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Daily things 5️⃣ Three Things Thursday

1) Had a community engagement meeting last night. Not crowded but the folks that came participated.

2) Rangers won! :baseball: :baseball: :baseball: I am happy!

3) My sister arrived late yesterday. We're going to dinner tonight.
 
jumbach said:
What is a "ham fart" and how is that different from a regular fart? (Wow, this discussion sure is going off the rails. :) )
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Quite simply, one that smelled reminiscent of ham (which happened to be an item packed at said plant). The story goes, the very first time our family drove past the plant on that stretch of highway my mother reacted to the smell with something like "oh my god, that smell, was that you? (directed at my brother) :ha: . Dear ol dad piped up, "uh honey, there's a meat packing plant right there." but this did not matter to elementary aged boys. Every time after that event my brother and I used to try to preempt the other with the accusation.
 
1. Got my COVID and flu shot at the same time last night. So far, no effects other than a sore arm. The last two years, I was down for the count for a couple of days afterward.

2. Hurt my pinky playing volleyball Tuesday night, earning me my first ER visit in several years. No permanent damage, but I can't finish the season (doctor's orders). That bothers me more than my broken finger.

3. We are taking a tour of the water treatment plant today. I should dig out my poop emoji socks and wear them today.

Bonus:
2a. I missed my chance to burp every time the doctor pulled my finger while fixing it. Didn't even think of it.
 
jumbach said:
Bonus:
2a. I missed my chance to burp every time the doctor pulled my finger while fixing it. Didn't even think of it.
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Juvenile Post Of The Day!
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1. 19 more work days until the New Year.

2. Managed to convince Itty Bitty not to participate in some after school activity tomorrow because I am feeling super anti-social.

3. Making friends as a grown-up is difficult, especially when you are anti-social and an introvert.
 
#3 above describes me.

I should keep a note to remind me that chapstick comes before hand lotion.

Napping at lunch would have been a good idea.
 
kms said:
#3 above describes me.

I should keep a note to remind me that chapstick comes before hand lotion.

Napping at lunch would have been a good idea.
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#3 describes me as well. I consider myself a cynical, jaded introvert. Since living in the South as long as I have, I have learned to overcome this to a degree.
 
1) I am going to see about getting tested for gluten sensitivity. I stopped eating anything with gluten for a week and felt a ton better. I had a personal pizza from a local establishment on Monday, and felt horrible afterwards. On Tuesday and Wednesday I was deliberate not to eat any gluten again and I noticed that I feel better and slept awesome last night.

2) In a little more than a week I am going to sit for the CNU-A exam. I took the class and read over the materials, but if anyone has any insight please let me know.

3) Over the Christmas Break (between Christmas and New Years) I am going to do some office cleaning and purge a bunch of stuff that I don't need.
 
1. Our network is out at work, which precludes doing pretty much everything. I’ll try to handle to counter with a binder of the development code and paper maps. I’ve having to type this up on my cell.

2. Going to see “The Lion King” tomorrow night with our 8-year-old niece. It doesn’t start until 8 pm, so it won’t end until way past her bedtime.

3. I’ve been assigned turkey duty next week. But only seven people coming to the Thanksgiving dinner this year (lots of family members out and about traveling this year) so I can probably handle it.
 
michaelskis said:
1) I am going to see about getting tested for gluten sensitivity. I stopped eating anything with gluten for a week and felt a ton better. I had a personal pizza from a local establishment on Monday, and felt horrible afterwards. On Tuesday and Wednesday I was deliberate not to eat any gluten again and I noticed that I feel better and slept awesome last night.

2) In a little more than a week I am going to sit for the CNU-A exam. I took the class and read over the materials, but if anyone has any insight please let me know.

3) Over the Christmas Break (between Christmas and New Years) I am going to do some office cleaning and purge a bunch of stuff that I don't need.
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My wife went GF about three years ago and feels a lot better.
 
michaelskis said:
1) I am going to see about getting tested for gluten sensitivity. I stopped eating anything with gluten for a week and felt a ton better. I had a personal pizza from a local establishment on Monday, and felt horrible afterwards. On Tuesday and Wednesday I was deliberate not to eat any gluten again and I noticed that I feel better and slept awesome last night.

2) In a little more than a week I am going to sit for the CNU-A exam. I took the class and read over the materials, but if anyone has any insight please let me know.

3) Over the Christmas Break (between Christmas and New Years) I am going to do some office cleaning and purge a bunch of stuff that I don't need.
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Why get tested if you've proven to yourself that you feel better when you avoid gluten? You've proven that stepping on Legos hurts, so you avoid doing that.

1. I'm at a conference for the rest of the week. The immense crowd isn't making me anxious this year.

2. I'm not a fan of Italian food or turkey, so we're having beef braciole which satisfies the bread stuffing requirement.

3. I scheduled vacation days for the days before Thanksgiving. I plan to nest.
 
1) Got assigned a project that will either be a heck of a lot of fun, or it'll suck. No inbetween.

2) My sister made it back to Switzerland today. I miss her already.

3) My boss does not have an indoor voice.
 
1) Readjusting to real life after being away for 3 weeks...thought I had the jet lag beat and then was up at 3:30 a.m. this morning.

2) It is pretty trippy to take off from Tokyo at 6:00 p.m. and land in Vancouver at 9:00 a.m. the same day.

3) I want to move to Japan.
 
michaelskis said:
1) I am going to see about getting tested for gluten sensitivity. I stopped eating anything with gluten for a week and felt a ton better. I had a personal pizza from a local establishment on Monday, and felt horrible afterwards. On Tuesday and Wednesday I was deliberate not to eat any gluten again and I noticed that I feel better and slept awesome last night.

2) In a little more than a week I am going to sit for the CNU-A exam. I took the class and read over the materials, but if anyone has any insight please let me know.

3) Over the Christmas Break (between Christmas and New Years) I am going to do some office cleaning and purge a bunch of stuff that I don't need.
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Let us know how the CNU test is. I've thought about trying when I had a Smartcode a few years back.

My wife went gluten free about 5 years ago. She never tested as being "sensitive", one doctor told her that it usually only picked up Celiac or very severe cases. She can't go back to eating gluten know. Once it was out of her system she seemed to be much more reactive when she ate some. After a while, we got used to it and figured out workarounds for most and there are decent substitutes these days. Overall, she's probably eating healthier too because she's not eating much super processed foods. It's amazing how they use gluten in so many things you don't notice like sauces and soups.
 
Tranplanner said:
1) Readjusting to real life after being away for 3 weeks...thought I had the jet lag beat and then was up at 3:30 a.m. this morning.

2) It is pretty trippy to take off from Tokyo at 6:00 p.m. and land in Vancouver at 9:00 a.m. the same day.

3) I want to move to Japan.
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Re: #2:

That's like when planes take off from Boise at a time, and land in Reno at that same time (e.g., depart at 5:15 p.m., arrive at 5:15 p.m.)
 
1. Wife is at work and I don't have to be at the in-laws until 4, so it's a nice quiet day for me to get caught up on reading.

2. Recently discovered "World of Subways" and am enjoying being a simulated PATH driver.

3. I was rather disappointed in the size of the paper today. I think the days of the big thick "Black Friday ads" Thanksgiving day paper are gone.
 
[Oops, I missed last week--oh well. Luckily, there's no rule that says you HAVE to post here every week.]

1. We have our tree up, but it's not decorated yet, except for a couple random ornaments. We plan to do that by the end of the weekend.

2. Today is December 7--the anniversary of a day that will live in infamy. But for my "History Zone" today on my board I used December 7, 1787, the day Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution.

3. I save all my fiction reading for December and July, so I just started a novel last night.
 
1. Today is December 7th. It would have been my dad's 91st birthday. Pearl Harbor was on his 9th birthday and within 2 weeks his 3 oldest brothers all enlisted in the Army.
2. New house is finally under construction. It's nerve wracking because you hope you thought of everything but you just know you didn't. Even with checklists.
3. Sweet girlie Ginger had her first heartworm treatment Tuesday. She's doing fine, just have to keep her calm and not get the zoomies for about the next 2 months.
 
1. Today's the day (not the day on anybody else's calendar but you know what day).
2. I felt like trash all day yesterday, scattered and didn't get much done, tired from a late night Tuesday night. i got good sleep last night and two cups of coffee this morning and I am on TURBO mode now.
3. Just signed a permit for about 4.5M worth of new public streets and a park.
 
1. December 7, 1941 kicked off a period of about 5 weeks where my then 17-year old someday-to-be-father pestered the crap out of his mother to let him enlist in the Navy under-age. His father being a Naval Academy alum probably greased the skids some. Poor Nana was cornered in her own home. She relented in mid-January and he was on his way to Naval Training station in Maine by February.
2. December 8, 1941 probably saw my grandfather working the phones with his old Naval Academy buddies to get my dad stationed on what Grandpa perceived as the safest ship possible. BB59 - U.S.S. Massachusetts would be his home for the first 18 or so months at sea. (And she was a safe ship, as it turned out. IIRC, only three of her crew were KIA during extensive front-line combat action through VJ -Day. Grandpa wouldn't be any help on his final ship, known as a CVE, which Navy wags said stood for "Combustible, Vulnerable, and Expendable". :omg: )
3. Obligatory Go Navy! Beat Army!
 
1. I get to chaperone Itty Bitty's school dance.
2. I am not a good dancer but I make up for it with my enthusiasm.
3. I am still yearning to do karaoke.
 
Gedunker said:
1. December 7, 1941 kicked off a period of about 5 weeks where my then 17-year old someday-to-be-father pestered the crap out of his mother to let him enlist in the Navy under-age. His father being a Naval Academy alum probably greased the skids some. Poor Nana was cornered in her own home. She relented in mid-January and he was on his way to Naval Training station in Maine by February.
2. December 8, 1941 probably saw my grandfather working the phones with his old Naval Academy buddies to get my dad stationed on what Grandpa perceived as the safest ship possible. BB59 - U.S.S. Massachusetts would be his home for the first 18 or so months at sea. (And she was a safe ship, as it turned out. IIRC, only three of her crew were KIA during extensive front-line combat action through VJ -Day. Grandpa wouldn't be any help on his final ship, known as a CVE, which Navy wags said stood for "Combustible, Vulnerable, and Expendable". :omg: )
3. Obligatory Go Navy! Beat Army!
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As a former Boy Scout from New England I did the obligatory overnight campout on the Massachusetts. Those racks were canvas hammocks stacked five feet high somewhere in the bowels of the ship and the tracks for munitions to be moved up to the guns went through the rooms on the ceiling. I highly recommend the experience.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
Let us know how the CNU test is. I've thought about trying when I had a Smartcode a few years back.
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Took it last week and will get the results later this month. Overall it was not horrible but there were several questions that I had to read a few times to really figure out what they were asking for. There were several got-ya questions so I will be interested to see how I did.
 
1. We had a house fire on our block yesterday morning. (Not our house.) The house is gone, but both humans and both pets are accounted for and safe. No idea of the cause, but it's not suspicious in origin.

2. My pet peeve (both on the work line and personal cell) is when someone calls, and then calls again, and then again, in succession, for things that are neither emergencies nor urgent. If I'm not available now, I won't be available in 20 seconds. Why not just leave a message or, even better, a text, and I'll get back to you?

3. Finally got around to seeing "Love Actually" earlier this week. I love RomComs, so I don't know how we missed this one all these years. I thought it was just OK, with too many different plot lines going on for a Christmas RomCom movie. I want to turn off my brain. And, not even a scene with Alan Rickman falling, unlike another Christmas movie he's in.

- Jim
 
1. No more work days this year!
2. Anxious about holiday travel.
3. I could use some sunshine and warmth.
4. Do people still do Christmas cards?
5. Stress stinks.
 
1. We haven't sent out Christmas cards for probably the past 6 years.
2. Graham crackers are pretty good as snacks go
3. Got a new desktop PC a couple of weeks ago. It flies compared to the old one
4. I may at long last be done with cardiac rehab appointments. Maybe
5. I don't think our new insurance plan is worth crap
 
1. What in the name of Sweet Baby Jeebus is donkey soap?
2. I don't think I've ever washed a donkey. Nope, never.
3. This post corrects my earlier erroneous 5 thing submission earlier today
 
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1. Tomorrow is technically a workday, but it will be pretty sparsely populated at City Hall. I plan to be around.

2. The SNL "Christmas Morning" skit is the funniest thing I've seen in a really long time. (Work safe)

3. Much wrapping still left to do. Wifey had a marathon last night and I'll take over on Saturday.
 
1. I have to prepare 12 evaluations for department heads and executive staff. UGH!
2. I feel like this has been the worst holiday season ever for eating way too much crap. Giving myself to New Year's and then it's over!
3. Wrapping Christmas presents is Folding Laundry's asshole cousin.
 
1. Made Bailey's brownie pies for the office potluck today.
2. Headache is still here, nice blank spots in my vision.
3. Everyone is out of town and I am writing a letter to an agency letting them know they have additional required hearings before a board that hasn't met since the early 90s...
 
MD Planner said:
1. I have to prepare 12 evaluations for department heads and executive staff. UGH!
2. I feel like this has been the worst holiday season ever for eating way too much crap. Giving myself to New Year's and then it's over!
3. Wrapping Christmas presents is Folding Laundry's asshole cousin.
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12 my goodness. chatgpt to the rescue...wait who said that lolol
 
  1. today is our last in person office day for the year....it is 12:23pm and i am like the only person left in office....maybe i should take the hint?
  2. I kinda don't want to travel back to my hometown for the holidays but if i dont my family would absolutely revolt
  3. I have over 90 hours of PTO that i need to use by august and looking at my work plan for 2024 the earliest that i can use it is in august...send help
  4. BONUS I Miss interacting with yall on here....i'm so inconsistent but this forum is so epic and i learn so much every day
 
tnt1ne said:
  1. today is our last in person office day for the year....it is 12:23pm and i am like the only person left in office....maybe i should take the hint?
  2. I kinda don't want to travel back to my hometown for the holidays but if i dont my family would absolutely revolt
  3. I have over 90 hours of PTO that i need to use by august and looking at my work plan for 2024 the earliest that i can use it is in august...send help
  4. BONUS I Miss interacting with yall on here....i'm so inconsistent but this forum is so epic and i learn so much every day
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Someone us remodeling a room. I want to watch what they toss into the dumpster but have to work.

My Christmas tree jinx ended and I've enjoyed a fresh tree for a few weeks.

Because I live by myself, I don't invest much time in decorating for Christmas.
 
kms said:
Someone us remodeling a room. I want to watch what they toss into the dumpster but have to work.

My Christmas tree jinx ended and I've enjoyed a fresh tree for a few weeks.

Because I live by myself, I don't invest much time in decorating for Christmas.
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i've started decorating my mantle and that's it. some lights, a few ornaments that really give me joy, and maybe a sprig or two of real fir branches
 
MD Planner said:
We must insist on more elaboration.
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As you please! Honestly it's been fun to do this research and work with the other departments but I'm worried because this agency has some pull and hasn't been happy with our process overall (and has let leadership know).
Currently we have a variance request to our development code's height limit for a public telecom agency. I am assigned the case - super straightforward matter, should be easy. I remember there is an airport nearby and have flashbacks to navigating big city codes/FAA circulars in a previous job, so I go digging. It turns out that when the airport was built (early 90s) there was a multiple-municipality board created to oversee the FAA-model-zoning-based height limits that the municipalities adopted together to control the surrounding area. Everything taller than 50 feet requires at minimum a permit from this multiple-authority board, in some cases multiple hearings for variances and permits between up to 3 boards. This is referred to opaquely in one section of the city code, but is not included in the city code anywhere (City archives reveal a letter from a lawyer that says including the rules in the city code may inhibit the multiple-authority group's ability to enforce the rules). The board met a total of 2 or 3 times, apparently.
Now, the agency is not happy about this initial variance to the city's code. It's been tough for my boss to get them to submit it at all and several appeals to higher authorities have already been made. We get confirmation from our higher-ups/legal that they do need to go through the multiple-authority board for approval, but it will take a couple months to reinstate the board since none of the member municipalities are aware of it and no other projects since the 90s have triggered the process.
Great! Leadership is stressed by this, so we'll just have dev services write them a letter and explain. Dev services is actually me, the only one in the office for the next couple weeks. So I have a letter requesting an additional variance and permit application and outlining a process adding a couple months minimum to the agency's project schedule, knowing I am the only one manning the telephone. :grimace:
 
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