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Post by howard lee on Jan 2, 2024 7:05:13 GMT -5
Time has come today. Back to the office. No way around it.
Excelsior!
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 2, 2024 7:32:58 GMT -5
Be strong, Howard.
Good morning, everyone. We attended a very pleasant gathering yesterday. There were a lot of people we know and like. The hosts served Scandinavian food. They don't have Scandinavian ancestors but that didn't deter them. It was all tasty.
Enjoy your day.
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Post by kenlarsson on Jan 2, 2024 8:21:04 GMT -5
Good morning, another Florida cold day. I've got bills to pay and lots of errands to run. Gonna be a busy day. Have good ones folks.
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Post by drlj on Jan 2, 2024 8:28:40 GMT -5
I could list 12,846 jobs worse than working in an office, and a lot of them are jobs I have had! Oh well. Everything is relative. 26 degrees with no snow. What we got yesterday melted. People keep looking at the sky trying to see the big shoe that we know will drop. So far, it’s been so overcast we can’t see the sky.
Enjoy yourselves today. That’s my plan.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 2, 2024 9:14:23 GMT -5
Morning, I’m up, drinking coffee and watching the news. Big protest yesterday blocking the airport access to support Palestinians. I fail to see how messing with travel plans in the PNW will affect Israeli domestic policy.
Coffee with old farts today. Then Traders. Then we strip the tree, that’s it.
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Post by Marty on Jan 2, 2024 9:56:21 GMT -5
Good morning
23F-34F mostly cloudy.
I had a nice afternoon trip planned yesterday only to find that Sam's Club was closed. So we put of the whole thing and stayed home. We'll do Sam's tonight.
Last night we had Alaskan King Crab and I made a simple packaged side dish to go with it knowing it would get ignored as she ravaged crab legs. It was the first time I've heard DaWife say " I'm full, I've had enough " when eating crab or lobster.
Clients today.
77 Days Until Spring.
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Post by epaul on Jan 2, 2024 10:18:52 GMT -5
Morning!
The New Year started of on a great note. I got up and went to the bathroom and didn't even think about my knee!
(till the way back)
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Post by Tamarack on Jan 2, 2024 10:43:08 GMT -5
Cloudy and windy. Attempting to make progress on a shelving project.
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Post by dradtke on Jan 2, 2024 11:04:15 GMT -5
Last night we had Alaskan King Crab and I made a simple packaged side dish to go with it knowing it would get ignored as she ravaged crab legs. It was the first time I've heard DaWife say " I'm full, I've had enough " when eating crab or lobster. On New Year's Eve we actually drove into Coastal to pick up crab legs. But when we got there the scallops just looked so good, we switched.
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Post by paleo on Jan 2, 2024 11:05:25 GMT -5
It's a chilly, damp, gray day here. The plumbers that installed a new pressure tank for my water system just left.
Next up is a trip to Vinton for groceries and since I didn't have breakfast I might stop at the family restaurant.
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Post by Dub on Jan 2, 2024 11:40:30 GMT -5
Cloudy and windy. Attempting to make progress on a shelving project. Somehow I seem to be shelving most of my projects.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 2, 2024 12:44:45 GMT -5
I went to bed last night ready to get up and work this morning. But when I checked school calendars and my personal calendar this morning, I see that I have one more day off now that is a nice surprise.
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Post by david on Jan 2, 2024 13:16:43 GMT -5
I want Todd's calendar.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 2, 2024 13:51:27 GMT -5
Negative again, and if it stays that way when I test again on Thursday, maybe I can declare myself actually through this dose of Covid, unless there's such a thing as double rebound. C tested negative on Sunday, so we can go on a resupply mission (masked, just in case and according to the recommended protocol) and shake off the cabin fever that has been growing. Yesterday, C went up to her office to do some course-prep work, even though the feckless admin has turned the thermostats down to 60 during break.
Don't know whether I should resume playing out yet--though it should be safe enough for everyone else by Sunday.
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Post by Hobson on Jan 2, 2024 16:39:05 GMT -5
Things were going along smoothly until I opened the mail. Gotta call Medicare for the third time to report fraud. Obviously my information was compromised at some medical office. I think I know which one, but can't prove it.
We had black eye peas and cornbread last night. Since I'm married to a guy from Texas, I'll be eating that every New Year's Day for the rest of his life. NYE dinner was a nice catered Mediterranean meal at our HOA's party. Hummus, tabouli, pita, two kinds of kebobs, rice, some really nice and not overly sweet pistachio baklava. And wine.
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Post by Dub on Jan 2, 2024 17:27:18 GMT -5
We had black eye peas and cornbread last night. Since I'm married to a guy from Texas, I'll be eating that every New Year's Day for the rest of his life. My friend, Diane, married a guy from Texas and they also live in Arizona. It seems to have worked out well for her. Don't know whether or not she has to eat black-eyed peas and cornbread on New Year's Day.'
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 2, 2024 18:52:13 GMT -5
"My friend, Diane, married a guy from Texas and they also live in Arizona. It seems to have worked out well for her. Don't know whether or not she has to eat blacy-eyed peas and cornbread on New Year's Day.'"
Not if she doesn't want to. This year she did not feel inclined to honor the traditions of the Lone Star State.
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Post by howard lee on Jan 2, 2024 19:29:32 GMT -5
I could list 12,846 jobs worse than working in an office, and a lot of them are jobs I have had! Oh well. Everything is relative. [...]
So can I. And I know that there are jobs in which people cheat death every day. But you have never worked in this particular office for this particular company, owned and managed by a religious cult. It's different from a regular old office. You have no idea. Well, maybe somewhat of an idea, from all my bitching and moaning. My last job, at Sports Illustrated for Kids, was a great gig—and it was in an office, with loads of overtime. I had a real 8x10' office, with walls, a glass door, and loads of desk real estate, a corner with two chairs and a coffee table for consultations, my own coat locker—not a stall in a dairy barn like the 11 different ones I have had over the past 17 years.
It ain't the office. It's the treatment.
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Post by Dub on Jan 2, 2024 20:28:31 GMT -5
I could list 12,846 jobs worse than working in an office, and a lot of them are jobs I have had! Oh well. Everything is relative. [...] So can I. And I know that there are jobs in which people cheat death every day. But you have never worked in this particular office for this particular company, owned and managed by a religious cult. It's different from a regular old office. You have no idea. Well, maybe somewhat of an idea, from all my bitching and moaning. My last job, at Sports Illustrated for Kids, was a great gig—and it was in an office, with loads of overtime. I had a real 8x10' office, with walls, a glass door, and loads of desk real estate, a corner with two chairs and a coffee table for consultations, my own coat locker—not a stall in a dairy barn like the 11 different ones I have had over the past 17 years. It ain't the office. It's the treatment.
Any environment where one is considered or treated as a kind of outsider is hard to be enthusiastic about.
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Post by drlj on Jan 2, 2024 21:14:45 GMT -5
I could list 12,846 jobs worse than working in an office, and a lot of them are jobs I have had! Oh well. Everything is relative. [...] So can I. And I know that there are jobs in which people cheat death every day. But you have never worked in this particular office for this particular company, owned and managed by a religious cult. It's different from a regular old office. You have no idea. Well, maybe somewhat of an idea, from all my bitching and moaning. My last job, at Sports Illustrated for Kids, was a great gig—and it was in an office, with loads of overtime. I had a real 8x10' office, with walls, a glass door, and loads of desk real estate, a corner with two chairs and a coffee table for consultations, my own coat locker—not a stall in a dairy barn like the 11 different ones I have had over the past 17 years. It ain't the office. It's the treatment.
True enough and I do get it. But then, none of us know really know that much about the treatment any of us have received in life, do we? We think we do, but really don’t.
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