.
This is me; I had a pretty varied group of friends in college (I didn't really hang with my dorm mates, I hung with another dorm) so I saw a lot. One crowd were drinkers (my crowd), one crowd were the Dead Heads (shrooms, weed), and one crowd were the harder drugs. Those guys were fucked up, man. It just wasn't a world I wanted to hang in. No judgment , you be you, but in my little pea brain, cocaine really is the Devil's Dandruff. I didn't mind being around drunks, I didn't mind being around people that were high, but being around people coked up was a) never fun, and b) almost never led to anything good. It always seemed so... dark.
EDIT: Plus Lenny Bias died when I was a freshman (well, summer between freshman and sophomore) so there's that role model, too.
In college, one of my first friends in my dorm that I met day 1 and had gotten along with. We used to smoke weed together and after a couple months, asked me to do coke with him. It's not my thing at all, I said no, so he started hanging out more with two other people in our dorm. A few months later, 2/3 of them dropped out of college and the other 3rd need a lot of help to get off the drug. Some people I've known defended coke as a natural drug, but I've always thought it was super addicting and maybe "too much" for me. I've had no desire to do anything besides marijuana.
I should also add that I am so not into doing any sort of Pills. I went to a work outing a couple weeks ago and there was lots of boozing and I was with a group of guys near the end of the night and next thing I know they are all taking pills and asking what I want, they had everything and called one guy "The Doc" Honestly felt really uncomfortable. I said no, and I don't think any judgement was made, but it was really odd and I almost felt like I was peer pressured a bit like in high school to smoke weed (which actually I didn't do, until I finished high school).
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Tried it once during Spring Weekend 1990.
But I didn't sniff.. ;D
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I've never had even a slight desire to try anything beyond weed, and even that I didn't dabble in until my last semester in college. Saw one of my hallmates freshman year crush up and snort some adderall before going out for the night once and it kind of freaked me out.
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Staying in Waterbury Joe?
We haven't fought that far yet. Spur of the moment decision.
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Welp today is a big day for me, I ordered my gf's engagement ring so it should be here in a few weeks and I plan on popping the question at our vacation in Napa.
I also got confirmation of my raise today so I get it at the end of April along with a new job title. I'm at a shock honestly because they have promising this position to me for months and usually just ignore it after a while and don't say anything, this time I have it writing.
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Congrats on both accounts Reap, but especially on your impending engagement! Love is the best!
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Brave New world Reap.
Really, it's easier than you think. Except for the wedding planning. That's maddening . :lol
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I'm not looking forward to it, I thought building our house was tough I think it's going to be a different ball game getting married. I think we are planning on doing something small though with limited people
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Damn not heading that way. I should do a brewery tour in Conn and meet up Brian.
I would offer my services for that event as well. :)
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I'm up for a beer orgy.
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Welp today is a big day for me, I ordered my gf's engagement ring so it should be here in a few weeks and I plan on popping the question at our vacation in Napa.
I also got confirmation of my raise today so I get it at the end of April along with a new job title. I'm at a shock honestly because they have promising this position to me for months and usually just ignore it after a while and don't say anything, this time I have it writing.
Congrats on both accounts, good shit today
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Welp today is a big day for me, I ordered my gf's engagement ring so it should be here in a few weeks and I plan on popping the question at our vacation in Napa.
I also got confirmation of my raise today so I get it at the end of April along with a new job title. I'm at a shock honestly because they have promising this position to me for months and usually just ignore it after a while and don't say anything, this time I have it writing.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zVOp5DlQ2MQ/TzO4rBdXZLI/AAAAAAAAAt4/qwC2MHP-xKA/s1600/approval-people-clapping.gif)
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Thank you Jingle, only one goal left this year and it's to get a new car for my birthday in September.
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Morning, snow is just starting to come down now and it's not going to stop today. I'm snug in my bed, "work from home"
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Describe what are you wearing in bed while working?
Remember your girlfriend thought I could be a creepy serial killer!
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Describe what are you wearing in bed while working?
Remember your girlfriend thought I could be a creepy serial killer!
maybe she was right....
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:lol
We might get less snow up here. It might stay slightly south. I', hoping for that. I'm done with snow.
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Just dropping in to say that, while on a telecon from home, wearing a headset, I was about five seconds from having a Naked Gun incident, when I realized that I wasn't on mute :lol
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Morning.
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Morning king!
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what's new in the Blob universe?
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Not much. Just been messing around with some upgraded software. That's excitement in my world. :lol
What about you?
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:lol
The wife and I are going away for an evening. Got a hotel. Just need to get away for a day.
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Doing anything in particular for the evening besides the hotel?
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Hitting a few breweries. Driving through the state. It's so damn beautiful driving through the mountains in different seasons. Getting a nice dinner that night.
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Where are you going/staying Joe?
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Driving up to Hill Farmstead first. Then heading to our hotel in Burlington, then off to Foam and then dinner at The Farmhouse Tap & Grill.
https://www.farmhousetg.com/
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Evening guys
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'Sup?
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Nothing much, I just woke up :lol
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Nothing much, I just woke up :lol
Same. :D
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Yo, bros.
Whaaatsss zzzuuuppppp?
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1/8th of the way through my coffee.
Morning.
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I just got a few sips in before getting to the office. Made my oatmeal and time to do production.
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Just finishing my coffee in the office, then probably having another :lol Been that kind of week, again. Looking forward to a weekend of blobbing
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Three more hours at the office, then it's weekend, bitches!
:friday:
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Thank good it’s Friday today, the seemed to drag on forever.
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Thank good it’s Friday today, the seemed to drag on forever.
Yes, thanks to the all might Good.
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Three more hours at the office, then it's weekend, bitches!
:friday:
We are so low on work i'm cutting people today and they are HAAAAPPPYY!!!!!
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I just got a few sips in before getting to the office. Made my oatmeal and time to do production.
Is that a euphemism for something or did you really? For some reason, I've been craving oatmeal lately and figures we don't have any...
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Nope. I just made my oatmeal. :lol
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Nope. I just made my oatmeal. :lol
:heybaby:
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The fun is Saturday night guys Giggity.
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Morning folks.
Just got my first check after my raise.
Holy shit. It was inflated by OT but still... I didn't realize how much of a difference it would make.
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Morning folks.
Just got my first check after my raise.
Holy shit. It was inflated by OT but still... I didn't realize how much of a difference it would make.
Ohhh I'm just now remembering that you owe me money.
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The wife starts her new job on April 2nd.
She'll make $4.58 more an hour. No Adami, we don't owe you any money.
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The wife starts her new job on April 2nd.
She'll make $4.58 more an hour. No Adami, we don't owe you any money.
I beg to differ!
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Ah. I'd have to pay a fee for your presence.
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The wife starts her new job on April 2nd.
She'll make $4.58 more an hour. No Adami, we don't owe you any money.
$5 makes a big difference. I am now making $5/hr more than I was this time last year.
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It sure does and that's awesome for you man. i remember you struggling. Be smart and put some away.
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It sure does and that's awesome for you man. i remember you struggling. Be smart and put some away.
OR................. or....... you could blow it all on coke and hookers and live a little while you can. Just sayin'.
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Amen.
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It sure does and that's awesome for you man. i remember you struggling. Be smart and put some away.
OR................. or....... you could blow it all on coke and hookers and live a little while you can. Just sayin'.
YOLO
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:lol
Ok, for the first month. Then let your junk cool down.
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I got a promotion with no raise.
Adami owes me money.
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I got a promotion with no raise.
Adami owes me money.
Get that Wallet out Adami.
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Hmmm. No.
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Is anyone else creeped the fuck out over ChuckSteak's avatar?
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Is anyone else creeped the fuck out over ChuckSteak's avatar?
Yes and he does seem a bit like his avatar in his postings. :lol
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Is anyone else creeped the fuck out over ChuckSteak's avatar?
YES. THANK YOU.
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yes agree :lol
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I had to turn off everyone's avatars again because of it. God, I wish there was a rule for obnoxious animated gif avatars.
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I think it's an awesome avatar!
For a psycho!
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Good afternoon all.
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Evening Axe. Enjoying one of my girl scout beers I picked up after work
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Evening, today totally sucked. So many issues with our latest project. I'm mentally and physically drained. Got home an hour ago and made a cocktail, time to blob.
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You better blob hard.
ZYDAR!! BLOB HARD!! MAKE US A MOVIE POSTER STAT!!
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Probably be something similar to this
(https://3.images.southparkstudios.com/blogs/southparkstudios.com/files/2014/02/1008-MWBZ-faq-q1.jpg?quality=0.8)
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:lol
I think that's actually him.
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Tim, I've seen the real Blob. Hes Grizzly Adams.
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:lol Yea I think he posted a pic once before and surprisingly was not similar to that picture, however, when I hear blobbing I still think of that image.
Also, a coworker looks exactly like him and does network security for the company. Totally a blobber similar to that image :lol
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Tim, I've seen the real Blob. Hes Grizzly Adams.
So Blob Barto?
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Yup. I'm jealous. If love to let my beard go wild like them.
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Probably be something similar to this
(https://3.images.southparkstudios.com/blogs/southparkstudios.com/files/2014/02/1008-MWBZ-faq-q1.jpg?quality=0.8)
I'm already doing this, except I can't grow a beard.
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Slow morning around here. Just about to head to the gym.
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Morning. Getting breakfast on our way up to Vermont.
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I just spent an hour scraping the carcasses off my back deck. Over night, a couple of days ago, we had a huge storm that dumped a couple of inches of rain. That morning I witnessed hundreds of earthworms going all Jonestown on every flat surface to be seen.
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I just got back from the dog park. It's going to rain all day so I plan on hitting the gym later and doing a boat load of nothing.
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At our hotel. It's missing the "shmeg".
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1100x1000q90/923/P8JoIY.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/f/pnP8JoIYj)
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Val-shmeg-cour?
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Honey, I'd like to use the C Entrance tonight..... :lol
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Honey, I'd like to use the C Entrance tonight..... :lol
I demand!
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Honey, I'd like to use the C Entrance tonight..... :lol
:rollin :rollin
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:zydar:
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I told Lisa, Tim asked though?
Morning.
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Morning dudes
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G'morning all.
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Good morning Axe
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How goes it Reaper?
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Morning!
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Having breakfast with the queen then taking her to the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory before we head home.
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It's going pretty well. Trying to decide on breakfast. How about you?
What's happening blob? Is today just as rage inducing as yesterday?
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What's happening blob? Is today just as rage inducing as yesterday?
I haven't come back to the things that triggered me yesterday, so I'm fine today. :lol
What are your plans for today?
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Nothing much once I get something to eat. I was going to hit the gym but I'm too sore from yesterday. I'll probably just hang around the house and play some videogames later. What about you?
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So Blob when you rage do you just sit there and stew because it's too damn hot to really rage? :lol
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It's going pretty well. Trying to decide on breakfast. How about you?
What's happening blob? Is today just as rage inducing as yesterday?
No complaints so far. Already started in on a batch of beer, hoping to have that done by lunch time.
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Nothing much once I get something to eat. I was going to hit the gym but I'm too sore from yesterday. I'll probably just hang around the house and play some videogames later. What about you?
Installed a new version of Vray, doing some 3D stuff, might stream. General blob stuff.
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Having breakfast with the queen then taking her to the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory before we head home.
Joe, not sure if you've ever heard of it, but there's a place just south Gettysburg called Boyd's Bear Country. I'm not sure if it's an actual factory per se, but there's a million bears and other gifts. I know you go there for ROSFest, but it was a neat place to visit. It's just south of Gettysburg on the main road (that goes through the battlefield).
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If we have time we definitely will Tim. Thank you!
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Nice. I just got showered and I'm free for the rest of the afternoon, I think some video games are in order.
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Alright Chad. Did you lose a bet?
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Maybe he just wanted to look pretty.
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Alright Chad. Did you lose a bet?
Indeed.
Maybe he just wanted to look pretty.
Who doesn't?
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Oddly, I prefer the new avatar. :)
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Oddly, I prefer the new avatar. :)
Sick freak!
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Maybe he just wanted to look pretty.
Takes one to know one. Where's your pretty Transformers Avatar?
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Ok, I was here to find out if Chad lost a bet, glad that was cleared out. You never know...
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I vaguely remember something about a pink Transformers avatar.
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Maybe he just wanted to look pretty.
Take a one to know one. Where's your pretty Transformers Avatar?
There's a reason I haven't bothered to change this avatar in like 7-8 years. Because I'm lazy af man.
I vaguely remember something about a pink Transformers avatar.
Hm. A variant of the old spinning logo I used to have? I did make a few variants, but I'm not sure.
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Maybe he just wanted to look pretty.
Take a one to know one. Where's your pretty Transformers Avatar?
There's a reason I haven't bothered to change this avatar in like 7-8 years. Because I'm lazy af man.
I love you Blob. Man love. I'd belly bop you but I'm too lazy.
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Maybe he just wanted to look pretty.
Take a one to know one. Where's your pretty Transformers Avatar?
There's a reason I haven't bothered to change this avatar in like 7-8 years. Because I'm lazy af man.
I love you Blob. Man love. I'd belly bop you but I'm too lazy.
That's the spirit! I was going to make a comment about doing work on a weekend, but then I realized it's actually Monday. Whatever. All the same to me.
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You're like my Dad. He's retired and doesn't know what day it is. God, I would love that.
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There are only two days for me "weekday" and "weekend", and I prefer the weekdays. :biggrin:
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Maybe he just wanted to look pretty.
Take a one to know one. Where's your pretty Transformers Avatar?
There's a reason I haven't bothered to change this avatar in like 7-8 years. Because I'm lazy af man.
I love you Blob. Man love. I'd belly bop you but I'm too lazy.
I'm picturing Rocket Robin Hood cartoons from our childhood, and Friar Tuck. https://youtu.be/y7frmyVLROQ?t=21
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Pshaw. They would be dead attacking my belly.
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Alright Chad. Did you lose a bet?
Do we know what the bet was? Am I being dense or is it a private affair?
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Alright Chad. Did you lose a bet?
Do we know what the bet was? Am I being dense or is it a private affair?
Despite your density on some topics, it is neither... Me and Kattoe made a bet in Puppies' roulette for Round 2. My last place finish secured a new avatar for this week (or so).
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You bet on yourself in a Roulette? That's like playing the lottery...
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You bet on yourself in a Roulette? That's like playing the lottery...
Betting on J Boy in a roulette is actually worse odds than the lottery.
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Working in NYC today, have a team dinner tonight. Am debating about going to the PSU bball game at the Garden tonight while I'm here but that's a 930pm tip, ugh I'm such an old man.
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It's the beginning of the end. 9:30pm was when the fun just started and now it's close to bedtime. :sadpanda:
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I went to a gig the other night that didn't start till 10pm. We were still home by 12:30am or so. No big deal. :hat
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I went to a gig the other night that didn't start till 10pm. We were still home by 12:30am or so. No big deal. :hat
That's morning to you! :lol
Who did you see?
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It's Australia so I'm guessing either Rolf Harris or Savage Garden.
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It's Australia so I'm guessing either Rolf Harris or Savage Garden.
Kylie Minogue
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I went to a gig the other night that didn't start till 10pm. We were still home by 12:30am or so. No big deal. :hat
That's morning to you! :lol
Who did you see?
Arch Enemy. 3rd time I've seen them, but first time with their current vocalist.
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Still a female vocalist?
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Still a female vocalist?
Yes. I think that's kind of their thing now. :lol
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Good Morning peeps.
Every day there's something. Was dealing with a naked guy running around the marina yesterday, and now "Stolen Plants" today.
But the plants aren't stolen.
At the very edge of the property there's a crosswalk that crosses through a median. Planted in the median are succulents. Every late Monday night / early Tuesday morning, someone has been walking through and pulling a few up / pulling branches off. It's vandalism IMO. But the landscapers really don't speak English well, and will tell people (The HOA ) that "10 plants were stolen" when in actuality someone pulled a single plant out and a few branches from another plant.
They say each of those "branches" is worth $30 a pop (?) and are getting on my ass for it happening. This is happening maybe 100yrds away from my office, on the other side of a roundabout (Which has a giant fucking tree in it) and a wall, along a public walkway. Maybe the solution is to not plant such valuable plants there over and over again.
I hate people.
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Still a female vocalist?
Yes. I think that's kind of their thing now. :lol
Wasn't the original singer male?
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Still a female vocalist?
Yes. I think that's kind of their thing now. :lol
Wasn't the original singer male?
Yeah, but nobody cares about that stuff. :biggrin:
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:lol
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It's the beginning of the end. 9:30pm was when the fun just started and now it's close to bedtime. :sadpanda:
lol yea 1030 is my bedtime these days, maybe 1130 if I'm feeling good. Getting home at 2am doesn't sound fun for a busy work week.
and yea Arch Enemy has Alyssa as the singer now. She's become quite popular since being a guest for Kamelot.
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Wow... pretty surprised DT-side isn't losing their shit. Kinda excited for the DVD - we finally get a good live release of ACOS.
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I didn't even know there was a thing, since I can't remember the last time I ventured into DT side. Got no interest in any of it these days.
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Wait. DT are releasing a new DVD?
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Wait. DT are releasing a new DVD?
Yea, please do share. I don't see it on their facebook
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Where's the official release from the band? That's weird.
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I suspect think he's jingle.trolling us?
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Jingle.troll is redundant.
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I wasn't sure if he was. Canadians are supposed to be nice. Chad, I curse at you with an "eh" after the curse.
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https://www.metalinjection.net/upcoming-releases/dream-theater-to-release-back-to-budokan-2017-live-album-soon
Guess it's not really 'new' news, but I saw it on DarkLord's FB feed an thought it was - and now that I read the PR, seems like it might not even be a DVD. Oh well. I guess it was an inadvertent mini-troll on my part.
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Well it's news that they are going to release this, it's been discussed a lot in https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=51176.0 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=51176.0) It was filmed and aired on Japanese TV apparently so I'd imagine this would also be a DVD/BR release, I certainly hope so.
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Morning Chumps.
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Morning chimp.
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I'm more of a baboon.
Yes, I admit that.
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Morning, clumps.
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I'm more of a baboon.
Yes, I admit that.
I'm more of a sloth.
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I'm more of a baboon.
Yes, I admit that.
I'm more of a sloth.
Seems like a nice thread topic. :lol
Morning, clumps.
The wife takes care of those that our kitties leave.
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Nice 3-day weekend here. Good Friday is a stat holiday, so it's actually cool for me to be doing sweet fuck-all on a weekday!
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Oh, that's right, isn't it. Happy Crucifixion Day!
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Oh, that's right, isn't it. Happy Crucifixion Day!
Break out the hammer and nails baby!
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Nice 3-day weekend here. Good Friday is a stat holiday, so it's actually cool for me to be doing sweet fuck-all on a weekday!
I think both Friday and Monday are public holidays here. Not that it reeeeally matters to me, although it sucks because I want to order something online, but it wouldn't even ship until Tuesday now.
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Nice 3-day weekend here. Good Friday is a stat holiday, so it's actually cool for me to be doing sweet fuck-all on a weekday!
I think both Friday and Monday are public holidays here. Not that it reeeeally matters to me, although it sucks because I want to order something online, but it wouldn't even ship until Tuesday now.
Apparently that's the case for our work Euro offices too. No holiday today for me, but I actually expect a fairly light day for the first time in awhile. I have jury duty monday so I'm actually kind of excited for that just because it'll be a shorter day than going to work plus work on Monday looks like it's going to suck. I will get to miss that and let my coworker handle it. I've never been to jury duty though, I'm sure it'll be really boring.
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I'm in the office today. For whatever reason we don't have today off. The bossman is letting us leave at noon though.
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Tomorrow should be a holiday for my dad. It's the opening of his favorite ice cream stand. Hodgies Ice cream. We are all going as a family tomorrow.
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Afternoon dudes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0
:friday:
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At work, was hopefully going to leave but we have a massive production issue so chances are I’m staying late
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Just got home
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At work, was hopefully going to leave but we have a massive production issue so chances are I’m staying late
I know the feeling all too well, the joy of working in IT
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Yea, 4 hour emergency call but we got it fixed by 510pm and I was out of there at 515, took a lot of work lol
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AWWWW YISSSSS APRIL FOOLS THEME
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Hmmm, anyone around?
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Howdy
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How goes it?
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Not too bad, on the couch with some beer. Yourself?
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Ugh, I got distracted again. Still there?
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Ugh, I got distracted again. Still there?
I am. Sup baby?
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Hey Adami.
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Hey Adami.
You're not baby.
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Greetings and salutations
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Hey Adami.
You're not baby.
(https://i.imgur.com/b2F8CB8.gif)
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Happy Easter everyone!!!! :metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWq3f01e2U
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Easter!?!? EASTER!?!?! It's April Fool's Day!
Wonder if it was April 1st on the first Easter, and Jesus was all "Gotchya!"
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Jesus Chad.
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:rollin
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Easter!?!? EASTER!?!?! It's April Fool's Day!
Wonder if it was April 1st on the first Easter, and Jesus was all "Gotchya!"
I wonder if everyone heard about Jesus rising from the dead, but just assumed it was an April Fools Day prank so didn't bother to go and see him.
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They did go but he wasn't there. April Fools followers!
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Hey Gregg... I picked up a PS4 controller for the first time in months, and am trying to get re-acquainted with D2. Still only on the second level, in Karnaca. Not sure why I'm doing this to myself, since NHL Playoffs are starting in 10 days or so - and that's going to take up most of my free time.
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You know the answer Chad. Get your playoff toque ready.
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I like the sand box feel of that second level. So many ways to get around and to do shit. All of the levels are great but, few are as big and open as that one.
There is loot tucked everywhere in that level too. Makes it difficult if you're going for 100%
BTW, are you playing as Emily or Corvo?
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Easter!?!? EASTER!?!?! It's April Fool's Day!
Well, today they're one and the same ;D (yeah, I'm a bad person)
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I like the sand box feel of that second level. So many ways to get around and to do shit. All of the levels are great but, few are as big and open as that one.
There is loot tucked everywhere in that level too. Makes it difficult if you're going for 100%
BTW, are you playing as Emily or Corvo?
Emily.
No way I'll get 100%... I don't have the patience for that shit. I already did shit on escaping Dunwall - iirc, I don't think I got anything. :lol
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Good, Emily has all the new and interesting powers. Make sure you spend time practicing with "far reach" it has a kind of sling shot effect that is really cool but hard to get right.
Yeah, the escape from Dunwall is pretty difficult the way I play. Stealth, 100% loot, as close to non-lethal as I can get without restarting.
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Good morning guys! Happy Easter and April Fools day.
Went out last night and saw Joe Rogan & Tony Hinchcliff, great show.
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Went out last night and saw Joe Rogan & Tony Hinchcliff, great show.
What do they do?
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Stand up comics
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Went out last night and saw Joe Rogan & Tony Hinchcliff, great show.
What do they do?
(https://replygif.net/i/148.gif)
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Stand up comics
Cool.
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Tim, you never heard of Joe Rogan?
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I've heard of Joe Rogan, but not the other.
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Tim, you never heard of Joe Rogan?
Not that I know of? Should I have?
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he was one of the two comedians that took over the man show after both guys left. And then he did the TV show Fear Factor. He was also on News Radio. He also was a commentator on UFC fights before when mainstream
You also what's a stand-up comic that made it in the Boston area in the late 90s.
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He was the host of Fear Factor? Oh OK, I know who he is then. I didn't realize he was a comedian, too.
That show sucked BTW. It started out as a cool premise, but as time went by, it started to blow.
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Yeah I was never a fan of that show. I liked him on News Radio and his stand-up is pretty bold
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I know who Joe Rogan is, but let's not kid: he's not George Carlin or Richard Pryor. I don't think it's at all a shocking thing to say "who's Joe Rogan".
By the way, anyone notice the bottle of Siracha sauce in the new logo?
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You don't have to be one of the greats to be well-known.
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No kidding
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He was the host of Fear Factor? Oh OK, I know who he is then. I didn't realize he was a comedian, too.
That show sucked BTW. It started out as a cool premise, but as time went by, it started to blow.
I went to a casting call for that show. Got grouped with 4 other guys and a gorgeous blonde who was wearing just enough clothing to not be considered naked. Needless to say the male casting Rep. who was interviewing our group never took his eyes off her and basically interviewed her the entire time.
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You don't have to be one of the greats to be well-known.
Oh, of course not. I'm not even saying that Joe Rogan isn't one of the greats (well, he's not but he's pretty good). I'm really just saying that it's not a stretch that someone hasn't heard of him.
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This is more about Tim. This site is his only source of information. :lol
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No kidding
HEF!!! I'd say I missed you, but I 'see' you all the time on FB. But it's good to 'see' you here.
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This is more about Tim. This site is his only source of information. :lol
:rollin
You have a point there!
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No kidding
HEF!!! I'd say I missed you, but I 'see' you all the time on FB. But it's good to 'see' you here.
Good to be seen, brother!
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HRH Hefdaddy. :hefdaddy
This is more about Tim. This site is his only source of information. :lol
:rollin
You have a point there!
I know. :lol
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he was one of the two comedians that took over the man show after both guys left. And then he did the TV show Fear Factor. He was also on News Radio. He also was a commentator on UFC fights before when mainstream
You also what's a stand-up comic that made it in the Boston area in the late 90s.
Don't forget he has one of the most listened to podcasts.
He was good, not as good as Bill Burr but still funny. I had never seen Tony Hinchcliffe but he was fucking hilarious .
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I've never listened to Joe's podcast. But boy do I love Bill Burr's podcast.
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Yup the Monday Morning podcast and the Just Before Friday Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning podcast.
Check out Joe's podcasts if you're ever bored. The ones with the conspiracy theorists are usually the funniest.
If you really want a great jumping off point listen to Joe Rogan podcast where he has Tom Delonge (ex blink-182 member) on, Tom Delonge has lost his goddamn mind.
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I've got jury duty tomorrow, first time ever being summoned. I don't need to be there till 10am and it's much closer than work, so this doesn't seem like a bad option for a day. Just finished doing a basic clean of the house and now time for a cocktail and relax for my sunday evening where I don't need to get up early.
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I was sequestered as a juror and just before the case started to get bumped up to a federal case. Found out it was three murders for Chinese gang.
Sometimes I think I dodged a bullet there, literally.
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:lol this is for the county and just for a day and if I serve, then 2 more days I think. So no murders or anything super serious. If I am selected, I really do hope for something juicy to at least keep me interested. I could totally see myself dosing off if it's a lot of being bored.
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It was some scary s*** man. LOL I was actually interested in the case.
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I got called for state grand jury duty a couple years ago. Got out of it because it would have been once a week for a few months and since I don't drive it would have meant a bus ride, a long train ride, and a cab ride every week each way to/from the courthouse. It did get me basically a half day off on what would have been a busy day at the office though :D
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Can't believe it's monday already
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Doesn't feel like a Monday here because of the holiday.
Yes, I'm aware every day is a holiday for me, I meant because of everyone else. :biggrin:
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Blob, I want to suplex you right now. :lol
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What kind of suplex? Standard vertical suplex, snap suplex, german suplex, bridging german suplex, superplex, dragon suplex, belly to belly suplex?
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What kind of suplex? Standard vertical suplex, snap suplex, german suplex, bridging german suplex, superplex, dragon suplex, belly to belly suplex?
Belly-to-belly would deal the most damage.
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What kind of suplex? Standard vertical suplex, snap suplex, german suplex, bridging german suplex, superplex, dragon suplex, belly to belly suplex?
Belly-to-belly would deal the most damage.
Yeah, I had the same thought while typing that. Definitely a move that king would use on his opponents to set them up for the grammar bomb finishing move.
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I've never seen a mechanical pancake but I think I could make that happen.
BTW, my signature move as a kid was the DDT.
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BTW, my signature move as a kid was the DDT.
Or as you call it now ... BBT
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BTW, my signature move as a kid was the DDT.
Or as you call it now ... BBT
Don't you mean a BLT? :neverusethis:
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Chad, I'll guess I can try the move on you in N.J in October. We can film it for Blob. :biggrin:
Blob, like a BLT is a bad thing.
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Sitting in a room with 260 other people waiting to maybe be called for a jury, today is fun.... I really wish I had a Nintendo switch right about now
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Good Morning Folks.
I am trying to keep myself from losing my shit today.
I woke up to find that one of my oldest friends (known him since we were like 6 years old) killed himself over the weekend.
Got into work to find 10 fires needing to be put out. My patience are going to be running thin today.
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Best jury duty ever, all trials were postponed so we were all let go and it's considered completed jury duty. Will get my $5 check in the mail in a few weeks, got paid by work for the day, and I just got home so now off for the rest of the day. Not a bad way to start the week.
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Not bad at all. Almost everyone is out of the office today so it’s a fairly easy day at work. Beautiful weather too.
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Best jury duty ever, all trials were postponed so we were all let go and it's considered completed jury duty. Will get my $5 check in the mail in a few weeks, got paid by work for the day, and I just got home so now off for the rest of the day. Not a bad way to start the week.
Why were they postponed?
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Jay, I'm sorry about your loss.
I'm going to a wake tomorrow for a good friend who lost his Dad this past Thursday, 6 months after his Mother passed away.
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Best jury duty ever, all trials were postponed so we were all let go and it's considered completed jury duty. Will get my $5 check in the mail in a few weeks, got paid by work for the day, and I just got home so now off for the rest of the day. Not a bad way to start the week.
Why were they postponed?
No idea, they don't really give you any info about case specifics while waiting in the jury pool.
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:brohug: to you Jay. That's tough.
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Good Morning Folks.
I am trying to keep myself from losing my shit today.
I woke up to find that one of my oldest friends (known him since we were like 6 years old) killed himself over the weekend.
Got into work to find 10 fires needing to be put out. My patience are going to be running thin today.
Oh shit Jay I didn’t see this post. I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. I can’t imagine losing a friend like that.
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Good Morning Folks.
I am trying to keep myself from losing my shit today.
I woke up to find that one of my oldest friends (known him since we were like 6 years old) killed himself over the weekend.
Got into work to find 10 fires needing to be put out. My patience are going to be running thin today.
Oh shit Jay I didn’t see this post. I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. I can’t imagine losing a friend like that.
Tough to hear Jay.....like everyone else, sorry to hear that.
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Really sorry about your friend, Jay. (totally didn't see the post earlier) That's so sad.
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Thanks guys.
It really sucks. He had a lot of shit go on in his life. Addictions. Trouble with the law. But it seemed over the last 2 years that he had gotten his shit together. Nice job. Happy relationship. 1.5 yr old daughter.
Apparently there was still a lot of shit going on beneath the surface.
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Happy relationship. 1.5 yr old daughter.
Apparently there was still a lot of shit going on beneath the surface.
Aw man....it's heartbreaking enough to learn someone had gotten to the point where suicide seemed like the only option left. When I was much younger I used to view suicide as massively selfish and just an unforgivable offense.....but as I've aged and am starting to understand mental health issues more and more I find myself less 'angered' by suicide and just more utterly saddened when hearing about it.
Then, when you learn there is a small child involved that will never get a chance to know/meet/love her Father because of it.....it's even more brutal to digest. My heart goes out to this guys family....and you Jay.
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Happy relationship. 1.5 yr old daughter.
Apparently there was still a lot of shit going on beneath the surface.
Aw man....it's heartbreaking enough to learn someone had gotten to the point where suicide seemed like the only option left. When I was much younger I used to view suicide as massively selfish and just an unforgivable offense.....but as I've aged and am starting to understand mental health issues more and more I find myself less 'angered' by suicide and just more utterly saddened when hearing about it.
Then, when you learn there is a small child involved that will never get a chance to know/meet/love her Father because of it.....it's even more brutal to digest. My heart goes out to this guys family....and you Jay.
I could've typed that word for word.
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Happy relationship. 1.5 yr old daughter.
Apparently there was still a lot of shit going on beneath the surface.
Aw man....it's heartbreaking enough to learn someone had gotten to the point where suicide seemed like the only option left. When I was much younger I used to view suicide as massively selfish and just an unforgivable offense.....but as I've aged and am starting to understand mental health issues more and more I find myself less 'angered' by suicide and just more utterly saddened when hearing about it.
Then, when you learn there is a small child involved that will never get a chance to know/meet/love her Father because of it.....it's even more brutal to digest. My heart goes out to this guys family....and you Jay.
I could've typed that word for word.
Me too; unfortunately it took living through two losses to learn. I guess better late than never, but still...
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Evening, mortals.
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Morning, mortals.
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Morning Reap! What's up?
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Nothing much, just being sad about having to go to work. What about you?
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Not being sad about going to work. :biggrin:
Not sure if you saw it, but I uploaded a new video last night.
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Morning. I got to work early so i could go to a wake this late morning. My neighborhood friend who to this day we hang out. his dad passed away. He was my baseball coach when I was 10 years old. His mom just passed away 6 months ago. Sad, sad day.
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Not being sad about going to work. :biggrin:
Not sure if you saw it, but I uploaded a new video last night.
I didn't but I'll check it out now.
Morning. I got to work early so i could go to a wake this late morning. My neighborhood friend who to this day we hang out. his dad passed away. He was my baseball coach when I was 10 years old. His mom just passed away 6 months ago. Sad, sad day.
I'm sorry to hear that King, I hope the rest of your day goes smoothly.
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Just checked it out blob and that's great, I especially love the fireworks at the end. How long did it take you rework it?
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Just checked it out blob and that's great, I especially love the fireworks at the end. How long did it take you rework it?
Only a couple of days. It was just a quick filler idea. 75% of that time was for the extra CG creature and the music at the end. The rest was a few minutes of editing.
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Imagine if you Tarantino'd it. :lol
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Imagine if you Tarantino'd it. :lol
I've only seen one Tarantino movie, and that was over 15 years ago, so I wouldn't be much use on that. :lol
Next up should be the JJ Abrams version, and I'll just lens flare the hell out of it.
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:lol
Lots of gore and MF'ing Blob.
I laughed pretty hard with your description "lens flare the hell out of it".
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:lol
Lots of gore and MF'ing Blob.
I laughed pretty hard with your description "lens flare the hell out of it".
That's technical speak. Probably too technical for you. :blob:
Also, that much gore and swearing would not be very Youtube friendly.
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:lol
Lots of gore and MF'ing Blob.
I laughed pretty hard with your description "lens flare the hell out of it".
That's technical speak. Probably too technical for you. :blob:
Also, that much gore and swearing would not be very Youtube friendly.
Are you telling me they don't swear in Sci-fi why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking...nerfherder!
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Are you telling me they don't swear in Sci-fi why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking...nerfherder!
I find that offensive.
Star Wars isn't scifi, you petaq!
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:rollin
*Runs to Klingon wiki to find a retort*
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Good Morning folks.
Just spent an our on the phone with my Health Insurance company. This is my second month with actually insurance from them... my payment was due on 4/2. I went online and set up a payment for 4/1.
The payment I set up processed on 4/2. It also auto pulled a payment on 4/2. So I was billed 2x. I call them up.. get transferred 4x, and finally wind up speaking with someone who can help me. I had 2 options: Either apply the second payment as a credit to next month (due 5/2), or request a refund. Refunds take 30 days. I WOULDN'T BE GETTING THE REFUND UNTIL AFTER MY NEXT PAYMENT IS DUE.
Shame on me for trying to pay my bill early. This was also the first month in a while were I didn't ADHD and forget a bill.
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I fucking hate that. It's like some of these people don't have real lives. How would they feel if they - against their will - had to double pay THEIR bills? I'm guessing they'd be "screaming bloody murder!"
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Morning. Stayed overnight in the hospital because I ended up having blood clots in my lungs. Got treatment hopefully they let me go home today. lucky I got my ass in the hospital.
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Wow King that's terrible. I'm glad you got to the hospital and are hopefully ok! When did you go in?
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Last night. I knew my breathing wasn't right and lucky for me I got in on time. I'm on blood thinners now.
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Last night. I knew my breathing wasn't right and lucky for me I got in on time. I'm on blood thinners now.
When I went to the hospital with them, I initially thought I was having a heart attack. I never felt pain in my chest like that before.
I ended up having one of these put in the main artery in my leg. If I ever have another one, this device will stop it from reaching my heart/lungs/brain.
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Get well soon King, that's scary but good thing you knew something was up.
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Holy crap, glad you went in when you did Joe.
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Thanks everyone. I think from now on I will have to get monitored by my primary because it's now symptomatic but I've had blood clots in my lungs twice.
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Thanks everyone. I think from now on I will have to get monitored by my primary because it's now symptomatic but I've had blood clots in my lungs twice.
If this has happened more than once, I would highly recommend asking a nurse/doctor there about the filter I posted above. It could save your life one day.
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The still on The Middle of checking my heart I just had an echocardiogram.
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Thinking about you. Good luck.
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Thinking about you. Good luck.
Yeah Joe....you're in the prayers of the Miller household!!
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I was just told that if the echocardiogram is good, I will be sent home. I'll be on blood thinners for 3 once and for the rest of my life I'll have to be monitored for blood clots.
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I was just told that if the echocardiogram is good, I will be sent home. I'll be on blood thinners for 3 once and for the rest of my life I'll have to be monitored for blood clots.
What kind of blood thinners did they put you on? I had to do self injections in my stomach for 3 months and then take a thinner orally for the following 9. I went for follow up ultrasounds every other week for a year as well.
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No more needles. They have me on Eliquis. It's just a pill.
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Joe accepts that he's not 22 anymore. He accepts that he has to play shorter sets these days. But he never plays anything less than his best. That's why if there's something better than Warfarin, he's going for it. He takes Eliquis.
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ABoE/eliquis-bringing-my-best
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Damnit Joe. DON'T DIE ON US.
...
So I made the mistake today of scheduling 2 interviews, on the same day Payroll is due. Also... the janitor crew decided that it was time to come in and clean my office as I was interviewing person #1. So that's cool.
Payroll is normally a 2 hour thing, but these last few pay periods have been insane, as the higher ups implemented some changes that the payroll program doesn't like. So until it is resolved, most of my employee's timesheets are coming out waaaaay wrong. It's not even anything the guys are doing. The program is just stuck on stupid. So I have to spend 3x the time I'd normal spend manually correcting most people's shifts before sending it off to the payroll manager to manually input it. It's not fun.
I'm taking 10 minutes to eat and dick around on the web before my second interview comes in. Well, not eat.. except for a protein shake, as I found after heating up my cheap cup o noodles, we are out of plastic forks.
:JayOctavarium:
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Good morning guys.
Jay how is your payroll handled now? Is it on paper or is it done electronically?
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Morning. Today. I go for a walk. If my oxygen level is ok, I can go home. If the level is high, then I may need a stint.
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Morning
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Morning. Today. I go for a walk. If my oxygen level is ok, I can go home. If the level is high, then I may need a stint.
Good luck, Joe.
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What King needs is a visit from me. :-*
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Thanks Tim. Just be positive if the oxygen is good and I go home I'm still working on bettering myself which I've been doing the last few months and if I need a stent, will get it done get myself back up and kick ass.
Hey John. Just hoping to get my ass home. By the way I find out my basement flooded because the power went out last night. The hits keep coming. LOL
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This will all pass and before you know it we'll be meeting up for a concert. Time to make some adjustments, my friend.
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the last 3 months I've already been an adjustment and lost 33 pounds just think it was a little too late
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the last 3 months I've already been an adjustment and lost 33 pounds just think it was a little too late
Holy crap man.. that's awesome. Stick with it for sure.
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It's never too late. You'll bounce back from this. My father had a quadruple bypass 12 years ago, lung cancer (half of his lung was removed) five years ago, and he's still going strong. You'll be alright and even better than before.
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That's what I'm talking about. everybody around me is all worried and woe is me but I want to tackle this head on.
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the last 3 months I've already been an adjustment and lost 33 pounds just think it was a little too late
WOW!
That's awesome!!
It wasn't "too little too late". It could've been "just in time".
Thinking of you, man.
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That's what I'm talking about. everybody around me is all worried and woe is me but I want to tackle this head on.
I'm not worried. Like Magic Johnson, stay positive. :biggrin:
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How dare you use an L A man to Inspire a Boston man. :lol
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That's what I'm talking about. everybody around me is all worried and woe is me but I want to tackle this head on.
I'm not worried. Like Magic Johnson, stay positive. :biggrin:
Joe doesn't have AIDS, man! :lol
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That's what I'm talking about. everybody around me is all worried and woe is me but I want to tackle this head on.
:yarr that's the right attitude and good work on the weight loss
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Joe
You're a tough sonofabitch. You got dis.
Good morning guys.
Jay how is your payroll handled now? Is it on paper or is it done electronically?
Electronically.
At the end of the pay period, I get a print out of all of my guys' time sheets and have to verify that everything is correct. Once I've made changes and sign off, I send them back to my payroll manager (who is one of the sweetest girls in the world) and she processes it.
The problem is... a lot of the time cards are so screwed up, so I have to manually figure out what people worked (overtime and what not) and manually write out the cards. And then Payroll manager has to manually input those into the system. That's where the pain starts.
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And I'm home. Feels good. Alright, on to the next step.
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And I'm home. Feels good. Alright, on to the next step.
Im assuming by next step you mean which IPA to drink?
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Nope. I'm having sliced tomatoes, cucumbers with Mrs. Dash the no salt version
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Joe
You're a tough sonofabitch. You got dis.
Good morning guys.
Jay how is your payroll handled now? Is it on paper or is it done electronically?
Electronically.
At the end of the pay period, I get a print out of all of my guys' time sheets and have to verify that everything is correct. Once I've made changes and sign off, I send them back to my payroll manager (who is one of the sweetest girls in the world) and she processes it.
The problem is... a lot of the time cards are so screwed up, so I have to manually figure out what people worked (overtime and what not) and manually write out the cards. And then Payroll manager has to manually input those into the system. That's where the pain starts.
You should create an incentive to handing in a perfect time card. I used to do that, free dinner or something similar.
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Finally it's Friday.
Going to blob tonight, but tomorrow going to start my initial car shopping with the gf and do a costco trip before we pregame and head out to the sold out Bon Jovi concert. :yarr
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Finally it's Friday.
Going to blob tonight, but tomorrow going to start my initial car shopping with the gf and do a costco trip before we pregame and head out to the sold out Bon Jovi concert. :yarr
If that Costco sells liquor, you should buy a bottle of Elijah Craig Whiskey and drink it prior to seeing Jovi.
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Finally it's Friday.
Going to blob tonight, but tomorrow going to start my initial car shopping with the gf and do a costco trip before we pregame and head out to the sold out Bon Jovi concert. :yarr
If that Costco sells liquor, you should buy a bottle of Elijah Craig Whiskey and drink it prior to seeing Jovi.
It does! That's why we are making this trip (my local Costco doesn't). My parents sent me a costco gift card too for Easter for some reason (I'm not complaining) so I plan to put it towards booze, but I am not a whiskey drinker. I may actually get it for my coworker though cause he LOVES that whiskey. I am probably just getting a Kirkland Vodka which is quality stuff for super cheap. Make myself a cocktail for the train ride to the concert.
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I need help, and quick!! Buddy of mine is a bourbon guy, and he's taking me to a whisky tasting tonight. It's his birthday as well. I was thinking of surprising him with a bottle of bourbon as a trip for the road. What's good? What's a good price range? Initial thought was $50; is that reasonable/unreasonable? High? Low?
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No clue Stads. A) I'm not a bourbon drinker; B) CAD
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I need help, and quick!! Buddy of mine is a bourbon guy, and he's taking me to a whisky tasting tonight. It's his birthday as well. I was thinking of surprising him with a bottle of bourbon as a trip for the road. What's good? What's a good price range? Initial thought was $50; is that reasonable/unreasonable? High? Low?
My best friend is a bourbon drinker. He LOVES Woodford Reserve. I think it's a pretty good bourbon that is affordable. He swears by it.
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%^&#^&$%*$&*$%^&#%&@%*(#^*#^&@#$%^@#%$^@$%^&#%^*#$^&*#%^@#%$^@%^
So at my work I have 1 other full time person that is regularly at my location. Sure, I see part time people when we have funerals, and have other funeral directors over from time to time, but usually it's just me and this other person. I enjoy working with her for the most part, get along well and all that, but every once in awhile she has a habit of just not showing up. Doesn't call, doesn't text, just doesn't show up. Sometimes she'll end up coming in at 10am, noon, 1pm, whatever, or just the next day. I usually call and get no response. Then I get, oh, sorry this came up or that, which is fine, BUT FUCKING COMMUNICATE THAT YOU WON'T BE THERE. I plan my day around having someone to help with phones if I need to go out (like I did today) and being up front for people if I'm in the back etc. So. Fucking. Annoying.
/rant
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Not annoying. Not fucking professional and the owner should do something about that.
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%^&#^&$%*$&*$%^&#%&@%*(#^*#^&@#$%^@#%$^@$%^&#%^*#$^&*#%^@#%$^@%^
So at my work I have 1 other full time person that is regularly at my location. Sure, I see part time people when we have funerals, and have other funeral directors over from time to time, but usually it's just me and this other person. I enjoy working with her for the most part, get along well and all that, but every once in awhile she has a habit of just not showing up. Doesn't call, doesn't text, just doesn't show up. Sometimes she'll end up coming in at 10am, noon, 1pm, whatever, or just the next day. I usually call and get no response. Then I get, oh, sorry this came up or that, which is fine, BUT FUCKING COMMUNICATE THAT YOU WON'T BE THERE. I plan my day around having someone to help with phones if I need to go out (like I did today) and being up front for people if I'm in the back etc. So. Fucking. Annoying.
/rant
That's 100% non-excusable in today's society.
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Yea, seems she gets away with it and has no desire to change since you've noticed it happens enough. Someone needs to tell her how unprofessional that is.
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%^&#^&$%*$&*$%^&#%&@%*(#^*#^&@#$%^@#%$^@$%^&#%^*#$^&*#%^@#%$^@%^
So at my work I have 1 other full time person that is regularly at my location. Sure, I see part time people when we have funerals, and have other funeral directors over from time to time, but usually it's just me and this other person. I enjoy working with her for the most part, get along well and all that, but every once in awhile she has a habit of just not showing up. Doesn't call, doesn't text, just doesn't show up. Sometimes she'll end up coming in at 10am, noon, 1pm, whatever, or just the next day. I usually call and get no response. Then I get, oh, sorry this came up or that, which is fine, BUT FUCKING COMMUNICATE THAT YOU WON'T BE THERE. I plan my day around having someone to help with phones if I need to go out (like I did today) and being up front for people if I'm in the back etc. So. Fucking. Annoying.
/rant
That's 100% non-excusable in today's society.
It may be un-excusable but it certainly fits in line with the temperature of society today. I'm going to do what I want, when I want, how I want no matter what consequences it has on anyone else.
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Slow morning 'round here.
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I'm just getting up. Tonight I have some blobbing to do. My gf is going to a concert I'm staying at home.
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I'm just getting up. Tonight I have some blobbing to do. My gf is going to a concert I'm staying at home.
I am Blob and I approve of this message.
I'll be going to bed early tonight. Trying to shift my schedule so that waking up for 9am on Monday isn't going to kill me. :lol
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What's Monday at 9 blob?
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What's Monday at 9 blob?
Watching the Wrestlemania stream live with my family. We do it every year now.
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What's Monday at 9 blob?
Watching the Wrestlemania stream live with my family. We do it every year now.
Why punish yourself twice on a Monday morning?
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What's Monday at 9 blob?
Watching the Wrestlemania stream live with my family. We do it every year now.
Why punish yourself twice on a Monday morning?
:lol It's like Christmas morning; even if your gifts are all total shit, you can cling on to the anticipation beforehand. :neverusethis:
That, plus the alternative is that we'd have to wait until my brother gets home from work at 8:30pm, and who's going to watch a 5-6 hour event starting at that time? :|
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What's Monday at 9 blob?
Watching the Wrestlemania stream live with my family. We do it every year now.
The whole family Blobing Monday morning?
(https://imageshack.com/a/img923/807/uSbjHQ.gif) (https://imageshack.com/f/pnuSbjHQg)
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Oh shit I forgot it's this Sunday. I'll have to get a free trial going and watch.
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Morning King, how are you feeling?
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Feeling Good! Medication is working. Working on a no salt diet. I see my primary doctor next week and the week after I get a stress test.
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Oh shit I forgot it's this Sunday. I'll have to get a free trial going and watch.
OMG WE CAN WATCH IT AT THE SAME TIME AND BITCH ABOUT IT TOGETHER
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Bitching Blob. That's a pay-per-view in itself.
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Bitching Blob. That's a pay-per-view in itself.
You can only sell it as a per-per-view when it's a rare and special event, not when it's the standard. :lol
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Oh shit I forgot it's this Sunday. I'll have to get a free trial going and watch.
OMG WE CAN WATCH IT AT THE SAME TIME AND BITCH ABOUT IT TOGETHER
done!
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Bitching Blob. That's a pay-per-view in itself.
You can only sell it as a per-per-view when it's a rare and special event, not when it's the standard. :lol
Unless a rare few has seen your face while you're bitching. :lol
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Bitching Blob. That's a pay-per-view in itself.
You can only sell it as a per-per-view when it's a rare and special event, not when it's the standard. :lol
Unless a rare few has seen your face while you're bitching. :lol
Nobody's paying to see this ugly mug.
Oh shit I forgot it's this Sunday. I'll have to get a free trial going and watch.
OMG WE CAN WATCH IT AT THE SAME TIME AND BITCH ABOUT IT TOGETHER
done!
Excellent! You better be online foo!
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Feeling Good! Medication is working. Working on a no salt diet. I see my primary doctor next week and the week after I get a stress test.
Good to hear. :tup :tup
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I know I'm dating myself but it would be like kissing 16 magazine showing their faces partially. Bob did you ever see those? It was right after Love Gun and they were recording for the studio songs for Alive II
Feeling Good! Medication is working. Working on a no salt diet. I see my primary doctor next week and the week after I get a stress test.
Good to hear. :tup :tup
Thanks Kev!
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I know I'm dating myself but it would be like kissing 16 magazine showing their faces partially. Bob did you ever see those? It was right after Love Gun and they were recording for the studio songs for Alive II
If I'm deciphering your post correctly, yes, I have seen the magazine pics of Kiss partially showing their faces. :lol
And don't call me Bob.
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Surely you can't be serious? I bought the magazine when they came out. *Old fart cred*
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Oh shit I forgot it's this Sunday. I'll have to get a free trial going and watch.
If you do get a trial going for Mania, do yourself a favor and watch the NXT Takeover special that airs tonight. It's going to be freaking amazing.
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Bill, how are you typing this with a beer in your hand? Or are you failing me?
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Bill, how are you typing this with a beer in your hand? Or are you failing me?
Oh I'm about six beers deep at Parker Pie, don't you worry
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Bill, how are you typing this with a beer in your hand? Or are you failing me?
Oh I'm about six beers deep at Parker Pie, don't you worry
Now that's how you flaunt it.
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Can't believe I'm still doing a deployment at work this late at night, thank fucking god I'm not doing the one next weekend.
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Wtf it's late
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Yea I know someone on the system admin side fucked things up big time
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People suck.
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Yea and because they are offshore nothing will change or be done about it.
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Sounds efficient!
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How is your morning shaping up blob?
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GOod evening peeps.
I like boobs.
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How is your morning shaping up blob?
Speaking of morning, I did wake up before the crack of noon today, at 11:30am. MADNESS.
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You wild man.
I'm still awake :(
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The past 3 nights, It's taking me a while to fall asleep, and I've been waking up at 4am, and not able to get back to sleep. Da fuq? I've never had a problem sleeping (usually asleep within 5-10 minutes, and no problem going thru the night). I'm hoping it's some lingering effects from the anaesthetic Friday morning.
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The timing checks out, so hopefully you're right, and it returns to normal soon.
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Morning. Once in a while I have that problem Chad. This weekend, with the lack of sleep in the hospital, I've slept 8 hours a night the last 3 nights.
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Morning. Once in a while I have that problem Chad. This weekend, with the lack of sleep in the hospital, I've slept 8 hours a night the last 3 nights.
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Hey Now! That damn hospital bed wrecked me! :lol
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Hey Now! That damn hospital bed wrecked me! :lol
Wrecked 'im?? Damn near killed 'im!!!
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:lol
My back was fucked up, I didn't sleep and was all in all messed up.
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A few songs into bon jovi last night and my gf and I grabbed round two of beers and took a piss break, while peeing someone from the venue approached my gf "Is it just you and the guy in the bathroom? Would you want upgraded seats" When I finished my piss, my gf had two tickets for the floor front section, row 20 aisle seats. Absolutely amazing. Got a private elevator ride from the top (our seats were in nose bleeds in the arena) down to the floor. Bon Jovi sang right by us in the crowd for a couple songs. Absolutely amazing night. We rushed to the front for the encore, where he played Runaway/Dead Or Alive/Living On a Prayer and security pushed back everyone, except us so we pretty much for the cheapest tickets paid got the experience of a $500 ticket :lol Going through my pics and videos now, but already got It's My Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcs-7DCLl6U) up on youtube
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Morning. Once in a while I have that problem Chad. This weekend, with the lack of sleep in the hospital, I've slept 8 hours a night the last 3 nights.
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Now that's giving the finger with authority. Jack is cool.
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A few songs into bon jovi last night and my gf and I grabbed round two of beers and took a piss break, while peeing someone from the venue approached my gf "Is it just you and the guy in the bathroom? Would you want upgraded seats" When I finished my piss, my gf had two tickets for the floor front section, row 20 aisle seats. Absolutely amazing. Got a private elevator ride from the top (our seats were in nose bleeds in the arena) down to the floor. Bon Jovi sang right by us in the crowd for a couple songs. Absolutely amazing night. We rushed to the front for the encore, where he played Runaway/Dead Or Alive/Living On a Prayer and security pushed back everyone, except us so we pretty much for the cheapest tickets paid got the experience of a $500 ticket :lol Going through my pics and videos now, but already got It's My Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcs-7DCLl6U) up on youtube
That is awesome :metal Well deserved
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Cram, your girl didn't have a new pearl necklace too did she? ;D
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:lol
Morning guys
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G'morning Reaper.
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Don't fear the Reaper.
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Come on baby.
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Baby take my hand.
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SUCKING ON HIS PIPE!
...
There's this girl that works with one of the property management companies I work with (I think she's and assistant to the property manager or something...).
Her name is Delilah.
I just called her, and without out thinking said "Hey there, Delilah!" when she answered. She didn't catch the joke though.
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Does she pee all over the office?
(Beer for anyone that gets the reference).
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:lol
:lol
:lol
(I don't get the reference :sadpanda: )
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Queen - well, Freddie Mercury - wrote a song called "Delilah" about his cat. It's a decent song that could have applied to any love, close friend, special person... except for the line "And then you make me slightly mad when you pee all over my Chippendale suite."
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And that is why I love Freddie.
Now that's all I'm going to think about next time I speak to her.
THANKS STAD
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Good evening guys
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Good evening.
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What's good axe?
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Eh, got sick at the tail end of my long weekend in Vermont so I'm taking another day off tomorrow (already had booked today as a recovery day). Got lots of blobbing in today and will get more in tomorrow.
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Nice axe I'm jealous of you. I'll be blobbing all next week on my vacation. I can't wait.
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Hey guys I might do some blobbing too.
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Hey guys I might do some blobbing too.
Seems a bit redundant.
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Hey guys I might do some blobbing too.
Seems a bit redundant.
THAT WAS THE JOKE.
Morning king!
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Morning. Having my oatmeal right now. What's going on with you?
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Hey guys I might do some blobbing too.
Seems a bit redundant.
:lol
Morning, having my coffee. My boss is getting some major anal surgery (seriously) and will be out the rest of the month. After what has been a crazy start to the year at work, I think we are entering a slow down until my boss gets back. It's not totally because he is off, but timed well with the completion of a major project. However, him being off will make things much lighter on us.
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Morning. Having my oatmeal right now. What's going on with you?
Attempting some programming and failing. My head hurts.
Also I woke up at 4pm today. My body was making up for waking up at 9am yesterday. :lol
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Doesn't that weird hours of sleeping screw you up?
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The only thing that screws me up is not getting enough sleep, which usually happens when I go to bed too early. It confuses my body. :lol
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The only thing that screws me up is not getting enough sleep, which usually happens when I go to bed too early. It confuses my body. :lol
That's your body telling you, "What is this bullshit"? :lol
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The only thing that screws me up is not getting enough sleep, which usually happens when I go to bed too early. It confuses my body. :lol
That's your body telling you, "What is this bullshit"? :lol
I know! I avoid that mistake wherever possible. Back to 5am bed time for me. :blob:
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I worked 6 years of night shift. Each week, I'd work 3 to 4 days at night, then would have a few days off and my sleep was all messed up.
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Your mistake was to work. :blob: #blobbing
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Preaching to the choir brotha.
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Do we not have an MLB thread going this year?
This Red Sox / Yankees game :rollin
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Jay, it's on the first page! :lol
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I'm so tired but I don't want to go to sleep because it'll just bring me closer to work.
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G'morning all. Going back to work today (albeit from home). Probably going to take me all day just to get my inbox in order :lol
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Good Morning folks.
Jay, it's on the first page! :lol
Oh shit.
I didn't see it because it's not titled like they used to be.
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Evening guys. Two days until vacation and I still have so much work to do, not to mention we radically changed our vacation plans so it may not be as peaceful as I hoped.
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Morning.
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Morning king! What's up? Besides you, at this ungodly hour.
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Morning
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Yo.
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Morning king! What's up? Besides you, at this ungodly hour.
It was worse than you think! I got up an hour early at 5 am so I could get my work done to take the old man to 2 appointments today!
Morning Reap & Zy!
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Morning.
I think I've come across a pic of Blob's home.
(https://i.imgur.com/KASVOQT.jpg)
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It's too bright to be his room. :lol
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Also I don't drink alcohol or watch Australian films.
Also I wouldn't have done such a bad job of Photoshopping that together. :neverusethis:
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G'morning all. Got my first good night's sleep in at least a few days.
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Come to think of it, so did I actually. Feeling pretty good today. Getting closer to Friday and my grade school friends are all road tripping up to Albany to visit our friend doing his residency up there so really looking forward to this weekend. I've never been to Albany either.
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Come to think of it, so did I actually. Feeling pretty good today. Getting closer to Friday and my grade school friends are all road tripping up to Albany to visit our friend doing his residency up there so really looking forward to this weekend. I've never been to Albany either.
Just a bit of friendly advise: You should probably modify that post to "my friends from back in grade school". :)
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:lol I did eat subway yesterday
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Good Morning peepperonis!
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Word up, fools.
Closing on the house next Friday, so getting utilities (and more importantly, internet!) set to go for the new place. The wait is killing us, though...
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Milahh that is awesome! Our closing was stressful but once we settled into our home it was an amazing feeling.
This year has been on hell of a rollercoaster for me:
My uncle passed away in February
A close family friend passed away in March, I've known this guy for over 20 years, it mainly affected my grandma who lost her best friend and son within a month of each other
I found out I'm getting promoted and a raise in May at my Job
I got my engagement ring to propose to my gf next week in Napa
My boss told my group he is leaving for a better position within the company (this hit me because he is an ass but a great mentor to me)
About that Napa trip, it's now cancelled as of two days ago because my gf's dad (who had the heart attack last year) has to have emergency surgery one of his kidneys removed.
My bosses boss just spoke to me today that my soon to be ex-boss recommended me for his position which would give me even more responsibilities and money
I'm now going to florida tomorrow instead of napa, and if my gf's surgery goes well I'm hoping to propose on the beach where we had our first date.
It's not even May yet. Sorry for venting guys
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That blows chunks
That blows bigger chunks
Wicked
FUCKIN wicked!
Bummer
FUUUUUUUCK x2
:omg:
:billiejean: + :smoothcriminal:
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What Jingle said.
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Yea it's been interesting. It's not so bad that though. I've had an ample supply of beer and wine to get me through all of this :lol
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crazy year but congrats on your future plans. Did you get a ring yet?
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I'm dizzy reading that; should we be happy? Sad? :)
I kid; looks like you're living a full life if nothing else; however you prioritize those, I hope it at least works out so the sum total is positive in your favor!!!
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Holy shit Reap, that's some crazy life change packed into a very short period of time! Be sure to take care of yourself...just because most of that change is good doesn't mean there isn't stress associated with it.
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Enjoying a $60 Uber home, since a brush fire has the trains shut down. Fan-fucking-tastic.
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Sup dudes. Well I made it to Florida and I’m hanging out in the hospital with my gfs father who is recovering. He is stable and fine now, they are just working on getting his good kidney back up and running.
As for the proposal I’ve put it aside to when things are good with her dad and the time is more appropriate.
Finally i submitted my app for my bosses position to which I’m 99% I’ll get. At my job you have to formally apply to all promotions, and my bosses boss strongly suggested I apply.
How is everyone here? I plan on being on the forums a bunch the next week :lol. Time to see what’s good on DT side.
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How is everyone here? I plan on being on the forums a bunch the next week :lol. Time to see what’s good on DT side.
Why would you do that to yourself?
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How is everyone here? I plan on being on the forums a bunch the next week :lol. Time to see what’s good on DT side.
Why would you do that to yourself?
For shits and giggles of course.
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How is everyone here? I plan on being on the forums a bunch the next week :lol. Time to see what’s good on DT side.
Why would you do that to yourself?
For shits and giggles of course.
But it's 100% shits, and 0% giggles.
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How is everyone here? I plan on being on the forums a bunch the next week :lol. Time to see what’s good on DT side.
Why would you do that to yourself?
For shits and giggles of course.
But it's 100% shits, and 0% giggles.
:clap:
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How is everyone here? I plan on being on the forums a bunch the next week :lol. Time to see what’s good on DT side.
Why would you do that to yourself?
I think it’s the perfect time, I’m already at the hospital so the can treat me after I jump out the window
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How is everyone here? I plan on being on the forums a bunch the next week :lol. Time to see what’s good on DT side.
Why would you do that to yourself?
For shits and giggles of course.
But it's 100% shits, and 0% giggles.
:lol
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How is everyone here? I plan on being on the forums a bunch the next week :lol. Time to see what’s good on DT side.
Why would you do that to yourself?
For shits and giggles of course.
But it's 100% shits, and 0% giggles.
:lol
IDK, I get a good laugh over there.
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Good evening, or for my east coast peeps technically good morning.
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Morning dudes
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Morning Reaper.
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Morning Blob. I'm in internet hell at the moment. My gf's parents place in florida have satellite internet, it's terrible. The latency is insane. I'd use my phone except I don't have any reception :lol
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I have no reception and no Wi-Fi at my dad's house. I feel your pain every time I visit him.
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Morning Blob. I'm in internet hell at the moment. My gf's parents place in florida have satellite internet, it's terrible. The latency is insane. I'd use my phone except I don't have any reception :lol
I'll savour the very rare moment my internet capabilities are better than yours. :lol My internet is being flaky at the moment, often cutting out a few times a night. We have to get someone out to fix the line again.
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How are you doing King?
What's good blob?
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Pretty brutal ice storm going on here at the moment. It's been raining since about 7am yesterday morning, and has been below 0C since about 10am. There's probably 5-6cm of ice on my driveway. Not sure how I'm gonna shovel it.
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Jesus, is it normal to get ice storms mid April?
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How are you doing King?
What's good blob?
Been trying to clean out some space on my drives. My C drive is so low on space that I've been getting out of memory warnings because there's not enough space for the swap file. Not good. Oops. I just deleted Unreal engine and gained about 20gb back. Jeebus that was sucking up a lot of space.
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Pretty brutal ice storm going on here at the moment. It's been raining since about 7am yesterday morning, and has been below 0C since about 10am. There's probably 5-6cm of ice on my driveway. Not sure how I'm gonna shovel it.
Us too as well. Not normal at all 60 yesterday low 30s is the high today. I'm being lazy this morning. Going food shopping later.
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Jesus, is it normal to get ice storms mid April?
Not. At. All. 2013 was the last time we had any kind of ice storm. It's a pretty bad weather system all around - Blue Jays/Indians game (in CLE) was cancelled yesterday, and likely again today. I heard it was in the high 70s in NY on Friday.
But climate change isn't a 'thing'. #SureItIsn't
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What's with RoDent recently? He's taking life to damn seriously in the Sea Within thread.
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Jesus, is it normal to get ice storms mid April?
Not. At. All. 2013 was the last time we had any kind of ice storm. It's a pretty bad weather system all around - Blue Jays/Indians game (in CLE) was cancelled yesterday, and likely again today. I heard it was in the high 70s in NY on Friday.
But climate change isn't a 'thing'. #SureItIsn't
You're getting ice? GLOBAL WARMING MUST BE FAKE! SCIENTISTS CAN'T MAKE UP THEIR MINDS. #MAGA
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Yet you still will not buy an air conditioner.
*mocks blob with vigor*
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What's with RoDent recently? He's taking life to damn seriously in the Sea Within thread.
This thread is an amalgamation of posting talent.
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Jesus, is it normal to get ice storms mid April?
Not. At. All. 2013 was the last time we had any kind of ice storm. It's a pretty bad weather system all around - Blue Jays/Indians game (in CLE) was cancelled yesterday, and likely again today. I heard it was in the high 70s in NY on Friday.
But climate change isn't a 'thing'. #SureItIsn't
You're getting ice? GLOBAL WARMING MUST BE FAKE! SCIENTISTS CAN'T MAKE UP THEIR MINDS. #MAGA
"Global Warming" is so '90s.
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"Global Warming" is so '90s.
Not bad considering it's primarily used these days by people whose minds are stuck in the '50s. :neverusethis:
Yet you still will not buy an air conditioner.
*mocks blob with vigor*
Should be mostly smooth sailing for our weather now. Get back to me next Summer. :biggrin:
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We left Albany last night to avoid the ice storm since we'd need to be back early this morning. I couldn't believe a 3 hour north drive resulted in a 40 degree difference.
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What's with RoDent recently? He's taking life to damn seriously in the Sea Within thread.
This thread is an amalgamation of posting talent.
Self importance in running rampant in society these days.
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Morning peeps.
So yesterday I decided to plant some tomatoes for me to slowly murder...
Today Jenna and I are going to pick up my sister and spend the afternoon at the harbor Playing Pokémon Go for one if there events.
I've seen my sister more in the last month due to this Game than I had all last year lmao.
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Nice Jay. I went into NYC for Community Day last month, can't be bothered today so I'm just going to stay in and play Overwatch instead.
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Jesus, is it normal to get ice storms mid April?
Not. At. All. 2013 was the last time we had any kind of ice storm. It's a pretty bad weather system all around - Blue Jays/Indians game (in CLE) was cancelled yesterday, and likely again today. I heard it was in the high 70s in NY on Friday.
But climate change isn't a 'thing'. #SureItIsn't
Climate change is a "thing" but the liberals just have to decide which way it's changing. ;) :)
#Pullingyourjimmy
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Morning guys
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Morning Reap.
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What's happening King?
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Ah, just work stuff. Thursday I go for my stress test and then taking my dad to see his Oncologist. The cancer is spreading. Not good news really.
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Ah, just work stuff. Thursday I go for my stress test and then taking my dad to see his Oncologist. The cancer is spreading. Not good news really.
I hope everything goes well for both of you. :hug:
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Thank you Blob. I do too. I'm feeling much better. I've got to continue to lose the weight.
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Ah, just work stuff. Thursday I go for my stress test and then taking my dad to see his Oncologist. The cancer is spreading. Not good news really.
I'm really sorry to hear that King.
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We keep fighting through it all. My brother is becoming frustrated with my dad. He has MS and is a guy that doesn't show emotion and that frustrates him.
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Thank you Blob. I do too. I'm feeling much better. I've got to continue to lose the weight.
I would highly recommend the Rocky IV soundtrack to help motivate you.
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King is your brother older or younger?
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Slow day at work, I'm testing the knowledge of my coworker who is totally and completely removed from amything metal or rock (even though I got him addicted to Thunderstruck).
"Tell me a Led Zeppelin song"... and he mimed with his voice the riff and the initial line of Whole Lotta Love.
"Tell me a Deep Purple song"... and he mimes the riff of Smoke on the Water but couldn't remember the title.
"Difficult one, tell me a Black Sabbath song"... he didn't even try and gave up. I mumbled him Paranoid's riff, he doesn't know it.
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King is your brother older or younger?
Younger 6 years younger.
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Went out shopping for a car for my gf's parents, how annoying and how quickly they'll try to rip you off.
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Went out shopping for a car for my gf's parents, how annoying and how quickly they'll try to rip you off.
Her parents tried to rip you off? :omg:
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No :lol, sorry I was tired yesterday
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:lol :lol :lol
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Thank god spring is coming... still 20 cm of snow around here. I hate winter.
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Good Morning.
Today is going to be a long as day. Dealing with the aftermath from a major incident yesterday. Short Version: Attempted Burglary. Dude gets away (Or so he thinks). I find and ID the guy (It's always the shoes). Turns out the dude's vehicle was stolen. As well as a bunch of stolen credit cards and IDs. And meth. A lot of meth.
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lol damn, good job though investigator Jay
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Morning guys.
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Morning Reap.
Jay, shoes are dude's bling. lol
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Morning guys!
It never ends. Came in this morning to find that our company bicycle was stolen from right outside our office door this morning at like 5am. I won't say much but the story my employees gave me and the camera footage from the office do not match up. People weren't doing what they were supposed to be doing. So now I have to do the investigation on that, and get info to the cops, as well as spend several hours pulling footage from my meth dude from Tuesday.
Oh and it's payroll day. So there's that.
Oh and the phone has been ringing off the hook.
Oh and one of the property managers is on site. Meaning I'm going to have to make an appearance with her.
I need coffee....
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No, you need Gil Grissom.
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No.
I AM Gil Grissom.
I need employees who give a flying fuck.
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New phone today! Galaxy S8. Free upgrade from work.
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New phone today! Galaxy S8. Free upgrade from work.
Nice, funny, I just upgraded as well today, from an S7 to S9. Still working on the kinks though and I'm currently using two phones until I get all my apps running properly on the new one.
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New phone today! Galaxy S8. Free upgrade from work.
Nice, funny, I just upgraded as well today, from an S7 to S9. Still working on the kinks though and I'm currently using two phones until I get all my apps running properly on the new one.
Same for me. There is an app to transfer phone to phone.
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Is there an app for spelling?
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Yes but I ruin them. I'm like a spelling virus.
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Morning Nerds
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Evening nerds
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Evening gents.
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*Ogre voice*
Who you calling a NEEEEERRDDDD?
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Heading back home this morning. Can't wait.
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Heading back home this morning. Can't wait.
Popping the question soon?
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Morning chumps.
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Heading back home this morning. Can't wait.
Popping the question soon?
Not for at least a couple of weeks. There wasn't much time for romance with going to the hospital daily this past week. There wasn't really a good or appropriate time to do it. I'm going to set up a little weekend getaway together when she comes home and do it then.
Good morning King
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Morning Reap. Went for a walk this morning. Now in line for a beer release. Last of the year for this beer. Line is around the brewery.
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What?!? No wristband policy?
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Nope. Only 4 4pack limit for it.
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Now in line for a beer release. Last of the year for this beer. Line is around the brewery.
Wow! That's serious.
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Now in line for a beer release. Last of the year for this beer. Line is around the brewery.
Wow! That's serious.
Sure is.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/750x500q90/923/Z72kkn.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/f/pnZ72kknj)
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Wow that better be some great beer
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Relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWHr6om1Ps
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:lol
It is! It is!
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One exact century ago the Red Baron fell into battle.
I urge you to listen to Iced Earth's Red Baron / Blue Max and Iron Maiden's Death or Glory :metal
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Alright, closed on the house yesterday, which means one thing... Today is demo day!
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Congrats Millah :hat
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After a 9 hour drive I am back to Charlotte, man it feels good to be home.
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Well vacation is done, time to go back to work today :(
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Morning Reap! Enjoy being back at work.
lol
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You cut deep Blob.
Deep. Morning.
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Yes, that hurt on many levels lol
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Hey, I've had a busy day too guys.
I watched two one hour TV shows, and a half hour TV show, and now I'm making video games. Life is tough for everyone.
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lol
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Hey, I've had a busy day too guys.
I watched two one hour TV shows, and a half hour TV show, and now I'm making video games. Life is tough for everyone.
I hope you get a blister. :lol
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Hey, I've had a busy day too guys.
I watched two one hour TV shows, and a half hour TV show, and now I'm making video games. Life is tough for everyone.
I hope you get a blister. :lol
From what? :lol
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Video game playing and watching your "Special downloads". :lol
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One exact century ago the Red Baron fell into battle.
I urge you to listen to Iced Earth's Red Baron / Blue Max and Iron Maiden's Death or Glory :metal
Or The Royal Guardsmen's "Snoopy And The Red Baron". Ritchie Blackmore has on more than one occasion called it his favorite song. He may have been taking the piss, though.
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Video game playing and watching your "Special downloads". :lol
Excuse me king. I do not play video games, I make video games. :blob:
Also, if it hasn't happened yet, I think I'm in the clear. :lol
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:lol
Built up calluses I see. :lol
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:lol wtf king. Calluses WHERE?
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Your hands silly! :lol
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Geez, I don't know how you do it, but maybe take a break. :lol
Also I drew a picture yesterday, just posted it in the creativity thread.
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OOOHH! I'll check them out!
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Morning Peeps.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/whklb4WoYYFwY/giphy.gif)
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BUT WHY DID SHE BRING THE CUP?
Also her cup is awesome.
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BUT WHY DID SHE BRING THE CUP?
She was expecting another girl?
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BUT WHY DID SHE BRING THE CUP?
Also her cup is awesome.
Therein lies the answer. If I had what appeared to be a sweet TMNT mug I would walk around carrying it just to show it off all the time.
Mondays are infinitely more tolerable when it's going to be your only day in the office for the week :hat
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Came in this morning, 701 emails to sort through :/
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Today is going to be rough, I got very little sleep last night.
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Stress test today. Chemical induced. No food or water until it's done. 3 hours plus.
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What's a chemical induced stress test?
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Stress test on my heart. It's easier to control giving chemicals to race the heart.
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Stress test on my heart. It's easier to control giving chemicals to race the heart.
Isn't that called coffee? :neverusethis:
I'm actually doing a prolonged stress test on my heart, with my lifestyle. The results so far....... are not good.
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:lol
I was told not to have any food or water after midnight and no caffeine after 8pm last night.
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That sounds kind of scary but also kind of cool, best of luck and hopefully good results with a strong heart. I'm kind of curious how mine would perform.
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It is really weird. I started to get out of breath like they told me i would, light headed. Done in 15 minutes.
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It is really weird.
Hope it went well.
I had a stress test a few years ago, but I also had am ulstrasound. Looking at your own heart beating on a screen. Now that's fucking weird.
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I saw that when I was hospitalized. I need a coffee right now.
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Morning folks.
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BUT WHY DID SHE BRING THE CUP?
She was expecting another girl?
Ew.
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BUT WHY DID SHE BRING THE CUP?
She was expecting another girl?
Ew.
At least someone noticed it.
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Oh I noticed, just couldn't bring myself to comment :lol
Good afternoon all.
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Well, I was told I have a weak heart muscle & a small atrial defect. Moving up the appointment to see the doctor.
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Well, I was told I have a weak heart muscle & a small atrial defect. Moving up the appointment to see the doctor.
We all have weakened hearts. Seriously... mrs.jingle's father (and that is a VERY loosely worded term - but another discussion) only had 30% of his heart capacity when he last did a stress test a few years back. Might've been less actually. Smoking, weight, eating habits, sedentary lifestyle... lots of factors.
Take care of other things - the way you are now - and things can be fine. Think of your heart as the houses furnace. So long as your roof, windows, doors etc... are fine, it won't really matter that the furnace is struggling a bit to keep the house warm.
Thinkin good thoughts for you my good friend.
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It's Friday, my dudes!
:friday:
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It's Friday, my dudes!
:friday:
:metal :metal
I didn't watch The Jersey Shore last night but a family friend from childhood got engaged to The Situation on it last night. No surprise or anything, they've been dating for awhile and I knew they were already engaged and just waiting for the show to air to make it facebook official and whatnot, but kind of odd to see a girl I always was around as a kid to be engaged to....well... the situation :lol I don't really keep in touch with her, but our parents are still best friends so I expect a wedding invite which I really really want to go to although I think it will be an expensive destination wedding. I do wonder if it'll happen before or after his jail time.
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I have no idea what The Situation
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I have no idea what The Situation
You are better off :lol
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Oh man, what a nice two days it's been:
Started yesterday with free tickets with friends to an afternoon Yankees game. After consuming much alcohol before and during we were rewarded for sticking around through an otherwise boring game with a bottom of the ninth walk-off homerun. Came home for more beers with said friends and watched most of the first round of the NFL draft, then off to see Avengers. Spent all day today blobbing with some video games and wrestling, I've got some tasty Indian food on the way for dinner, and then another screening of Avengers tonight.
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Morning guys. Scratched one thing off the bucket list yesterday and that was to Micheal Kelsey live. He came to Charlotte and played a small club where it was me and two other people. Amazing show.
Why is the situation going to jail?
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Morning Reap.
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Morning Blob, what's good?
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Morning guys. Scratched one thing off the bucket list yesterday and that was to Micheal Kelsey live. He came to Charlotte and played a small club where it was me and two other people. Amazing show.
Why is the situation going to jail?
I'm pretty sure tax evasion.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZazjxmBilZc
This is basically how Rainbow's Stargazer went down
:biggrin:
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Afternoon you sum bitches.
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Howdy. About to head into NYC for two nights of Steven Wilson goodness :hat
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Awesome. That was me last night. I'm at Tree House right now.
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Spent the morning/afternoon at Rutgers day with the gf and her friends. Was pretty fun actually. I really like my gf's friends, good fun people. Just got home to shower and relax before heading to the Jersey shore tonight for some Sublime with Rome with my gf :hat
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Sounds like a great night cram.
I'm just got back from a work bbq, had a great time and I got pretty hammered.
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Good morning guys. Hung over but it's a nice day today and I'm going to try and make the best of it. Going to dealership to check out some cars (it's time for a new car for me), get some dinner later, replace my water pump on my car, and hopefully get some relaxation in.
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Rainy day today. Perfect for seeing the new Avengers movie.
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People are actually going to see that?
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Tim, are you high this morning?
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Tim, are you high this morning?
Nope. Haven't touch the stuff in 17 years. My oldest son's birthday is today. He's 17. I made a choice that once I had kids, my :hat days would be over.
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Well night one of Steven Wilson was awesome, aside from two PT songs for the encore being dropped due to the venue curfew. He promised a very different show tonight, so curious to see what he busts out.
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Tim, are you high this morning?
Nope. Haven't touch the stuff in 17 years. My oldest son's birthday is today. He's 17. I made a choice that once I had kids, my :hat days would be over.
Jeez man... go to the movies with him. Me and jingle.son have some quality man-bonding time over our love for movies.
But happy-bday to (not so) little TAC.
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Bill, that's cool to see different sets.
Tim, what Chad said.
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Jeez man... go to the movies with him. Me and jingle.son have some quality man-bonding time over our love for movies.
But happy-bday to (not so) little TAC.
Thanks. We're actually going indoor go kart racing. He's definitely not a movie person. Way too loud and over stimulating for him. But he does love driving. God knows when/if he'll ever actually get his real license.
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Tim, where you going for the go karts?
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K1 in Kingston, MA. He really loves it there.
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I've never been there. I've seen it on TV but never tried it. It looks like so much fun.
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My son loves it. He wants to drive for real so bad. He insists on starting our cars and he just sits there looking at the controls. One of these days, he's going to be driving down the street. :lol
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That is so sweet. Enjoy the day Tim. Enjoy every moment with him.
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Morning guys.
I saw Avengers yesterday and I'm surprised at how much I absolutely loved it!
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I surprisingly got everything done today, all I have left is to grill some burgers for dinner and relax.
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Nice. All packed for denver. Going to be a long couple days before the work smooths out and gets lighter towards the end of the week. But tomorrow will be especially brutal since my flight leaves at 5am.
Otherwise been a lazy but productive day getting some stuff done around the house and completing some video edits.
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Nice Cram, I hope you find some fun in Denver. Coloardo has been a place I wanted to visit for a long time.
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That is so sweet. Enjoy the day Tim. Enjoy every moment with him.
Thanks Joe. We do. Every day is a gift.
Go Karting!
(https://i.imgur.com/FHbkQEo.jpg)
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Amazing. Jesus. Your making me well up.
Yes, I'm a mushy wuss.
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You might be um..mushy :lol, but you're no wuss.
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Sitting with my soon to be 6 year old nephewwatching tyhe B's and seeing his you makes me so damn soft. I almost cried looking at my brother.
It's the connetion.
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Yeah, it's really amazing.
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My nephew made the mites hockey team. Not even 6 yet. So damn proud.
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Ha! That's awesome.
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I feel bad for my brother. A hockey parent it a tough job with no sleep.
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My parents did so much for us when we were kids. My brother (a year younger than me) was a goalie who played up at St. Michael's in Vermont. He was really good. He played on a travel team in Pee Wee with Ted Donato. I remember going to Michigan for a tournament and Teddy was skating circles around the other kids. He was ridiculous.
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Think about how good he was and though he had a good career, it wasn't great.
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Morning guys
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Morning Reap.
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:vfs:
Slept like shit... combination of an antsy bed-mate, and a dog that has been throwing up bile around 4am or so for the past week.
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Fun weekend that lead to lack of sleep though last night i got in 7 hours. Friday Morning off to RoSfest!
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Fun weekend that lead to lack of sleep though last night i got in 7 hours. Friday Morning off to RoSfest!
Awesome. I'm only envious because of Threshold. Otherwise, nothing excited me enough about the festival to make the trip down there again. Saving my road-trip for ProgStock. :metal
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Fun weekend that lead to lack of sleep though last night i got in 7 hours. Friday Morning off to RoSfest!
Awesome. I'm only envious because of Threshold. Otherwise, nothing excited me enough about the festival to make the trip down there again. Saving my road-trip for ProgStock. :metal
Doing both!! :metal
Nick & Mason will be there again.
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I'm running on 4 hours of sleep today. Went to a Steel Panther concert last night and they didn't hit the stage until 10PM.
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I'm running on 4 hours of sleep today. Went to a Steel Panther concert last night and they didn't hit the stage until 10PM.
Seeing that many "tatas" would keep me up all night as well.
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I'm running on 4 hours of sleep today. Went to a Steel Panther concert last night and they didn't hit the stage until 10PM.
Seeing that many "tatas" would keep me up all night as well.
THERE WERE NONE!!! They brought like 30-40 girls on stage for a cover of Livin' on a Prayer AND Girl From Oklahoma, and not a single one blessed us.
Sad times.
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I blame Trump. This is an outrage!!
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Just saw that LaBrie has cancelled his headlining spot at PPUSA because of DT writing sessions. That's fuckin lame.
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Just saw that LaBrie has cancelled his headlining spot at PPUSA because of DT writing sessions. That's fuckin lame.
Sounds like a made up excuse.
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That's too bad. Was hoping there'd be a Labrie tour built around ProgPower.
Just back from my weekend in the city for Steven Wilson shows, what a great time. The setlist for last night went heavy on HCE and then he busted out Blackfield in the encore :hat Now home with today off so I can get a brewday in.
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First day at work since my boss left, things feel much more relaxed.
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Woke up at 230am monday to leave for denver, got here and put in 24 hours of really hard work. So tired but enjoyed some gummies and just watched battle beast, next is delain and kamelot and things will be feeling good. :yarr
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Nice! I'm sad I didn't get to go to California and get some gummys myself.
Good morning gang.
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Morning Reap.
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Morning King. What's happening?
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Leaving Friday to go to a prog music festival. Meeting up with Nick and DTVT. At the end f the month i am getting a Heart Catherterzation.
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Leaving Friday to go to a prog music festival. Meeting up with Nick and DTVT. At the end f the month i am getting a Heart Catherterzation.
Do you have a blockage, King? Or are they just trying to improve heart efficiency?
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Leaving Friday to go to a prog music festival. Meeting up with Nick and DTVT. At the end f the month i am getting a Heart Catherterzation.
Enjoy Gettysburg my man. Wish I could be there to hang with ya. We'll just have to wait a few more months for the most epic DTF meetup since Score! Maybe even more epic.
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Leaving Friday to go to a prog music festival. Meeting up with Nick and DTVT. At the end f the month i am getting a Heart Catherterzation.
Do you have a blockage, King? Or are they just trying to improve heart efficiency?
They are not sure. That's why they are going in. They know the left side of the heart isn't working at full capacity right now. I feel good which is the weird thing. You never know.
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Leaving Friday to go to a prog music festival. Meeting up with Nick and DTVT. At the end f the month i am getting a Heart Catherterzation.
Enjoy Gettysburg my man. Wish I could be there to hang with ya. We'll just have to wait a few more months for the most epic DTF meetup since Score! Maybe even more epic.
That will be epic! :metal
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What is this "few more months" event?
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What is this "few more months" event?
ProgStock in October.... in the armpit of America - New Jersey! Me, King, Nick, Dr. DTVT, Splent Axeman, Cram, and lonestar are confirmed at a minimum. I might be forgetting a couple/few people.
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I'm not currently attending the festival, but the arm pit of america is practically my backyard apparently so I plan on catching up with the dtf crew.
Concert last night was so awesome. So glad I mustered up whatever energy I had to attend. I really don't know anything about Steven Wilson but see him talked about an awful lot here and he's playing at the same venue this weekend. Maybe I'll go in the blind and see whats what.
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I'm not currently attending the festival, but the arm pit of america is practically my backyard apparently so I plan on catching up with the dtf crew.
Concert last night was so awesome. So glad I mustered up whatever energy I had to attend. I really don't know anything about Steven Wilson but see him talked about an awful lot here and he's playing at the same venue this weekend. Maybe I'll go in the blind and see whats what.
DO IT
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Leaving Friday to go to a prog music festival. Meeting up with Nick and DTVT. At the end f the month i am getting a Heart Catherterzation.
Enjoy Gettysburg my man. Wish I could be there to hang with ya. We'll just have to wait a few more months for the most epic DTF meetup since Score! Maybe even more epic.
By number there will never be anything to top Score, I'm afraid, but we can certainly shoot to achieve grander levels of epicness.
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Leaving Friday to go to a prog music festival. Meeting up with Nick and DTVT. At the end f the month i am getting a Heart Catherterzation.
Enjoy Gettysburg my man. Wish I could be there to hang with ya. We'll just have to wait a few more months for the most epic DTF meetup since Score! Maybe even more epic.
By number there will never be anything to top Score, I'm afraid, but we can certainly shoot to achieve grander levels of epicness.
Quality vs Quantity. If only Hef was coming up to Progstock.. or posting at DTF.
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Meeting up with Nick and DTVT. At the end f the month i am getting a Heart Catherterzation.
Are these two circumstances related?
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If you you were there possibly.
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If you you were there possibly.
Who, me me?
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:lol
Ready for game 3?
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Well, the fucking Bruins aren't!
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No shit.
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Evning guys
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Morning guys.
Went to a speakeasy with the office after work and while I thought it be pretentious experience it was actually some of the best cocktails I have ever had and I pretty reasonable price.
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Was it tucked away with a special entrance?
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It actually was, we had a hard time finding it, the door was just s plan for with the logo lightly painted on the door. It was right next to a restaurant so we assumed they door just led to the restaurant.
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I love that. That adds to the ambiance.
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Morning peeps.
(It's still legally morning here.)
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May the 4th be with you DTF.
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I know.
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Do you King? Do you see that it's May and it's the 4th?
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Never question Han Solo.
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What's the plan for the weekend King?
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Just loading the car to drive to Gettysburg PA for a prog music festival. Meeting up with Nick & DTVT.
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Nice King. I hope you a great time!
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Thanks! Just waiting on the Queen but that shouldn't be a surprise. :lol
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:lol nice have fun
Glad the week is almost over, of course a work trip going so well couldn't actually happen and our brand new fancy switch failed last night so that delays my project until Monday. Anyway, looking forward to a weekend out here in Denver.
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:lol nice have fun
Glad the week is almost over, of course a work trip going so well couldn't actually happen and our brand new fancy switch failed last night so that delays my project until Monday. Anyway, looking forward to a weekend out here in Denver.
Are you going to catch Steven Wilson while you're out there?
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:lol nice have fun
Glad the week is almost over, of course a work trip going so well couldn't actually happen and our brand new fancy switch failed last night so that delays my project until Monday. Anyway, looking forward to a weekend out here in Denver.
Are you going to catch Steven Wilson while you're out there?
Seems likely at this point. Might also catch Primus and Mastadon Sunday night at Red Rocks. I know none of these bands, just by name :lol
Although, I found a spotify playlist for a typical setlist for Steven Wilson and have been listening. Honestly not what I expected, was thinking it would be prog-metal and it's more just prog and spacey music. Which isn't bad, but could be a lot of fun to just chill and watch this type of show. Really like the song Pariah and People Who Eat Darkness, but a lot of the other music which is more jammy is hard for me at this point to pick out the songs of which are which just by listening while I work.
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Nice :metal Can't say I know Primus aside from by reputation, but Mastodon is pretty awesome.
Have you never listened to Porcupine Tree then cram?
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Primus sucks.
No, that's just what the band says; they're awesome. You might like them, but they are quirky and weird. Listen to "Jerry Was A Race Car Driver" or "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" to get a feel. Les Claypool is a MONSTER on bass, though his vocals are an acquired taste, and Tim Alexander is a treat to watch on drums.
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Nice :metal Can't say I know Primus aside from by reputation, but Mastodon is pretty awesome.
Have you never listened to Porcupine Tree then cram?
Nope
Primus sucks.
No, that's just what the band says; they're awesome. You might like them, but they are quirky and weird. Listen to "Jerry Was A Race Car Driver" or "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" to get a feel. Les Claypool is a MONSTER on bass, though his vocals are an acquired taste, and Tim Alexander is a treat to watch on drums.
I know Primus from the South Park theme which has that good bass and well is quirky and weird :lol I figure a show with two bands who I've heard good things about can't be terrible, even if they aren't my thing. Also, Red Rocks.
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I bought Pork Soda back in the day.
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Nice :metal Can't say I know Primus aside from by reputation, but Mastodon is pretty awesome.
Have you never listened to Porcupine Tree then cram?
Nope
Acquire yourself In Absentia and/or Deadwing and/or Fear of a Blank Planet post haste. Maybe my favorite three album run from any artist ever.
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Nice :metal Can't say I know Primus aside from by reputation, but Mastodon is pretty awesome.
Have you never listened to Porcupine Tree then cram?
Nope
Acquire yourself In Absentia and/or Deadwing and/or Fear of a Blank Planet post haste. Maybe my favorite three album run from any artist ever.
:lol I'm just trying to get to be familiar with the songs on this spotify playlist (which includes the Porcupine Tree songs he plays). If I really love the show, I'll have to dig into the backlog of music from him. It's some pretty chill stuff for the most part, but this song Ancestral that I have on now is pretty sick.
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All right, guys. I need some insight. I'm heading to the Troubadour on Sunday and this is my first time heading to Los Angeles/West Hollywood alone. For anyone here that's been to the Troubadour, in which I doubt there is that many here since they are mainly east coast, where the heck do I park? I keep reading that there's a lot across the venue, but will I be able to get a space on a weekend around 6PM?
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Never been to that venue, but to LA a bunch of times. I'd say street parking seems likely if you can't find a lot.
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Nice :metal Can't say I know Primus aside from by reputation, but Mastodon is pretty awesome.
Have you never listened to Porcupine Tree then cram?
Nope
Acquire yourself In Absentia and/or Deadwing and/or Fear of a Blank Planet post haste. Maybe my favorite three album run from any artist ever.
:lol I'm just trying to get to be familiar with the songs on this spotify playlist (which includes the Porcupine Tree songs he plays). If I really love the show, I'll have to dig into the backlog of music from him. It's some pretty chill stuff for the most part, but this song Ancestral that I have on now is pretty sick.
The guitar solo in Ancestral makes cartoon hearts pop up and spin around my head every time I hear it. Guthrie Govan is a bad motherfucker. Home Invasion/Regret #9 is the other long song from Hand Cannot Erase, which he's also playing on this tour, and it has a badass solo section as well.
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When I last saw SW I was more excited to see Guthrie than SW :lol
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I don't know what a Guthrie is, but yes I'm sure you're right it was more exciting than Star Wars.
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:lol
Morning Blob.
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Oh hey king. :biggrin: What's up?
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Nadda. I'm just getting ready for the last day at the music festival we are at.
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Nadda. I'm just getting ready for the last day at the music festival we are at.
Which poor nerd did you take home with last night?
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My wife. She's stuck for a ride home so...
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Afternoon folks.
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Hey.
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What's good blob?
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Not much. Done some more drawing, and started yet another new project out of boredom. :lol
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Nadda. I'm just getting ready for the last day at the music festival we are at.
Which poor nerd did you take home with last night?
:lol
Steven Wilson was pretty awesome last night. I don't think listening to his setlist on spotify did any justification for how cool his performance was. The first few songs from the second set really blew me away. Some pretty cool trippy music with videos in front and behind him. :metal Also met up with Jackie at the show and rocked out together for the second set. :metal
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Need pics.
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Nadda. I'm just getting ready for the last day at the music festival we are at.
Which poor nerd did you take home with last night?
:lol
Steven Wilson was pretty awesome last night. I don't think listening to his setlist on spotify did any justification for how cool his performance was. The first few songs from the second set really blew me away. Some pretty cool trippy music with videos in front and behind him. :metal Also met up with Jackie at the show and rocked out together for the second set. :metal
Awesome, glad you enjoyed the show :hat
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And monday morning has got me good. I am drained from the weekend. Primus and Mastadon at Red Rocks was a lot of fun last night, but today my body is saying it's had enough :lol
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What'd you think of Primus?
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What'd you think of Primus?
Optimus Primus?
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What'd you think of Primus?
Cool band, not really my music per say, but fun to see and very unique with that sick bass playing. Definitely good vibes at the show. I had a 60 year old man ask me if I wanted shrooms or LSD. :lol Every gust of wind brought some nice smells though :hat
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What about Mastodon?
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I've seen Primus 6 times. They are a blast live.
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What about Mastodon?
Honestly they sounded terrible. Not the music, but their sound. For a place with good acoustics, this was upsetting. Sounded like my friends band playing in a garage. I could hardly get into it just because I could hardly hear it well. It was also really low in volume, I chilled in the back for the first half of their set (I had just gotten there and was taking pictures of the view) and could hardly even hear the band. When I got to my proper seat much closer, they sounded a bit better and it had then gotten dark so I feel like I was finally just starting to get into it when their set ended. I feel like I should like them, but I can't really say they blew me away or did anything to make me want to buy an album.
I've seen Primus 6 times. They are a blast live.
Yea, they are a good live band. Good crowd for them too. Concert was sold out.
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Meetup tonight! Greg (Podaar) and his wife and the Queen and I are dining in Boston tonight! :metal
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Meetup tonight! Greg (Podaar) and his wife and the Queen and I are dining in Boston tonight! :metal
Lucky mofo's.
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Cool restaurant I've never been to. Food and beverages look dynamite.
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Nice, sounds fun
Going home today, I can't wait to sleep in my own bed with my cat tonight. Ive hardly been able to sleep in this hotel the last two weeks. Just got to survive the morning and early afternoon at work, which has been a rough early start so far.
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Nice, sounds fun
Going home today, I can't wait to sleep in my own bed with my cat tonight. Ive hardly been able to sleep in this hotel the last two weeks. Just got to survive the morning and early afternoon at work, which has been a rough early start so far.
I hate that. Even though we loved going away for 4 days nothing beats laying in your own bed.
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For some reason, maybe it's the altitude, whenever I come out to Denver my whole mouth/nose gets super dry. (it's not cotton mouth :lol) and I have bloody noses in the middle of the night and chapped lips. It's just kind of annoying and makes it difficult to sleep. But literally as soon as I get back home, it goes away and I am immediately comfortable. I really cant wait for that feeling tonight.
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For some reason, maybe it's the altitude, whenever I come out to Denver my whole mouth/nose gets super dry. (it's not cotton mouth :lol) and I have bloody noses in the middle of the night and chapped lips. It's just kind of annoying and makes it difficult to sleep. But literally as soon as I get back home, it goes away and I am immediately comfortable. I really cant wait for that feeling tonight.
It's dry air, which causes the blood vessels in the nostrils to move closer to the surface of the skin/tissue. I get the same (bloody noses) during the winter, when the air is drier, or summer, when I'm inside a lot of air conditioned buildings. A humidifier will help or using a q-tip to apply a very small amount of Vaseline inside your nostril overnight. You don't want to use too much, since it will be uncomfortable and block your nose. But a small, thin amount helps to moisturize your nostril.
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That makes sense, my coworker gets the same issue and advised drinking a cup of hot water before bed. I never tried that simple trick.
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I never had bloody noses or anything, but definitely had trouble sleeping when I went to Denver for the Great American Beer Fest a few years ago. Would finally fall asleep at two or three in the morning and get maybe two or three hours of good sleep before tossing and turning for a bit and giving up. Considering I was then spending all day drinking I was absolutely run down by the end of that trip. Still a great time though.
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Going home today, I can't wait to sleep in my own bed with my cat
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Seems like every problem builds up at work so everything breaks on Friday afternoon. We now are on another production call.
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And that's why we do change free fridays. Get your work done during the rest of the week so others aren't stuck late on Friday or the weekend to try to fix your mistake.
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Our problems are stemming from a recent update we did, we ended up just pushing too much on one release so it's now all coming back to bite us in the ass.
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First mowing of the lawn today.
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jinlge.son did that on Thursday. Had jingle.mom over for dinner last night ... combo Mother's Day and her birthday (Thursday). Two birds with one stone. My mother is a medium-sized narcissist, but last night's visit was (other than one minor issue) mostly pleasant. jingle.daughter got to avoid most of it, as she was working until 7:30, so she was pleased about that.
Funeral this afternoon. :'( Grandson of mrs.jingle's closest friend/colleague (we refer to him as her work-husband - they talk at least once a day) was killed in a car accident last weekend - one day before he turned 20. So tragic and sad.
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Too damn young. So sad.
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Damn. :sad:
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First mowing of the lawn today.
I've already been mowing the yard and it hasn't been so bad, now that the temp has hit 92 today I'm not looking forward to doing the yard.
I'm really sorry to hear that Jingle, 20 is so young.
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First mowing of the lawn today.
I've already been mowing the yard and it hasn't been so bad, now that the temp has hit 92 today I'm not looking forward to doing the yard.
I'm really sorry to hear that Jingle, 20 is so young.
Thanks... it was a tough one. First time I've been to a funeral for someone so young. I can't think of anything worse in this world than having to bury your own child. Many tears were shed.
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Good morning guys
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Howdy. Happy Mother's day to all of the mom's and wives of DTF'rs.
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Morning. Last day in Boston. We drank copious amounts of whiskey at the Last Hurrah last night so we’re feeling a bit delicate this morning. It’s been a great trip but I’m looking forward to getting home tonight!
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That's brutal, man.
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Morning. Last day in Boston. We drank copious amounts of whiskey at the Last Hurrah last night so we’re feeling a bit delicate this morning. It’s been a great trip but I’m looking forward to getting home tonight!
You devil.
Happy Mother's Day to all the DTF'ers and their significant others.
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Morning. Last day in Boston. We drank copious amounts of whiskey at the Last Hurrah last night so we’re feeling a bit delicate this morning. It’s been a great trip but I’m looking forward to getting home tonight!
Shoot. Not sure we could've made it up anyway. I work 9-5 on Saturdays, but we spent an entire Saturday up there two weeks ago.
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So starting my car this morning for the first time in 2 weeks and no good. Looks like my battery died.
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So starting my car this morning for the first time in 2 weeks and no good. Looks like my battery died.
Wow... that sucks - and you have a shit battery.
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I had to change me battery a few months ago. It did last 10 years though.
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Morning. Last day in Boston. We drank copious amounts of whiskey at the Last Hurrah last night so we’re feeling a bit delicate this morning. It’s been a great trip but I’m looking forward to getting home tonight!
Shoot. Not sure we could've made it up anyway. I work 9-5 on Saturdays, but we spent an entire Saturday up there two weeks ago.
Sorry, Tim. I thought you knew we were going to be in town. It would have been fun to have you join us on Friday night. Maybe next time?
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So starting my car this morning for the first time in 2 weeks and no good. Looks like my battery died.
Wow... that sucks - and you have a shit battery.
Yup, confirmed. Battery is dead, failed a test pretty badly. Acid leaked and corroded the connectors as well as the long screw that holds the battery in place. All needed replacing. My history shows that I actually never replaced this battery and a couple times had the acid leak cleaned and sealed lol Oh well, I guess you can't keep band aiding forever and eventually enough is enough.
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Holy Pollen Batman!! It looks like it's snowing this morning with how much pollen build up is blowing around in the wind. My contacts are collecting pollen like a pool filter.....it's brutal!!!
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It's been bad up here as well. I'm going Friday to get tested on what I'm allergic to. 75 pin pricks on my arms. Fun times
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I have a black car, and I have yellow streams down the side from the pollen. Looks almost like flames. My daughter and step son are both in agony just about.
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Raining here... but yeah, yellow buds on the ground/road all over the place.
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A gigantic \m/ raised up for Ronnie James Dio, who passed away already 8 years ago today.
Long live rock n' roll, long live Ronnie :metal
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Sooo close to the weekend I can taste it. Probably leaving work in an hour to go into NYC for the Sons of Apollo concert, then I'll be at the GF's tomorrow and going to the Misfits concert and back to her place, then dinner with all my siblings and SO's for my sisters bday Sunday... a day of rest on Monday, then vacation begins on Tuesday in Florida (although vacation kind of begins in an hour) Will be back at work in 13 days :yarr
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I'm passing on seeing them in Boston.
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I'm passing on seeing them in Boston.
I don't have much better options for how to spend my friday evening. But I've honestly been starting to like the album more and more and I think the show in MP's home is going to be a pretty good one.
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I get that. Idn, it just doesn't connect with me.
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Yea understood. It's not going to be for everyone and I wasn't really digging it (besides Son of God) when it first came out. I still think it's lacking something, but the core of what they are is kind of something I am into, a more metal sound with that party rock vibe and a prog twist. Just wish the guys didn't come out swinging at DT and even DTF when this whole thing started.
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Long weekend here baby!
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I'm passing on seeing them in Boston.
I think I'm going to head up to the Palladium in Worcester to see them. It's 60 miles away, and to see Bumble and Billy it's worth it for that. Plus, I haven't soured on Mike's drumming, so 120 minutes of that can't be bad, and finally, I heard the Queen portion of the show is worth the price of admission. It's a $25 ticket, so I figure I can't go too far wrong.
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Yea, the cover material will be cool to see since I'm a VH/Queen/DT fan. Just the musicianship is worthy IMO, but I totally understand why someone isn't into the band. I won't try to convince someone, I'm even on the border. But like I said, I could chill home and play video games or maybe hang with the GF (She had plans but I could have joined) but seeing some really good musicians rock out is a bit more interesting for me. Plus I am looking to get more videos for my youtube. Which I wont be able to do at the concert tomorrow night...
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Evening guys
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'Evening Reap..... 8 hours late. Saw your post last night, but was just on my way to bed, so I thought it'd be rude to respond, and then fuck off for the night. :lol
You put that ring on your woman's finger yet?
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Hey jingle.
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Morning chumps. It's coffee time.
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Hey king! What's up?
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Morning Blob! We were going to see Deadpool 2 & Super Troopers 2 at a drive in tonight but it's going to rain all night. So it's just Deadpool at a theater today.
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King did I mention I saw Back to the Future and Weird Science back to back at the cinema a couple of weeks ago? :metal
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No! BTTF was on cable last night. Must have been fun to see them in a theater again.
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No! BTTF was on cable last night. Must have been fun to see them in a theater again.
Again? Some of us aren't old enough to have seen them the first time around, bud! :lol First time I'd seen either one at the cinema. I enjoy Weird Science more every time I see it. So fucking random.
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Sorry. Old fogey moment. I was tripping on pop rocks and a gallon of Coke.
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Got any other plans for the weekend besides movie?
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Going to a beer festival with my brother and my oldest friend. We met in 5th grade. 40 years later, still being dummies together.
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Going to a beer festival with my brother and my oldest friend. We met in 5th grade. 40 years later, still being dummies together.
That’s awesome :tup I consider myself fortunate as well to have this group of friends that I have. We’ve all known each other since the 4th grade and still hang out regularly.
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Morning guys!
Jingle I haven't, we are attempting another trip at the end of the month to Florida to actually try and relax so I plan on doing it then.
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Morning guys!
Jingle I haven't, we are attempting another trip at the end of the month to Florida to actually try and relax so I plan on doing it then.
Goddamn... that thing must be burning a hole in your pocket (so to speak). Does she have any clue it's coming?
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I remember trying to figure out how to pop the question.
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Morning guys!
Jingle I haven't, we are attempting another trip at the end of the month to Florida to actually try and relax so I plan on doing it then.
Goddamn... that thing must be burning a hole in your pocket (so to speak). Does she have any clue it's coming?
Nope no idea, I think she thinks it'll never happen.
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Morning guys!
Jingle I haven't, we are attempting another trip at the end of the month to Florida to actually try and relax so I plan on doing it then.
You should do it at Pandora - The World of Avatar in Animal Kingdom and then go on the Flight of Passage ride.
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Morning guys!
Jingle I haven't, we are attempting another trip at the end of the month to Florida to actually try and relax so I plan on doing it then.
You should do it at Pandora - The World of Avatar in Animal Kingdom and then go on the Flight of Passage ride.
I'll be there Thursday :lol
Im just chilling home today, working on a few video edits and probably have a cocktail later this afternoon outside in this beautiful weather here. Tomorrow I go to Jacksonville for dinner with my parents then our drive around Florida begins, first stop is Disney World. Sadly the Avatar ride was the only one we couldn't get a fast pass for but we are just going to go early and right there and handle the wait before we hit up our fast pass spots around noon. Then doing drinks around the world :yarr I am so fucking pumped for this vacation.
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Hi Folks.
Any Enigma fans around here? Got a question to ask.
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Morning guys!
Jingle I haven't, we are attempting another trip at the end of the month to Florida to actually try and relax so I plan on doing it then.
You should do it at Pandora - The World of Avatar in Animal Kingdom and then go on the Flight of Passage ride.
We were actually thinking of going to animal kingdom!
When I lived in Florida I used to go to epcot and magic kingdom all the time but never mgm or animal kingdom, in fact it's been years since I've been to animal kingdom.
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Evening dudes
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Howdy Reap.
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What's good King?
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I went to bed after the basketball game. Lol.
Morning.
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Morning king! What's up?
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Getting ready to head to work. Long day. I've got a new hire coming in late in the afternoon.
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Morning guys
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Getting ready to head to work. Long day. I've got a new hire coming in late in the afternoon.
Oh cool a new deadbeat who will be gone in a week :neverusethis:
Hey Reaper. You check out that video I linked yet?
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Getting ready to head to work. Long day. I've got a new hire coming in late in the afternoon.
Oh cool a new deadbeat who will be gone in a week :neverusethis:
Hey Reaper. You check out that video I linked yet?
:lol
he;s been here for 2 months as a temp so far so I think he'll last.
I hope.....
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Getting ready to head to work. Long day. I've got a new hire coming in late in the afternoon.
Oh cool a new deadbeat who will be gone in a week :neverusethis:
Hey Reaper. You check out that video I linked yet?
:lol
he;s been here for 2 months as a temp so far so I think he'll last.
I hope.....
Oh king. I thought life already stamped out that kind of optimism. :lol
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:lol
Not yet! Without hope..........
I know, I know.
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I see I'm far more advanced than you with my cynicism. :biggrin:
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Oh, they wear me down for sure. Imagine if I told you guys all the stories?
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Morning guys!
Jingle I haven't, we are attempting another trip at the end of the month to Florida to actually try and relax so I plan on doing it then.
You should do it at Pandora - The World of Avatar in Animal Kingdom and then go on the Flight of Passage ride.
I'll be there Thursday :lol
Im just chilling home today, working on a few video edits and probably have a cocktail later this afternoon outside in this beautiful weather here. Tomorrow I go to Jacksonville for dinner with my parents then our drive around Florida begins, first stop is Disney World. Sadly the Avatar ride was the only one we couldn't get a fast pass for but we are just going to go early and right there and handle the wait before we hit up our fast pass spots around noon. Then doing drinks around the world :yarr I am so fucking pumped for this vacation.
All Avatar stuff aside, the Flight of Passage was without question the most insanely awesome ride I've ever been on. I went on it four times total. Make sure you report back!
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Oh, they wear me down for sure. Imagine if I told you guys all the stories?
DO IT
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Oh, they wear me down for sure. Imagine if I told you guys all the stories?
DO IT
But my hands would cramp up! :lol
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Morning folks.
I was expecting a nice, simple day today... but apparently my night lead caught a guy drinking on the job last night... sent him home, and he refused to leave.
He admitted to my lead that he had been drinking (and my lead found the bottle of vodka in the bathroom)... but then lied to my face about it.
YAY PAPERWORK.
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Morning folks.
I was expecting a nice, simple day today... but apparently my night lead caught a guy drinking on the job last night... sent him home, and he refused to leave.
He admitted to my lead that he had been drinking (and my lead found the bottle of vodka in the bathroom)... but then lied to my face about it.
YAY PAPERWORK.
Suspend and then terminate. Fun times.
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That's what's happening.
He's supposed to work tomorrow, and then he's taking a week off.
I don't plan on him working tomorrow, nor after that planned week off.
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I think he already knows he's fired.
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
Man, I need to go to Disney again.
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
I love Epcot. Last time I was there (a couple weeks ago) there was a bad-ass bloody Mary in Canada, and there's this milky drink with tequila in Mexico that was bomb (though too much like eggnog to drink out in the hot sun).
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
I love Epcot. Last time I was there (a couple weeks ago) there was a bad-ass bloody Mary in Canada, and there's this milky drink with tequila in Mexico that was bomb (though too much like eggnog to drink out in the hot sun).
I've never tried a mixed drink in Mexico. I usually go sit in that bar off to the right side at the bottom of the stairs and order a flight of shots. Where did you pick up the "milky tequila" drink, Stads?
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
I love Epcot. Last time I was there (a couple weeks ago) there was a bad-ass bloody Mary in Canada, and there's this milky drink with tequila in Mexico that was bomb (though too much like eggnog to drink out in the hot sun).
I've never tried a mixed drink in Mexico. I usually go sit in that bar off to the right side at the bottom of the stairs and order a flight of shots. Where did you pick up the "milky tequila" drink, Stads?
Right where you were sitting. When I went last, there was a line, so you had to wait and go in to the bar to order, but it's right there.
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
I love Epcot. Last time I was there (a couple weeks ago) there was a bad-ass bloody Mary in Canada, and there's this milky drink with tequila in Mexico that was bomb (though too much like eggnog to drink out in the hot sun).
I've never tried a mixed drink in Mexico. I usually go sit in that bar off to the right side at the bottom of the stairs and order a flight of shots. Where did you pick up the "milky tequila" drink, Stads?
Right where you were sitting. When I went last, there was a line, so you had to wait and go in to the bar to order, but it's right there.
Okay, cool.
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
You talking about the FOP? Did you do the river ride too?
I actually didn't hate the wait for the FOP. There was so much cool stuff along the way. We went the week after the hurricane last September, so the longest we had to wait was like an hour and fifteen minutes or so. The fourth time we didn't have to wait at all. We went out the exit and were escorted right back to the front because Victoria's glasses were missing a lens. She didn't notice until the ride started.
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FOP, we did the river ride too, but I'd say that wasn't worth the wait. It was advertised as 75 minutes, I think it was closer to 90 and it was a miserable line to wait in, while in comparison the FOP line was really awesome to experience and made the wait not seem so bad.
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Getting ready to head to work. Long day. I've got a new hire coming in late in the afternoon.
Oh cool a new deadbeat who will be gone in a week :neverusethis:
Hey Reaper. You check out that video I linked yet?
No I haven't but I'm going to look at it right now.
What's happening guys?
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
You talking about the FOP? Did you do the river ride too?
I actually didn't hate the wait for the FOP. There was so much cool stuff along the way. We went the week after the hurricane last September, so the longest we had to wait was like an hour and fifteen minutes or so. The fourth time we didn't have to wait at all. We went out the exit and were escorted right back to the front because Victoria's glasses were missing a lens. She didn't notice until the ride started.
My issue with the FOP line is that there was no fucking bathrooms once you get in the building. Shameful.
The river ride kind of blew, but I'm not really into Avatar. But I could appreciate the ridiculous amount of detail.
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Watching the Celtics game Reap getting pissed off. :lol
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I'm just sitting down for a beer myself.
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Beer and Overwatch all night.
Actually, that's not entirely true, I may switch to whiskey in a bit.
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I'm doing beer and State of Decay 2. Having a hell of a time.
Do you play overwatch on PC?
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I'm on Xbox 1. Never got into PC gaming.
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Morning chumps. Taking the old man out for seafood today.
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Morning King. Sounds like a nice day, what's your dad's choice of seafood?
No rain today here finally so I might be able to get the yard done.
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Morning amigos.
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Morning blob
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Morning Reaper!
I've been doing a lot of drawing today. Drew up some characters and got some shitty colouring done on them. :D
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Morning. This tropical storm has ruined all our plans. Not really sure what we are going to do today.
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Morning King. Sounds like a nice day, what's your dad's choice of seafood?
No rain today here finally so I might be able to get the yard done.
Unhealthy and fried. Lol
Scallops and clams w/ bellies.
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Morning. This tropical storm has ruined all our plans. Not really sure what we are going to do today.
With this run you are on, I don't even feel bad for you. :lol
I hope you're documenting the storm cramx style.
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The trip has been documented but not so much the storm. Kind of uninteresting since it's just non stop rain. The rain didnt stop us from riding the airboat through the Everglades but these were supposed to be our beach days and our snorkeling trip tomorrow. The pool is open at the hotel may just chill in the pouring pool :lol
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The trip has been documented but not so much the storm. Kind of uninteresting since it's just non stop rain. The rain didnt stop us from riding the airboat through the Everglades but these were supposed to be our beach days and our snorkeling trip tomorrow. The pool is open at the hotel may just chill in the pouring pool :lol
Might as well. Wet is wet. I remember golfing once and it started as a drizzle, but by like the 5th/6th hole, it was a full downpour. When we got to the turn, I asked my (then) boss 'wanna just pack it in?'. He responded "why, it's not like we can get any wetter". So we finished a full 18. :lol
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Yea, that was yesterday. Just so drenched even in our ponchos that when the airboat stopped in the middle of no where in the Everglades, the guide jumped into the water and asked if anyone else wanted to. I couldn't get any wetter so I was the only one to volunteer to go in. That was a cool experience.
We were supposed to spend 3 nights here but the hotel is letting us cancel if we want so we may just spend the day here and go back to Jacksonville tomorrow tomorrow a day earlier to see my parents.
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Yea, that was yesterday. Just so drenched even in our ponchos that when the airboat stopped in the middle of no where in the Everglades, the guide jumped into the water and asked if anyone else wanted to. I couldn't get any wetter so I was the only one to volunteer to go in. That was a cool experience.
Aren't there like..um..fucking aligators in the water?
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Yea, that was yesterday. Just so drenched even in our ponchos that when the airboat stopped in the middle of no where in the Everglades, the guide jumped into the water and asked if anyone else wanted to. I couldn't get any wetter so I was the only one to volunteer to go in. That was a cool experience.
Aren't there like..um..fucking aligators in the water?
Everywhere. But that spot was fine, I think. :lol Also, it was cool to know there had never been an aligator attack in the park before. They are pretty docile and uninterested in humans. We got close to many. It's only when people feed them that they become aggressive towards humans, which is a $5k fine.
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Aren't there like..um..fucking aligators in the water?
Everywhere. But that spot was fine, I think. :lol
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WTF? Dude, that's nuts. No fucking way, man.
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Morning Reaper!
I've been doing a lot of drawing today. Drew up some characters and got some shitty colouring done on them. :D
You'll have to send me a link when you're done. I like what I've seen already.
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Morning Reaper!
I've been doing a lot of drawing today. Drew up some characters and got some shitty colouring done on them. :D
You'll have to send me a link when you're done. I like what I've seen already.
These aren't amazing, but they're my first attempts at colouring without copying from something, and I'm happy with the designs. :D
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Morning dudes
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Morning Reap! What's up?
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Nothing much, day off today and it's going to rain all day so I'll probably lounge around the house.
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Booooo. I'm at work.
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Booooo. I'm at work.
Da fuq?
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Wal Mart never sleeps. All about the all mighty dollar. So we are always open.
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Nothing much, day off today and it's going to rain all day so I'll probably lounge around the house.
Oh yeah day off. That's why I didn't get new shows to watch today. :getoffmylawn:
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Nothing much, day off today and it's going to rain all day so I'll probably lounge around the house.
Oh yeah day off. That's why I didn't get new shows to watch today. :getoffmylawn:
Goddamn fallen military, eh?
:|
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My DVR is on overload. I'm tired. Stayed up for the C's game. Damn shame the outcome.
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Nothing much, day off today and it's going to rain all day so I'll probably lounge around the house.
Oh yeah day off. That's why I didn't get new shows to watch today. :getoffmylawn:
Goddamn fallen military, eh?
:|
Aw I was just being first world problems. Why you gotta get all semi-serious on me. :'(
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Homey be cutting deep.
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G'morning all. I've got to work today, but it's only a light half day from home and I'll get to take an extra vacation day because of it :hat
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Nothing much, day off today and it's going to rain all day so I'll probably lounge around the house.
Oh yeah day off. That's why I didn't get new shows to watch today. :getoffmylawn:
Goddamn fallen military, eh?
:|
Aw I was just being first world problems. Why you gotta get all semi-serious on me. :'(
I know... I was trying to figure out a way to sarcastically poke fun at ya in a less than semi-serious way. Couldn't quite figure out the best way of doing it.
Now pick yourself up, and go watch some reruns of something.
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Nothing much, day off today and it's going to rain all day so I'll probably lounge around the house.
Oh yeah day off. That's why I didn't get new shows to watch today. :getoffmylawn:
Goddamn fallen military, eh?
:|
Aw I was just being first world problems. Why you gotta get all semi-serious on me. :'(
I know... I was trying to figure out a way to sarcastically poke fun at ya in a less than semi-serious way. Couldn't quite figure out the best way of doing it.
Now pick yourself up, and go watch some reruns of something.
Also tbf, I deduced it was a public holiday in the US, but didn't actually know what it was.
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Morning, guys!
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Morning Prog! Long time no see. How are you?
Back at work today for me, just working today and tomorrow and I'm off for a long weekend.
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I'm doing better. Between my daughter being sick for the last month and a half and studying for the CCIE, I barely have time to breathe. She's finally feeling better so I'm able to stop stressing about that...for now.
I worked the holiday yesterday afternoon. Thankfully it was quiet. How have you been?
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Pretty good, just doing the usual work thing. I got moved up in my job so now I"m doing some project management which included Salesforce integration with some of our other software, that coupled with constant server issues I've been busy.
When are you thinking of taking the CCIE?
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I'm not sure yet. I haven't been giving it the right amount of attention, but that needs to change. It's not one of those things that can be done at half speed. I read an article about the exam. It's listed as one of the toughest exams in the world. The first time passing percentage is 1%. :-\
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John! What happened to your daughter?
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Avatar ride was insane. I had a tear coming out of my eye (well I think cause I didnt blink but it seriously was amazing). We are done with the rides though, waiting for a bus to Epcot to get our food and drink on.
You talking about the FOP? Did you do the river ride too?
I actually didn't hate the wait for the FOP. There was so much cool stuff along the way. We went the week after the hurricane last September, so the longest we had to wait was like an hour and fifteen minutes or so. The fourth time we didn't have to wait at all. We went out the exit and were escorted right back to the front because Victoria's glasses were missing a lens. She didn't notice until the ride started.
My issue with the FOP line is that there was no fucking bathrooms once you get in the building. Shameful.
The river ride kind of blew, but I'm not really into Avatar. But I could appreciate the ridiculous amount of detail.
I loved the river ride, but the line for that one was beyond miserable.
Not having bathroom in the building leading up Flight of Passage is hard to wrap my head around, especially seeing as they designed that queue to hold hold a 6 hour line. There's that one section when you're transitioning from the cave to the outside of the ruined building where there are water fountains. It blows my mind that a bathroom wasn't put there as well.
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Yea they should have a bathroom. If they can have a concession stand on line (I only saw this for the river ride) then I dont see why they wouldn't put a bathroom but maybe that creates conflicts with people on the line.
On the plane home. Gave my gf my first class upgrade seat and in return I am in the last row with a seat I can't push back :lol Cant wait to get into my bed in a few hours. I have an insane amount of photos and video to start going through as well today.
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Morning folks. Sitting on an airplane heading to Florida. What’s happening?
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Trying to button up all my work because tomorrow I have the heart catheterization.
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Good Morning peeps.
Sorry I've been MIA for the past week. Been dealing with some family shit at home plus bullshit at work.
My life is a shit sandwich.
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Back at work after almost 2 weeks off. They flew in my coworker from LA while I was gone to get all the work done apparently. He did a great job and now that I am back, I don't have a whole lot to do atm. I've just been reading emails and catching up all morning, but my motivation is low. Just can't wait till 6pm so I can gtfo.
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Motivation?
What's that?
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:justjen
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I forgot how terrible traffic is in Florida however I did miss the beach.
Sorry to hear about the shit sandwich jay.
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Traffic? Beach?
Sounds like home to me.
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I grew up living 1000 ft from the beach but I forgot how before I moved I had to commute an hour and a half each way to work. Couldn’t do that shit again.
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Morning.
Blob see my Facebook profile cover. It's a fan made Star Trek theme of Rush's album cover to Grace Under Pressure.
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Morning.
Blob see my Facebook profile cover. It's a fan made Star Trek theme of Rush's album cover to Grace Under Pressure.
You had me at Star Trek then completely lost me at Rush. :biggrin:
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Morning.
Blob see my Facebook profile cover. It's a fan made Star Trek theme of Rush's album cover to Grace Under Pressure.
You had me at Star Trek then completely lost me at Rush. :biggrin:
:rollin :rollin
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:lol
I know that's why I posted to you. Lol
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SON OF A........ :getoffmylawn:
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Lololol.
So I had the heart catherazation yesterday. No clogs which is good but it still means my left side of my heart is weak. So continue to get healthier, take my meds and help my heart.
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That's good, just keep up the hard work :yarr
Big metal concert in my backyard tonight and the venue just released set times:
Testament 5-5:35pm
Behemoth 5:55-6:30pm
Anthrax 6:55-7:35pm
Lamb of God 8-8:50pm
Slayer 9:20-11pm
Going to be a long day of boozing and thrash. What's awesome about this concert (besides being so close to home) is a bunch of my friends are going including some who never go to concerts. Should be fun getting these guys out to a show, maybe it'll convince them to come out more often. I only have a couple friends who like similar music to me and none of them ever have interest in going to shows.
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Morning.
Blob see my Facebook profile cover. It's a fan made Star Trek theme of Rush's album cover to Grace Under Pressure.
You had me at Star Trek then completely lost me at Rush. :biggrin:
You lost me at Star Trek then completely had me at Rush and the Grace Under Pressure cover. ;D
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He had me at Morning, but completely lost me at Facebook.
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I have you all daily then have my Facebook too
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:lol
That doesn't even make sense.
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Sure it does. I'm an internet whore.
Giggity.
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I have you all daily then have my Facebook too
I can't escape you even on Facebook and Twitter. :lol
And that's how I likes it. :biggrin:
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Giggity.
Morning.
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Morning king.
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What's up good sir?!
My nephew turns 6 today. Going to the beach for pizza and arcade games then for ice cream.
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So, jingle.daughter got t-boned yesterday. Thankfully at a 4-way stop intersection, so it was a slow speeds - though the SUV that hit her ran the sign (though he claims he didn't). She's not hurt (maybe some whiplash), but the car that hit her was a Ford Explorer with big-assed tires/suspension, and a cable winch on the front bumper - which ended up ripping the the driver side doors open like a can opener. And naturally, the damage to the Explorer was nothing but a bent license plate, and some red paint smudged on to the winch. :facepalm:
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1735/40725969160_90095693c6.jpg)
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The other driver was very apologetic and did admit fault, so thankfully he wasn't a dick and try to put fault on a 17 year old (inexperienced) driver. The dude literally lives on the corner of the intersection, so how he could've had such a brain lapse to drift through the intersection boggles me. I suspect he just rolled right out of his driveway, didn't notice (or look very hard), and went right thru the intersection. >:(
Police report filed; insurance claim started. Don't really need this shit.
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Damn, glad she's OK. That's scary.
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Damn Chad! Drivers side hit!!!!
I'm so happy she's ok. Man, a parents nightmare.
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Yeah, she was super freaked out about it. Fortunately, we only live a couple of minutes from where it happened (she was simply coming home from work), so we got there right away to help her through everything and deal with the big shit (ie, going to the police station for the report), and help her through the whole trauma of it. She's still in bed right now, but we'll see what the day brings. Mrs.jingle is already obsessing over it (not in a freaked out way, just that she didn't sleep all night - thinking about how it could've been much worse). The collision was hard enough to knock her glasses off, but didn't deploy any airbags. The damage is much worse than it should be - thanks to the guy having the high suspension and tire winch.
I hope the insurance company doesn't value the car too low (it's 7 years old) and write it off - that's the last thing I need - to have to fully replace it. I don't think replacing two doors and the rear bumper would be more than the value of the vehicle, but ya never know.
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That sucks jingle, but I'm glad your daughter is ok.
What's up good sir?!
My nephew turns 6 today. Going to the beach for pizza and arcade games then for ice cream.
.....but what about the cake?
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Glad your kid is okay and I hope not too many after the fact injuries surface.
I don't think replacing two doors and the rear bumper would be more than the value of the vehicle, but ya never know.
It's the labor that will kill your car. The insurance company will likely total the car and pay you out.
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My nephew doesn't like cake.
But ice cream? I think his blood is ice cream lol
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My nephew doesn't like cake.
But ice cream? I think his blood is ice cream lol
What kind of kid doesn't like cake?!
I think your blood is probably ice cream too. :lol
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:lol
I know. I told my brother and sister in law to get him into a psychologist right away.
Btw, in 6 months I've had ice cream maybe 10 times. I've go to lose weight.
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:lol
I know. I told my brother and sister in law to get him into a psychologist right away.
Btw, in 6 months I've had ice cream maybe 10 times. I've go to lose weight.
I had ice cream a couple of hours ago. :lol
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I will today!
6 years old. Man time flies.
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Glad your kid is okay and I hope not too many after the fact injuries surface.
I don't think replacing two doors and the rear bumper would be more than the value of the vehicle, but ya never know.
It's the labor that will kill your car. The insurance company will likely total the car and pay you out.
Not what I wanted to hear. At. All. When I was a kid, I did some really serious damage to my mother's car. At first they were gonna write it off, but then the shop re-adjusted their estimate to make it worth repairing. The book value on this car is around $8-10k CAD, so like I said, the cost to buy and install two new doors (and paint) better not be that much.
I do NOT want to go car shopping.
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I'll be shocked if they don't total it, but I've been wrong before. Best of luck.
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I'll be shocked if they don't total it, but I've been wrong before. Best of luck.
You're not helping.
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Damn that looks pretty nasty but glad to hear it looks worse than it was and your daughter is safe.
Last nights Slayer concert was insane. Sucks we had to leave before they finished though cause my friend shat his pants and needed to throw up :lol I guess that happens when we booze for like 9 hours
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Late to the party, here, but...
King, I hope you're doing well.
Jingle, I hope your daughter is okay. As a father of a daughter and stepdaughter that both drive, that's my nightmare (though I will tell you; the proximity of the stop sign to his house probably breeds a little indifference. I havre a stop sign about 500 yards from my house, and I watch the locals breeze through it on the regular. The local police have taken to sitting there and they pull people over like flies. Someone (not me) must have complained.
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Oh wow, jingle, I'm glad she's okay. Could've been way worse. I wonder how low the insurance company will write it... since I work with car insurance companies on a daily basis I have to stop myself from ranting :lol The labor will be a bitch but who knows how they'll write it, depends on your company and (if it's not totaled) how much the shop is going to fight what they write. It's a pricey industry, auto repair, and the insurance companies will skip sooo much stuff that actually needs to be fixed...
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Afternoon guys. Jingle I’m super sorry to hear that but I’m glad it wasn’t anything more serious.
So dudes. I got engaged today.
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:metal :metal congrats Reaper!
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Late to the party, here, but...
King, I hope you're doing well.
Jingle, I hope your daughter is okay. As a father of a daughter and stepdaughter that both drive, that's my nightmare (though I will tell you; the proximity of the stop sign to his house probably breeds a little indifference. I havre a stop sign about 500 yards from my house, and I watch the locals breeze through it on the regular. The local police have taken to sitting there and they pull people over like flies. Someone (not me) must have complained.
I hear ya Bill. I live on a corner lot (of a crescent and a straight thru street ... so a 'T' intersection). There's a 1-way stop sign right beside our house and it might as well be a yield. I've NEVER seen anyone come to a full stop. Our driveway is about 60 feet past this intersection, and I wish I had a nickel for every time I've nearly backed in to someone zipping around the corner, or nearly been clipped by someone who has to slam on their brakes.
You're probably spot on Bill... dude's driveway is about 40 feet from the intersection - I'll bet he makes it a rolling stop (at best) most of the time, and here was one time he completely gapped out and we're the "beneficiaries" of his carelessness.
At least he did admit fault. Could've been very easy to blame it on jingle.daughter - who I know 100% did not cause this. She has ALWAYS been overly cautious at stop signs - so much I would constantly comment "you can go now"... "you don't have to be so tentative". Guess she had it right to be cautious.
@ Reaper... fuckin eh! Congratulations dude. Do tell the story.
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So dudes. I got engaged today.
Speaking of car wrecks...
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So dudes. I got engaged today.
You'v finally done it. You maniac.
You blew it up.
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Alright Reap! Congrats!!
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Congrats Reap!
Settled in on the couch for a couple hours of Xbox after cooking dinner for the family tonight.
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Back to work tomorrow. No more PTO for me until august :(
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Good Morning peeps.
2 People out sick yesterday / last night. Someone also quit on me. I've been at work since 4 AM, and this probably won't be the end of it. I foresee a shit ton of Overtime in my near future.
*Snip*
Holy shit. That sounds similar to my first second accident. Me in a tiny Chevy Aveo. Other car was a Dodge Minivan which blew a stop sign. Aveo was totaled. Van had a tiny dent.
So dudes. I got engaged today.
I am so sorry Congrats man!
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Afternoon guys. Jingle I’m super sorry to hear that but I’m glad it wasn’t anything more serious.
So dudes. I got engaged today.
Nice. Did you do it at Pandora - The World of Avatar?
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Afternoon guys. Jingle I’m super sorry to hear that but I’m glad it wasn’t anything more serious.
So dudes. I got engaged today.
Nice. Did you do it at Pandora - The World of Avatar?
Annnnd now we all know Brian's plans.
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Afternoon guys. Jingle I’m super sorry to hear that but I’m glad it wasn’t anything more serious.
So dudes. I got engaged today.
Nice. Did you do it at Pandora - The World of Avatar?
Annnnd now we all know Brian's plans.
My plan was to do it last November with Alan Tudyk (V's favorite actor) during a VIP photo op at a Comic-Con, but the fucker had to cancel his appearance.
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oh shit so you've been waiting to do it all this time?
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What's plan B?
TBD?
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:lol Yeah, basically. Neither of us are in any real rush, I just thought that would have been fun. We're taking a trip to Ireland in October. I might do it then.
I was hoping for something like this (just not with the Doctor)
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That would have been pretty cool, Chino. I would imagine that Alan Tudyk would be super cool about it too.
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So nerdy.
So Awesome.
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Go to Blarney Castle, do that stupid bend over backward thing to lick the Blarney Stone, and come back up and say "hey, honey, look what I found!" and hand her the ring.
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:lol Yeah, basically. Neither of us are in any real rush, I just thought that would have been fun. We're taking a trip to Ireland in October. I might do it then.
I was hoping for something like this (just not with the Doctor)
(https://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/images/legacy/happyplace.com/53597f13cf629.jpg)
Why would you want it NOT with the Doctor? He can take you guys for your honeymoon anywhere in space and time!
Just don't do it while you're on the TARDIS in the time vortex or you'll end up having a time lord baby who will get stolen away from you and be raised to kill The Doctor and end up older than you. :blob:
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We've already been on the tardis.
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:tup: (that box is actually super inaccurate, but it's the thought that counts)
I get a picture of myself with a TARDIS at every con, but I always look terrible, so I never post it anywhere. :lol
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Yeah, with your face, it ruins the TARDIS. Post it dammit!
Morning.
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What does TARDIS mean?
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What does TARDIS mean?
In your case, slow.
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That wasn't really helpful.
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Funny, though.
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What does TARDIS mean?
TIME AND RELATIVE DIMENSION IN SPACE, YOU UNCULTURED SWINE
Those last three words are not part of the acronym. I just added those myself. You uncultured swine.
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:lol :lol :lol
Pawn takes TAC. Bishop takes TAC. EVERYBODY TAKES TAC!
It's good to be the King.
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Somebody needs to teach the oldies to use the Google. :neverusethis:
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Bloooooobbbbbb plleeeaaassseee! :lol
I've got to say, that verbal google search shocked the hell out of me.
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Somebody needs to teach the oldies to use the Google. :neverusethis:
TAC - "What's Google?"
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I've got to say, that verbal google search shocked the hell out of me.
Clearly, Siri thinks you're racist.
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I've got to say, that verbal google search shocked the hell out of me.
Clearly, Siri thinks you're racist.
From trying to get the spelling of Arnold's last name to that word? Holy moly.
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What does TARDIS mean?
TIME AND RELATIVE DIMENSION IN SPACE,
Is that from a movie or something?
Somebody needs to teach the oldies to use the Google. :neverusethis:
...or I could simply ask what everyone is talking about.
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I just want to say publicly how much I appreciate TAC taking the bullet for me on this. TARDIS? Isn't that when you're late for school a bunch of times?
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I expect this kind of behavior from TAC but you Stadler?! :lol
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I just want to say publicly how much I appreciate TAC taking the bullet for me on this.
You're welcome. It's brutal out there.
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I just want to say publicly how much I appreciate TAC taking the bullet for me on this.
You're welcome. It's brutal out there.
+1, I was thinking the mental retardation route with that term.
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Good afternoon all!
I think I have a developed a slight thing for women in uniform.
Had a big incident at work early yesterday morning (Attempted burg- cop who responded broke his ankle trying to apprehend the suspect, and my guys took the dude down... lots of paperwork and PD investigation yadda yadda)... an Officer came to pick up some security footage from the incident... and hot damn! She was gorgeous! She was also a trainee I think, as she was with a a more seasoned Officers, and he was walking her through the steps in gathering report info... so she was acting almost overly official and professional.
Maybe I need to be a cop......
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Nice, I feel like most female cops I have seen have not made me interested in women in uniform :lol
Speaking of though, there's a new security guard here. She's pretty. Not hot, but an attractive lady and in uniform, but it's funny cause I work in a data center with almost all dudes and because she's an attractive lady, she not only stands out, she has been getting a LOT of attention from many of the males who work here. My coworker noticed it as well and we've been joking about it. We saw multiple guys surrounding her earlier and we were thinking they were trying to cock block each other.
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Man, you guys need a moat for that place. So many break ins! :lol
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Dude. Half of the property is situated on 2 islands. IT HAS A MOTE! lmao
80% of the issues are in the 5 condo buildings situated on the parameter of the property. They are off of a major road, and have no gating (the islands are semi-gated).
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Evening fellas
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Dude. Half of the property is situated on 2 islands. IT HAS A MOTE! lmao
80% of the issues are in the 5 condo buildings situated on the parameter of the property. They are off of a major road, and have no gating (the islands are semi-gated).
Dig deeper! :lol
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Jesus, that's insane Jay.
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Almost time to get the hell out of here. I’m going to go home and do the lawn and I’m free for the whole weekend.
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Yea, getting close to EOD and have no plans this weekend for the first time in awhile and looking forward to chilling. Although if lawn tickets get cheap enough, might take the gf to see Imagine Dragons tomorrow night at the shed by my house. Someone negotiated cheap tickets to sell me on facebook but turns out they are a scammer so didn't fall for that.
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I hear imagine dragons put on a good show!
It's way too fucking hot to go to lawn show here, I might be a bit biased though because I just spent two hours doing the lawn :lol
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Happy weekend everyone. Plans??
Just going to try and chill the fuck out myself.
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Hey jingle.
I think it's a long weekend here. Balls.
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Hey jingle.
I think it's a long weekend here. Balls.
So... how is that different from any three consecutive days in BVD-land?
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Hey jingle.
I think it's a long weekend here. Balls.
So... how is that different from any three consecutive days in BVD-land?
Having everyone else home from work messes up my important weekday schedule. Basically we all have a shit time when my dad is home.
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Hey jingle.
I think it's a long weekend here. Balls.
So... how is that different from any three consecutive days in BVD-land?
Having everyone else home from work messes up my important weekday schedule. Basically we all have a shit time when my dad is home.
And yet, you still live there. :lol
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Hey jingle.
I think it's a long weekend here. Balls.
So... how is that different from any three consecutive days in BVD-land?
Having everyone else home from work messes up my important weekday schedule. Basically we all have a shit time when my dad is home.
And yet, you still live there. :lol
I don't have any option there.
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Morning chumps. We just got our new fridge & refrigerator delivered.
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Morning chumps. We just got our new fridge & refrigerator delivered.
What is the difference between a fridge and a refrigerator? :P
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:facepalm:
Stove and fridge. Lol
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Blame the phone again, amirite? :biggrin:
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I had food on the brain?
Yeah, I'll go with that.
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*cues the Tony Atlas laugh*
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Morning chumps. We just got our new fridge & refrigerator delivered.
And this afternoon you'll be getting your stove and oven?
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No those were delivered as well!🤣
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Happy weekend everyone. Plans??
Just going to try and chill the fuck out myself.
No plans really. Drywall service was done at my house this morning, the crew did a phenomenal job. I'm going to spray the lawn for bugs later then I have to head into work at 830pm.
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830pm on a Saturday night?! DAAAAMMMMNNNN!!
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yea we are doing server patching and deploying a new feature to our content management system. It's when the investment bank is least busy.
I don't mind because now that I'm moved to hourly I get at 15% premium for shift diff, then that amount gets taken and I get time and a half for OT.
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That is sick to get the differential plus OT
I've been scouring livenation and stubhub all afternoon for tickets for the Imagine Dragons concert near me. Not really into them, but my gf likes them and figure they are an actual live band so it would I'd be cool seeing them for a decent price. They've been releasing a ticket here and there every once in awhile as I've been refreshing and then it's a race to see if you can actually buy it. Finally worked out where they released a row of the cheaper seats (but with a great view, my preferred seats for this venue) so I am pretty happy. Got both our tickets for less than the combined price of two lawn tickets on the current second hand market. :yarr
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That's awesome Cram. The show is tonight isn't it?
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Yup just got back, sooo many kids there. So different than Slayer last Saturday :lol
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Lol, well I’m hoping you had a good time.
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Morning guys. Had a late night last night, banker ended up calling me because he thinks he lost an hour of work. Long story short, I was able to recover it and the precious cost of my sleep.
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Wow that sucks, how long did it take to recover it? More than an hour for the banker to just do it again?
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Yea it would’ve been longer for him to re do the work. It took longer because the issue he had we’ve seen with our windows 10 rollout however we haven’t been able to reproduce the issue to test it. I used his machine to do some testing and I think I solved the problem, have to bring it up at our next meeting.
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Journey and Def Leppard tonight :yarr Journey hits the stage at 7pm. Going to be a fun night starting early, but I'm glad Journey is opening tonight (they've been rotating).
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Journey and Def Leppard tonight :yarr Journey hits the stage at 7pm. Going to be a fun night starting early, but I'm glad Journey is opening tonight (they've been rotating).
Definitely. You can beat the traffic out.. ;D
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Journey and Def Leppard tonight :yarr Journey hits the stage at 7pm. Going to be a fun night starting early, but I'm glad Journey is opening tonight (they've been rotating).
Definitely. You can beat the traffic out.. ;D
boooo :lol actually never seen Journey before and I'm sure its not the same with the singer but I am pretty excited to check them out. But I am a bigger Def Leppard fan even though this will be the 4th time seeing them. Also most reviews of this tour say you'd rather Def Leppard close, apparently theyve had the bigger fan base and the better set/reaction. I could go again on Friday for the reversal :\
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Evening my dudes.
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My good friend saw this in Hartford a week or so ago, I believe Def Leppard opened, and said it was amazing. He's kind of a Steve Perry disciple, so I think he was approached Anal with a little skepticism, but said it was good.
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He sounded amazing.
Journey - Lights @ MSG New York City (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nd020zjq9Y)
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Good Morning.
I just tried to log into my email with my DTF credentials and vice versa.
I need coffee.
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Didn't have any plans tonight so fuck it, I'll go see Journey and Def Leppard again, some tickets were released today that are good value.
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In laws just came into town for a week which means the ac is going to get cranked up.
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So...
I have been pretty short staffed at work for like a month now. My boss is going to shit his pants when he sees the amount of overtime that is going out this pay period.
With that said... I interviewed 2 people today to fill the 2 empty spots. One of them was incredibly sharp. Arrived early to his interview (I wont even bring up the fact that he overslept and no showed to a scheduled interview last week...) I am hiring him, will fill out paperwork on Friday and start training. Cool guy.
The other, is younger and is obviously only here because his dad is pushing him. When he first came by and brought a resume, his dad came with him. I let him know what shifts I was hiring for, and he told me he didn't want them (graves). At the bottom of his resume, is a long thing going on about how he has Aspergers and what Aspergers is.
I know what Aspergers is. I have good friends with it. Not an issue.
Well I ran into his dad yesterday, and he asked why I never called his son back. I told him that I had been meaning to, and asked if he could relay the message for him to come by sometime this week to fill out an application and have a quick chat one on one. He came by today, chit chatted, yadda yadda. He seems up for the shifts I have open. Going to have him come by tomorrow to fill out more paperwork and to get him officially hired on. As he was leaving, I mentioned a few things about our uniforms. I then brought up shaving, as it is company policy to come into work clean shaven, as he had some scruff... (I disagree with it, but not my place).
"I am not willing to do that."
Really? All of this, and you're going to turn down an easy entry level job, that is literally a block from your house, because you refuse to shave?
All I told him was it is a requirement, and to think it over before coming in tomorrow. We can discuss it then.
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Isn't it amazing what people will let hold them back? Does seem like you need him more than he needs you though, don't let him get that impression or he will feel that way once hired.
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I shaved and cut my hair (it was longish and blonde) for my first job. Most Security companies around here won't hire you with facial hair. At least the reputable ones won't.
I also worked graves. My first company had me working a combination of graves and swings. In 3 different locations. Hell, even when I got hired on here where I am, I was stuck working Full Time graves, even after being promised that I wouldn't. Why? Because I wanted and needed the job.
Also, I do need him more than he needs me, but I am willing to stand my ground and keep with the ovetime flowing. I won't hire someone just because I need them. That's what my old supervisor used to do, and it hurt us more than it would to just give out some overtime for another week and look for someone else.
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Jay, don't get me started. I have this conversation with my kids - except my oldest, who gets it - almost weekly.
If you want a paycheck, you do what you need to do to get it. I was 42, with three degrees, and the job I was offered required me to be in Erie, PA. Problem is, I lived in Philadelphia, PA. So for a year, I drove up to Erie Sunday night, and drove back Friday night EVERY WEEK. Away from my daughter, away from my family, away from my friends. I did what I had to do. I have zero empathy for Mr. Goatee, Asperger's or not.
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Also, I do need him more than he needs me, but I am willing to stand my ground and keep with the ovetime flowing. I won't hire someone just because I need them. That's what my old supervisor used to do, and it hurt us more than it would to just give out some overtime for another week and look for someone else.
Yea, I'd rather be generous with the people who are there and loyal, who want the OT (because that shows some drive) before rushing to hire someone just to fill a gap. Hopefully management agrees with you there.
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Well I get to fire a kid for trying to steal Wal Mart property from the DC today. Fun times.
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Well I get to fire a kid for trying to steal Wal Mart property from the DC today. Fun times.
Sounds deserving though, unless the guy was a good worker and it sucks to find out he wasn't as good as expected.
My 1am work maintenance got cancelled, so just got to do this minor job at 8pm then I can head out. Was expecting a 20 hour work day so this is nice.
Also good news for me is I won tickets to see Poison, Cheap Trick, and Pop Evil on Saturday :metal
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Good worker but dirt poor. He fucked up.
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Also good news for me is I won tickets to see Poison,
Sounds like you lost!
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Also good news for me is I won tickets to see Poison,
Sounds like you lost!
Nah, I was never really into them, but they opened for Def Leppard last year and was very impressed with them. They *almost* stole the show actually. I wasn't going to go to this concert unless I could get a super cheap ticket (whcih is possible, it's not selling well) but free is better than super cheap. Also Ive never seen cheap trick and pop evil is a newer band that may be worth checking out.
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Also good news for me is I won tickets to see Poison,
Sounds like you lost!
Oh Tim. :lol
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Also good news for me is I won tickets to see Poison,
Sounds like you lost!
Oh Tim. :lol
:lol classic Tim
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Tim has his metal blinders on. Lol
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I'd go just for Cheap Trick. The setlist they've been trotting out on this tour is pretty decent; not headliner, but extended from an opening slot. A little variety, the expected hits... the only downside is that they INSIST on playing "I'm Waiting For The Man" with Tom Petersson on vocals. I don't mind his singing, but that song just drags the whole thing down. They should play "I Know What I Want" if they need to give Tom his moment in the sun.
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Tim has his metal blinders on. Lol
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/650x400q90/923/KWXacH.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/f/pnKWXacHj)
:lol
Yeah, that's me! :lol
I'm so bad. How did I end up like this? When did it happen? I used to be a pop culture expert. Now I don't watch TV, go to the movies.....
Joe, 98.5 today on Zo and Bertrand were taking calls on binge watching suggestions. I was totally lost, like WTF are they talking about. I literally haven't watched a plotted TV show since House followed the first few seasons of American Idol.
I'm so critical about TV. Nothing is believeable. Everything comes accross so cheesy and fake. Like in every scene, no one would ever say that in real life. Is it even possible to have a TV show that is not about a doctor, lawyer, or policeman? Like who fucking cares??
Oh, and my apologies to Podaar. I fucking hate golf and all it stands for, and I was probably being a dick. He pointed that out to me. :lol
OK, ramble over.
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Evening guys. Parents in law are leaving tomorrow thank fucking god, it's been a long few days.
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Lol. Tim. You had a greater cause. Raising children. A higher calling.
Still, you sound old you bastard! :rollin
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I'd suggest Netflix for Tim if he wants really good TV Series', but I'm not prepared for "What's Netflix?"
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Isn’t that where you order DVDs and they mail them, and then after you watch the, you have to mail them back?
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Don't forget to rewind the DVDs first.
(https://i.imgur.com/mEb8OMB.jpg)
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Oh shit. I always forget to do that.
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Isn’t that where you order DVDs and they mail them, and then after you watch the, you have to mail them back?
In the 90's yes. That's how I got hooked on the TV show "24". Now you stream everything.
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I'm so critical about TV. Nothing is believeable. Everything comes accross so cheesy and fake. Like in every scene, no one would ever say that in real life. Is it even possible to have a TV show that is not about a doctor, lawyer, or policeman? Like who fucking cares??
I can't say I'm100% in agreement with all of TAC's rant (though close enough for government work) but this one really struck home. My wife and I will be watching a show and we'll pause it sometimes four or five times to say "Wha? How did they leap from A to C like that? What about...". I swear, I can imagine those douche-y Hollywood script-writers in a room somewhere thinking "Ah, fuck them, they're too stupid to follow this anyway, who cares? As long as Eddie Sibrian looks hot they won't give a shit."
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I'm the opposite. I watch TV to get away from reality. No reality TV for this guy. I can overlook some storylines because I just need to escape.
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Well, I stay away from reality TV too. All those desperate people just looking for 15 minutes of fame... it's embarrassing. Except for the Food Network. I love that, partly because of the camaraderie and friendship you see; I recall one episode of Guy's Grocery Games, and in the finals was this young guy and this older - over 65 - chef. The young guy was finishing up and the older guy was clearly struggling and the young guy plated, and went over and said "Chef, I'm all yours, what do you need me to do?" The old guy ended up winning, and he in turn gave all the money to the young guy's charity, a cancer fund (he lost his little daughter to cancer at like 10 years old). Not a dry eye in the house.
Contrast that with Jersey Shore; I walked into the bedroom while my wife was watching that, and it was "BLEEP" for the entire time it took me to walk across the room (about 30 feet). Ridiculous.
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For loving GGG, I suspect you're dead to lonestar now, Bill. :lol
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Contrast that with Jersey Shore; I walked into the bedroom while my wife was watching that, and it was "BLEEP" for the entire time it took me to walk across the room (about 30 feet). Ridiculous.
I'm pretty much with you guys on reality TV. I kind of think it makes you more dumb by watching it :lol BUT I have been watching this season of Jersey Shore and I find it really dumb, but also I laugh my ass off. Either way, the girl who is getting engaged to the Situation next week is a good family friend. That's really the reason why I am watching it. I expect to be invited to their wedding.
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For loving GGG, I suspect you're dead to lonestar now, Bill. :lol
When and if I ever meet him, I'm going to make sure I pull a Portnoy, and wear a "Guy Fieri" shirt. :)
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Contrast that with Jersey Shore; I walked into the bedroom while my wife was watching that, and it was "BLEEP" for the entire time it took me to walk across the room (about 30 feet). Ridiculous.
I'm pretty much with you guys on reality TV. I kind of think it makes you more dumb by watching it :lol BUT I have been watching this season of Jersey Shore and I find it really dumb, but also I laugh my ass off. Either way, the girl who is getting engaged to the Situation next week is a good family friend. That's really the reason why I am watching it. I expect to be invited to their wedding.
Really? Have you ever met him? I can't stand him on JS, but he was at least sort of entertaining on "America's Worst Cooks - Celebrity Edition", even if I had to say "they're stretching it with 'Celebrity'" before every episode.
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Contrast that with Jersey Shore; I walked into the bedroom while my wife was watching that, and it was "BLEEP" for the entire time it took me to walk across the room (about 30 feet). Ridiculous.
I'm pretty much with you guys on reality TV. I kind of think it makes you more dumb by watching it :lol BUT I have been watching this season of Jersey Shore and I find it really dumb, but also I laugh my ass off. Either way, the girl who is getting engaged to the Situation next week is a good family friend. That's really the reason why I am watching it. I expect to be invited to their wedding.
Really? Have you ever met him? I can't stand him on JS, but he was at least sort of entertaining on "America's Worst Cooks - Celebrity Edition", even if I had to say "they're stretching it with 'Celebrity'" before every episode.
I met him once, before he was on the JS and known. He dated Lauren back then, they broke up, he went on the show was a deuche and then got clean and back together with Lauren. I have only seen Lauren a couple times in the last bunch of years, our parents are still best friends though. But when I met Mike, our family's spent the weekend in the Poconos during Christmas break and Lauren brought him for the weekend where we all boozed and chilled in a rental house. It was a good time that weekend.
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For loving GGG, I suspect you're dead to lonestar now, Bill. :lol
When and if I ever meet him, I'm going to make sure I pull a Portnoy, and wear a "Guy Fieri" shirt. :)
:rollin :rollin :clap:
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So you're telling my I need a Fieri shirt for Oct Chad? :lol
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So you're telling my I need a Fieri shirt for Oct Chad? :lol
No, I'm telling you that we should buy 7 of them for us all to troll him.
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Somebody needs to meet him at the airport with a "Welcome to Flavortown" sign :lol
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So...
The kid came in today. Told me he was going to shave for the job.
Started filling out paperwork. Got to the point where I needed to verify his guard license...
AND he doesn't have one.
Back to square one..
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Somebody needs to meet him at the airport with a "Welcome to Flavortown" sign :lol
Challenge accepted!
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:lol
Jay, I had a guy come in for an interview who told me he needed a month to "get clean".
If you're looking for a job maybe you should stop smoking weed earlier?
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That'd make too much sense King.
Just got my new PC case and it's amazing, I've had my old case for at least 6 years and it was time to back to full tower. I picked up the Corsa
Actually I should just go post in the PC thread lol.
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Nice. I kept thinking all day yesterday was Thursday and it seems to have hungover and I keep thinking today is Friday now and it's very depressing when I remind myself it's not.
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Honest to God, that's been me all week. Since Monday I've thought I was a day ahead. Alas, no such luck. :)
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Word up, fools. Realized it's been months since I've posted in the chat...I ought to fix that, and reduce my productivity to match!
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Word.
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At work. I was looking forward to having the weekend off but now I have to look at wedding venues :/
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At work. I was looking forward to having the weekend off but now I have to look at wedding venues :/
And so it begins. Almost every weekend is gonna be something dude. Count on it.
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At work. I was looking forward to having the weekend off but now I have to look at wedding venues :/
And so it begins. Almost every weekend is gonna be something dude. Count on it.
Cakes!
Flowers!
Table settings!
Music!
And then there's the registry....
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invite all of the DTFers.
MEET UP TIME!
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Please sit me at the old folks table, though. King, TAC, Jingle, Bart... we need room too; don't be jamming 12 seats into a table that sits 8, tops. And a little space between the tables too. I'm not as nimble as I once was (but once, I'm as nimble as I ever was!). Finally, to minimize disruptions, closer to the bar is better. Beyond that, we're flexible (and we're generous gift givers).
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I could be convinced to plan a vacation around the Reaper wedding. Serious. Serious as a heart attack.
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"Hey honey, I invited a bunch of middle aged guys I met on the internets!"
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If I could, I totally would go :lol
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A DTFers table would be awesome :metal
Also, my list of demands are an open bar and live band. Probably two of the most expensive things besides the venue you can ask for, but totally worth it.
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Count me in if there's a waffle bar and you play Run Around Sue every hour on the hour.
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There are enough DTF musicians to put together a live band....
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I'll handle bass, and perhaps percussion (if the sound created by drunkenly stumbling into/over chairs can be counted as "percussion")
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If it was up to me it'd be a destination wedding with my close family and hers which would segue into our honeymoon.
Now my only requirement is open bar. Hrmm I wonder how sloppy a DTF table would get.
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Only one way to find out :hat :metal
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If it was up to me it'd be a destination wedding with my close family and hers which would segue into our honeymoon.
Now my only requirement is open bar. Hrmm I wonder how sloppy a DTF table would get.
Spoiler Alert: Very sloppy.
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And I'd grope everyone.
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Hey there will be some attractive singles ladies there :lol
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I don't think I've ever wanted to see a photo bomb by Cram as badly as I wanted to see it here.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/mike-sorrentino-pulls-off-perfect-proposal-with-%e2%80%98jersey-shore%e2%80%99-family%e2%80%99s-help/ar-AAyZfsT?ocid=ientp
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And I'd grope everyone.
And I'd let you.
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Hey there will be some attractive singles ladies there :lol
... who will likely be wildly disappointed.
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And I'd grope everyone.
And I'd let you.
Not like you'd have a choice.
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Hey there will be some attractive singles ladies there :lol
... who will likely be wildly disappointed.
C'mon now. We deserve a little more credit than that.
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Hey there will be some attractive singles ladies there :lol
... who will likely be wildly disappointed.
C'mon now. We deserve a little more credit than that.
You're right... they'll DEFINITELY be disappointed.
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Lets set tables with DTF'ers and rate the tables. :lol
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I would prefer if my table was equidistant from the bathroom, the bar, and the dance floor.
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I would prefer if my table was equidistant from the bathroom, the bar, and the dance floor.
Try having a bladder that acts like an 80 year old.
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Hey there will be some attractive singles ladies there :lol
... who will likely be wildly disappointed.
“Would you agree that TA is the best work by DT or do you believe that MP era was DT at their prime?”
Gotta make sure you list the acronyms too.
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Hey there will be some attractive singles ladies there :lol
... who will likely be wildly disappointed.
“Would you agree that TA is the best work by DT or do you believe that MP era was DT at their prime?”
Gotta make sure you list the acronyms too.
Hey baby... wanna go listen to Raw Dog?
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I'll Count Of Tuscany him.
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Baby, you ever had somebody hit it in 5/8?
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Baby, you ever had somebody hit it in 5/8?
It'll leave you scarred.
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Duh.
It's called The Ytse Jam.
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:lol
I hope my weekend isn't filled with wedding stuff. I was looking forward to doing some car shopping.
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:lol
I hope my weekend isn't filled with wedding stuff. I was looking forward to doing some car shopping.
We just completed ours. Sadly, Gregg was right, insurance company deemed our vehicle a total loss - though it was right on the edge of being fixable (financially speaking) - like $800 difference. Insurance offered about 94% of the market value of the vehicle, but I'm still negotiating for the max settlement I can get. I'm ok with it though now... between the auto-body manager explaining the damage and why he would never want his family in a car that took the damage ours did (the main support bar between the driver and rear seat was compromised), and the thought of getting a new vehicle, I'm cool. So, with some pretty generous government incentives (that are about to be axed since we have a new Provincial government being sworn in on Friday), we're getting a Kia Optima Plug-in Hybrid/Electric for about 50% of the price of a new one (taking into account the settlement and 'green' rebate). Should be picking it up on Thursday.
It's amazing how 'dated' a 7-year old vehicle gets in terms of technology and safety features. That's the big appeal of a new car - the safety features. Plus, the EV aspect of it means we'll break even and be saving money on gas in about 2-ish years.
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The Kia is no joke. My girlfriend and I helped buy her parents a Kia Soul and while there I sat in a new Optima. So many features and at a great price. Before getting promoted I was actually going to grab something from Hyundai myself, the new Veloster N.
So update, no wedding stuff as one of the venues we were touring today cancelled.
What color are you getting? Are you going to installed a charging port in your house?
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The Kia is no joke. My girlfriend and I helped buy her parents a Kia Soul and while there I sat in a new Optima. So many features and at a great price. Before getting promoted I was actually going to grab something from Hyundai myself, the new Veloster N.
So update, no wedding stuff as one of the venues we were touring today cancelled.
What color are you getting? Are you going to installed a charging port in your house?
Blue (that and white is all that was available). Charging port - no... not in this house at least. We're going to be moving within the next 12 months in all likelihood, so we can tolerate an over-night timeframe to charge it - or head to a charging station if need be. In Canada, the EX version of the PHEV is jacked up... the only thing the Premium provides is the moonroof, air-cooled seats, and a 10-way passenger seat. Don't need to drop $3k for those three features.
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Skynyrd was fuckin awesome last night. My gf and I got VIP tickets after the show started on stubhub for a cheap price. We went to the bar in the VIP lounge and ran into my brother's best friend's parents who have season VIP tickets for the venue (I know this because the friend has hooked me up with the tickets before) and he gave me his four VIP tickets and private parking spot pass for tonights Poison show (I already won lawn tickets). I can't get a single person to come with me though, I guess I will have a VIP row to myself :lol Actually may try to give them away, like hey free upgrade to a lucky couple or something. And probably just give away my lawn tickets if possible as well before the show starts. Going to get there early for Pop Evil at 7 :metal
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Going solo eh?!
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No one I know likes going to concerts, let alone likes the music I like. Well not totally, there's a couple, but pretty much if my GF isn't coming with me, I'm solo.
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No one I know likes going to concerts, let alone likes the music I like. Well not totally, there's a couple, but pretty much if my GF isn't coming with me, I'm solo.
I did many concerts solo back in the day.
Marc, just saw your Gimme Three Steps from last night. Showed up on my feed. ;D
I love Ricky Medlocke and was a huge Blackfoot fan way back when.
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Tim. Feed?
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Tim. Feed?
YouTube feed. Get out of the dark ages old man. ;D
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Ah. I gave him as well. For a second I thought you broke down on other media. Lol
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No one I know likes going to concerts, let alone likes the music I like.
This is me :lol. Usually my gf will come with me to spend time with me but I don't really force her to do that. I actually have a better time going solo and chatting up people at the venue.
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No one I know likes going to concerts, let alone likes the music I like.
This is me :lol. Usually my gf will come with me to spend time with me but I don't really force her to do that. I actually have a better time going solo and chatting up people at the venue.
90% of shows I go to I'm flying solo. Rush was pretty much all that mrs.jingle could tolerate. I've got one buddy who likes some traditional and classic rock/metal, so if it's a nostalgia band, I've got him.
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Chad is so desperate for friends to go with, he flew to Montreal to go with me to Rush.
I have that much allure
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Morning my dudes
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Morning Reap!
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What's good KIng?
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Leaving at 10am with the wifey and heading to Portland ME to hit 3 breweries. We'll bring a few cases home.
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Nice :tup. I have nothing planned except seeing Jurassic Park later. Probably going to pick up some games on Steam and check them out.
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We want to see the new Incredibles movie.
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What breweries are you hitting?
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Battery Steel
Goodfire Brewing
Austin Street
And maybe Bissell Brothers if we have time.
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Once it cools down here I'll do more brewery stops. It's way to fucking hot to be drinking outside.
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I hate humidity.
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Yea I know, I never thought I'd live in a place hotter than Florida but here I am. I took the dog out for a walk this morning and it already felt like it was 95.
Yet I'm going to order a black car this afternoon so clearly I'm the dumb one.
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:lol
95 next Saturday up here so I'll be joining you soon. 1 1/2 and I'm buying a truck. Brand new. I can't wait. I just don't want 2 car payments.
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Chad is so desperate for friends to go with, he flew to Montreal to go with me to Rush.
I have that much allure
And drove to Gettysburg!
We want to see the new Incredibles movie.
jingle.son and I are heading out tonight for that. We just re-watched the original last night. Fantastic movie.
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That's one kid movie we never saw.
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Tim, I bet your family would love it.
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King what are you getting?
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Not sure. You have to see what these breweries have left.
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Oh I meant truck
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Tim, I bet your family would love it.
Well at this point, my kids wouldn't be interested.
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Oh I meant truck
Toyota Tacoma.
Tim, I bet your family would love it.
Well at this point, my kids wouldn't be interested.
Tim, I still love watching the 1st film. It works for grownups as well.
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Tim. Feed?
YouTube feed. Get out of the dark ages old man. ;D
:lol
Poison show was awesome last night. I had a feeling Bret Michaels was going to dedicate a song to Vinnie Paul so I had the camera ready and got it when he said it. He dedicated the concert to him and played Ride the Wind. Got it on video and blabbermouth was on top of it and saw they shared my video this morning:
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/poison-dedicates-holmdel-concert-to-vinnie-paul-video/ (https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/poison-dedicates-holmdel-concert-to-vinnie-paul-video/)
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Chad is so desperate for friends to go with, he flew to Montreal to go with me to Rush.
I have that much allure
And drove to Gettysburg!
We want to see the new Incredibles movie.
jingle.son and I are heading out tonight for that. We just re-watched the original last night. Fantastic movie.
I saw I2 with my daughter and step son a couple days ago, and I LOVED it. I thought it was awesome, one of the better movies - generally, not just "animated" or "family" - I've seen in recent years. Seriously; I thought it was that good.
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Welp guys I signed the paperwork this afternoon. Sometime in early November I will be the owner of a 2019 Ford Mustang GT Premium. Can’t fucking wait!
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You'll be covered in pussy for a long time with that car.
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Lol not sure if the gf will appreciate that. I’m so pumped, I’ve never owned a new car let alone ordered one.
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Welp guys I signed the paperwork this afternoon. Sometime in early November I will be the owner of a 2019 Ford Mustang GT Premium. Can’t fucking wait!
Fuck yeah.
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What did you end up streaming blob?
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What did you end up streaming blob?
Nothing. :lol Couldn't think of anything worthwhile so I said fuck it.
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Welp guys I signed the paperwork this afternoon. Sometime in early November I will be the owner of a 2019 Ford Mustang GT Premium. Can’t fucking wait!
Cool and the Gang. That's a long freakin wait though.
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The dealer said I could theorically get it as early as last week of August but truthfully customer orders get pushed back. Once ford generates my VIN number it’s about five weeks to build and I can track it on fords site. Then about a week delivery, but I have read horror stories about cars getting stuck in transport but I’ll cross that bridge when if I get there.
There is another alternative, say a mustang hits the dealer in August and it’s my build and spec (I don’t have a strange build, it’s just black with ever option except on) I can cancel my order and buy that one.
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Lol not sure if the gf will appreciate that.
:lol
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Woke up to the news that the company I work for has been sold, the tech start up I've been working for the last 4+ years has all grown up and sold now for reported $1.6bn to a big company that's been in the news a lot lately for its acquisitions. I don't know how I feel about all this. It's not a total shock, there were rumors of something happening and last week the news broke of this happening. It's just official today and now I have meetings all day. But at least I get to work from home to do these meetings. I feel like this could be very good for me or very bad. I don't know yet.
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Woke up to the news that the company I work for has been sold, the tech start up I've been working for the last 4+ years has all grown up and sold now for reported $1.6bn to a big company that's been in the news a lot lately for its acquisitions. I don't know how I feel about all this. It's not a total shock, there were rumors of something happening and last week the news broke of this happening. It's just official today and now I have meetings all day. But at least I get to work from home to do these meetings. I feel like this could be very good for me or very bad. I don't know yet.
Change can present a tremendous opportunity..I've made much if my career from being able to leverage change and chaos.
So that scientist that was shot in California over the weekend while camping was a colleague that I had worked very closely with a couple of years ago. "Fucked up" does not begin to describe this.
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I saw the headline but didn’t get read the story. I’m sorry millahh I can imagine thet hits very close to home.
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You've got to be kidding me. I'm so sorry. Such a senseless death.
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thats crazy and sad, sorry man
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@cram don't suppose you're high enough up to see some of that sweet sweet acquisition money? A friend of mine was working at one of those startups that delivered gourmet meal ingredients to your door and then they got bought by a big supermarket chain and she got a pretty nice payout as a result.
@millahh damn, that's crazy dude, sorry to hear that.
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:'(
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@cram don't suppose you're high enough up to see some of that sweet sweet acquisition money? A friend of mine was working at one of those startups that delivered gourmet meal ingredients to your door and then they got bought by a big supermarket chain and she got a pretty nice payout as a result.
Just had our last meeting with our team and close management. This actually sounds like great news after hearing about it all day. It's not really a merger of any kind, they bought us for us so they need us. In fact, the deal will be null if people leave, so there's incentives to stay. Including a fat payout. I'll get paid for all my vested stock options, and I have a lot. Mostly because I threatened to quit after my first year and they enticed me with an insane amount of stock options, that 3 years later I haven't come close to getting a similar plan. But once the deal is signed, I'm going to get paid for it all in one lump sum and the rest of my unvested stock options will continue to vest and be paid out quarterly. My job and benefits safe until end of 2019, but we need to grow 10x so I think I'm fairly safe beyond that as well as they have no plans to close anything or lay anyone off. I get to keep my 3 week sabatical next year (for working there for 5 years) so another huge plus as some might lose that, but I get it just in time. I need to celebrate. Everyone is boozing in the office now but I have a doctors appointment.
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I saw the headline but didn’t get read the story. I’m sorry millahh I can imagine thet hits very close to home.
It's just horrifying. Awful. He had just had his last day on Wednesday, and he and his wife were taking new jobs (she'd just finished her residency, i think). Killed in front of his daughters.
I can't claim to have been really close with him, but i tested the hell out of him, and we saw the world the same way.
I was talking with one of my colleagues today who was closer to him, and we had to change the subject so that neither of us would start crying (mostly thinking of his daughters).
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@cram don't suppose you're high enough up to see some of that sweet sweet acquisition money? A friend of mine was working at one of those startups that delivered gourmet meal ingredients to your door and then they got bought by a big supermarket chain and she got a pretty nice payout as a result.
Just had our last meeting with our team and close management. This actually sounds like great news after hearing about it all day. It's not really a merger of any kind, they bought us for us so they need us. In fact, the deal will be null if people leave, so there's incentives to stay. Including a fat payout. I'll get paid for all my vested stock options, and I have a lot. Mostly because I threatened to quit after my first year and they enticed me with an insane amount of stock options, that 3 years later I haven't come close to getting a similar plan. But once the deal is signed, I'm going to get paid for it all in one lump sum and the rest of my unvested stock options will continue to vest and be paid out quarterly. My job and benefits safe until end of 2019, but we need to grow 10x so I think I'm fairly safe beyond that as well as they have no plans to close anything or lay anyone off. I get to keep my 3 week sabatical next year (for working there for 5 years) so another huge plus as some might lose that, but I get it just in time. I need to celebrate. Everyone is boozing in the office now but I have a doctors appointment.
That's awesome... All of the benefits of getting bought, without your world getting turned upside-down! And, if you have organizational aspirations, periods of rapid growth make for great opportunities.
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Yea, I wanted something new as well to shake things up personally. Job was getting stale and was feeling little room to grow. But I had wanted to make it 5 years to get my 3 week vacation since I am so close to getting there. My plan was to re-evaluate and look around after that, which may still happen, but I may not need to. There may be a lot of opportunity within the next year to grow here now. If I didn't have this appointment soon I'd be making myself a drink right now.
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So that scientist that was shot in California over the weekend while camping was a colleague that I had worked very closely with a couple of years ago. "Fucked up" does not begin to describe this.
I read that the other day. Such terrible news. Was it some random guy in the woods? They don't really have any other info right?
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Buy-outs like that are chock full of opportunity, unless you are a one-trick pony with a product/software/license that someone covets. My business was sold by GE to a French company lock stock and two smoking barrels, and save for a few who should have been gone a long time ago, and a few that flocked back to the mother ship (GE) out of panic, it's been a good deal for the people that went. They want us, they want us successful, and they want us happy. It shows.
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So that scientist that was shot in California over the weekend while camping was a colleague that I had worked very closely with a couple of years ago. "Fucked up" does not begin to describe this.
I read that the other day. Such terrible news. Was it some random guy in the woods? They don't really have any other info right?
That's what it looks like, some random psycho.
Buy-outs like that are chock full of opportunity, unless you are a one-trick pony with a product/software/license that someone covets. My business was sold by GE to a French company lock stock and two smoking barrels, and save for a few who should have been gone a long time ago, and a few that flocked back to the mother ship (GE) out of panic, it's been a good deal for the people that went. They want us, they want us successful, and they want us happy. It shows.
Yes...buy-outs are also good for getting rid of dead weight. When we went though our first round, it was a bit Godfather-esque..."Today, all family business is settled"
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My company has bought out over a hundred smaller companies over the last few decades, all around the globe. Sadly it never ends well for those employees. We just need their customer base and their corresponding data. Once it's integrated into our systems, we don't need anyone from the company we acquired.
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My company has bought out over a hundred smaller companies over the last few decades, all around the globe. Sadly it never ends well for those employees. We just need their customer base and their corresponding data. Once it's integrated into our systems, we don't need anyone from the company we acquired.
Yea, that's what it's like for banks in my past experience (my first job out of college was at Bear Stearns who was bought by JP Morgan Chase when the stock market crashed in 08). And also from my experience of my current company buying others. Which is why I was pretty worried. But that's not the case here. This company is creating a new company under the parent name and it's essentially going to be my company just rebranded and to compete, they need to grow about 5 to 10 times larger in the next years. I actually liked everything our new CEO is saying and the way our management has spoken to us about it. It's all really positive and nothing like what I've experienced in the past. They don't want to change a single thing about us, just make us bigger.
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My company has bought out over a hundred smaller companies over the last few decades, all around the globe. Sadly it never ends well for those employees. We just need their customer base and their corresponding data. Once it's integrated into our systems, we don't need anyone from the company we acquired.
Yea, that's what it's like for banks in my past experience (my first job out of college was at Bear Stearns who was bought by JP Morgan Chase when the stock market crashed in 08). And also from my experience of my current company buying others. Which is why I was pretty worried. But that's not the case here. This company is creating a new company under the parent name and it's essentially going to be my company just rebranded and to compete, they need to grow about 5 to 10 times larger in the next years. I actually liked everything our new CEO is saying and the way our management has spoken to us about it. It's all really positive and nothing like what I've experienced in the past. They don't want to change a single thing about us, just make us bigger.
That's awesome. With that level of expansion, there'll probably be ample opportunity for upward and lateral movement throughout the new company.
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Yea, that's why I am so excited. There's talk about hiring more people for our team which I am already senior level so I might have people coming in under me. A lot of opportunity to come I think. And if not, the experience of working at a start up and being apart of selling it off seems like the type of experience a future employer might want. This is really the kick in the ass I needed in work to get motivated again. I thought I'd have to leave to find that, and it seems it came right to me instead. Our meeting today, the head of our department essentially said he felt the same way, place was getting stale and now there's new hope (on a personal level, the business was always strong). Just got to wait the next 30-90 days for the deal to close, get a fat check, and then it's time to start the real work. Until then, "business as usual" except don't spend any money since that will come out of all our shares.
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Howdy all. Just getting settled in my hotel in PDX for almost a full week of shenanigans.
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Nice, whats in Portland? Spent a night there last year and enjoyed the food trucks and legal goods, but didn't have enough time to do anything else.
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Axe is this your first time in OR? My gf travels there a few times a year to work and she loves it, her pictures from Crater Lake are unbelievable.
Good morning lads.
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Howdy all. Just getting settled in my hotel in PDX for almost a full week of shenanigans.
Post those beers you son of a.....
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Nice, whats in Portland? Spent a night there last year and enjoyed the food trucks and legal goods, but didn't have enough time to do anything else.
Portland is the location for this year's National Homebrewer's Convention. The convention proper starts Thursday afternoon and runs through Saturday, but I like to come out early and check out some of the breweries while they're not too crowded and before the seminars and other convention stuff starts.
Axe is this your first time in OR? My gf travels there a few times a year to work and she loves it, her pictures from Crater Lake are unbelievable.
Good morning lads.
Yessir, first time in Oregon. Doubt anything outside of alcohol and food (aside from maybe some of the devil's lettuce) is in my future for this trip, but I met up tonight with some friends who are also in town for the convention but went hiking all day today and they had some fantastic pictures.
Howdy all. Just getting settled in my hotel in PDX for almost a full week of shenanigans.
Post those beers you son of a.....
I'll probably get around to it tomorrow morning, but I've been up for almost 24 hours now so it's time for some sleep.
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Nice, whats in Portland?
The dream of the 90s. It's where young people go to retire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZt-pOc3moc
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Axe is this your first time in OR? My gf travels there a few times a year to work and she loves it, her pictures from Crater Lake are unbelievable.
Good morning lads.
Yea, this is why our stay in Portland was short, we were just making our way to Crater Lake. Which is a good drive from Portland so yea, if you got the plans already it's probably not in the cards, but it really is unbelievable
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Another fun fact about Oregon that makes it similar to NJ, you don't pump your own gas :lol Guy was really confused when I went to pump my own gas and then I was confused as I thought that was only a jersey thing
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Good Morning All.
So... my boss has an ad out on one of the big employment search websites and is forwarding me the resumes that come in. Some of these are really really bad. The job requires basic writing and computer skills, and if you can't put together a readable resume, how is someone supposed to confidently hire you?
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People being people
Work let everyone out early today so I just got home and have all of next week off. My little sister is being induced late tonight so I should wake up with a new niece that I'll visit in the morning then tomorrow night is the Foreigner, Whitesnake, Jason Bonham concert, then Monday I am getting a small surgery to remove a lump, but it's almost 100% benign and should be in and out so that'll be good to get that done. Otherwise doing chores around the house and chilling with the gf next week until we head to Vermont next weekend for the Angry Orchards Rock the Roots festival. I'm looking forward to the next 9 days :metal
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Still a lot going on there!
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Evening dudes. Drinking some port, listening to some Pink Floyd and going boating tomorrow. Should be a good day.
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Evening dudes. Drinking some port, listening to some Pink Floyd and going boating tomorrow. Should be a good day.
Did getting engaged just make you skip to being 60 years old already? :lol
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Yesterday was our company's year end, and now it's a long weekend (Canada Day tomorrow). Temps in the mid 30s, feeling like 40s all week. Gonna have to walk the dogs early every day - our 11 year old dog doesn't do heat very well.
Longer post coming later regarding car situation.
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Blob you bastard. :lol
Morning Chad. Hanging out with my cousin and his wife today. It's been decades since we've done this.
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Ugh, the heat is unbearable and I lost power about an hour ago now. Not expected to be fixed for a few more hours. I guess I am heading to the concert tonight sooner than later to get out of the house as it's starting to heat up. Luckily the basement is still really chill.
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Ugh is right.
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Yeah, it's hot as shit up here too. I was working in the garage yesterday for about an hour, and was dripping with sweat. jingle.son was working the local farmer's market, and was dying by the end of his shift - 7 hours in the 34o weather. It's gonna be that hot all week.
Gonna go out and wash the cars in a few minutes before the sun crests over the houses and it starts to get stupid hot.
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34? That's only 2 degrees above freezing.
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34? That's only 2 degrees above freezing.
Answer your phone... it's the rest of the world calling to say come join us with USEFUL units of measurement.
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The heatwave is here!
Morning.
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Morning, it's already hot as hell here, somewhere around 30C and it's only 9am.
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This heat can go to hell.
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Yup, enjoying my winter* right now. :hat
*Australian Winter
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I’ll take Australian winter now.
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Soooo hot. I just realized I left a fresh fire extinguisher in my back seat of my car. What are the chances it explodes back there? I imagine a fire extinguisher of all things is designed to withstand that kind of thing, no?
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You're fine:
https://articles.latimes.com/1991-02-07/news/vw-1008_1_fire-extinguishers
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I’ll take Australian winter now.
I'll take Australia winter all year round. Australian summer can go fuck itself though. :lol
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I’ll take Australian winter now.
I'll take Australia winter all year round. Australian summer can go fuck itself though. :lol
No joke. :lol
I saw the Incredibles II yesterday. It was awesome.
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Soooo hot. I just realized I left a fresh fire extinguisher in my back seat of my car. What are the chances it explodes back there? I imagine a fire extinguisher of all things is designed to withstand that kind of thing, no?
Hopefully in your Mini and not the new one.... Maybe you'll get lucky!! "Farmer's... we know a few things, because we've seen a few things!"
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Just got a lipoma (a fatty tissue) removed from my forehead. Boy do I have a headache right now. They did show me what they removed and it was really disgusting :lol It will be nice to no longer have a bump on my head though once it recovers. But that was an odd feeling of someone ripping back your forehead skin and then forcibly removing something (I chose not to go under for this).
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Ouch! I've got 3 cysts on the inside heel of my right foot that burns. I need to take care of that.
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So my boss uses Zip Recruiter for hiring. I have half a dozen resumes people have submitted. I've called each one. Left voice mails when possible. 2 people actually picked up- One identified himself as the person I was looking for, and then told me I had the wrong number when I IDed myself and hung up
The other answered, and became angry with me for calling him. He didn't comprehend that I was responding to his resume he submitted. Cussed me out and told me never to call him again. The funny thing is, I've spoken with this guy before. He expressed interest in the job (he was recommended by a then employee ) a few months ago. I didn't hire him only because I filled the position before we could schedule an interview.
I don't get people. I really don't.
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Have you tried Indeed? When I was hiring I used indeed and got pretty good responses.
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I'm surrounded by dumb. It's a disease that's spreading.
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Have you tried Indeed? When I was hiring I used indeed and got pretty good responses.
I think my company used to use Indeed. Why they use Zip Recruiter now? I have no idea.
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In other news, one more day until I get to see how my entire crew works together when they are ALL together at once. Tomorrow is going to be nuts.
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Posting for a friend.
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I will buy tea bags and throw it in a lake today.
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I will not buy any stamps today.
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Posting for a friend.
Came here to post this :lol
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Man this minor surgery from Monday is really messing with me. My eye below my forehead is so swollen. My head isn't even swollen anymore and is otherwise fine besides having a lot of stitches across it, but my left eye below the incision is really bad. Like I can almost hardly see out of it so swollen and it just started yesterday. Since it got worse today, I called the doc and sent a pic which he said is all normal and fine. Essentially the blood moves down from the forehead and that's what's happening. But I look scary, really scary and disgusting. If I was ugly before, I am an ugly crack head who's been beat up now. I can't even set foot outside looking like this :lol My gf wanted nothing to do with my yesterday. I hope it gets better before we go to Vermont Saturday.
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Hope you feel better! Where are you going in Vermont?
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Thanks, we are going to Mt Snow in Dover. Not too far, about 4 hours away from me. We were thinking of going to Boston Friday then doing the 3 hours drive from there, but that's not happening now.
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Oh yeah. I love driving through Rt 100. Suck a beautiful area.
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Suck a beautiful area.
Does is suck or is it beautiful?
I confuse.
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Suck a beautiful area.
Does is suck or is it beautiful?
I confuse.
He's telling you to suck his beautiful area.
The ego on that guy.
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Not sure he has a beautiful area.
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Such. But I love Adami's idea.
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That sucks cram, I hope you feel better soon. Thank god it’s Friday, I can’t wait to get the hell out of this office.
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That sucks cram, I hope you feel better soon. Thank god it’s Friday, I can’t wait to get the hell out of this office.
Thanks bud. Most of the swelling is gone now actually. A bit still in my left eye, but not too bad and I feel alright about being seen in public for the first time since monday :lol which means I have a lot of shit to get done today
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So I think I might of missed it but was this some sort of cyst or fatty tissue that had to be removed?
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Fatty tissue on my forehead
We just got to our hotel on Vermont. I've never been to this state and must say it is absolutely beautiful.its a perfect day high 70s and no clouds, but the mountains full of green trees is so awesome. We are about to make cocktails before walking over to the ski resort for the Rock the Roots festival. :yarr
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Fatty tissue on my forehead
We just got to our hotel on Vermont. I've never been to this state and must say it is absolutely beautiful.its a perfect day high 70s and no clouds, but the mountains full of green trees is so awesome. We are about to make cocktails before walking over to the ski resort for the Rock the Roots festival. :yarr
That sounds awesome. Yes it is beautiful.
Vermont that is...not the fatty tissue.
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Fatty tissue on my forehead
We just got to our hotel on Vermont. I've never been to this state and must say it is absolutely beautiful.its a perfect day high 70s and no clouds, but the mountains full of green trees is so awesome. We are about to make cocktails before walking over to the ski resort for the Rock the Roots festival. :yarr
Oh hell yeah!! Who you seeing?
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Drive In tonight!!
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Drive In tonight!!
Nice! Don't forget to put the speaker back before you drive away!
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Lol. FM, 6 speakers in the car. Glorious.
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Drive In tonight!!
Nice! Don't forget to put the speaker back before you drive away!
Jesus dude! When was the last time you went to a drive in? The 70s??
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Seriously. Lol
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Didnt realize they were still a thing. I remember my parents taking me to see the first Batman movie at our local drive in at the time, now it's costco (well, for the last 20 years or so).
I am so beat after getting back from Vermont. I was pretty hungover for what ended up being an extra hour longer drive home thanks to lots of traffic in upstate New York.
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I remember going to a drive in when my parents and I first moved to Florida. We saw Coneheads.
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Can't believe it's Monday already.
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Week #3 of my four week vacation starts.
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Week #3 of my four week vacation starts.
I need a vacation bad.
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You and me both, king.
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Blob, you hurt me to the core.
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That was my intent. :heart
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So I had a long weekend - my company gave me the 4th and 5th off, and so I took the Friday just because - and I told my wife I wanted to take a day to do chores around the house, but that I wanted to "do something fun" (it was also our anniversary Friday). The "chores" were laying down a hardwood floor in my daughters bedroom, and one thing led to another and it took me FOUR FUCKING DAYS to do it. I literally did not see one live firework the entire weekend, and the only alcohol I had was a glass of wine at dinner on Friday, and a half-a-bottle of wine while cooking dinner on Saturday out of sheer frustration. Haha.
I think I need a vacation from my vacation. ;)
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Speaking of that, the ideal vacation as in "I make a trip as a tourist" should be:
- Pre-vacation vacation: you chill out to avoid to leave immediately after the last working day
- Dress rehersal of a vacation: you go where you want to go, especially if it's a place you never saw, and learn what's what (main sights, better restaurants, how to walk around etc...)
- Actual vacation: you enjoy the city or the place you just explored with the added benefit and knowledge of actuallly knowing where you are
- Post-vacation vacation: you chill out again to avoid to come back to work just as soon as you returned home.
;D
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That was my intent. :heart
Right in the feels.
So I had a long weekend - my company gave me the 4th and 5th off, and so I took the Friday just because - and I told my wife I wanted to take a day to do chores around the house, but that I wanted to "do something fun" (it was also our anniversary Friday). The "chores" were laying down a hardwood floor in my daughters bedroom, and one thing led to another and it took me FOUR FUCKING DAYS to do it. I literally did not see one live firework the entire weekend, and the only alcohol I had was a glass of wine at dinner on Friday, and a half-a-bottle of wine while cooking dinner on Saturday out of sheer frustration. Haha.
I think I need a vacation from my vacation. ;)
That will be me this year. The wife took on a new job and needs to build up PTO. We are taking 5 days off to go you a music festival in October in NJ. Meeting up with 6 others from this forum.
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Yea, sucks to be back at work. My vacation of all last week off was mostly laying around and not being seen with my "ogre" face as I was calling it, but luckily got healed up in time for our weekend in Vermont which made everything worth it, that was so fun. But boy did I walk into some shit already this morning.
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I FINALLY HIRED SOMEONE!
Now I need 2 more. :rollin
All of these failed attempts to hire someone through Zip Recruiter, and then I find someone via the old fashion "Hey are you guys hiring?"
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A belated Happy Anniversary Stads.
:birthday:
that's the best I could do.
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A belated Happy Anniversary Stads.
:birthday:
that's the best I could do.
And that's more than enough (seriously).
Thank you, kind sir!!
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Anniversary weekend=4 days of laying the hard wood.
Well done!
In an unrelated story, CVS in Connecticut is reporting a Viagra shortage.
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How many years Stadler?
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I FINALLY HIRED SOMEONE!
Now I need 2 more. :rollin
All of these failed attempts to hire someone through Zip Recruiter, and then I find someone via the old fashion "Hey are you guys hiring?"
Bone dry for hiring at my site.
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How many years Stadler?
Three.
Just in case anyone cares, the third anniversary is "leather".
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Giggity.
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How many years Stadler?
Three.
Just in case anyone cares, the third anniversary is "leather".
Gag ball too?
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Morning guys. Just strolled into work after dropping the dog off at day care. Going to see Ludovico Einaudi tonight, just gotta make through work today.
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I have no gas today. I felt feverish last night. Went to bed a 9 pm and just have no get up and go today.
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That’s sucks King. Do you feel like you’re coming down with something?
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Feverish doesn't sound good. Got my stitches removed last night. Hopefully this glued on bandage falls off by Saturday for my cousin's wedding. I'm not supposed to take it off until it naturally comes off which could be a full week.
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Does the area look better? I remember saying it was really swollen.
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Yea, my face and eyes are not swollen anymore, the immediate area still is a bit and sensitive to touch, but overall is pretty good and got a big stamp of approval from my plastic surgeon. He did a nice job cutting along the natural lines in my forehead so the scar shouldn't be too bad when its all said and done. Follow up in 2 weeks, but I think that's just to get the final stamp of completion.
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Good morning y'all.
I totally had a (possibly underaged now that I think about it) girl try to use her body to get out of a parking ticket. She came by my office yesterday to speak with me about a ticket. She was a well endowed black girl, wearing tight yellow sweats and a really tight yellow sweat top. Braless. Very much braless. As I was speaking to her, she showed me her ticked and made sure to hold it right underneath her nipple up against her breast, so it was protruding over the ticket. I totally didn't think anything of it. And then a few times during the conversation she turned to point and rubbed her nipple against my arm. Again, I didn't think anything of it. I gave her the info she needed (but not the answer she wanted), and she left. As soon as she was out of earshot, one of my employees pointed out that she had a mischievous look on her face when her breast kept rubbing up against me, and then a look of disappointment when I didn't rescind her ticket.
Today I was looking through some camera footage for something completely unrelated, and saw this girl and her friend in the community gym doing some... interesting dance routines in the mirror. That got me thinking about the friend, who I really think is under-aged. And then I started thinking about the girl's family, and it kinda dawned on me that the girl from yesterday may have been like 17.
I am glad this happened to me and not someone else on my team, because I know how to keep a poker face at work. Even if she would have been poking my face if I was shorter.
Okay.. bad joke.
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:lol yea best to not fall for the temptation, who knows what can happen. And since you got security cameras, who knows if an interaction like that could get picked up and viewed by someone else, then add on the possibility of being under 18. Good choice.
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Come to think of it... the same girl was flirting up a storm with one of my guys on the 4th, and he was so oblivious to it that it was comical. He got some ribbing from a few of the guys (and the gal ) on my team for it. His response was: "Wait... she was flirting with me? Really? That's funny. It's not like that's going to get her very far."
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Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation, Jay.
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Hrmm, I'm usually a sucker for any type of advances from ladies as evidenced by my previous exploits when I ran a hotel.
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Morning duders
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Final day of our company conference. It's been 12-14 hour days since Sunday. Gonna be another long one today - closing entertainment event is Our Lady Peace, and runs until 11.
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I've seen OLP 3 times. They are great live.
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I've seen OLP 3 times. They are great live.
Cue Kev in 4... 3... 2...
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I've seen OLP 3 times. They are great live.
Cue Kev in 4... 3... 2...
I know. :lol He ribs me all the time.
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Final day of our company conference. It's been 12-14 hour days since Sunday. Gonna be another long one today - closing entertainment event is Our Lady Peace, and runs until 11.
That's pretty bad ass. I'd hang around for that.
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In Connecticut for my cousins wedding. Theres six of us getting ready in this hotel room and the ac isn't working. This is bad as I'm sweating through my suit before we even leave.
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That is miserable, is there no other room available? Or perhaps someone to fix the AC?
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They changed our rooms at the last second, half of us made it in time for the shuttle to the venue and the rest of us ushered but we made it. Really beautiful here in Groton along the long island sound.
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At work, doing a release, really wishing a release would go smoothly for once
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Groton is very nice.
If you have time/inclination, go to The Black Seal in Essex, or the Griswold Inn in Stonington (the latter has been in operation since 1776; it's awesome).
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Wisdom tooth infected this weekend and I got pulled over for a brakelight that was out. didn't know.
Last 3 days were not good!
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Sorry to hear that King. There is no pain like tooth pain.
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Damn thats some bad luck
Groton is very nice.
If you have time/inclination, go to The Black Seal in Essex, or the Griswold Inn in Stonington (the latter has been in operation since 1776; it's awesome).
Had no time and all 6 of us agreed, CT is a terrible state :lol Groton was very nice though, but the traffic....
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Damn thats some bad luck
Groton is very nice.
If you have time/inclination, go to The Black Seal in Essex, or the Griswold Inn in Stonington (the latter has been in operation since 1776; it's awesome).
Had no time and all 6 of us agreed, CT is a terrible state :lol Groton was very nice though, but the traffic....
Oh, it's the worst. And the roads... it's embarrassing, actually.
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Damn thats some bad luck
Groton is very nice.
If you have time/inclination, go to The Black Seal in Essex, or the Griswold Inn in Stonington (the latter has been in operation since 1776; it's awesome).
Had no time and all 6 of us agreed, CT is a terrible state :lol Groton was very nice though, but the traffic....
Oh, it's the worst. And the roads... it's embarrassing, actually.
Personally, I never had much issues with the traffic in CT until last weekend. In the past, driving 84 always seemed like a nice ride and the road is kind of cool IMO. But this weekend we took 95 and that was a shit ride. Pretty much the talk of the night was everyones terrible ride to get there since none of my extended family lives in CT. No accidents, just congestion and constant stop and go with every rest stop we took was PACKED and overloaded with people.
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Damn thats some bad luck
Groton is very nice.
If you have time/inclination, go to The Black Seal in Essex, or the Griswold Inn in Stonington (the latter has been in operation since 1776; it's awesome).
Had no time and all 6 of us agreed, CT is a terrible state :lol Groton was very nice though, but the traffic....
Oh, it's the worst. And the roads... it's embarrassing, actually.
When driving through Waterbury, your car wear and tears about six miles for every mile driven.
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The worst is the condition of the road itself; it's embarrassing. For all the construction that is being done, the roads are always in a constant state of disrepair. And it's not "Northeast", because Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire don't have that problem, at least not at that level.
Plus 95 is a unique zoo. We have traffic around Hartford, but not like that.
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When I was at Wesleyan and I would come home for various breaks, I always knew I could count on traffic at the bottom of 91 where you picked up 95, no matter what time of day :lol
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One thing I noticed about this wedding that was new to me, yet so familiar, was their no phone policy during the ceremony. I actually didn't know, but my gf saw the sign and told me when I went to get my phone to take a pic while they were on the stand. I respected their wishes, but besides not seeing the sign, my mother and aunt sitting in front of me were taking plenty of pictures. Well, those pictures were on facebook the next day and my aunt saw them (mother of the groom, not the aunt taking pictures) and was upset so my other aunt and mom took down all their wedding pictures. It was only the ceremony that you weren't supposed to, but I thought that was new and yet so familiar with the idea of no phones at concerts.
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Were The Astonishing ushers working the wedding?
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:lol
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Were The Astonishing ushers working the wedding?
Wearing Tapout shirts no doubt.
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The worst is the condition of the road itself; it's embarrassing. For all the construction that is being done, the roads are always in a constant state of disrepair. And it's not "Northeast", because Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire don't have that problem, at least not at that level.
CT never struck me as that bad (though most of my driving there was 91/84, going to/from UMass)...but my baseline was always Pennsylvania, which is comparable to rural Guatemala.
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PA was always a nightmare driving on 80 while I was in college. I feel like the last 10 years, I haven't had an issue on that road though and kind of forgot how bad driving in PA was for awhile.
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The worst is the condition of the road itself; it's embarrassing. For all the construction that is being done, the roads are always in a constant state of disrepair. And it's not "Northeast", because Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire don't have that problem, at least not at that level.
CT never struck me as that bad (though most of my driving there was 91/84, going to/from UMass)...but my baseline was always Pennsylvania, which is comparable to rural Guatemala.
Those trucker highways in Pennsylvania kill me. The damn hypnotic seems in the concreate that you hear the bump over and over and over and over and over.....
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I drove from Philly to Erie every week for about a year, and once I got out of Philly (basically up 476 when I got on 80) it was fine. The only part I didn't like was when weather got involved. Once I drove through a nor'easter, and the trucks are just dangerous. Basically it was one unplowed lane with a line of semis along the right hand side. The other part I didn't like was driving into the lake effect snow just east of 79. I ran out of gas once because the two gas stations I knew about closed due to weather. Thank god for AAA (I was actually scared; out of gas, the car doesn't run and gets COLD.)
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I had an 8 hour journey through the snow once to get back to school. We had to stop every 10 minutes to clean the snow piling up on the windshield. It was such a difficult drive, but became a pretty good memory with my roommate. My parents advised against doing that drive, but as dumb kids we didn't see the issue :lol
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I don't know if I should consider it a blessing or a curse that the only traffic I've ever had to deal with has been LA traffic and I think some traffic in the Bay Area.
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I don't know if I should consider it a blessing or a curse that the only traffic I've ever had to deal with has been LA traffic and I think some traffic in the Bay Area.
One thing I don't miss about Florida is the commute. I used to live at the hotel when I worked there but my final six months in florida was spent commuting 1.5 hours each way to work. I only have a 20 minute commute now and it's glorious.
Another day at work bites the dust. Only a few weeks until vacation.
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I don't know if I should consider it a blessing or a curse that the only traffic I've ever had to deal with has been LA traffic and I think some traffic in the Bay Area.
Well LA does have the worst traffic in the US, so not sure you are missing much
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1991, I went to LA in January. I was my buddy's rodie at his gig at the Roxy on the Sundet Strip. He went on first at 830pm.
10:30pm driving back to Cypress and smock dab in a 6 lane traffic jam in LA. I look at my buddy and say, "How can you live here"?
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My LA traffic feelings https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0 (https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0)
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In the summer of 2015, the TACs vacationed out there. On a Sunday morning, we drove up from Disneyland to Hollywood, and from there went to a Dodger game. After the game we drove back to Anaheim. Somehow, we even ended up in downtown LA. We were lucky enough to experience not a stitch of traffic in either direction. :P :P
Now Chicago traffic... Holy fucking shit!
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It's Sunday Tim. Hollywood and LA sleeps! :lol
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It's Sunday Tim. Hollywood and LA sleeps! :lol
Sounds like perfect planning on my part! ;D
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100% correct! :lol
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My LA traffic feelings https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0 (https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0)
:rollin
Holy shit. This had me in tears, Cram.
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My LA traffic feelings https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0 (https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0)
OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!! OOOOOOHHHHHHHH!
I hope that won the YouTube Award. That was fantastic!
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This is the kind of traffic I am used to... like... is it NOT like that other places? :lol
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My LA traffic feelings https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0 (https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0)
OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!! OOOOOOHHHHHHHH!
I hope that won the YouTube Award. That was fantastic!
No shit right. He IS Sam Kinison reincarnated!! :rollin
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:lol and that video is old so not influenced by the recent comments
This is the kind of traffic I am used to... like... is it NOT like that other places? :lol
Not from my experience. Like last weekend there was a lot of weekend getting to Connecticut, but it was all one a 2 or 3 lane highway, getting off the highway the traffic was gone. LA has these 6 lane highways and exits that are like entering hell. It's like there's no escape. Around the NYC area can definitely be like that, but once again, it's smaller roads, not these major highways.
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My LA traffic feelings https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0 (https://youtu.be/LgcoB6A8dW0)
OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!! OOOOOOHHHHHHHH!
I hope that won the YouTube Award. That was fantastic!
No shit right. He IS Sam Kinison reincarnated!! :rollin
Samx3 :metal
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Hi Blob!!! :-* :-* :-*
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Hi Blob!!! :-* :-* :-*
Oh. Hi! :biggrin:
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What cookin' my friend?
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What's happening dudes. Long week is finally over now I'm trying to decide what video game I want to play.
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Tomorrow Foo Fighters at Fenway Park then Dad's birthday party at Chunky's Theater. You can eat and drink in Cadillac seats.
We're seeing the Transilvania movie. My dad loves it.
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Long week is finally over now I'm trying to decide what video game I want to play.
(https://i.imgur.com/yD3JmHH.gif)
Tomorrow Foo Fighters at Fenway Park then Dad's birthday party at Chunky's Theater. You can eat as no drink in Cadillac seats.
We're seeing the Transilvania movie. My dad loves it.
Awesome!
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That sounds like a blast King. I hope you have a great time!
How is your dad by the way?
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That sounds like a blast King. I hope you have a great time!
How is your dad by the way?
Scan came back as nothing growing or spreading so that's a good start.
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Good to hear!
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Saturday morning and coffee.
I am happy. Morning all.
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...and DTF.
Day off too!!
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Going to the Foo Fighters tonight at Fenway Tim!
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Awesome. They put on a great show. Too bad I hate their music!
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How can you hate their music? Old fashioned, hook laden rock n roll?
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Going to the Foo Fighters tonight at Fenway Tim!
:metal :metal
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Going to the Foo Fighters tonight at Fenway Tim!
:metal :metal
I had the same reaction. ;D
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How can you hate their music? Old fashioned, hook laden rock n roll?
Like I said, I've watched a bunch of their stuff on youtube, and they really look fantastic live. I really haven't liked anything they've played, so while I could easily make it through a concert, I could never make it through an album. I've tried.
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Seems like it's been awhile since I had a Saturday home to myself. Finally did a good clean to my bedroom and built my new super nice bed frame that was given to me. My bedroom has been upgraded and finally got the parts to the frame out of my living room. Prepped a few new youtube gaming videos as well, and now just made a cocktail and about to enjoy some gaming.
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What are you playing cram? I'm having one of those nights where I have a ton of games but nothing in particular that I want to play.
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Mostly been playing PUBG, as usual. Still haven't found a game to be more entertaining.
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You try any of the custom maps?
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Custom maps? Never heard of these, but do you mean custom games in the newest update? I haven't done any. I just keep playing on sanhok a lot, i think it's the best map yet.
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yes custom games sorry lol
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Good Morning y'all
I am actually glad to be back to work. This weekend was long.
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Good Morning y'all
I am actually glad to be back to work. This weekend was long.
In my 14 years of being employed, I have never once said this.
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Definitely not happy to be at work today
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Good Morning y'all
I am actually glad to be back to work. This weekend was long.
In my 14 years of being employed, I have never once said this.
It's nice to be away from home :lol
My gf's dad's significant other runs an annual bowling tournament in memory of her deceased ex husband (they used to own a local bowling alley). Had a BBQ on Friday, and then spent the first half of Saturday out with my gf and my sister, and then the second half bowling. Didn't bowl well... at all. It actually cements my decision to stop bowling league. I am still having major issues with my hand and wrist. Sunday was also nonstop.
I am hoping that today at work is slow.
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Jay, you are messed up! :lol
Morning. I'm about to kill everyone at work. The polar opposite of Jay.
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Jay, you are messed up! :lol
Morning. I'm about to kill everyone at work. The polar opposite of Jay.
Now THAT'S how I am today.
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Welcome back to the fold bub.
Blob, get yo ass in here an tell me how little work you did today to push me over over the cliff.
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:lol
If it makes you feel better, yesterday was hell at work and while today is better, it's definitely not been a good week so far. Looking to take my rage out tonight at the Zombie/Manson concert :metal
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The HOA I work for fired their old property management and hired a new one.. and we are in the middle of the "transition"... which is NOT going smoothly at all. Apparently the management companies have a history with each other and do NOT get along... and the incoming management company didn't really have a clue what they were getting themselves into... meaning the person who is holding a lot of this together is me. New company needs info. Old company (who's still on contract till the end of the month) won't give it to them. I have shit I need management to do. They bounce it back to me because they don't know what's going on. It's a mess.
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Still not feeling better. :lol
I need a release. DAMMIT BLOB!!!
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Blob, get yo ass in here an tell me how little work you did today to push me over over the cliff.
I finished a whole world of Donkey Kong Country 1 (on a real SNES), and am currently animating a character doing the Macarena for reasons I have yet to figure out or justify, so I'm actually getting a lot of important shit done today thank you very much! :blob:
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Well I was about to lose it until I read "Macarena" and you not having a real reason why. Now the world is safe again.
Thank you, your Blobness.
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Well I was about to lose it until I read "Macarena" and you not having a real reason why. Now the world is safe again.
Thank you, your Blobness.
I mean, I have a use for it, it's just totally unnecessary and pointless to what I'm doing. :lol
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Reading that makes me so happy. :lol
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I'm glad my random projects amuse you so much. :lol
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It does. I need some lighthearted fun. You bring it good sir.
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Morning dudes
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Morning Reap.
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What’s happening King?
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I know Stads would probably enjoy this,
Peter Criss came out last night for a moment during the Rob Zombie show https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1021970421397241857 (https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1021970421397241857)
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Fuck this day.
So I am 2 blocks from work, and I shred a tire (my 2 front tires were both worn down to the point where I knew this was going to happen sooner or later). I drive the last block and a half and park at the edge of my property. I put the spare on, and realize that the spare needed air. So I decide that I am going to take the spare off, walk it over to my office, and use our air compressor to put air in it.
Welp... one of the lugs wouldn't come off now. So I decide to try and drive it over to my office, at least close enough where I can use our long as fuck extension cable to plug in the compressor and pump up my tire. ANNNNNNNNND turns out my donut is bad and wont hold air. So I try again to take the donut off and diagnose why it's not holding air.. and I break a lug stem.
So here I am with a shredded tire, bad donut, broken lug stem, and I'm so broke right now that I'm barely going to be able make my bills for the week and keep gas in the car.
My coworker actually ran to a used tire shop and paid get me a tire ($35)... so I at least have that to get me to and from work until I can replace the lug stem, which shouldn't be more than $50.
Also... I can barely use my hand, as I had to put a lot of force with my bad hand to get the tire off in the beginning.
Fuck me. It's not even 9:30 yet.
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Dayum Jay. Sorry to hear about your troubles.
On a more positive note, I just finished a call with our company legal/HR because of an ongoing investigation about a former team-member (who I barely knew) and allegations against one of our C-level executives (before they were a C-level exec).
Fun stuff!
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I know Stads would probably enjoy this,
Peter Criss came out last night for a moment during the Rob Zombie show https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1021970421397241857 (https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1021970421397241857)
There’s a lot of green there (that’s Peter’s fav color).
That’s very cool, though!
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Dayum Jay. Sorry to hear about your troubles.
That sucks. That reminds me of the time when I wasn't too far from work. There was a patch of ice and a pileup and the intersection. I was the 5th car in a 6 car pileup. Turned out the guy I rammed was a regular customer, and after they towed my car, the guy drove me to work.
I know Stads would probably enjoy this,
Peter Criss came out last night for a moment during the Rob Zombie show https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1021970421397241857 (https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1021970421397241857)
Peter Criss blows.
I am in no way a Rob Zombie fan, but I saw White Zombie live in 1994 and they were fucking amazing. Holy shit were they great.
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I'd say Rob Zombie doesn't have a single good album, but has a handful of solid songs.... but agree, he is all about the live performance. It's not surprising you enjoyed his live show as he is a huge Alice Cooper fan and very big on doing a big stage show. He just brings the energy. There was such a different vibe when he hit the stage vs. Marilyn Manson who opened.
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Good morning guys. What's happening today?
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I'd say Rob Zombie doesn't have a single good album, but has a handful of solid songs.... but agree, he is all about the live performance.
This is exactly how I feel about David Grohl/The Foo Fighters.
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I'd say Rob Zombie doesn't have a single good album, but has a handful of solid songs.... but agree, he is all about the live performance.
This is exactly how I feel about David Grohl/The Foo Fighters.
I agree Chino.
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They have some great albums and some average albums. I would say try Wasting Light. That's the Foo's best album.
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I officially live in North Dakota for a year.
I'm hoping this is the low point in my life.
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Considering how hot it's been in North Carolina this summer I"m considering moving to ND.
Whereabouts are you?
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Considering how hot it's been in North Carolina this summer I"m considering moving to ND.
Whereabouts are you?
Grand Forks. Home of me. And nothing else of note.
Coldest city in continental America, so if you're trying to escape the heat..........don't come here.
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*checks temperature of Grand Forks*
Yea that's pretty cool for a summer temp
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Adami threw a dart against a map.
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Damn ND, I couldn't imagine life out there. I guess if it's just for a year then might be a cool experience.
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Damn ND, I couldn't imagine life out there. I guess if it's just for a year then might be a cool experience.
I see what you did there! :neverusethis:
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:lol unintended but cool
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Whoever gets Adami in Secret Santa needs to send him Fargo DVDs :lol
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Whoever gets Adami in Secret Santa needs to send him Fargo DVDs :lol
Or a toque.
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Can’t wait for this day to end. Looking forward to the weekend even high I’m working tomorrow night and doing wedding stuff tomorrow.
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Can’t wait for this day to end. Looking forward to the weekend even high I’m working tomorrow night and doing wedding stuff tomorrow.
Pot is legal in NC now?
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I meant to write even though lol.
During the day I can only access DTF on my phone
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I meant to write even though lol.
I gathered as much, but couldn't pass up the chance to jab at that.
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Three more hours until freedom! Then short work weeks each of the next two weeks :hat
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Looking forward to a relaxing night, no gf and no brother home. Probably do some gaming, work on my next videos, and watch some more of my Haken and/or Devin Townsend DVDs that I recently got and haven't finished watching.
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Seeing my brother's new original band Re-Attack for the first time tonight. Late night. They go on at 11:15pm. :metal
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Seeing my brother's new original band Re-Attack for the first time tonight. Late night. They go on at 11:15pm. :metal
So what you're saying is you're about to go down for a nap?
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And drink coffee a lot.
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Evening fellas, another long ass week behind me. Another long ass week ahead of me.
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jingle.son has to get up early for work on Saturdays, and he likes to be up at least an hour before he has to leave. Well, I heard him up at 5am this morning, and couldn't get back to sleep. :vfs: I'm gonna be super freakin tired this afternoon... which ain't good, because we're going to an open house for a place that mrs.jingle has fallen in love with (on paper). Trouble is, we're not exactly 'ready' to buy a place yet, and we're certainly not ready to sell our current place - though we do have a meeting with a realtor on Wednesday to go over some shit.
Gonna be a long ass day.
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Also in for a long day (though a bit more fun than yours jingle :lol). I went to watch a little of Netflix's GLOW last night and ended up binging like 5 episodes instead. I'll be in the city drinking most of the day for a farewell brewery crawl for a couple in my homebrew club who are moving to Thailand.
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We were out late. Got home at 2m. Woke up at 8:30am by a phone call. My niece living with us was supposed to work with her mom and didn't get up.
Not shocked and of course, woke me up.
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I stayed up till 6:30am this morning sketching Robocop.
You're welcome, king. :lol
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Robocop?!
Oh, now I'm intrigued.
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I stayed up till 6:30am this morning sketching Robocop.
You're welcome, king. :lol
I'm going to have to see a pic blob
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Blobocop.
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I stayed up till 6:30am this morning sketching Robocop.
You're welcome, king. :lol
I'm going to have to see a pic blob
Keep in mind this was for a one hour challenge (the theme was cyborgs), and also I wasted 15 minutes deciding what to draw (because the theme was cyborgs), so this is only a rough 45 minute drawing.
(https://i.imgur.com/6z0MxSP.png)
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Blob, what are you using for a medium?
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Blob, what are you using for a medium?
Photoshop. :lol
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No you're not! Really? :lol
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I don't even know if you're being serious now. :lol
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I don't even know if you're being serious now. :lol
Medium = ink, charcoal, pencil, oil based....
Oh, computer....
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I'm not hardcore enough to use physical mediums! I just draw shit in Photoshop using my graphics tablet.
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You should try. I miss it. I really do.
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Nah, I generally avoid anything in life without an undo button. :lol Also, anything that requires purchasing resources.
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It amazes me you even get out to these comic cons. Lol
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Welp, so much for going into NYC. Saw there were weekend subway service interruptions that were going to interfere with my traveling about so I decided to skip it. Took a drive down with my buddy to a brewery about an hour away instead, and now I'm on the couch relaxing with a beer :hat
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Bill. I hit Trillium today.
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Evening folks. Just got back from a long day:
- Had a floral appointment for our wedding nothing interesting here
- Had a cake tasting, we picked a cake and cake flavor. This was a good time as I ate a lot of really delicious cake, price was't as bad as I thought it was going to be
- Bought a new TV, wasn't really shopping for one but we did need an additional TV as my in laws are coming to stay and my soon to be mother in law *has* to have a tv in her bedroom. I ended up getting a 65 inch LG. We had a 55 in the living room, I didn't know I could handle another 10 inches and it was rough but in the end I'm glad I did it.
- Had some amazing pizza for dinner
Now I'm killing time until I have to sign on for a software patch at 11.
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I didn't know I could handle another 10 inches and it was rough but in the end I'm glad I did it.
Giggidy.
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:lol
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:lol
Like a boss Reap.
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Sorry for the intrusion, guys, but I've just read about the fires in California.
Cali DTFers please tell me everything's all right?
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@ Reaper... did you intentionally set that up for someone? That was so blatant. Did anyone else read that in Jack Tripper's voice?
I just might have to sig that.
@ Indiscipline... I suspect it's just summer in California. Despite the how bad they've been in the past number of years, I seem to recall last year was even worse than it is now??
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Reap knew what he was saying. :zydar:
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Add speaking of late 80's John Ritter movies, Blob, you ever see "Skin Deep"?
If not, do so.
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Eh. If it's not scifi, or action, or both, I don't really care. :biggrin:
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What if you get to see a chase scene with 2 glow in the dark dongs (glow in the dark condoms) chasing after each other?
Now what do you say? :lol
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Nah I'm good man. :lol
Throw in a roundhouse kick and maybe you'd have a deal.
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What if you get to see a chase scene with 2 glow in the dark dongs (glow in the dark condoms) chasing after each other?
Now what do you say? :lol
OMG, that was literally the funniest thing I ever saw in the 80s. Still probably the hardest I've ever laughed in my life.
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I never laughed outloud, that loud in a theater. Lol
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@ Indiscipline... I suspect it's just summer in California. Despite the how bad they've been in the past number of years, I seem to recall last year was even worse than it is now??
Yeah, let's hope nothing major.
The Skin Deep bit? Best lightsaber duel in movie history.
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@ Indiscipline... I suspect it's just summer in California. Despite the how bad they've been in the past number of years, I seem to recall last year was even worse than it is now??
Yeah, let's hope nothing major.
Yes. Please. We'll be flying into the middle of it next week. :flame:
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@ Indiscipline... I suspect it's just summer in California. Despite the how bad they've been in the past number of years, I seem to recall last year was even worse than it is now??
Yeah, let's hope nothing major.
Yes. Please. We'll be flying into the middle of it next week. :flame:
:onfire:
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Reap knew what he was saying. :zydar:
I did blob, I did lol
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Sorry for the intrusion, guys, but I've just read about the fires in California.
Cali DTFers please tell me everything's all right?
Luckily... anything near me that COULD burn has burned (The Thomas Fire from December ravaged my county). I can't speak for the other parts of the state though. Haven't paid too much attention.
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So I was walking home from work today and infront of me to the right was an older lady that I was about to pass on her left. Suddenly she empties a bottle of water on the grass to her right and then casually drops the empty bottle on the pathway, the bottle bounces and end up infront of my feet as I was about to overtake her. Because of the bottle landing infront of me I had to do a little skip not too trip on the bottle. She looked at me and I looked back and shock my head towards her thinking that was a bit rude. Anyway she then tells the following to ME: "You know, there's a thrashcan over there?"
Wait, wat?
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:lol crazy old lady
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Oi. I'd say there's a 33% chance that I am unemployed by the end of the year. The politics where I work are pretty insane, and certain powers are pushing to cut my company loose, not renewing our contract in November. I'm going to do as much ass kissing as I can over the next few months, but nothing is guaranteed.
I contacted my best friend, who landed a job managing a gun range a few months ago, and asked if he might be hiring anytime soon. His response: "I just got word that we are closing down..."
Welp, there goes that!
So now I need to double my efforts, because not only would 15 or so people be out of the job, but my Best Friend's safety net was this job. I'd hire him back in half a heartbeat. The only positive is that we both have a little weight when it comes to being each other's references :lol
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:lol crazy old lady
Didn't know to laugh or be mad, she definitely caught me off gard with that question. :lol
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Jay... that blows. Sorry to hear that.
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Jay... that blows. Sorry to hear that.
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Evening guys. Nice quiet evening tonight, not on call, no work to do, no gym. Just blobbing for the rest of the evening.
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Doing some cooking right now.
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Yeah, just hit the couch for the night. Working on season 2 of Jessica Jones, but will probably switch over to playing Crash Bandicoot at some point.
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One of my favorite things about my gf traveling during the week is I have full control of the thermostat. Set that thing down to 65 for ultimate sleeping comfort.
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:lol nice, I love it cold, especially when sleeping. My central air is overpowered a bit for my house which I love. However, my bedroom with the door shut doesn't get great circulation even with 2 vents and one in my bathroom blowing cold air at 69 degrees when I sleep. So I just last week got a fan, and since then, I've been sleeping like a baby. I keep the AC set at like 70 now, but it feels like 65 in my bedroom now. Essentially, I can be cool without also freezing anyone else in the house (like my brother and his gf who complain the house is too cold at night).
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You're training her wrong Reap. LOL
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Our compromise tempature is 67 when she is home. She sleeps under a bunch of comforters and in a hoodie because it’s too cold.
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67 is our normal temp. At 9pm it goes down to 61. Yup.
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67 is our normal temp. At 9pm it goes down to 61. Yup.
We must've married sisters, because my house is like a meat locker most of the time (at least upstairs).
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You guys married your sisters??
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:lol
I love it cold and the Queen does as well.
Thankfully.
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Feels so good to be relaxing on the couch with a beer and no work tomorrow :hat
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I've been thinking about a random conversation I overheard in the waiting room at physical therapy this morning. I don't know why, it struck me as a sweet interaction between an elderly couple. Figured I'd post it here, it's one of those small things that makes an impression on you. They must have been around 75-80 years old.
*Around 11:15 AM*
Man: So what would you like to do for lunch after this?
Woman: I don't really know.
Man: We have lunch meat at home, we could go home and have sandwiches.
Woman: That sounds good.
Man: We could also stop at Culver's and get a fish sandwich. I know you like those.
Woman: Aren't we going out to dinner tonight with Fred
Man: That's true. You didn't finish your clam chowder last night either, so we can go home and do soup and sandwiches. Cheaper that way.
Then they smiled at each other and the conversation was over. I don't know, it was a small little thing I overheard, but to see two people who had probably been married for 50+ years, an innocent conversation like that made me think about unconditional love and how those two probably can't live without each other. It made me smile.
Edit: Sorry to kill the thread :lol
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I wouldn't apologize. That's sweet. I think that's my parents (married for almost 55 years and they spent EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY together. I honestly don't know how they do it.
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I wouldn't apologize. That's sweet. I think that's my parents (married for almost 55 years and they spent EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY together. I honestly don't know how they do it.
After raising you, I'm sure it's all smooth sailing.
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Going to see Joe Bonamassa tonight. Will this workday never end?
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I wouldn't apologize. That's sweet. I think that's my parents (married for almost 55 years and they spent EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY together. I honestly don't know how they do it.
After raising you, I'm sure it's all smooth sailing.
HA! They stopped drinking and smoking about 20 years ago. Related???
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I wouldn't apologize. That's sweet. I think that's my parents (married for almost 55 years and they spent EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY together. I honestly don't know how they do it.
After raising you, I'm sure it's all smooth sailing.
HA! They stopped drinking and smoking about 20 years ago. Related???
They no longer needed to!
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Crazy concert last night with tons of guest appearances and covers including Mark McGrath singing Breaking the Law with the Smashing Pumpkins, which was not only a huge surprise, it was also awesome. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-smashing-pumpkins/2018/pnc-bank-arts-center-holmdel-nj-2beb784a.html (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-smashing-pumpkins/2018/pnc-bank-arts-center-holmdel-nj-2beb784a.html) :metal
and of course I come into a shit storm of work today when I am so beat from getting home late and then uploading my videos before getting to bed. Thank god the days half way over, but I need to clean the house when I get home to set up for my niece's first birthday bbg tomorrow at my house.
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Still bleeding from the oral surgery. I my have to go to the emergency room.
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Jesus King, I hope you don't have to and you get better.
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Me too. Used tea bags to stop the bleeding and icing my face right now.
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I remember you saying that you were going to do some dental stuff, what was done?
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Removed a wisdom tooth.
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Damn, that must be some pretty bad bleeding. I know some is expected, but I guess it's excessive? I got all four out as once when I was younger and had a lot of blood in my mouth for a couple days, but I'm sure it's probably pretty rough to have one pulled much later in life. Also, I guess you had some issue recently to make you have to remove one so much older? Hope everything is fine, maybe you need some better stitching?
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You got a wisdom tooth out?? Puberty next?
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I remember being down for the count with my wisdom teeth being removed. It was a rough two days.
I'm doing physical therapy to avoid having back surgery. The thought of going under for things always makes me nervous. Wisdom teeth removal was my first experience going under and I don't do too well with it.
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I only had two wisdom teeth removed 2 years ago. I think later that day I was out grocery shopping, and then the next day was basically back to normal, minus the really annoying things to stop the bleeding.
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I remember being down for the count with my wisdom teeth being removed. It was a rough two days.
I'm doing physical therapy to avoid having back surgery. The thought of going under for things always makes me nervous. Wisdom teeth removal was my first experience going under and I don't do too well with it.
My recent surgery to my forehead, they gave me the option of going under or not. I chose not to. I only went under once before and had no issues other than being out of it for a bit after, but damn was that surgery an odd experience to be awake for. Felt so uncomfortable, but honestly it wasn't a big deal. Doc said it would be interesting and I was up for the challenge, no need to knock me out if I can drive home after if I'm not :lol
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I remember reading in Sammy Hagar's book that Eddie told him that he stayed awake during his hip replacement surgery and helped the doctor drill the holes. Total BS, but I can picture him doing that :lol
I don't think you can stay awake for a discectomy, since it involves the spine, but maybe going under a second time won't be as bad since I've done it before. Hopefully I won't have to do that and the steroid injections take care of it and physical therapy--we'll see.
Staying awake for the forehead though? Did they drape something over your head so that they could work on that area and so you couldn't see what tool they were using or did you see everything that was happening?
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Afternoon guys. Day is flying by already and I still have to go to the gym and mow the lawn.
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Thankfully it rained out today, so I didn't have to mow the lawn.
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Did Eddie really say that?🤣🤣
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According to Sammy he did. I can imagine the exchange.
Doctor: I can't find the right spot to drill
Eddie: Give me the damn thing
*Plays intro to Poundcake*
Apparently, he cured his cancer by having parts of his tongue liquified and injected into his body, as well. Eddie's a medical miracle.
My dad's had both of his hips replaced and seeing the amount of pain he was in afterwards and after watching YouTube videos, I would never want to be awake for it. The sound of the hammer hitting the metal hip joint in is enough to make me want to pass out. Apparently you do have the choice to be awake for it.
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Just scooped up a ticket for the Rise Against and AFI show tonight at the Jersey Shore. Kind of not feeling like going honestly, dealing with shore traffic and the heat plus my body is telling me to rest, but I really love AFI so thinking I may just time to to see them and head out to be back home by 9 (shows at the Stone Pony always end by 10pm anyway).
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Hot AF as well.
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One six hour car ride later and I'm home from another epic beer weekend in Vermont :hat
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One more week and I'm in Montana. This week is going to be balls though.
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Mam i am falling apart. I have a pulled back muscle that when I turn just slightly, it takes my breath away. I don't even know how I did it!
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Well you take my breath away, king.
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:lol
Four day work week for me, then the GF and I took off Friday to go down the Philly for the day and see 311 and the Offspring at the Penns Landing Festival Pier that night.
I have a feeling these four days might be brutal at work though, my boss gave warning Friday night.
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:lol
Four day work week for me, then the GF and I took off Friday to go down the Philly for the day and see 311 and the Offspring at the Penns Landing Festival Pier that night.
I have a feeling these four days might be brutal at work though, my boss gave warning Friday night.
Should have said something; about three blocks from the pier is this excellent Irish gastropub called "For Pete's Sake". It was actually my local bar (I lived on that block around the corner) and I know the owner very well (his name is, go figure, Pete). GREAT burgers, believe it or not. The head bartender was actually on "Cooks vs. Cons" on the Food Network.
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Mam i am falling apart. I have a pulled back muscle that when I turn just slightly, it takes my breath away. I don't even know how I did it!
Out of all the years I’ve worked out in the gym all my injuries except one came from doing mundane tasks at home.
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Another three day work week for me, then heading down to Atlantic City for an overnight filled with steak and gambling :hat
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Of late it's little things beside the heart. I need to fix the little things.
Incubus in a very small venue Saturday night. Can't wait!!
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Small venue for Incubus? That sounds awesome.
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Howdy folks.
I took Friday off sick, and came back in Monday to find that all hell broke loose in my absence.
I've spent half my day playing damage control and straightening things out... but forgot that payroll is due today. So that's going to encompass the rest of my day. Yay!
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Small venue for Incubus? That sounds awesome.
https://www.hamptonbeachcasinonh.com/
Right on the ocean.
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That looks pretty cool, big GA ballroom. I'm jealous of my friends who saw them at a small club opening for System of a Down before either bands made it huge for the SnoCore tour. I've only seen Incubus in arenas or huge amphitheaters. That makes me want to go to Boston after Philly
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Saturday night show too! I love that place. I've seen so many awesome bands there. Just the last 3 have been
Bill Burr
Steel Panther
Umphrey's McGee
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I watched some of Steel Panther's set on Wacken's live stream Saturday afternoon :lol oh man that was worth watching but lets say it's NSFW
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I watched some of Steel Panther's set on Wacken's live stream Saturday afternoon :lol oh man that was worth watching but lets say it's NSFW
Yeah I watched the whole thing. :metal
Literally every Steel Panther video is NSFW. Very typical show for them. :lol
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Blob, did your boobs and cocaine sense go off? :lol
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Mam i am falling apart. I have a pulled back muscle that when I turn just slightly, it takes my breath away. I don't even know how I did it!
I did that 4 years ago... reaching into my trunk to pull a cardboard sign out. My back said "no you don't! Ima gonna fuck you up for 6 weeks instead". Mrs.jingle said I walked like an 88 year old man with a broken disc. Just getting in and out of a car took a concerted effort, and don't even get me started on how hard it was to get out of bed. I'm sure I posted about it in the fogey thread when it happened.
Getting old blows.
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I'm at that point now. Thus blows.
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It feels worse. Tim, all the little things add up.
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Yeah, I'm j/k. You don't have to tell me.
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Small venue for Incubus? That sounds awesome.
https://www.hamptonbeachcasinonh.com/
Right on the ocean.
That is going to be an awesome venue to see them in.
I saw them years ago in a tiny little place and it was amazing. One of the most high energy shows that I've been to.
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Mam i am falling apart. I have a pulled back muscle that when I turn just slightly, it takes my breath away. I don't even know how I did it!
Back in April, we were moving some shelves at work and I did something that my chest muscles thought I shouldn't have been doing. I felt fine and then all of sudden my chest started hurting out of nowhere. I thought I was dying, it hurt so bad. Doesn't help my allergies acted up at the same time so my neck and shoulders were hurting. What are heart attack symptoms? Neck, shoulder, chest pains. That was a rough few days :lol
Now, a herniated disc in my low back and sciatica? So what you're telling me King is that it doesn't get better as I get older?
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It's all downhill from here.
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We walk a breathless mile
We spend our lives on-line
But our Vicodin's fine
We are the youth gone by
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Did we just merge the chat thread and the fogey's thread?
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Did we just merge the chat thread and the fogey's thread?
I infect all threads.
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Did we just merge the chat thread and the fogey's thread?
I infect all threads.
You have a contagious case of the Olds!
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I woke up and I just caught it!
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Mam i am falling apart. I have a pulled back muscle that when I turn just slightly, it takes my breath away. I don't even know how I did it!
Now, a herniated disc in my low back and sciatica? So what you're telling me King is that it doesn't get better as I get older?
Anytime I read the word Sciatica I sing it in my head like Panama from Van Halen all thanks to Bill Burr.
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:lol
I had a sciatic nerve pinch as a senior in high school. The pills were huge. Like horse pills.
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Bill ruined the word lady for me too. Although technically I think that is Jerry Lewis, Bill says it anytime the word lady appears in the podcast. "Today some LAAAAADDYY!...."
I had never heard the Sciatica one, but now I do
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Was gaming on my computer while there's a crazy lightning storm going on and there's a huge bright flash of lightning and my monitor reset, just the monitor, nothing else and was then fine. A bit later another bright flash and the same thing happens to my brothers monitor (in the same room). I then went outside to see this and got this clip, near the end it like flashes the camera blindingly, I don't think I've seen lightning do this before. I actually had to step back when it happened it was kind of frightening :lol https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1027008146076774405 (https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1027008146076774405)
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We had lightning like that the past couple of days. My gf is in Brooklyn for work right now and she said the lightning was intense.
I love it, it reminds me of home (florida)
That said I was pretty sure my onboard NIC was fried yesterday on my motherboard, lucky I got it up and running after a few BIOS resets.
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I would've liked to have heard the thunder clap/roll with that lightning.
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I would've liked to have heard the thunder clap/roll with that lightning.
It's weird, for a lot of these large flashes, there wasn't any. However, there were some really good rumblings, and one desk shaker.
and I saw this on twitter over Brooklyn:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkCUC_JU8AAl7gV.jpg)
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Was gaming on my computer while there's a crazy lightning storm going on and there's a huge bright flash of lightning and my monitor reset, just the monitor, nothing else and was then fine. A bit later another bright flash and the same thing happens to my brothers monitor (in the same room). I then went outside to see this and got this clip, near the end it like flashes the camera blindingly, I don't think I've seen lightning do this before. I actually had to step back when it happened it was kind of frightening :lol https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1027008146076774405 (https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1027008146076774405)
Thunder, lightning, very very frightening!
We had a couple of minutes that were pretty intense, though I actually expected worse from what I saw on the radar.
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I would've liked to have heard the thunder clap/roll with that lightning.
It's weird, for a lot of these large flashes, there wasn't any. However, there were some really good rumblings, and one desk shaker.
and I saw this on twitter over Brooklyn:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkCUC_JU8AAl7gV.jpg)
MOTHER FUCKER that's a huge bolt there!
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It was extremely loud last night. Power flickered a few times and cable went off twice.
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Yeah, crazy lightning last night. I had to do an IT mandated re-start of my computer last night for upgrades at 5:45. Decided to just leave at that point (I normally leave at 6). That extra 15 minutes got me on an earlier train, which got me home just as the rain started. Had I been on my normal train I would have been walking a few blocks in the worst of the rain. Thanks IT :lol
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One more week and I'm in Montana. This week is going to be balls though.
What takes you to Montana?
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My gf gets to go to a conference once a year of her choosing, her company pays for it. I just have to pay for my plane ticket and my share of the food so it works out like a mini vacation for us.
Two years ago we went to San Diego, last year she went to key west with a friend and this year we are doing Montana. I’ve always wanted to go so this will be a perfect chance to do it.
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Whats the plan for when you are out there?
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We are going to do some hiking mainly and sight seeing. Some of the trails look absolutely stunning. Here is hidden lake trail:
https://www.hikinginglacier.com/hidden-lake.htm
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Oh, going to hit up the national park, that looks awesome.
I just booked a flight to go to Jacksonville for Thanksgiving at my parents. Prices went down so I booked it asap and now the prices are back up, so I'm feeling good about that.
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We are going to do some hiking mainly and sight seeing. Some of the trails look absolutely stunning. Here is hidden lake trail:
https://www.hikinginglacier.com/hidden-lake.htm
That's awesome. I was out there camping and hiking for a couple of weeks, this time last year, and I loved it. I've never been anywhere so beautiful and I'm pretty sure I never will be anywhere so beautiful again. Hidden Lake is fantastic, as are so many other trails in there.
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Oh, going to hit up the national park, that looks awesome.
I just booked a flight to go to Jacksonville for Thanksgiving at my parents. Prices went down so I booked it asap and now the prices are back up, so I'm feeling good about that.
Jacksonville Fl? That will be fun. I'm trying to get out of hosting Thanksgiving this year.
We are going to do some hiking mainly and sight seeing. Some of the trails look absolutely stunning. Here is hidden lake trail:
https://www.hikinginglacier.com/hidden-lake.htm
That's awesome. I was out there camping and hiking for a couple of weeks, this time last year, and I loved it. I've never been anywhere so beautiful and I'm pretty sure I never will be anywhere so beautiful again. Hidden Lake is fantastic, as are so many other trails in there.
The pictures look incredible, I can't wait.
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We are going to do some hiking mainly and sight seeing. Some of the trails look absolutely stunning. Here is hidden lake trail:
https://www.hikinginglacier.com/hidden-lake.htm
That's awesome. I was out there camping and hiking for a couple of weeks, this time last year, and I loved it. I've never been anywhere so beautiful and I'm pretty sure I never will be anywhere so beautiful again. Hidden Lake is fantastic, as are so many other trails in there.
Aren't there bears roaming around there as well? I'd be too freaked out.
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Morning.
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yeah it is You smaht.
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We are going to do some hiking mainly and sight seeing. Some of the trails look absolutely stunning. Here is hidden lake trail:
https://www.hikinginglacier.com/hidden-lake.htm
That's awesome. I was out there camping and hiking for a couple of weeks, this time last year, and I loved it. I've never been anywhere so beautiful and I'm pretty sure I never will be anywhere so beautiful again. Hidden Lake is fantastic, as are so many other trails in there.
Aren't there bears roaming around there as well? I'd be too freaked out.
I don't know if it's the same where you are, Tim, but down here, I hear a story a week on the local news about a bear walking into someone's garage, or walking into someone's kitchen, or something similar. I haven't seen one myself, yet, but my stepson has. He watched one dump the garbage can (the big ones with the flap top that the garbage trucks lift with the robot arm) on his in laws car hood.
F that. I'll stick to cats and dogs.
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yeah it is You smaht.
Izzzzzz noooooooooozzzzz.
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We are going to do some hiking mainly and sight seeing. Some of the trails look absolutely stunning. Here is hidden lake trail:
https://www.hikinginglacier.com/hidden-lake.htm
That's awesome. I was out there camping and hiking for a couple of weeks, this time last year, and I loved it. I've never been anywhere so beautiful and I'm pretty sure I never will be anywhere so beautiful again. Hidden Lake is fantastic, as are so many other trails in there.
Aren't there bears roaming around there as well? I'd be too freaked out.
Yeah I saw a couple grizzlies, which really got my heart racing. Just got to keep your wits about you, make lots of noise, and keep a can of bear spray close at hand. All part of the fun.
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I don't know if it's the same where you are, Tim, but down here, I hear a story a week on the local news about a bear walking into someone's garage, or walking into someone's kitchen, or something similar. I haven't seen one myself, yet, but my stepson has. He watched one dump the garbage can (the big ones with the flap top that the garbage trucks lift with the robot arm) on his in laws car hood.
F that. I'll stick to cats and dogs.
There's bears in Connecticut? :lol
Yeah I saw a couple grizzlies, which really got my heart racing. Just got to keep your wits about you, make lots of noise, and keep a can of bear spray close at hand. All part of the fun.
Fuck that, bro. No chance.
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There's bears in Connecticut? :lol
Yes'n sir.
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I have never heard of that before. I've never seen any signs regarding them.
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There was a bear sighting in my town recently.
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We are going to do some hiking mainly and sight seeing. Some of the trails look absolutely stunning. Here is hidden lake trail:
https://www.hikinginglacier.com/hidden-lake.htm
That's awesome. I was out there camping and hiking for a couple of weeks, this time last year, and I loved it. I've never been anywhere so beautiful and I'm pretty sure I never will be anywhere so beautiful again. Hidden Lake is fantastic, as are so many other trails in there.
Aren't there bears roaming around there as well? I'd be too freaked out.
yes :lol
We actually got an email from our hotel warning us not to roam around outside due to heightened grizzly bear and mountain lion activity
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There was a bear sighting in my town recently.
Maybe it's JP doing the guitar camp thingy.
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I heard no spreading so I knew it wasn't him.
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Beautiful day here in Philly. Going to be a lot of fun today and tonight :hat
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Beautiful day here in Philly. Going to be a lot of fun today and tonight :hat
Cram, where are you in Philly?
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Beautiful day here in Philly. Going to be a lot of fun today and tonight :hat
Cram, where are you in Philly?
He's craving Cheesesteak
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Beautiful day here in Philly. Going to be a lot of fun today and tonight :hat
Cram, where are you in Philly?
He's craving Cheesesteak
Jim's, on the corner of 4th and South Street.
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I wish I would have a recommendation when I visited Philly in 2012. Waited an hour in line for one somewhere and was disappointed. It was good, but no better than one I could get 2 miles from me in my own downtown.
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I wish I would have a recommendation when I visited Philly in 2012. Waited an hour in line for one somewhere and was disappointed. It was good, but no better than one I could get 2 miles from me in my own downtown.
First, know that I am a Philly fan and would move back there this afternoon if my family would go with me, so I'm biased. But while the big three are good - Pat's, Geno's, and Jim's - when there is a line, they are turning out sandwiches at a rate of a hundred an hour or thereabouts. Not to make excuses, but they shoot themselves in the foot with that. You go to Jim's mid-afternoon when there's no line and you're getting a good sandwich.
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Waiting for Incubus to hit the stage.
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awesome King! Enjoy! Can’t wait to see what the setlist is like.
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I know they rotate songs so I stayed away from the setlist.
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I just a brief check of the last few nights and there are some real gems there. I wish they would visit some of the fungus stuff. Something like trouble in 421 would be amazing live
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Morning DTF, on the flight to Montana.
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Have fun Reap!
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Giants game today! :metal
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That stadium looks gorgeous.
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On my second flight to Montana. Can’t wait to get off this plane
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So Montana is fucking gorgeous. The weather is unbelievable.
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What's the temp there right now?
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So Montana is fucking gorgeous. The weather is unbelievable.
I'm curious to here where all you go. Keep us posted :tup
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I’m currently in white fish montana today. Our plan is to do a small local hike tomorrow since it’s the first day of my gfs conference. Day after tomorrow we are going to hit up glacier national park and do the hidden lake home.
Temp when we drove in was 91 but the low is going to be 51, it gets cold quick especially with how dry it is.
The views are truly spectacular. Living almost my entire life in Florida where everything is flat I can’t gelp but be blown away by the mountains.
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Speaking of Hikes,
My buddy and I went on a hike today. About 5 miles. My legs are dead, and half of the back of my neck is sunburnt, but it was awesome!
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That stadium looks gorgeous.
Oh it is. (see the post your pic thread..)
We were up on the third deck behind home plate the views were spectacular. The whole stadium is amazing. We had lunch before the game across McCovey Cove. What a great experience. We met some dudes from SF who went to Fenway and they said while Fenway was cramped, that it is the best road trip park.
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Today is Field Day at work. THe company rents out space at the Liberty State Park right on the Hudson across the river from the World Trade Center and near the Statue of Liberty. Really awesome spot outdoors where they set up tons of games and have an open bar and lots of food. They rent a boat to take everyone back and forth between the park and Manhatten where the office is. I work in NJ on my own, so I often am not involved in the events of the office, although Field Day is one I am invited and expected to participate. But my boss and coworker are traveling this week and I was so consumed in the massive amount of work I have, that I came to work in NJ today and forgot all about Field Day :lol I'm such a moron, but this is fine, no one is working because they are there so I am just going to take a half day today for myself which allows me to get home in time for the Live and Counting Crows concert and then play off my "work first" mentality if anyone questions me (which now makes sense why everyone was kind of giving me the shaft this morning when I was trying to bust out all my work :lol).
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So far it's been a wonderful trip to Montana. I never thought I'd say this but it's been my favorite vacation so far. We did miss out on some trails because one of the wildfires is so close to us but we'll definitely be back.
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So far it's been a wonderful trip to Montana. I never thought I'd say this but it's been my favorite vacation so far. We did miss out on some trails because one of the wildfires is so close to us but we'll definitely be back.
How big is the wildfires there Reap?
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Pretty big. We are closest to the Howe Ridge fire which sparked Saturday, we arrived Sunday. Tuesday we were able to make it to East Glacier and do 2 of the 3 trails we wanted to do. It's been getting smokier every day here. I think the Howe Ridge fire size is now 3300 acres so we didn't get to do everything we wanted to in Glacier.
We did our last trail today from the Ski Resort and we had a cool, albeit frightening moment. We were walking along one large hill and we heard some rustling below us, we slowed down thinking it was one of the many deer we saw on this trail, instead we get a small black bear walk out of the shrubs, lock eyes with us and run off. It looked like we scared him, the worrying thing is mom was probably close by. We were maybe 10 feet from it, it was incredibly cool even though it made me realize how this little guy could have literally destroyed me in seconds.
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Thankfully. We just had a black bear maul a lady in a wheelchair recently.
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Jesus that's brutal
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Of late, we are invading their space so they are out more in our areas.
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Which trails did you go on?
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Whitefish Trail
Beaver Lake Loop
Danny On
Hidden Lake
Rocky Point
A little bit of the Huckleberry Mountain Trail
I really wanted to do Grinnel Glacier but with Going to the Sun Road closed it would've been a long drive to get to the trailhead. Plus I'm not sure what the condition is now with the fires.
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As a side note bugs really aren't as bad as I expected. The only place I got bit up was Beaver Lake, the bites don't hurt but the welts they left on my arm are massive.
Also we hit reservoir trail which had a beautiful overlook of whitefish.
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Still sounds like an awesome trip even with the fires
Thankfully. We just had a black bear maul a lady in a wheelchair recently.
damn
Every couples years or so they open bear hunting season in NJ. It's not an issue near me, but every once in awhile you hear a story of a bear going through someone's trash. We also had this story of the bear who walks around on it's back feet like a human https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcIkQaLJ9r8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcIkQaLJ9r8)
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Thankfully. We just had a black bear maul a lady in a wheelchair recently.
Thankfully??
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Thankfully was to Reap's response. I should have separated the word from the rest of the sentence.
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Thankfully. We just had a black bear maul a lady in a wheelchair recently.
Thankfully??
:lol
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I PUSHED HER RIGHT BETWEEN US AND THE BEAR!!! :lol
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I have a hunger for hiking now. My buddy and I have a bunch of local trails that we want to work ourselves up to.... (We are fat...)
Ultimately we want to get in shape enough to do a 3-4 day backpacking trip out to a hot springs in the mountains near us. I've been looking at at equipment and what not online, as well as spending a lot of time browsing this (https://www.reddit.com/r/WildernessBackpacking/) subreddit...
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I would love to hike more but it's out of the question until Fall hits in NC.
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Morning everyone.
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Morning King, heading back to Charlotte today
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Going over a big bath at a farm tonight. Then one more week and it's vacation!
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Going over a big bath?
Enlighten me!
Where are you going for vacay?
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Oops. Big bash. Wife took on a new job so she didn't want to take vacation since we are going to a music festival in October. So it's solo and enjoying no work.
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Nice! I'm dreading my return to work Monday. I don't have any more time off planned except for two, one for engagement photos and one for when my brother comes to visit.
I have two more days to burn but I'll probably roll them onto next year. Things slow down in October and I don't like taking time off when it's really slow at work.
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Morning
Spent last night and this morning working on a few more gaming videos (two PUBG, one Sea of Thieves) so I have a continuous flow of content while I am away for my youtube. The GF is spending the rest of the weekend here and it's off to Amsterdam on Monday for a bit less than two weeks for work. Should be an easy trip, but my first time going solo to Europe. When I get back its Labor Day weekend and I have vacation that week for ProgPower in Atlanta. Lots of traveling the next few weeks (and a bachelor party in the Poconos in September too).
It does feel like this is the last weekend of summer at home though which sucks.
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That does sound like a lot of fun though Cram.
Do you twitch stream?
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Not usually although I have. Also my gf logged onto my Twitter to tweet about Justin Timberlake lol
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Lol, I saw that, nothing wrong with being excited about JT bro, my gf is seeing him in January
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Yea, seems like it could be a fun event happying next to my hotel while I am off next weekend so why not. But I'd be lying if I said it was something really exciting for me :lol
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Ugh. Kid made accusations of bullying at work and then when I brought him to investigate, he gave his notice and then walked out an hour later.
He never once came in to tell me there was issues. Most had issues with him being slightly weird but that's it. Now I'm doing a big investigation and so far, nobody seems to know anything. Tough one to put together.
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So the new Property Management company managing the property I work is learning very quickly how much of a pain in the ass this property is.
It's gotten to the point where I am having to send borderline passive aggressive emails with the HOA Board members (Whom they answer to) CC'd to actually get things done.
It's been nonstop today.
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It's so sad when people only respond when their "boss" or someone 'above' them is cc'd. Talk about a complete lack of professional courtesy.
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It's so sad when people only respond when their "boss" or someone 'above' them is cc'd. Talk about a complete lack of professional courtesy.
I see that so much Chad.
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Should be taking off soon for Amsterdam, time to pop the sleeping pills. I land at 7am local and time to get right to work for the day so need to catch sleep while I can, hopefully.
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After an amazing week and a half out west, the TACs are home!
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Welcome back TAC family.
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After an amazing week and a half out west, the TACs are home!
I anxiously await pics in the vacation thread.
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Everything is on my computer. I took tomorrow off so hopefully tomorrow.
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Evening guys
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So, on the plane, the person in front of me was watching the stupidest fucking movie. It has all sots of weird shaped people. I recognized Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johannson. In one big battle scene a fox or a wolf is shooting a machine gun! WTF??? The was a purple giant guy and in the end, everyone turned to dust. Everything looked so fake. And stupid. I can only imagine how bad the dialogue was.
I swear, the old Godzilla movies with a mechanical monster and a model town looked 10 times as fucking real.
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So I take it you're not a fan of the avengers?
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I mean, I saw RD Jr, but he wasn't wearing his Iron Man outfit.
Was that The Avengers? If so, then no, I am not a fan. It looked so stupid tbh.
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Tim, jesus that movie is amazing.
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So, on the plane, the person in front of me was watching the stupidest fucking movie. It has all sots of weird shaped people. I recognized Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johannson. In one big battle scene a fox or a wolf is shooting a machine gun! WTF??? The was a purple giant guy and in the end, everyone turned to dust. Everything looked so fake. And stupid. I can only imagine how bad the dialogue was.
I swear, the old Godzilla movies with a mechanical monster and a model town looked 10 times as fucking real.
There simply are no words. When I realized what movie he was talking about, I thought he was trying to troll us. It's just not even worth explaining.
Tim... your assessment is like saying Alice Cooper blows because just by looking at the album art of Raise Your Fist And Yell.
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You know, I was in France and i saw this talk metal structure and people were looking at it and i thought it was fucking stupid. It's not even a building you can stay in when it's cold. How dumb.
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Tim,
Since you're such a caring and engaged father, I'm sure you're boys love you dearly, but I'll bet they roll their eyes a lot!
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TAC, not to dogpile up, but ... you Hydra?
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If his main point was just that old ways of filming with real objects is better than the over use of CGI in modern films, I may have to agree with him. I never saw the movie though so no opinion there. Also, judging from an airplane TV maybe isn't the best way to gauge a film in terms of picture and CGI quality.
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Oh, fair enough. It's a tech thing. Let me re-phrase.
TAC ... you A.I.M.? *grin*
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Having said that, I watched A Wrinkle in Time on my flight last night and thought it was a horrible movie. I could have watched the Avengers 2, but I've never seen the first one, or any of the marvel movies in the last 10 years.
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If his main point was just that old ways of filming with real objects is better than the over use of CGI in modern films, I may have to agree with him. I never saw the movie though so no opinion there. Also, judging from an airplane TV maybe isn't the best way to gauge a film in terms of picture and CGI quality.
It seems like his main point was that Godzilla movies from the 50's looked better than Infinity War. Not so much that, in principle, doing things with real sets and props is preferable to all CGI.
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Can you imagine the budget costs to film on the planet Titan?
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Can you imagine the budget costs to film on the planet Titan?
I mean, they COULD just go to the moon of Titan instead and we probably wouldn't know the difference. But it's Disney, they probably have the money to do it. Hell, I'm surprised they didn't just outright buy the moon of Titan in preparation for this.
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omg wtf tac? :lol
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Can you imagine the budget costs to film on the planet Titan?
I mean, they COULD just go to the moon of Titan instead and we probably wouldn't know the difference. But it's Disney, they probably have the money to do it. Hell, I'm surprised they didn't just outright buy the moon of Titan in preparation for this.
:lol
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If his main point was just that old ways of filming with real objects is better than the over use of CGI in modern films, I may have to agree with him.
That wasn't my main point per se. But it looked like there was a lot of work on the effects and, I don't know....I'm not impressed generally. I guess maybe I'm too old to watch such mindless drivel. I don't know what the story was, but it just looked dumb. :)
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What is that HBO thigamagig?! I can't bet getting up and turning that knob to watch movies. Regular TV with commercials are fine!
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What is that HBO thigamagig?! I can't bet getting up and turning that knob to watch movies. Regular TV with commercials are fine!
"Honey, hold that antennae a little to the left... that's it!"
(https://i.imgur.com/uG3iBxd.jpg)
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Get this...
My guys thwart an attempted burglary yesterday. Caught the guy climbing into a gated bike storage area. We detain him (not forcibly... but standing with the guy talking to him asking him to stay is still legally detaining in this case). The police are contacted, and dispatch says to LET HIM GO since no one will be responding for at least an hour or more.
What the actual fuck?
Even better is we requested someone come to take the police report, even if it does take an hour or more... and no one showed up. I even went back to work (I was in the area) to meet with the Officer and give him/her a piece of my mind... and no one showed up.
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Sounds like something that can actually happen where I live. :lol
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Nice message to send to criminals...even when you're caught, no biggie.
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Nice message to send to criminals...even when you're caught, no biggie.
Yea seriously
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So
I called my police dept just now to follow up on the bullshit from yesterday, and lo and behold, I wound up talking to the same dispatcher whom took the call yesterday. The guy gave me so much shit, telling me that no crime was committed, so there was no reason to send anyone out. My response was "So we should have waited until he stole something, then called?" No, he didn't steal something, but he could at least get hit with trespassing and attempted burglary. The guy kept arguing with me. Finally he asked "So why do you need someone to come out? So it's on record? We have an online reporting system for that." I explained that it is our protocol to speak with an officer IN PERSON. Finally he told me he'd send someone out in a few hours. To which I responded by name dropping my local Beat Coordinator, whom I have a really nice working relationship with. "Oh. Mike is coming on soon. I'll send him a message to call you..." and he left it at that.
I get the legalities, but I also do know he could be given a trespass warning, as well as hit him with attempted burglary if they found burg tools on him. I've helped put away more criminals than I can count. I know what I am doing.
Also, you never know. The subject may be wanted for something else. He may be connected to other recent crimes. He's a transient and is still spending time in the area (I saw him 3 hours ago). Speaking to an Officer helps build camaraderie and helps break this sense of elitism we used to deal with when I first started working here. We (my team and the Police) are supposed to work WITH each other, not AGAINST each other.
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Next time just tell the cops he said something about Allah. Within 30 minutes you'll have 30 armed offices, a swat team, CIA, FBI, DEA, ICE, JLB, OMG, ATF, LOL, and Homeland Security coming in from helicopters.
Or, since you're close to LA, just tell them the dude wasn't efficiently disposing of avocados or something. Similar response.
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Next time just tell the cops he said something about Allah. Within 30 minutes you'll have 30 armed offices, a swat team, CIA, FBI, DEA, ICE, JLB, OMG, ATF, LOL, and Homeland Security coming in from helicopters.
Or, since you're close to LA, just tell them the dude wasn't efficiently disposing of avocados or something. Similar response.
:rollin
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Morning gang
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Morning
I was up for 36 hours from Monday morning until last night. I did get a few hours of poor sleep on my flight so that's not entirely accurate, but not far off. I stayed up late (local time here that is) to do a meeting with the director of our group last night who has been doing one on ones with everyone to talk about the acquisition of the company. Got some great news as I am now going to be eligible for a 9% bonus and also will be getting another 9% bonus each year to just not leave the company as a retention bonus (thats on top of getting a fat check for my stock options that should be coming this weekend). Pretty awesome news so as tired as I was, I was on a high and made it official with the local amsterdam goods afterwards :lol
I then slept like a baby for 9 hours and feel so refreshed and better today. Also the customer lounge in this data center has a really awesome starbucks machine that makes some strong drinks for free which is really nice.
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Man, i haven't done that in a long, long time.
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Man, i haven't done that in a long, long time.
What? The local Amsterdam goods?
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:lol
I figured I'd get that response. I was talking about staying up over 30 hours. Though, if you'd like to know, Pink Floyd concert and my bachelor party in 1994.
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I guess I am going to go see Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson next week, IF I can score discounted tickets when I get paid tomorrow. It's funny, there was a short period of time when I was in high school where I got big into Manson. He was actually set to play a show at the theater in my town... I spent a couple weeks working and saving up the $$$ for myself and 2 female friends of mine whom both I was totally in to...... and a few days before the show, it was canceled, and rumor had it that it was canceled due to poor ticket sales and he decided to cash in on insurance for that show instead. That left a really sour taste in my mouth (and killed any chance of getting some :zydar: from all of that work).
:lol
I figured I'd get that response. I was talking about staying up over 30 hours. Though, if you'd like to know, Pink Floyd concert and my bachelor party in 1994.
Best Bachelor Party Ever.
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Best Bachelor Party Ever.
No, THIS is the best bachelor party ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZKJHk-vpzY
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I guess I am going to go see Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson next week, IF I can score discounted tickets when I get paid tomorrow. It's funny, there was a short period of time when I was in high school where I got big into Manson. He was actually set to play a show at the theater in my town... I spent a couple weeks working and saving up the $$$ for myself and 2 female friends of mine whom both I was totally in to...... and a few days before the show, it was canceled, and rumor had it that it was canceled due to poor ticket sales and he decided to cash in on insurance for that show instead. That left a really sour taste in my mouth (and killed any chance of getting some :zydar: from all of that work).
He cancelled one show already and stopped another early this tour with Zombie. Wouldn't be surprised if you are stuck in another similar situation. At least Zombie puts on a good show and if Manson doesn't play you might get a couple extra songs. I really enjoyed the show when it came to town last month. It was cheap and just a good time even though I'm not really into either band.
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I never got into Zombie as much as I did Manson back in the day, but Zombie DOES put on an amazing show from what I've seen, so I am not too worried if Manson bails. My buddy is a bigger Manson fan, but I think he'd live as well.
My bigger concern is driving down to Irvine for the show, as it's a 2-3 hour drive or more in LA traffic ('member LA traffic Cram? :lol ) and I have to work the next morning. I can't pull off taking another day off this month (I'm already taking Friday off), so I might have to move some people around and work later the day after.
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Best Bachelor Party Ever.
No, THIS is the best bachelor party ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZKJHk-vpzY
Oh yeah, I had 2 bachelor parties. Hence "King".
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I never got into Zombie as much as I did Manson back in the day, but Zombie DOES put on an amazing show from what I've seen, so I am not too worried if Manson bails. My buddy is a bigger Manson fan, but I think he'd live as well.
My bigger concern is driving down to Irvine for the show, as it's a 2-3 hour drive or more in LA traffic ('member LA traffic Cram? :lol ) and I have to work the next morning. I can't pull off taking another day off this month (I'm already taking Friday off), so I might have to move some people around and work later the day after.
:lol yea fuck dealing with that traffic. Sounds like a nightmare.
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I learned what the absolute worst freeway in LA was back in January. The 710, which connects from the 5 down straight into the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles. Just miles and miles of container trucks moving at 10 mph. It was insane.
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In 1991 I visited my best bud who moved out to Cypress to "make it in the music bizz" and I remember him playing at The Roxy on a Tuesday night in Hollywood. (I roadied for them) Driving back from the gig on a 6 lane highway there was a traffic jam at 10:30 pm at night.
I looked at him and said, "How the fuck can you live out here?" :lol
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Best Bachelor Party Ever.
No, THIS is the best bachelor party ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZKJHk-vpzY
Is that the footlong?
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Today feels like the first day of fall, it's so nice and cool. Time to take the bike to work.
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We've had that weather. I love it but the heat is coming back tomorrow into next week.
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Yesterday, as I was getting ready to leave work, I came across a Sgt with my police department, who also happens to be the direct supervisor for the Officers who work my beat. I told him my entire tale, and he agreed with me 100%. He took my report, and also contacted the Dispatch Supervisor and requested that they go through the tapes from those call and "discuss" it with the dispatcher if needed.
He also wants me to keep in touch with him regarding what goes on in the community... so I think this whole situation ended on a high note.
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So, yeah, this morning I noticed that my Jeep has (what appears to be) a bullet hole in the driver's door! There is a corresponding hole in the fence flanking the driveway where the Jeep has been parked for the past few weeks. The officer who came out to investigate says it's definitely a bullet hole and not from an air rifle or pellet gun.
I guess I'll be calling my insurance agent in the morning to see if I should make a claim on my homeowners or car insurance.
SMH
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Holy shit! So shot by a neighbor?
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Yikes!
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Holy shit! So shot by a neighbor?
Looks like. The neighbor to the south rents his house out to nerdowells. The cop says he’s quite familiar with them. :angry:
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God, I hate people.
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Wow that's crazy, any reason to think it's either deliberate or just a missed shot from other fucking around? That's kind of a scary thing to find on your car
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Something similar happening to people in our neighborhood. They left for vacation and came home to find 3 bullet holes in there house.
Going to be a slow day at work today. Usually when I think it's going to be slow that means we'll have some sort of emergency phone call.
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I was thinking the same thing, slow day. My boss dumped some busy work on me as soon as he woke up it seems. Either way, no big deal as it will keep me busy and hopefully make this day go fast. It's weird because I get to work so early before anyone I work with wakes up, then also continue working through their hours as well. Was hoping to leave "early" today to head into the heart of Amsterdam for the evening for dinner and drinks and smokes. No prostitutes but I'll take a look at the sites. Also, we got PAID today. Like, seriously paid, thank you for buying us big corporation :lol I sold out and got a fat pay check for my stock options in my bank account this morning. My boss said not to spend it all on prostitutes. I plan on listening, but I am definitely looking to enjoy my weekend off out here.
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Wow that's crazy, any reason to think it's either deliberate or just a missed shot from other fucking around? That's kind of a scary thing to find on your car
Most likely it was just a "hold my beer" moment, but I suppose anything's possible. I remember scowling at them when I pulled into my garage one day (with my daily ride--not the Jeep). Two men were out in their back yard, that is adjacent to the punctured fence, shouting obscenities at one another and squaring off like they were going to throw down. They both noticed my expression and you could almost read the "fuck you, old man" on their faces. *shrug*
We've had several rats hanging around this summer. I've only managed to get one with a standard rat trap and I won't use poison because I'm concerned one may die in a place where my dog could get at it. Maybe they were taking potshots at the rats? Who knows?
I'm just glad it wasn't one of the Mercs that got hit. The Jeep is kinda an extra beater car for us.
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lol shooting rats
Speaking of, I've never really encountered rats. Seen a few in the NYC subways before, but usually in the distance along the tracks or something, not running around near me. But outside my hotel here, a spot where I frequent in the evenings to :hat I've noticed a large rat population and they run all around right in front of me. They are also large, I'm no longer going to be hanging in that area in the evening :lol
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Morning guys...Just going through the process of selling my friends ProgPower Ticket and cancelling his flight reservation. Should be a fun day with the flight reservation.
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Morning guys...Just going through the process of selling my friends ProgPower Ticket and cancelling his flight reservation. Should be a fun day with the flight reservation.
Damn, why did your friend back out?
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Morning guys...Just going through the process of selling my friends ProgPower Ticket and cancelling his flight reservation. Should be a fun day with the flight reservation.
Damn, why did your friend back out?
He just started a new job and doesn't seem likely he'll be able to get off two days. Sucks but what can ya do.
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I'm on vacation next week and my wife is not for the same reason.
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Evening guys
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Hi Reap!
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What's up King?
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Not much. Drinking good beers watching TV.
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Nice. I've had my fill of beer throughout the week, I think I might open up some wine tonight. What are you watching?
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Not much. Drinking good beers watching TV.
Did you say you are out in NY?
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No. In October. 2nd to the 5th. The 5th, I head to NJ, pick up the wife at the airport and go to a musical festival. Meeting up with
Jingle
Lonestar
Nick
DTVT
Axe
Splent.
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Gotcha!
Not sure who any of those people are, but cool.
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That sounds like an awesome meet up King, I regret not being more active in the forum so I could've done the Score meetup
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Me as well. I was a stocker back then.
Gotcha!
Not sure who any of those people are, but cool.
You're too cool to hang with us anywho.
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I'm on vacation next week and my wife is not for the same reason.
Me too! Let the PTO begin. Though, it's gonna be bittersweet - moving the jingle.kids into residence. Son on Monday; daughter next Sunday. :'( sad and happy tears all at once. Gonna be a rough week - especially for mrs.jingle.
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I've had a few friend posting their 1st born going to college. An emotional rollercoaster for sure Chad.
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Chad is this the first time they will all be out of the house?
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Chad is this the first time they will all be out of the house?
jingle.son went to Greece/Italy on a school trip for 10 days last year, and we've been apart from them for a few vacations that mrs.jingle and I took together, but otherwise, yeah.
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I sell a brand of carpet in my store called Dream Weaver. If I had a nickel for every time I accidentally wrote or said Dream Theater in its place by accident I'd have at least 2 dollars.
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The dream theater carpet sounds pretty good :lol
Time to wake up, I am beat from a late night out in Amsterdam last night (which was a blast even in the pouring rain) and then I went back for an afternoon tour of coffeeshops and good eats. Now in my hotel going to make a couple drinks before Justin Timberlake in the Ziggo Dome next to my hotel. The area is already crazy because of the soccer game in the arena, next to the dome, next to my hotel. Going to be a fun night, but I am so damn tired right now.
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I sell a brand of carpet in my store called Dream Weaver. If I had a nickel for every time I accidentally wrote or said Dream Theater in its place by accident I'd have at least 2 dollars.
I'm going to come in to the store just to sing the real song: "ooh-ooh-ooh Dreammmmmm, weavahhhhhhh! I believe we can make the mor-ornin lie-height!"
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Shut your fucking face Uncle Fuckaaaa!!!!
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:lol
Went to a castle today and now drinking a beer in the red light district. Fantastic weekend out here.
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I'm waiting for the wife to get ready and it's on. Lol
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TMI.
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:lol
The movie Tim. Lol
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;D ;D
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Evening ugys.
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Evening Reap. No work tomorrow. I get to stay up tonight!
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Howdy.
Took a walk up to a park above Ventura that was affected by the Thomas Fire. It's surreal to see the change in the landscape. This is one of my favourite spots in the city... for obvious reasons :JayOctavarium:
(keep in mind that most of this was covered in brush and shit before the fire.
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This (below) used to be a Botanical Gardens that I never got a chance to check out before the fire. It opened up right after the last time I came up to this spot. lol
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scorched earth
sucks to be back at work this morning after such an awesome weekend. However, lots to look forward to such as the start of college football this weekend :metal
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@ Jay... goddamn. :angry: :'(
Well, it's college move-in day for jingle.son. Got the truck packed last night - he has a 3-hour orientation this morning, then we're all heading down with all his shit to move him in after lunch (the college is only about a 45-60 minute drive away ... just far enough to NOT live at home, but close enough that he can come home whenever he wants - at least until we move in the winter/spring.
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Sounds like a long and emotional day for you guys
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Sounds like a long and emotional day for you guys
yyyuup! Sunday's gonna be worse when jingle.daughter moves in. Her school is about 90 minutes away, and we're gonna have to take two vehicles to take everything she needs (because her residence allows mini-fridges in the room), meaning mrs.jingle is gonna have to drive home looking through haze of tears.
Me too.
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mini fridge is a must in college! I still have my old mini in my basement, great for keeping a cool 12 pack available without taking the stairs to the main fridge.
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mini fridge is a must in college! I still have my old mini in my basement, great for keeping a cool 12 pack available without taking the stairs to the main fridge.
jingle.son's residence style is like a mini 2-bedroom apt. Kitchenette (full sized fridge, but no stove), bathroom, 2 bedrooms - all separate rooms, but in it's own self-contained unit. So, he doesn't need a mini-fridge. College's up here don't usually have full-service food options (basically, just a small food court / cafeteria). jingle.daughter is going to a University, which has a full meal-plan and lots of food service locations/options. That's why she gets the mini-fridge (for leftovers and other drinks etc...).
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Morning. Jeremy that is beautiful and so damn sad.
Chad, what a proud but heartbreaking moment.
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mini fridge is a must in college! I still have my old mini in my basement, great for keeping a cool 12 pack available without taking the stairs to the main fridge.
jingle.son's residence style is like a mini 2-bedroom apt. Kitchenette (full sized fridge, but no stove), bathroom, 2 bedrooms - all separate rooms, but in it's own self-contained unit. So, he doesn't need a mini-fridge. College's up here don't usually have full-service food options (basically, just a small food court / cafeteria). jingle.daughter is going to a University, which has a full meal-plan and lots of food service locations/options. That's why she gets the mini-fridge (for leftovers and other drinks etc...).
Yeah, keep telling yourself that.
Jingle-daughter: "I have room in my fridge."
Cute guy in the dorm: "And I have a 30-pack! Win-win!"
(I kid, I kid. My daughter starts her senior year today. I was driving with her yesterday and she looks at me and says "I'm going to be 18 in four months." All I could muster was a half-whispered "Shut up.")
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All this talk about moving to college is bringing back memories of when I moved away. Man it feels like an eternity ago, I was also so different back then.
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mini fridge is a must in college! I still have my old mini in my basement, great for keeping a cool 12 pack available without taking the stairs to the main fridge.
jingle.son's residence style is like a mini 2-bedroom apt. Kitchenette (full sized fridge, but no stove), bathroom, 2 bedrooms - all separate rooms, but in it's own self-contained unit. So, he doesn't need a mini-fridge. College's up here don't usually have full-service food options (basically, just a small food court / cafeteria). jingle.daughter is going to a University, which has a full meal-plan and lots of food service locations/options. That's why she gets the mini-fridge (for leftovers and other drinks etc...).
Ah true, makes sense then. I was thinkin poor jingle son won't have cold beverages on stand by :lol
All this talk about moving to college is bringing back memories of when I moved away. Man it feels like an eternity ago, I was also so different back then.
True. I miss those college days and just the beauty of being ignorant and not really caring either.
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Yay...My friends ProgPower ticket sold. Now to print the label, head to UPS and ship it out.
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Yea they were a good time! The amount I could drink would cripple me now if I tried.
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So, Between the Buried and Me is playing at the North Carolina State Fair in October and I am so happy and confused about that.
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I can only imagine the horror on the people there waiting for country music. Lol
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So, Between the Buried and Me is playing at the North Carolina State Fair in October and I am so happy and confused about that.
...father?
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So, Between the Buried and Me is playing at the North Carolina State Fair in October and I am so happy and confused about that.
...father?
Yes, it is I.
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So, Between the Buried and Me is playing at the North Carolina State Fair in October and I am so happy and confused about that.
...father?
Yes, it is I.
Behold, when I come unto the children of DTF, and shall say unto them, The Hef of your moderators hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
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Hef!!!!
:panicattack:
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And just booked myself a work trip to Denver...
2 weeks in amsterdam, 1 week in atlanta, 1 week in denver, thats a wild month for me. Thank god these work trips haven't been too intense lately otherwise I'd be seriously exhausted. My poor cat back home though :(
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Morning folks.
Good News: On Monday evening, the boss and I met with a the new committee at work whom we are going to be answering to now, and it actually went well. It seems that our contract is here to stay for another year :lol
I was expecting a bitch fest, but instead it was actually very constructive. I think that's because I spent all day with 2 of the members with the loudest voices. Took them around and showed them most of the details and bullshit we deal with. Neither of them really had any idea on how much small bullshit we handle on a daily basis.
They also decided to pull the trigger on implementing something we discussed, on the day I was leaving early to drive down to see Marilyn Manson / Rob Zombie. Assholes.
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So I'm guessing your good at that location for another year then right Jay?
Good evening dudes
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Seems so.
So.... I just got back from Marilyn Manson + Rob Zombie. Holy shit that was awesome. Manson puts on a good show, but Zombie completely blew him out of the water.
It's funny... When the show first started, a cute tall red head (aka my wet dream) wound up kinda pushing past us to get closer to the front. A bit later, a pit opened up during Thunder Kiss '65, and the red head wound up standing in front of me. She was dancing and having a good time... And slowing inched back closer and closer to me till she was basically rubbing her ass on me. I inched back a little to be courteous, the pit moves a little, and her ass is rubbing up against my crotch again. I don't think she even noticed (and I hope she didn't notice... For reasons...) but it totally made my night :lol
And speaking of the pit, I actually moshed for the first time in 10 years. I think I'm getting old, as I lasted 45 whole seconds before fighting my way back out.
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Nice, I was amazed by how many hot girls came out for that show. Like it was at least 50% chicks and many of those were dressed in really seductive outfits. There was even a female only moshpit for a bit.
But I get you on getting old in the pit. I've slowly been moving further and further from the pit :lol besides getting tired and sweaty really quickly, I feel my legs, specifically my ankles, just aren't in the best conditions to be doing that for as often as I go to concerts. I can't risk showing up to work with a bad limp or worse. I've been settling for seats when possible lately. I feel I may be in the seats way more than the pit for ProgPower next week which would be the opposite of 2 years ago.
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HAHAHA.... 27 and 33 year old punks bitching about their bodies getting old. You kids ain't seen shit yet.
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HAHAHA.... 27 and 33 year old punks bitching about their bodies getting old. You kids ain't seen shit yet.
:lol I'm almost 34!
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HAHAHA.... 27 and 33 year old punks bitching about their bodies getting old. You kids ain't seen shit yet.
No shit. Lol
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HAHAHA.... 27 and 33 year old punks bitching about their bodies getting old. You kids ain't seen shit yet.
:lol I'm almost 34!
I'm almost gonna bitch slap you!
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34. Still in 2 softball leagues and 2 bowling leagues.
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No shit, King. At 34, I was in the best shape of my life. I could run all day, and fuck all night. What I wouldn't give to be 34 again.
I second the jingle bitch slap
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No shit, King. At 34, I was in the best shape of my life. I could run all day, and fuck all night. What I wouldn't give to be 34 again.
I second the jingle bitch slap
I'm in, too. Tha fu.
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I'd want to bang in the morning and in the night. Now, this battleship takes a day to reload. :lol
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Hell, it's gotten to the point that whenever I make my moves on Mrs. P, she smiles and says, "Has it been four months already?"
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:lol
Women's sarcasm get stronger when they get older.
Truth is, they are stealing it from us like a succubus. :lol
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Women's sarcasm get stronger when they get older.
Yeah, she's leveled up each year for the past 18. :lol
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Shit I got to watch out, my gf's got 2 years already and I am relentless with sarcasm
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Hell, it's gotten to the point that whenever I make my moves on Mrs. P, she smiles and says, "Has it been four months already?"
Only "four"??
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Scenes from a Vacation, part II:
Me: "Sorry, tulip. Battery. I was saying ..."
Wife: "Good people"
Me: "Right. Read here ... FOCKASPOCK!"
*Throws iPad into Mediterranean Sea*
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Dogs.
4am
Two mornings in a row.
le sigh
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Ouch. My last roulette submission is a balm for moments like that.
Crank it open, thank me later.
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I'm on my 2-day 'cleanse' from roulette music listening. I like to start the whole playlist at once, and am still waiting on a couple of submissions. Should start tomorrow morning - hopefully the fucking dogs sleep in (at least until their 'normal' wakeup time at 6am).
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Eheheh, pimping failed.
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Good morning everyone. Working from home today which means surfing DTF all day.
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Morning. On the road to Vermont. Walking break right now.
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Nice! Have a safe trip King.
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Brew hopping today. Foam Brewery & Hill Farmstead.
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Sounds like fun, I'm going to spend the day sitting at home with my work laptop on collecting OT lol
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Page 99 - new chat thread soon?
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Morning everyone.
I am so dead tired right now- I need an IV drip of Coffee. I worked a later shift yesterday (3-1130p), actually got to work early (better than sitting home doing nothing) and was immediately thrown into a bunch of bullshit that lasted all day and into this morning. I am SO happy today is FRIDAY :friday:
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Good evening/afternoon/morning
In an uber home from the airport. I got a couple hours sleep last night before being up at midnight local time for my flight home. It's only noon but I could go to bed soon. Probably play some video games and get to work on my next videos
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Morning folks
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Another day off, except we have engagement photos to take. I'm glad I only have a 3 day work week this week.
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Off as well today. Getting shit done around the house and prepping for another 2 weeks of travel aka doing lots of laundry. My gf and brother went to work so I've got the house today. Couldn't sleep so I got up and finished another youtube video. Got 2 more ready, but I'll have plenty of content for my channel this week. I want to see if I can get one song from each band at Progpower, heading there tomorrow morning.
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Where are you traveling to cram?
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In Atlanta for ProgPower. Heading over to the venue soon. Then I go to Denver on Tuesday for work.
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So I found out that the CEO of once large ish video game company lives where I work.
His daughter is hot.
Hmmmmmmm
lol
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Just arrived in Houston. That was a fun flight through some clouds. Looked really pretty with the sunrise. Earthrise was a great song to pop up on shuffle in the air.
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So I found out that the CEO of once large ish video game company lives where I work.
His daughter is hot.
Hmmmmmmm
lol
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So I found out that the CEO of once large ish video game company lives where I work.
His daughter is hot.
Hmmmmmmm
lol
XYXYXYXYXYXYXYXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxx x x
She's also a complete bitch who has called me "a complete waste of flesh" once.
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Called you that?
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Called you that?
Fixed it.
Yea. Also called me a horrible human being, an asshole, etc. (My team towed her car the night before the Super Bowl a few years ago... and she was scheduled to work that morning.)
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So the X/Y are forehand/backhand now. Lol
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Cellar darling and oceans of slumber are not my thing. Both very somber bands. I like happy music. Doro then Angra next. Things should get rockin :metal
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G'morning folks and happy Friday!
https://tinyurl.com/VlaskoDay
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This being old and waking up at 630am is for the birds.
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This being old and waking up at 630am is for the birds.
Dog woke me up at 5am to take a piss and shit. For the first time in weeks, I was able to fall back asleep, and made it until 7:30! :fistpump:
#oldguyproblems
#itsthelittlethings
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I hit the hey at 11:15 pm. Then woke up at 6:30am babysitting my nephew. He got up at 8am. I wore him out. Lol
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Uncle Joe!!!!!!
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We just watched the Shazam trailer. He loved it. We're going for a walk soon.
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Not that old.
Like you.
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On my plane heading home from progpower. Such an unbelievable weekend there. I'm amazed I made it on this plane in one piece. Looking forward to laying on the couch with my gf and cat for the rest of the day.
Seeing Ozzy tomorrow night back home, then hitting the road again Tuesday morning to denver.
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You must be gassed from all the traveling.
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Election day here in Sweden today. I already voted last week.
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Afternoon guys. What's good?
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driving the jingle.kids back to school. Daughter was home since Thursday night (after we did the inspection at our new house); son came home for a few hours today just to hang out.
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Nice!
I'm excited for your new house Jingle, I can't imagine moving though. It was such a pain in the ass to move into my house now I don't think I'd ever want to do it again.
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For musical theatre aficionados, new show production for 2019 unveiled today at work, I'm psyched!
Posting my sick sick plans later.
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Nice!
I'm excited for your new house Jingle, I can't imagine moving though. It was such a pain in the ass to move into my house now I don't think I'd ever want to do it again.
We've started the 'packing up' process to declutter our current house in preparation for getting it on the market. Gonna be a monumental task. Our last house, we were in 2.5 years, at the time we got married and had the jingle.kids. I thought we had accumulated a ton of shit then! hahaha... 17 years later, we've got a metric shit-ton more stuff.
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Isn't crazy how quickly the amount of shit you have grows? I moved from a 2bed 1000sqft apartment to a 3bed 3000sq ft house and within six months it was packed full of crap.
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As I was saying, new production:
(https://i.imgur.com/CmFL0MZ.jpg)
I am playing Orpheus, who's supposed to play violin in hell. Since I can't play the violin but I'm directing this shit, I think it's time to unleash the Cerberus Guitar:
(https://i.imgur.com/NHvpLS3.jpg)
Specialised press is gonna slaughter me, but I'm gonna rock the shit outta Offenbach.
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Nice!
I'm excited for your new house Jingle, I can't imagine moving though. It was such a pain in the ass to move into my house now I don't think I'd ever want to do it again.
We've started the 'packing up' process to declutter our current house in preparation for getting it on the market. Gonna be a monumental task. Our last house, we were in 2.5 years, at the time we got married and had the jingle.kids. I thought we had accumulated a ton of shit then! hahaha... 17 years later, we've got a metric shit-ton more stuff.
What's "metric"?
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Nice!
I'm excited for your new house Jingle, I can't imagine moving though. It was such a pain in the ass to move into my house now I don't think I'd ever want to do it again.
We've started the 'packing up' process to declutter our current house in preparation for getting it on the market. Gonna be a monumental task. Our last house, we were in 2.5 years, at the time we got married and had the jingle.kids. I thought we had accumulated a ton of shit then! hahaha... 17 years later, we've got a metric shit-ton more stuff.
What's "metric"?
Don't get him started dammit!
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I need lots and lots of coffee today, but although my struggle to get out of bed was ridiculous, I did manage to get my car pass inspection before coming to work today (not that passing inspection is difficult in NJ, just more so of having to go deal with the DMV). Need to survive today and get to the Ozzy concert tonight with the last of my energy before sleeping on my flight in the morning and hoping that's enough to survive work in Denver tomorrow. I'm going to be on fumes, but at least I've been having a lot of fun these last couple of weeks. :yarr
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It sounds like a lot of fun but exhausting. People are already starting to freak out about this hurricane here in Charlotte, I get to listen to that talk all week long.
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It sounds like a lot of fun but exhausting. People are already starting to freak out about this hurricane here in Charlotte, I get to listen to that talk all week long.
Yea, I'm glad that didn't happen last week :lol People at work are freaking out after seeing me without hair for the first time :lol
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Morning guys.
I got no sleep last night. Just as I was falling asleep at around 11, I received a call from my night shift lead. One of my guys had collapsed and was found by a passerby. He's in the ICU right now. I'm going to the hospital in a few hours.
OH ALSO one of our main computers took a shit over the weekend. It's funny, because we've been having trouble with it for 6 months, and our tech guy even recommended replacing it, but the higher ups said "Nah bro". Welp, now I get to suffer the consequences.
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Reap. Happy birthday!!!
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Reap. Happy birthday!!!
Happy Birthday!
and well, Ozzy didn't like his performance on Mama, I'm Coming Home so they played the whole song again :rollin I've never seen a band play the same song twice
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Thanks guys!
It seems like a very Ozzy thing to do, playing a song over again :lol
How did the performances compare?
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A belated happy b-day KK. I wasn't on the social media much yesterday, so missed it.
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Thanks guys!
It seems like a very Ozzy thing to do, playing a song over again :lol
How did the performances compare?
I think he was better the second time, but it didn't have the full light show like it did the first time around
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Reap. Happy birthday!!!
Happy Birthday!
and well, Ozzy didn't like his performance on Mama, I'm Coming Home so they played the whole song again :rollin I've never seen a band play the same song twice
Are you sure he just didn't forget he had just played it?
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Thanks Jingle!
So out of curiosity I took a listen to mama I’m coming home live in 2017, ozzy looks good but sounds really rough
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Blob, Blobster, Bloberino.
What's up brotha?!
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Thanks Jingle!
So out of curiosity I took a listen to mama I’m coming home live in 2017, ozzy looks good but sounds really rough
Or you can watch his 2nd time last night :lol he sounded way better in person than on review of my videos
https://youtu.be/Mx65HH0njLc (https://youtu.be/Mx65HH0njLc)
And he didnt forget, he requested his band to do the song again due to his own performance. Pretty funny and surprising to see
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It sounds like a lot of fun but exhausting. People are already starting to freak out about this hurricane here in Charlotte, I get to listen to that talk all week long.
Yea, I'm glad that didn't happen last week :lol People at work are freaking out after seeing me without hair for the first time :lol
I'm glad I didn't hit that storm coming/going from Albuquerque.
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Thanks Jingle!
So out of curiosity I took a listen to mama I’m coming home live in 2017, ozzy looks good but sounds really rough
Or you can watch his 2nd time last night :lol he sounded way better in person than on review of my videos
https://youtu.be/Mx65HH0njLc (https://youtu.be/Mx65HH0njLc)
And he didnt forget, he requested his band to do the song again due to his own performance. Pretty funny and surprising to see
God I love Zakk Wylde (Haters gonna hate..)
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Today was really tough, after an hour delay on the tarmac I finally made it to Denver and to my 5 pallets of equipment to install and 30 boxes of parts to replace on broken servers. I busted my ass through 3 pallets and had to call it a day, I am out of gas. It's only 8:40pm here and it feels like 4am or something. This after all the busy (yet fun) shit I've been doing, is when it really comes to bite me in the ass. I saw on Instagram this morning that 311 was playing an hour away from my hotel in Colorado Springs. I instantly was like DAMN IM THERE, and well, I'm in bed in my hotel so that sucks, but this is much needed.
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Worked 15 hours yesterday and resolved 18 issues, I was fucking on fire. Felt great. And just got an email from Dell updating us that sadly my shipment for my storage rack got delayed until next week, womp womp. That was my main project to build that storage rack. Oh well, looks like I now have little to do the next two days, which means I am free tonight to see the Alice in Chains concert tonight :metal Man getting one good night sleep the other night lead to such a great change of events
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Jeez, Cram. You have a bad day and still end up at a concert. :metal
Oh, and best headline ever!
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:rollin wow
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Morning folks. We have the option of working from home today because of the storm but I'm going to go in anyway. My gf has a ton of work to do so I'd not bug her and enjoy some peace and quiet at work.
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Are you in the path of the really bad weather?
I got a super busy weekend ahead - couple of work things with/for mrs.jingle, while trying to get more packing and prep-work done with the house. Photographer is coming over on Monday to take outside pictures of the house/property while the foliage is still looking nice, so I got a decent amount of outdoor work to do on Sunday.
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We aren’t no, we will get a lot of rain but I don’t think it’ll be much more than that.
Are you going to be doing drone shots of your house?
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We aren’t no, we will get a lot of rain but I don’t think it’ll be much more than that.
Are you going to be doing drone shots of your house?
Not sure... I think it'd be cool, but I'm not fussed about it. A couple of sections of our 16 year old roof are in so-so shape (though 80% of it looks brand freakin new), so it might be more detrimental than beneficial.
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Guys!
One more hour until I can start my weekend!
Is what I would be saying if it weren't for the fact that I have to come in tomorrow night for a 10 hour shift...
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My weekend doesn't start soon either. I'll likely come in tomorrow morning before my flight home at 3pm. Should be home (which is technically the end of my work day) at 10pm tomorrow. But at least tomorrow is easy, just kind of cleaning up my mess I made here and then traveling.
Really looking forward to trying the call of duty open beta when I get home tomorrow night, I can't believe I actually said that, but the new blackout mode looks really fun.
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Kibbeh, grape leaves, cousa, stuffed peppers and baba ganoush. The wife and I are stuffed!
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My weekend doesn't start soon either. I'll likely come in tomorrow morning before my flight home at 3pm. Should be home (which is technically the end of my work day) at 10pm tomorrow. But at least tomorrow is easy, just kind of cleaning up my mess I made here and then traveling.
Really looking forward to trying the call of duty open beta when I get home tomorrow night, I can't believe I actually said that, but the new blackout mode looks really fun.
I had a thought earlier today. What is blackout is good, what if they sold it stand alone for say $20, would you buy it?
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My weekend doesn't start soon either. I'll likely come in tomorrow morning before my flight home at 3pm. Should be home (which is technically the end of my work day) at 10pm tomorrow. But at least tomorrow is easy, just kind of cleaning up my mess I made here and then traveling.
Really looking forward to trying the call of duty open beta when I get home tomorrow night, I can't believe I actually said that, but the new blackout mode looks really fun.
I had a thought earlier today. What is blackout is good, what if they sold it stand alone for say $20, would you buy it?
Of course, but if it plays and is as fun as it looks, I'm likely spending full price and I might not be mad about it. We'll see.
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Morning chumps!
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Morning dudes. No surprise it's raining here. It's going to be a slow weekend.
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Cookout end of summer bash with my friends today. Can't wait.
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Nice! What's on the menu?
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What isn't?! Lol. Everyone brings a dish and the gracious host cook steak, chicken fish on the grill. So, everything! Lol
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Oh that sounds delicious. I think my weekend will consist of digiorno pizza's and waffle house.
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Sunday is the football game over a buddies house with more food. Lol
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Two work-related bbq's - mrs.jingle's work stuff. Already packed up all of our firewood in the shed - 12 Costco tote-bags worth. Gonna tidy up the firewood beside the fireplace and make it look nice, then I gotta make a run to pickup some of the food for today's bbq.
Then back to doing more get-the-house-prepped-to-sell shit. Ya know, I should just sig this. :lol
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Morning peeps.
I had forgotten about the worst part of working an overnight shift... The Ocean.
Basically around 4am, the sound of the waves crashing on the beach in the distance (less than a mile from me in 2 different directions) is at the right volume to lull me to sleep. I used to live a block from the beach (down the street from where I work now), and slept with this sound every night.
ZZZZZZZ
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I love the sound of the ocean. Its tranquil.
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I do too. I miss that part of Florida, living close to the beach and hearing the ocean and thunderstorms.
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I actually had trouble sleeping after we moved away from the beach. My stepmother actually bought me a CD that had 80 minutes waves crashing on it to help me sleep.
Speaking of sleep, fuck me I'm tired. I got 4 hours of sleep after work, but I won't let myself sleep any longer, as I need to be able to go to sleep at a decent hour tonight for work tomorrow.
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I love the sound of the ocean. Its tranquil.
Oh yeah! I could see the ocean from my house growing up.
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Tim I didn't know that. Cool!
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Yeah, about 1/3 mile away. A small town called Mattapoisett. It's between New Bedford and the Cape on the south coast.
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Yeah, about 1/3 mile away. A small town called Mattapoisett. It's between New Bedford and the Cape on the south coast.
That helps, but what was the name of the specific rock that you lived under?
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(https://previews.123rf.com/images/trimbaldi/trimbaldi1309/trimbaldi130900007/23089796-wow-in-pop-art.jpg)
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Yeah, about 1/3 mile away. A small town called Mattapoisett. It's between New Bedford and the Cape on the south coast.
Very cool.
Yeah, about 1/3 mile away. A small town called Mattapoisett. It's between New Bedford and the Cape on the south coast.
That helps, but what was the name of the specific rock that you lived under?
Um, Plymouth Rock. Lol
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The Lovely Mrs TAC is from Plymouth.
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I'm on a roll.
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A jelly roll, maybe.
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Man, I haven't had one in a long time.
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No shit, I had a jelly roll for the first time in YEARS on Saturday morning. It was DELICIOUS.
My wife had one last night. You'll have to ask her how that was. Ba-dum PAH!
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Yeah, I heard it was more like these.
(https://www.hottie-biscotti.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/littledeb.jpg)
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Dammit!! She's on Facebook again! :)
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Morning Folks.
Good news: My employee who collapsed last week is out of the hospital. Bad news: They found cancer in his neck, which caused everything.
Bad news: A women, who has been on a package theft spree around town (including on my property at work), got onto another part of the property last night. Good news: She crashed her car on property, and was arrested for DUI and theft (her car was full of stolen mail).
It's not even 9:30 on Monday morning yet.... This is going to be a hell of a week.
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Jay, I think you win the award for the most interesting job around. I think I could've given a run for your money when I ran a hotel but not anymore.
That said, I'm really sorry for your employee. I hope the cancer is easily treatable.
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This morning.
1. Basement flooded.
2. Got soaked walking into work.
3. Temp smelled of weed. (Wal Mart called me on that)
4. Wal Mart short in the yard, moves are slow.
What a morning.
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Thank blows about the basement.
We had a kid show up at orientation last week baked. They still hired him. He was being hired for my department but I refused. I told my manager to find somewhere else in the building to put him.
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He's a temp making 8 dollars an hour. He could make $11.25 plus weekly incentives for how much you do that can raise you to max at $14.
Him getting high is more important and I will not be able to hire him.
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As much as I love the green, I got to side with you guys. There's a time and place, and they got that wrong.
Sucks about the basement, I'd guess that's the worst of your list from today.
I just RSVPed to the Situations engagement party :lol I wonder if this is going to be taped for MTV. Their wedding is in November that I am going to as well, which is being paid for by MTV so I imagine that will definitely make it to TV at some point.
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I understand about "the green" :lol but if you want to move forward in life you've got to make some choices. Especially when your background sucks like this kid.
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I don't care if a guy likes his weed. Or booze for that matter. You just cannot show up for work under the influence.
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I just RSVPed to the Situations engagement party :lol I wonder if this is going to be taped for MTV. Their wedding is in November that I am going to as well, which is being paid for by MTV so I imagine that will definitely make it to TV at some point.
Wow!! I mean J Wow!
How'd I do? ;D
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I don't care if a guy likes his weed. Or booze for that matter. You just cannot show up for work under the influence.
Yup. A lot swear it "doesn't" affect them.
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I don't care if a guy likes his weed. Or booze for that matter. You just cannot show up for work under the influence.
Yup. A lot swear it "doesn't" affect them.
Doesn't matter if it does or doesn't, it's not only against the law, but against any typical company policy.
I just RSVPed to the Situations engagement party :lol I wonder if this is going to be taped for MTV. Their wedding is in November that I am going to as well, which is being paid for by MTV so I imagine that will definitely make it to TV at some point.
Wow!! I mean J Wow!
How'd I do? ;D
:lol very well
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I don't care if a guy likes his weed. Or booze for that matter. You just cannot show up for work under the influence.
Yup. A lot swear it "doesn't" affect them.
Some of you will vouch, but I like my vodka. A lot. But not on company time. Not because I might be impaired (even though that's part of it) but I don't want one person in my department or among my clients to think I'm bringing anything less than my best. Eloquis.
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I blows my mind. Hey, I did it in my time but ?i can't anymore. I've got a wife to support, a house to pay for and so much more. Imagine putting weed above personal growth? I get that these things aren't for all but you need to make more money if you want more weed. :lol
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Evening guys. Just having a post gym beer.
Had quite the day visiting the ENT.
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re: Weed and Booze
That's how I am. I indulge, but I can't imagine ever drinking or anything on company time (Except when having a beers with my boss while we meet with people of importance). Hell I am even iffy partaking or drinking like the night before work.
I actually fired a guy recently who had hidden a bottle of vodka in the bathroom. He came in sober, and every 10 minutes or so he'd duck into the bathroom for a minute, and come back out.
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There's a very big drinking culture where I work, and apparently a drug culture as well. They don't drug test here and if you were to walk into the office, you would see lots of bottles of booze on people's desks. Now if you are using during the work day, that might not go so well for you, but they seem to be fine with people boozing in the office after 5pm or so. I would never show up to work with a buzz or anything, but it seems if you can handle yourself here that it's kind of a non issue surprisingly. I don't work in a normal job by any means so my example is not a standard in any way.
When I worked my high school job at Boston Market, the manager asked me to go into the mens bathroom (she was a female) and look behind the toilet without giving me any more information. I looked and found a bottle of vodka. Turns out the cook in the back was a big alcoholic and was drinking on the job. She had smelt it on his breath earlier and was wondering where he was drinking it. That was a real "welcome to earth" moment for me as I had never really seen an drunk at work. I didn't even know he was drunk, but he wasn't a very friendly person so I hardly interacted with him.
As I said before, a time and a place. Drink all you want, smoke all you want, it's not my life but when you cross a boundary such as using in a work place, that's on you.
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It was (and still is, though far less likely of ever happening now) a dream of mine to have a job where I could have a bottle of whiskey and two glasses in my bottom drawer, like every police captain ever. I've only experienced that once in my entire career, at my first job (and my boss was a young guy who was way over his head, but still cool).
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I was talking with my boss last week and he said he doesn't know how I deal with all the bullshit at this account.
My response: "I keep a bottle of whiskey under my desk".
Him: "You know, at this point, I wouldn't even be mad if that were true!"
Lmao.
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:lol I have a small bottle of vodka on my desk. My coworker got it for me from Iceland. I keep it on my desk just so I can be like the rest of the company, but I haven't opened it yet. I don't even work in the company office, but I know my boss would be proud of me for having that on my desk. We also happen to have a large bottle of rum in my office. I don't know why, but it also hasn't been opened, it's just here.
I left a small bit of Vodka in our Denver DC last week. I noticed my coworker left a stash of whiskey so I added my leftover vodka ( I had one night where I went to the Alice in Chains concert so I made a couple cocktails in my hotel before the show, wasn't drinking on the job).
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I try to keep a sort of organic balance managing the company substances-wise. Singers, actors and dancers on stage gotta be clean, period. I'm going to focking fire people publicly during curtain calls if needed. Conversely, with the years I've found that if I don't allow the orchestra a modicum of booze and the tech and grunt guys a fair share of weed, I may not have a show to work that night.
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It was (and still is, though far less likely of ever happening now) a dream of mine to have a job where I could have a bottle of whiskey and two glasses in my bottom drawer, like every police captain ever. I've only experienced that once in my entire career, at my first job (and my boss was a young guy who was way over his head, but still cool).
I'll be your Alan Shore if you'll be my Denny Crane.
Also, I work from home. Four decanters of scotch are about 9 feet away at all times.
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/l1J9JtMnJWjWaFXy0/200w.gif)
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Also, I work from home. Four decanters of scotch are about 9 feet away at all times.
Pour me a dram of whatever Islay you've got, and I'll be right over.
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Also, I work from home. Four decanters of scotch are about 9 feet away at all times.
Pour me a dram of whatever Islay you've got, and I'll be right over.
Bring your drinking passport.
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I try to keep a sort of organic balance managing the company substances-wise. Singers, actors and dancers on stage gotta be clean, period. I'm going to focking fire people publicly during curtain calls if needed. Conversely, with the years I've found that if I don't allow the orchestra a modicum of booze and the tech and grunt guys a fair share of weed, I may not have a show to work that night.
Yea, working for a tech company they kind of feel the same way. Drug use is rampant within tech. If they want to hire the best people to compete with Facebook and Google, they got to be accepting (without admitting it and openly allowing it) to hiring people who may use. But that doesn't mean it's OK to show up for work high or use on the job, just don't let it affect your work and work won't care.
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Also, I work from home. Four decanters of scotch are about 9 feet away at all times.
Pour me a dram of whatever Islay you've got, and I'll be right over.
Sadly, all I in the house at the moment is Macallan, Jura and Tomintoul at the moment. And 1/2 a bottle of Johnny Blue
I did just finish off a Bowmore.
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It was (and still is, though far less likely of ever happening now) a dream of mine to have a job where I could have a bottle of whiskey and two glasses in my bottom drawer, like every police captain ever. I've only experienced that once in my entire career, at my first job (and my boss was a young guy who was way over his head, but still cool).
I'll be your Alan Shore if you'll be my Denny Crane.
Also, I work from home. Four decanters of scotch are about 9 feet away at all times.
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/l1J9JtMnJWjWaFXy0/200w.gif)
Haha, I'm in! I like that gif, too. I want one of those hats.
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Stads, you're killing me on Twitter. You look at Ace, Paul & Gene's solo albums as equals?!
Gene isn't even close compared to the other 2.
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Fucking Twitter?? Stadler too?
I'd say that's impossible. Isn't there a character limit? No way Stadler can do that.
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Lol Twitter.
The one Social Media platform I pretty much ignore.
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Yeah, both of us were responding to a tweet by MP on the 4 Kiss Solo albums.
Stay off my lawn Jay.
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Stads, you're killing me on Twitter. You look at Ace, Paul & Gene's solo albums as equals?!
Gene isn't even close compared to the other 2.
No, Paul first (other than "Hold Me, Touch Me" which I can't stand, it's the perfect album), then Ace/Gene tied, then Peter. Ace's album is stellar, but there's something about Gene's. The low points are LOW ("Living In Sin"), but the first side is stellar, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE what Rick Nielson does on See You In Your Dreams.
I just realized; Kiss has some of the worst "second lines" ever:
Hooligan! (Won't go to school again!)
Living In Sin (at the Holiday Inn!)
Speedin' Back To My Baby (and I don't mean maybe!)
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Fucking Twitter?? Stadler too?
I'd say that's impossible. Isn't there a character limit? No way Stadler can do that.
:metal. Bridging the 18th century and the 21st century, since 1967. You kids! Get off my digital grid!
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Ace's album mops the floor with Gene's. Not. Even. Close.
But hell yes, Paul's is awesome.
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I agree Tim.
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Ace's is borderline early progressive hard rock. Lots of changes in the arrangements.
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Ace's is borderline early progressive hard rock. Lots of changes in the arrangements.
I don't doubt you, bro, you're usually spot on on that kind of thing, but I need to go back and give another listen because I missed that the first 500 times I listened to it.
I don't know; there's something "Beatles-esque" about Gene's that I really like.
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I wouldn't say progressive. Just influence by the 70's AOR with a hard edge that's Ace.
Gene had a few really strong songs but overall a weak album for me.
Paul's album is a songwriter's dream.
Peter, Swing and a miss.
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Ace's is more consistent than Gene's (by a long shot) but there are just as many songs I can take or leave (not the hugest fan of Speedin' Back To My Baby (and I don't mean maybe!) and New York Groove). I love the little things about Ace's record, though; the intro to Speedin', the little play on the classic surf song "Wipe Out" at the start of "Wiped Out", and of course the start of the "Fractured..." series (which I love).
I will say this: I was surprised then that Ace's voice carried over a whole album. Before that, he was just a flavor in and among Gene and Paul on Kiss records, but this was all him and he delivered.
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oh no Stads!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kiss-announces-final-tour-ever/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kiss-announces-final-tour-ever/)
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:tdwn
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I've never seen Kiss, I'd totally go check out that show when it comes nearby.
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Obviously, it's all your personal taste, but I took my 16-year-old daughter to the Kiss/Def Leppard show in 2016, and while Lep was playing she was blown away ("are those guys REALLY playing all that on guitar??") and I worried about Kiss a little (since they're not exactly Lee/Bonham/Hendrix/Malmsteen up there). In fact they started slow. But Gene got into a shouting match with the roadie over his hoist (it lifted him about three feet off the stage then froze) and then went over and barked something at Paul and Tommy, and it was like someone hit nitro. The second half of the set was UNBELIEVABLE, and I've seen them 7, 8 times. Even my daughter said "Dad what happened with Gene? He got mad and they got good!".
Next day, my wife showed me my daughter's Instagram: it was a full picture of the fireworks during Rock'n'Roll All Nite and the caption "Greatest night of my life!"
If you can score a $50 ticket not too far back (and you usually can) it's a worthwhile night out.
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I don't love Kiss, but I've always enjoyed a handful of their songs and figure they are a fun live show. I'm hoping they come to my local amphitheater making it an easy decision to attend. I know they've played there before but that was before my days of seeing concerts on a consistent basis.
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I've seen Kiss 9 times in my lifetime.
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I've seen Kiss 9 times in my lifetime.
What was the first show? Did you see them in makeup the first time around?
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Dynasty, 1979. Dad took me. Springfield Ma. Second time was Animalize 1984.
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Dynasty, 1979. Dad took me. Springfield Ma. Second time was Animalize 1984.
Jealous. My cousin went to see the Dynasty tour as well. I think I sat home and flipped baseball cards. My first was Lick It Up in 1983 (and I got to meet the band at a local record store before the show). It was a good show - more or less - but I much prefer the makeup shows. Paul Stanley was... weird without the makeup. Lots of swearing, more crude, but without the danger. It wasn't really the good time, fun-loving larger-than-life circus Kiss of the makeup shows.
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My first was Asylum...which is a way underrated album. Word was that they were banned from Providence or something like that. LIU and Animalyze played Worcester, and that was too far for my parents.
Sat and listened to the WAAF Concert recreation for the LIU show.
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I was grounded for skipping school to see Rush (I met Geddy so it was worth it) and after a month I was able to see Kiss on the Asylum tour.
I got to disagree about Asylum. It's a weak album by Kiss standards.
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Ace's is borderline early progressive hard rock. Lots of changes in the arrangements.
I don't doubt you, bro, you're usually spot on on that kind of thing, but I need to go back and give another listen because I missed that the first 500 times I listened to it.
You've only listened to it 500 times?? You call yourself a fan??
I think things like right before the chorus to Wiped Out make me think that. The solo (holy shit that solo!!) to Snowblind that comes out of nowhere before it returns back to the song. Kind of like the musical break in Endless Sacrifice. I just think it was ingenius to out in a section like that on Snowblind. I just think the compositions were so ahead of the other guys. I mean, Paul's is really good, but I find Ace's way more thoughtful and original.
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You know what I like about Asylum? It's that I genuinely like the Gene songs. I love Trial By Fire. And Anyway You Slice It and Secretly Cruel kick ass.
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Asylum is weak but not as weak as Crazy Nights. I'm with TAC, though; I love the Gene songs on all those early non-makeup records: "Not For The Innocent", "Dance All Over Your Face" (what a Kiss title), "Murder In High Heels", "Trial By Fire"...
I really am going to go back and re-listen to Ace's record. It's not like it's BAD, I really like it a lot. Paul's might make my top 20 list though.
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Paul's is fantastic to be sure. I just think that Ace's is so original. And compositional underrated.
Can't say I'm a fan of Dance All Over Your Face, but I do love And On The 8th Day.
I also love Naked City.
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Pretty cool
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/study-heavy-metal-music-is-inclusive-and-governed-by-rules-of-etiquette/ (https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/study-heavy-metal-music-is-inclusive-and-governed-by-rules-of-etiquette/)
I'd pretty much agree. There's a stereotype of metal being violent and having a bad crowd, but it can't be further from the truth (for the most part). I got say I totally see the inclusiveness not just here at DTF, but experienced it first hand at ProgPower how everyone is just "friends" in some way without even knowing each other.
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I have to say, since about mid-way through my first marriage, I've taken to going to shows mostly by myself. My ex-wife wasn't really into my music, and while (at least early on) she would take one for the team, she'd usually get bored and either talk the whole way through, or want to leave early.
I enjoy it, and it has led to some fun adventures (getting up on stage with Gene Simmons; having a smoke - well, I didn't but he did - with Gary Barden, etc.).
I suppose it helps that I will talk to any one at any time, but at most shows I meet at least one person that is reasonably cool and open to talking. I suppose it's initially hard for some to accept the "single guy by himself pounding vodkas" but it hasn't been like that in my experience. I think it also helps that I try pretty hard not to be a dick.
(That didn't come out right; it's not like I have to TRY not to be a dick, and it's not hard not to be a dick, it's just that I'm conscious of not being "that guy" during a show. That is, not spilling drinks, cutting people off, talking through the set, etc.)
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That was a great article. I applaud that lady for doing the study. Just being at ProgPower really showed how music can bring people together. But then, its the type of muaic as well. A plain straight mainstream metal show doesnt have the same type of fans that ProgPower has. ProgPower actually was the most friendliest show I've ever been too, everyone I talked to were nice and welcoming. If I had more cash with me, guaranteed I would've bought people a lot of beers and shots.
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I have to say, since about mid-way through my first marriage, I've taken to going to shows mostly by myself. My ex-wife wasn't really into my music, and while (at least early on) she would take one for the team, she'd usually get bored and either talk the whole way through, or want to leave early.
I enjoy it, and it has led to some fun adventures (getting up on stage with Gene Simmons; having a smoke - well, I didn't but he did - with Gary Barden, etc.).
I suppose it helps that I will talk to any one at any time, but at most shows I meet at least one person that is reasonably cool and open to talking. I suppose it's initially hard for some to accept the "single guy by himself pounding vodkas" but it hasn't been like that in my experience. I think it also helps that I try pretty hard not to be a dick.
(That didn't come out right; it's not like I have to TRY not to be a dick, and it's not hard not to be a dick, it's just that I'm conscious of not being "that guy" during a show. That is, not spilling drinks, cutting people off, talking through the set, etc.)
You and me both. My gf enjoys concerts with me, but her taste in music doesn't expand into a lot of the metal I like so those are solo shows (including things like travelling for ProgPower). I've found over time to enjoy it more and more, just more freedom and I almost always end up hanging with some strangers for a bit either for a conversation or a smoke. I've ran into people who I've met at concerts again too. It's really a community and it is quite large that goes unnoticed by the general population.
I was pretty reserved since I was running on fumes for the Ozzy show last week, but when I saw Alice in Chains I ended up having a lot of people chatting with me. It's just so fun to talk to random people and hear their story and whatnot, and I find it a lot easier when I travel because if I end up feeling like I came off like an idiot then I can rest assured I will likely not run into them again. Usually goes with a drink and/or smoke too. You ask for a lighter and next thing you know you got a new friend.
If I had more cash with me, guaranteed I would've bought people a lot of beers and shots.
I'll remember that for next time :biggrin:
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If I had more cash with me, guaranteed I would've bought people a lot of beers and shots.
I'll remember that for next time :biggrin:
Let's hope I can go to next years.
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Where did Rumby go?
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Where did Rumby go?
He's been a little disenchanted with the forum of late.
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Where did Rumby go?
He's been a little disenchanted with the forum of late.
Seems this happens to a few long-time DTF'rs every year. Gone (or hardly active) are Coz, Deb, Rumbo, James, Doc, Scorpion, Dimitrius, Seneca, Prog Snob, Super Dude, Sigz, BlackFloyd, Jackie, I'm sure I'm forgetting some as well ... even Blob hasn't been active much lately.
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Thats quite a lot of people...I didn't even snap there was that many.
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I was totally gone for a few years there before wandering back over. Just happens sometimes.
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Where did Rumby go?
He's been a little disenchanted with the forum of late.
Seems this happens to a few long-time DTF'rs every year. Gone (or hardly active) are Coz, Deb, Rumbo, James, Doc, Scorpion, Dimitrius, Seneca, Prog Snob, Super Dude, Sigz, BlackFloyd, Jackie, I'm sure I'm forgetting some as well ... even Blob hasn't been active much lately.
Also Hef who just kinda left.
But it's cool. I took a few years off as well a few years back.
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Evening fells. Thank god it’s the weekend although I’ll be working at 4am Sunday.
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Good evening from the poconos
The forum definitely has its waves of people which is life
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Where did Rumby go?
He's been a little disenchanted with the forum of late.
Seems this happens to a few long-time DTF'rs every year. Gone (or hardly active) are Coz, Deb, Rumbo, James, Doc, Scorpion, Dimitrius, Seneca, Prog Snob, Super Dude, Sigz, BlackFloyd, Jackie, I'm sure I'm forgetting some as well ... even Blob hasn't been active much lately.
Also Hef who just kinda left.
But it's cool. I took a few years off as well a few years back.
Told ya I'd forget someone! Though, it's hard to forget Hef, cuz I see him daily in my FB feed. Splent took some time away as well, and I've gone MIA for a few months on a few occasions myself. Seems there's more this year though.
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Perhaps they left because you came back! ;D
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Perhaps they left because you came back! ;D
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:lol
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I don't ever see myself ghosting the forum ever. You guys have been the one constant in my life for almost a decade.
Through failed relationships, depression and almost killing myself, family drama, etc... I've always had you nerds.
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Bros before married hoes tonight. Lol
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Never been through this area of the forum, there's always a first time... :lol
I'm staying in Vilnius, Lithuania for the next 5 months as part of a studying program. Any Lithuanian DTFer to share a beer and teach some lietuviškai?
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I don't ever see myself ghosting the forum ever. You guys have been the one constant in my life for almost a decade.
Through failed relationships, depression and almost killing myself, family drama, etc... I've always had you nerds.
I feel the same. Thinking back this forum he been one constant for so much of my life.
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I don't ever see myself ghosting the forum ever. You guys have been the one constant in my life for almost a decade.
Through failed relationships, depression and almost killing myself, family drama, etc... I've always had you nerds.
I feel the same. Thinking back this forum he been one constant for so much of my life.
We open up a little and everyone leaves :lol
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:lol
we scared them off?
My gf surprised me last night with two tickets to the sold out Alestorm show tonight. I think she secretly just wants to see them herself. Pretty pumped since they were probably my favorite set at Progpower. Now if only the rain can stop so we don't have to be walking NYC in this weather.
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Awesome.
Confession time: I've never listened to Alestorm. Ever.
Edit: They're a Pirate Metal band???
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Awesome.
Confession time: I've never listened to Alestorm. Ever.
You'll want a beer for this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0)
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DUDE
WHY AM I JUST LEARNING ABOUT THEM!?!
This is fanfuckingtastic!
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:lol
My friend told me about them awhile ago when they opened for Kamelot when Fabio was the temp singer for Kamelot. I made a big mistake by not going with him to that show. He told me I would have loved the opener and I did, I got their latest album at the time, enjoyed it and kind of forgot about them. Then Progpower 19 was announced and I figured I should listen to them again, when I discovered that song (Drink) and just was like, why did I stop following this band?! Their latest album is fantastic (No Grave but the Sea)
and if you drank too much, here's another song for you called Hangover (it's a cover song, my gf absolutely loves this one) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5P5Tz3VH94 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5P5Tz3VH94)
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Good Morning Krusty Krew!
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I am so glad it is Friday.
Got to work yesterday morning to find that a vehicle was stolen from an unsecured area the property. Spent most of my day working with PD on the investigation.
Found out this morning that a bike was stolen from our property the day before. From the secured area. Not as much of a big deal as the vehicle, except for the fact that *we* missed it.
Here's the thing: The stolen vehicle belonged to someone who owned a business, and just recently fired one of his employees. This employee was one of the few people who had the "pin" code to get into the truck, and the owner LEAVES THE KEY IN THE TRUCK."
The stolen bike was not locked to anything, and even though it was in the secured area (behind a gate), it's not too difficult to spiderman up the gate and hop down. Doesn't help that the bike was in plain view.
So this week's headaches are caused by stupid people. THIS is why I hate people.
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Happy Monday Everyone!
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Happy Monday Jay!
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I had a manager up my ass yesterday about why I havent fixed his broken server yet. Reason is my workload consists of many things more important which I stated and he was cool with but he did insist I get it done soon so yesterday after 5pm when I got 96 servers online, I spent the end of my day fixing his server. In the process of busting my ass to do this, I accidentally knocked over my laptop off the cart I placed it on while trying to remove the server from its rack position. Cracked and broke the screen of my macbook pro. Sooo now i am in the office in NYC having our other IT team replace it for me. Besides being embarrased to have broke my work laptop, i am losing half the day at least and wasting my time sitting here without a laptop instead of going back to all those important things i need to work on. Really frustrated with myself.
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Think of it as half a day off!
So I thought I lost my wallet 2 weeks ago (I did lose it... but someone turned it into my bank a few hours later). As soon as I lost it, I let my boss know, who then called and had my company credit card deactivated. I am now waiting on my replacement card to come in. Meaning I am without a way to spend money on things needed in the office.
I am also fat, and have broken our only 2 office chairs here. In my defense, the person in charge of purchasing them would side on the cheap end of things, and the chairs were already shit. When you factor in the fact that these chairs get sat in 24 hours a day, mostly by my fat ass, you get a situation where the wheels fucking snap off. So I am sitting here, with 204 things going on (currently taking a quick moment to eat my lunch, on a broken chair (no wheels, and the center cylinder actually sits below the legs, so instead of the wheel-less legs resting on the floor, I am forced to balance the center of the chair).
I cannot just go out and by a new chair, as I don't have my company credit card back yet, and since the chairs I have looked at are more than $100, I need to get approval, as my company expenses it back to the client.
:censored
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Why is it that many responses to your posts could simply be "Damn, Jay. That sucks". :|
On a bright note... 72 hours until epic DTF meetup in ... wait for it .... New fucking Jersey. The armpit of America.
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Why is it that many responses to your posts could simply be "Damn, Jay. That sucks". :|
On a bright note... 72 hours until epic DTF meetup in ... wait for it .... New fucking Jersey. The armpit of America.
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home sweet home :lol
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Why is it that many responses to your posts could simply be "Damn, Jay. That sucks". :|
On a bright note... 72 hours until epic DTF meetup in ... wait for it .... New fucking Jersey. The armpit of America.
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Story of my life!
And Armpit of America? have you ever been to Bakersfield? Or better yet, Tulare CA?
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Can't wait to hear about this meetup
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Can't wait to hear about this meetup
Me, King (and his Queen), lonestar, Nick, Dr. DTVT, Axeman, Splent, and (just recently decided) JustJen/VFS.
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You're just jealous.
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I'll dork you Tim.
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Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of..
What bands are playing?
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Devo
Death Cab For Cutie
Weezer
The Offspring
Pavement
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:lol I'd go to that
So what is the deal for ProgStock? I am thinking I'll come by Saturday but on the fence about buying a single day ticket. I just might but I feel like there's very little detail on the website for such an all day event. But is it almost like 5 different shows? Since there are long breaks between sets and different sites for meet and greets. I am guessing you get in/out privileges? Also, I tried asking them via twitter if you can bring a camera and I did not get a response since the venue says no unless the event allows you.
Regardless, I'd still come meet up with you all before/after a set or something if I don't get a ticket. It's only 25 minutes from my house but I don't know if you guys are going to be like hanging at the venue or able to leave and chill at a bar or restaurant somewhere?
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Can't wait to hear about this meetup
Me, King (and his Queen), lonestar, Nick, Dr. DTVT, Axeman, Splent, and (just recently decided) JustJen/VFS.
Yea that sounds like it’s going to be a good time. Hope the weather is nice.
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One day I want to be involved with a large meetup.
Come to California! (with an aching in your heart)
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Adami whiskey. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/holy-grail-whisky-sold-record-1-1-million-140637752.html Cool. :hat
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Adami whiskey. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/holy-grail-whisky-sold-record-1-1-million-140637752.html Cool. :hat
I don't drink, but I assume I know what I'll be getting for Secret Santa this year. ;D
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I can't drink that whiskey. It doesn't agree with me.
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I can't drink that whiskey. It doesn't agree with me.
:heart
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I can't drink that whiskey. It doesn't agree with me.
:heart
:rollin
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Speaking of Whiskey, I'm goning to try and snap up a bottle of this:
https://www.reservebar.com/johnnie-walker-white-walker-blended-scotch-whisky?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9NbdBRCwARIsAPLsnFZObSJhfFaSjD4TXaG5l2kM3I2HU4W7mZloLbxb0XA2y-yEhcgjk-EaAu_6EALw_wcB
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I've got to check out this epic dtf meet up. :yarr
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Don't understand why I'm sitting at my desk and not off seeing great bands with fellow DTFers >:(
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Don't understand why I'm sitting at my desk and not off seeing great bands with fellow DTFers >:(
Rite?!?!?!?
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Happy Monday Peeps!
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Happy Monday Peeps!
Well, it is Tuesday, so ... yeah.
Faux holiday yesterday mess you up Jay?
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Somebody must've celebrated Thanksgiving a little too hard yesterday :lol
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:lol you all are lucky to have had monday off, they don't give us Columbus Day (or Canadian Thanksgiving) off at my job.
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Happy Monday Peeps!
Well, it is Tuesday, so ... yeah.
Faux holiday yesterday mess you up Jay?
FUCK
It is Tuesday.
It feels like a Monday, as I spent all day at work with my Best Friend (who is coming back to work for me), and I hadn't heard a peep out of my boss until this morning.
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Somebody must've celebrated Thanksgiving a little too hard yesterday :lol
Mrs.Jingle is still waiting for your acknowledgement! :lol
I just noticed that I passed Kotowboy's post count - only took 15-months of him not posting to do so! :D He'd probably be at 50k if he hadn't been banned... though, he does still lurk. Hi Kotow. Still miserable?
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Hi Kotow
That made me want to check the stats, im at #16 in post count :metal
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I just passed Jackie.
What do I win?
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A date with Lonestar.
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A date with Lonestar.
I had him for 3 days.
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I just passed Jackie.
What do I win?
There's gotta be a crass joke in there somewhere, but I just can't pull it out at the moment.
And yes, I realize there's a crass joke in THAT comment too.
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A date with Lonestar.
I'll take it.
Is RJ coming down here, or do I have to go up to him?
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A date with Lonestar.
I had him for 3 days.
I had him for 4 nights. :heybaby:
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Reminds me of something Podaar said earlier..
His larger point was: that moment was like having Lonestar looking longingly into your eyes while slowly climb up your legs. His lips slightly parted, showing just the tip of his tongue, and just as he reaches for "little Jingle" your wife startles you awake with a glass of ice-water to the crotch.
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A date with Lonestar.
I had him for 3 days.
I had him for 4 nights. :heybaby:
We wrecked him.
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Jealous of you guys, it sounds like a blast.
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Morning guys. Today might be the first day I can eat real food. I got 4 teeth pulled on the right side of my mouth Tuesday and I've been drinking smoothies since.
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Damn. Why the extractions?
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That sounds painful
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Damn. Why the extractions?
Probably just wants to hang with the Fogeys..
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Grow some gray hairs then. Lol
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Well I sure looked like a big idiot at work today. I can't remember the last time I felt so embarrassed. I made not one or two, but about 4 or 5 mistakes on a project and it got ripped apart by network engineering as it should have been. Not sure how I messed up so badly, but I can pinpoint the moment when I told my boss I was overwhelmed right before he dropped this project on me but then said he'd come out and give me a hand to get it done. Well he came out that day and didn't do a single thing to help me, I struggled on my own and thought i completed it correctly. But today things weren't working and when network engineering investigated they found a lot of my mistakes, which I owned up to, and all is fine, no repercussions, this was just testing work on new equipment so there's no real impact here just a real big hit to my reputation I guess of doing fantastic work.
Anyway, as if today couldn't get any worse, it's raining so bad here and I'm supposed to go to the Giants game tonight, this is going to be miserable and I fully expect the Giants to get their ass handed to them as well to end this crappy day. Luckily there will be lots of booze and I can really use a drink.
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Damn. Why the extractions?
Well I have two things going against me, I was born a few months after Chernobyl and apparently I'm part neanderthal but I have a bunch of extra teeth. Basically the Dentist told me there there is a genetic thing for people from my part of europe where not only did my wisdom teeth grow, but I also have extra teeth on top of that. I had 1 wisdom tooth and and 2 extra on my top right, and 1 extra on my bottom right. It's not really noticeable but I had to remove them because they were shift and weakening all my other teeth.
Well I sure looked like a big idiot at work today. I can't remember the last time I felt so embarrassed. I made not one or two, but about 4 or 5 mistakes on a project and it got ripped apart by network engineering as it should have been. Not sure how I messed up so badly, but I can pinpoint the moment when I told my boss I was overwhelmed right before he dropped this project on me but then said he'd come out and give me a hand to get it done. Well he came out that day and didn't do a single thing to help me, I struggled on my own and thought i completed it correctly. But today things weren't working and when network engineering investigated they found a lot of my mistakes, which I owned up to, and all is fine, no repercussions, this was just testing work on new equipment so there's no real impact here just a real big hit to my reputation I guess of doing fantastic work.
Anyway, as if today couldn't get any worse, it's raining so bad here and I'm supposed to go to the Giants game tonight, this is going to be miserable and I fully expect the Giants to get their ass handed to them as well to end this crappy day. Luckily there will be lots of booze and I can really use a drink.
That sucks cram. I've put myself in those situations where I've taken on (or have been given) a lot of work and I start making a lot of simple mistakes. It's good you owned up to it and didn't try to throw any one under the bus. That goes a lot further. I wouldn't worry too much about your reputation, mistakes happen, you'll learn and grow from it.
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Yea, I'm over it today. Shit is working and the mistakes are in the past. I'm expecting a fairly light Friday. Our team went to the terrible Giants game last night and my boss is celebrating his anniversary with his wife so I expect a low output type of day. I'm just looking forward to getting home for gaming night with the guys for the new Call of Duty. Finished downloading and I fired it up before I came to work just to make sure it works.
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Getting to see my nephew play hockey tomorrow at 9am them that night hang over a buddy from High School with a few other friends as well.
Sunday it's food shopping and mowing the lawn/leaves. They are starting to fall.
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I actually might need to be up a bit early tomorrow. Directv is scheduled from 8am to noon to install my new TV service. After pondering about cutting the cord for awhile and paying more to be off contract with Verizon, I have finally come to a solution. Thanks to my new employer, I get a very steep discount. So I will now be paying $10 a month for 4 boxes, DVR, HBO, Sunday NFL ticket, and 250 something channels. Can't beat that price and apparently I get VIP installation (whatever that means). Nice to now be working for my new overlords I guess. Then once that is working I will cancel my Verizon TV and just keep the internet.
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I am very much looking forward to a quiet night in on the couch.
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I am very much looking forward to a quiet night in on the couch.
:zydarscouch:
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Oh there's nothing quiet about my couch :zydar:
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A lot of muffled screams into the cushions? :zydar:
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Plus something that sounds like random profanities in Asian.
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Plus something that sounds like random profanities in Asian.
You ran out of chloroform?
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:lol
Morning. I get to see my 6 year old nephew play hockey today. I can't wait.
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:lol
Morning. I get to see my 6 year old nephew play hockey today. I can't wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1ywcLI3Xo
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Hey King... did you notice that you passed Hef as the biggest post-whore around here?
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I did not. I never really looked st post counts but now I'm kingwhore I guess. Lol
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:lol
Morning. I get to see my 6 year old nephew play hockey today. I can't wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1ywcLI3Xo
He already is asking if he can fight. Lol
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:lol
Morning. I get to see my 6 year old nephew play hockey today. I can't wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1ywcLI3Xo
He already is asking if he can fight. Lol
You have to set the kid straight. Just sit him down, and gently but firmly let him know....
HACK THE BONE.
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He hacked my shin 2 weeks ago. Oh he knows.
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Hey King... did you notice that you passed Hef as the biggest post-whore around here?
That is truly impressive.
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Morning guys. Up earlier than I thought I would be, got an emergency call from work about a server that we put in Houston not working, turns out it was a simple mistake (thank god)
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I need coffee Reap. Morning.
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Morning King.
I did the stupidest thing. I was a little drunk last night from staying up and gaming with my brother. I set up the coffee maker before bed. I go to make coffee this morning and the coffee maker was blinking, well it turns out I never put the filter cup in the coffee maker and just dumped grounds in the coffee compartment. This got grounds all over the machine so I just had to spend 15 minutes cleaning it out.
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Life's leasons. :lol
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:lol nice way to start the morning
Going to my gf's cousin's baby's baptism today. Sounds like a great time....
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I'm being lazy today. In your face everyone.
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I'm being lazy today. In your face everyone.
Today??
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Yes, just today.
If it didn't rain for 5 days straight, I'd mow the lawn/leaves.
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I did. :lol
I wish I could have someone else mow my lawn.
Get it?! :lol
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I painted all weekend. Now I get to tidy up, then drive jingle.kids back to school (which is about a 3.5 hour round trip to drop both of them off. Man I wish mrs.jingle was ok to 'let them go' a bit, and not insist they come back home every weekend. jingle.son does it to avoid making her feel bad; jingle.daughter does it because she's super close to mrs.jingle. But man, that is a long haul every Friday and Saturday. There is a Mega Bus that runs between jingle.daughters school, and a mall about 20 minutes away, but she (both wife and daughter) aren't ready for that yet. :facepalm: There's a free shuttle that jingle.son could take between campuses - the other main campus is 5 minutes down the road from us. He has a couple of times, but since we're taking jingle.daughter back anyway, mrs.jingle figures we just drop him off since it's mostly on the way.
Confused? Me too.
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I did. :lol
I wish I could have someone else mow my lawn.
Get it?! :lol
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Confused?
Yes :lol I'm sure you got good tunes for those drives though
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Confused?
Yes :lol I'm sure you got good tunes for those drives though
Hardly... mrs.jingle prefers silence. So whatever music I do manage to slip on, the volume is at 2 or 3 at best.
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If we're driving that long, my wife is cool if I wear headhones. BUT I have to wait until she pulls out her iPad to play games to pass the time. That is my "permission". :lol
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My wife listens to the music I like. Chad knows this. In all your faces.
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My wife listens to the music I like.
That's definitely a great thing.
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Really lucky about that. She also loves football, hockey and beer.
My work is done.
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And you're sure she doesn't have a penis?
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She does when I'm around her.
*Mic drop*
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:facepalm:
:lol
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I'm all about bragging right now but she's going for a colonoscopy tomorrow. Today has not been fun for her.
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So much fun. Good luck to her.
Just routine? Hopefully there's no issues. I mean, you're the one that's full of shit. ;D
No, seriously...
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Nope. Just routine. But it's still no fun.
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Morning guys. Really tired this morning for some reason.
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I'm pretty tired today too. Must have had something to do with staying up till 10am on my phone then still getting up at my normal time lol
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10am? I would KILL to sleep in that late!
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Morning folks.
Came into work early this morning because we are short handed... And realized that I screwed up on scheduling this weekend and someone pulled a couple Double Time.
My boss is going to be pissed.
In my defense, we are short handed... And he was supposed to post an ad a week ago.
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I am the ultimate thread killer!
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You suck Jay! :lol
Blob, how many more days do you have to wait to get an answer from YouTube on your video being pulled?
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You suck Jay! :lol
Blob, how many more days do you have to wait to get an answer from YouTube on your video being pulled?
I got a response yesterday I think? But now I have to wait 10-14 fucking days (business days maybe?) for the other douchenozzle to respond before they put the video back up.
I don't even wanna fucking think about it.
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I'm sorry man, that's a dick more and it royally fucks you.
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I'm sorry man, that's a dick more and it royally fucks you.
:lolpalm:
King, you really need an assistant to screen your posts. Oh well, it gives Chad fodder for his sigs.
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I'm sorry man, that's a dick more and it royally fucks you.
:lolpalm:
King, you really need an assistant to screen your posts. Oh well, it gives Chad fodder for his sigs.
More dick usually does fuck you!
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More/move, it's all good. lol
I'm sorry man, that's a dick more and it royally fucks you.
:lolpalm:
King, you really need an assistant to screen your posts. Oh well, it gives Chad fodder for his sigs.
More dick usually does fuck you!
From your wife's strap on I bet.
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I'm sorry man, that's a dick more and it royally fucks you.
:lolpalm:
King, you really need an assistant to screen your posts. Oh well, it gives Chad fodder for his sigs.
More dick usually does fuck you!
Truth.
For those not following the auto thread, I traded in my broken civic last night for a 2016 model fully equiped with 6k miles on it. Got a nice deal. There was issues with my insurance so I couldnt take it home last night but about to leave the dealership now with it. Really excited to have a fresh vehicle.
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February, 2020 is Lisa's last car payment, Then it's truck time for me. Brand new. I've driven my Corolla now for 11 plus years.
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February, 2020 is Lisa's last car payment, Then it's truck time for me. Brand new. I've driven my Corolla now for 11 plus years.
But it's got a bitchin stereo system - that's what matters.
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February, 2020 is Lisa's last car payment, Then it's truck time for me. Brand new. I've driven my Corolla now for 11 plus years.
But it's got a bitchin stereo system - that's what matters.
It sure does.
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One thing I like a bout this new car, the upgraded sterio system. Blasted a random mix of prog and power metal on my first drive to work with it. Like and night and day driving this new civic compared to my old. :metal
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Evening folks.
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Hey king, do you watch Doctor Who? Tonight's episode reminded me of an episode of Timeless, except without me complaining. :lol
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I never had. I was so behind the ball that it's too late to start with all the other shows I watch.
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Evening folks
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Howdy
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What's good Axe?
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Another three teeth removed, this one is a lot more painful than the previous extraction
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Another three teeth removed, this one is a lot more painful than the previous extraction
Damn.
Pretty soon this is gonna be your profile pic
(https://i.imgur.com/0jr4qhJ.jpg)
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:lol
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Well guys it’s happening, sinus surgery November 26. Can’t wait
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Well guys it’s happening, sinus surgery November 26. Can’t wait
You got some serious ENT shit going on Kay.
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And sometimes that surgery doesn't help. I hope it does in your case.
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Yea so basically I got my CT scan read on Friday. Basically (and this is gross) my entire sinus, including cheek, orbital area, is infected. The theory is that when I got my first sinus infection a few years ago I was able to treat it but not fully, in the mean time I had a polyp grow and obstruct my nasal cavity. Then this year when I had another sinus infection it never healed and just kind of spiraled from there. The ENT is confident with the surgery it'll clear up with less than a 10% chance of reoccurring. He said I was just super unlucky with the location of the original polyp. I can't wait because it's gotten to the point that around twice a week I get intense headaches, think migraine + the worst hangover headache you've ever experienced.
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Yikes!
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Morning folks. What's happening?
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First snow of the season yesterday.
(No Blob, not that kind of snow).
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:(
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:lol
We had some up north in our state. Not where we live yet.
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:lol
We had some up north in our state. Not where we live yet.
We had some rain that turned into wet flakes yesterday morning, and again overnight. Nothing that stuck to the roads though. It'll be melted by lunchtime.
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Damn Reaper that sounds terrible. Hope all goes well and you recover fully
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Thanks Cram! Had a long work night last night, now I have my Sunday free of any obligations.
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First snow of the season yesterday.
(No Blob, not that kind of snow).
Not with that attitude.
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First snow of the season yesterday.
(No Blob, not that kind of snow).
Not with that attitude.
:lol
I love you Blob.
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First snow of the season yesterday.
(No Blob, not that kind of snow).
Not with that attitude.
:lol
I love you Blob.
I know.
Yes, I just Han Solo'd you.
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I feel a little tingly all over.
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At least you weren't Van Damme'd. No one wants to be Van Damme'd.
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Hump day for me. Burned my last two vacation days (before I dip into my 5 rollover days which I usually just save in case of emergency) on Thursday and Friday for the "Hitchuation" Thursday with my entire family coming to town for it. I've been told there will be "surprises" whatever that means, but my mom did say one of them will be a live performance from a known musician. No idea who, but my Mom mentioned that the band will be performing the song and surprise the real musician comes out. Sounds pretty cool although given MTV, I can only imagine it's someone I don't know at all :lol Either way, it's going to be a fun night with the cameras rolling. I have to sign a waiver and not allowed to use your phone during the wedding. Going to be an experience.
Then the follow up to the wedding is the Haken/Leprous concert in NYC Saturday. That one is shaping up to be a really fun one.
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Hump day for me. Burned my last two vacation days (before I dip into my 5 rollover days which I usually just save in case of emergency) on Thursday and Friday for the "Hitchuation" Thursday with my entire family coming to town for it. I've been told there will be "surprises" whatever that means, but my mom did say one of them will be a live performance from a known musician. No idea who, but my Mom mentioned that the band will be performing the song and surprise the real musician comes out. Sounds pretty cool although given MTV, I can only imagine it's someone I don't know at all :lol Either way, it's going to be a fun night with the cameras rolling. I have to sign a waiver and not allowed to use your phone during the wedding. Going to be an experience.
Then the follow up to the wedding is the Haken/Leprous concert in NYC Saturday. That one is shaping up to be a really fun one.
If it's Ariana Grande, I hear she's available, so you might want to take your shot. :)
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I don't think my gf would be happy about that, although we've been discussing that maybe one of us needs to "cheat" with a Jersey Shore member to get on TV. Got to do something to start trouble essentially. So that or puke on the dance floor :lol
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The Haken/Leprous tour sounds like a great show. If my wife wasn't 8 months pregnant when they came through Salt Lake City (and I didn't live 4 hours drive away), I'd be going for sure!
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I don't think my gf would be happy about that, although we've been discussing that maybe one of us needs to "cheat" with a Jersey Shore member to get on TV. Got to do something to start trouble essentially. So that or puke on the dance floor :lol
JWowww. I'd go with JWowww.
(In all seriousness, I think she's really pretty and actually seems to have a head on her shoulders; I'd love to know if you see her what she's like and if she's pretty in person.)
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She is pretty in person, saw her at the engagement party but I didn't speak to her. I understand she's having issues with her husband so maybe that's a possibility. Honestly though, I really have no interest in any of them. They all look too fake for me and having watched the show, I already know their issues as well so if I were serious, I would seriously not be interested in any of them. However if I had to choose, I'd go with Jwow as well. Although the bride herself (my family friend) is very pretty too (also looks fake with her new work though that she really didn't need). And for my gf's perspective, if she were to cheat it would be with Vinny. She creeped out and took a picture of him at the party to share with all her friends :lol
Also, here is the bride and you can see what I mean when I said "new work"
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/28235435_718730991668812_4549982703680190065_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=fad48650d6f457ab06b0332a8f18b0cc&oe=5C881D28)
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I'm not a fan of artificial, but I couldn't date her anyway. I can't date anyone that can't figure out how to take a picture without the camera blocking half the subject matter.
(And I hope you know I'm kidding around about all of this; I know you have a GF.)
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oh of course, it's all for fun. And I agree, I don't get it with the mirror selfie phone issue. Like I almost think it's part of a fashion statement to have the phone cover your face. Which I don't get, but I don't get fashion either.
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Good Morning peeps.
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Morning, looking forward to the day ending since it's like a Friday for me. What's this weeks shit show at work Jay?
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Morning, looking forward to the day ending since it's like a Friday for me. What's this weeks shit show at work Jay?
Let's see...
Had a full time guy decide to try and fail to split his time between working here and working somewhere that was going to pay him better. He tried for a few weeks and kept letting shit slip here... and then dropped all together to focus on the other job. A week later they cut his hours and he wants to come back. I'll take him back with open arms (already discussed with MY boss), but I am waiting for him to give me a goddamn answer.
Then had another full time guy text me on Friday night and tell me he picked up a new job and is starting immediately. He was scheduled to work on Sat and Sunday. He then came by on Monday to return his uniforms... and then texting me yesterday asking if he could come back. That won't be happening.
My night lead also has decided he wants to take time off this month with very little heads up. He took last night off, and had it covered... which isnt an issue, but now is leaving for a week next week. When I told him I can't give it to him, he just gave me shit, telling me he already booked his tickets for whatever he's doing. I can't do much about it... as I am already super understaffed, and can't afford to fire him or have him quit.
I am trying to hire people, but no one wants to work for $12/hr.
I also have a guy who works 2 days a week, and throws a fit if I try to schedule him for more, or move his schedule around (He works Wed and Thurs nights... no other jobs). Again, I can't do much because I have no one else to work.
This is on top of having one of my most reliable guys still out, after collapsing at work last month and getting diagnosed with some form of cancer.
I am literally sitting here looking at a blank schedule, trying to figure out how the fuck November is going to work.
We also had a full blown residential burglary on Sunday... so on top all of the personnel issues, I've had to spend almost 2 days working on the investigation and piecing together the incident. Whenever something like this happens, I get the beat supervisor and the district coordinator with PD coming in and out of my office working with me on it, as this is the most "upper class" community in the city. These guys have my phone number. I talk to them almost as much as my own boss.
I swear I need to start drinking at work.
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Same issues Jay. I just had 3 guys move on. it amazes me how they burn bridges going out. Only one did the right thing.
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Well there was a choreographed dance with the Jersey shore guys and rob base came out and sung it takes two with the band and had pyros going off. That was a fun night. Really odd with all the cameras and no phones though. I'm expecting to be in some shots when they air this since I made sure to be in the background :lol
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Hello everyone! I haven't been here in a while, good to see the same old faces hanging out.
How are y'all?
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Scorp! How are you?!
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I'm good! A lot has happened since I was here last, but I'm pretty happy. Still happy with my studies, work, have a girlfriend again... not much to complain about (not that I want to).
How are you king?
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I had heart issues earlier in the year. Not slowing me down though. I'm on meds. Otherwise damn good.
Seeing Haken Sunday on my wife's birthday and hanging with Nick. Axeman, JustJen and Rumborak at the show.
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TOMMY BOY!!!! Guess you answered the call of 'who's next' as far as 2-year hiatus's coming back. First Cedar, then Dark Castle, now you.
If AndyDT posts, I'm gonna shart myself.
Nice to 'see' you.
@King... give my regrets to everyone
for having to suffer thru Haken. :neverusethis:
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:lol
Oh I will. Lol
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Hey Chad! How's things for you?
(also my hiatus was only one and a half years, how dare you)
Good to hear that the heart issues aren't slowing you down, King. :tup
Haken's gonna be great. Enjoy that!
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Evening dudes
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Hey Chad! How's things for you? (also my hiatus was only one and a half years, how dare you)
Well, in the last 18 months since you departed us .... I started work again; jingle.kids are both off in post-secondary school; we bought a house and will be moving in March; we'll be listing our current house in the next 10 days. I also bought tix for Ayreon ITEC for next September, but won't be determined until the spring whether or not we plan a Euro vacation around it.
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Hey Jingle how is the not so new job working out for you?
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Hey Chad! How's things for you? (also my hiatus was only one and a half years, how dare you)
Well, in the last 18 months since you departed us .... I started work again; jingle.kids are both off in post-secondary school; we bought a house and will be moving in March; we'll be listing our current house in the next 10 days. I also bought tix for Ayreon ITEC for next September, but won't be determined until the spring whether or not we plan a Euro vacation around it.
Damn, that really is a lot that has happened. Good luck on the house, dude. :tup
What are you working as? And what are the kids doing (I'm assuming that post-secondary school is like college? If not, ignore me.)
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@ Scrop... you are correct. I specifically say 'post-secondary', because jingle.daughter is in University, and jingle.son is in College (there's a distinction here in Canada between the two). Daughter is in a concurrent education program, will come out with two degrees - B.A. and B.Ed. Son is in an Arts program, and looking to get a B.Animation.
Re: the job ... love my team, love my work (I'm an Alliance Director in a $3B software company), love my team-mates. My boss is a nice guy, but an absolute pussy and twat sometimes, and a terrible "manager'. The company culture and our leadership .... bizarre, bordering on toxic. Fundamental lack of trust, leaders that insist on controlling things and people they have no place controlling, and no knowledge of how the job is/should be done. Other things that are hard to put into words in a way that anyone outside the business/industry can understand, but there's just a lot of very annoying 'noise' that distracts a lot of people from effectively doing their jobs successfully. Sometimes it's an outright gong-show.
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Well it's good to hear that there are a lot of things you do love about the job, how does it compare culture wise to your last job?
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Well it's good to hear that there are a lot of things you do love about the job, how does it compare culture wise to your last job?
Current culture sucks ass.
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@ Scrop... you are correct. I specifically say 'post-secondary', because jingle.daughter is in University, and jingle.son is in College (there's a distinction here in Canada between the two). Daughter is in a concurrent education program, will come out with two degrees - B.A. and B.Ed. Son is in an Arts program, and looking to get a B.Animation.
Interesting. If you don't mind explaining, what's the difference between college and university in Canada?
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@ Scrop... you are correct. I specifically say 'post-secondary', because jingle.daughter is in University, and jingle.son is in College (there's a distinction here in Canada between the two). Daughter is in a concurrent education program, will come out with two degrees - B.A. and B.Ed. Son is in an Arts program, and looking to get a B.Animation.
Interesting. If you don't mind explaining, what's the difference between college and university in Canada?
I don't. For the most part, Universities offer 4-year Degrees, as well as post-grad work (Masters / PhD). Colleges are usually 2 and 3 year certificate courses. Many of them offer some courses that have 4-year degrees, but by-and-large it's 2 or 3 year certificates that graduates walk away from. Typically, colleges offer courses and topics of study that help prepare people for real work / jobs, where Universities provide students with more professional education/study experience. Not sure if that explains things, or makes it more confusing.
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I remember discovering this difference with my Canadian buddy. Typically junior colleges are the only ones that offer 2 year degrees in the states but most are now offering full 4 year degrees
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@ Scrop... you are correct. I specifically say 'post-secondary', because jingle.daughter is in University, and jingle.son is in College (there's a distinction here in Canada between the two). Daughter is in a concurrent education program, will come out with two degrees - B.A. and B.Ed. Son is in an Arts program, and looking to get a B.Animation.
Technically, there is a difference here in the States too, though I can't promise that EVERY institution follows it. Technically speaking, a college offers you a bachelors degree (and possibly a Masters or PhD), but there is only one degree available. So you go to college and everyone who graduates gets the same degree (bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts). A university is comprised of several "colleges", meaning you can get different degrees. At my alma mater, University of Connecticut, I graduated from the School of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science. Some people can get a Bachelor of... I forget if it's arts or sciences (I'd guess "Science") but from the School of Business. Others can get a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Liberal Arts. I don't remember how many schools comprise Uconn, it's as many as 8 or 10, more if you count the Law School and Medical School.
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Morning. Had a little too much to drink while traveling, feeling not so great right now.
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What's up, bitches?
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License and registration please. You are you you say you are sir?
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You are you you say you are sir?
Fuck if I know? :rollin
Some things never change. Love you, King!
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Did the forum go through a wormhole and come out in 2016?
What's up hef?
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You are you you say you are sir?
Fuck if I know? :rollin
Some things never change. Love you, King!
Love you too Hef. :lol
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What's up Hef?
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'Sup fellas. It's been too long. Hope everyone is doing well.
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'Sup fellas. It's been too long. Hope everyone is doing well.
Hey.
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Hefty Hefington!
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Russian bot!!! It is Election Day, after all.
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Russian bot!!! It is Election Day, after all.
:biggrin:
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Only if his cigars were dipped in vodka.
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I did that once in college. Ooops... TMI.
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Only if his cigars were dipped in vodka.
That's a terrible idea.
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Only if his cigars were dipped in vodka.
That's a terrible idea.
Russia cigar bots.
I've had them soaked in bourbon before. Not bad. Better on the rocks with a fine cigar in hand.
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I wouldn't dip my cigar in anything.
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I wouldn't dip my cigar in anything.
I think it was an aged cigar. I've seen friend slice an apple and keep it in their humidors. Adds a little flavor. I never tried that.
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Wait, you don't dip the cigar in vodka and then dip the cigar in your ass? I thought that gets you drunk super quick.
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Wait, you don't dip the cigar in vodka and then dip the cigar in your ass? I thought that gets you drunk super quick.
This is what you get going to those celebrity weddings Marc.
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Wait, you don't dip the cigar in vodka and then dip the cigar in your ass? I thought that gets you drunk super quick.
God dammit
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Cigar abuse should be grounds for banning.
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:rollin
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Cigar abuse should be grounds for banning.
Good idea.
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:lol :lol
good morning all
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:lol :lol
good morning all
Look what you walked into. :)
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Seriously. This chat has been pretty quiet lately and then hef shows up and all of a sudden we're talking about boofing cigars.
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Hef is that beautiful girl that walks through the door at the high school dance.
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:lol :lol
good morning all
'sup Bill
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The block on DTF must have been lifted at your work place, eh?
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:lol :lol
good morning all
'sup Bill
Not too much hef. How goes it?
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Good Morning Krusty Krew!
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Good Morning Krusty Krew!
Hey HEY!!
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The block on DTF must have been lifted at your work place, eh?
No.
:lol :lol
good morning all
'sup Bill
Not too much hef. How goes it?
Pretty good.
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The block on DTF must have been lifted at your work place, eh?
No.
FIRED!
Hey, wait a sec... you're not Jeff Sessions are you?!?
(I'm kidding, and I certainly hope NOT!)
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Hef Sessions.
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The block on DTF must have been lifted at your work place, eh?
No.
FIRED!
Hey, wait a sec... you're not Jeff Sessions are you?!?
(I'm kidding, and I certainly hope NOT!)
No. Things are going well.
Hef Sessions.
No.
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Evening guys, skimmed through this page I see we are talking about dipping vodka soaked cigars in your ass? Is that right?
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Seems to be.
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I had a kid called out today because he worked to hard yesterday.
He hasn't worked a full week yet. He will point himself out.
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I had a kid called out today because he worked to hard yesterday.
He hasn't worked a full week yet. He will point himself out.
Fuckin millennials.
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He has a baby on the way and has no work ethics.
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Evening guys, skimmed through this page I see we are talking about dipping vodka soaked cigars in your ass? Is that right?
What's this we shit. Only CramX was talking about that...well, in the positive sense. The rest of us were appalled.
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:lol
Morning folks, heading back home later today. Looking forward to being at home.
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House photos today. I was told early in the process of buying/selling our house that "You're home will never look so good as the day you put it on the market."
Boy ain't that the truth!
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Evening guys, skimmed through this page I see we are talking about dipping vodka soaked cigars in your ass? Is that right?
What's this we shit. Only CramX was talking about that...well, in the positive sense. The rest of us were appalled.
Or busy trying it. So I've heard by PM. Maybe.
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House photos today. I was told early in the process of buying/selling our house that "You're home will never look so good as the day you put it on the market."
Boy ain't that the truth!
Is your agent going to make you "recreate" that for every showing? I had an agent that did that, but I have to say, it paid off.
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Evening guys, skimmed through this page I see we are talking about dipping vodka soaked cigars in your ass? Is that right?
What's this we shit. Only CramX was talking about that...well, in the positive sense. The rest of us were appalled.
Appalled or curious?
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House photos today. I was told early in the process of buying/selling our house that "You're home will never look so good as the day you put it on the market."
Boy ain't that the truth!
I could rent a 20 yard dumpster and it wouldn't be enough to get rid of what I want to at our house.
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House photos today. I was told early in the process of buying/selling our house that "You're home will never look so good as the day you put it on the market."
Boy ain't that the truth!
Is your agent going to make you "recreate" that for every showing? I had an agent that did that, but I have to say, it paid off.
She probably will, but we aren't going to 100% do everything that we're doing for pictures. Our house will be pristine, but (for instance), I have my workout bench parked under my pool table on a daily basis. We put the bench in the laundry room for the pics, but I'm not moving it every time - plus, people will invariably view the laundry room, and it would just look stupid (it's a small laundry room). Things like that (another example is racking the balls on the pool table), we're not doing for viewings - it's not practical.
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Good morning all.
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I had a kid called out today because he worked to hard yesterday.
He hasn't worked a full week yet. He will point himself out.
Sounds about right.
I've got a guy whom I interviewed last week who I am still on the fence about hiring. He seems okay, but I wanted to try to interview a few candidates before I make a decision... but he's the only person I've interviewed. He doesn't have a phone nor does he have his own car. Makes it difficult to move forward when I have to call and leave a message with his girlfriend, or send him an email and wait for him to go to the library and check his email.
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Morning
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G'morning hef
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Morning.
Tough start: I decided to cook up some corned beef hash, then got the bright idea to fry up a quick egg over medium, and at the last moment, broke the egg while I was cooking it. Dammit.
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Morning. Tomorrow the wife and I are meeting my brother and his family to go to a brewery in VT that just built a new building. We are going to take the scenic route in the mountains and get some good snow pictures. I love a scenic trip.
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Morning. Tomorrow the wife and I are meeting my brother and his family to go to a brewery in VT that just built a new building. We are going to take the scenic route in the mountains and get some good snow pictures. I love a scenic trip.
That sounds great.
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I hope the snow is still on the ground. I'll post a few picks on Facebook if the rain doesn't wash it away.
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Morning. Tomorrow the wife and I are meeting my brother and his family to go to a brewery in VT that just built a new building. We are going to take the scenic route in the mountains and get some good snow pictures. I love a scenic trip.
Sounds awesome!
I'll post a few picks on Facebook
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRU4XlCL22iaIKLXrwtcoR7Zsly37DjDP57nIZ6cF7AkKbApMIV)
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I will Tim. You'll have to imagine them. :lol
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First a mass shooting, now 2 pretty intense fires.
What a 24 hours.
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How close is that to you Jay?
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One of the fires is maybe 15 miles from me, and the other is probably 30 ish. I am nowhere close to being in danger... but it's still scary shit.
I took the photo an hour or so ago. Now the sky is completely black.
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Crazy this is a yearly issue.
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So am I the only one still using the Moore/Sherinian 2012 skin for the forum?
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So am I the only one still using the Moore/Sherinian 2012 skin for the forum?
I don't understand the question?
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That was the political looking skin wasn't it?
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I'm not sure which one that is, but you may be :lol I use the DT12 skin
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That was the political looking skin wasn't it?
Yes.
So am I the only one still using the Moore/Sherinian 2012 skin for the forum?
I don't understand the question?
The look and layout you select to view the forum.
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I just checked, and yes, I am the only one.
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lol, I found a workaround for my at-work DTF site ban.
You guys may have to put up with me more often now.
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Eh, we love Illegal Hef anyway.
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lol, I found a workaround for my at-work DTF site ban.
You guys may have to put up with me more often now.
I just noticed that they unblocked reddit at my work but DTF is still off limits.
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What's everybody up to this evening?
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Nothing much, had some good dinner and i'm finally good to go back to the gym so I'l head out in a bit. What about you?
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Chilling on the couch with a beer watching some hockey. Going to be a quiet night.
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Thing are finally winding down at work for the year and I'm looking forward to some quiet nights myself. You guys get any snow up there yet? What are you drinking?
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What's everybody up to this evening?
Watching the UNC Tar Heels play Elon.
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Going to watch some DVR'd shows. Lisa will be home soon. Tomorrow, off to Lawson's Finest Liquids.
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Thing are finally winding down at work for the year and I'm looking forward to some quiet nights myself. You guys get any snow up there yet? What are you drinking?
No snow in NJ yet, just some nasty rain earlier this evening. Currently drinking a homebrewed English Mild.
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How has the home brewing been treating you?
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How has the home brewing been treating you?
Pretty good. Not perfect by any means, but definitely more good batches than bad. I've also been dabbling with mead making a bit, which is fun and also easier than beer.
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Are you still into judging?
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Nah, never got around to getting certified as a judge. I was taking the classes last year, but then it turned out that the day of the exam was the same day as a beer festival in Maine that I wanted to go to with my friends, so I skipped the exam. Haven't felt motivated to get back to studying and finding another exam opportunity. I don't mind working in a support capacity at competitions for now.
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Morning chumps and chumpets. Time to see some snow I hope.
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So am I the only one still using the Moore/Sherinian 2012 skin for the forum?
Probably inasmuch as I'm the only one using the Don/Ron '16 theme.
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The page where you select a theme tells you how many people are using it.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?action=theme;sa=pick;u=4570
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The page where you select a theme tells you how many people are using it.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?action=theme;sa=pick;u=4570
Well shit... I wonder who the other person using Don/Ron is??
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The page where you select a theme tells you how many people are using it.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?action=theme;sa=pick;u=4570
Well shit... I wonder who the other person using Don/Ron is??
Probably Don or Ron, would be my guess.
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(https://media.tenor.com/images/4be68fe3e37ee4d1d5cd6e8732a09e1d/tenor.gif)
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Wow, I'm 1 out of only 6 who uses the Dramatic Turnings theme :lol
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Morning duders
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The page where you select a theme tells you how many people are using it.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?action=theme;sa=pick;u=4570
Well shit... I wonder who the other person using Don/Ron is??
Probably Don or Ron, would be my guess.
Bitch stole my post.
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The page where you select a theme tells you how many people are using it.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?action=theme;sa=pick;u=4570
Well shit... I wonder who the other person using Don/Ron is??
Probably Don or Ron, would be my guess.
Bitch stole my post.
You snooze you lose, hefferino.
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I saw this conversation and thought it might be time for a theme change. Went for the red Astonishing theme, it brought back memories of when the album came out, the e-mails from the resistance and the emperor, the reveal website, etc.
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The page where you select a theme tells you how many people are using it.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?action=theme;sa=pick;u=4570
Well shit... I wonder who the other person using Don/Ron is??
Probably Don or Ron, would be my guess.
Bitch stole my post.
You snooze you lose, hefferino.
I love you guys. :lol
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I learned today that a friend of mine lost everything in the Fire in Malibu. Really cool guy. Had a house in the hills, a vineyard on his property and a Bed n Breakfast. Horses. Recording Studio. All gone. They got out with the clothes on their backs.
His daughter was even injured in a car accident during the evacuation. Holy crap.
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Oh my god, that's awful.
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I'm sorry Jay. That is so horrible.
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I can't even begin to imagine how scary that is.
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Wow Jay!
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That's terrible.
Morning, everyone.
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Yeah, the California fires suck, big time.
Morning, folks!
Hey, Zydar, if you're around: When are you going to make the MS Paint thread for the new album cover? :biggrin:
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Hey, Podaar! I'll do it when we get a little closer to release day.
Remind me after New Year's :P
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Yes, sir, sorry :blush
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No worries, I had completely forgotten about it :lol
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I learned today that a friend of mine lost everything in the Fire in Malibu. Really cool guy. Had a house in the hills, a vineyard on his property and a Bed n Breakfast. Horses. Recording Studio. All gone. They got out with the clothes on their backs.
His daughter was even injured in a car accident during the evacuation. Holy crap.
That is so awful Jay! At least they all made it out ok.
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Good morning, whores.
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Good morning, whores.
#sup ... <with an upward head nod>
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On your knees as well.
Morning.
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Just when I thought my mood couldn't get any worse after paying to see the Jets get blown out at home by the Bills' fourth string QB yesterday, I saw my inbox when I got into work this morning :censored :censored :censored
The rest of this week is cancelled.
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I'm sorry, Axe. That sucks.
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Huh...just realized I haven't posted in forever.
Morning, fools.
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Huh...just realized I haven't posted in forever.
Morning, fools.
All the cool kids are coming back!
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Huh...just realized I haven't posted in forever.
Morning, fools.
All the cool kids are coming back!
Where? All I see is you and milahh.
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But I never left!
Oh look, another fire.
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Huh...just realized I haven't posted in forever.
Morning, fools.
All the cool kids are coming back!
Where? All I see is you and milahh.
Just wait.
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Kids? LOL
Yo.
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It is I.
Oh wait, "cool"?
Guess I'll see you guys some other time...
:lol
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Good morning dudes
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Morning Reap.
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Hey hey
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Ugly morning here. Pouring like a mofo. My buddy is installing to storm doors on our porch but I think with the rain he will not finish today.
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We had over 4 inches of rain yesterday, with more to come today.
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Yeah, big time rain. Got the day off so I figured it was a good time to fix some down spouts. :facepalm:
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Second the motion on the rain. And it's cold too, so it's miserable. :tdwn
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Looking at my gutters spill over with water on the porch reminds me I need to clean them out. :lol
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The rain completely screwed the trains this morning...my intended on was cancelled, the next one was delayed by (allegedly) ~20 minutes, so I said "screw it" and walked back to the car and drove to work instead. When I got here, I looked, and that next train still hadn't come, and would have been at least another 15 minutes even from then. What a mess. Gotta love NJT.
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The rain completely screwed the trains this morning...my intended on was cancelled, the next one was delayed by (allegedly) ~20 minutes, so I said "screw it" and walked back to the car and drove to work instead. When I got here, I looked, and that next train still hadn't come, and would have been at least another 15 minutes even from then. What a mess. Gotta love NJT.
But they're so luxurious!
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The rain completely screwed the trains this morning...my intended on was cancelled, the next one was delayed by (allegedly) ~20 minutes, so I said "screw it" and walked back to the car and drove to work instead. When I got here, I looked, and that next train still hadn't come, and would have been at least another 15 minutes even from then. What a mess. Gotta love NJT.
I know those feels. I left the train station after half an hour and two trains coming through the station without picking up passengers. Evidently there was a fatality on the tracks on our line early this morning, which further gummed up the works beyond NJT's usual (low) quality of service.
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Yea my boss said something about a power outage at Penn State, meanwhile on the NJ turnpike a minu van was burnt to a crisp. That caused a twice as long commute for me. Such a miserable day.
I did score my Iron Maiden tickets though which I thought I wouldn't get because I got to work so late.
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Morning, all.
Recently, I've been at war with a few rats that are determined to nest in my garage...and I've been losing. After killing a large buck (about a month ago) with a traditional rat trap, the remaining mischief has learned to set off the trap and come back later to get the bait. Sunday morning I noticed that they'd found a way on top of the upright freezer in the garage to raid a box of Milk Bones. I cleaned up the mess, found a sealed plastic container for the dog treats, and reset the trap. By that evening, they'd done their trick with the trap. I went to the shopping list and added poison traps. I've had enough of the bastards.
Last night, I went out to the garage to retrieve my cell phone from the car (I leave that thing everywhere) and when I turned on the lights a kit darted from under my car to the back wall of the garage. I heard a rustling to my immediate right. My eyes snapped over by the freezer. Perched atop the handle of my golf ball retriever was a buck rat about the size of my forearm. Instant rage threw me into action faster than I would have believed possible and without thinking I stepped forward with my left foot and lifted my right leg and Chuck Norrised that fucker against the wall. The dazed rat fell into the bottom Mrs. P's gardening bucket. Panting, it tried to be still down among the hand gardening implements. I really didn't want to reach in there so I looked around for something to jab him with. While I did, he must have gotten his wind back because he leaped out of the bucket and ran toward the front of the garage. The chase was on. I caught up with him as he dodged behind a couple of loops of my air hose. I rammed the toe of my shoe through the hose to pin him against the baseboard but only grazed his hind quarters. He wall-walked away from my foot and as he came down to the concrete to dash away I reflex stomped on the back of his neck. Apparently, Sketchers boat shoes aren't meant for rat killing because he took off when I lifted my foot, ran under my car, and drunkenly shot out the other side to run head first into the side my snowblower. I heard the ding sound of his skull against the metal as I rounded the car to see him sprawled on his belly apparently dazed. I slowed down with the intention of carefully aiming the heel of my shoe down onto his head, which was a mistake. He jumped and ducked behind a dutch oven which gave him access to hole in the south wall and took his leave.
Adrenaline was roaring in my ears as I grabbed my cell phone from the car. When I got back to the entrance my dog was waiting for me, sitting on his haunches, tail wagging and his tongue hanging out the side of his worthless mouth. Stupid, fucking Labradoodle! No more treats for his old ass.
Tl;dr: I hate rats and my dog is an asshole.
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Wow that was an intense battle
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Cram, I told Mrs. P about it and she said, "What should we get to be rid of them?" I replied, "a Katana?" :biggrin:
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Why pick on the dog?
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It's his job! Because every previous dog I've ever had would kill rats and he just sat there in the doorway and watched. Laughing.
Sagan's a big chicken. When he sees or hears them he'll bark and raise his hackles but he won't go after them.
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Mice for us. Sticky pads with a cracker in the middle. I don't care if they are still alive. Toss them right in the woods to die.
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Cram, I told Mrs. P about it and she said, "What should we get to be rid of them?" I replied, "a Katana?" :biggrin:
Might just need to burn the house down
and I haven't had rodent problems, but I'm sure my cat would get to the bottom of it. He does a good job with the centipedes in the basement.
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I had a mice problem in the country house's garden, with no help whatsoever from my beloved spoiled wimpy cats.
Then a family of owls nested on the chestnut tree, and mice became a distant memory.
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In my experience, domestic cats are hell on wheels for mice (which I don't have a problem with) but these brown rats are about 3/4 the size of your average cat. Like I said, the buck I encountered last night was as big as my forearm (not counting his tail). Most cats will hesitate to attack them and the hesitation is about all they need to get away.
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Get a big Schnauzer. I heard they're excellent rat-killers.
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That would work, but I don't want another dog.
I used to have a golden retriever/yellow lab mix that would kill a dozen rats per year. He was a saint.
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In my experience, domestic cats are hell on wheels for mice (which I don't have a problem with) but these brown rats are about 3/4 the size of your average cat. Like I said, the buck I encountered last night was as big as my forearm (not counting his tail). Most cats will hesitate to attack them and the hesitation is about all they need to get away.
True, that's enough to scare me away as well
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That would work, but I don't want another dog.
I used to have a golden retriever/yellow lab mix that would kill a dozen rats per year. He was a saint.
We know the answer your wife will tell you. Get going killer. :lol
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:lol No shit, right?
You bring up a good point, King. Why the hell is it my job to rid us of the bastards? Honestly, if they didn't piss and shit all over everything, I'd just as soon ignore them. Mrs. P will make pointed jabs that leave no question as to what's expected. "You, know. I saw another large rat turd in the garage today!" Her tone is such that the implication is she shouldn't have to witness such unpleasantness and I'd better do something about it. :lol
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The rain completely screwed the trains this morning...my intended on was cancelled, the next one was delayed by (allegedly) ~20 minutes, so I said "screw it" and walked back to the car and drove to work instead. When I got here, I looked, and that next train still hadn't come, and would have been at least another 15 minutes even from then. What a mess. Gotta love NJT.
But they're so luxurious!
Last week was particularly so...they sent the train out without working bathrooms, so we stopped at Summit for a shit break for 15 minutes (for both passengers and crew).
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:lol No shit, right?
You bring up a good point, King. Why the hell is it my job to rid us of the bastards? Honestly, if they didn't piss and shit all over everything, I'd just as soon ignore them. Mrs. P will make pointed jabs that leave no question as to what's expected. "You, know. I saw another large rat turd in the garage today!" Her tone is such that the implication is she shouldn't have to witness such unpleasantness and I'd better do something about it. :lol
I feel your pain. I know the feeling. :lol
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The rain completely screwed the trains this morning...my intended on was cancelled, the next one was delayed by (allegedly) ~20 minutes, so I said "screw it" and walked back to the car and drove to work instead. When I got here, I looked, and that next train still hadn't come, and would have been at least another 15 minutes even from then. What a mess. Gotta love NJT.
But they're so luxurious!
Last week was particularly so...they sent the train out without working bathrooms, so we stopped at Summit for a shit break for 15 minutes (for both passengers and crew).
:rollin wow
There was a train last week or two I read about that broke down and was over packed, people were passing out. Sounded like a nightmare. The NJ transit trains were all fucked up a couple weekends ago trying to get into the city for the Haken concert.
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We had over 4 inches of rain yesterday, with more to come today.
We had about the same amount of rain yesterday, it was a hard day for my dog who really wanted to be outside lol
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It's his job! Because every previous dog I've ever had would kill rats and he just sat there in the doorway and watched. Laughing.
Sagan's a big chicken. When he sees or hears them he'll bark and raise his hackles but he won't go after them.
Pretty soon you'll have "beelions and beelions" of mice. Yay!
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It's his job! Because every previous dog I've ever had would kill rats and he just sat there in the doorway and watched. Laughing.
Sagan's a big chicken. When he sees or hears them he'll bark and raise his hackles but he won't go after them.
Pretty soon you'll have "beelions and beelions" of mice. Yay!
:lol
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If it is mice you wish for your dog to catch, you must first invent the universe.
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:lol
Oh, and it's not mice, it's rats. Big fucking rats.
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That is a master to pizza eating turtles. AMIRITE?!
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Hi-ho
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Howdy all!
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Good morning from Fiery Southern California
How goes it peeps?
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Not bad. Definitely just trying to make it through work tomorrow and then there is much fun and merriment on the docket for this weekend through next weekend.
You?
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About the same. Dealing with the usual drama at work while periodically checking in on the newest fire near me.
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Just had our office Thanksgiving potluck.
I am severely bloated right now.
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Well it's practically gridlock. I've been in m car for 2.5 hours and have gone a mile from work. I'm wondering if I'll make it home or die in my car waiting. Cars are in the wrong lane trying to get around the gridlock which made it even worse. The guy behind me got out to piss but because of the traffic and snow had little room to work leaving me with a clear view of his dick and piss from my mirror. This is the worst commute ever. I'd consider goong back to work but it's not even possible.
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Holy shit.
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Was just coming in here to say that I've never seen this little snow cause this much chaos here. Granted, New Jersey isn't quite one of the battle hardened New England states when it comes to snow, but we're not North Carolina either (no offense hef) where a little bit of snow shuts the entire state down. Thankfully the train commute for me wasn't that bad, but there were people getting off the train with me at 7:30 who had been trying to get home since 3:30.
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I made it back to work. Didn't move for the last hour but at least the wrong way traffic had cleared up which allowed me to make a k turn to turn around and go abck that one mile. I had to pee so bad and im pretty hungry. I've got plenty of food here so I'm bunkering down for awhile. As I pulled in, another guy who works here pulled in and did the exact same thing as me.
As for the snow, it looks like about 3 or 4 inches so 1.5 isn't giving credit but I do agree, this amount of snow should not have done this much damage, but the state was not prepared at all and didn't do anything to help the roads knowing a storm was coming. There's been over 400 accidents I just read, and that was posted as of 4:30pm.
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Glad you made it somewhere warm and with food.
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Glad you made it somewhere warm and with food.
I feel fortunate I had that option compared to the rest of the people stuck on the road. I was starting to feel claustrophobic when my car was trapped for awhile. According to google, traffic looks to have died down a bit already but still not very good. I'm thinking maybe another hour and I can try again.
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Was just coming in here to say that I've never seen this little snow cause this much chaos here. Granted, New Jersey isn't quite one of the battle hardened New England states when it comes to snow, but we're not North Carolina either (no offense hef) where a little bit of snow shuts the entire state down. Thankfully the train commute for me wasn't that bad, but there were people getting off the train with me at 7:30 who had been trying to get home since 3:30.
But Axe, the problem was just as bad here in CT. I-95 was a parking lot, and in one section of the state, a normal 20-minute drive allegedly took 4 hours. C'mon. For five inches of snow, in CONNECTICUT? Should be a hanging curve-ball. A 22-yard field goal. An open net goal.
Glad you all are safe, though, regardless.
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Glad to know it wasn't just us I guess :lol Hope you didn't have too much of a problem yesterday.
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I made it home around 11:15pm last night. What a shit show this week has been. I'm calling it now, Rutgers is going to upset Penn State tomorrow and just hammer the nail into my coffin.
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Really looking forward to this weekend.
Mrs. P is adopted, but through the science of DNA (23&Me, Ancestry.com) she's had a pretty amazing year of discovery; finding and engaging with blood relatives (she's estranged from her adopted family). Well, today, she is picking up her half-sister from the airport who is going to stay with us over the weekend. They've corresponded before but have never met face to face. I'm very happy for my wife and am fascinated to see how the encounter goes.
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That's pretty crazy and cool that they were able to connect
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Really looking forward to this weekend.
Mrs. P is adopted, but through the science of DNA (23&Me, Ancestry.com) she's had a pretty amazing year of discovery; finding and engaging with blood relatives (she's estranged from her adopted family). Well, today, she is picking up her half-sister from the airport who is going to stay with us over the weekend. They've corresponded before but have never met face to face. I'm very happy for my wife and am fascinated to see how the encounter goes.
That is awesome.
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Really looking forward to this weekend.
Mrs. P is adopted, but through the science of DNA (23&Me, Ancestry.com) she's had a pretty amazing year of discovery; finding and engaging with blood relatives (she's estranged from her adopted family). Well, today, she is picking up her half-sister from the airport who is going to stay with us over the weekend. They've corresponded before but have never met face to face. I'm very happy for my wife and am fascinated to see how the encounter goes.
Oh Ancestry.com
I was given a test kit for my birthday this year, as I have always wanted to know more about my paternal grandfather, as HE died before I was born (and my dad didn't speak to him after he turned like 18). My grandmother died in '05 and my dad in '09, and since they were the only people who would have been able to fill me in on my heritage, and I didn't give a shit till recently.. I was kinda left in the dark.
I took the test... and found out that I am NOT related to my dad's relatives his sisters are half sisters... but they and my cousins should all show up in my list. They don't. I had them check their lists as well. Nothing. So instead of learning more about my rich German history which I grew up thinking I had, I am not German at all. Nor was my father my father.
I did, however, match with my best friend's aunt... making he and I like 8th cousins or something.
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(no offense hef)
I am hard to offend.
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It's not really my story to tell, but I know my best friend did his Ancestry, and was shocked to find his real dad. It was quite a story, since it exposed some... misdirection on the part of his mom (who raised him, and led him to believe another man, who gave him his last name, was his dad).
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Welcome to Mercy Falls
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as I died before I was born
Were you aborted?? :lol
I took the test... and found out that I am NOT related to my dad's relatives (his sisters are half sisters... but they and my cousins should all show up in my list. They don't. I had them check their lists as well. Nothing. So instead of learning more about my rich German history which I grew up thinking I had, I am not German at all. Nor was my father my father.
Wow!
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as I died before I was born
Were you aborted?? :lol
I took the test... and found out that I am NOT related to my dad's relatives (his sisters are half sisters... but they and my cousins should all show up in my list. They don't. I had them check their lists as well. Nothing. So instead of learning more about my rich German history which I grew up thinking I had, I am not German at all. Nor was my father my father.
Wow!
FIXED IT :lol
Yea. I have spent the last couple months trying to build up the courage to ask my mother about it. It really threw my sense of self identity out of whack.
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Still, I can't imagine what that would be like. You should ask. I mean, you've already gotten the jarring news.
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Still, I can't imagine what that would be like. You should ask. I mean, you've already gotten the jarring news.
I am holding off more for her mental health than mine. She is very... unstable... and I can't fathom what would happen if I bring it up.
My parents were never a thing. I was always believed I was the product of a random hookup or something. It is very possible that my mother didn't know for sure and went with the best option for me. The ONLY family of mine that knows about this are my aunt and cousins. My aunt called me immediately when she was made aware and told me that when I was born, my dad pulled her aside and said he had a feeling that I wasn't biologically his... but that didn't matter to him. That made me tear up. He'll always be (will have been?) my father. I have ZERO interest in learning about who my biological father is.
This is actually the first time I have spoken publicly ish about this, as I have been afraid of what would happen if my Step Mother and my sister found out.
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Wow Jay, that's heavy.
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Morning chumps.
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Who you calling chump, chump?
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This king chump can call you all out. Come at me chump. :lol
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Morning dudes.
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morning bois
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Morning. Just had a nice breakfast. Were going to see the new Fantastic Beasts movie then food shopping.
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My gf is still sleeping but she has a midterm due tonight so I think once she wakes up she has to leave to go work on that all day, which I guess means I will just be chilling home all day
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I didn't know the new fantastic beasts movie was out. I'm going to take my dog to the vet for his yearly check up, hit up waffle house, and then spend the afternoon cleaning because my inlaws are coming tomorrow :(
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G'morning all. Just woke up because I was playing Overwatch until 4am :lol Need to start in on some cleaning soon because we'll have house guests from Tuesday until Friday, hopefully also with some time for football in the afternoon. Then I'll have a few friends over for pizza and beer and WWE Survivor Series tonight :hat
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Oh man I was thinking of booting up some overwatch tonight. It’s been a long time. I heard there was a massive patch coming out soon.
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Yeah, they just released another new hero and made some other tweaks. I got in with a group of people I sometimes play with around 12:45am and we just went on a roll in arcade/quick play. Too much fun when you've got a good team to roll with.
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Howdy gents!
Gonna ask a favor. Figured I'd put it here since only like 6 people go to the musicians forum.
Does anyone know a female singer/screamer that I could hire to sing on 3 song LP of mine? Looking for someone along the lines of Jinjer or The Agonist (Vicky, not sexy blue hair girl). Location doesn't matter a ton. Singing in a neutral accent is also helpful.
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Howdy gents!
Gonna ask a favor. Figured I'd put it here since only like 6 people go to the musicians forum.
Does anyone know a female singer/screamer that I could hire to sing on 3 song LP of mine? Looking for someone along the lines of Jinjer or The Agonist (Vicky, not sexy blue hair girl). Location doesn't matter a ton. Singing in a neutral accent is also helpful.
That Jinjer girl is the real deal, at least her normal vocals. I'm not a growl-guy by any stretch, and don't get me wrong, even hers are unlistenable to me, but at least she can sing, and plus she looks hot doing it (except for the gauges).
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You could hire my The Lovely Mrs TAC who turns into the Jinjer chick whenever she rides in the car I'm driving.
SloROROROROROROw DoROROROROROROOROROwn.
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How do you guys do your laundry?
I never understood people complaining about clothes lasting a very short time before getting ripped or discolored because it just never happened to me. But through repeated comments I realized people think of air-drying as a big pain in the ass. I don't air-dry all of my clothes, but most of them I do and to me it's really not a pain in the ass at all! I was raised that way and never even had a dryer until I moved to Norway? I have a really small place here but a portable hamper really doesn't take up much space either.
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I have a washer and dryer in the basement, I just use tie pods and then the dryer. I used to have to dress more formal for work and I would air dry and iron those clothes, but since I just wear jeans and t-shirts I don't really do anything special. Jeans I don't even wash often, you aren't supposed to, unless I spill or make a mess of them.
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I have a washer and dryer in the basement, I just use tie pods and then the dryer. I used to have to dress more formal for work and I would air dry and iron those clothes, but since I just wear jeans and t-shirts I don't really do anything special. Jeans I don't even wash often, you aren't supposed to, unless I spill or make a mess of them.
This, pretty much.
BTW, Good morning everyone.
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Good morning peeps.
Hired someone finally. This guy seems a tad off, and I waited a week and a half after interviewing before hiring him because I wanted to see what other candidates would bring to the table.
There were no other candidates. Dumbass me set it up so he starts training today. I've got to deal with Payroll and making the schedule for NEXT month... so I am having my partner today (who happens to be my best friend) train him. He's not happy about it, but he's my bitch so he can't say now :lol
How do you guys do your laundry?
I never understood people complaining about clothes lasting a very short time before getting ripped or discolored because it just never happened to me. But through repeated comments I realized people think of air-drying as a big pain in the ass. I don't air-dry all of my clothes, but most of them I do and to me it's really not a pain in the ass at all! I was raised that way and never even had a dryer until I moved to Norway? I have a really small place here but a portable hamper really doesn't take up much space either.
I wash all my shit together (except whites... which I wear so infrequently that I only wash once in a while..) and throw it all in the dryer, except for my shirts. I am fat... and my shirts always shrink... so now I try to hang dry all of my non shrunken shirts... which is a pain in the ass.
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I have a washer and dryer in the basement, I just use tie pods and then the dryer. I used to have to dress more formal for work and I would air dry and iron those clothes, but since I just wear jeans and t-shirts I don't really do anything special. Jeans I don't even wash often, you aren't supposed to, unless I spill or make a mess of them.
This, pretty much.
BTW, Good morning everyone.
I do the same. I used to hang dry all my clothes when I was in Florida but I don’t do that anymore.
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How do you guys do your laundry?
Separate whites from colors (and if you're feeling really fancy, dark colors from bright colors) and wash each load. I've used machines my whole life, and I don't usually air dry things unless the garment in question specifically requires it. I don't have any reservations about air-drying, but I suppose it's just not something I grew up doing.
Back when I was living in Australia, I knew lots of people who air-dried most things, but here in the states (Utah, at least) clotheslines are a rare sight indeed, especially if the house is of more modern design. In fact, the only example I can think of is my great-grandmother's house, and I think she even eventually used machines. So, it could be an entirely regional thing.
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We have foldable racks to dry clothes on. Mostly shirts so they don't shrink from the dryer.
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We have foldable racks to dry clothes on. Mostly shirts so they don't shrink from the dryer.
It was often a time issue, but until I remarried (dogs!) I would air dry whatever I could.
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We have foldable racks to dry clothes on. Mostly shirts so they don't shrink from the dryer.
Yea, I have the foldable racks for when needed.
My old man neighbor has a clothes line outside and it's funny seeing his tighty whities hanging out there on weekends.
Also, I seperate the whites and darks, I didn't think that needed to be stated, but maybe some do wash everything together?
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My old man neighbor has a clothes line outside and it's funny seeing his tighty whities hanging out there on weekends.
I don't live near you.
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My old man neighbor has a clothes line outside and it's funny seeing his tighty whities hanging out there on weekends.
I don't live near you.
He said tighty whiteys, not loosey brownies.
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We have foldable racks to dry clothes on. Mostly shirts so they don't shrink from the dryer.
It was often a time issue, but until I remarried (dogs!) I would air dry whatever I could.
We had a line from our porch to a tree but when our biggest tree hit the house, that line was c'est la vie.
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Good morning folks and happy American Thanksgiving Eve!
The staffing month from hell continues. Had to let a full time employee go after receiving photos from our client of him sleeping on the job on several occasions... while I tried to get this new hired trained. Now I have to go back on the hunt for more hires.
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Good morning folks and happy American Thanksgiving Eve!
The staffing month from hell continues. Had to let a full time employee go after receiving photos from our client of him sleeping on the job on several occasions... while I tried to get this new hired trained. Now I have to go back on the hunt for more hires.
Welcome to my world. 3 years running. I haven't been fully staffed since 2015.
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Good morning folks and happy American Thanksgiving Eve!
The staffing month from hell continues. Had to let a full time employee go after receiving photos from our client of him sleeping on the job on several occasions... while I tried to get this new hired trained. Now I have to go back on the hunt for more hires.
Welcome to my world. 3 years running. I haven't been fully staffed since 2015.
I am also losing another full time (really good) employee mid December. *pounds head into wall*
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Shit, that sucks.
What's going on, peeps?
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Work let us go early :metal I've been home getting shit done, heading to Jacksonville soon to go to my parents until Monday morning. Looking forward to getting away and just relaxing down there. It's just my older sis and her husband going so should be just a calm weekend in better weather. Maybe I should buy a book at the airport, didn't even think about that until just now since this will be a quiet 4 days for me.
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I just got home from work from leaving early too. I actually love going into work around the holidays because of how quiet it is in the office.
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Apparently a very famous pop artist is staying on my property for Thanksgiving. Gotta make sure my guys are on point this week :metal
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Apparently a very famous pop artist is staying on my property for Thanksgiving. Gotta make sure my guys are on point this week :metal
How famous. Like Boy George famous, or Rick Astley famous?
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Think female and still possibly relevant. Solo and group.
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Think female and still possibly relevant. Solo and group.
Is it T-Boz?!?!?
Are you under confidentiality that you can't tell us or do you just want to see Jingle struggle? I'm good either way.
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Bit of both. I shouldn't say it... but I also like watching people wonder :lol
She came in. Was really sweet. Called me sweetie and wished me a Happy Thanksgiving.
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Bit of both. I shouldn't say it... but I also like watching people wonder :lol
She came in. Was really sweet. Called me sweetie and wished me a Happy Thanksgiving.
Give her the ol' ariich and sex her later
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Bit of both. I shouldn't say it... but I also like watching people wonder :lol
She came in. Was really sweet. Called me sweetie and wished me a Happy Thanksgiving.
So, compared to the public persona, hot or not?
My guess: Salt and/or Peppa.
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It's pretty obviously T-Boz.
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She's the only female in the musical group she's a part of...
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She's the only female in the musical group she's a part of...
Geddy Lee?
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She's the only female in the musical group she's a part of...
Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde)? (I'm pushing the boundaries of "relevant", though)
Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)?
Debbie Harry (Blondie)? (And if so, I reiterate my question; I saw a live video of them from a couple years ago and was BLOWN AWAY that Debbie Harry was 70. I was actually lusting over a 70-year old.)
Shirley Manson (Garbage). (Same without the creepy and embarrassing "70 year old" part).
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Gwen Staffani?
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Gwen Staffani?
If that's so, no doubt Jay's gotta a staff goin too.
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I'd holla back...
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I wish. Apparently my dad has a closet crush on Gwen. Like when we cleaned out his apartment after his death, we found like a shrine to her.
Think more hip hop ish.
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Fergie
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Lauryn Hill?
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Fergie
My guess
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Ed Sheeran.
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RuPaul
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Fergie
Yup yup.
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shut up just shut up shut up
Happy Thanksgiving DTF :yarr
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Happy thanksgiving guys!
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Morning guys. Yesterday really took the cake as far as Thanksgivings go. I don't think the in-laws will be coming back soon.
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Morning guys. Yesterday really took the cake as far as Thanksgivings go. I don't think the in-laws will be coming back soon.
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oh yes please :lol you got to tell the story now
We had a bit of our own shit show here in Jacksonville, my parents bought a used golf cart and after some drinks the 5 of us went out for a ride around the neighborhood and it broke down about 1.5 miles from the house :lol leaving us to push it somewhere safe and walking home.
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kid no calls/ no shows. These kids, i just don't get them.
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Alright so here we go!
My gf’s parents are all around miserable people, they are super hard to please and are alwaysbglass half empty. Their daughter, my gfs younger sister, is the same.
So yesterday my gfs sister arrives to our house for thanksgiving and gets into an argument with her mom because her mom made apple pie and she made an apple crisp. Ridiculous, I know. So later they might my gfs mom is still pouting because her daughter yelled at her for making an apple pie so while throwing herself a pity party she decides they (the parents) are going to leave Friday morning because they feel unwelcome (instead of staying the weekend. This erupts into another huge argument that lasted about an hour andnkn the end her parents left at 8pm. They stormed out of the house with their suitcases and drove off. I sat back and drank the entire time. Bother parties (sister and parents) are to blame because they are both a like. They love seeing themselves as victims and the most unlucky humans to walk the earth.
I’m glad they left but I alsonwont be doing any holidays with either of them anymore. This is how every holiday turns out to be, screaming and crying. I’m over it.
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So you have a bat shit crazy in-laws like I do Reap. I feel your pain.
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Geeze like what's the point? Why let apple pie ruin thanksgiving
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I'm more important than you are. It's about me.
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I'm more important than you are. It's about me.
Everybody already knows that about you King... no need to rub it in!!! :lol
Families are the worst sometimes. I wish I had a r.ship with my families that some do (eg, King and his bro), but I'm not about to roll over and let people behave however they want in order to try and appease them. I could write a dissertation on the problems with my brother and father. We threw in the towel quite some time ago - I haven't spoke with by brother since March of '17; and other than a couple of emails with my dad about his savings for jingle.kids' schooling, nothing with him since August of '17.
Mrs.jingle is even more disenchanted with her siblings and father. We're a pretty tight-knit foursome, and have learned to make that the best for us.
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All bow to the King! :lol
My brother and i have different opinions and views all the time but we do not let that turn in pettiness and bad behavior. I'm glad for that. He's softened up big time with the birth of his son. I'm makes my tear up seeing the job he has with his son.
My wife's side is very vindictive as Chad has heard in our conversations. I will never treat a good person poorly like I've seen firsthand.
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Good Morning Peeps.
I think yesterday was the calmest Thanksgiving I've had in years. My girlfriend's Dad's girlfriend is out of the country, and her son is out traveling somewhere as well, so it was just the 3 of us (my gf, her dad, and myself). We just sat around eating cold ham, chips and dip, turkey, and potato salad while watching movies on her dad's 75 inch 4k LED tv. Black Panther, Unforgiven and one other. It was nice. I just wish I didn't have work today so I could have stayed later and finished the last movie we were watching.
I am far from a fan of big family gatherings (I really hate the Holidays). I always seem like an afterthought for family gatherings.. like my aunt invited me over to her house on Thanksgiving morning by commenting on a FB post I made about Thanksgiving. Happens every year.
kid no calls/ no shows. These kids, i just don't get them.
Thought I had one on Wednesday. This new guy was supposed to be in at 10pm Wed night for graveyard training. He didn't come in until 11. He told me he didn't realize he was supposed to be in at 10, as the normal grave shift starts at 11. I had explained to him the day before that my night lead works from 9p-530a, and I wanted him there to work with him. I even made a schedule for him and gave it to him that reflects this.
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Just got the word he was arrested. Since it's the Holiday weekend he's locked up until Monday. Who knows what for.
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Just got the word he was arrested. Since it's the Holiday weekend he's locked up until Monday. Who knows what for.
oi
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What a great last two days it's been. Thanksgiving was awesome, we had the entirety of my mom's family under the same roof for the first time in probably 5 years, and including the babies two of my cousins had celebrating their first Thanksgiving it was 29 of us (plus my hosting aunt's in-laws who we've known for a long time). My uncle who was hosting does not mess around when it comes to food/drink, so among the highlights were a prime rib that was cooked sous vide to perfection, a deep fried turkey, a giant tray of delicious stuffing, and earlier in the day an entire cured pork leg that was mounted up for on demand sliced prosciutto. There was also a 6L bottle of a really nice 2007 cabernet waiting on the table for us when we got there, poor bottle didn't even last until dinner was ready :hat :lol Then today I was up early and in the city for a Black Friday beer release. Bottles on sale at 9am, then I went off to get breakfast, then back for a bunch of special keg tappings at noon. Made it home mid afternoon and then napped until family from my dad's side came over for dinner. More eating, drinking, and general merriment followed.
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Do you know what you need today?
HEAVY METAL ORGAN!!! :metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXuIY-cynwE
Check their channel, lot of classic songs!
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kid no calls/ no shows. These kids, i just don't get them.
Some people really can't grasp the idea of showing up to work every day and showing up on time.
We have a guy at work who was recently told that he needs to get better at not calling in so much. I looked at the work calendar and he has 11 call-ins this year :eek :eek :eek :eek.
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Yea I can't believe people can't show up either. It doesn't get any better at corporate either. We have a woman who works with us who is always at least 30 minutes late, usually an hour. She has been spoken to many, many times about it but she still doesn't give a fuck.
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I get paid by the hour, if I dont show up I dont get paid. If that's not enough incentive to go to work, I'm not sure how to help you.
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kid no calls/ no shows. These kids, i just don't get them.
Some people really can't grasp the idea of showing up to work every day and showing up on time.
We have a guy at work who was recently told that he needs to get better at not calling in so much. I looked at the work calendar and he has 11 call-ins this year :eek :eek :eek :eek.
This one kid said recently that he didn't want to be pushed.
We were just training him. Now I'm pushing after hearing that.
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Every time I read about your work King I get flashbacks to when I ran the hotel and the insane turnover I'd have.
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Didn't want to be pushed? :lol
That sounds like a translation for, "I don't want to work hard, and if you make me, I will cry."
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All of that guys, all of that. America is lazy. So damn lazy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMGz3sXRhvE
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As do I. The stories I could tell from my wife's side. Tge whole family is so messed up. Makes me appreciate my parents so much.
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Can't believe it's Sunday :(
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I can't believe it's not butter.
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You could say that about a chair.
I can't believe it's not butter.
https://youtu.be/Ymgcsi0mTDA
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Sleeping in my bed instead of a couch for the first time all week = amazing.
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Greetings and salutations
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Greetings John
We are at a place called Smash in Jacksonville that has ping pong and NFL Sunday ticket so watching the giants game and drinking Yeungling with the family. We had a family member pass away last night back home so my parents are trying to get on my flight home tomorrow but all the shits booked or stupid expensive since its after the holidays. Tomorrow is not going to be a good day.
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John. Howdy.
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Marc, Joe... What's the good word?
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Work engulfing my life. Shorthanded, counts through the roof. I love the holidays.
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Oh, right. It's your season for insanity.
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And it is. Boss here Tuesday.
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I thought you were el jefe.
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I am. We have an area manager in charge of sites. I'm one site of 9 under him. Every boss has a boss.
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I am. We have an area manager in charge of sites. I'm one site of 9 under him. Every boss has a boss.
Like a boss.
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He has a boss and he has a boss and he has a...
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I am. We have an area manager in charge of sites. I'm one site of 9 under him. Every boss has a boss.
That's perverse!
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:lol
You should know.
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40,000 posts. No wonder you're so inundated at work. ;)
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I'm a post whore and work gets in the way!
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40,000 posts. No wonder you're so inundated at work. ;)
:lol
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Great morning so far, couldn't sleep and was sweating a lot then I puked my brains out and now still sweating and feeling half out of it but on my flight home. Luckily this isnt a long flight. I need my bed.
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Good morning peeps.
I totally feel the shorthandedness. I actually double filled an empty shift last night... because I forgot I had already filled it. Oops...
I am trying to convince MY boss to let me promote 2 people to help me with everything here. It's overwhelming sometimes.
I'm also getting certified with Rover to do dog walks / sitting and house sitting just in time for Christmas. Sad thing is if I put enough effort into it... I could probably make almost as much money doing that a week as I do at my normal job. My girlfriend has been doing it as a side income and is booked so full that she can't take anyone else.. including repeats clients, which she will start referring to me. She's made about a grand over the last few weeks, and that's with limiting her bookings to a certain # a day.
Hell, that in combined with like Uber or something and I'd be set.
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Hey, everyone. Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.
*reads last couple of pages on everyone's Thanksgiving*
Uh, fuck.
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I had a lovely week last week.
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This week will blow.
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That's the spirit.
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This week will blow.
Let me console you. My week started paying taxes. :censored
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I'm bitching to you guys because I can't do that in front of my employees. I don't want them to feed off of the negativity so I'll be positive in front of them.
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I'm bitching to you guys because I can't do that in front of my employees. I don't want them to feel off of the negativity so I'll be positive in front of them.
Fuck that. I'll be negative right to my employee's faces!
Well 2 of them.
They are close friends... so it works. :lol
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:lol
No good friends here so I can't do that.
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I'm bitching to you guys because I can't do that in front of my employees. I don't want them to feed off of the negativity so I'll be positive in front of them.
So the week will positively blow.
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Yup.
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This week will blow.
That's what every Bruins fan is saying today. :neverusethis:
It's go-time King/TAC.
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Least of my problems this week. Lol
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Definitely will be watching the game.
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Ugh, what a shitty start to the week in the office. Hooray for my couch :lol
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Things are slowing down finally at work. I think we have one minor release in December and we are done for the year.
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I'm back at work today and solo until next year as my coworker took his sabatical, plus a week off, plus we get the last week of the year off so he's got it real good while I hold down the fort. This is going to be a busy month. Things are starting to change with our new overlords as well, starting with our travel and expense policy. Looks mostly similar so far except I can fly business class for anything over 4 hours which is nice, but I may not be able to use United/IHG which means my status with them can be in jeopardy next year. I'll have to see since I won't be booking any new travel until 2019. Also it sounds like I'll be getting a company card and no longer able to earn those sweet credit card points I've been getting by using my own card for work expenses.
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Also it sounds like I'll be getting a company card and no longer able to earn those sweet credit card points I've been getting by using my own card for work expenses.
That sucks. My father used to travel at least once a month before he retired. My mother is afraid to fly, so my dad never used any of the perks he earned. They have a hookup for a house on Cape Cod, so they never even need a hotel. In the last 6 or 7 years, with the exception of my recent trip to Ireland, my sister and I have gone (not together) on probably 8-10 vacations. We haven't had to pay for a single hotel room, flight, or rental car. That goes for the guests we brought as well. We just booked all our stuff through his Southwest, Marriott, and Enterprise accounts.
That's a pretty sweet perk for a company to offer without having to actually lose anything from their bottom line. My dad received literally tens of thousands of dollars worth of free vacationing perks.
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Wow that's pretty awesome that those perks are still going for so long
I will still be able to earn the miles or hotel points since those are tied to your name, not credit card, I just don't know yet if United or IHG are preferred vendors. I have to book through their system and use their hotels and airlines so I can't just pick like I've been doing. Although my coworker uses a Delta card to get more miles, he won't be able to get those bonus miles anymore.
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Also it sounds like I'll be getting a company card and no longer able to earn those sweet credit card points I've been getting by using my own card for work expenses.
That sucks. My father used to travel at least once a month before he retired. My mother is afraid to fly, so my dad never used any of the perks he earned. They have a hookup for a house on Cape Cod, so they never even need a hotel. In the last 6 or 7 years, with the exception of my recent trip to Ireland, my sister and I have gone (not together) on probably 8-10 vacations. We haven't had to pay for a single hotel room, flight, or rental car. That goes for the guests we brought as well. We just booked all our stuff through his Southwest, Marriott, and Enterprise accounts.
That's a pretty sweet perk for a company to offer without having to actually lose anything from their bottom line. My dad received literally tens of thousands of dollars worth of free vacationing perks.
My gf travels every week for work as well and the number of points she has is insane, I think she just earned executive platinum with AA. Whenever we travel I always joke that I'm always in cattle class while she is constantly upgraded to first class and hops in her presidents circle car rental. It's pretty cool.
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Morning, peeps.
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Morning, peeps.
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Also it sounds like I'll be getting a company card and no longer able to earn those sweet credit card points I've been getting by using my own card for work expenses.
That sucks. My father used to travel at least once a month before he retired. My mother is afraid to fly, so my dad never used any of the perks he earned. They have a hookup for a house on Cape Cod, so they never even need a hotel. In the last 6 or 7 years, with the exception of my recent trip to Ireland, my sister and I have gone (not together) on probably 8-10 vacations. We haven't had to pay for a single hotel room, flight, or rental car. That goes for the guests we brought as well. We just booked all our stuff through his Southwest, Marriott, and Enterprise accounts.
That's a pretty sweet perk for a company to offer without having to actually lose anything from their bottom line. My dad received literally tens of thousands of dollars worth of free vacationing perks.
My gf travels every week for work as well and the number of points she has is insane, I think she just earned executive platinum with AA. Whenever we travel I always joke that I'm always in cattle class while she is constantly upgraded to first class and hops in her presidents circle car rental. It's pretty cool.
so baller, I was #25 on the upgrade list for my United flight Monday morning :lol so not baller
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Morning, peeps.
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You've always been my favorite.
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G'morning all.
I don't travel very often for work (though I should be getting a trip to Ireland out of it next year :D), but I wish they would let me use my own card when I did. Not surprising though that a company in the credit card business is going to make you use theirs though I guess.
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G'morning all.
I don't travel very often for work (though I should be getting a trip to Ireland out of it next year :D), but I wish they would let me use my own card when I did. Not surprising though that a company in the credit card business is going to make you use theirs though I guess.
That's only part of it, though. There are discounts through the cards that corporations use, as well as insurance coverages. I'm in trains, and I can't use a personal card (though there are ambiguities when it's not a hotel, airfare or car rental).
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I traveled to Walmart once a month for work... does that count :lol
Also... good afternoon peeps!
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Good morning.
Andrea Bocelli concert tonight!
Mrs. P is so excited that I'm concerned she may spontaneously happen during the show. Then I'll need to perform when we get back home... where did I put that bottle of Long Jack Natural Balance pills?
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:lol someones having a good time later tonight
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Nice
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:lol someones having a good time later tonight
There's a joke in there somewhere, though. :) :)
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:lol someones having a good time later tonight
There's a joke in there somewhere, though. :) :)
As long as that's not what the Mrs is saying to Podaar tonight :lol
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Let's hope you can hold a note like him. :lol
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I love you guys, so much! :-*
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I just spent the last 5 or 6 hours with our company's new "Accounts Coordinator". She came up here thinking she's going to educate me on how to prevent Overtime... But I really don't think I learned ANYTHING from her. Like... She insinuated that there's a shit load of OT going out because I wasn't giving part time employees hours and cut them off... No... The reason there is so much OT is the fact that I'm severely understaffed....
It's going to be interesting working with her.
Also noteworthy: she's smoking hot. She arrived wearing a low ish cut blouse... And we spent most of the day basically face to face talking... It was hard to not even accidently glance down.... But I prevailed! She also had like the most beautiful eyes. Holy shit. But she also seems like someone you don't want to piss off.
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What a weekend. Flew out to Chicago yesterday morning with Nick and Jen, met up with Splent and hit a couple breweries, got some delicious Chicago deep dish casserole, and then saw the last Haken/Leprous/Bent Knee show of the tour. Got up this morning and spent more time at O'Hare aiport than anticipated because of a plane delay, but now I'm home and brewing a batch of oatmeal stout.
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Brewing? Damn Bill, I'd be gassed!
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I'm sure I'll be yawning at my desk tomorrow :lol
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Morning guys. Didn't get any sleep last night. Going to be a long day.
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Hey hey my my
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What up Heferino?!
Blob, get your but in here. What's shakin' down under these days?
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Chillin'
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Chillin'
Hey.
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Hey gang.
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Morning
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How goes it?
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My brother went on vacation so I got the house to myself for the rest of the week, always feels so nice to get that alone time at home. I'll probably blast a concert blu ray tonight while having a beer doing my laundry. That's my excitement for today.
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That doesn't sound half bad, though, bud.
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That doesn't sound half bad, though, bud.
No it does not, I'm kind of excited :lol I got my new Lacuna Coil blu-ray and she is looking fantastic so I think it'll be a fun watch and nice way to relax while getting the laundry done on a Wednesday night. And I picked up a 6 pack of Purple Haze beer the other night too. Here's a sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zntJOEvoM78 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zntJOEvoM78)
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That doesn't sound half bad, though, bud.
Seconded.
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... always feels so nice to get that alone time at home. I'll probably blast a concert blu ray tonight while having a beer doing my laundry. That's my excitement for today.
That doesn't sound half bad, though, bud.
Rite?? Throw in a fap session, and that sounds like my ideal evening. Protip... do the laundry after that.
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Jesus christ, 2.5 weeks until my mandatory 2 week vacation and it can't come soon enough :censored
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You know what sucks? Applying for post-doctoral fellowship positions.
Carry on.
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Chad, af your age you'd need a nap after fapping. Better get the laundry done before your 3 minutes of pleasure.
You know what sucks? Applying for post-doctoral fellowship positions.
Carry on.
Better fap after applying.
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:lol
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You know what sucks? Applying for post-doctoral fellowship positions.
I've heard that before, but then Mrs. P has research groups actively courting her to join their projects. Do you think the difference is because she's in Education?
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Jesus christ, 2.5 weeks until my mandatory 2 week vacation and it can't come soon enough :censored
Our company has "forced" holidays between Boxing Day (which is a Stat Holiday up here) and New Year's. Given I still have 5 vaca days to use up, I'm gonna have a solid 2 weeks off from the 18th to the 2nd. And like I'm going to be thinking about work much on the 17th! Basically off from the 14th to the 2nd.
Woot, fucking Woot.
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We get the week between Christmas and New Years off at work, so I am defintiely looking forward to my staycation. My coworker used a week of vacation, plus the week at the end of the year, plus his 3 week sabatical and he's been out for a couple weeks already and wont be back till next year. That's kind of insane how that worked out for him, sucks for me picking up his slack while he's gone.... but my sabbatical is next year so pay back is a bitch.
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Interviewed a guy today who would be an awesome fit. Problem is he can't start for 2 weeks... meaning I have to keep interviewing people and try to fill it before he's able to start. FeelsBadMan.jpg
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Jesus christ, 2.5 weeks until my mandatory 2 week vacation and it can't come soon enough :censored
Our company has "forced" holidays between Boxing Day (which is a Stat Holiday up here) and New Year's. Given I still have 5 vaca days to use up, I'm gonna have a solid 2 weeks off from the 18th to the 2nd. And like I'm going to be thinking about work much on the 17th! Basically off from the 14th to the 2nd.
Woot, fucking Woot.
Yeah, our company has a fraud prevention thing where if your work function makes you eligible (and you get enough time off) you're required to take off two consecutive weeks at some point every year. They're strict about it too, so much as logging in remotely to check your emails would be a huge deal. This was my first year subject to the policy, and nobody told me that until like the end of July, so I have to take it over the holidays/into 2019 because I only have limited days off left. My last day will be the 21st and then I'm not back in the office until January 7th. Going to Netflix and beer so hard for two weeks :hat
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My father has that same thing working in the financial business. It's a nice perk, a forced two weeks away thats not vacation time.
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My father has that same thing working in the financial business. It's a nice perk, a forced two weeks away thats not vacation time.
That's the rub though, I have to use vacation time.
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My father has that same thing working in the financial business. It's a nice perk, a forced two weeks away thats not vacation time.
That's the rub though, I have to use vacation time.
oh really? My father has had this for as long as I can remember and he always made it seem like it was not against his vacation time. I haven't asked him about that directly in who knows how long though. That kind of stinks then to not have the option to break your vacation down from those two weeks.
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Vacation time?
What's that?
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Jesus christ, 2.5 weeks until my mandatory 2 week vacation and it can't come soon enough :censored
Our company has "forced" holidays between Boxing Day (which is a Stat Holiday up here) and New Year's. Given I still have 5 vaca days to use up, I'm gonna have a solid 2 weeks off from the 18th to the 2nd. And like I'm going to be thinking about work much on the 17th! Basically off from the 14th to the 2nd.
Woot, fucking Woot.
Yeah, our company has a fraud prevention thing where if your work function makes you eligible (and you get enough time off) you're required to take off two consecutive weeks at some point every year. They're strict about it too, so much as logging in remotely to check your emails would be a huge deal. This was my first year subject to the policy, and nobody told me that until like the end of July, so I have to take it over the holidays/into 2019 because I only have limited days off left. My last day will be the 21st and then I'm not back in the office until January 7th. Going to Netflix and beer so hard for two weeks :hat
Why is that? I seem to have vague recollections of a fraud scheme that required someone to basically update numbers or something every week; is this a way of interrupting routines that may be covering up an anomaly somewhere?
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That doesn't sound half bad, though, bud.
Seconded.
Not half bad at all
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My father has that same thing working in the financial business. It's a nice perk, a forced two weeks away thats not vacation time.
That's the rub though, I have to use vacation time.
oh really? My father has had this for as long as I can remember and he always made it seem like it was not against his vacation time. I haven't asked him about that directly in who knows how long though. That kind of stinks then to not have the option to break your vacation down from those two weeks.
Oh I get plenty more time beyond that, 22 vacation days and 6 sick days total every year. I'm just usually much more into taking a day or two here or there than longer chunks of time. I already told my parents that for next year if they want me to come on a family vacation it has to be the week before or after my homebrewers conference so I can knock out my two week leave :lol
Jesus christ, 2.5 weeks until my mandatory 2 week vacation and it can't come soon enough :censored
Our company has "forced" holidays between Boxing Day (which is a Stat Holiday up here) and New Year's. Given I still have 5 vaca days to use up, I'm gonna have a solid 2 weeks off from the 18th to the 2nd. And like I'm going to be thinking about work much on the 17th! Basically off from the 14th to the 2nd.
Woot, fucking Woot.
Yeah, our company has a fraud prevention thing where if your work function makes you eligible (and you get enough time off) you're required to take off two consecutive weeks at some point every year. They're strict about it too, so much as logging in remotely to check your emails would be a huge deal. This was my first year subject to the policy, and nobody told me that until like the end of July, so I have to take it over the holidays/into 2019 because I only have limited days off left. My last day will be the 21st and then I'm not back in the office until January 7th. Going to Netflix and beer so hard for two weeks :hat
Why is that? I seem to have vague recollections of a fraud scheme that required someone to basically update numbers or something every week; is this a way of interrupting routines that may be covering up an anomaly somewhere?
Yeah, that's basically the idea, if you're doing something you shouldn't (or not doing something you should) and they make you stop for two consecutive weeks, they'll be able to pick up on it. They're normally very lax about tracking time off, but when it comes to your annual mandatory leave they're super on top of it.
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Evening guys.
Seems like everyone is taking time off in December. Most people at my job are gone too but that's because people save their vacation time for December. I'd rather work, it's so slow that I just watch youtube all day.
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Morning
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Howdy hef
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Morning
Hey.
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Morning, gotta stock up on milk and bread this weekend, we are expecting snow.
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Morning, gotta stock up on milk and bread this weekend, we are expecting snow.
damn, just checked and my weekend weather looks good, but I am doing a quick 20 hour trip to LA, the weather looks even better there.
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We're getting snow this weekend.
Fuck.
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We're getting snow this weekend.
Fuck.
I wish we were; all that is going south of us. :tdwn
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Morning, gotta stock up on milk and bread this weekend, we are expecting snow.
damn, just checked and my weekend weather looks good, but I am doing a quick 20 hour trip to LA, the weather looks even better there.
It's been pretty nice out here minus the rain... which you shall be missing.
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We're getting snow this weekend.
Fuck.
Yup, the grocery stores were already packed here. Need some milk bread to ride out this snow.
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Morning. No heat and the furnace not working.
57 degrees in the house. It's freezing.
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The snow that came yesterday morning has now vanished with the rain.
I just finished decorating the tree (and that's not a euphemism).
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Let's get those Holiday avatar's up people!
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Morning. No heat and the furnace not working.
57 degrees in the house. It's freezing.
Bundle up thats rough man hope it can get fixed soon.
Just boarded my flight to LA, surprisingly there was no one standing by the entrance waiting to board. I dont think I've seen a flight where people didnt rush to board. It's also not full so that may be a reason, theres an empty middle seat next to me. I am so happy.
I got a bunch of music last night, the new AFI ep, the Greta Van Fleet album, I finally got Siamise Dream from Smashing Pumpkins, and also picked up their new album. All bands playing tonight so I've got a nice 6 hour flight to listen to all this now :metal
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Morning. No heat and the furnace not working.
57 degrees in the house. It's freezing.
I had that happen yesterday, and noticed that the thermostat had a message "reset" on it. I got in the crawl-space, flipped the power off to the furnace, paused 30 seconds, flipped the power back on and viola. Furnace works.
I hope yours is as easy to remedy.
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Did that. Nothing. So time to pay crazy weekend labor rates.
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Let's get those Holiday avatar's up people!
Done.
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Let's get those Holiday avatar's up people!
Can someone take my avatar and add snowfall to it? Seriously.
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Christmas Bender!
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Let's get those Holiday avatar's up people!
Can someone take my avatar and add snowfall to it? Seriously.
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Let's get those Holiday avatar's up people!
Can someone take my avatar and add snowfall to it? Seriously.
I'd like to ask you TAC, where is that picture from? If my memory is correct, Dream Theater did support Iron Maiden on American leg(s) of the Fear of the Dark tour.
Nice work as usual, Zydar.
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Let's get those Holiday avatar's up people!
Can someone take my avatar and add snowfall to it? Seriously.
I'd like to ask you TAC, where is that picture from? If my memory is correct, Dream Theater did support Iron Maiden on American leg(s) of the Fear of the Dark tour.
Nice work as usual, Zydar.
Ruba, it was only one show. The was taken outside of The Ritz in NYC on 6/8/92. The day Dream Theater changed my world.
And yes, I like it Zydar!
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Let's get those Holiday avatar's up people!
Can someone take my avatar and add snowfall to it? Seriously.
I'd like to ask you TAC, where is that picture from? If my memory is correct, Dream Theater did support Iron Maiden on American leg(s) of the Fear of the Dark tour.
Nice work as usual, Zydar.
Ruba, it was only one show. The was taken outside of The Ritz in NYC on 6/8/92. The day Dream Theater changed my world.
And yes, I like it Zydar!
Yeah I checked it now myself. You sure were lucky to catch them then, arguably at their best. I'm envious.
Although Corrosion of Conformity was opening for them for most of the American leg, that wouldn't have been half bad either. :biggrin:
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Unfortunately, it was an abbreviated US tour. they never did make it back to the Northeast.
I saw COC open for Metallica on the Load tour.
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Morning. No heat and the furnace not working.
57 degrees in the house. It's freezing.
What happened?
Our heat has gone out for the past few years. We have a brand new house that we built and the apparently the builders didn't insulate any of the lines so they'd freeze. It was only after threat of lawsuit did they finally fix it.
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Morning. No heat and the furnace not working.
57 degrees in the house. It's freezing.
Missed this Joe. You must be all set now, right?
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Morning. No heat and the furnace not working.
57 degrees in the house. It's freezing.
It was -22 degrees earlier in the week.
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Yes. Cold morning even with our wood burning stove. It took a while to warm up.
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Hey folks!
I caught CNN's documentary The Nineties by chance tonight as someone at work was watching it here, it actually caught me off guard, I realized I know and remember every song and pop culture phenomena from the 90's and that I was highly engaged with the vast majority of it back then, unlike what my memory has been telling me, odd thing..
Now another documentary, The 2000's, is on and I realize that I still think of the early 2000's as "ten years ago" and it's totally not heh
/rant
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Hey folks!
I caught CNN's documentary The Nineties by chance tonight as someone at work was watching it here, it actually caught me off guard, I realized I know and remember every song and pop culture phenomena from the 90's and that I was highly engaged with the vast majority of it back then, unlike what my memory has been telling me, odd thing..
Now another documentary, The 2000's, is on and I realize that I still think of the early 2000's as "ten years ago" and it's totally not heh
/rant
It's a whole series that they put on (for each decade from the '60s to the '00s), with 7 different episodes/themes for each. I've seen a lot of them, and they are quite interesting.
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I've watched them as well. Well done.
Morning.
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Hey folks!
I caught CNN's documentary The Nineties by chance tonight as someone at work was watching it here, it actually caught me off guard, I realized I know and remember every song and pop culture phenomena from the 90's and that I was highly engaged with the vast majority of it back then, unlike what my memory has been telling me, odd thing..
Now another documentary, The 2000's, is on and I realize that I still think of the early 2000's as "ten years ago" and it's totally not heh
/rant
It's a whole series that they put on (for each decade from the '60s to the '00s), with 7 different episodes/themes for each. I've seen a lot of them, and they are quite interesting.
I need a watch some of these series.
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Howdy all.
Taking it easy on the couch today after a marathon holiday party that my buddy throws every year. Got to his house and had my first beer at 10:15am and got in my Uber to come home a little after midnight. Much fun and merriment was had/made.
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I saw the beers. You need a break. Lol
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I'm half dead myself after getting home late this afternoon from LA, the whole day in LA just feels like a daze now, but goddamn was that an intense trip. Such a fun time, I'd totally go back to one of these shows again.
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Just got some Christmas shopping done online. I'm just buying for my nieces and nephew every year. They're in their teens so all they want is gift cards - simple and awesome for me :tup
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Just got some Christmas shopping done online. I'm just buying for my nieces and nephew every year. They're in their teens so all they want is gift cards - simple and awesome for me :tup
My nephew wants the Bruins to win the Stanley Cup for Christmas. Gift cards are so much easier. LOL
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:lol
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:lol
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G'morning all.
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Good Morning peeps
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Good morning, this year we are doing no gifts except something for my brother and my parents, my gf's parents and her sister. It's a huge weight off my shoulders.
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I'm going to be an uncle any day now, my little sister is expecting her first baby. She's due tomorrow (12th).
I first became an uncle 22 years ago, but it's always exciting when it happens.
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My brother married late in life and has a 6 year old boy and it's a joy seeing him grow at my age. So smart for a 6 year old.
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I'm going to be an uncle any day now, my little sister is expecting her first baby. She's due tomorrow (12th).
I first became an uncle 22 years ago, but it's always exciting when it happens.
Congrats!
My brother married late in life and has a 6 year old boy and it's a joy seeing him grow at my age. So smart for a 6 year old.
My little sister has two irish twin girl babies (11 months apart and the oldest is 16 months). Crazy how much life changes and the family grows. Going to be cool watching my neices grow up especially since I'm not sure I plan on having children.
Good morning, this year we are doing no gifts except something for my brother and my parents, my gf's parents and her sister. It's a huge weight off my shoulders.
Yea actually same thing here. Speaking of my sister and nieces, since my sister and her husband kind of struggle for money with the two babies plus my parents expenses for coming up from JAX for the holidays, we've all pretty much agreed as a family that gifts this year will just be for the nieces and none of the siblings or parents will exchange gifts. Sounds good to me.
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Good Morning Peeps!
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Jay Jay!!
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DYNOMITE!!
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Good evening ladies and gents
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Bill. Having some single grain Irish Whiskey on the rocks right now.
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Bill. Having some single grain Irish Whiskey on the rocks right now.
Nice. I'm looking forward to a Vermont trip this weekend :hat
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Hot damn. The Christmas run. I forgot. Same as usual?
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Hot damn. The Christmas run. I forgot. Same as usual?
Sadly no Tree House this year. The original plan was just a same day TH trip with my cousin, but he had to bail, so I jumped in with two of my friends who are in Hill's Collected Works society and going up for pickups this weekend. Current itinerary is to leave Friday morning and hit the new Lawson's spot, Mad River Tacos for lunch, then Hill, then back to Waterbury for the night. Then Saturday we hit Hill, Parker Pie, Alchemist, Von Trapp, Doc's, and back to Waterbury. Should be a great weekend.
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That new Lawson's place is beautiful. 2 beer highlights are Maple Nipple & Triple Sunshine.
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Maple Nipple mmmmm
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:zydar:
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Maple Nipple mmmmm
Lol.
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Gahhhhhhh
What the hell is up with people not showing up for interviews? Cleared essentially the whole middle of my day because I had someone scheduled to interview this morning. Never came in. No call. No email. Nothing.
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Similar note: I'm selling one of my pickup trucks. I've had easily 60% of the people that say they want to look at it just dust me. I rearranged my schedule to be at the house to meet you and you can't even drop a quick text "No can do, amigo"?
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No one cares anymore, it's all about me
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Gahhhhhhh
What the hell is up with people not showing up for interviews? Cleared essentially the whole middle of my day because I had someone scheduled to interview this morning. Never came in. No call. No email. Nothing.
67% of all interviews didn't show up for me this year. I kid you not.
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Gahhhhhhh
What the hell is up with people not showing up for interviews? Cleared essentially the whole middle of my day because I had someone scheduled to interview this morning. Never came in. No call. No email. Nothing.
67% of all interviews didn't show up for me this year. I kid you not.
That's brutal. Forget about the politics of it ("income inequality" and what not), but just the common human decency.
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Gahhhhhhh
What the hell is up with people not showing up for interviews? Cleared essentially the whole middle of my day because I had someone scheduled to interview this morning. Never came in. No call. No email. Nothing.
67% of all interviews didn't show up for me this year. I kid you not.
I blame social media.
And also Stadler.
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His circular posting would drive people away.
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That new Lawson's place is beautiful. 2 beer highlights are Maple Nipple & Triple Sunshine.
Yeah, looking forward to checking out their new space for sure. Also really excited to visit Von Trapp, their lagers are *so* good.
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That new Lawson's place is beautiful. 2 beer highlights are Maple Nipple & Triple Sunshine.
Yeah, looking forward to checking out their new space for sure. Also really excited to visit Von Trapp, their lagers are *so* good.
I love their porch, standing in the cold, drinking beers.
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ANOTHER NO SHOW. That's 2 in 2 days.
Apparently the interviewee yesterday called after I had left on Tuesday, was very rude to one of my employees, asking if driving was involved with the job. After being told that the minimum would be driving a golf cart, he said "I'm not allowed to drive, I can't do job" and hung up. My employee didn't mention to to me because she didn't realize this was the same person I had scheduled, and I didn't see her again until this morning.
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Happy Weekend. I'm practically on vacation now. About 30% of my job is responding to BS internal requests from my boss, and he's on vacation in Australia until Jan 8th. Oh happy month! Plus, it's quarter-end, and my role doesn't have a lot of focus on closing deal - since most of our leadership has their eye on that ball, I ain't getting pestered by them for anything. Lastly, my customer pretty much shuts down before/during/after the Christmas period, so no body from that side is bugging me for anything. Basically, I have nothing to do. I did about 2 hrs worth of work yesterday, and it's looking about the same on Monday. Then, off until Jan 2nd. :fistpump:
Gonna go see Spider-verse today, and have about 4 other movies on the docket with jingle.son (who's home from college for 3 weeks now); jingle.daughter gets home on Thursday after her last exam.
:happydance:
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I woke up to a kid telling my production manager that he's giving his notice then walks out on break.
I hate humanity.
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Humans conform to sturgeon's law
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Yup.
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I woke up to a kid telling my production manager that he's giving his notice then walks out on break.
I hate humanity.
Yeah, but do you have heat?
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Gonna go see Spider-verse today, and have about 4 other movies on the docket with jingle.son (who's home from college for 3 weeks now); jingle.daughter gets home on Thursday after her last exam.
That's cool. I used to love going to the movies. But The Lovely Mrs TAC absolutely hates it! She loves Queen, so she said she wants to see that one.
The new Clint Eastwood movie looks awesome.
I just burned a week's worth of vacation time this past week. It's a use it or lose it kind of thing. Back to work Monday.
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Gonna go see Spider-verse today, and have about 4 other movies on the docket with jingle.son (who's home from college for 3 weeks now); jingle.daughter gets home on Thursday after her last exam.
That's cool. I used to love going to the movies. But The Lovely Mr TAC absolutely hates it! She loves Queen, so she said she wants to see that one.
The new Clint Eastwood movie looks awesome.
I just burned a week's worth of vacation time this past week. It's a use it or lose it kind of thing. Back to work Monday.
I'm so pleased that we've come to the point in our society where men can proudly call each other husband without fear of shame and ridicule.
Spelling, on the other hand is open warfare
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I woke up to a kid telling my production manager that he's giving his notice then walks out on break.
I hate humanity.
Yeah, but do you have heat?
Yeah. Every fucking week is an adventure lately.
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Gonna go see Spider-verse today, and have about 4 other movies on the docket with jingle.son (who's home from college for 3 weeks now); jingle.daughter gets home on Thursday after her last exam.
That's cool. I used to love going to the movies. But The Lovely Mr TAC absolutely hates it! She loves Queen, so she said she wants to see that one.
The new Clint Eastwood movie looks awesome.
I just burned a week's worth of vacation time this past week. It's a use it or lose it kind of thing. Back to work Monday.
I'm so pleased that we've come to the point in our society where men can proudly call each other husband without fear of shame and ridicule.
Spelling, on the other hand is open warfare
Either that, or he's having an internal battle with himself. :lol
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Maybe he goes to movies to love himself ala Pee Wee Herman style.
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:lol at both of you
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Hello all.
So GF's car's water pump took a shit yesterday. Seeing as it's our primary car (mine is a POS and just gets me to and from work), this is a problem that we are scrambling to get fixed.
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That sucks.
Hello, all.
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Today has been really busy... just need to survive this week then break time
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word up
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Howdy all
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Howdy all
Sup bitches!!!!
Got some stuff going on now that I can't talk about pretty much anywhere else, but you guys are in my sacred inner circle so here goes....
After 14 years at my current hotel, I'm finally on the job hunt. Beyond what has become an untenable environment that I don't see getting any better, I'm ready for a gig that will offer me a bit more stability in scheduling and hopefully a good deal less stress. Sitting in Starbucks now, about to hit up my first interview in almost 15 years. Wish me luck fuckers!!! :metal :metal
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You're going to cook at Starbucks? :omg:
Good luck, lonestar!!
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Good luck! I saw that picture of the hundreds of plates on facebook, I wonder if thats when you say "enough is enough" :lol because looking at that made it too much in my mind.
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Good luck, pal!
I will put in a good word for you with the man upstairs.
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Oh no, that wasn't it. I love doing those things. Leading a team to kick ass is right up my alley. It's being in a constraining environment that puts needless obstacles in the way of everything that is driving me fucking batshit, and I'm not the only one. I know a few of the other guys are looking as well. Seems they fucked up the budget projections and now are tightening the noose everywhere to make their bonuses, making us pay for it dearly. That and the fact that I just don't have faith in my boss anymore.
You're going to cook at Starbucks? :omg:
I wish...they couldn't afford me though. I'm actually looking into some companies that run employee cafeterias for the local tech companies. There are three big ones, and they spread themselves all over the place. My bro works over at Adobe systems and is doing really well. I'm interviewing with a corporate chef for one of them at the Lyft headquarters, whose office is right next to AT&T park :GiantsMetal:
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Good luck RJ :hat
3.5 more days until two weeks of sweet, sweet vacation. Gonna blob so much.
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Losing faith in management will make you want to look, makes sense and hope you land one of those gigs at a tech company. I've got to think that's a great spot and would be a fresh environment.
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I've had a few friends jump ship to them as well, and they all seem happy. Guess nights, weekends, and holidays off has its advantages. :lol
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Oh no, that wasn't it. I love doing those things. Leading a team to kick ass is right up my alley. It's being in a constraining environment that puts needless obstacles in the way of everything that is driving me fucking batshit, and I'm not the only one. I know a few of the other guys are looking as well. Seems they fucked up the budget projections and now are tightening the noose everywhere to make their bonuses, making us pay for it dearly. That and the fact that I just don't have faith in my boss anymore.
You're going to cook at Starbucks? :omg:
I wish...they couldn't afford me though. I'm actually looking into some companies that run employee cafeterias for the local tech companies. There are three big ones, and they spread themselves all over the place. My bro works over at Adobe systems and is doing really well. I'm interviewing with a corporate chef for one of them at the Lyft headquarters, whose office is right next to AT&T park :GiantsMetal:
Good luck boss! I think I speak for all of us when I say we'll take samples of your work if you need a "taste-tester"!
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Good luck man!
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I've had a few friends jump ship to them as well, and they all seem happy. Guess nights, weekends, and holidays off has its advantages. :lol
I hear ya since my old jobs had me working nights/weekends/holidays and it wasn't until working for a tech company that I got time off similar to most people.
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Make sure their vacation packages include time off for ProgStock :metal
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I came into work feeling like I was having the beginnings of an anxiety attack over the "zero overtime" rule my new account manager has put into place. She put it into place but has yet to do much to help me fill shifts, as I am severely understaffed. I called the owner of the company and basically told him that I respect what the new account manager is doing, but she needs to take a step back and realize that I've been working this account and for the company for 7 years. I know what I am doing, and I don't appreciate the flak I am getting. I get she's got 250 employees she's got to keep track of, but that's exactly what I am here for. To manage my crew... and if she isn't going to offer anything constructive or to step in and help hire people, then she needs to take a step back. He said she'd talk to her and have her ease up.
I do have good news. I have a lead on a possible account in we can put a bid in at. In theory, if we pick up another big account, I'll get a pay and position bump. Fingers crossed!
Howdy all
Sup bitches!!!!
Got some stuff going on now that I can't talk about pretty much anywhere else, but you guys are in my sacred inner circle so here goes....
After 14 years at my current hotel, I'm finally on the job hunt. Beyond what has become an untenable environment that I don't see getting any better, I'm ready for a gig that will offer me a bit more stability in scheduling and hopefully a good deal less stress. Sitting in Starbucks now, about to hit up my first interview in almost 15 years. Wish me luck fuckers!!! :metal :metal
Good Luck RJ!
I'm hiring btw. If you want a severe pay cut and a huge commute :lol
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Afternoon guys. Finally finished all the stuff I had to do on my list at work for the year and it’s smooth sailing from here on in. I’m going to really enjoy this downtime.
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Speaking of downtime, my gf just decided to start making all these plans, I had to tell her to stop. I am soooo looking forward to downtime next week, and already all but 2 of my days are booked up now. I really just want to chill at home, get some personal shit done that I dont have time to do and mostly rest my mind. All my vacations this year were really active and busy so I haven't had much time this year to just sit back and recharge which I am desperately needing.
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First round went really well, live what they are offering between the compensation and the benefits. Giggity...
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:metal
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Speaking of downtime, my gf just decided to start making all these plans, I had to tell her to stop. I am soooo looking forward to downtime next week, and already all but 2 of my days are booked up now. I really just want to chill at home, get some personal shit done that I dont have time to do and mostly rest my mind. All my vacations this year were really active and busy so I haven't had much time this year to just sit back and recharge which I am desperately needing.
A co-worker just told me she's taking two weeks around the holiday and doing NOTHING. No travel, no plans, just chillin' like Bob Dylan in NYC and man, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous.
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Speaking of downtime, my gf just decided to start making all these plans, I had to tell her to stop. I am soooo looking forward to downtime next week, and already all but 2 of my days are booked up now. I really just want to chill at home, get some personal shit done that I dont have time to do and mostly rest my mind. All my vacations this year were really active and busy so I haven't had much time this year to just sit back and recharge which I am desperately needing.
A co-worker just told me she's taking two weeks around the holiday and doing NOTHING. No travel, no plans, just chillin' like Bob Dylan in NYC and man, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous.
Yeah, this is essentially my plan for my two weeks coming up. Might do a couple random things (e.g. seeing if I can get good seats for a Brooklyn Nets game for cheap at the last minute), but my plan is basically to spend two weeks on the couch with beer and Netflix :hat
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That was my plan for one week :lol
Looks like I'll have a couple days to just chill out still though. Also a couple friends will be home next week so I'm sure some plans will form with the guys. I just so badly want to zone out, been a crazy and super busy year.
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I'm just wrapping up Day 1 of a 15-Day Bolbathon. Started by finishing Sense8's 2.5 hr finale over coffee this morning. Went and saw A Deadpool Christmas with jingle.son. Gonna watch the Springsteen thing on Netflix with mrs.jingle right now. Close it out with the Leafs venting some frustrations in the Devils.
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Way to rub it in :lol
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Howdy all
Sup bitches!!!!
Got some stuff going on now that I can't talk about pretty much anywhere else, but you guys are in my sacred inner circle so here goes....
After 14 years at my current hotel, I'm finally on the job hunt. Beyond what has become an untenable environment that I don't see getting any better, I'm ready for a gig that will offer me a bit more stability in scheduling and hopefully a good deal less stress. Sitting in Starbucks now, about to hit up my first interview in almost 15 years. Wish me luck fuckers!!! :metal :metal
Glad to hear you're finally taking the plunge. Let me know when I'm getting that reference check call. ;)
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Howdy all
Sup bitches!!!!
Got some stuff going on now that I can't talk about pretty much anywhere else, but you guys are in my sacred inner circle so here goes....
After 14 years at my current hotel, I'm finally on the job hunt. Beyond what has become an untenable environment that I don't see getting any better, I'm ready for a gig that will offer me a bit more stability in scheduling and hopefully a good deal less stress. Sitting in Starbucks now, about to hit up my first interview in almost 15 years. Wish me luck fuckers!!! :metal :metal
Glad to hear you're finally taking the plunge. Let me know when I'm getting that reference check call. ;)
Oh shit I missed this post. Goodluck Lonestar!
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Happy holidays from MP and JP :-*
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That's cool... except for the lol/cringe-worthy comments. Why can't people just be happy a couple of lifelong friends who went thru some turmoil can still remain friends.
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That's cool... except for the lol/cringe-worthy comments.
I don't know..looks like any random DTF thread from the DT side. :lol
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People are assholes Chad. Duh. LOL
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Gonna watch the Springsteen thing on Netflix with mrs.jingle right now.
What did you think? I finished it last night.
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That's cool... except for the lol/cringe-worthy comments. Why can't people just be happy a couple of lifelong friends who went thru some turmoil can still remain friends.
BOOM. I was going to write the exact same thing. Do people have no common courtesy? Would you say some of those things in person? I'd like to think not, but with the state of the world, who knows?
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People are assholes Chad. Duh. LOL
I'm sure it was merely coincidence that this was posted immediately following one of my posts, right? :lol
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Glad to hear you're finally taking the plunge. Let me know when I'm getting that reference check call. ;)
"Hello? Calling about RJ? Who's that? oh, LONESTAR, yes. Hmmm. Well, he's funny, he's smart, he's good at roulettes, and he has great avatars. That "chef fucking the air" is world class. Food? What? I have no idea. I met him online and we hang out at a Prog Metal band's quasi-official forum with like 100 other guys and about four women who pop in from time to time as their boredom permits... hello? Hello?"
Here later: "Lonestar, no fucking problem. NAILED IT. You're good."
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Started by finishing Sense8's 2.5 hr finale over coffee this morning.
What'd you think?
Gonna watch the Springsteen thing on Netflix with mrs.jingle right now.
What'd you think?
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Close it out with the Leafs venting some frustrations in the Devils.
IN the Devils? That's a hell of a hockey game you're going to see. :)
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People are assholes Chad. Duh. LOL
I'm sure it was merely coincidence that this was posted immediately following one of my posts, right? :lol
It was but boy was it glorious! :lol
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Gonna watch the Springsteen thing on Netflix with mrs.jingle right now.
What did you think? I finished it last night.
I thought it was great. I knew some stuff he was talking about (I've read the book), but some stuff was new. And the new versions of the classic songs were nice.
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G'morning all. Head's a little fuzzy from the homebrew club Christmas party last night :lol
@Chad how was Deadpool? Curious to see if it's worth seeing.
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That's cool... except for the lol/cringe-worthy comments.
I don't know..looks like any random DTF thread from the DT side. :lol
Hence why I avoid DT-side.
re: The Boss special. We only got 90 minutes thru it (didn't realize it was 2.5 hours). I think we paused it right as Red was coming out. Thoroughly enjoyed it so far... all the while I'm thinking (was Stads actually at the taping??)
re:PG-13 Deadpool. It was fine. They made it work ok, and the segments with Fred Savage were great. It was worth $8 (which is the 'cheap-seat' Tuesday rate). If you enjoyed the original R rated version, you should enjoy this. I hadn't seen it since the first-run in theatres. 90% of the comedy translates just fine.
@ Stads... I'm actually one of the few DTF'rs that have tasted Chef's culinary concoctions. Dr. DTVT and chknptpie being the others (don't think there's anyone else... well, Jackie's had his sausage, but I'm not sure that counts :lol) Ergo, I can actually be a legit reference. :biggrin:
And goddamn... I was just telling jingle.son how often I mis-type "on" and "in" with my iPad/iPhone. Stupid fat thumbs. At least the Leafs did not disappoint. :biggrin:
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Oh so blame it on the I-Pad!
Pot calling..........
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Started by finishing Sense8's 2.5 hr finale over coffee this morning.
What'd you think?
Check the Sense8 thread. Glad they wrapped it up tidely; a tad unsatisfying in some regards; handful of disappointing things; and a few plot holes. Overall, 7.5/10 for a series that had been a solid 9.5 up until it got cancelled.
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Actually, Chad is my one non-restaurant reference, more a personal reference. I wanted someone who wasn't involved in the business in any way as more of a character reference, and he's one of my closest friends who isn't a chef, bartender, or alcoholic.
re the Portnoy/Petrucci pic- this comment was especially brilliant...
don’t like dream theater any more. To soft en to much piano. And no screeming gitaren and all drums to steril sorry Guys. No sale For me. Hi Mike.
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re the Portnoy/Petrucci pic- this comment was especially brilliant...
don’t like dream theater any more. To soft en to much piano. And no screeming gitaren and all drums to steril sorry Guys. No sale For me. Hi Mike.
But, but, there's so much more whahibrido pickingant (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whahibrido%20pickingant). How could one not love it.
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Actually, Chad is my one non-restaurant reference, more a personal reference. I wanted someone who wasn't involved in the business in any way as more of a character reference, and he's one of my closest friends who isn't a chef, bartender, or alcoholic.
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Although it seems no references will be getting called. My history at the hotel and the fact that my bro and a close friend will be my bosses are enough. Looks like I'm going straight to the interview with the owner phase.
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:metal seems like you might have this gig with those ties to your bro and close friend
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Excellent RJ. You're not going to know what to do with yourself with nights/weekends/holidays off :lol Was definitely a nice aspect of leaving my dad's restaurant for an office job.
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re the Portnoy/Petrucci pic- this comment was especially brilliant...
don’t like dream theater any more. To soft en to much piano. And no screeming gitaren and all drums to steril sorry Guys. No sale For me. Hi Mike.
But, but, there's so much more whahibrido pickingant (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whahibrido%20pickingant). How could one not love it.
I didn’t know tommy wiseau listened to DT
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Although it seems no references will be getting called. My history at the hotel and the fact that my bro and a close friend will be my bosses are enough. Looks like I'm going straight to the interview with the owner phase.
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wait... wait... not a good one. Sorry 'bout that.
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Oh man... I'm having trouble finding THE right one... let's try
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That's cool... except for the lol/cringe-worthy comments. Why can't people just be happy a couple of lifelong friends who went thru some turmoil can still remain friends.
Man you nailed it... When I saw the pic I was just glad they're getting along again and that's all.
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Got a christmas card from the Situation :lol I feel like I got celeb mail or something, also got a hand written thank you from them for the engagement party gift. I almost wonder if this stuff would have any value. Waiting for my thank you from the wedding.
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But did he sign is "The Situation" Marc? :lol
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But did he sign is "The Situation" Marc? :lol
:lol no just Mike
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That would be too funny.
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My gf and I watched last week's season finale of the Jersey Shore and there was an after show where they announced season 3 was going to happen (obviously) but no date, so it would seem sometime in 2019 I will make my MTV debut. The after show covered a bit of the wedding so I think next season that will be a big part of the arc of the show plus him getting sentenced and sent off to jail. :lol
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Marc, what? Can you back up a few? Are you related to Mike or something?
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Marc, what? Can you back up a few? Are you related to Mike or something?
Nopw, but good family friends with his now wife's family. We grew up on the same street together. My entire family was at the wedding that was filmed for the show. My MTV debut was a joke, I am hoping I am in the background though. I was sitting in the aisle during the ceremony (my shoulder made it to US Weekly magazine) but my gf and I slow danced next to Paulie and Vinnie with cameras all around us so I think that may have been our best shot. Also when Rob Base made his quest appearance we were outside vaping watching him come out of the lamborgini with the cameras filming that (they did like 5 takes of him walking into the venue and told us to continue to chill outside just not look at the cameras).
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That's awesome. I shamefully watched every episode of the original series at least twice.
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:lol I only watched the first season then have been watching the latest seasons.
Lauren and Mike actually dated before the Jersey Shore, I first met him in the poconos when our family did a weekend together in a house there. Just lots of drinking that weekend during winter break in 2004. Mike actually did gym tan and laundry in the poconos. My mom was making fun of him sooo hard for doing that, like who is going tanning in the snowy winter in PA? Or doing laundry on a 3 night trip? And no one even knew this guy since Lauren had just started bringing him around :lol funny how that turned out to be a thing later on, but most memorable was probably smoking a blunt with him on our last night and then almost immediately puking up the bottle of wine I had drunk. In 2004 I was a light weight.
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It was a guilty pleasure of mine as well :lol
Just came out of my year end review with my boss. Excellent feedback on my performance this year, but not much of a chance of me getting a promotion. Basically, as expected :'(
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:lol I only watched the first season then have been watching the latest seasons.
Lauren and Mike actually dated before the Jersey Shore, I first met him in the poconos when our family did a weekend together in a house there. Just lots of drinking that weekend during winter break in 2004. Mike actually did gym tan and laundry in the poconos. My mom was making fun of him sooo hard for doing that, like who is going tanning in the snowy winter in PA? Or doing laundry on a 3 night trip? And no one even knew this guy since Lauren had just started bringing him around :lol funny how that turned out to be a thing later on, but most memorable was probably smoking a blunt with him on our last night and then almost immediately puking up the bottle of wine I had drunk. In 2004 I was a light weight.
Well, if you ever find yourself in a situation where you're saying to yourself "damn, if we only had one more body here, this would be a perfect party", feel free to give me a shout.
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:lol in seriousness, I hardly ever see Lauren. I see her parents every once in awhile but significantly less now that my parents moved. I think the next time we will see each other will be next December when her little sister gets married.
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Although it seems no references will be getting called. My history at the hotel and the fact that my bro and a close friend will be my bosses are enough. Looks like I'm going straight to the interview with the owner phase.
May the Schwartz be with you!
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I was informed a couple hours ago to get my December expense report in asap and include todays expenses and a lunch... and don't come in tomorrow, be online from home until 1 and then fuck off. Some awesome news :metal my break starts a day earlier. Just trying to bang a few things out now that I was going to do tomorrow (nothing important) and then coasting until the day ends.
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Evening guys. GF is away until Sunday. Going to enjoy a nice quiet weekend. Already started boozing.
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EDIT: I've been drinking. Don't mind me. :)
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I started reading that thinking 'what the flagnar?'. Then eventually realized (assumed) this was meant for the NFL discussion thread.
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I started reading that thinking 'what the flagnar?'. Then eventually realized (assumed) this was meant for the NFL discussion thread.
Goddamn, that's embarrassing. :loser: :facepalm:
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I started reading that thinking 'what the flagnar?'. Then eventually realized (assumed) this was meant for the NFL discussion thread.
Goddamn, that's embarrassing. :loser: :facepalm:
We've all done it.
Time to brave the malls for last minute Christmas shopping!
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I started reading that thinking 'what the flagnar?'. Then eventually realized (assumed) this was meant for the NFL discussion thread.
Goddamn, that's embarrassing. :loser: :facepalm:
We've all done it.
Time to brave the malls for last minute Christmas shopping!
Jesus, you're a madman! :lol
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I was in and out in less than 2 hours, and also managed to do grocery shopping. I'm like a lion humping his lioness - efficient as fuck. No wasted time.
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That's impressive Jingle, about the shopping and humping. I'm going to head to the grocery store in a few. I need some burger buns.
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Back at my desk after treating myself to an epic bacon cheeseburger and a sazerac for lunch. Just 3 more hours until my OOO goes up for two weeks :hat
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That's awesome Axe! I'm working from home today. I have my old ipod classic next to me checking out the playlists I've built over the years and a few hard drives that I want to go through and grab anything worth of value.
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and a few hard drives that I want to go through and grab anything worth of value.
I'll take "Things that sound dirty but aren't" for $400, Alex.
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Gotta grab them while their hard jingle. . ..
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About to head out to a big local ska show. A local ska band called Catch 22 released an album "Keasbey Nights" 20 years ago and it was a pretty popular album in the ska world. THe original singer left after the album and Catch 22 had some success but eventually disbanded meanwhile the singer formed another ska band called Streetlight Manifesto that is fairly popular in the ska world. They are playing locally this weekend doing the entire Keasbey Nights album. I've seen Catch 22 over 10 times when I was younger but never with the original singer and I've never seen Streetlight Manifesto so this seems like a perfect evening of going down memory lane while seeing a more new band. Tomorrow they do an entire album of their own live which is sold out and I think tonight may sell out at the door. :metal :metal
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and a few hard drives that I want to go through and grab anything worth of value.
I'll take "Things that sound dirty but aren't" for $400, Alex.
:lol
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About to head out to a big local ska show. A local ska band called Catch 22 released an album "Keasbey Nights" 20 years ago and it was a pretty popular album in the ska world. THe original singer left after the album and Catch 22 had some success but eventually disbanded meanwhile the singer formed another ska band called Streetlight Manifesto that is fairly popular in the ska world. They are playing locally this weekend doing the entire Keasbey Nights album. I've seen Catch 22 over 10 times when I was younger but never with the original singer and I've never seen Streetlight Manifesto so this seems like a perfect evening of going down memory lane while seeing a more new band. Tomorrow they do an entire album of their own live which is sold out and I think tonight may sell out at the door. :metal :metal
Cram, you are the man. When I croak, I'm coming back as you. Well, except for the ska part. ;D
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Set up on the couch for the night with some hockey and a beer :hat
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Couch-check
Beer-check
But we're actually watching the Celtics..
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Planning on switching to the Nets in a second here when the Devils go to intermission.
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About to head out to a big local ska show. A local ska band called Catch 22 released an album "Keasbey Nights" 20 years ago and it was a pretty popular album in the ska world. THe original singer left after the album and Catch 22 had some success but eventually disbanded meanwhile the singer formed another ska band called Streetlight Manifesto that is fairly popular in the ska world. They are playing locally this weekend doing the entire Keasbey Nights album. I've seen Catch 22 over 10 times when I was younger but never with the original singer and I've never seen Streetlight Manifesto so this seems like a perfect evening of going down memory lane while seeing a more new band. Tomorrow they do an entire album of their own live which is sold out and I think tonight may sell out at the door. :metal :metal
Oh man Catch 22!!! I remember seeing them years ago!!! I'm trying to remember who played with them, or maybe the opened for someone? I remember seeing MEST and homebrew around that time.
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I saw Breaking Benjamin and Steven Wilson at this same venue this month and neither came close to the energy in the venue as tonight with Streetlight Manifesto.
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Set up on the couch for the night with some hockey and a beer :hat
Good thing you guys were playing the 'other' team from Ontario.
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'Sup?
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Yo.
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G'morning all. Been relaxing on the couch all morning. About to go get a haircut and then some breakfast, then start in on a brewday when I get back.
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Sup dudes. Took the dog to the park this morning. I think I'm going to try this new mexican place for lunch.
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In the theater waiting for Aquaman to start.
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In the theater waiting for Aquaman to start.
jingle.son and I are on it for 4pm this afternoon.
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G'morning all
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This weekend of blobbing has been nice so far
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This weekend of blobbing has been nice so far
Agreed. Watched 4 episodes of Travelers yesterday/today (in an effort to get caught up); saw Aquaman (10lbs of meh in a 5lb sack); and watched the Leafs game. About to head to the bakery to get scones for Christmas morning. Maybe a couple for right now too! :drool:
More BlobbingTM today - jingle.ladies are doing the annual banana-bread-bake. I think about 50 loaves - down from the usual 70-ish they do.
Also, Happy Festivus. Feats of strength after dinner tonight.
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:lol nice and my blobbing is mostly continueing today. I've got to run out and get a few last minute christmas gifts, but my brother is leaving for Canada with his gf this afternoon and my gf just cancelled on me for tonight (says she has massive amounts of shopping to still do :lol ) so I'll be chilling tonight in my house all alone. But damn, I was going to have her film me opening the SS gift tonight, I guess I'll just do it solo. I had been waiting for something else to happen, thought it would happen today but I was surprised to see it go down yesterday so the only thing I am waiting now on was her so oh well, it'll be me and my cat filming it later.
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Tailgating at the Pats/Buffalo game.
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I'm keeping an eye out for potential last minute deals on a ticket for either the Jets game or the Devils game this afternoon, but absent that there will blobbing a plenty for me today.
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Time to Bombard Facebook with Xmas songs.
First up...the obligatory....Savatage - Christmas Eve. I like to post the Savatage named one so people will know the band that started TSO, and whom originally wrote that song.
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I can't stand Christmas music. All I ever listen to are Bela Fleck's Christmas album, a bit of TSO, and Christopher Lee's Heavy Metal Christmas releases. :metal
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Never been a christmas music fan myself, I don't hate it, but I'm really not a festive person.
My gf and I drove to the local house in my town with a big light set up. Our third year going there on her request and this time there was soo much traffic and you couldn't even walk through the yard because of the large amount of people. Must say I was a grinch and typically am moreso like that for the holidays. I enjoy them, but really just don't get into the spirit. "I lose 5% Christmas spirit every year" I told my GF :lol
Anyway, another half day of blobbing for me. Very different Christmas this year and breaking from my normal family traditions. Not seeing my family at all actually, I am going to my GF's parents tonight to be with them. Should be fun I think, I like her cousins and parents. Tomorrow we will then head to my sister's condo in NYC to meet with them and my parents... and we are doing.... chinese food for christmas dinner :lol This apparently is very common for Jewish folks, but must say it'll be a first for my family.
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I am spending a week house / dog sitting starting tonight. Once I get off work, I have to run home, grab my shit, and then run over to this house (which is actually just halfway between my house and my work). They have 2 dogs (a really chill 15 yr old Golden Lab and a 6 yr old Labradoodle), and their daughter's dogs will be there as well (2 3yr old Aussie / Poodle mixes). It's a really chill gig, as I just have to be there in the evening / overnight and mornings. The dogs chill in the backyard while I am at work.
My GF is also house sitting for someone this week, and she's going to be like 2 blocks from her Dad's. She'll be there for dinner tonight, and we'll both be there for dinner tomorrow. (I don't feel like making the drive to the next town over in my POS car more than once this week).
I really not into Christmas. In fact, I really dislike it. Too much drama and just overall bullshit expectations to deal with.
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Afternoon folks. Working from home today, I'm one of the few people in the office that doesn't have a family so I always volunteer to work days around the holidays.
Jay we aren't really celebrating Christmas at all. My gf and I didn't put up any decorations and we did a small gift exchange, that's it. No hosting each other families. It's actually a pretty freeing experience.
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Afternoon folks. Working from home today, I'm one of the few people in the office that doesn't have a family so I always volunteer to work days around the holidays.
Jay we aren't really celebrating Christmas at all. My gf and I didn't put up any decorations and we did a small gift exchange, that's it. No hosting each other families. It's actually a pretty freeing experience.
The only gifts I was planning on giving were for my GF's dad and his GF (we scored 2 Google Home Minis for like... $25 total... to go along with the other smart house shit my GF got them)... My GF and I originally planned on not exchanging gifts, and instead upgraded our phones a few months ago as early Christmas Gifts to eachother.
And then she bought me a Switch and wrapped it. Which was okay, as it was supposed to be an US gift to ourselves. AND THEN a bunch more shit appeared under the tree addressed to me. SO I had to make last minute Christmas shopping plans. And then the Water Pump in her car went out. So a new timing belt, water pump, and radiator later ($1300), I was stuck trying to put shit together for her on a shoestring budget. This is another reason I dislike Christmas :lol
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Just got home from working a few hours at my dad's store. He's open 10-3 on Christmas Eve so it's a good way to get in, have fun seeing people I used to work with, and get out before it gets annoying :lol Relaxing for a bit now and then heading to my aunt and uncle's (dad's side) for dinner and presents. Normally my cousin and I go in hard on beer on Christmas Eve, but he's living with his GF and not at home now, so assuming he'll have to be better behaved than in years past. Then tomorrow my aunt and uncle and cousins (mom's side) come over for dinner, which should be good fun. Normally we have 17-20 people here on Christmas Day, but the Delaware contingent isn't coming up this year since both my cousins down there have had babies in the last year. I (very begrudgingly) get why they don't want to do 2-2.5 hours each way in the car this year, especially since they all just came up for Thanksgiving, but I hope it's not a permanent end to what had been the Christmas Day tradition.
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It'll be a blob-less day for me. Family visits are on the docket - first it's brunch with my mother, then off to see my Aunt/Uncle and one of my cousins along with his family. Their kids have become like nieces and nephews to us. There's 10-15 year gap in age between jingle.kids and them, so jingle.daughter absolutely adores them. This could be one of the few remaining times that we see them, since we'll be living 3 hours away come March.
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I'm back to blobbing. GF left since she has to go to work and so I'm just chilling home today but tonight with my friends all in town we are going to an BYOB Ax throwing place. I can't say I care too much about paying 35 to throw an ax for two hours, but it'll be fun to hang with my friends some of which I hardly see since they moved away.
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I'm not quite sure what most of today is going to bring me. Going to Pizza Hut with my dad and sister for the lunch buffet at 11:30 (it's a nostalgia thing, we always used to go, along with a bunch of other kids, when we had half days on the first and last day of school). My original plan was to then go into the city and hit a couple bars in Manhattan while keeping an eye on last minute ticket prices for the live show WWE is running at MSG. But one of my good friend's brother is in town for the holidays, so a few of us might get together to open some beers with him instead.
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Good morning peeps. I feel like death (sore throat, no voice).
So this entire time I was under the impression that my GF had bought me (well, us) a Switch for Christmas. I was wrong. She got me 3 tickets to see DT in March, and her dad got us a Switch :lol
The way she did it was fantastic. She worked with a company that makes temp tattoos and had a bunch made up of a quote from The Spirit Carries on (the only song she knows for sure from Scenes except The Dance of E.) That was supposed to be a clue. In the same gift was a some random bullshit, and then underneath, taped to the bottom of the gift bag, was the envelope with the tickets. I've gotta admit, I am completely stoked. I was really upset that I couldn't go to the Images, Turds and Beyond shows.... but in the end I was more excited for this tour than I ever was for that last one.
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That's awesome, my gf and I each both got each other concert tickets (well for us together) so I can add one more to my list which is in a couple weeks at the Borgata in AC :hat (Sublime with Rome)
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Morning, peeps. Hope everyone had a good Christmas.
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I had a pretty good Christmas Hef, no family in town and it was great. What about you?
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Mine was very good. Better than I deserved.
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I'm happy to hear. How have you been?
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Morning, peeps. Hope everyone had a good Christmas.
Hey.
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Ax throwing was way more fun than I expected. My first throw went into the floor and easily the worst throw of the 11 of us or anyone in the building :lol but I recovered and found a grove from playing in the play in game of the 11 person tournament to coming in 2nd place. Also it was BYOB so that added some fun to it https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1078293452880785408 (https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1078293452880785408)
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Awesome video Cram. :metal
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I'm happy to hear. How have you been?
I've been great. Family is doing well, bought a new house in June, just got a small promotion, and things have been generally swell.
How about you?
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Morning my friends. Incredibly busy at work right now.
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So you're DTFing instead? :P
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While I'm at my computer....... yes.
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So you're DTFing instead? :P
You know it, baby.
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So you're DTFing instead? :P
:lol
I've been great. Family is doing well, bought a new house in June, just got a small promotion, and things have been generally swell.
That's awesome, it's been a good year. :yarr
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So you're DTFing instead? :P
I should have answered, "It's good to be the King."
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Howdy all
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Oh, hi.
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Morning.
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Howdy.
2 more hours at work, and then it's vacation time for 9 days. I'll be Blobbing my days away.
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Jealous. I need more blobbing time. I'm burnt out.
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Greetings fellow chat thread denizens. Going to be blobbing during the day, think I'll start going through my Deadwood DVDs, and then going to my cousin's apartment for dinner.
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Back to blobbing for a bit, been doing a ton of work on videos I am making for youtube.... got two more call of duty videos made, a new cramx3 trailer almost done, and in the midst of doing a "top 10 concert moments of 2018" video. My christmas gift to myself (OK my parents gave me money and this is how I sued it) was a green screen kit that arrives today. I'm hoping to set it up and try doing intros to each of my top 10 moments. Sort of as a test to see if this can work and how to do it. Could be cool or just super cheesy, we will see. Then got to drive my parents to the airport later and doing dinner with my friends.
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Off to see Bumblebee in D-Box 3D.... for free! Both jingle.son and I had enough of the theater chain loyalty points to get a free premium ticket. These kind of seats are usually $25!
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Excellent Chad :hat Thinking about going to see it tomorrow night.
I'm set up on the couch for the afternoon with a beer watching Deadwood.
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"a beer" ?? :omg:
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Dropped my parents off at the airport and 4 of the guys are coming over to grill and booze, should be a fun night ahead
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I'm happy to hear. How have you been?
I've been great. Family is doing well, bought a new house in June, just got a small promotion, and things have been generally swell.
How about you?
Dang new house and a promotion sounds like it’s been a good year. I’ve been good, I got a small promotion too but otherwise nothing to crazy with me.
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"a beer" ?? :omg:
Fear not, several more have followed :biggrin:
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Did... did I break the chat thread?
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The TREE is down!
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My GF's birthday is today, all her friends are going to a bar later so that's what the plan is. Should be fun.
Been messing with my new green screen and this is really cool, got it working and made big progress on my first video with it. Hoping to have that done before the end of the year.
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Looking forward to it!
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Good afternoon peeps. If you don't hear from me within 24 hours, I'm probably dead :lol I've been sick as a dog, and have worked both my days off this weekend. Went back in to work Fri night / Sat morning at midnight, and now I am back for half a shift this afternoon. I can't wait to get back home and sleep some more.
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Damn that sucks Jay, get some rest and feel better soon
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I'm in the office today, but for the life of me I can't imagine why. The phone has literally not rang once and when I check the caller id, no one has called since Saturday. None of the shipping companies will pick up packages today unless it's an air package. The roads were near empty during my commute.
This morning was a bitch too. I had to play furnace repair-man, which is kinda a long story but suffice it to say I got it running reliably after cleaning the flame sensor. Then, the fucking snow thrower wouldn't start so I had to shovel the driveway and walks by hand. Then the brakes on the Jeep started making a growling noise on my way in to work so I had to do a lot of down shifting to keep out of the pedal (a nervous method on icy roads).
I feel like I'm waiting for the next disaster to arrive.
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Getting ready to leave work. Fucking Wal Mart is working tomorrow for the first time since I've been here. I made it optional for my guys. Originally they told me only 1st shift. Now they are running both and I am only running 1st.
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Sam Walton's corpse is spinning like a tornado!
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All about the almighty $$$$$
Take 3 damn days off all year man. Thanksgiving Christmas and New years but nope. Only Christmas.
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Well, you know...Christmas is objectively better! :lol
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Good Afternoon ya'll.
I hired someone today, and right after that, fired probably the second worst employee I've ever had. Even better, I am going home early sick. In an hour.
The guy who I fired made this big thing about how I am firing him because he never "fit in with (our) little family here".
No. You're getting fired because you literally showed up to work and just disappeared. One of the times was you saw a new guy that was being trained and he "made you uncomfortable."
Grow the fuck up.
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Sounds like someone toxic Jay. Good riddance. I hope you feel better.
I had one hell of a day. I left work early and stopped at the grocery store a few miles down from my house to pick up some last minute things. Since I have a new car and I've never had a new car before I parked it at the very end of the parking lot as I normally do. My car isn't special but it means a lot to me since it's my first new car, and I don't park like a douche across two spaces or anything like that.
I park, no cars near me, not a car within 4 parking spaces. Grab some stuff and I come out and I see it, white paint across the side of my rear bumper. My blood starts to boil. Obviously there is no note or anything like that. I go back to the store on the off chance they had a camera, they don't, at least not that far back. I then go up and down all the aisles looking for a car with my paint on it, nothing. I go home and clean the bumper off, it isn't dented and most of the paint cleaned off but there is a quarter size chunk of paint missing, you can clearly see to flat black color of the bumper. GODFUCKINGDAMNIT.
Now this is my DD and I know it's going to get dinged up but shit, I have to get this fixed otherwise it'll start flaking. It's not like a door ding where the paint is intact. It'll probably cost sub-$500 but still.
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Kay... that fucking blows massive assed chunks. I'd be raging too. :censored
@ Gregg... so glad I stayed out of the drama of that thread. Once I saw it was locked, I looked at the last handful of posts, and felt very pleased I wasn't following that shit-storm.
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:lol I guess I missed the fun, and damn that sucks Reaper.
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It’s all good. I’m grilling ribs drinking beer now. Trying to think doni love onto wine next or liquor, should I rotate every other drink?
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Good evening all. Been a busy day, went to the Devils game and then came home and made a tray of mac and cheese for company that was coming over for dinner. Our guests just left, so settling into the couch now with a beer.
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Happy new year, chumps!
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Happy New Year GD-side. I resolve to remain out of DT-side ... especially with the new album dropping.
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Happy new year all
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Happy New Year, all!
@ Gregg... so glad I stayed out of the drama of that thread. Once I saw it was locked, I looked at the last handful of posts, and felt very pleased I wasn't following that shit-storm.
Really? I didn't think it was that bad. I was kinda shocked that it got locked. Sure the discussion wasn't really going anywhere and no one was being really persuasive, but I didn't think anyone was rude either. I was bored at work so trying to come up with a way to illustrate my point to JD was actually kinda fun. In the end it was obvious that he wasn't really reading my posts though.
Happy New Year GD-side. I resolve to remain out of DT-side ... especially with the new album dropping.
Why? What's wrong with the DT-side?
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Happy new years DTF
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I didn't read thru the whole thread, so I assumed the climax leading to the lock was just the icing on the cake. Maybe it wasn't a shit-storm, but I tend to stay away from all things WildRanger.
And as for DT-side, when I see thread titles like "DT Signature Moves" and "If DT were an all-girl band" and 'MVPs per album'.... it makes me want to clobber somethin. 'nuff said.
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Happy New Year's. I'm hurting real bad today.
I don't know why I punish myself by going to the DT side but I still go.
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And as for DT-side, when I see thread titles like "DT Signature Moves" and "If DT were an all-girl band" and 'MVPs per album'.... it makes me want to clobber somethin. 'nuff said.
Those are bad. I like Dream theater, so I definitely participate when appropriate, but the "DT Signature Moves" is pretty bad.
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If anyone is bored today:
Cramx3's Top 10 Concert Moments of 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCutPwVfSzw)
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If anyone is bored today:
Cramx3's Top 10 Concert Moments of 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCutPwVfSzw)
I'm only bored when I'm not watching your videos. That was fantastic!
39 shows, that's amazing. Never made it to that many in one year. The world is a lot smaller these days for sure.
My highest totals for any years were:
1987...22 shows
1991...21 shows
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Yea kind of crazy how they add up, never thought in my life I'd be able to go to so many shows.
But it's definitely easier to see many concerts today than back in the day before the internet and being exposed to so many bands and tours.
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You whore. :lol
You got some cool moments with multiple shows where a musician was in the stands.
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Good morning (afternoon I guess) and Happy New year.
Good news: I got a raise that is supposed to be effective as of today.
Bad news: Still sick.
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Yea kind of crazy how they add up, never thought in my life I'd be able to go to so many shows.
But it's definitely easier to see many concerts today than back in the day before the internet and being exposed to so many bands and tours.
I also feel like apps like BandsInTown help so much. There are so many shows that would just get missed because I wasn't aware that they were coming.
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Happy New Year, kids. And I mean that literally, since I'm feeling old today. :)
As for you, Cram, nice work, my man. I'm around TAC for any one year; about 20 shows or so (though I did see almost every home Whalers game one year, so that's about 40 games).
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I had Patriots season tickets from 1986 (18 year old lad) to 2012. I only missed 4 games (not including pre season).
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I went and saw Hamilton over the weekend. I don't get what the hype around that musical is all about. At intermission, I was Googling the run time because I couldn't wait to get out of there.
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My gf wants to go really bad but she has no interest in going at the current price. We've listened to the album a couple times, and it's not my cup of tea but I don't think it's bad at all. I'd go see it, but also not at the current going prices.
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I saw Rent when it first came to Boston after the 1st run in NY. It was awesome. Haven't been to a play or musical in a long, long time.
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Morning, folks.
My wife and I have been pretty worthless for the last several days. However, we are both back to work today.
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Morning, folks.
My wife and I have been pretty worthless for the last several days. However, we are both back to work today.
I've done nothing of substance for about a week. It was everything I hoped it could be.
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Morning, folks.
My wife and I have been pretty worthless for the last several days. However, we are both back to work today.
I've done nothing of substance for about a week. It was everything I hoped it could be.
Yup, I hardly did anything over the break. It was nice but damn today is hard already and I'm not even busy at work.
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Morning, folks.
My wife and I have been pretty worthless for the last several days. However, we are both back to work today.
I've done nothing of substance for about a week. It was everything I hoped it could be.
I even took naps!
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Naps are the best!
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Naps are the best!
:metal
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Morning, folks.
My wife and I have been pretty worthless for the last several days. However, we are both back to work today.
Hey.
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sup
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sup
How you doin big guy?
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You rang?
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So this guy I grew up with blew his brains out yesterday. He was from my neighborhood and a good friend in childhood. During highschool we grew apart as he started getting into drugs and hanging with people I had no interest in being around. His life kind of went downhill from there as he got a DUI and eventually lost his license for as long as I know. After I came home from college through a mutual friend we became friends again, it was like old times for a bit, until I realized his drug problem was still there and he ended up trying to scam me out of some petty cash. Kind of showed that he didn't care about our friendship so I stopped talking to him, again. That was 8 years ago and I hadn't seen or spoke to him since. I have no idea what happened in his life to make him do that, but I got to imagine drugs were involved. I feel really bad for his parents who seemed to always support him and were good people in a well off family.
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Sorry to hear that, Cram. I can't speak for anyone else here, but I know two people personally (one was a reasonably close friend) that have done that, and for me, the lingering thought is what you said: "what was going on that made that the best option?" and to this day I can't answer that. All you can do is be sympathetic and try your best to understand.
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Yea, I can't stop thinking about "what happened?" and going back to my last bad experience with him and wondering what else this guy might have gotten himself into and with what people. Just sad and he was really funny and could have had a good life if he made better decisions as a child which is something else I keep thinking about. Like how he decided he wanted to hang with the "cool kids" instead of me and that decision lead him down a path that would change his life forever. It feels like something my parents always warned me about as a kid but you just think of it as parent talk. It's real.
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sup
How you doin big guy?
If I were any better there would be two of me.
Sorry to hear about that, cram.
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sup
How you doin big guy?
If I were any better there would be two of me.
Then do better, the world needs more of you.
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sup
How you doin big guy?
If I were any better there would be two of me.
Then do better, the world needs more of you.
I'll get right on it.
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Gents.
Marc, I'm sorry. I see my nephew heading down that path and it's gut wrenching.
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Thanks guy, and that's sad to see. I hope your nephew can figure things out.
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I hope so but my wife's side of the family is all crazy. I don't know how my wife is the sane one but she is.
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Sorry to hear about that cram.
Currently settled in for the first of a couple straight days of blobbing. Yesterday I was in NYC all day, saw the new Spiderman movie, visited three breweries, and then went to the Brooklyn Nets game. Today and tomorrow are all about my couch and my TV :hat
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Morning chumps.
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'Sup?
jingle.kids go back to school tomorrow, so the house is gonna be a little empty again. Work ought to pickup again next week - the three days this week were slow as hell. Gotta get back into my exercise routine as well - I slacked off since NYE, plus ate a bunch of holiday junk. Time to get back on the bandwagon (or, exercise bike to be more precise).
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Hello peeps.
First full day off in 2 weeks... maybe. I might go into work tonight for half a shift. GF is down in San Diego with her grandfather so I have the house to myself. Me going into work tonight depends on how productive I am today (It's noon and I still haven't gotten moving).
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G'morning all. Can't believe I've arrived at the last day of my staycation.
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They go by so fast, eh?
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Ain't that the truth. I've had to burn a lot of time over the last month, and while I wouldn't want to be out of work, damn, I love staying home.
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Yea, even though I had to work 3 days last week, this weekend still felt a bit like an extension of my winter break blobbing. Going to be a busy few weeks ahead now as work is going to amp up, LA trip in 3 weeks then I may have to go to Denver. For now, one more day of blobbing.
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I wouldn't mind another day of blobbing, but we have family coming up to visit today. The good news is they want to be on the road home by 5, so I should be able to at least relax tonight. Work shouldn't be too crazy when I get back, but I'll be in the city afterwards from Wednesday - Friday (plus all day Saturday and Sunday) for a Sopranos film festival to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show premiering.
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Nice, I put on season 1 every once in awhile in bed. Such an awesome show. Any of the actors going to be there?
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Morning folks! Guess who has an actual day off!?!?
Me!
Gonna clean house a bit and then blob like I've never blobbed before!
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Jay it seems like it’s been forever since you’ve had a day off!
I’m recovering from my night of drinking last night and cleaning up the damage my gfs sister and her boyfriend left in my house
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The nice thing about family coming for "dinner" at like 2:30 is that it's not even 6:30 and everyone's gone and I'm on the couch in my pajamas :lol
Nice, I put on season 1 every once in awhile in bed. Such an awesome show. Any of the actors going to be there?
Here's the full itinerary (I'm going to most but not all of it): http://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-sopranos-film-festival/
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So right after my post about being off and blobbing, I got word that my cousin was found dead last night. Looks like an OD.
He and I weren't really close, but his sister and I are. She's a wreck. She was the one who had to inform their father as well as his young son's mother.
My sister's also a wreck. She doesn't take death too well.
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Morning folks. I'm back at work after 9 days off. Plenty of mail to go through as usual.
Man, I'm sorry for your loss Jay :-[
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That's just awful news Jay. Condolences to your family. Did he have a drug problem?
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Sorry to hear that Jay :(
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damn sorry for your loss Jay
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That's just awful news Jay. Condolences to your family. Did he have a drug problem?
Yea. He has had issues for the last few years. I know he had just spent 6 months in prison and started working again. I'm honestly not surprised at all, and because of that, I probably came off as really insensitive when my stepmother called me a few hours to relay the news (not realizing that I already knew). She was in the "how can this happen" phase of grief... and seemed to really dislike the fact that I have been very calm and collective and that I knew more about heroin than she did.
It sucks. It really does. But there was also a choice made in this. He made a choice to keep going down that path and refuse people's help to get clean. I feel worse for his kid and sister than I do him.
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Completely understandable.
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I'm so sorry Jay.
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That sucks.
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Fuck that sucks man, so sorry Jay.
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Greetings fellow chat thread denizens
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Greetings fellow chat thread denizens
... and salutation! What's the good word Billy boy? Vacation over yet?
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Good Morning guys. Thanks for the kind words.
So I had a follow up appointment with my (kinda hot) doctor yesterday. Her prognosis: I am fat. Now she is way to nice to bluntly say it, but that's what it comes down to. My glucose levels were slightly elevated, my bad cholesterol was high, good cholesterol low, and my Blood Pressure has been through the goddamn roof. Gotta start making some changes. Especially with my diet.
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I hear ya on that, I keep saying I want to get to a better diet and start working out and I just havent. Although I've made a good effort to not eat out or order delivery/take out as much and so far in this short span of 2019 I'm doing a much better job at that thanks to a nice costco run to get lots of food to stock my house (and not shit food either).
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Greetings fellow chat thread denizens
... and salutation! What's the good word Billy boy? Vacation over yet?
Sadly 'tis. Third day back in the saddle, and it took all of 2.5 days for work to get back to pissing me off :lol Currently annoyed that my work trip to Dublin, while still likely on for this year, also very likely can't take place in the first quarter, which fucks up my plan for some personal travel that was going to tie into it. Still going to go somewhere in Europe off of that work trip, but I had pretty specific plans if I could have gone the right week in March. I was going to ask how the new year's starting for you, but I can't remember whether Canadian New Year comes before or after proper New Year :biggrin:
@jay/cram I'll third all that. Trying to be better both about diet and getting some exercise in, but the fact that I'll be in NYC for the next five nights means it's going to be hard to start 2019 on the right foot :lol
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I was going to ask how the new year's starting for you, but I can't remember whether Canadian New Year comes before or after proper New Year :biggrin:
It does actually. Starts right now - it's The "Year of Hoping Americans Enjoy Their President".
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What kills me is the fact that last time I had my blood done was about 6 years ago. My results are worse that they were then, and my eating habits have actually changed drastically since then. My sugar intake has gone down by like half and I hardly eat red meat outside of going out. It's almost like... I am getting old!
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I was going to ask how the new year's starting for you, but I can't remember whether Canadian New Year comes before or after proper New Year :biggrin:
It does actually. Starts right now - it's The "Year of Hoping Americans Enjoy Their President".
right in the feels :lol
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Good Morning guys. Thanks for the kind words.
So I had a follow up appointment with my (kinda hot) doctor yesterday. Her prognosis: I am fat. Now she is way to nice to bluntly say it, but that's what it comes down to. My glucose levels were slightly elevated, my bad cholesterol was high, good cholesterol low, and my Blood Pressure has been through the goddamn roof. Gotta start making some changes. Especially with my diet.
Diet is the hardest, at least for me when I was losing weight. You can’t put train a bad diet. The way I over came it is by making really small changes every day. For example I’d drink soda every day so week after week I’d cut out out one day of drinking soda. Cold turkey doesn’t work for me.
Whatever you do, good luck!
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Listen to Eye of the Tiger on loop and let the rest take it's course Jay! Good luck.
Everyone in my family keeps saying I'm losing weight, but I disagree. I eat whatever I want, and spend 12+ hours in front of a computer. I have defined the act of doing nothing with blobbing. If I was any more sedentary, I'd be dead. How could I possibly be losing weight? :lol
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It’s summer there so maybe it’s sweat lol?
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No, it's been happening since before Summer hit. But there has definitely been some sweatin' this Summer. Fucking brutal. Today's 24C though! First decent day in a while.
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Again, thanks for the kind words (of encouragement this time) guys!
I'm just going to start small. Cut back on the soda and try to get some exercise in. I want to be able to show some improvement before next time I see her (Feb 5th). I also show signs of sleep apnea... And I think she's going to push for a sleep study if I don't seem like I've been working on it. I am the only one out my group of 4 close friends who doesn't use a breathing machine at night and I want to keep it that way.
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Jay, drink water instead of soda, and have a cup of green beans with dinner. Bring your lunch to work. And try to eat at regular intervals each day. Lunch at noon, etc...
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I cut out soda completely from my diet and saw no difference. I used to drink at least a can a day and at most a 2 liter. I was bad. I only drink water, black coffee, and vodka clubs now. Seriously that's almost it plus the occasional beer.
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I cut out soda completely from my diet and saw no difference. I used to drink at least a can a day and at most a 2 liter. I was bad. I only drink water, black coffee, and vodka clubs now. Seriously that's almost it plus the occasional beer.
I've ditched soda; now I have a "cup" I carry with me that has club soda and a splash of ginger ale. The beauty? Add a shot of vodka and I have a big boy drink. Seriously, though, it's that or coffee for me, almost exclusively. I've noticed a difference with that.
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Last year I cut way down on coffee (went from 4 or 5 cups a day to 1), cut back on beer, and cut out soda completely. Just by doing that, I definitely dropped some weight. I didn't have much to drop, but if I had to guess I'd say I probably lost 5-10 pounds or so. It was a noticeable difference by just changing what I drank.
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I definitely noticed a difference when I cut out soda back in high school. These days it's pretty much just water or beer for me.
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I lost 32 pounds in 2018 solely by changing my milk intake. I went from .5-.75 gallons a day to about a gallon a week.
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I lost 32 pounds in 2018 solely by changing my milk intake. I went from .5-.75 gallons a day to about a gallon a week.
I believe it. I found out I was Lactose Intolerant when I was 16. I cut out 95% of my usual dairy intake and lost like 35lbs. It was VERY hard to do though... and didn't really last very long :lol
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What’s up
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The sky.
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Como estas, bitches?
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Como estas, bitches?
Hey.
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ciao
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ITT:
Nerds saying hi to each other over and over again...
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ITT:
Nerds saying hi to each other over and over again...
Who you calling a nerd?
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ITT:
Nerds saying hi to each other over and over again...
Hello?
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ITT:
Nerds saying hi to each other over and over again...
Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
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ITT:
Nerds saying hi to each other over and over again...
Hello?
Dad?
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:rollin
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ITT:
Nerds saying hi to each other over and over again...
Hello?
Mary?
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Kill her.
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Last year I cut way down on coffee (went from 4 or 5 cups a day to 1), cut back on beer, and cut out soda completely. Just by doing that, I definitely dropped some weight. I didn't have much to drop, but if I had to guess I'd say I probably lost 5-10 pounds or so. It was a noticeable difference by just changing what I drank.
I'm trying to cut my coffee intake down, I'm down from 4 cups a day to 2. I'd ideally like to be at 1.
What's happening dudes?
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Kill her.
And get the priest as well.
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Last year I cut way down on coffee (went from 4 or 5 cups a day to 1), cut back on beer, and cut out soda completely. Just by doing that, I definitely dropped some weight. I didn't have much to drop, but if I had to guess I'd say I probably lost 5-10 pounds or so. It was a noticeable difference by just changing what I drank.
I'm trying to cut my coffee intake down, I'm down from 4 cups a day to 2. I'd ideally like to be at 1.
What's happening dudes?
I'm on my 2nd cup of coffee. :lol
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:lol just made my first cup. I'm a two cup a day guy, well always one in the morning usually a second in the afternoon at work but on off days I don't always drink that second coffee.
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Being in school, I probably drink a lot more coffee than I should. Speaking of, starting back on Monday. Yay :P
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Last year I cut way down on coffee (went from 4 or 5 cups a day to 1), cut back on beer, and cut out soda completely. Just by doing that, I definitely dropped some weight. I didn't have much to drop, but if I had to guess I'd say I probably lost 5-10 pounds or so. It was a noticeable difference by just changing what I drank.
I'm trying to cut my coffee intake down, I'm down from 4 cups a day to 2. I'd ideally like to be at 1.
What's happening dudes?
I'm on my 2nd cup of coffee. :lol
I'm brewing my third cup now.
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Kill her.
And get the priest as well.
:metal
Re: Coffee
I bring a travel mug to work with me. If I get home in the afternoon, I'll brew a pot (3 cups). We recently switched to half caff.
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Morning guys. Having my first cup of coffee. Had a rough night, ate some sushi and it did not agree with me.
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Morning guys. Having my first cup of coffee. Had a rough night, ate some sushi and it did not agree with me.
Protip... never eat sushi on Mondays (not that this applies to you in this case Kay). Most places don't get fish delivered on Sunday.
On cup #1 atm. Dogs slept in TWO days in a row - 7:15 yesterday, and 7:40 today. I got a solid 9 hours yesterday, and 8 last night. Couple of the best sleeps I've had in months.
Two house showings later this afternoon. Hoping to have this fucker sold before we move out.
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Good luck with the showings!
Usually with my dog on the weekend I’ll walk him much later the night before this buying me sometime in the morning. He usually makes his way upstairs at 730am and just stares at me until I get up
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Is it safe to assume that the singles we're hearing off the new albums would also be in the live shows this spring?
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Is it safe to assume that the singles we're hearing off the new albums would also be in the live shows this spring?
I'd say that's fairly safe
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Kill her.
And get the priest as well.
:metal
Re: Coffee
I bring a travel mug to work with me. If I get home in the afternoon, I'll brew a pot (3 cups). We recently switched to half caff.
I used to NEVER drink coffee past noon. Two, sometimes three, cups in the morning, and that's it. I've taken to having a cup - sometimes just a half-cup - at night after the kids go to bed, and after a couple weeks/months of some outright shitty sleep, I just broke down and got a small container of decaf. Tried it last night and slept, well, not like a baby, but better than I have in a while.
Modern chemistry, I guess. :)
On my second cup now, listening to some very good music provided by my friends at DTF while I catch up on emails at work.
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Never got into the habit of drinking coffee. I like coffee flavored things, but not coffee itself.
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Watching the live feed of the Tappanzee bridge demolition, I love explosions so this should be cool to watch.
https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/ (https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/)
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Watching the live feed of the Tappanzee bridge demolition, I love explosions so this should be cool to watch.
https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/ (https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/)
I wish there was a count down like a rocket launch.
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Watching the live feed of the Tappanzee bridge demolition, I love explosions so this should be cool to watch.
https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/ (https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/)
I wish there was a count down like a rocket launch.
Yea, this is annoying. When I saw the Stardust Casino implosion in Vegas they had a big firework show with a countdown before it blew up, I would love to see that here but I don't expect that. There are some cranes still on the bridge which will be interesting to watch fall down into the river :lol
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Watching the live feed of the Tappanzee bridge demolition, I love explosions so this should be cool to watch.
https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/ (https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/)
Wow. My family drove over that bridge for about 35 trips to Florida as my kids were growing up. It's been a couple of years and I remember seeing them staging the cranes in the water for what would be the new bridge. I must say that I'm touched watching the demolition. Those trips brought so much joy to my family. Heading down, I was always conscious of how long it took us to get to the Tappan Zee. Heading back, crossing it meant we were back in New England.
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That bridge had no personal meaning for me, sure I drove across it but it had no memories or anything tied to it, but there's a few bridges (Driscoll Bridge in NJ) that have some meaning in my life so I could see how that would affect me if they tore it down. An end of an era.
What sucked those is they blew that part up this morning and gave no warning so many people who were there to witness it totally missed it :lol
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Morning, peeps.
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Morning, peeps.
Don't be peeping at me!
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Howdy.
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Doody
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Morning, peeps.
Don't be peeping at me!
Apologies.
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Morning, peeps.
Hey.
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When it rains it pours.
Received a text message from my lovely new account manager informing me that she took it upon herself to schedule an interview with a potential new employee today at 11 AM. Mind you she has no idea the operations here nor what my normal schedule is like... as when she came up here to meet me, she didn't give 2 shits about learning my account. Anyways.... On Wednesdays, we have a cleaning crew who comes in and spends 20-40 minutes cleaning my office. When this is happening, the office has to be vacated... meaning you've got to go stand outside. It's been raining all week. I'm not going to interview someone outside in the rain :lol
So on top of that, I came in to a shit ton of issues that sprung up over the night. An attempted burglary, a possibly separate instance of burglary or squatting (due to the rain), another incident that happened right off property which we were kinda involved in, some technically issues with our cameras system and a lack of urgency or caring from the people who are supposed to handle it and OH YES THIS INTERVIEW WHICH I DID NOT SCHEDULE. Plus I need to discuss promotions and raises for my team with my boss. *head desk*
The good news is my boss (the big boss- Owner of the company) was not aware that the account manager did what she did and totally understands why I am annoyed at it. He's going to tell her to at least confer with me before scheduling things on my behalf. I think she only did it because she assumes that I just am sitting on things and not making an effort to hire someone. 80% of the responses I get from our ads are trash or people who have previously worked with us (who are no longer with us for reasons) or people who have interviewed in the past or scheduled interviews and never showed up. Hell I had someone scheduled to interview on Monday... he called 5 minutes before the interview and said he was sick and not making it. We rescheduled for Tues. He calls an hour AFTER his scheduled interview and basically said "Oh yea I had an interview scheduled earlier... I'll call back later " (because I wasn't currently at the desk). I'm trying damnit.
/rant
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One day Jay, one day I will understand why you feel the need to make your life more miserable by working a job that causes you almost nothing but grief. You're a mystery until then.
The psychologist in me is quite intrigued by what that reason is.
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I wonder what my shrink will say when I finally get one and tell them these stories.
The good news is the interview went well and I think I am hiring the kid. Which reminds me, I need to call him and start that process. Also I technically just got a raise again so there's that.
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I wonder what my shrink will say when I finally get one and tell them these stories.
I'll let you know when we finish our first session.
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I wonder what my shrink will say when I finally get one and tell them these stories.
I'll let you know when we finish our first session.
Funny enough, my insurance won't cover mental health w/out a referral. I got a referral from my PCP, and my insurance company denied it telling me that I need a THEM to refer me... so... yea.
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I wonder what my shrink will say when I finally get one and tell them these stories.
The good news is the interview went well and I think I am hiring the kid. Which reminds me, I need to call him and start that process. Also I technically just got a raise again so there's that.
Maybe that new account manager knew this hire would work and scheduled to get that person in asap?
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I wonder what my shrink will say when I finally get one and tell them these stories.
I'll let you know when we finish our first session.
Funny enough, my insurance won't cover mental health w/out a referral. I got a referral from my PCP, and my insurance company denied it telling me that I need a THEM to refer me... so... yea.
A lot of HMOs have a list of approved therapist that they work with. So most people find their therapist through their insurance company.
It's one of the reasons I quit the field in 2012, even though I eventually came back. Also one of the reasons I'm enjoying working in a University counseling center. Students can just come without trying to figure out if their insurance is okay with it.
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I wonder what my shrink will say when I finally get one and tell them these stories.
The good news is the interview went well and I think I am hiring the kid. Which reminds me, I need to call him and start that process. Also I technically just got a raise again so there's that.
Maybe that new account manager knew this hire would work and scheduled to get that person in asap?
Doubt it. She has insinuated that I don't hire people so I can keep giving certain employees Overtime. I'm not the only person she does this type of thing with. I'm just the worst account right now when it comes to staffing. We are also in a different county than the main office, and she totally doesn't get the employment climate here.
I wonder what my shrink will say when I finally get one and tell them these stories.
I'll let you know when we finish our first session.
Funny enough, my insurance won't cover mental health w/out a referral. I got a referral from my PCP, and my insurance company denied it telling me that I need a THEM to refer me... so... yea.
A lot of HMOs have a list of approved therapist that they work with. So most people find their therapist through their insurance company.
It's one of the reasons I quit the field in 2012, even though I eventually came back. Also one of the reasons I'm enjoying working in a University counseling center. Students can just come without trying to figure out if their insurance is okay with it.
It's really frustrating. The last thing someone looking for mental health help should have to do is jump through hoops.
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I wonder what my shrink will say when I finally get one and tell them these stories.
I'll let you know when we finish our first session.
Funny enough, my insurance won't cover mental health w/out a referral. I got a referral from my PCP, and my insurance company denied it telling me that I need a THEM to refer me... so... yea.
That blows me away. I don't mean this to be snide or to inject politics into this discussion, but the impression here on the East Coast is that California is basically Woodstock on Wheels, and the healthcare programs basically provide for everything short of happy endings for therapeutic purposes. I know for me, my healthcare programs have included mental health care for years (my biggest hurdle is finding therapist that will tell me what I want to hear I like within network).
It truly stuns me that the land of "sanctuary for all that seek it" won't let you proactively seek therapy if you feel you need it. I think - again, not a political statement but a practical one - that explains a lot about the state of affairs in our country right now.
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You can always get therapy, if you pay out of pocket.
But your HMO (and only the gov if you're under ACA) decides who they pay and who they won't. And their lists are very short (unless it's amazing insurance) and are very restrictive. You may only get 4-6 sessions before they stop paying. And often times they will just decide not to pay the therapist anyway. It's a problem with insurance companies.
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Sounds more like a problem with how our society treats mental health
and maybe the California solution is to speak to a budtender :lol
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You can always get therapy, if you pay out of pocket.
But your HMO (and only the gov if you're under ACA) decides who they pay and who they won't. And their lists are very short (unless it's amazing insurance) and are very restrictive. You may only get 4-6 sessions before they stop paying. And often times they will just decide not to pay the therapist anyway. It's a problem with insurance companies.
Well, the ultimate problem is NOT the insurance companies, it's the client. They decide the parameters of the program, which drives who should get what, but that's for another thread. I'm a HUGE advocate for severing the employer/healthcare supplier nexus, but I can't lie: this is one of the few advantages of that connection. Maybe it's just the companies I've worked for, but the three I have worked for have been very open to the idea of proactive, preventative mental health care and have mandated their inclusion in the healthcare packages offered to their employees.
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You can always get therapy, if you pay out of pocket.
But your HMO (and only the gov if you're under ACA) decides who they pay and who they won't. And their lists are very short (unless it's amazing insurance) and are very restrictive. You may only get 4-6 sessions before they stop paying. And often times they will just decide not to pay the therapist anyway. It's a problem with insurance companies.
Well, the ultimate problem is NOT the insurance companies, it's the client. They decide the parameters of the program, which drives who should get what, but that's for another thread. I'm a HUGE advocate for severing the employer/healthcare supplier nexus, but I can't lie: this is one of the few advantages of that connection. Maybe it's just the companies I've worked for, but the three I have worked for have been very open to the idea of proactive, preventative mental health care and have mandated their inclusion in the healthcare packages offered to their employees.
Not always that easy. Most insurance companies don't have open ended options for the client to choose. They usually do have a limited list of therapists who they work with. It has nothing to do with the client. The client is usually just restricted by price. As I said, if they pay a tremendous amount of money, they can afford an insurance company with a ton of options. But most people who really need therapy don't have the resources to be so choosy and often get the minimum possible services. It's not just a matter of choice always.
And most of the client's I've seen have personal insurance. In California, at least in LA, it was becoming increasingly popular for companies to hire people at a "part time" status where they work a considerable amount of hours, but don't actually qualify for any benefits.
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Hey everyone. I don't post in this thread, I don't even lurk. But I wanted to write something and wasn't sure where to put it. I don't do social media so pardon me for using this as my platform.
In 2006 my life was getting back on track after going off the rails a bit. I was turning 30, coming off probation for a criminal offense, and dealing with a miserable job, no good social network or support, and trying to figure out where my life was and where it was going.
On a whim, I decided to get a pet. I only had one pet growing up and it always felt like my dad's. He was the one who took him for walks, fed him, and all that sort of thing. I met someone on Craiglist who had to get rid of their cat because they were moving to a place that didn't allow them (I don't think you can even do this anymore on Craiglist). She was about 1 year old and her name was Twinkles (or maybe it was Sparkles). Not to get all TOXIC MASCULINITY here but there was no way I was going to own a cat named Twinkles so when we got home I renamed her Sally. I lived alone and it was the first time I was responsible for not only a pet, but also for someone other than myself.
We bonded quickly and she was so easy to care for. A little while later I met the woman who I am now married to. She is more of a dog person and allergic to some cats, but fortunately for my marriage not Sally. We bought our house got her a dog, had two kids, and Sally was with us (me) for the whole ride.
Last week she seemed very lethargic and we noticed she wasn't eating. I picked her up and felt she had lost some weight. I took her to the vet and they ran some labs and realized her kidneys were failing. It was a chronic condition and had been developing for awhile, and only now toward the end was she feeling the effects of it. We gave her some antibiotics and some fluids but they did not anticipate any long term recovery.
I had a plan to take her to the vet to put her to sleep this weekend if her condition worsened. Sally always slept on my legs or chest in some manner but hasn't since she got sick, and last night I curled up on the floor with her. She was visibly tired and started looking like she had the chills. We laid there for a while and then I dozed off. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard her breathing get heavy. I was able to cuddle with her and give her some love as she fell asleep. I was hoping she would fall asleep at home with me next to her instead of at the vet, or while I was away at work.
It is scary to think she deteriorated that much in a week but I am comforted by the fact that up till then she was her normal, usual self. My wife has been amazing through this, realizing she always recognized she was "my" cat. This is my 7 year old's first death and I think she is handling it appropriately.
It is not a stretch to say that Sally taught me how to take care of someone, and that I would not have been the husband and father I am today without that. I can say with 100% confidence I am a better person because of her. Thank you, Sally.
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damn, thats sad. Sorry Chris.
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Sorry man :( So did she pass next to you at home? Did I read that right?
This is one of my favorite pics, I like to offer it up whenever I hear a story like this:
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It infuriates me when people refer to a pet as "just a pet". I had to pick up weekend shifts at a second job recently, and I knew my right off the bat my new boss was a prick when he said "We had a call out today. I guess it's a thing now to take the whole day off when you put your cat down".
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I feel for you Chris. We just bought our new house and we had to put our child, "Rikki" down. He was a orange tabby. We were heartbroken. We have 2 awesome cats now, Harry, and of all names, Sally. They are 14. Getting up there.
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Brohugs for you dude. I know a bit of where you're coming from, but not to the extent of what Sally's impact on your life at such a pivotal time was.
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I've been having a rough day yesterday and today as well, just work kicking my ass being super busy and so much going on that I need to be on top of. I've been getting frustrated and just mad at everything here and this continued from the moment I got in today.
But one of the network engineers who has been riding me gave me a really nice comment about my work "is beautifully done" which kind of just made my day so much better that someone appreciated my efforts lately.
And then I logged into my checking account and found I got a nice extra pay check, it's actually my stock payouts I get quarterly now for a while from the company buyout over the summer, but I forgot about it and kind of feels like I just got some extra cash (which it really is, I'm not working "extra" for it or anything just doing my job) and now I feel like a million bucks. Ok, a thousand bucks. But you get the point. Just when I was feeling like things couldn't get any worse, my day brightens up big time.
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Do I know anyone in Boston?
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Why yes you do.
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Why yes you do.
Who? :)
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Me, me, me!! Also Rumborak!
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You’re not even in the same state!
Well I’ll be in Boston for an interview next weekend.
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Well we must have a meetup! I'll message Rumborak.
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We can meet at Cheers!
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Let me tell you there is better bars than that fake bar. Really, not worth it. I want you to enjoy the culture and food/beer.
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Oh man, you’re going to be so confused by a non drinking vegetarian.
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Union City Oyster House.
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Oh man, you’re going to be so confused by a non drinking vegetarian.
Not if we go to an awesome vegan restaurant.
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Gotta say, I think that's the first time I've ever seen 'vegan' and 'awesome' used back-to-back in the same sentence.
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Craig Ferguson - who I thought was hilarious until I saw him live, and now I KNOW he's hilarious - is vegan, and he had a fantastic line about that during his standup show. I'm not going to repeat it here, because out of context and with the risk of not getting it verbatim it has too high a chance of being homophobic, but it's worth searching out if you can find it (or wait until his next Netflix special).
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Not a vegan. I can actually eat at most places as long as they aren't almost entirely meat.
Although I have noticed a recent trend to erase vegetarians from consideration. Everything seems to be meat or vegan. Sucks for guys like me that just don't eat meat but don't live off veggies and weird vegan creations like beatloaf.
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I know that but the place make great dishes. I talked to Rumbo. He'll be in Vermont. He was upset he can't meet you.
I can find a place to eat Adami. PM me where you will be in Boston.
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I know that but the place make great dishes. I talked to Rumbo. He'll be in Vermont. He was upset he can't meet you.
I can find a place to eat Adami. PM me where you will be in Boston.
No idea where yet. My interview is at Boston College so it'll be not too far from that. I know I arrive on the 26th at night and leave the 29th with the 27th being my full day free and then the 28th after my interview, so like after 3pm or so.
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I know that but the place make great dishes. I talked to Rumbo. He'll be in Vermont. He was upset he can't meet you.
I can find a place to eat Adami. PM me where you will be in Boston.
No idea where yet. My interview is at Boston College so it'll be not too far from that. I know I arrive on the 26th at night and leave the 29th with the 27th being my full day free and then the 28th after my interview, so like after 3pm or so.
Make sure you drive by the old Aerosmith apartment on Commonwealth Ave., so that the hipster that lives there can walk by and look at you with the same barely disguised comtempt that he gave my daughter and I when we did the same (after her campus visit at BC).
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Fun fact, since you brought up Aerosmith, I learned by listening to an old Howard Stern interview with Steven Adler this morning, Steven Tyler is hung like a donkey :lol
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Happy Friday to me, found Lagavulan 16 for under $70! Now all tucked in to not venture out of the house until Tuesday!
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I know that but the place make great dishes. I talked to Rumbo. He'll be in Vermont. He was upset he can't meet you.
I can find a place to eat Adami. PM me where you will be in Boston.
No idea where yet. My interview is at Boston College so it'll be not too far from that. I know I arrive on the 26th at night and leave the 29th with the 27th being my full day free and then the 28th after my interview, so like after 3pm or so.
Make sure you drive by the old Aerosmith apartment on Commonwealth Ave., so that the hipster that lives there can walk by and look at you with the same barely disguised comtempt that he gave my daughter and I when we did the same (after her campus visit at BC).
You want to talk about neighborhood scorn, when we were out in San Fran last summer we went by the Full House house. They basically had signs posted all around for everyone to basically STFU. :lol
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Not a vegan. I can actually eat at most places as long as they aren't almost entirely meat.
Although I have noticed a recent trend to erase vegetarians from consideration. Everything seems to be meat or vegan. Sucks for guys like me that just don't eat meat but don't live off veggies and weird vegan creations like beatloaf.
If you ever find yourself back in California and up in Ventura, you MUST try by buddy's restaurant. :JayOctavarium:
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Fun fact, since you brought up Aerosmith, I learned by listening to an old Howard Stern interview with Steven Adler this morning, Steven Tyler is hung like a donkey :lol
Pretty sure that's generally well known .... at least for all the fogeys.
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Morning dudes.
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G'morning all
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Fun fact, since you brought up Aerosmith, I learned by listening to an old Howard Stern interview with Steven Adler this morning, Steven Tyler is hung like a donkey :lol
Pretty sure that's generally well known .... at least for all the fogeys.
Probably, that was an old interview too but hilarious hearing him talk about everyones cock sizes in rock from the 80s :lol
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Just finishing up my afternoon coffee. I gotta go grab my car from the dealer. I have little faith things are fixed.
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Good evening all. Cooked dinner earlier and now I'm settled in on the couch with a beer and some Xbox.
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Went to my gf's families house for dinner, now I'm home with a cocktail and about to play some call of duty.
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Staying up late gaming was rewarding last night netting two blackout wins thanks to all the noobs playing the game since it's free for the weekend
Just drank my morning coffee as I watch some music videos before I start gaming again
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I gotta fire up blackout tonight. Take blackout for a test drive on the new 2080
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I gotta fire up blackout tonight.
I hear ya. I should do the same.
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:metal
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:metal :metal :metal
The game is ridiculously hard to just pick up IMO
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-4F walking a half mile into the office this morning with the surrounding buildings acting like wind tunnels. Guy on the radio said the real feel is -22F.
I seriously can't remember ever feeling that cold.
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It's pretty cold here too, not that cold though. It's only 10.
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I'm going to be doing some major blobbing today and tomorrow. I'm off today and I took tomorrow off as well due to how much work I've been doing the past two weeks.
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I'm going to be doing some major blobbing today and tomorrow. I'm off today and I took tomorrow off as well due to how much work I've been doing the past two weeks.
I am Blob and I approve of this message.
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:lol
The moon was pretty awesome last night. I'm off today as well and will probably be bobbin with the gf.
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I'll be blobbing for a bit this morning and then I have to log on and work remotely for a few hours in the afternoon.
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I completely forgot to check out the moon last night. Super bummed :(
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The moon is still up there. You're good.
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56F here. I'm freezing.
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56F here. I'm freezing.
Go fuck yourself, Jay.
:heart
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56F here. I'm freezing.
56 degrees is basically the tropics.
I've gotten to the point where anything above 30 is considered warm enough.
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56F here. I'm freezing.
56 degrees is basically the tropics.
I've gotten to the point where anything above 30 is considered warm enough.
I had my window down on the highway when it was 46F the other day :lol
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56F here. I'm freezing.
That's how I felt when I was in Florida :lol
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Good morning guys. Have the day off today. Took the dog to day camp and now enjoying my first cup of coffee.
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G'morning all. Back in the office after essentially a four day weekend (worked from home both all day Friday and a half day for the holiday yesterday). I'm taking Friday off though, so really only a three day week this week :hat
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Morning, all!
I learned a valuable lesson yesterday: while poblano peppers don't approach the heat levels of jalapenos, habs or anything else, you're still inviting yourself into a world of pain if you don't thoroughly wash your hands after chopping them before taking a leak.
:millahhhh
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yikes
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People laugh, and people who haven't cooked think it's a joke, but it's not. When my Home Chef recipes have jalapeños
in them, they make it a point to say "wash down the knife and cutting board when you're done with the jalapeño" and they're not kidding. Hands, lips, eyes, balls, you touch them without being careful and you know it.
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Oh yea definitely. I've never had the burn down there but eyes and nose for sure.
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I've actually had worse...chopping jalapenos, then touched the outside of my nose (which was pretty raw from blowing my nose a lot from a cold)...jesus that was unpleasant for a while.
My fingers were still burning this morning, especially in the shower with the hot water. At least my junk recovered after about 30 minutes.
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That's what she said.
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Hey hey
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My my.
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Rock and roll can never die.
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Hey hey
Hey.
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Hey hey
Hey.
Hay
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Willy Mayes Hays?
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Willy Mayes Hays?
The American Express Card. Don't steal home without it!
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Willy Mayes Hays?
I hit like Mays, and I run like Hayes.
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Willy Mayes Hays?
I hit like Mays, and I run like Hayes.
You may run like Hayes, but you hit like shit.
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So I have MSN as my homepage. I like it. Gives me the news and other shit, but I keep seeing this and I cannot figure it out...
WTF is Marie Kondo and what does it mean?
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Woke up this morning to find out my aunt passed away last night. She was my favorite Aunt. Sweet, caring. I just saw her less than 2 weeks ago. I'm heartbroken.
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Sorry to hear that, king.
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My condolences :'(
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Woke up this morning to find out my aunt passed away last night. She was my favorite Aunt. Sweet, caring. I just saw her less than 2 weeks ago. I'm heartbroken.
Wow Joe, that sucks. I'm sorry to hear that. Unexpected?
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So sorry to hear that Joe. :sad:
:hug:
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My condolences Joe .
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Woke up this morning to find out my aunt passed away last night. She was my favorite Aunt. Sweet, caring. I just saw her less than 2 weeks ago. I'm heartbroken.
Wow Joe, that sucks. I'm sorry to hear that. Unexpected?
Not but we were not expecting it to be so fast.
Thanks everyone.
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I’m really sorry to hear that Joe, my condolences
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G'morning all.
*bro hug for Joe*
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Sorry for your loss Joe :(
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I'm forcing my coworker to listen to Minor Threat this morning. I don't think she appreciates it much.
Woke up this morning to find out my aunt passed away last night. She was my favorite Aunt. Sweet, caring. I just saw her less than 2 weeks ago. I'm heartbroken.
Goddamnit. I'm sorry to hear Joe. Condolences.
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Can't remember the last time I listened to Minor Threat and must say I have no desire to
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I loved Minor Threat as a teen. Same with a lot of the local thrash punk bands here (Dr. Know, Ill Repute, etc). I'm now forcing her to listen to Dead Kennedys. I think she hates me.
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Yea I was a fan of that music, Dead Kennedys as well, when I was younger but have a really hard time listening to it now. Actually there's a few solid Dead Kennedys songs but Minor Threat just sounds terrible to me now :lol
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So yesterday my GF's Dad (who we rent our house from) basically told us he wants us out in 3 months.
The scramble is now on to find a place to live that's no more than a city away from my work, that's not a shithole, and that will take us with our pets (7lb dog, 2lb dog, 8lb cat), that's not outrageously expensive. In 2012 we rented a 2 bedroom condo in a bad area for $1300/mo. Now I can't even find a 1 bedroom apartment in the slums for less than $1500 that would take the pets.
To be honest, if it weren't for my full time and stable work, we would seriously look into leaving the state.
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So yesterday my GF's Dad (who we rent our house from) basically told us he wants us out in 3 months.
The scramble is now on to find a place to live that's no more than a city away from my work, that's not a shithole, and that will take us with our pets (7lb dog, 2lb dog, 8lb cat), that's not outrageously expensive. In 2012 we rented a 2 bedroom condo in a bad area for $1300/mo. Now I can't even find a 1 bedroom apartment in the slums for less than $1500 that would take the pets.
To be honest, if it weren't for my full time and stable work, we would seriously look into leaving the state.
There is full time and stable work all over the place, and you seem to complain about your job quite often. Maybe this is a sign to finally bounce.
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So yesterday my GF's Dad (who we rent our house from) basically told us he wants us out in 3 months.
The scramble is now on to find a place to live that's no more than a city away from my work, that's not a shithole, and that will take us with our pets (7lb dog, 2lb dog, 8lb cat), that's not outrageously expensive. In 2012 we rented a 2 bedroom condo in a bad area for $1300/mo. Now I can't even find a 1 bedroom apartment in the slums for less than $1500 that would take the pets.
To be honest, if it weren't for my full time and stable work, we would seriously look into leaving the state.
There is full time and stable work all over the place, and you seem to complain about your job quite often. Maybe this is a sign to finally bounce.
What he said. If you can't find a job in, say, Charlotte, NC or outside Atlanta, you're not trying.
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So yesterday my GF's Dad (who we rent our house from) basically told us he wants us out in 3 months.
The scramble is now on to find a place to live that's no more than a city away from my work, that's not a shithole, and that will take us with our pets (7lb dog, 2lb dog, 8lb cat), that's not outrageously expensive. In 2012 we rented a 2 bedroom condo in a bad area for $1300/mo. Now I can't even find a 1 bedroom apartment in the slums for less than $1500 that would take the pets.
To be honest, if it weren't for my full time and stable work, we would seriously look into leaving the state.
There is full time and stable work all over the place, and you seem to complain about your job quite often. Maybe this is a sign to finally bounce.
It's very much still possible. We might wind up staying in the area for a year then bouncing. She wants to go out to Rhode Island. I was thinking Arizona or Oregon.
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Evening fellas. Gonna give the dog a walk and pop open a can of Belgian quad.
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Hey
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Hi
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Bonjour
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ciao
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Aloha
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hallo
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G'Day Mate
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嗨
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Привет
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Hallå
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Been working with my green screen again tonight, implemented it into my latest gaming video which I know you love so much :lol hoping to have it on youtube soon
whats up with you
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Watching the NHL skills competition.
That's my kind of gaming!
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true I havent followed hockey at all this year, the Rangers just aren't very interesting
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I haven't followed hockey since I lived in Florida. I don't know what happened but I just completely lost interest. I used to have season tickets to the Tampa Bay Lightening.
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My Dad had season tickets for the Rangers when he was a kid, but it's so expensive now and they were good for awhile recently and I'd go to a game a year but now they just aren't worth the money
anyway, just finished my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NsBKiuSCw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NsBKiuSCw)
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watching now. . . .
I got my ass handed to me on the blackout trial
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I used to have season tickets to the Tampa Bay Lightening.
We saw the Bruins down there a couple of times, once about 15 years ago and then again 5 years ago. That's a great atmosphere around the arena.
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anyway, just finished my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NsBKiuSCw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NsBKiuSCw)
OK, I'll bite.
Edit: I don't get it. :lol
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I used to have season tickets to the Tampa Bay Lightening.
We saw the Bruins down there a couple of times, once about 15 years ago and then again 5 years ago. That's a great atmosphere around the arena.
It's actually a great place to watch a game. I remember seeing some games in Toronto and I didn't think the atmosphere was nearly as good. The first tier was filled with a lot of suits and the prices for the remaining seats were out of control.
I know it's gimmicky but I loved when they installed the tesla coils in the lightening arena.
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anyway, just finished my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NsBKiuSCw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NsBKiuSCw)
OK, I'll bite.
Edit: I don't get it. :lol
I knew you wouldnt :lol
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Good morning all you glorious bastards.
true I havent followed hockey at all this year, the Rangers just aren't very interesting
it should please you to know that King Henrik won the goalie breakaway competition. But otherwise, yeah... rebuilds can be painful at times.
@ that YT vid... I want that 6:37 of my morning back.
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:lol good morning
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Good morning guys. A little hungover this morning but I’m starting to come around. I have to make my way to Home Depot today to get a shovel.
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On my second coffee this morning surprisingly but I just made a banging ham, onion, tomato, and cheese omelet. I got this new copper pan that is so good for making eggs, light and day between my old pan. Maybe our resident chef could explain what makes a good pan because I have no idea but loving this purchase
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Good morning guys. A little hungover this morning but I’m starting to come around. I have to make my way to Home Depot today to get a shovel.
You planning to zydar this weekend?
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Good morning guys. A little hungover this morning but I’m starting to come around. I have to make my way to Home Depot today to get a shovel.
You planning to zydar this weekend?
Only for a little bit, I have dinner plans tonight, I can't get too messy ;)
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A pro could pull it off.
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Good morning guys. A little hungover this morning but I’m starting to come around. I have to make my way to Home Depot today to get a shovel.
You planning to zydar this weekend?
:lol :zydar:
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Speak of the devil! :zydar:
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Slow day in the DTF
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Isn't that every day?
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Isn't that every day?
Just weekends - not that you'd know the difference. :lol Seems when we should be working, we've got plenty of time to DTF. Weekends - apparently our own lives are more of a priority.
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:lol
Hey.
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Good evening all. Settled in on the couch for the Royal Rumble. My friends have an open invite to come by for wrestling PPVs, but I wouldn't mind a quiet night to myself.
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Good evening all. Settled in on the couch for the Royal Rumble. My friends have an open invite to come by for wrestling PPVs, but I wouldn't mind a quiet night to myself.
The first half (ie the women's half) stole the show easily.
Ironically, the high point of the men's RR was a woman, and the low point of the women's RR was a man. :lol
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:lol so who's going to wrestlemania? Being that I have a ticket maybe I should care.
I feel like 2019 officially begins now for me, in an uber to the airport for my first trip of the year to LA for the work week. Got a bit of work to do there but looking forward to the better weather and my work budget for food, and as long as work doesnt chage my personal plans, going to see Elton John on Wednesday.
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I went to Northeast Wrestling's Over the Top event on Saturday in my home city, and there was a 30 man rumble to close the night that was freaking nuts. I couldn't care less about the WWE, but the smaller promotions have been a blast to follow and go to.
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Good Afternoon. I'm not dead :lol
yet
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We'll wait.
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Good afternoon guys. Almost done with another Monday at work. Can’t wait to go home, have some dinner, have a drink and relax.
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Crap ton of snow today. My two primary client contacts were in transit today, so it's been nicely slow-as-shit.
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We surprisingly haven’t had much snow this year. Which is a shame because I like it when it snows.
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It's currently 72 in LA :hat
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102F for the next 3 days here, and that's not even close to the worst we've had recently. :sadpanda:
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Snow for us tonight. Not sure how much.
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Snow for us tonight. Not sure how much.
Us too; it seems like they keep adjusting down; I'm right on the line of "2"-5"" and "0"-2"". I frankly WANT snow (to me, there is nothing better than being inside, fire going, watching the snow come down) but it's not panning out so far here in CT.
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I like just enough snow to work from home, but not enough to have to bust out the snowblower.
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I like just enough snow to work from home, but not enough to have to bust out the snowblower.
Yup, the perfect amount. We got a couple of those last year, so far this year has been fairly calm for me. Just no snow Friday night please.
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I like just enough snow to work from home, but not enough to have to bust out the snowblower.
HAHA, mine is new, so I want to use it!
You'll love this, though, Brian: we got about five inches back in December. So for shits and giggles I fired it up to give 'er a test run, and went out my garage door, turned it left and started blowing. I LITERALLY (I measured it as a joke for my wife) went four feet, hit the rubber mat that is in front of the front step, jammed up the snowblower and spent the next hour or so cutting the mat out of the rotors. I didn't ruin the snowblower, though I do need a new mat (and I am still finding pieces of the mat in the grass of the front yard).
Fucking idiot.
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Here's where I'd normally bitch about being cold...
but I'll shut up :lmao
Good morning all! In an hour I get to meet with a new board member on the HOA I work for and take her on a 3 hour tour of the property, to try to help her grasp the scope of our work and how long it takes to really traverse the property. 50 square acres. 500 residences. It's huge.
My nose is going to be nice and brown once I am done.
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My youngest son turned 16 today.
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Bitchin.
Another milestone. Wait until they're both 'out' of the house. THAT'S a shock to the system.
Happy bday to little TAC.
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/402/600/008.jpg)
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Happy Birthday little TAC
So this week has been intense and just found out and booked a trip to denver monday morning which I am not happy about given I'll have only 48 hours home before a 10 day trip of even more work. Bright side is a shit ton of OT so... I don't mind spending a few bucks and that's what I am doing tonight.
Got myself a ticket on stubhub for Elton John at Staples Center, sold out and snagged a suite seat for $160 after fees, can't find a seat under $200 before fees to see him back home so I feel like I got a good deal even though my view is a bit too one sided. I'm excited to have a night out before getting back to the work and then having to hit it even harder next week.
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My youngest son turned 16 today.
Happy birthday!
My youngest daughter will turn 16 on February 28th.
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G'morning all. Working from home today because I didn't feel like dealing with my commute in -15 degree weather.
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G'morning all. Working from home today because I didn't feel like dealing with my commute in -15 degree weather.
Yikes.
When I got up, we were a balmy 21 degrees.
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It was only -2F walking the half mile from my parking garage to my office.
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G'morning all. Working from home today because I didn't feel like dealing with my commute in -15 degree weather.
Likewise. I'm siting on my couch on a tcon, coffee in hand and cat on lap. And occasionally checking to make sure that our frozen pipes aren't doing anything untoward.
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-21C here this morning, which also froze the toilet pipe in my main floor bathroom. 30 minutes later with mrs.jingle's hairdryer aimed at the pipe, I finally got my morning shit.
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My youngest son turned 16 today.
Happy birthday!
My youngest daughter will turn 16 on February 28th.
My daughter turns 18 on Saturday. Eeesh. EIGHTEEN. Kip Winger can f*** himself.
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Good morning folks.
It's 55F
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Good morning folks, it’s 29 here, chilly but not unbearable.
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Little dark and dreary here at 59F
so glad I am missing this coldness back home, I fear my cat hasnt left my bed and blankets though back home.
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25C/77F here today. First livable weather we've had in weeks. :D
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-21C here this morning, which also froze the toilet pipe in my main floor bathroom. 30 minutes later with mrs.jingle's hairdryer aimed at the pipe, I finally got my morning shit.
Canadian for ass? ;D
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Soo looking forward to my bed tonight, whenever I get home that is. Delays... should be in the air soon enough though.
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The thought of flying cross country. Ugh.
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I take sleeping pills. I was out for most of it, what I was up for was listening to music in peace without distraction. 5 hours is just long enough on a flight to where I'm about to start getting real fidgety though. Almost home now. Damn cold.
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Much needed coffee, and working on editting my Elton John footage, awesome stuff. As much as doing shit like that totally wears me out on a business trip, it's so far always been worth it. YOLO
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So did you have a good time?
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Definitely, just finished my full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3eyTMcHi8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3eyTMcHi8) what's funny is I can actually see him on Friday in Denver :lol I'm not jumping on it since it's more expensive but I would be lying if I said the thought didn't cross my mind. The reality is that this next work trip is going to be twice as difficult so I may not even have a chance to get a free night. Got to take advantage of things when I can, last week for the price I paid and the timing, worked perfectly.
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Much needed coffee, and working on editting my Elton John footage, awesome stuff. As much as doing shit like that totally wears me out on a business trip, it's so far always been worth it. YOLO
It's definitely worth it. It will be what you remember the most when you look back at it.
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Morning. At the rink to see my nephew's hockey game today then off to my buddies house for the Superbowl.
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Awesome.
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G'morning all. Having a bit of a lazy morning which means no brewday for me today. Will go for a run in a few minutes and then play some Overwatch until it's time to go to my friends' apartment for a Super Bowl party.
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Morning. Taking a day off the diet today, pizza wings and beer maybe some nachos.
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Slow day with the grandson, then later tonight I'll be doing write-ups for my roulette. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no.
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Well I made it to Denver and must say my head is spinning a bit going back and forth, luckily it's fairly quiet and no one is up my ass today so I am just going to take care of some easy work for the next few hours before I call it a night and enjoy one of Denver's green offerings.
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Morning folks.
There was ice on my windshield this morning. WHAT SORCERY IS THIS??????
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Its snowing here in denver, my coworker is about to land so I got to pick him up at the airport, today is shaping up to be a real shit show.
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Its snowing here in denver, my coworker is about to land so I got to pick him up at the airport, today is shaping up to be a real shit snow.
Fix'd
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102.6 fever. Swabbed for the flu. Fun times.
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*hides voodoo doll stuffed with bits of a Tom Brady jersey*
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:lol
Or takes it out of the oven.
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I made out with Tom too hard. I went deep.
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102.6 fever. Swabbed for the flu. Fun times.
You and I have very different definitions of "fun".
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I made out with Tom too hard. I went deep.
:lol you get what you deserve then
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102.6 fever. Swabbed for the flu. Fun times.
You and I have very different definitions of "fun".
Sarcasm skills x infinity.
I made out with Tom too hard. I went deep.
:lol you get what you deserve then
Hey, he got me a ring. Lol
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More like a necklace. ;D
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Or anal beads
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Evening fellas
Or anal beads
I see cramx is getting wild on a Wednesday.
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If by wild you mean 14 hour work day and driving through this snow in denver, then sure. Definitely feeling the wear of this business trip tonight. Just got to my hotel for the night and feel really shitty. I'll likely be working Saturday too, maybe Sunday we will see.
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That sucks Cramx, when do you head home?
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Wednesday night, and I could have saw Elton John last night or tonight! :lol
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Two more hours until my week is done. Took tomorrow off because I'll brew in the morning and then I have to be in the city to help prep for my homebrew club's annual competition this weekend.
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Been so sick I haven't tasted a beer in 3 days.
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But you have rings!
Anyway that sucks man, the flu is rough.
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I am so gassed right now. So weak. I hope I can sleep tonight.
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Wednesday night, and I could have saw Elton John last night or tonight! :lol
When you get home you have to try some Apex Legends, I'd like to hear your opinion on the game.
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Yea, I plan on trying it. My friend got a win last night and was bragging about it. I'm so annoyed they do a surprise release of a game right up my alley the week I'm not home to play it. At least today was a good day at work, made significant progress on everything and look to be in much better shape to finish early next week.
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Just found out I'm getting a 4% raise raise for the year (was expecting 3%) :metal. I'm picking up a 12-14lb brisket and smoking it tonight in celebration.
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Maybe Victoria will be smoking some brisket later too! :metal :rollin
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Fantastic :hat
I got myself a marijuana watermelon juice for tonight when I'm done with this work today
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Great news Chino! We’lol get news on our raises and bonus next month.
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Yea March is when we find out our raises and whatnot. I expect 3 or 4% and I'm eligible for a bonus now with our new overlords so we will see how that goes.
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We eligible for 5% bonus and 10% raise. There is a max cap on amount you can make with your title but I'm far from that cap so I'm hoping for the full 10%. I've made a hell of a case as to why I deserve it.
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Yea you've mentioned before about your good performance, 10% is a huge bump though, hopefully you get that.
I'm starting to wonder how much more I can make at this job without getting another promotion which seems unlikely. I dont see any moving up in my future here but so far I've gotten 3-4% raise every year. I got to imagine at some point they arent going to keep doing that. But then again with the company buyout last year, who knows. I've got a retention bonus to keep me here for 2 years but it's not that much to really make me want to stay if I get pigeonholed. I keep telling my gf, this is my last year here. This trip is just killing me too so my current state of mind is kind of like "fuck this place" but thatll change when I get a fat check with all this OT.
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What's the culture like over there? I know you're under new ownership so it may be hard to read but is there always a push to move forward? Are there other opportunities within the company?
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I would say our culture was pretty awesome, but now... really hard to say. Most stuff hasn't changed so there's not a big reason, yet, to feel negative towards the new leadership...but there definitely are peolpe who aren't happy. Essentially going from a private company to being owned by a huge corporation has really negatively impacted a lot of people. They simply just don't like who we work for even though they haven't tried to change our culture, yet.
Essentially one of the biggest taglines here was "make the internet better" and part of that was being for net neutrality, in fact our previous ownership was VERY big on that, and yet they agreed to sell to someone fighting to end net neutrality. It rubs people the wrong way.
There are opportunities to move around but none seem to fit me, and management doesn't seem concerned atm with moving people forward even though that was a large part of the culture, I think right now its "grow grow grow" and don't worry about anything else type of mentality here. This job doesn't suck by any means, we have some awesome perks, but my group seems to only be growing in workload and not in size so I don't see how I'll ever move up into management, my boss has no where to go either at this point. I also have little desire to do my boss's job anyway.
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Hopefully the workload stays in check with the pay, there is also work/life balance to think about it too. From what I've seen on the forums you've been traveling a lot too. Do you feel burned out at all (this trip aside)?
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Hopefully the workload stays in check with the pay, there is also work/life balance to think about it too. From what I've seen on the forums you've been traveling a lot too. Do you feel burned out at all (this trip aside)?
Yea, burn out is a real issue and I'm definitely going through it, not just now, but felt it a lot last year too. In a few weeks I hit my 5 year anniversary and that entitles me to a 3 week sabatical to use within a year, the idea is to help burnout by year 5. I need it for sure and that's also a big reason why I want to make sure I stick around for a bit longer. I'm not sure when I'll get the chance for 3 weeks off with pay again.
I've had the work/life balance discussion with my boss a long time ago after I started and within my first year was already feeling burnt out. Things got better after that discussion, I essentially said I won't work like that and my boss heard and made changes (hired someone for Europe). I've been telling him we need another body for a year now and it seems like he isn't listening which is only making me feel worse about this place. Every other group is hiring like crazy except ours.
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Well, going to bed at 9:30 last night because I was exhausted and starting to get a little sick the past few days backfired. Woke up just after 4am, and could not get back to sleep. So, I might as well DTF.
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3:32 am here Chad. I've got the same issue. Now have the terrible decision to coffee or not to coffee...
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3:32 am here Chad. I've got the same issue. Now have the terrible decision to coffee or not to coffee...
Coffee.... definitely coffee here. Once I'm awake after about 5-6 hours sleep, I'm fucked. CAN NOT get back to sleep. I gotta go get jingle.son from school at noon-ish (it's only a 45 minute drive), so an afternoon nap is definitely in order. Otherwise, it'll be groundhog day
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3:32 am here
Damn!
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Morning guys
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Starting to feel better. I slept until 740am. Haven't done that since hanging with Chad in Montreal.
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I should have logged on early this morning as I couldnt sleep either. Had cramps all over my body throughout the night. I must be getting very dehydrated at this elevation and from doing all this work.
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Starting to feel better. I slept until 740am. Haven't done that since hanging with Chad in Montreal.
I haven't been following this thread but have you been sick King?
I should have logged on early this morning as I couldnt sleep either. Had cramps all over my body throughout the night. I must be getting very dehydrated at this elevation and from doing all this work.
Is there anything you can do to help with high altitude?
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Drink lots of water. I usually don't get this bad coming out here, usually just end up needing chapstick for my dry lips.
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When I was in montana I remember having one hell of a headache. My Florida sea level body couldn't take it :lol
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:lol I really had a hard time when I went to the Rocky Mountain national park. Once I got that high, I really wasn't having a good time with my huffing and puffing breathing.
One of my friends came out to Vail once and said he had the worst experience of his life with elevation sickness. I don't think I have really experienced that before, other than being out of breathe when doing physical activity and having dry lips/nose.
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Starting to feel better. I slept until 740am. Haven't done that since hanging with Chad in Montreal.
I haven't been following this thread but have you been sick King?
I should have logged on early this morning as I couldnt sleep either. Had cramps all over my body throughout the night. I must be getting very dehydrated at this elevation and from doing all this work.
Is there anything you can do to help with high altitude?
Caught the flu. I had a 102.6 temp Wednesday. Finally feeling better today.
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Starting to feel better. I slept until 740am. Haven't done that since hanging with Chad in Montreal.
I exhausted you. :eyebrows:
So, I just had an interesting last 20 minutes of my life that I want back. This is a quasi-long boring story, but I got nothing better to do at the moment. I started to get that scratchy feeling in my throat a few days ago, so I decided to mix up some OJ from concentrate. We never - NEVER - have OJ in the fridge, but had a can leftover in the freezer from when jingle.daughter went thru an OJ phase when se was like 6. I finally got to the last glass this morning, so I just emptied the jug into my glass, but didn't want to drink a whole (tall) glass. No problem, I'll just put the glass back in the fridge, at the back so it doesn't get accidentally tipped over. As I'm gingerly sliding it back - on the top shelf no less - it catches something, and tips over. About 20oz of OJ all over the fridge.
1/2 roll of Bounty later, I think I got most of it sopped up.
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Well this day can only downhill from here for you Chad. Lol
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So you had 12 y/o frozen OJ concentrate in your freezer??
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:lol
Isnt it great when you specifically try to avoid something and it still happens
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So you had 12 y/o frozen OJ concentrate in your freezer??
Yup.
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Where's our local monster truck fan? I had previously looked and saw no concerts of interest (besides EJ but I knew I wouldn't be able to make those) while I was here in denver, but never looked at other events. Turns out at 1pm today there is Monster Jam, which I guess is a monster truck show here at the Pepsi Center. I'm off today and probably feeling the best I had all week since yesterday was a light work day followed by a relaxing evening in. I'm thinking of going since tickets are cheap and it's something to do that I've never seen before.
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I haven't been to a monster truck rally in years but it was a good time when I did go. If tickets are cheap I'd go check it out, grab some cheap beers and watch huge trucks drive around.
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Where's our local monster truck fan? I had previously looked and saw no concerts of interest (besides EJ but I knew I wouldn't be able to make those) while I was here in denver, but never looked at other events. Turns out at 1pm today there is Monster Jam, which I guess is a monster truck show here at the Pepsi Center. I'm off today and probably feeling the best I had all week since yesterday was a light work day followed by a relaxing evening in. I'm thinking of going since tickets are cheap and it's something to do that I've never seen before.
Yo. Resident MJ fan checking in. My credentials include over 35 shows in the last 18 years, 5 of which have been the World Finals in Las Vegas. Monster Jam has turned to shit since Feld Entertainment bought out the franchise. The shows are still fun, but they are a shadow of their former selves. The smaller "arena" tour is a total snooze fest if you've been following the sport for a while, but they're still a good time if you're just looking for some noise and air time. They used to bring in all kinds of side shows, things like demolition derbies and giant robotic dinosaurs that'd set cars on fire. Now they don't do anything like that. The larger stadium shows are still really entertaining though.
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:lol
Isnt it great when you specifically try to avoid something and it still happens
And I specifically love that feeling that - after all your efforts, you KNOW it's happening and you can't do a damn thing to stop it.
True story: I was selling my house in Georgia, moving up north. The family had left in the morning, and I had a work meeting the next day, so I stayed behind. House was empty, and my (then) loving wife left me a four pack of Guiness and a hoagie/grinder/subway in the sink with some ice. I had a pillow, change of clothes and a book, so I was ALL FRIGGIN' SET! I got home from work, and before I hunkered down, I figured, while it's daylight, I'll make one last tour of the house. Nothing in the gargage or first floor, nothing on the second floor, and I figured, what the heck I'll check the walk-up attic (it was a staircase up and about half the attic was "floored" to store stuff and facilitate storage on the AC unit. So I walk up... and I see a blue candle that was in the dormer window (it was a thing back then in celebration of the police, and since my bro and his girlfriend were both police officers in the county, I put one out). So I thought to myself, "Self, that's a perfectly good electric candle AND extension cord, you better get it." So I walked off the "floor" and onto a joist, thinking, "be careful, you have dress shoes on and you DO NOT want to fall through the ceiling". Of course, then I thought "No one falls through the ceiling, relax. Worst that happens is you pop a sheetrock nail." I got about halfway to the window and my dress shoes slipped off the wood. I knew I was in trouble even before I started to descend... <That feeling!!> and sure enough, both feet plunged through the insulation and sheetrock into the room below. I'm "sitting" there - straddling the 2 by 10, both feet hanging into the room below which was now littered with pieces of insulation, sheet rock and dust. Long story short(er) I spent the entire night going to Home Depot getting supplies (only stuff I could throw away or carry on a plane) and trying to patch that ceiling. I was up until about 2:30 am doing it, and while I'm pretty handy with tools (and have done a fair amount of sheetrocking and taping) this was a disaster. I get out of my meeting the next day and there's a call from my real estate agent: "Stadler, what the hell happened in the guest bedroom??" We had to call a contractor and redo my work before closing. That was 17 years ago and I still get made fun of over that.
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Son of a bitch! I'll take a spilled glass of OJ over that. Dayum.
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Where's our local monster truck fan? I had previously looked and saw no concerts of interest (besides EJ but I knew I wouldn't be able to make those) while I was here in denver, but never looked at other events. Turns out at 1pm today there is Monster Jam, which I guess is a monster truck show here at the Pepsi Center. I'm off today and probably feeling the best I had all week since yesterday was a light work day followed by a relaxing evening in. I'm thinking of going since tickets are cheap and it's something to do that I've never seen before.
Yo. Resident MJ fan checking in. My credentials include over 35 shows in the last 18 years, 5 of which have been the World Finals in Las Vegas. Monster Jam has turned to shit since Feld Entertainment bought out the franchise. The shows are still fun, but they are a shadow of their former selves. The smaller "arena" tour is a total snooze fest if you've been following the sport for a while, but they're still a good time if you're just looking for some noise and air time. They used to bring in all kinds of side shows, things like demolition derbies and giant robotic dinosaurs that'd set cars on fire. Now they don't do anything like that. The larger stadium shows are still really entertaining though.
Was looking for your thoughts, interesting. I had a fun time yesterday. Probably because I never experienced it, I thought it was really cool but definitely as you said, there wasn't anything too crazy. It kind of felt like a toned down wwe show too with the way the trucks taunted each other and one time a guy flew off the small ATV but kind of looked staged. I guess it's really meant for kids though as that was 50% of the crowd with the other being their parents. I did sit next to a milf that seemed way more interested in talking to me than her husband :lol I also enjoyed a few beers so I guess that added to my enjoyment of the show.
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Where's our local monster truck fan? I had previously looked and saw no concerts of interest (besides EJ but I knew I wouldn't be able to make those) while I was here in denver, but never looked at other events. Turns out at 1pm today there is Monster Jam, which I guess is a monster truck show here at the Pepsi Center. I'm off today and probably feeling the best I had all week since yesterday was a light work day followed by a relaxing evening in. I'm thinking of going since tickets are cheap and it's something to do that I've never seen before.
Yo. Resident MJ fan checking in. My credentials include over 35 shows in the last 18 years, 5 of which have been the World Finals in Las Vegas. Monster Jam has turned to shit since Feld Entertainment bought out the franchise. The shows are still fun, but they are a shadow of their former selves. The smaller "arena" tour is a total snooze fest if you've been following the sport for a while, but they're still a good time if you're just looking for some noise and air time. They used to bring in all kinds of side shows, things like demolition derbies and giant robotic dinosaurs that'd set cars on fire. Now they don't do anything like that. The larger stadium shows are still really entertaining though.
Was looking for your thoughts, interesting. I had a fun time yesterday. Probably because I never experienced it, I thought it was really cool but definitely as you said, there wasn't anything too crazy. It kind of felt like a toned down wwe show too with the way the trucks taunted each other and one time a guy flew off the small ATV but kind of looked staged. I guess it's really meant for kids though as that was 50% of the crowd with the other being their parents. I did sit next to a milf that seemed way more interested in talking to me than her husband :lol I also enjoyed a few beers so I guess that added to my enjoyment of the show.
Nice :hat
Yeah, my gripe has been that it has turned more into a circus show on wheels. It used to be a true motor sport. The drivers owned the trucks. They drove them from show to show. Their time was required to repair them when they broke, and the fix came out of their bank account. There was a true feeling of competition because it was about the driver and the machine he built. Now, Feld, with the exception of a few old fan favorites (Avenger, Titan, Overkill Evolution) will only run the trucks they own at their events. The drivers are not mechanics, but rather hired guns (it's no coincidence that every female driver hired in the last 5 years is an 8.5 or above). They get flown from show to show to take pics with the fans and drive. That's it. Like you said, I'm looking at this from the viewpoint of a 30 year old man. At the end of the day, the show is meant for kids.
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I had a convo with the milf about the one female driver, scoobey doo, and how we were surprised there was a female at all, but she was also terrible. Zombie won the event and seemed to be a big fan favorite. I don't think I'm going to follow this, but I can't complain, at $30 bucks for a good view and a couple hours of unique entertainment, I thought it was a good day.
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I had a convo with the milf about the one female driver, scoobey doo, and how we were surprised there was a female at all, but she was also terrible. Zombie won the event and seemed to be a big fan favorite. I don't think I'm going to follow this, but I can't complain, at $30 bucks for a good view and a couple hours of unique entertainment, I thought it was a good day.
Who was piloting Scooby Doo? Was it Myranda Cozad?
http://americancarsamericangirls.com/show/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Myranda-C.jpg
Yeah, she's absolutely garbage behind the wheel. Having never actually driven a Monster Truck before, I'm 100% confident I could perform at least on her level in competition, and she's been at this like 4 solid years now.
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Yup that was her although she looks way better in those pics than in the driving suit.
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Belongs in the "mildly irritating" thread, I'm sure, but the annoying belief that "throw a hot chick in there" and men will just suspend disbelief and sign up for anything. I get that's the stereotype, and "sex sells" and all that, but c'mon. Especially car guys/gear heads. I think the general response is more in line with Chino's than "hey forget the car, look at HER, man!"
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If they didnt have a picture on the screens of the driver, I would have had no idea it was a female. Or she had one an event and did the after interview.
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So,
Yesterday, some "kids" (I say kids but they were probably my age) decided to try to steal a boat at work yesterday. 30' boat. Keys LEFT IN THE IGNITION (by the broker, it's got a huge FOR SALE sign on it). They didn't realize it was tied to the dock. They tried to pull away from the dock, got stopped by the rope, and then put it in reverse to try to go back and untie it. Fuckers wound up backing up onto the dock, and then booked it on foot.
This. This is why I hate people. :lol
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People suck.
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People suck.
Hi hunny.
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I looked through the list of Grammy winners to see if Taylor Swift won anything. Thankfully she didn't, because he latest album was garbage. I did however see mutiple awards won by someone named Childish Bandino. I YouTubed the song and was struck with an overwhelming sense of confusion, sadness, and dread. I'm not a music snob, although I'm very vocal when it comes to music I don't like, but at this point, the old exaggeration of farting into a microphone and winning an award is becoming closer and closer to reality.
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So, each year, we go to one Bruins game and one Celtics game. Each is a yearly Christmas present to each of my kids.
This year, my wife and I decided to book them on the same weekend, and get a hotel in town and have a mini mid winter getaway.
So this past weekend, we saw the Celitcs on Saturday night and the Bruins on Sunday afternoon.
This was the view from our hotel room:
(https://i.imgur.com/52Sa8Rh.jpg)
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Well you certainly were close. Sounds like a fun family weekend, did you throw any tea into the harbor?
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Well you certainly were close. Sounds like a fun family weekend, did you throw any tea into the harbor?
Hah! My oldest son is obsessed with the historical buildings so we did go to the Old South Meeting House and the Old State House, where they gathered before the Boston Tea Party.
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I looked through the list of Grammy winners to see if Taylor Swift won anything. Thankfully she didn't, because he latest album was garbage. I did however see mutiple awards won by someone named Childish Bandino. I YouTubed the song and was struck with an overwhelming sense of confusion, sadness, and dread. I'm not a music snob, although I'm very vocal when it comes to music I don't like, but at this point, the old exaggerations of farting into a microphone and winning an award is becoming closer and closer to reality.
Well, taste is taste. What’s worse in my view was Kacey Musgraves. She won FOUR awards, and performed twice. DEMONSTRABLY flat singing. Not art but bad craft. She made Anthony Keidis - who also performed - sound like Pavarotti.
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People suck.
Especially the ladies :zydar:
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Dammit Zydar :lol
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Heard by mrs.jingle while watching the Grammy's (which she only did to see the Dolly tribute)... Something along the lines of "I've finally reached the age where I know NONE of these winners".
What passes as "music" these days confounds me.
As for people... everyone here knows that they suck.
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Officially got the house sold last night. The whole process since we listed it (mid-Nov) was a bit of a chore ... even worse than should be normally expected (thanks to the demographics of this city), but in the end, the outcome couldn't have been more perfect. Got the closing date we wanted (end of March), and sold for over the asking price - which is unheard of in the market around here. Added bonus that it's going to a youngish couple (early 30s if I had to guess) that want the home for a HOME - not to make it a multi-unit dwelling and/or income property.
Now we can start packing up the rest of our non-essential shit. We take possession on Feb 28th, and have our movers scheduled for March 20/21 (it's a quasi-long distance move ... 2 hr drive one-way), and we have too much shit to get 'er done in one day.
#Giggity. Sooooooo looking forward to this.
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That's awesome.
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Awesome news Chad, must be a relief to have this settled, but now the process of moving...
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It is a relief. I wasn't getting too worried or stressed - we weren't in a dire need to sell this house, but now that it's done, it's just one of the things on the 'to-do' list checked off.
As for moving, we've packed up at least 1/2 of our shit already, in our 'de-cluttering' process before we even listed. There isn't a whole shit-ton to do now, and we have 5 weeks to do it.
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Now you'll need a ride on Lawn Mower with the size of your new lawn!
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I was told that if we had a DT meet-up and helped Chad move he'd buy pizza and beer. I'd pass on the beer but would try some Canadian Pizza.
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Would he also buy the plane tickets? If so...I am SO down!
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Now you'll need a ride on Lawn Mower with the size of your new lawn!
The sellers' John Deere tractor was put into the offer. Already taken care of.
Would he also buy the plane tickets? If so...I am SO down!
Our new place might make people think that I'm made of money, but it is after-all.... Canadian money. I'm not Tempus for cryin out loud!
I could buy you 75% of a plane ticket - no roof, or chair... it'll be just like flying Spirit! :lol Or maybe you could get on FB... King and Queen seem to have a line into free airline tickets :neverusethis
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Or maybe you could get on FB... King and Queen seem to have a line into free airline tickets :neverusethis
:rollin
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Now you'll need a ride on Lawn Mower with the size of your new lawn!
The sellers' John Deere tractor was put into the offer. Already taken care of.
Would he also buy the plane tickets? If so...I am SO down!
Our new place might make people think that I'm made of money, but it is after-all.... Canadian money. I'm not Tempus for cryin out loud!
I could buy you 75% of a plane ticket - no roof, or chair... it'll be just like flying Spirit! :lol Or maybe you could get on FB... King and Queen seem to have a line into free airline tickets :neverusethis
:lol
Free I tell ya, free! :lol
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Howdy Folks.
Went in for another visit with my Doctor yesterday. I've lost about 6 lbs since my last visit, but my BP is still high, so she's going to put me on some BP meds for a few months while I work on dropping my weight. She's also finally sending me to Physical Therapy for my hand / wrist issues. Finally going to get shit fixed!
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That's good
About to head to the airport, finally done with this trip and can sleep in my bed tonight :yarr
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Good afternoon all. Neal Morse Band concert tonight near my office :o Bought an extra sandwich in the cafeteria at lunch that I can eat as my workday ends so I can just go right from the office to in line at the venue for doors (it's a GA show).
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I just woke up, well I woke up a few hours earlier to tell work I aint coming in. I don't think I'm sick really, just needed to rest after 2.5 weeks on the road. I kind of wanted to force myself to go in because my OT streak had been killer, but given how I just kept sleeping, I think I made the right decision for my body.
Now time to unpack, wake up, and maybe play some apex legends until I see my gf tonight?
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Happy Valentine's Day!
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/7f/57/027f57459dfb4c83c782e90fa1b4b832.jpg)
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Morning folks. Working from home today with an open calendar means that I have very little to do aside from play video games.
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Morning folks. Working from home today with an open calendar means that I have very little to do aside from play video games.
War
Frame
Dammit
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You have been warned.
So your Blobness. Working on anything new?
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You have been warned.
So your Blobness. Working on anything new?
Aw haven't you been keeping up, king? :D
Almost finished making another Fortnite video to milk more dollarydoos from the kiddos.
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:lol nice
And why no war frame video then?
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You have been warned.
So your Blobness. Working on anything new?
Aw haven't you been keeping up, king? :D
Almost finished making another Fortnite video to milk more dollarydoos from the kiddos.
Yeah, I've missed it lately.
Yeah, games are where the money is at.
Too bad you couldn't make a DTF version of Fortnite where a Hef character could get hit point by telling bitches to STFU.
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Fucking rain here. It's just a soupy, sloshy fucking mess. And it's gonna drop in temps for the weekend, meaning it's gonna be a clunky icy mess by Sunday.
Pretty open day ahead of me as well. Long weekend - a few provinces up here created a faux holiday in February to give workers a day off (otherwise, there is no holiday between New Years and Good Friday). Monday is "Family Day". I shit you not.
Too bad you couldn't make a DTF version of Fortnite where a Hef character could get hit point by telling bitches to STFU.
Stadler could just run around shouting "DEPLORABLE"
You, Bill and Jackie just roaming from one craft brewery to another
Zydar and his hoes, running around with a cloth of chloroform
DarkLord and his hostages
DT-side would be the set of The Gong Show
Tim asking "What's that" in reference to any and all cultural references
I'd Kickstart this video.
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Oh Jesus. Tim would be so confused.
GET OFF MY VIRTUAL LAWN!!!
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What about (see what I did there?) Chino; we could trade lettuce for beer to gain energy points.
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jingle.boy :lol
Make it happen!
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You have been warned.
So your Blobness. Working on anything new?
Aw haven't you been keeping up, king? :D
Almost finished making another Fortnite video to milk more dollarydoos from the kiddos.
Yeah, I've missed it lately.
Yeah, games are where the money is at.
Too bad you couldn't make a DTF version of Fortnite where a Hef character could get hit point by telling bitches to STFU.
Somehow I doubt this idea would have the universal appeal of the last one. :neverusethis:
:lol nice
And why no war frame video then?
I've got too many other half finished projects to finish off first :lol
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Oh Jesus. Tim would be so confused.
GET OFF MY VIRTUAL LAWN!!!
:rollin
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What about (see what I did there?) Chino; we could trade lettuce for beer to gain energy points.
:clap:
Also, pylon's and mouse traps everywhere, with guest appearances by Don and Ron.
Marc recording everything .... cramX3-style!
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What about (see what I did there?) Chino; we could trade lettuce for beer to gain energy points.
:clap:
Also, pylon's and mouse traps everywhere, with guest appearances by Don and Ron.
Marc recording everything .... cramX3-style!
:lol
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I feel old. I went from seeing a doctor once every few years to once a month. I've never been on any prescriptions nor seen seen a "specialist" minus a psychiatrist and a brief stint with ADHD meds when I was 14.
Now I am sitting here researching shit with my insurance company and trying to figure out shit like... is the physical therapist they are sending me in the next town really necessary or can I find one in network that's closer? Do I want my meds going to X or Y pharmacy? Oh yea and I was finally given a list of In Network therapists I have to weed through.
Oh and I also need to schedule a sleep study. Where do people find time to take care of medical shit? lol
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Well I just got paid today, for all my work in Denver and LA. Now that I'm fully recovered and back to normal, getting that fat pay check has put a nice big smile on my face. It's double my typical pay check (after taxes and whatnot). Just bought my flight for progpower.
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Double paycheck is awesome cram. My day so far has been one meeting, lunch, and a nap
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Good afternoon all.
Last couple days have been hectic because a new client, after essentially ignoring our emails for about 3 weeks, is all of a sudden rushing into testing so we can try to go live before the end of the month. Thankfully everything else has gone smoothly today so I should be able to get all my work done and be out by my normal time. Will head down towards Philly to meet up with a friend ahead of catching another Neal Morse Band show tomorrow night.
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Good afternoon all.
Last couple days have been hectic because a new client, after essentially ignoring our emails for about 3 weeks, is all of a sudden rushing into testing so we can try to go live before the end of the month. Thankfully everything else has gone smoothly today so I should be able to get all my work done and be out by my normal time. Will head down towards Philly to meet up with a friend ahead of catching another Neal Morse Band show tomorrow night.
The Keswick; I saw Marillion there on the FEAR tour. Great venue (met Mark Kelly outside; he looked genuinely shocked that someone recognized him).
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Double paycheck is awesome cram. My day so far has been one meeting, lunch, and a nap
Yea, nice extra cash. Andddd just found out I might have to go to Amsterdam... on the 25th. The way this year is going (and having just booked my first personal trip of the year) I might hit my miles and not need a December last minute trip to keep my United status.
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Oh Jesus. Tim would be so confused.
GET OFF MY VIRTUAL LAWN!!!
What are you guys talking about?? Is this technology related? :lol
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:rollin
Morning.
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Before I left work, I ate ONE sour gummy string thing (kind of like licorice) and immediately my upper lip blew up. It seemed like I had an allergic reaction. I've taken 4 benedryl since and it's gone down, but my upper lip is stil pretty fat. Really odd and uncomfortable, but according to everyone at dinner last night, very funny to look at.
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Someone got some MP love on twitter I see :metal :metal
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I sure did!
Btw, that is so weird about your lip. Sometimes my glans swell up but not the lips.
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Someone got some MP love on twitter I see :metal :metal
What happened?
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I tweeted him about the show last night and he re tweeted my tweet.
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Pretty sure Tim's typing that sentence into Google Translate (and for once it's not King's fault) :lol
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:lol
His loss. AMIRITE?!
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I tweeted him about the show last night and he re tweeted my tweet.
What show?
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The Neal Morse Band.
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The Neal Morse Band.
Did you see them? Where did they play?
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Yes. They played in Cambridge, Ma. at the Sinclair.
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How is that place?
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I love it. We saw Haken there in November and we are seeing Riverside in May there.
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Morning dudes, recovering from last nights steak dinner. Shitty weather today, going to stay in and play video games.
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I tweeted him about the show last night and he re tweeted my tweet.
I saw that! That's got to feel pretty cool!
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I tweeted him about the show last night and he re tweeted my tweet.
I saw that! That's got to feel pretty cool!
YOU'RE on Twitter too??
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I tweeted him about the show last night and he re tweeted my tweet.
I saw that! That's got to feel pretty cool!
YOU'RE on Twitter too??
I lurk...
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Tim there's This Day In Metal I follow on Twitter that you'd love! Plus following all the local writers and sport stations as well.
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Tim there's This Day In Metal I follow on Twitter that you'd love! Plus following all the local writers and sport stations as well.
I don't know. It seems like that'd be overload. I listen to sports radio every day, so I can get my news from there. So if Dustin Pedroia picks his nose, I'll hear about it there. I don't need every sportswriter in Boston telling me the same thing.
I check in at Bravewords everyday too, so they monitor every band's account for me.
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The metal one posts old albums from the 80's. I forgot so many!
I like getting info before you hear it on the radio. Big name writers tweet the info 1st.
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Howdy all. Home from a little weekend trip to PA for the Neal Morse Band. I was supposed to brew today and then have company over tonight, but I don't think either of those things are int he cards for me. Just beer and Overwatch :hat
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I have zero drive to do any work today. I'm struggling to get it in gear. This is my 48th consecutive day working. I'm fucking beat.
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I'm blobbing today, we have the day off and I'm super thankful I'm not on call
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Are you out of your mind Brian? 7 weeks in a row working?
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Fuck me... I don't even think I could do 7 hours of work in a row!
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Damn Brian, that's beyond crazy.
Told myself I was going to get a good night's sleep last night, then I ended up playing Overwatch until 3:45am instead. Oops :lol
Already started in on a brewday, and then I need to log in at about 1 for an easy half day of work from home.
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Are you out of your mind Brian?
I'm out of my money :lol
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:lol
There's a balance to life. I get OT. I took it all the time but not 7 days. You can't function after a while.
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I'm blobbing today, we have the day off and I'm super thankful I'm not on call
Blob with Blob.
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I'm blobbing today, we have the day off and I'm super thankful I'm not on call
Blob with Blob.
And talk like Norm McDonald to each other.
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:lol
There's a balance to life. I get OT. I took it all the time but not 7 days. You can't function after a while.
Tell me about it, that was me last week. Money is not worth 48 straight days of work IMO.
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Brian, you be cray cray.
Speaking of work, I am really wishing I would have called in sick today. I've been sick for a week... but decided I want to save a sick day today.
We had someone die on the property last night, an attempted burglary, and I apparently have to meet with a bunch of people (including the guy who passed away... awkward) for some walk through today. I literally rolled out of bed this morning, brushed my teeth, and went to work. I look like shit. Oh well.
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I wouldn't be working the hours if it wasn't necessary, believe me :lol I'm a very firm believer in work/life balance, but it's just not in the cards right now.
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I wouldn't be working the hours if it wasn't necessary, believe me :lol I'm a very firm believer in work/life balance, but it's just not in the cards right now.
Put the OT towards your car's property taxes :lol
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I wouldn't be working the hours if it wasn't necessary, believe me :lol I'm a very firm believer in work/life balance, but it's just not in the cards right now.
Put the OT towards your car's property taxes :lol
I don't get overtime. Mon-Friday is my big boy job, and Saturdays and Sundays I'm working a kitchen gig that pays about a third of what I make in corporate. It's the complete opposite of overtime :lol
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Putting that lettuce to good use?
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I wish. That's pretty much dried up as an idea. For the second winter in a row, we've been unable to sustain growth and quality. It's just too cold. And with out proper/dedicated facility, there's no way to do it const effectively.
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That's shitty. I dreamed of a day when I could say "I'm eating a Chino Salad."
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Same. I was hoping everyone could get a little taste of my salad.
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I wouldn't be working the hours if it wasn't necessary, believe me :lol I'm a very firm believer in work/life balance, but it's just not in the cards right now.
Put the OT towards your car's property taxes :lol
I don't get overtime. Mon-Friday is my big boy job, and Saturdays and Sundays I'm working a kitchen gig that pays about a third of what I make in corporate. It's the complete opposite of overtime :lol
Holy shit I didn’t catch that it was 48 straight days of work!!! Is there any end in sight?
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I wouldn't be working the hours if it wasn't necessary, believe me :lol I'm a very firm believer in work/life balance, but it's just not in the cards right now.
Put the OT towards your car's property taxes :lol
I don't get overtime. Mon-Friday is my big boy job, and Saturdays and Sundays I'm working a kitchen gig that pays about a third of what I make in corporate. It's the complete opposite of overtime :lol
Holy shit I didn’t catch that it was 48 straight days of work!!! Is there any end in sight?
Not at the moment. Unless I get a $22K+ promotion, I'm thinking at minimum another year-ish. I mean, I get 5 weeks of PTO and 8 paid holidays, so I'll be able to take time off, but I'm saving those days for better weather.
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Same. I was hoping everyone could get a little taste of my salad.
Bummer that your salad idea got tossed
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
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Same. I was hoping everyone could get a little taste of my salad.
Bummer that your salad idea got tossed
Nice! :lol
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
Let's just say that the potential carbon rock recipient is the sole reason I'm working these hours, and it's got nothing to do with buying a ring.
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Dang Chino well I hope everything is good, I hope you get a break soon!
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
Let's just say that the potential carbon rock recipient is the sole reason I'm working these hours, and it's got nothing to do with buying a ring.
I can think of two possible alternatives, but sense that it's none of our business, so (being 100% serious here) I won't ask.
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Smoking a cigar and having a drink to end the night tonight.
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Same. I was hoping everyone could get a little taste of my salad.
Bummer that your salad idea got tossed
I see what you did there.
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
Let's just say that the potential carbon rock recipient is the sole reason I'm working these hours, and it's got nothing to do with buying a ring.
While I agree with work/life balance - and fully disclose that I didn't always adhere to that in my life - I have to say, it's sometimes an ebb and flow. Meaning, the balance can't always be complete every day of the week. I know as recently as eight years ago (holy fuck... it was EIGHT years ago already) I did a year or so driving 350 miles on Sunday night/Monday morning, staying in an apartment during the week, and driving 350 miles back on Friday to see my kid. It had lasting consequences - it essentially ended my marriage - but in hindsight, the marriage was going to end one way or another, and it was something that set me up for where I am today (I've got a good gig, knock wood, and I have 12,000 posts to prove it. ;) ). In that year, my "balance" was way out of whack. WAY out of whack.
Unless and until it interferes with normal functioning, or starts to undermine the goal you have set for yourself, then only you, Brian, can decide what's too much and when to say when.
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Ugh, home sick with a stomach bug.
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Bummer axe, I hope you feel better soon. Are you still brewing btw?
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
Let's just say that the potential carbon rock recipient is the sole reason I'm working these hours, and it's got nothing to do with buying a ring.
Don't mess with burnout, unless there is no other option. I was in the position where I basically had to work 70 hours/week for around 18 months, basically trying to keep the plane in the air on multiple programs (and so it was really fucking stressful), I did damage to myself, my health, and yeah, my marriage. And I hit a point where I (metaphorically) crashed into the wall, and basically shut down. Perhaps the warning was when I got my blood pressure taken at an allergy appointment, and the doc freaked out (top # was 147, I think, and it's normally right around 120). I'm healthier on the other side of it, but I have a limit of ~50 hours/week, after which my brain just says "fuck it".
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
Let's just say that the potential carbon rock recipient is the sole reason I'm working these hours, and it's got nothing to do with buying a ring.
Don't mess with burnout, unless there is no other option. I was in the position where I basically had to work 70 hours/week for around 18 months, basically trying to keep the plane in the air on multiple programs (and so it was really fucking stressful), I did damage to myself, my health, and yeah, my marriage. And I hit a point where I (metaphorically) crashed into the wall, and basically shut down. Perhaps the warning was when I got my blood pressure taken at an allergy appointment, and the doc freaked out (top # was 147, I think, and it's normally right around 120). I'm healthier on the other side of it, but I have a limit of ~50 hours/week, after which my brain just says "fuck it".
Luckily for me, the hours are spread across two completely different jobs. My M-F in my cubicle is mentally taxing, but Sat and Sun is just mindless kitchen work. I just crank some music, grab a knife, and go. If I was doing the mentally taxing stuff 7 days a week, I would have burned out by now for sure.
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Bummer axe, I hope you feel better soon. Are you still brewing btw?
Thanks Reaper. Feeling a little bit better, but probably going to have to burn another sick day tomorrow. And yeah, I still brew beer and/or make mead a couple times a month. Just ordered a bunch of frozen red and black currants last night for an upcoming batch of mead.
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
Let's just say that the potential carbon rock recipient is the sole reason I'm working these hours, and it's got nothing to do with buying a ring.
Don't mess with burnout, unless there is no other option. I was in the position where I basically had to work 70 hours/week for around 18 months, basically trying to keep the plane in the air on multiple programs (and so it was really fucking stressful), I did damage to myself, my health, and yeah, my marriage. And I hit a point where I (metaphorically) crashed into the wall, and basically shut down. Perhaps the warning was when I got my blood pressure taken at an allergy appointment, and the doc freaked out (top # was 147, I think, and it's normally right around 120). I'm healthier on the other side of it, but I have a limit of ~50 hours/week, after which my brain just says "fuck it".
Luckily for me, the hours are spread across two completely different jobs. My M-F in my cubicle is mentally taxing, but Sat and Sun is just mindless kitchen work. I just crank some music, grab a knife, and go. If I was doing the mentally taxing stuff 7 days a week, I would have burned out by now for sure.
What do you do in the Kitchen? There is something to be said about doing a job that require little though, I remember in college I would just zone out and it almost become like a meditation.
Bummer axe, I hope you feel better soon. Are you still brewing btw?
Thanks Reaper. Feeling a little bit better, but probably going to have to burn another sick day tomorrow. And yeah, I still brew beer and/or make mead a couple times a month. Just ordered a bunch of frozen red and black currants last night for an upcoming batch of mead.
I didn't know you made mead, I haven't had mead in years. . . .
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
Let's just say that the potential carbon rock recipient is the sole reason I'm working these hours, and it's got nothing to do with buying a ring.
Don't mess with burnout, unless there is no other option. I was in the position where I basically had to work 70 hours/week for around 18 months, basically trying to keep the plane in the air on multiple programs (and so it was really fucking stressful), I did damage to myself, my health, and yeah, my marriage. And I hit a point where I (metaphorically) crashed into the wall, and basically shut down. Perhaps the warning was when I got my blood pressure taken at an allergy appointment, and the doc freaked out (top # was 147, I think, and it's normally right around 120). I'm healthier on the other side of it, but I have a limit of ~50 hours/week, after which my brain just says "fuck it".
Luckily for me, the hours are spread across two completely different jobs. My M-F in my cubicle is mentally taxing, but Sat and Sun is just mindless kitchen work. I just crank some music, grab a knife, and go. If I was doing the mentally taxing stuff 7 days a week, I would have burned out by now for sure.
What do you do in the Kitchen? There is something to be said about doing a job that require little though, I remember in college I would just zone out and it almost become like a meditation.
Bummer axe, I hope you feel better soon. Are you still brewing btw?
Thanks Reaper. Feeling a little bit better, but probably going to have to burn another sick day tomorrow. And yeah, I still brew beer and/or make mead a couple times a month. Just ordered a bunch of frozen red and black currants last night for an upcoming batch of mead.
I didn't know you made mead, I haven't had mead in years. . . .
Is it autumnal?
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Bummer axe, I hope you feel better soon. Are you still brewing btw?
Thanks Reaper. Feeling a little bit better, but probably going to have to burn another sick day tomorrow. And yeah, I still brew beer and/or make mead a couple times a month. Just ordered a bunch of frozen red and black currants last night for an upcoming batch of mead.
I didn't know you made mead, I haven't had mead in years. . . .
Yeah, not nearly as long as beer, but I've been making meads for a couple years now. Much easier to throw together a batch of mead than one of beer (though honey can get damn expensive). I started out making traditional meads, which are wine strength in alcohol and typically still, but I've had a lot more fun lately making beer strength versions that I keg and carbonate. I've done a ginger/lime version that I call the meadscow mule a couple times and it's one of my favorite things I make.
edit: and Stadler, those commercials drive me up a wall :lol
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Bummer axe, I hope you feel better soon. Are you still brewing btw?
Thanks Reaper. Feeling a little bit better, but probably going to have to burn another sick day tomorrow. And yeah, I still brew beer and/or make mead a couple times a month. Just ordered a bunch of frozen red and black currants last night for an upcoming batch of mead.
I didn't know you made mead, I haven't had mead in years. . . .
Yeah, not nearly as long as beer, but I've been making meads for a couple years now. Much easier to throw together a batch of mead than one of beer (though honey can get damn expensive). I started out making traditional meads, which are wine strength in alcohol and typically still, but I've had a lot more fun lately making beer strength versions that I keg and carbonate. I've done a ginger/lime version that I call the meadscow mule a couple times and it's one of my favorite things I make.
edit: and Stadler, those commercials drive me up a wall :lol
Brother, I really want to try that ginger/lime mead. That's right up my alley.
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Ginger lime sounds delicious. Damn I want some mead now.
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How big of a carbon rock are you saving up for?!?!?
Let's just say that the potential carbon rock recipient is the sole reason I'm working these hours, and it's got nothing to do with buying a ring.
Don't mess with burnout, unless there is no other option. I was in the position where I basically had to work 70 hours/week for around 18 months, basically trying to keep the plane in the air on multiple programs (and so it was really fucking stressful), I did damage to myself, my health, and yeah, my marriage. And I hit a point where I (metaphorically) crashed into the wall, and basically shut down. Perhaps the warning was when I got my blood pressure taken at an allergy appointment, and the doc freaked out (top # was 147, I think, and it's normally right around 120). I'm healthier on the other side of it, but I have a limit of ~50 hours/week, after which my brain just says "fuck it".
Luckily for me, the hours are spread across two completely different jobs. My M-F in my cubicle is mentally taxing, but Sat and Sun is just mindless kitchen work. I just crank some music, grab a knife, and go. If I was doing the mentally taxing stuff 7 days a week, I would have burned out by now for sure.
What do you do in the Kitchen? There is something to be said about doing a job that require little though, I remember in college I would just zone out and it almost become like a meditation.
Mostly prep work for the week. Making 100 pound batches of mac and cheese, cutting a few hundred pounds of potatoes, cooking and carving whole turkeys, making monster batches of stuffing and sausage and peppers, stuff like that. I actually love it. My office job is such a drain. From the commute, to the onslaught of internal audit compliance I have to deal with, managers who are a few years from retirement that refuse to adopt modern day processes and methods of communication, the thousands of emails I need to sift through a week... it's mentally exhausting. It's my version of hell on Earth. But when it comes to the kitchen, there's literally no pressure of any kind (hence the low pay I guess). Don't get me wrong, I'm in constant motion :neverusethis: all day long, and I usually only take 1 of my 3 required breaks, but I don't mind. I just crank my tunes and knock out the items on my list. It's actually really therapeutic in a way.
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I worked at Boston Market in high school for two years and once I got myself promoted to be the cook in the back (server, to carver, to cook) I loved it. No dealing with customers, just my private back area to get my work done. I'd come in early in the morning and prep the side dishes for the day. I'd blast some music before we'd open and then work till like 4 just making the sides and found it all pretty nice and relaxing now that I look back on it. I had an annoying shift manager at times, but otherwise the job was just simple and stressless if you did it right which of course I found ways to do it much faster and better than others so hardly found myself scrambling to fill side dishes. Actually found myself carving and serving when the dishes were all prepped. I guess the negative of doing your job well, you get to do others jobs too.
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Good Morning peeps.
Still sick. Wound up blowing a tire 2 blocks from my house as I was heading for work yesterday. Took it as a sign to call out sick. Instead of resting, I spent the day working on trying to get a new tire (Thank god for Mexican Used Tire Shops), and getting other shit done.
Probably would have called out again today but I've got to get payroll and some other admin shit done before I get chewed out by our main office folk :lol
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NJ folks: The roads are some bullshit. Apparently one inch of light powdery snow is enough to make everyone not drive faster than 20 mph, so what should have been a ~23 minute drive instead took 65 minutes.
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Yea, it really looks fine out there but I have no expectations people will drive as they should.
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This fucking vendor we got our Golf Cart from at work is pissing me off. The headlights on the cart, which were installed by them when we bought it, are wired up in a way where you CAN NOT change a bulb without having to undo a shitton of wiring, making so I MUST pay to have them bring the cart in (They charge like $70 to pick it up) and have them change the bulbs. Joke's on them... I am going to pull the entire assemblies out and bring them in. The really shitty thing is, I contacted their service manager, who supposedly oversaw the modifications done to the cart, if I could change the bulbs myself, to which he said yes. Asshole.
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Booked my next work trip, going to Amsterdam on the 4th. First time I've gotten approval to book business class for a flight, our new work overlords policy is we are allowed to for flights over 4 hours, but their system is so terrible for booking that it never actually allowed me to do so until now and at the cost of 7k :lol oh well, not my money and management approved it so I will be flying in style for this trip. This does however work nicely with my concert schedule as I won't have to miss anything and my buddy just got us hooked up from his brother in law who works at MSG to get suite seats for the Disturbed concert there monday night :metal :metal
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Nice Cram!
I walked into my bosses office yesterday around 2PM and told him I wasn't coming in today. He doesn't know I have the second job, so I told him that I just needed a day to take care of a backlog of personal stuff that I need to take care of during M-F business hours. Idk why I made up an excuse. I have 26 days of PTO this year, I could have just said "I need a PTO day".
Anyway, I was up at 5:30 and threw a brisket on the smoker. That's all done and in a cooler resting, and now I got a ham and some mac and cheese in there. I grabbed a 24 pack of Heineken that I'm about to crack open.
*drool*
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Nice dude, you need a day off so enjoy it
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Agreed. That sounds amazing Chino.
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So last night the TACs got into a car accident. We were driving into Plymouth to meet my wife's cousin and his wife for dinner. We just got off the exit and were driving eastbund when a guy crossed the median and hit the car in front of us. I saw that and swerved to the right, but he was on me fast.
I felt something hit my head, which was the side airbag, but that didn't register at first. The moment after the contact, my thought went to my youngest son who was seated behind me. A true moment of dread. But he was fine, as were all of us.
Anyway, here are a few pics..
This is our car:
(https://i.imgur.com/qvRkUhb.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vAjog0w.jpg)
This is the guy that hit us, and his wheel:
(https://i.imgur.com/FthUVY1.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/D1tpXir.jpg)
I know the damage doesn't look too bad, but the guy hit us kind of hard. Luckily, it wasn't head on. My only regret was that it was my wife's Lexus. I wish we had taken our van with 250k miles on it. I've been trying to get rid of that for years now.
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Shit dude!!! That's fuckin scary as shit to come that close to a head-on. I can certainly imagine the dread - pretty similar I'm sure to when we got that frantic call from jingle.daughter that she'd been t-boned.
Glad to see/hear the damage and impact was minimal... but get yourself checked out for whiplash and/or concussion. It doesn't take much these days for the brain to get rattled.
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I do have a headache this morning, but it could be the 2 Southern Comfort shots and 6 beers I had when we got home! :lol
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I do have a headache this morning, but it could be the 2 Southern Comfort shots and 6 beers I had when we got home! :lol
Southern Comfort?? C'mon man, you're an adult, not a teenager sneaking a quick nip.
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Love the stuff.
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:lol
I had some brown sugar bourbon last night. Damn it was good.
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Jeez Tim, glad that the family is OK so that I can expend most of my concern on your choice of liquor :lol
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:lol
Have at it! :lol
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Holy crap Tim. I did see your post! Glad all is ok!
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Thank you.
Now it's a pain. Have to rent a car, of course the rental places are closed today. I am off tomorrow so we'll pick it up in the morning. Then it's figure out what to do with our car. We should be taken care of, and our insurance company is good, plus it was the other guy's fault.
In these instances, it's always better to be talking car insurance than medical insurance.
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Absolutely. Guessing it will be totaled, you won't get the money you're expecting and it will cost you to buy a new car. Never fair.
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wow Tim, glad to see you all are OK but that must have been scary. Also, sucks it wasn't the van.
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Absolutely. Guessing it will be totaled, you won't get the money you're expecting and it will cost you to buy a new car. Never fair.
That was us... though luckily I did get fair market value for our vehicle.
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Wow, Tim, here's hoping you and your family are fine. Car accidents are scary no matter what the outcome.
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Good Morning All.
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Just accepted a post-doc position in Long Island! Pretty pumped.
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Absolutely. Guessing it will be totaled, you won't get the money you're expecting and it will cost you to buy a new car. Never fair.
That was us... though luckily I did get fair market value for our vehicle.
I got really lucky in this regard when my Mazda 3 Hatch was totaled. I had just put the thing for sale on Craigslist for $5200, expecting to get less than $5K for it. It was totaled a few days later and I ended up getting $8200. I was thrilled.
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Just accepted a post-doc position in Long Island! Pretty pumped.
Awesome-sauce. When does it start? Now you get east-coast winters!
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Just accepted a post-doc position in Long Island! Pretty pumped.
Congrats, that'll be quite a change of scenery. Where ats in LI?
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Just accepted a post-doc position in Long Island! Pretty pumped.
Awesome-sauce. When does it start? Now you get east-coast winters!
Starts mid August. East-Coast winters will be a nice reprieve. I think it's -40 here at the moment.
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Just accepted a post-doc position in Long Island! Pretty pumped.
Congrats, that'll be quite a change of scenery. Where ats in LI?
Thanks! I was there for the interview, and the scenery was much closer to what I grew up with. Very suburban, so it'll be a nice change. Plus just a train to Manhattan which is cool. And, being Jewish, more food I like.
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Nice, so not far from the city then and yea, lots of jewish folk in LI. Glad that works out better for you.
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Just accepted a post-doc position in Long Island! Pretty pumped.
Congrats!!! Wasn't that the interview you felt lukewarm about?
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Just accepted a post-doc position in Long Island! Pretty pumped.
Congrats!!! Wasn't that the interview you felt lukewarm about?
That was Pace, at Westchester. I actually haven't heard back from Boston. The one in Long Island I liked. I actually liked the Boston one better, but I think New Yorj is a better state for me for everything else.
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Congrats Adami!
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Now if there's any East Coast meet ups.............I can stalk them from a distance.
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It finally happened.
Something happened at work on my watch and I completely missed it. I have a great defense though :lol
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Adami, congratulations; now we can disagree in the same timezone and perhaps even in person! :)
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It finally happened.
Something happened at work on my watch and I completely missed it. I have a great defense though :lol
Browsing DTF?
Looking at boobays?
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It finally happened.
Something happened at work on my watch and I completely missed it. I have a great defense though :lol
Browsing DTF?
Looking at boobays?
I might have been browsing DTF when it happened actually.
So... there's this junkie that got into one of our buildings last weekend. My guys chased him away. Later that week he got into the Community's pool and Clubhouse area, locking himself in the Men's room. We chased him away. Turns out, the day before, he got into the same building as the first incident and stole someone's expensive ass beach cruiser.
I actually saw the dude on camera walking around down there and thought nothing of it. You see, the building has been in the process of getting painted for the last 2 months. There have been dudes (of the same... Heritage... to keep this PC) in and out for months working in the building. Turns out I was wrong. OOPS.
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See, so what you're saying is that you support having a Wall to keep out the illegals? :lol
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Don't even joke. Certain members of the community here have pushed for it.
People move in thinking it is a "gated" community, which it is not. There is restricted vehicular access, but the community is not truly gated. The California Coastal Commission (the same agency that keeps homeowners in Malibu from blocking off the public beaches in front of their homes) dictates that the community be open to pedestrian access. We cannot prevent the ingress/egress of person on the property. Yet, every public security meeting (like one that I am attending tonight), it comes up. "WHY DON'T WE JUST BUILD A FENCE AROUND THE PROPERTY?"
I hate people.
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Don't even joke. Certain members of the community here have pushed for it.
People move in thinking it is a "gated" community, which it is not. There is restricted vehicular access, but the community is not truly gated. The California Coastal Commission (the same agency that keeps homeowners in Malibu from blocking off the public beaches in front of their homes) dictates that the community be open to pedestrian access. We cannot prevent the ingress/egress of person on the property. Yet, every public security meeting (like one that I am attending tonight), it comes up. "WHY DON'T WE JUST BUILD A FENCE AROUND THE PROPERTY?"
I hate people.
Walls work. ;)
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Moats and alligators as well. Get it done Jay!
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This property is on malibu beach? I don't think I'd want to pay to live somewhere so expensive and not be able to put up a fence or something.
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Robocop or bust Jay :metal
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Nah not Malibu. Its on a harbor further north. TECHNICALLY parts of the property are on islands (at least one half of it is technically an island as it is surrounded by water on all 4 sides). SO I HAVE A MOAT BITCHES.
But this shit is happening on the part of the property that is not surrounded by water. The building(s) in question are very easily accessible and are right off a main artery that brings traffic down towards the beach / harbor.
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Ah OK, I don't know the area well at all, but I've driven the coast of Malibu a couple times and it's super nice over there. Some of those houses along the side of the mountain right next to the coast are just mind blowingly awesome houses.
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Yea they are. The people down there are assholes.
Have you ever driven far enough north to see the Mugu Rock?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Mugu_Rock_-_panoramio.jpg)
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Yea, that's more north than I have gone, route 23 is where I've stopped and driven back through the mountains to Pasadena the few times I went over there. But that looks pretty cool and I see on google maps that theres state park right there. Maybe if I get an off day in LA again I can venture over, but that looks fairly far from where I typically stay.
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Adami, congratulations; now we can disagree in the same timezone and perhaps even in person! :)
I interviewed in New York (different site) and then had one in Boston a few days later. I originally planned on driving so I could stop by Hartford but it was just too expensive.
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Yea, that's more north than I have gone, route 23 is where I've stopped and driven back through the mountains to Pasadena the few times I went over there. But that looks pretty cool and I see on google maps that theres state park right there. Maybe if I get an off day in LA again I can venture over, but that looks fairly far from where I typically stay.
It's past the Ventura County line at basically the very end of that stretch of PCH. After that, the highway shoots up into my town, and then reconnects with Highway 101.
Lots of car ads filmed right there.
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Nah not Malibu. Its on a harbor further north. TECHNICALLY parts of the property are on islands (at least one half of it is technically an island as it is surrounded by water on all 4 sides). SO I HAVE A MOAT BITCHES.
But this shit is happening on the part of the property that is not surrounded by water. The building(s) in question are very easily accessible and are right off a main artery that brings traffic down towards the beach / harbor.
I don't think you need a PhD in High Technology Security Management to know that King is on to something. :)
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I've joked with Jay before about a moat. Guard Alligators! :lol
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So I got some pretty big news today. I had my end of year review last Friday and it went well. My manager at the end said he nominated me for an award, I thought that was super nice.
This morning he calls and tells me I won, I get a free trip to San Diego and theybare donating $10k to a charity of my choosing (I don’t even know how to find a charity) this is pretty damn exciting.
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thats awesome, congrats!
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So I got some pretty big news today. I had my end of year review last Friday and it went well. My manager at the end said he nominated me for an award, I thought that was super nice.
This morning he calls and tells me I won, I get a free trip to San Diego and theybare donating $10k to a charity of my choosing (I don’t even know how to find a charity) this is pretty damn exciting.
You can donate to The Chino Fund. They're based out of Connecticut.
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I’ll ask if they can do that lol.