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

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Can/should planners mark themselves safe from Lighting?

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I had worked a job in the oilfield that involved explosives & tall objects with conductive material (drilling rigs & well pipe) & the wireline truck (wireline connected from the truck to & down the well hole lined with pipe)
 
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Walking through the woods and I see a snake. "Oh shoot," I think to myself out loud, panicking, "that is a snake!" It is twisting its way through the leaves in front of me in a snake-like manner. "I wish I knew what to do to get away from this snake without getting snakebit." It pauses in its slithering course and shoots me a serpentine look. "Oh wait," I speak to myself again, "I remember educating myself; luckily I always remember how to deal with snakes. All I have to do when I see a snake is remember SNAKE. SNAKE." I am bitten.
 
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Can/should planners mark themselves safe from Lighting?

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I had worked a job in the oilfield that involved explosives & tall objects with conductive material (drilling rigs & well pipe) & the wireline truck (wireline connected from the truck to & down the well hole lined with pipe)
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My risk is low but not zero. I am more likely to get hit by a co-worker than I am by lighting. I don't make smart a$$ comments to the clouds.
 
Reason #72 why no one will travel with me. I'm heading to Frostburg, MD, for the night. I needed to stop at the bike shop 40 minutes from my house. I saw a new Ramen restaurant across the street from the bike shop and here I am eating dinner.
 
kms said:
Reason #72 why no one will travel with me. I'm heading to Frostburg, MD, for the night. I needed to stop at the bike shop 40 minutes from my house. I saw a new Ramen restaurant across the street from the bike shop and here I am eating dinner.
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None of those are good reasons not to have ramen with you on a road trip to an adorably named town! Shame on everybody! Shame!!!
 
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Whose Yur Planner said:
Part of my survival food during college and first year or so after I got a job, was ramen noodles. I can't stand them now.
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That's my feelings on ramen as well. My daughter makes ramen at home with noddles from the asian market, miso, egg, and fresh veggies. It looks different but the noddles are the same and I can't get past it.
 
I love ramen and probably have it at least twice a week. I generally buy the cheap Value Pack stuff and then throw away the seasoning (or use just a tiny bit of it) and add my own meat or eggs and vegetables.. I recently found the Korean beef bulgogi at Trader Joe's and I'll cook a package of that up with some onions and put that on top of the ramen along with some cucumbers and pickled onions. That's definitely a winner.

In fact, now that I mention it, my wife and kids are at the beach today and staying up there to watch the Canada Day fireworks so maybe I'll go for a walk over to TJ's later to get some more of that beef for my dinner tonight!
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I love ramen and probably have it at least twice a week. I generally buy the cheap Value Pack stuff and then throw away the seasoning (or use just a tiny bit of it) and add my own meat or eggs and vegetables.. I recently found the Korean beef bulgogi at Trader Joe's and I'll cook a package of that up with some onions and put that on top of the ramen along with some cucumbers and pickled onions. That's definitely a winner.

In fact, now that I mention it, my wife and kids are at the beach today and staying up there to watch the Canada Day fireworks so maybe I'll go for a walk over to TJ's later to get some more of that beef for my dinner tonight!
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My wife always adds a ton of stuff to ours. Her grandmother was Japanese, but loved the plain packets. I've been feeding my 8 year old ramen at least twice a week for summer lunches. She loves them too but can't stand the premixed Styrofoam cups. I figure ramen cant be any worse than the microwave mac and cheese with the powder that she was eating.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
My wife always adds a ton of stuff to ours. Her grandmother was Japanese, but loved the plain packets. I've been feeding my 8 year old ramen at least twice a week for summer lunches. She loves them too but can't stand the premixed Styrofoam cups. I figure ramen cant be any worse than the microwave mac and cheese with the powder that she was eating.
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Our youngest is best friends with a girl from Japan who lives a few houses away. She says she eats ramen nearly everyday for lunch. I noticed that her mom also buys the cheap Value Pack noodles but also gets some udon style instant noodles from one of the Asian grocery stores. I love udon noodles so I may have to make a trip to the store for some of those at some point. The girl had a Japanese food birthday party a couple months ago and the mom made fresh noodles for them from scratch and fresh sushi and then she taught the kids to make rice balls . She tried to teach my daughter and another kid how to make sushi one day last year and said she had no idea kids could make that much of a mess with some rice and seaweed and a tiny bit of fish so she didn't dare to do that when 7 or 8 kids in the house! :rofl:

Whenever I see an interesting looking flavor of one of those styrofoam cubs or bowls of noodles I am inclined to buy it but am almost always disappointed. Last night we went on an adventure to the Cheesecake Factory at a mall a couple towns over and while we were waiting for our reservation went into a Japanese-themed toy store. They had a little selection of the styrofoam cups of noodles that I had never seen before so my kids and I each picked one out for lunches at some point this week. I'm sure I'll be disappointed again but they are fun to try.
 
Whose Yur Planner said:
Part of my survival food during college and first year or so after I got a job, was ramen noodles. I can't stand them now.
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One of my grandmothers used to send me tubs of peanut butter when I was in college. She wanted to make sure I didn't starve. I also have a funny story about her. She was a very proper Swedish woman. She found I was going to certain establishments. She sent me a very tongue in cheek sweater to me know that word gotten back to her. A none too subtle reminder she was keeping track of me. I miss her horribly.
 
Whose Yur Planner said:
One of my grandmothers used to send me tubs of peanut butter when I was in college. She wanted to make sure I didn't starve. I also have a funny story about her. She was a very proper Swedish woman. She found I was going to certain establishments. She sent me a very tongue in cheek sweater to me know that word gotten back to her. A none too subtle reminder she was keeping track of me. I miss her horribly.
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I'm trying to imagine what the sweater said or showed. Care packages from grandma were always the best in college. She didn't worry about making sure I starved but she worried that the sweets were not up to par so she just sent cookies. My grandmother was a baker for almost 60 years. Her chocolate chip, snickerdoodles, rolo cookies, and million dollar bars were all favorites on the dorm floor.
 
Whose Yur Planner said:
One of my grandmothers used to send me tubs of peanut butter when I was in college. She wanted to make sure I didn't starve. I also have a funny story about her. She was a very proper Swedish woman. She found I was going to certain establishments. She sent me a very tongue in cheek sweater to me know that word gotten back to her. A none too subtle reminder she was keeping track of me. I miss her horribly.
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bureaucrat#3 said:
I'm trying to imagine what the sweater said or showed. Care packages from grandma were always the best in college. She didn't worry about making sure I starved but she worried that the sweets were not up to par so she just sent cookies. My grandmother was a baker for almost 60 years. Her chocolate chip, snickerdoodles, rolo cookies, and million dollar bars were all favorites on the dorm floor.
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Yeah, @Whose Yur Planner - you cannot leave us hanging as to what was on that sweater!
 
Whose Yur Planner said:
Part of my survival food during college and first year or so after I got a job, was ramen noodles. I can't stand them now.
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Yep - something like 5 packs for a $1 back in the day if I'm remembering right. Every once in a while I get a hankering for those cheap ramen noodle packs but then I look at the sodium content and slowly put them back on the shelf.
 
Just had a thoroughly annoying pre-con meeting with folks that were far more interested in trying to TELL us what they were doing as opposed to asking questions. It was bad enough I am contemplating a career change. Currently, I'm vacillating between opening an Orange Julius in the local mall or possibly a film developing kiosk in the parking lot.

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Equal to ^^^
What a PITA with phone pass around about a virtual gift card account.
 
Tranplanner said:
Yep - something like 5 packs for a $1 back in the day if I'm remembering right. Every once in a while I get a hankering for those cheap ramen noodle packs but then I look at the sodium content and slowly put them back on the shelf.
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I also worked in restaurants during college. The great part of working in restaurants is they fed you. That was one or two meals that you didn't have to buy.
 
Maister said:
Just had a thoroughly annoying pre-con meeting with folks that were far more interested in trying to TELL us what they were doing as opposed to asking questions. It was bad enough I am contemplating a career change. Currently, I'm vacillating between opening an Orange Julius in the local mall or possibly a film developing kiosk in the parking lot.

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I'd lean toward the film developing stint, assuming those little shacks have a/c.

I like it.
 
What is the name for those types of doors that have top and bottom halves that open independently? Dutch door? Half door? Something like that.
 
With all this talk of presidential immunity, I'm wondering where the outer perimeter resides for a planning director...

What sayeth Teh Throbbing Brian?
 
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How do you define offical acts?
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Using code enforcement to go after all my enemies sounds like an official act to me!

Today is a fun day of reading state laws to set up the proper sequence of meetings. You will have a meeting 30 days before you crap in the mayor's chair but 60 days after you streak through city hall, but the other meeting must happen while you are streaking but 75 days before you crap in the chair.

Stupid legislators not knowing what a calendar is.
 
"You all have so many holidays in government!" says the nice lady who came in to tell me how terrible my staff is.

I, for one, believe that we could use a few more government holidays.

Freedom from Mean People Day
Give you back your $0.50 in taxes that pay my salary Day

I'm sure there are a lot more...
 
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I, for one, believe that we could use a few more government holidays.
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How about -
Air Conditioning Appreciation Day – July 3
National Independent Beer Run Day - July 3

Mechanical Pencil Day - July 5
National Graham Cracker Day - July 5 - thus making/eating s’mores
 
If one existed outside of time how would their life be different? What does that mean?
 
The same amount of time has passed between now and when Starship recorded "We Built This City" in 1985, than passed between the preceding 39 years when Bing Crosby sang the hit "Sioux City Sue" in 1946.

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City clerks are not amused when you give them the noticing radius of a project as "2.286*10^8 microns," even if that is accurate.

Next time I'll give it in smoots.
 
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We got an email from the school district looking for host families for some exchange students. They're looking to place some kids from Poland, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, and Kenya and they had a nice little write-up about each one. I did chuckle at the one from Brazil as it read, "...has so many interests such as his love of playing soccer, and watching soccer! He also has a dog and taught him some tricks like how to play soccer!"

Luis seems very well rounded.
 
It's so funny how the meetings this week for committees etc got canceled for the holiday to be nice, but it's the ones next week that are tougher because this week is packet week for staff, so yeah - packet week
 
I have a morning person coworker that I'm beginning to resent with all the 8:30 meetings. She used to schedule them at 8 but I told her I'm just getting into the office then.
 
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We got an email from the school district looking for host families for some exchange students. They're looking to place some kids from Poland, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, and Kenya and they had a nice little write-up about each one. I did chuckle at the one from Brazil as it read, "...has so many interests such as his love of playing soccer, and watching soccer! He also has a dog and taught him some tricks like how to play soccer!"

Luis seems very well rounded.
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We had an Australian exchange student in our house during my freshman year in college. Hung out with her so much that my now-wife got a bit jealous; I had to explain that a) you can't date your "exchange sister," and b) she would be going back to Melbourne soon enough.

We still keep in contact online very occasionally. She went into social work for the State of Victoria.

Jim
 
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