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

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michaelskis said:
So, who do you think is responsible for the drones and what are they doing?
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At this point, I am more concerned about people shooting at drones than I am concerned about the drones themself. What goes up must come down, right?
 
I send cards to our Planning Commission members from staff.
I will put cards in the internal office mail addressed to the "department head & staff"
 
We had a rash of auto and garage burglaries in our neighborhood over the weekend . . .

All they took from us was some food from our garage fridge and a few bottles of non-alcoholic beer. Skipped right over the actual booze and expensive tools.

BUT: they left a paint bucket full of other stuff they had stolen from other houses. At another house they left a backpack of the same.

Sheriff notified, report made, items returned.

Jim
 
jumbach said:
We had a rash of auto and garage burglaries in our neighborhood over the weekend . . .

All they took from us was some food from our garage fridge and a few bottles of non-alcoholic beer. Skipped right over the actual booze and expensive tools.

BUT: they left a paint bucket full of other stuff they had stolen from other houses. At another house they left a backpack of the same.

Sheriff notified, report made, items returned.

Jim
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Friends of mine 20 yrs ago had a son that was part of a garage fridge team that cruised and raided beer stocks. One day they got caught
 
fringe said:
Friends of mine 20 yrs ago had a son that was part of a garage fridge team that cruised and raided beer stocks. One day they got caught
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Funny thing is, if people need food, I would be happy to GIVE people some eggs or dairy or meat or bread to tide them over. Just ask. (In fact, I have in the past, I just don't announce it.)

Our garage fridge is just out extra stock, anyway. The real stuff is in the house. :) But there was actual boozey booze in that fridge. Odd they didn't take it.

It's harder to burgle garages than it used to be. Everyone has cameras nowadays.

Weird thing is the people opened unlocked car doors and just sat in them for a few minutes.

Jim
 
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donk said:
Don't know why, but I'm feeling in a cyburbia mood lately. Nice to still see lots of names I recognize.
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Also: Strange Brew is now on PrimeTV

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jumbach said:
Weird thing is the people opened unlocked car doors and just sat in them for a few minutes.
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It's funny, in the core of Fort Worth, a city of one million people (yes, we've passed that mark earlier this month, by estimates), how many people post on Nextdoor "People broke into my car and stole stuff." "Was it locked?" "Well, no, but..." :r:
 
Doohickie said:
It's funny, in the core of Fort Worth, a city of one million people (yes, we've passed that mark earlier this month, by estimates), how many people post on Nextdoor "People broke into my car and stole stuff." "Was it locked?" "Well, no, but..." :r:
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In a "city" of 22,000, I left my car unlocked on when I got home Sunday afternoon- was having people over for dinner, got distracted cooking and cleaning and never remembered to lock it before bed. I usually lock the car upon exiting no matter where I am or when it is, just to reinforce the habit.

So of course somebody went into it Sunday night. I didn't notice Monday morning, but I did notice I had left it unlocked and what's more it started a bit hard. I wrote this off to the cold and the car's age and drove to work. Went to leave work, not enough battery to start. Got a jump and realized in the waning daylight that the map light on the driver's side had been on. It was too bright out in the morning for me to notice. Sure enough, my "dump money" (a small stash of dollar bills in the ashtray for when I go to the dump) was gone.

You'd think these guys would have the courtesy to turn your lights off after they steal your money, but opioids are a helluva drug.
 
Faust_Motel said:
In a "city" of 22,000, I left my car unlocked on when I got home Sunday afternoon- was having people over for dinner, got distracted cooking and cleaning and never remembered to lock it before bed. I usually lock the car upon exiting no matter where I am or when it is, just to reinforce the habit.

So of course somebody went into it Sunday night. I didn't notice Monday morning, but I did notice I had left it unlocked and what's more it started a bit hard. I wrote this off to the cold and the car's age and drove to work. Went to leave work, not enough battery to start. Got a jump and realized in the waning daylight that the map light on the driver's side had been on. It was too bright out in the morning for me to notice. Sure enough, my "dump money" (a small stash of dollar bills in the ashtray for when I go to the dump) was gone.

You'd think these guys would have the courtesy to turn your lights off after they steal your money, but opioids are a helluva drug.
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There is already such a deep sense of violation when you know that somebody has been in your space and your stuff, and then to add insult to injury they are careless. I'd like to slap some sense into some people. And when I say people...I have a list.
 
So we moved into this building in September. My director has another director under him and they have two offices for them, but.... they are too small for director level per company policy. So they moved into other offices temporarily.

Today the contractor crew is here to reconstruct their offices. They are demolishing old walls about 25 feet from my desk with great enthusiasm, lots of sawzall and hammering noises. Yeehaw.
 
Doohickie said:
So we moved into this building in September. My director has another director under him and they have two offices for them, but.... they are too small for director level per company policy. So they moved into other offices temporarily.

Today the contractor crew is here to reconstruct their offices. They are demolishing old walls about 25 feet from my desk with great enthusiasm, lots of sawzall and hammering noises. Yeehaw.
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You have a policy for the minimum size of director's offices?
 
Doohickie said:
So we moved into this building in September. My director has another director under him and they have two offices for them, but.... they are too small for director level per company policy. So they moved into other offices temporarily.

Today the contractor crew is here to reconstruct their offices. They are demolishing old walls about 25 feet from my desk with great enthusiasm, lots of sawzall and hammering noises. Yeehaw.
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Prima Donnas
 
kms said:
Prima Donnas
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Had my boss' boss (department director over planning, building, engineering) occupy a smaller office than the CBO. Moved down from upstairs when office space was shuffled around due to the legal department being kicked out of the adjacent state building. Could have easily booted the CBO out to take his much larger space and equal the space he moved from. Nope. Director even had a window which was right next to the interior back entry door to our department. People always coming and going.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Director even had a window
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Interestingly, when moving into a different building years ago, the director decided that management should be on the interior of the building to let the peasants have the window view and that unofficial policy has stuck.... the managers and directors who get offices almost always get them along the interior spine, and we get the windows, which is nice.
 
The power company is doing work on our downtown block. For the 2nd time in 2 weeks, they cut the power to our building.

I don't mind going down 12 floors to get to my car, but if I had to go up I'd rather drive back home.
 
jumbach said:
We had a rash of auto and garage burglaries in our neighborhood over the weekend . . .

All they took from us was some food from our garage fridge and a few bottles of non-alcoholic beer. Skipped right over the actual booze and expensive tools.

BUT: they left a paint bucket full of other stuff they had stolen from other houses. At another house they left a backpack of the same.

Sheriff notified, report made, items returned.

Jim
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Chaotic neutral thieves
 
ursus said:
Do you find that people wander into your office and plunk themselves down and then take 30 minutes to ask you a question they could have emailed? This is frequent with me. I don't mind, I like people and all. Sometimes - occasionally - I have actual stuff to do though. I know it's hard to imagine....
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This was frequent with me but, unlike you, I don't like people and didn't like when they do that. I solved that by constantly having heavy boxes of stuff on the extra chairs in my office so visitors do not have anywhere to sit!
 
MD Planner said:
I find most cookies are overrated. We're starting to get platters of them from various vendors, etc. The chocolate chip cookies always go first. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Nobody is asking for this shit:

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Homemade sugar cookies, with fresh homemade frosting, are tolerable (and like @luckless pedestrian I use my mom's recipe which uses Crisco) but store-bought sugar cookies are generally terrible and the ones with that fancy professional (is it somehow printed on?) frosting that turns rock hard are the absolute worst.
 
Doohickie said:
It's funny, in the core of Fort Worth, a city of one million people (yes, we've passed that mark earlier this month, by estimates), how many people post on Nextdoor "People broke into my car and stole stuff." "Was it locked?" "Well, no, but..." :r:
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Our free weekly local paper usually has a police blotter that covers crimes in our community and the town next door and in the past it always seemed sort of random what police calls they would put into the blotter but they must have somebody new on staff with a bit of a sense of humor because over the past year they've started occasionally doing obviously themed police blotters. A couple times this year they had two full pages of people reporting that their car had been broken into in their driveway or on the street in front of the house and various money or computers (and the occasional unsecured handgun :r: ) were stolen. At the end of each incident in the blotter those weeks, they would finish off the little report with, "The victim reported their vehicle was unlocked." :rofl:

During the summer we had a rash of high end car thefts and (according to NextDoor, so take it with a grain of salt), every single one was stolen from a driveway or unlocked garage with the keys inside the car. I kept waiting for two full pages reporting all those thefts in the blotter but unfortunately that never happened though there were a few individually reported, they just never seemed to put them all together into a one time report in the blotter.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
(and the occasional unsecured handgun :r: )
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That really grinds my gears.

WSU MUP Student said:
"The victim reported their vehicle was unlocked." :rofl:
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Well, duh!

WSU MUP Student said:
every single one was stolen from a driveway or unlocked garage with the keys inside the car.
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While I don't leave the keys in the car and the main garage door is secured, I will admit that I leave the walk-in door between the garage and the backyard unlocked. But the backyard has a 6 foot privacy fence around it and the gates to the outside are locked. So to break into my garage you'd have to hop a 6-foot fence. Yeah, it could happen but there are easier targets in the neighborhood.
 
I'm hungry. A club sandwich and fries would fill the void nicely.
 
btrage said:
I don't remember the last time I had a club sandwich. I would guess at a minimum 3 or 4 years.
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Sir? Yes, thanks. Can we get another club sandwich here please? What are you drinking? Just water, then. He's watching his figure, ya know. Looks like some slaw for this strapping lad, too. I didn't see him site down, he sidles up in argyle stocking-feet. He's like that. It's a party now. Call the office - long lunch!
 
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