POTUS 45:52: Not Founded On Anything

[joecct]

This is key. I have decent PTO (200 hours) but it includes sick days and there's no carryover. One illness and you're f-cked for the year.

I ought to also mention that 50% of your unused sick leave counts towards retirement.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

My district has pretty relaxed rules about PTO, but because going anywhere requires getting on a flight that is stupidly expensive and almost as likely as not to be cancelled due to weather, I don't bother.

Where do you live? Halifax?

[mookie1995]

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I haven't in the past, but plan to this summer, mostly greater MN and maybe some jaunts to eastern/central WI (read: brewery road trips )

one of the many great things here is a ton of red eye flights. every time mookie goes to bangkok it is overnight and can hit the ground running. so middle june will work wednesday and fly out after work. spend two nights there and only miss one day of work (weekends are fri/sat). middle july doing the same with hong kong but will spend 3 nights and take just one day off. flight back lands in amman early and the connection is later on, so mookie has 13hrs to leave the airport and go see the city.
convenient schedule as well going west

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Mookie must be able to sleep well on airplanes, because no one has ever said "great" and "red eye" in the same sentence.

[The Rube]

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one of the many great things here is a ton of red eye flights. every time mookie goes to bangkok it is overnight and can hit the ground running. so middle june will work wednesday and fly out after work. spend two nights there and only miss one day of work (weekends are fri/sat). middle july doing the same with hong kong but will spend 3 nights and take just one day off. flight back lands in amman early and the connection is later on, so mookie has 13hrs to leave the airport and go see the city.
convenient schedule as well going west

I figure, you want the fabric of the town? Hit the local pub or greasy spoon. Talk to the locals. I most often don't care about the tourist stuff. Gimme the everyday stuff of the townies.

[mookie1995]

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I figure, you want the fabric of the town? Hit the local pub or greasy spoon. Talk to the locals. I most often don't care about the tourist stuff. Gimme the everyday stuff of the townies.

bonus in cairo was a cabbie didn't understand mookie's request.

mookie- marriott
cabbie- huh?
mookie- mare ree uhta (as mookie see exit pass by out of window.
cabbie-huh?
mookie-right there!!! (pointing)
cabie-oh.. mare ree OOOOT?
mookie-eh eh

so we drive a couple miles out of the way but mookie sees the back end of his neighborhood with coffee shops and cafes. so after cabbie drops him off he turns and walks it. never would have known otherwise and the added fare was maybe $0.20 US EGP is somewhat 'weak'

[mookie1995]

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Mookie must be able to sleep well on airplanes, because no one has ever said "great" and "red eye" in the same sentence.

yes he does. usually out before wheels up

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To be fair, most Americans mispronounce Marriott. There's not supposed to be any heavy emphasis on the last syllable (it sounds like -uht, not -OTT).

[The Rube]

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To be fair, most Americans mispronounce Marriott. There's not supposed to be any heavy emphasis on the last syllable (it sounds like -uht, not -OTT).

AH-leeh-AHNZ, not All-EYE-anz. Right, soh? (Close enough, btw)

[mookie1995]

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mookie just goes by what he heard on television

[mookie1995]

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AH-leeh-AHNZ, not All-EYE-anz. Right, soh? (Close enough, btw)

ah dee DAHS

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(Close enough, btw)

mookie just goes by what he heard on television

It's fine. Mormons talk funny.

[The Rube]

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I hate it when people put the wrong em-PHAH-sis on the wrong sill-LAH-bill.

[mookie1995]

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It's fine. Mormons talk funny.

"i hate mormoms" dennis rodman

[mookie1995]

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bbc was doing a story on aluminum. mookie kept hearing ahl-loo-MIN - nee um.