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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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luckless pedestrian said:
oh man - is it Friday?
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Friday has a lonely feeling sometimes. Today is one of those to me. It's cold in my office, and the light outside feels sleepy. Friday feels very, very lonely today.
 
jsk1983 said:
So does mine. Not sure if its automatic or I'm in some special program somehow, but its certainly convenient not to have to worry about paying fees, or finding a branch.
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Most banks really rack up on fees. In our area the fee meisters are the phone and electric utilities.
 
New word of the day - Bombturbation

for cratering of the soil surface and mixing of the soil by explosive munitions, usually during warfare or related activities. Depending on exactly where the explosion occurs (above, on, or below the soil surface), bombturbation excavates a volume of soil from the site of impact, forming a crater and spreading much of the ejecta out as a surrounding rim of mixed, but sometimes slightly sorted, debris.
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BOMBTURBATION: A New Scientific Term Inspired by Verdun

Verdun Battlefield Today In a 2006 article published in Soil Science journal, scientists Joseph Hupy and Randall Schaetzel, who had spent l...
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Crazy busy weekend. We had my sister, brother-in-law, dad, and step mom in Town. My oldest was in a local play and they had scheduled to visit. It was also the weekend that we move into our new house as well.
 

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I walked my middle son to school this morning. It didn't go well and we were preparing to go full special transportation.

However, I met up with him towards the end of his walk home this afternoon, only to learn that he loved walking home with friends and he wants to continue doing that. So it looks like I will drop him off in the mornings and then he can walk home in the afternoons. On the rare occasion that I am out of Town or something is going on that requires me to go in early, he can just walk both ways.

The youngest also walked today, but his walk was super short.
 
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A Public Service Announcement for the winter season.

So says me a former Firefignter 2/EMT-B.

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What's happening in the big city:

Charlotte pizzeria explores untapped market: Pies that get you high

A New York-style pizzeria in Ballantyne has launched a side business out of its kitchen for a hot-in-demand product: Mike Libretto of Libretto’s Pizzeria created a patent-pending product is called Spinello’s (Italian slang for “joint”). It’s a 10-inch personal frozen pizza, infused with hemp-derived THC. Of course, you bake it at 420°.
 
Back from a semi-annual cleaning at my dentist. Substitute hygienist again today - false eyelashes (I mean ridiculously false) and silly-big botox lips - yeah, it was a rough cleaning.

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Got a quote for a few replacement windows (good ones, not cheapo plastic crap). Ho-lee-sheet!! I could buy an econo-sedan for that price!
 
Wife's alarm did not go off this morning. It is normally set for 4:00 AM. We woke up to the sounds of our oldest getting ready at 5:45 AM. She was ready and out the door in 20 minutes.
 
Gedunker said:
Back from a semi-annual cleaning at my dentist. Substitute hygienist again today - false eyelashes (I mean ridiculously false) and silly-big botox lips - yeah, it was a rough cleaning.

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Got a quote for a few replacement windows (good ones, not cheapo plastic crap). Ho-lee-sheet!! I could buy an econo-sedan for that price!
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Diverse if she does windows, too.:ha:
 
arcplans said:
I have gotten more grey hairs as a director over the last year...my sanity is pushed to the brink every other day thanks to social media.. and to think.. I wanted this so bad a year ago..
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Funny you mention that. I saw my extended family for the first time since we relocated, and they said that I look younger and less grey since I left the other place. New gig is way more involved and busier than the last gig, but the stress is dramatically less.
 
michaelskis said:
Funny you mention that. I saw my extended family for the first time since we relocated, and they said that I look younger and less grey since I left the other place. New gig is way more involved and busier than the last gig, but the stress is dramatically less.
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My stressor is are the residents (cough cough, NIMBYs) with money. Small town added to that. Also a mayor who doesn't like "outsiders" and also appears to to judge people based on appearances.
(i.e. both myself and our CA are "younger" therefore we have no idea what we are talking about)
 
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arcplans said:
I have gotten more grey hairs as a director over the last year...my sanity is pushed to the brink every other day thanks to social media.. and to think.. I wanted this so bad a year ago..
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Like you, I thought I wanted the Director position.
After being a Director, not going to do it again.
 
arcplans said:
I have gotten more grey hairs as a director over the last year...my sanity is pushed to the brink every other day thanks to social media.. and to think.. I wanted this so bad a year ago..
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I don't do the social media thing (except here). I'd have to double my blood pressure medicine if I did & maybe add xanax.
 
Planit said:
I don't do the social media thing (except here). I'd have to double my blood pressure medicine if I did & maybe add xanax.
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My issue isn't my personal socials, it's reading community socials. Nextdoor and facebook really is a cesspool these days.
 
arcplans said:
My issue isn't my personal socials, it's reading community socials. Nextdoor and facebook really is a cesspool these days.
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I am not on either platform and instead let our PIO deal with those sites. Around the 2020 election, I had had enough.
 
My favorite tv series of all time would have to be Sherlock, however, it wouldn't be my desert island tv choice simply because they only made 16 ninety minute episodes. Something like The Simpsons has a lot more material available for viewing.
 
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