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[Suburban Rhythm]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

Another woman I work with is all nice & friendly. Bops around with the best attitude you ever saw, all sunny & sweet. That is unless I say a single word to her. Then she acts annoyed as fuck. You don't have to like me, just don't act like I killed your grandmother if I ask if you're done with the microwave.

Maybe try scheduling something with her in Outlook?

[cartman]

Ever since I was a kid, I've had a strange fascination about reading accounts of people who have been hit by lightning.

I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore | Ars Technica

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by B & B

When the healthiest neighbor unexpectedly passes away, and you're TK, then I dont think its remotely odd to find that news unexpected. No doubt he spent less time in front of docs and rehab assistants than you have.

In fairness, I did say he was the healthiest between him, his wife, and my folks. I stayed out of it.

Originally Posted by B & B

Reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite movies.

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."



We really arent promised anything.
I see something I want. I go after it.

Indeed. I realize this more and more as I get older.

/tk

[molson]

Someone left a thumb drive in my mailbox. It's probably filled with viruses and child porn, but it also might be directions to a buried treasure, or a vital clue in some international spy saga. I have a netbook around here somewhere I don't care about, I guess I could try it on there.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by molson

Someone left a thumb drive in my mailbox. It's probably filled with viruses and child porn, but it also might be directions to a buried treasure, or a vital clue in some international spy saga. I have a netbook around here somewhere I don't care about, I guess I could try it on there.

Go for it, and let us know!!

[cartman]

Originally Posted by molson

Someone left a thumb drive in my mailbox. It's probably filled with viruses and child porn, but it also might be directions to a buried treasure, or a vital clue in some international spy saga. I have a netbook around here somewhere I don't care about, I guess I could try it on there.

You don't happen to run any Iranian centrifuges in your house, do you?

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Go for it, and let us know!!

Turns out the thumb drive was filled with C4, & the trigger was the electrical current from the USB. Now you have killed him.

[molson]

Originally Posted by molson

Someone left a thumb drive in my mailbox. It's probably filled with viruses and child porn, but it also might be directions to a buried treasure, or a vital clue in some international spy saga. I have a netbook around here somewhere I don't care about, I guess I could try it on there.

It turned out to be boring, but mysterious. It was a bunch of pdf files that together made up a new Idaho Judge manual that they use at orientation. I am not a judge. One of my best friends is a judge, and lives around the corner, but she's out of town, and there'd be no reason for her to leave it there. Maybe somebody in the neighborhood came across it somewhere, thought it might be sensitive information, and dropped it off because they know I'm a lawyer? Or maybe this is how the governor makes his judicial appointments, and I'm a judge now!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by molson

It turned out to be boring, but mysterious. It was a bunch of pdf files that together made up a new Idaho Judge manual that they use at orientation. I am not a judge. One of my best friends is a judge, and lives around the corner, but she's out of town, and there'd be no reason for her to leave it there.

Sounds like somebody dropped it off for the judge but put it in the wrong mailbox.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Sounds like somebody dropped it off for the judge but put it in the wrong mailbox.

Don't spoil the fun!

Now Molson, the governor does appoint judges like this! It's also how he changes the wardrobe for judges. He includes it with the instruction manual. So now you have to head to the courtroom wearing whatever came with it.

Molsen the naked judge. Justice has nothing to hide.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

Don't spoil the fun!

Hey, I didn't point out that now the people who really are targeting the judge think that it's Molson's house they're after.

Sheesh, gimme a little credit here at least.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by molson

It turned out to be boring, but mysterious. It was a bunch of pdf files that together made up a new Idaho Judge manual that they use at orientation. I am not a judge. One of my best friends is a judge, and lives around the corner, but she's out of town, and there'd be no reason for her to leave it there. Maybe somebody in the neighborhood came across it somewhere, thought it might be sensitive information, and dropped it off because they know I'm a lawyer? Or maybe this is how the governor makes his judicial appointments, and I'm a judge now!

This is how the CIA recruits new members. You didn't see the secret pattern. You failed.

[molson]

So obviously, what you guys are saying is that the CIA is recruiting me to go undercover as a (possibly naked) Idaho judge. I guess I'll just get started on that first thing Tuesday morning!

[JonInMiddleGA]

So help me, my eventual cause of death is going to be one of these too-lazy-to-breath, slack-jawed, glassy-eyed, no account wastes of protplasm that are too frequently passed off as TV sales reps these days. And they're about 20 rungs up the evolutionary ladder from the accounting departments of the same stations.

At the moment it's a toss up whether I'm going to spontaneously combust or one of the veins in my neck is going to explode, climb out of my body & beat me to death.

edit to add: And having now thrown a good sized fit, I got what I needed in less than 15 minutes. What does that tell you about how hard it would have been for them to simply do it right in the first place?

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I always thought it would be "self-inflicted" gunshot wound. Oddly, using the wrong hand...

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

I always thought it would be "self-inflicted" gunshot wound. Oddly, using the wrong hand...

And with a long-barrel weapon at that

[cartman]

It was 15 years ago today that Phil Hartman was killed by his wife in a murder/suicide. I didn't realize it, but I had driven within a few miles of the location when I drove down from San Jose that morning to try out for Jeopardy. Then on the drive back home after the tryout, someone called in a bomb threat on I-5 right by where I-210 and I-405 meet it, and was stuck in traffic, not moving for several hours. It was kind of a surreal day.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

And with a long-barrel weapon at that

Guys usually overestimate the length of the barrel.

[sabotai]

Having a very bad migraine is bad enough. Sneezing while having that very bad migraine is worse than be waterboarded.

[britrock88]

Anyone else watching this WCWS game in the 14th inning? I tuned in to see how Michigan was doing in the nightcap game. An hour and a half later... the nightcap still hasn't begun.

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by sabotai

Having a very bad migraine is bad enough. Sneezing while having that very bad migraine is worse than be waterboarded.

I've never had migraines so I can't compare, but I imagine this is akin to sneezing/coughing after spine fusion surgery/with major back/nerve issues. I thought it was bad when I was waking up in the hospital, but it was nothing compared to a week later when I had a sneezing fit.

/tk

[Bad-example]

Gangbangs. Pfffft.

Back in my day we had the manners and sophistication to wait our turn. And we called them trains.

[MacroGuru]

Fuck Cancer!

I just lost a good friend and former coworker. We had headed smack talk discussions as he was a Packers fan and from WI and I had picked the Lions to be my team when I lived in Utah.

I knew he was sick and had been getting treatments and doing well, then it kicked his ass and last night, well...fuck it...this one isn't sitting right with me at all....

[terpkristin]

I have an amazingly bad sunburn on my upper chest. I went to a wine festival on Saturday and switched shirts from a t-shirt to a tank top and then forgot to put sunblock on my chest where the tank top exposed what the t-shirt covered (I had the sunblock on to account for the t-shirt).

I almost never get bad sunburns, much less those that still hurt after 2 days, so this is a whole new experience for me. Does anything actually work? Aloe seems to just be gloopy.

/tk

[molson]

Remember when those Benedictine Monks had a best-selling album of Gregorian chants for about 5 minutes in the mid-90s? What the hell was that all about?

[DaddyTorgo]

Really frustrated right now and need to blow off some steam here.

So my sister is coming back into town from California for my little brother's graduation. She had the idea of doing a formal family photograph. Not something we've ever done, but thought it might be nice. So I got put in charge of it since she is living in CA now and my other sister is out of town on business.

I had the idea of doing a nice siblings-dinner to celebrate all of us being together and my brother's graduation. Started looking at nice restaurants (4-star reviews and $$$ prices (not $$$$ pricey). So I find a prix fixe dinner at a like...GREAT restaurant for $70/person. Sister who's out of town on business texts me back and says "let's go somewhere a little less expensive." Like...wtf do you want? Applebee's? I'm trying to setup a nice dinner here - anywhere we go is going to be like $40 a person right? So is the extra $30 really breaking your budget??

So I start to look - I keep them appraised of the costs, and then find one. Again I keep them appraised of the cost, having dialogue both ways. So I put down a deposit to cover the session fee. Then I mention that the actual prints will be expensive on top of that (even with a $200 discount), and that it's a case of "a combined Xmas present from all 3 of us to both parents" level expensive.

So I wake up to a text from the sister who is out of town on business (who is also the one who has a job, and has a BF/finance who has a job, as opposed to the other sister who has 3 kids and doesn't have a paycheck) saying "we can talk when I get home but I'm really not down with this."

Like...you couldn't have said that at the beginning??

She's not hurting for money - they go on multiple vacations every year. So idk WTF her problem is.

[Lathum]

About to get a cyst cut out of my back.

[Breeze]

Ever put on an outfit that works in theory only to find out to late to change that in practice it doesn't look good.

Light blue button down with a dark blue and dark green stripe through it, wearing dark green pants that match the stripe. Doesn't work...

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Breeze

Ever put on an outfit that works in theory only to find out to late to change that in practice it doesn't look good.

Light blue button down with a dark blue and dark green stripe through it, wearing dark green pants that match the stripe. Doesn't work...

I don't ever put that much thought into my clothes.

[Blackadar]

Waiting for a job offer that is supposed to come in today.

If it does, I'll tell ya all about it. I'm on pins and needles right now.

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by Breeze

Ever put on an outfit that works in theory only to find out to late to change that in practice it doesn't look good.

Light blue button down with a dark blue and dark green stripe through it, wearing dark green pants that match the stripe. Doesn't work...

And this is why my 95% of my shirts are black or navy blue.

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by Blackadar

Waiting for a job offer that is supposed to come in today.

If it does, I'll tell ya all about it. I'm on pins and needles right now.

Good luck!

[Suburban Rhythm]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I don't ever put that much thought into my clothes.

This

I go with the "Is it clean?" method

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Blackadar

Waiting for a job offer that is supposed to come in today.

If it does, I'll tell ya all about it. I'm on pins and needles right now.

Are you Gordon Gee's replacement?

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by Blackadar

Waiting for a job offer that is supposed to come in today.

If it does, I'll tell ya all about it. I'm on pins and needles right now.

recently went through that, except the offer took almost 3 weeks. very stressful experience

[korme]

Originally Posted by Breeze

Ever put on an outfit that works in theory only to find out to late to change that in practice it doesn't look good.

Light blue button down with a dark blue and dark green stripe through it, wearing dark green pants that match the stripe. Doesn't work...

That's a burn.

[MacroGuru]

I hate when a client asks me to "trim" the fat from a quote. I always laugh a little at this and I am thinking in my head, sure I would love to give this to you for free...NOT..

[jeff061]

I always get "sharpen the pencil". I actually have to negotiate with our sales team, who for some reason want to drive the price down(generally shift the dollars to something else that pays them more), then I have to negotiate with the client.

Just...ugh.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by jeff061

I always get "sharpen the pencil". I actually have to negotiate with our sales team, who for some reason want to drive the price down(generally shift the dollars to something else that pays them more), then I have to negotiate with the client.

Just...ugh.

I have found sales spiffs drive my industry...so the hot items are a what is getting spiffed the most. I personally don't care, yes it's nice extra $ but it doesn't always provide the right solution for our customers.

I have 2 co-workers that sell via cost..meaning, lowest cost possible and therefore profit margin. I don't think they know how their commission works.

[Swaggs]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Really frustrated right now and need to blow off some steam here.

So my sister is coming back into town from California for my little brother's graduation. She had the idea of doing a formal family photograph. Not something we've ever done, but thought it might be nice. So I got put in charge of it since she is living in CA now and my other sister is out of town on business.

I had the idea of doing a nice siblings-dinner to celebrate all of us being together and my brother's graduation. Started looking at nice restaurants (4-star reviews and $$$ prices (not $$$$ pricey). So I find a prix fixe dinner at a like...GREAT restaurant for $70/person. Sister who's out of town on business texts me back and says "let's go somewhere a little less expensive." Like...wtf do you want? Applebee's? I'm trying to setup a nice dinner here - anywhere we go is going to be like $40 a person right? So is the extra $30 really breaking your budget??

So I start to look - I keep them appraised of the costs, and then find one. Again I keep them appraised of the cost, having dialogue both ways. So I put down a deposit to cover the session fee. Then I mention that the actual prints will be expensive on top of that (even with a $200 discount), and that it's a case of "a combined Xmas present from all 3 of us to both parents" level expensive.

So I wake up to a text from the sister who is out of town on business (who is also the one who has a job, and has a BF/finance who has a job, as opposed to the other sister who has 3 kids and doesn't have a paycheck) saying "we can talk when I get home but I'm really not down with this."

Like...you couldn't have said that at the beginning??

She's not hurting for money - they go on multiple vacations every year. So idk WTF her problem is.

I can appreciate you feeling put off by being put in charge of things and having to orchestrate it for so many people, but I think it is alright for your sisters to pretty clearly communicate, up front (before arrangements have been agreed upon with the photographer and/or restaurant) about not being able or willing to pay for an amount that they are uncomfortable with. It definitely stinks that you had to make the phone calls and do the leg work, but that is why folks check on prices beforehand. It definitely beats arguing about who owes what after the fact.

[jeff061]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I have found sales spiffs drive my industry...so the hot items are a what is getting spiffed the most. I personally don't care, yes it's nice extra $ but it doesn't always provide the right solution for our customers.

I have 2 co-workers that sell via cost..meaning, lowest cost possible and therefore profit margin. I don't think they know how their commission works.

In my case I run professional services for a company the sells services and product. We have spiffs for product, but generally the game is to drive PS pricing down, take those savings and add it to the margin of the product deal. Either way it's the same price to the customer. Still trying to figure out why margin on product apparently has the opportunity to pay more than margin on professional services.

It's an aspect of my job I can do without.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Swaggs

I can appreciate you feeling put off by being put in charge of things and having to orchestrate it for so many people, but I think it is alright for your sisters to pretty clearly communicate, up front (before arrangements have been agreed upon with the photographer and/or restaurant) about not being able or willing to pay for an amount that they are uncomfortable with. It definitely stinks that you had to make the phone calls and do the leg work, but that is why folks check on prices beforehand. It definitely beats arguing about who owes what after the fact.

I'm fine about the dinner - she communicated that up front and I'm irritated, but okay with it.

She didn't communicate up front though about the pictures - she waited until after I had told them both about the prices and then waited for a response from them (which I got from one of them after waiting 24hrs) and then confirmed things and put down a deposit. I waited as long as I could, considering that I had less than a week to pull it all together.

And it's not the money - she is doing just fine in that department.

Then again I don't know what exactly her issue is - I haven't talked to her yet since she's just got back into town today. I suspect it's more that she was away traveling for work and just wants to relax and doesn't want to deal with the hassle of it all.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I went to imitate a "zig heil" and was holding a fist in the air. Guess I'd have made a bad nazi.

[MacroGuru]

I am going to Infocomm next week in Orlando...Work just handed me a non compete, non disclosure and non solicitation agreement....I am intrigued.

I know the competition has been trying to get me to jump ship, but I don't know if I want to sign this document...

[Breeze]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I am going to Infocomm next week in Orlando...Work just handed me a non compete, non disclosure and non solicitation agreement....I am intrigued.

I know the competition has been trying to get me to jump ship, but I don't know if I want to sign this document...

They offer you a raise to sign it?

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by Breeze

They offer you a raise to sign it?

Nope....not yet..

[Blackadar]

I got the job. Woot!

I detailed the story in the "weird recruitment" thread.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by Blackadar

I got the job. Woot!

I detailed the story in the "weird recruitment" thread.

Congrats!

[Galaxy]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I am going to Infocomm next week in Orlando...Work just handed me a non compete, non disclosure and non solicitation agreement....I am intrigued.

I know the competition has been trying to get me to jump ship, but I don't know if I want to sign this document...

Oh, wow...if they haven't offer you a better compensation package, then why sign it?

[Izulde]

Originally Posted by Galaxy

Oh, wow...if they haven't offer you a better compensation package, then why sign it?

This.