The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

Been busy and tired. By the time I return the trailer at 9:30AM, we’ll have everything moved out of the old store. Just have to go back to clean/spackle/paint.

And finish setting up the new store. Still waiting on ppwk for the license, but we are about halfway set up. Lots of little things to do. As you guys know better than most, details matter.

So far, not looking great with the landlords/deposit. Don’t even want to get into it until I know more. There’s an email from them I’ll need to read tomorrow.

 

[Gabe1]

Been busy and tired. By the time I return the trailer at 9:30AM, we’ll have everything moved out of the old store. Just have to go back to clean/spackle/paint.

And finish setting up the new store. Still waiting on ppwk for the license, but we are about halfway set up. Lots of little things to do. As you guys know better than most, details matter.

So far, not looking great with the landlords/deposit. Don’t even want to get into it until I know more. There’s an email from them I’ll need to read tomorrow.

Keep thinking about you guys. It exhausting to move.

Let your attorney read the email. Spare yourself.

 

[Gabe1]

But did they have
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What the heck is Salad Cream? And Peri?

 

[Gabe1]

I might have asked this question before, but speaking of restrooms, why in the pluperfect hell is it that men are unable to flush a toilet. I would bet that 85% of the time that I go into a mens room the toilets have not been flushed. No matter what is in them. Even if they think that the thing is going to flush itself, by the time one leaves the stall, it either has or it hasn't. Dammit... if it hasn't, flush it. Your mommy is not coming in to clean up after you.

OK, morning vent is over. Lets go on with a few less yucky things. Grow up guys!

Trust me, it isn't just men.

 

[Gabe1]

Yeah, we're only allowed to drink when the company provides it, like at team building exercises after work and on days that they have the beer carts. I guess they figure one beer (or in my case "refresher" because I don't like beer) won't impeed anyone from working (you're only allowed one). So you can't go out to lunch and get drinks, but you can have it on beer cart days. And of course, the beer cart thing is only for office workers; those in the warehouses don't get it. They get the other events, though, like ice cream days and the snowball truck day.

Before I started my own company my Boss always had a bottle in his desk drawer. Certainly in his car, he loved to lunch in his car in a forest preserve. One of our secretaries use to fill water bottles with clear liquor. I missed it though today I would not. Our office manager caught it. She was younger than me but more worldly.

In my lifetime we never did team building type events. We did dinners after hours but never during business hours that involved adult beverages After hours especially on German Ships so a different story. I don't drink beer but the beer was in kegs from Germany, apparently better and higher in content. Me, I was the designated driver only because of the lack of choices in the adult beverage offerings, water was better to me.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

What the heck is Salad Cream? And Peri?

Delicious

 

[Gabe1]

I was three also 3
Delicious

Well Woot! for you, but what the heck are they?

 

[Gabe1]

Don't a lot of y'all's restrooms have an automated flush system. I seem to remember it scaring the bejebus out of me on my first holiday .

But like all technology it doesn't always do what it should. For some reason that has become an excuse not to press the button when the automated fails.

 

[Gabe1]

I got my steps in this morning best bakery on the east coast View attachment 393003View attachment 393004View attachment 393005

Nice!!!!

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Well Woot! for you, but what the heck are they?

Difficult to describe. Salad cream is probably close to a type of ranch. Peri is a spicy sauce.

 

[Gabe1]

It's warm out and what does she decide to do? Why, lay in the grass!

The grass is cooling. Concrete and asphalt not so much.

Reminder: Do a surface test before you walk your Pup in these very hot days. Don't be burning those puppies foot pads. Just because they will walk on hot coals for you doesn't mean we should. Grass is cool always to a Pups pads.

 

[Gabe1]

Texas must be in some sort of time warp. The first time I flew was on a College trip to Europe. That was in 1967. We took around 14 commercial flights during that two week period and I do not recall ever seeing any semi-formal dressed folks except the flight attendants. Before the introduction of jet airlines that was that way because only the wealthy were able to fly much back then. Fortunately that is one of the things that I am to young to remember. Both wealth and dressed to travel escaped my experiences.

Yeah, the Baby Boomers changed air travel attire here in Chicago long before the 70's here in Illinois for the consumer. We were in jeans in the 70's already.

 

[Gabe1]

September Trip is paid off... happy dance!

Our trips are coming up fast.

 

[Figgy1]

sympathy like. BRRRR

 

[Figgy1]

Been busy and tired. By the time I return the trailer at 9:30AM, we’ll have everything moved out of the old store. Just have to go back to clean/spackle/paint.

And finish setting up the new store. Still waiting on ppwk for the license, but we are about halfway set up. Lots of little things to do. As you guys know better than most, details matter.

So far, not looking great with the landlords/deposit. Don’t even want to get into it until I know more. There’s an email from them I’ll need to read tomorrow.

Good luck my friend

 

[Figgy1]

Alexa is intwresting, I'm not sure I'd ever pay for it, but it's interesting

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Alexa is intwresting, I'm not sure I'd ever pay for it, but it's interesting

We got the dots when it was 1/2 price. Mainly used for internet radio.

 

[Rista1313]

My thoughts are pretty basic. There are great people in every generation and some not so great. Sometimes it how they were raised and the expectations of the parents raising them. No generation on a whole was more self involved as the Baby Boomers, the anti-establishment generation. I am the tail-end of that classification. Too young for the drugs, the Hippie thing or Woodstock, all was well over by my preteen years.

I have two Millennial kids that are not pieces of work. I take pride in how I raised them, saw to it they were educated and both have great professional careers because of it. I take pride in the adults they became. I believe the majority of Millennial adults are hard working, awesome individuals. They were dealt a nasty, long recession in their teens and college years, that wasn't on them, that was on the older generations. That recession stung a lot of families which made it a difficult time for some youth to jump start their adulthood as they might have liked to. This doesn't make Millennial's pieces of work nor should they keep having to take insults about their entire generation. I have a hard time understanding the need to keep doing that to that generation.

I believe social media is part of the problem. Behind the screen older generations can just bash the heck out of a generation. We are all living in the world of Twitter now if we participate or not where untruths can just be tweeted and it goes unchecked. It is the new norm.

I didn't say all millennial are pieces of work, just my stepsons. And please don't mistake, I love them to pieces... but one thinks a part time job at a laundry mat is a career, and the other thinks being a pothead is fun, and changes jobs more than he changes underwear because he has not got the concept that it's very rare that you are going to find a job that you love. A job for most people is means to an end, and only the very lucky few get to do what they love or are passionate about. I'm hoping one day he will realize what he loves to do, needs certification and go to school. The laundry mat kid... well he got married this spring, and his wife will be the one that carries the financials in their relationship. I just hope she doesn't get sick of him not pulling his weight in the money department. Also, this is not how we raised them (or I have to believe their mom didn't raise them like this either, as she was hard working when she lived here) So, I'm not quite sure what went wrong, but I do know from what the youngest has told us... that they filled their heads in school with this, "don't settle for a job unless you love it" garbage. So putting a little blame on the schools for not setting realistic life expectations.

I have other thoughts, but I need to get on the road for work... (at the same place every day for the last 17 years...)

 

[MinnieM123]

I have Sling! It’s good for all you get at that price.

Thanks to you and Figgy for the suggestion. I did look it up last night and they don't carry everything I want (of course -- most of them don't!!). I'm a news junkie and there's 1 or 2 channels that aren't on it. (Note: I don't watch premium sports channels or movies, etc. (I do like dumb stuff like "E" though . . . )

Meanwhile, I also looked at a few other companies and maybe one of them "might" work out -- but it's not all that cheap, although cheaper than what we're paying now. (Example: one of the companies said you needed a Roku thingie, but a good option was that there were no contracts -- a month by month decision.) Eventually, I'll ask hubs (he's the tech guy to begin with) what might be some reasonable options--we don't need to do this immediately, but it's definitely on the "to do" list. He can also weigh in on the quality of streaming on a regular TV, versus satellite TV reception, which is what we have now.

 

[MinnieM123]

Breakfast for din-din tonight...pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, and hash browns...!!!!!!!
It may look a bit rough, as we weren’t goin’ for “presentation” points , but, it was darn-sure delicious...!!!!!

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Deja vu here . . . reminded me of my father when I saw that plate. Not so much the exact selection of food items, but that the plate had no presentation value. You see, my father always said that he loved "messy" looking-meals on his plate!! He insisted they tasted better?! What can I say? We all have our "thing"!!!