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Post by howard lee on Mar 14, 2024 5:59:25 GMT -5
On this Day:
1879 Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is born
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Present company excluded.
Enjoy this day.
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Post by John B on Mar 14, 2024 7:03:04 GMT -5
Word order is so important. I was worried Albert Einstein was theoretically born. Or, "Is theoretical scientist Albert Einstein born?"
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 14, 2024 7:10:38 GMT -5
Theoretically I'm posting. In reality I'm thinking about breakfast.
We'll have weather today and I'll do a few things. Don't worry, be happy.
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Post by Tamarack on Mar 14, 2024 7:36:13 GMT -5
Cloudy, gonna rain.
Workout, James Taylor class, evening choir rehearsal. Our church does not have a regular choir, a pick-up choir forms for some occasions.
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Post by kenlarsson on Mar 14, 2024 7:38:02 GMT -5
Good morning. I took an online class about time (Great Courses app), in which the professor posited that the reason time moves forward in a linear progression is because of entropy. Think about it..........
Anyway, it's cool here this morning, going to hit mid 80's this afternoon. I'm dealing with a mild cold I picked up in Houston. Probably going to survive, at least on this time line......
Have a great day.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 14, 2024 8:11:56 GMT -5
It's Pi Day, 3.14! Get out there and do your part. Just down the street from me is Keys Cafe, and their well-stocked pie/cake case.  |
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Post by Marty on Mar 14, 2024 8:44:04 GMT -5
Good morning.
42F-57F mostly cloudy.
Simon woke me this morning by trying to snuggle but he was rather cold due to just being let in from outside. The birds start chirping just before daybreak and the boys love being outside for that.
Just shop time today and Tyler is coning over to work on a few guitars he gathered from friends. With the two Recording King guitars done I'll need to pick out a few more to work on. One will be another Stella 3/4 size as I can sell every one of those I fix almost right away.
Spring has come to Minnesota. This year I don't think we'll get any last minute rough weather to remind us Winter will return.
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Post by Marty on Mar 14, 2024 8:47:39 GMT -5
It's Pi Day, 3.14! Get out there and do your part. Just down the street from me is Keys Cafe, and their well-stocked pie/cake case. The small St Paul location is the original but they now have 5 locations and really are great place for breakfast. |
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Post by epaul on Mar 14, 2024 9:29:51 GMT -5
Warren lost last night. But, it was a pretty good run for a team that was middle of the pack all year. I think I will head up to watch the finals, East sub-section vs. the West (we're the West). Fertile (West) has good size and a couple really smooth guards. Red Lake Reservation (East) is loaded with a stream of really quick run and gunners and typically hit the mid-90s. It will be lively game. The Rez will fill half the arena and they light it up.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 14, 2024 9:36:15 GMT -5
Well, I just had a piece of sour dough toast with peanut butter and apricot jam. Delicious. It’s the simple things that are gratifying. Thoughts are with Todd this am. Hope he has a good day. Swapping out the truck battery this morning. Should be easy. Hopefully. Need to find some sort of anti corrosion spray for the terminals. Bike ride later. Only going to get to 70° here today. Slimmest possibility of the lightest sprinkle.
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Post by paleo on Mar 14, 2024 10:34:31 GMT -5
Good morning, rain here this morning. I was planning for a break in The rain this morning so I could make a dry grocery store run. I'll now try for this afternoon.
The house next to me is for sale, part of an estate that needs to be taken care of. The house has had little or no maintenance for the past 10-15 years and it shows. This morning a septic service crew showed and they are digging up the back yard. That don't look good.
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Post by david on Mar 14, 2024 11:41:12 GMT -5
The start of a nice weather run: a rain-free 65 to 71 predicted for the next 6 days. I might head to the coast this afternoon and stay till Sunday.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 14, 2024 15:37:10 GMT -5
Went for a walk yesterday. Went over to Melas Park in Mt Prospect. About a 3/4 mile trek to get there. In the park there's a deep retention basin. I use that for ups and downs in getting hiking ready.
Any rate, in the big suburban park there are 4 baseball fields, in 4 quadrants, in the middle of the park. On one field I passed, some guys were practicing shagging fly balls for 12" softball. And there in the middle of short-right-field, watching the outfielders at 3:00 PM on a sunny afternoon, was a full sized nonplussed Coyote just standing there. He almost got hit by a line drive. Didn't seem to phase him.
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Post by howard lee on Mar 14, 2024 18:27:05 GMT -5
Word order is so important. I was worried Albert Einstein was theoretically born. Or, "Is theoretical scientist Albert Einstein born?"
1879 Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist, was born.
I hope you're happy now.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 14, 2024 19:18:38 GMT -5
Word order is so important. I was worried Albert Einstein was theoretically born. Or, "Is theoretical scientist Albert Einstein born?" 1879 Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist, was born. I hope you're happy now.
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Post by John B on Mar 14, 2024 19:47:58 GMT -5
Word order is so important. I was worried Albert Einstein was theoretically born. Or, "Is theoretical scientist Albert Einstein born?" 1879 Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist, was born. I hope you're happy now.
Oh, I'm always happy (ha!). Seriously, my brain scrambled up the words (I read before my first cup of coffee). I read, "Is theoretical physicist Albert Einstein born?" No offense intended to any editors, especially when none of my favorite editors were involved in editing the phrase. |
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Post by Marshall on Mar 14, 2024 20:24:37 GMT -5
Had a fun practice last evening. I've got a 3 hour gig on Friday. Practiced with a bass player and instrumentalist. Dan plays guitar and fiddle. We practiced for nearly 4 hours. Resting my voice today and most of tomorrow up to the gig. It was really fun to hear my songs fleshed out by a couple of really good players. I'm looking forward to it.  Gonna havta shine up my US MARSHAL badge. |
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Post by millring on Mar 15, 2024 4:47:38 GMT -5
I'm happy to be on my own route now. I get home at a reasonable hour for the first time in over three years -- no more 80 hour weeks. I will make half as much and will have to see if I can adjust to that, but I will have more time to perhaps work on the house and get things in my life in better order.
That said, I think I need a labor lawyer.
I knew when I bid on my route that it was severely underpaid. It is a very rural route that until November 10 of last year did not deliver Amazon packages. Until November 10 of last year either UPS or Amazon's own delivery delivered all of the Amazon parcels for the area covered by my route.
Since November 10 my route has been delivering Amazon. That nearly doubles the work load. I don't mind the work load. What I find untenable is that I am not paid for that additional work load.
But John (you ask), didn't you know that the route was thus underpaid when you bid on it?
Yes and no. I knew it was underpaid. I knew that the carrier on my route was not getting paid for the addition of Amazon to the route -- thereby doubling the work load with no increase in pay.
BUT...I also knew that the office was going to be doing a "count" -- a two week process wherein every activity involved in the delivery of our routes -- volume, distances, actions -- were all going to be reviewed so that the routes could all be re-evaluated to re-set the evaluations by which we rural carriers are paid.
Everyone in the office THOUGHT that this also includes the Amazon. And they thought that for good reason. Last year the Post Office did a long overdue "count" -- the first since the expansion of Amazon throughout the office, and almost every route got a HUGE raise (so huge that the post office called for an unprecedented re-count in the Fall of the year).
But, no. The count that I participated in the first two weeks on my new route will NOT add the Amazon work load to my route, and my evaluation will stay the same, and I will still be delivering 100-150 parcels over my 75 miles of route and not get paid to do so.
Here's an irony (because I can almost hear your obvious first question. "Have you contacted your union about this?"). It is the union defending its own hard-fought-for contract that is keeping this system in place and thereby saddling me with Amazon that I will not be paid to deliver.
According to the union, after a year's time of delivering the Amazon, the data collected as I scan my parcels on the route will end up modifying my route so that in the future the route will reflect at least the delivery of the parcels (it will do nothing to compensate me for the additional hour(s) in the office preparing the parcels for delivery).
So if I stick it out, I MIGHT get a raise that reflects Amazon on my route NEXT YEAR.
When I asked for clarification from the union the answer wasn't "hmmm. that doesn't seem right now, does it?". No, the answer was, "Yabbut, if Amazon is ever dropped from your route, you might get paid for an additional period of time until the route gets re-evaluated again."
Hmmm? You're kidding, right?
Nope.
And here's the final Catch 22:
1. As a regular I am now paid by evaluated time. That is: On the positive side, I am paid for 40 hours a week. If I can finish my route in LESS THAN 40 hours a week, I am still paid for 40 hours a week. Sweet deal, huh? BUT.....if I cannot finish my route in evaluated time, I work any additional hours at my own expense. So, instead of getting OVERTIME after 40 hours, I actually work for free after 40 hours.
2. The ONLY reason I ever work past the evaluated time is because my evaluation is based on a route WITHOUT AMAZON, but it is the Amazon work load that pushes my hours over the evaluated time.
So, because I am not paid for Amazon delivery, I am also not paid for any hours I work over my evaluated time.
Again, I think I need a labor lawyer.
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Post by millring on Mar 15, 2024 5:12:13 GMT -5
btw,
I approached my postmaster with an idea last night:
I could take my mail out in the morning and be done with my route in evaluated time every time. Then, when I get back under evaluated time, I could then take out my Amazon where, curiously, I would be paid 3X the mileage in lieu of overtime pay. This way I could be paid for my route and never go over my evaluated time AND I would finally get paid for the Amazon work.
She nixed the idea.
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Post by howard lee on Mar 15, 2024 5:59:09 GMT -5
1879 Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist, was born. I hope you're happy now.
But he was demonstrably a physicist, not theoretically one.
1879 Albert Einstein, the physicist of physics theories, was born.
Happy?
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