The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

Oh sure ... now!

'bout time!!! If nothing else for coffee and pop.

 

[JenniferS]

Oh Wow. We cannot have a car in the street if the Plows are out. Since we don't know if the plows are out until a plow comes bye or a ticket is on the car and a tow truck summoned we take them off the streets when it starts to snow. Every street gets plowed. Salted, flip the coin.

$30 ticket. Tow with Tow Fee, Impound and Administrative fee would be about $450

We are considered a tertiary road, and are waaaaay down the plow list. Most primary roads are plowed twice, if not three times before they even consider plowing mine.

Just wait'll I post pictures this winter of what a mess this street becomes. You will be dumbfounded.
And the fact that our neighbour's sons claim both spots in front of our house, means we always get the wicked windrow at the end of our driveway. It is irksome, to say the least.

Again, I am seriously hoping to sell here, and move into a full maintenance condo within the next year or two.

When the boys were toddlers, I was so miserable working full-time that we sold our large detached house and moved into a condo so that I could work just part-time until they were both in school full day.
Let me tell you, I loved not having to shovel or cut grass. It was lovely.

 

[Gabe1]

Deer in the Snow

 

[StarWarsGirl]

We are considered a tertiary road, and are waaaaay down the plow list. Most primary roads are plowed twice, if not three times before they even consider plowing mine.

Just wait'll I post pictures this winter of what a mess this street becomes. You will be dumbfounded.
And the fact that our neighbour's sons claim both spots in front of our house, means we always get the wicked windrow at the end of our driveway. It is irksome, to say the least.

Again, I am seriously hoping to sell here, and move into a full maintenance condo within the next year or two.

When the boys were toddlers, I was so miserable working full-time that we sold our large detached house and moved into a condo so that I could work just part-time until they were both in school full day.
Let me tell you, I loved not having to shovel or cut grass. It was lovely.

We have the same problem on our street. There was one time last semester that I just plain couldn't go to class because the street had not been plowed. Of course, we don't get as much snow here, which makes is bearable.

 

[Gabe1]

We are considered a tertiary road, and are waaaaay down the plow list. Most primary roads are plowed twice, if not three times before they even consider plowing mine.

Just wait'll I post pictures this winter of what a mess this street becomes. You will be dumbfounded.
And the fact that our neighbour's sons claim both spots in front of our house, means we always get the wicked windrow at the end of our driveway. It is irksome, to say the least.

Again, I am seriously hoping to sell here, and move into a full maintenance condo within the next year or two.

When the boys were toddlers, I was so miserable working full-time that we sold our large detached house and moved into a condo so that I could work just part-time until they were both in school full day.
Let me tell you, I loved not having to shovel or cut grass. It was lovely.

We are getting to that age the we find little humor in some of the maintenance that needs to be done. It hasn't been that long since last winter, since it lasted through Spring....I am the primary snow shovel person and our driveway is 150 feet long. I'm pretty well done. My DD said one day a week ago, you guys belong in a townhouse, the look on my DH face, lol. I'd have to find a way to have my flowers and gardens. I can move to the world of container gardening.

 

[Cesar R M]

1 - never saw it.
2 - saw the first one, but not the second.
3 - Hunger Games ... you couldn't pay me enough ....

he was in the first movie, not the second (star trek wise)

 

[Goofyernmost]

We are considered a tertiary road, and are waaaaay down the plow list. Most primary roads are plowed twice, if not three times before they even consider plowing mine.

Just wait'll I post pictures this winter of what a mess this street becomes. You will be dumbfounded.

See, that's what socialized plowing does for you! Canadians is such silly peoples!

 

[donaldtoo]

That's cute!
The original Igloo cooler.

 

[Cesar R M]

Same here. That and the Twilight Saga are a no thank you for me.

I loved how Hotel Transylvania pretty much mocked the twilight saga.

 

[Gabe1]

We have the same problem on our street. There was one time last semester that I just plain couldn't go to class because the street had not been plowed. Of course, we don't get as much snow here, which makes is bearable.

We get plowed after the main streets are safe but they usually will at least make a single pass. We are a street that is 2 and a half blocks long and it dead ends into a Forest Preserve. Bambi having clear passage isn't a priority.

 

[Cesar R M]

Okay, I'm going to take a minute to vent here

I. Hate. Group. Projects.

This one guy in my group missed around four classes in a row. We were wondering if he was still in the class. The professor heard nothing from him, so we were getting VERY concerned. She even talked to us about the possibility of him not contributing and her assigning him an individual project.

So as the group leader, I started cracking down on him.

Two weeks ago, we had a group meeting. I told them that I wanted 1-2 pages double spaced of the paper typed by Monday. Then I realized that we all had another test, so I gave them until today at 5 to finish it. The other girl in my group sends me her section on Sunday night. I gave her a bunch of edits, and she sent me back a new copy Monday night. The one guy says that he has practice for his sport, so he would do his best to get me something by tonight at 10. Fine, I just want something to look over before our group meeting tomorrow.

The chronically absent guy sends me this whole long Facebook message tonight about why nothing has been done. Somehow I've been unreasonable with this whole project, there weren't enough sources that we found (um, dude, I found sources for both my section AND some for yours. Pick up the slack), and that he knows that we've been concerned about his being absent from classes but that he really wants to get the best grade on this project and blah, blah, blah, blah. I explained to him the reason for our concern, and that it wasn't just us who were concerned, but also the professor. Not good. Some of his BS I just ignored, some of it I addressed, but my thought was, "Instead of typing me this long message about why you didn't do the work, why didn't you just DO THE WORK!"

I don't want to be a professor. Ever. I'm sure they get a ton of BS excuses. Can't imagine what kind of excuses managers in the real world get if I get this stuff and we're only in college.

feel you.
I had to deal with these type of clowns all the time.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

 

[donaldtoo]

It was a great day! Good food, fun shopping, deep dish pizza for dinner.
She got some floating shelves, a few tractors, a rubber duck bank and

Glad y'all had such a great time on her special day!

 

[MOXOMUMD]

We get plowed after the main streets are safe but they usually will at least make a single pass. We are a street that is 2 and a half blocks long and it dead ends into a Forest Preserve. Bambi having clear passage isn't a priority.

We are one of two houses on our stretch of road. The county always does us last. Last year our neighbor used his 4-wheeler with a plow on it to make a strip in the road so we could get out.

 

[Gabe1]

See, that's what socialized plowing does for you! Canadians is such silly peoples!

Ha! You're in good form the last few days.

 

[Gabe1]

We are one of two houses on our stretch of road. The county always does us last. Last year our neighbor used his 4-wheeler with a plow on it to make a strip in the road so we could get out.

Nice neighbor. My folks have a neighbor that does theirs with his bobcat.

 

[donaldtoo]

Oh, doesn't it just figure that someone who works for a big architectural firm, makes the big bucks and can hire yourself a muscle firm. Not fair!

Have you met Timmy's partner yet...?

He's this guy...

Who has this clock...

 

[donaldtoo]

Those are perfectly normal shoes.

But the real reason you can't relate to them, is because they're not flip flops!

That's what happens when ya' live in a place where ya' can wear flip flops year 'round...!

 

[FutureCEO]

1- You never saw Avengers? Or Thor!
2- He was in the first one. The second one is archival footage from the first one (incidentally, the second one is, IMO, better than the first)
3- Hunger Games books are much better than the movies. That did not stop me from watching the movies when they came on Netflix. Love the books, own them, have read them 3-4 times. They were recommended by my high school librarian, who took months convincing me that I should pick them up and read them. Then that same year, I ranked as one of the top five peer tutors with the most hours so, the librarian who ran tutoring, gave the top five tutors gift cards to Barnes and Noble. Guess which books I got?

I hated the Hunger Games books, free book rental..yeah. The movies are better which normally I don't say. To me the books jumped around a lot.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I hated the Hunger Games books, free book rental..yeah. The movies are better which normally I don't say. To me the books jumped around a lot.

I felt like the books went much more in depth than the movies did. We got to know Katniss a lot better in the books than in the movies. The books don't jump around too much and are very close to the films, but you have to read very carefully because you could miss something.