The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

This reminds me of a funny story one of my Site Supers told me.
The Builder/Owner's son-in-law started working one of the sites as a General Labourer.

The Assistant Site Super asked him to sweep out a few of the basements.
Son-in-Law said, nuh-uh, not gonna do it.

The Super, who has been a highly valued employee for 20+ years took SIL aside, and assigned him the task of digging a ditch - X number of inches wide by X number of inches deep, times hundreds of yards long.
It took him three days to do it.

Then the Super said ... wait for it ... "Now fill it in. And then, when you're done, sweep out those basements."

The SIL decided being a General Labourer was not for him after all.

Ding and Dong. Can't wrap my brain around either of them. My Dad was a contractor. If his crews didn't do what they were hired to do they were gone. Simpler. Our public works people are known to mess with the the summer help when they are relations to the Village people. They generally don't last either.

 

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[Gabe1]

Now how the heck am I 7 pages behind again?

EDIT, eight, forgot this page.

122 more messages.

 

[Andrew C]

DW just came out of the bedroom with my Maelstrom shirt on. Just like when she stole it from me to wear at the parks.

 

[Gabe1]

Not.
+2C (36F)

What was it like in WDW when you left, that had to be a shock!

 

[Gabe1]

DW just came out of the bedroom with my Maelstrom shirt on. Just like when she stole it from me to wear at the parks.

My DH is a foot taller than me, if I stole his shirts it would be a nightgown. In that case he might be OK with it.

 

[Gabe1]

I love these!!! They would go so well with my Day of the Dead Skull!

 

[Gabe1]

I'd like to get these for my DS. I saw them on Amazon but they were pretty expensive. Remember how much they were at WDW?

 

[JenniferS]

What was it like in WDW when you left, that had to be a shock!

86F

 

[JenniferS]

I'd like to get these for my DS. I saw them on Amazon but they were pretty expensive. Remember how much they were at WDW?

And ... I figured out how to rotate photos.

 

[Gabe1]

Half my family in Niagara Falls are teachers...definitely had issues getting permanent positions for several years as you said.

When the state did not pay they funding to us at all we had to eliminate positions. Fortunately due to retirements nobody was fired or rifted we moved the teachers around, not happy but employed. That was a year and a half ago. We didn't replace any of the retirees. This fall we hired two, we are still down but are recovering from the dip in revenue doing to the property tax reduction. This is why my DD decided to put all her energy to working for a University over elementary or secondary ed, it is rough at the moment.

 

[Gabe1]

I was taught that it was a way to stretch out the laundry needs. Wear them inside out one day and right-side out the next day. Cuts laundry in half and therefore is environmental friendly since less detergents are used as well. I'm not sure if that classifies as multi-tasking or not, but it's still conserving time.

Giggle. Your logic sounds like my Dads logic. The man in his working years took a minimum of 2 showers a day.

 

[JenniferS]

My DH is a foot taller than me, if I stole his shirts it would be a nightgown. In that case he might be OK with it.

Same here. 16 inches between us.

For years, all I ever wore to bed were his t-shirts.
Bonus - they smell like him, even after washing.

 

[Gabe1]

Eeeh, I actually didnt mean a full scale park.
I was thinking more along the lines of an "Aulani" Mayan inspired.

Ahhh....now that is a horse of a different color. With how often resorts change hands they could always sell it off if it didn't work out.

 

[Gabe1]

I guarantee, nobody pushed me anywhere. It was completely my idea. I honestly knew what I wanted to do at 15, and am still doing it at 52. I knew I didn't want to be a doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc. I knew architecture was what I wanted to do. The way I did it doesn't work for everyone, but neither does a college degree always work. I put forth every bit as much effort as anyone that got a 4-5 year college degree. I got my education on the job, in the real world. That's what worked best for me.

I agree, we are the same age and there was more wiggle room. My kids were going to college, it was beat into their heads from birth. They could do what every they wanted after, I don't care but by golly they were going to be educated. I look at it as it is something that can't hurt them in the future. So far so good.

But if you had to start out in your field today don't you have to have certain credentials or can anyone walk in and open an architectural firm? I know teachers use to go to teacher colleges usually for 2 years, nurses were 2 year degrees, now you need 2 years to be an aide. I know my SIL a hygienist was trained on the job decades ago but most go for a certification these days as insurance companies generally require that for reimbursement. Real estate was another one that didn't need a licence years ago either. Our sheriff's department only takes 4 year degree recruits now too, before it was 2 years and before that high school, the old school guys can't move up the ranks unless they return to school which many in their 40s and 50s don't want to do so they are kinda stuck.

Times they are a changing.

 

[Gabe1]

Yup - taking merchandise photos.

Oh My!

 

[Gabe1]

So taking the train home, I come to realize that either I'm allergic or highly sensitive to cologne/perfume. Whopper of a headache that I didn't have before.

I feel your pain! Both my DD and me have the same issue. Even some floral bath products send us to headache-ville.

How did it go?

 

[JenniferS]

I feel your pain! Both my DD and me have the same issue. Even some floral bath products send us to headache-ville.

How did it go?

Hubby can't handle Bath & Bodyworks or Basin.
Me, I am in Heaven.

 

[Gabe1]

Yea, anything needed on the roads down here is so infrequent anyway that it doesn't really matter. And, sand is plentiful and cheap.

I dropped the kid off a little while ago and the roads were striped with liquid salt. It looks like it is wet stripes about 8 per lane. It is the pre coat for snow that they are starting to do around here the last 5 years on the county roads. It works until the salt trucks can get out.

 

[Gabe1]

Hubby can't handle Bath & Bodyworks or Basin.
Me, I am in Heaven.

I hold my breath when I go past Bath & Body, Basin I walked in and made a U turn right out at DTD.
My DD has always been like this, me the last 20 years or so.