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Daily things 5️⃣ Five Things Tuesday

1. PIZZA!
2. I don't really know anything about Goldman Sachs except they're a really big bank
3. I have little interest in traveling to Guatemala
4. I have even less interest in traveling to the Central African Republic
5. I may not be taking Thursday and Friday off after all. Grrrr
 
1) Slept wrong/funny and have a crick in my neck.

2) No plans today, but have something on each remaining day of the week.

3) What's for lunch? No clue.

4) I don't know if it'll be chicken or beef for dinner tonight.

5) Anyone else watch Is It Cake?
 
1 - I regularly fall asleep when we're watching British Bake Off - I finally finished episode 2 after 3 tries
2 - went to a fundraiser for the local pet food bank & didn't win any of the 3 items I bid on during the silent auction
3 - there are no countries in Africa on my travel bucket list
4 - there were a couple mini highland cows that got loose from the petting zoo during the Oktoberfest fun over the weekend
5 - our small conference area is covered in bags & bags of candy for Spooktacular...but damn it's tempting.
 
1. Went to a very upscale fundraising soiree Friday. Two different people bid 50K to sponsor a certain program for a year. :astonished: :money::takemymomey::moneywithwings:
2. We need to get rid of a high level employee. It needs to happen.
3. Just amazed how so many people are unable of acting like adults.
4. Construction prices are just ridiculous. I know stuff has gone up but you can't tell me there isn't some gouging going on.
5. Headed to Tampa for ICMA this weekend. Looking forward to visiting Ybor City again. Love me some Cuban food.
 
Maister said:
I started to a week or so ago, but Mrs. Maister wanted to watch Great British Baking instead so I changed the channel. Is it better than GBBO?
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It's more about making your cake look like something that's not cake. It's fun, and the Halloween edition only had 4-5 episodes, so you can binge it in a day.

There's a Holiday version coming up - I'll watch it simply because the Halloween version was fun.
 
1) Data is important, but is only helpful if it is correct. Accuracy matters!

2) I am impressed with people who go all out to decorate for holidays. Sure a lot of people might decorate for Christmas, but a friend of my wife's has gone all out for Halloween. They ran out of space in their front yard, so they got permission from two other people on their cul-de-sac to decorate. I would love to decorate my house for holidays, but the weekends are either full of other stuff or we need them to recover from the chaos of the week.

3) It is sad the number of people who don't read books anymore. It is not that they can't read, it is they choose not to read.

4) Hold up... how the heck can someone steal anything from the Louvre Museum? I read the report and my first thought is "Wait, I think I've seen this movie before."

5) The first time the public heard the song "White Christmas" wasn't in the movie White Christmas, but in the movie Holliday Inn in 1942. Moreso, only part of it was performed. There is a missing verse that people rarely know about. Ironically, it was this movie that spurred the name of the famous hotel chain that was started in Memphis TN.
 
michaelskis said:
Hold up... how the heck can someone steal anything from the Louvre Museum?
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1 - now is the time of season to get your winter coats cleaned
2 - fell asleep watching the WS game last night & Mrs. P says I'm an expert at recliner sleeping
3 - did not mow the grass last weekend and now it's raining, so I got that going for me
4 - did carve jack-o-lanterns this weekend as our tradition continues (absent The Girl)
5 - one week to go before the local election.
 
1 - I don't listen to music very often these days. Not since I got hearing aids and the CD player went on the fritz.
2 - I'm currently sucking on a Dum-Dums 'mystery pop' flavored sucker. It tastes kinda like grapefruit but sweeter. Mystery solved to my satisfaction
3 - I wish it was 5:30
4 - I wish I had a double decker BLT (minus the T)
5 - We drove around looking at Halloween decorations last weekend
 
Maister said:
1 - I don't listen to music very often these days. Not since I got hearing aids and the CD player went on the fritz.
2 - I'm currently sucking on a Dum-Dums 'mystery pop' flavored sucker. It tastes kinda like grapefruit but sweeter. Mystery solved to my satisfaction
3 - I wish it was 5:30
4 - I wish I had a double decker BLT (minus the T)
5 - We drove around looking at Halloween decorations last weekend
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Get a Cassette Walkman!

1. Casettes are cool
2. I want more cassettes
3. I wish I didnt sell all my good cassettes
4. I am slowly but surely rebuilding my collections of LPs and Cassettes
5. Using a front loaded tape player makes for less eaten cassettes, car tape decks are the worst for eating tapes.
 
The Terminator said:
Get a Cassette Walkman!

1. Casettes are cool
2. I want more cassettes
3. I wish I didnt sell all my good cassettes
4. I am slowly but surely rebuilding my collections of LPs and Cassettes
5. Using a front loaded tape player makes for less eaten cassettes, car tape decks are the worst for eating tapes.
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I kept all my cassettes. When did they stop putting tape decks in cars exactly?
 
1) A member of one of our appointed boards is going through some stuff. He has had health problems recently and is currently battling cancer. He is much older and his doctors are now talking chemo or radiation, but he thinks he isn't going to go that route and mentioned to me quality vs quantity. Having had the same conversation with my mom 15 years ago when she had cancer, I get it. First round of chemo and radiation was horrible. For round two she decided to just focus on quality knowing her time was running out. I think our appointed board members is in the same boat right now.

2) My oldest has a fidget thing that he keeps with him all the time. He freaked out last week when he could not find it and he had a test. Fortunately, he was able to track it down before he left the house.

3) We are getting some much needed rain the past few days. Best part is the rain has been kind of a slow soaker.

4) The walls in our house are painted wallpaper. We bought a scoring tool and spayed warm water/white vinegar mixture and it was a mess. The wall paper did not come off very well and in many cases damaged the paper layer of drywall. So I am going to do a skim-coat in bad areas where you can see the seams and we will repaint.

5) Few weeks ago my youngest had a birthday. My Mother-In-Law sent a card. No gift, no money, no phone call, just a card. We chalked it up as just how she is and thought ok, maybe they are tight on money. My wife's birthday was this weekend, and they sent her a check for $40.00. My youngest saw her open the card and asked why Grandma sent her money but didn't send anything to him. Wife lied and said that it is actually for him and that grandma just forgot to put it in his card. Once again... this is just how my MIL is. My wife has told them repeatedly not to worry about her or I and just focus on the grandkids, but it is almost as if she does crap like this just to cause issues. Next time we get a card from her, we will just open it when the kids are not around.
 
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