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

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I used to love going on site visits prepping for staff reports. I loved having a rolled up site plan set, walking around an unimproved lot, taking photos and making notes.

I need to go on a site visit this morning. The older me is thinking if I put it off long enough I can combine it with gas station nachos, a mountain dew zero, and I take a photo from the car window as I drive by.
In my first job I learned the joys of combining site visits with location-specific lunch spots. I'd always schedule anything in Gray Gables, for example, around lunchtime because the Gray Gables Market had BOMB deli in the back with huge, delicious subs.
 
Ha great image!

Chris Farley in dockers and a light blue shirt eating nachos, listening to NPR, slows down to snap a photo and says absently "six-lot commercial, buncha access easements, boom, staff report....Watch it, man! Haven't you ever seen a city planner at work before? So sorry I slowed you down on your way to the TRACTOR SUPPLY, you ASS BAG!"

That's pretty much prolly what it will be.
 
Some dude called and wanted to pick my brain about how business friendly my former employer was (i assume they still are). I politely told them I am no longer an employee there and they should speak to the director regarding opening a business there. The person than said he wanted to hear the "real scope" versus the party line. I told him, as I am not an employee, its highly unethical of me to discuss what they do and don't do. He then told me "fine, then I won't let you know about what's really going on in town. Good day to your sir" and hung up... WTF?
 
I got mine. What really bugged me was I got the "Hey, don't worry, there's a grace period" email a week or two ago that gave me a minor heart attack because I was sure I finished all my CM. I guess they sent that to people regardless of whether they had met their hours or not.

I got one of those too and freaked out. Turned out I didn't hit the SUBMIT button when I completed logging everything in.
 
Some dude called and wanted to pick my brain about how business friendly my former employer was (i assume they still are). I politely told them I am no longer an employee there and they should speak to the director regarding opening a business there. The person than said he wanted to hear the "real scope" versus the party line. I told him, as I am not an employee, its highly unethical of me to discuss what they do and don't do. He then told me "fine, then I won't let you know about what's really going on in town. Good day to your sir" and hung up... WTF?
What do you think is really going on??! Is it a Macy's?!
 
I had never thought about Alaska being at risk to tsunamis before looking at this document.
Oh yeah, the largest earthquake ever recorded was in Alaska. Not to mention Alaska is part of the 'ring of fire' that forms the outer perimeter of the Pacific
 
What do you think is really going on??! Is it a Macy's?!
He was kinda cagey about the whole thing. I think he was taken back that I refused to talk about my old employer and their current business practices. TBH i should drop one on our side of the County that we work in.. that way we can drive everyone to stop driving to the south coast and raid all your tax monies muhahahaha
 
I know I post this a lot but I just had another weird deja vu - I was in an impromptu meeting with someone and as he was talking (about a new situation he needed help with) I had the weirdest sensation that we had the conversation before but we didn't!

ah - I kind of hate that
 
I know I post this a lot but I just had another weird deja vu - I was in an impromptu meeting with someone and as he was talking (about a new situation he needed help with) I had the weirdest sensation that we had the conversation before but we didn't!

ah - I kind of hate that
Concerning deja vu, it seems like I can go years between episodes, but then after having one will turn around and experience back to back instances separated by only days or weeks. Huh, go figure.
 
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I used to love going on site visits prepping for staff reports. I loved having a rolled up site plan set, walking around an unimproved lot, taking photos and making notes.

I need to go on a site visit this morning. The older me is thinking if I put it off long enough I can combine it with gas station nachos, a mountain dew zero, and I take a photo from the car window as I drive by.
Have tried the Maverik burritos? Breakfast or otherwise? Not bad.
 
Have tried the Maverik burritos? Breakfast or otherwise? Not bad.

Yes! I have indeed sampled many fine Maverik station foodstuffs. I love a good gas station hot case and the Maverik's is top notch.

Of course, if you're a northern Utahn, you've driven to St. George. And everybody who has driven to St. George knows the best gas station hot case in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA is that big station with the statues of elk and stuff in the parking lot on the south side of I-15 just north of Fillmore. It makes me wish I needed to drive to St. George today just so I could stop in Fillmore! :)
 
I know I post this a lot but I just had another weird deja vu - I was in an impromptu meeting with someone and as he was talking (about a new situation he needed help with) I had the weirdest sensation that we had the conversation before but we didn't!

ah - I kind of hate that
I read somewhere that it means your brain's neurons are just really slapping hard that day so it feels like pre-cognition almost? Does that sound right? Have we had this conversation before? :)
 
I know I post this a lot but I just had another weird deja vu - I was in an impromptu meeting with someone and as he was talking (about a new situation he needed help with) I had the weirdest sensation that we had the conversation before but we didn't!

ah - I kind of hate that
I think the human brain every once in a while goes into just slightly higher/faster cognition so that we experience this sensation. It's like presque vu, but not quite.
 
Yes! I have indeed sampled many fine Maverik station foodstuffs. I love a good gas station hot case and the Maverik's is top notch.

Of course, if you're a northern Utahn, you've driven to St. George. And everybody who has driven to St. George knows the best gas station hot case in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA is that big station with the statues of elk and stuff in the parking lot on the south side of I-15 just north of Fillmore. It makes me wish I needed to drive to St. George today just so I could stop in Fillmore! :)
While Slim Jim beef sticks may offer a more mellow and full bodied palate, I find that Old Wisconsin brand beef sticks have the assertive piquant flavor that highway driving demands.
 
While Slim Jim beef sticks may offer a more mellow and full bodied palate, I find that Old Wisconsin brand beef sticks have the assertive piquant flavor that highway driving demands.

I like a teriyaki flavor for the road, but I'll stand in solidarity with your assertion on the main: highway driving calls for more flavor than just some classic Slim Jim.
 
I like a teriyaki flavor for the road, but I'll stand in solidarity with your assertion on the main: highway driving calls for more flavor than just some classic Slim Jim.
I think with your impressive credentials I can see a bright future vocation for you, ursus. Expressway stop food and culture reviewer! What's the final word on who's got the best roller hot dogs? Check Ursus' column for the answers you seek!
 
I know I post this a lot but I just had another weird deja vu - I was in an impromptu meeting with someone and as he was talking (about a new situation he needed help with) I had the weirdest sensation that we had the conversation before but we didn't!

ah - I kind of hate that
All conversations have always happened before somewhere. Time is an illusion. Your mind is bigger than that.
 
While Slim Jim beef sticks may offer a more mellow and full bodied palate, I find that Old Wisconsin brand beef sticks have the assertive piquant flavor that highway driving demands.
Over 50 yrs ago as an undergrad my evening snack was a quart of Schlitz and a Slim Jim. I liked to squeeze the Jim end once bitten off to see the grease exude therefrom, just before the next bite.
 
The Girl used to like hot dogs. I had a 50% coupon for roller dogs @ the nearby convenience store. We went in & I asked her if she wanted one because of the coupon. She said 'No dad, that's not real food in those."
 
Isn't it just awful the way beehive style hairdos have fallen out of favor?

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I need to go on a site visit this morning. The older me is thinking if I put it off long enough I can combine it with gas station nachos, a mountain dew zero, and I take a photo from the car window as I drive by.
The closest I came to being a planner was with the Town of Cheektowaga's engineering department as a summer hire. I remember them sending me and another summer hire out on all kinds of boondoggles. The other guy was a year old so he usually drove; one time we checked out the department car (decommissioned police cruiser) and took it out on a new road that was in a phase of construction where it was all loose rocks but they hadn't started paving yet and he tried to max out the car to see how fast it would go. I remember thinking it could end badly but feeling no fear, only exhilaration.

But most of the time we just visited a site and dropped some flourescent dye into a creek and one end and tried to identify where it came out or something. Or they'd send us out to talk to someone working on a site that was having issues and it would be our job to listen to them and carry the message back to the office. (I think the staff engineers thought that was easier than arguing with them directly.) Ah, those were the days.
 
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In my first job I learned the joys of combining site visits with location-specific lunch spots. I'd always schedule anything in Gray Gables, for example, around lunchtime because the Gray Gables Market had BOMB deli in the back with huge, delicious subs.
The engineering office was in Cheektowaga Town Hall. If I wanted to be fancy I'd spend $3 at the nearby Forks Hotel for a fried baloney sandwich, chips and a pop.
 
I read somewhere that it means your brain's neurons are just really slapping hard that day so it feels like pre-cognition almost? Does that sound right? Have we had this conversation before? :)
The strongest feeling of deja vu I've ever felt was riding in a car with someone near campus when I was in college. I had never been on this particular road previously, but I knew every twist and turn in the road as if I'd driven it a million times. Like... I knew the blind corner left would be followed by a hairpin right and then go up a hill before we entered the blind corner. I'd like to know how neurons slapping would explain that?
 
Any time I saw the date Wednesday, it felt significant, but I couldn't place any birthdays or any appointments I had.

Yesterday, I realized the significance of the date. It was the date I got married, and it's been pushed back to the recesses of my mind. I'm cured.
Speaking of Wednesdays...

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The Girl used to like hot dogs. I had a 50% coupon for roller dogs @ the nearby convenience store. We went in & I asked her if she wanted one because of the coupon. She said 'No dad, that's not real food in those."
I came really close to buying a commercial hotdog roller a few months ago. Midway through the negations of price, I realized that I was going to need to find some where for a 48" hotdog roller to live at my house; so I backed out of the deal.
 
I think with your impressive credentials I can see a bright future vocation for you, ursus. Expressway stop food and culture reviewer! What's the final word on who's got the best roller hot dogs? Check Ursus' column for the answers you seek!
Press Release:

The National Association of Convenience Fare Adjudicators, NACFA, has awarded it's highest honor - 5 Swollen Hearts - to the hot case pizza stix at the Chevron off I-15 north of Fillmore. Field Adjudicator Ursus was quoted as saying "Would only that I had more stomachs to hold the combination of crunch, pepperoni, and fake cheese. Oh. My. Gawd." He later collapsed from unrelated medical issues. "Nobody was too worried," the clerk, Shelly, was quoted as saying "on account of we get a fair number of parking lot collapses on pizza stix day." Further comment was not possible because she had a nose piercing appointment in Nephi, and she had to clean the restroom before she left.
 
^^^
That reminded me of one of our favorite threads - the group story telling/writing.
 
I get stuff from my University's foundation and and seriously wonder how the hell I even graduated?
 
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