Rep Retirement Lodge 115: What sports do you watch in the off-season?

[JF_Gophers]

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Morning.

Happy 4 day work week! Followed by a 4 day weekend... followed by a 4 day work week.

No rain in the forecast at all for this week in 612. That should be amazing.

 

[Lady wore Black]

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Good Morning, Lodge!

 

[walrus]

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Pouring rain here, severe Tstorms expected later, sucks

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Oh CNN actually had useful news today.

Porn sites get their own domain (.xxx). Finally! It has been so difficult to find good porn among all the corporate .com sites.

 

[Sloe Gin]

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Oh CNN actually had useful news today.

Porn sites get their own domain (.xxx). Finally! It has been so difficult to find good porn among all the corporate .com sites.

they tried passing this years ago to no avail. I'm glad it finally went through.

I mean...what?

 

[goldy_331]

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Morning Lodge

I was 29 when I graduated. Good on you for seeing it through

28 here

Congrats BPH!

 

[crazytechfan]

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So.. On campus right now, and I just had a fellow Tech student assume I was an SYP kid (Summer Youth Programs, so middle/high school student).
I don't look that young, do I???

 

[JF_Gophers]

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So.. On campus right now, and I just had a fellow Tech student assume I was an SYP kid (Summer Youth Programs, so middle/high school student).
I don't look that young, do I???

Here is the litmus test. Does Dude Love talk to you?

 

[The Rube]

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Here is the litmus test. Does Dude Love talk to you?

Yes.

 

[Greyeagle]

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Good morning!

Morning.

Happy 4 day work week! Followed by a 4 day weekend... followed by a 4 day work week.

No rain in the forecast at all for this week in 612. That should be amazing.

From today through August 1st I will be at work a grand total of 9 days.
The old Eagle digs July.

 

[Beer Pong Horn]

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Yes.

Why would DL talk to you? I didn't think old men were his style.


Morning, Lodge, and thanks again, everyone! I'll have a beer for each one of you that says congrats. (though it may take a while) Today though, I'm celebrating with a day off work.

 

[wolverineTrumpet]

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Guinnesss cake turned out delicious. German Park was also fun. I'm getting sick of tornado warnings.

Found someone to watch my dog. She and their Golden will have lots of fun. Now, in true procrastinator form, I am having trouble locating places to stay for our trip. Stupid holiday weekend. *sigh*

Humidity in Denver? Are you nuts? DC gets more humidity in a week--any week--than we get in a month--any month.

I laugh when Michiganders complain about humidity. I tell them to travel South. (wT grew up in Maryland)

So.. On campus right now, and I just had a fellow Tech student assume I was an SYP kid (Summer Youth Programs, so middle/high school student).
I don't look that young, do I???

Just remind yourself that when you're older this will be a good thing. That's what I always do. Oh, and take advantage of it. I was getting children's discounts when I was 15. Still got college student rates when I was 25. And have come to accept that I am still getting carded at 28.

So this leads to an obvious next question.

Did anyone ask about their benefits such as time off rules before they took their job? Or was that not an important factor?

I did not at my current job, as I was happy to be employed full time and have any benefits.
Time off was a deciding factor when I turned down the job at John Deere. I was only going to get I think 7 days off that first year, and then 13 days off after 3 years. I didn't try to negotiate salary or anything else. I asked for 3 weeks vacation. If I was going to move to middle of nowhere Iowa I was going to need time off. They didn't budge, I turned the offer down. That was back before the economy went down the tubes.


And BPH, well done! Proud of you for keeping with it.

 

[West Texas Wolverine]

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So this leads to an obvious next question.

Did anyone ask about their benefits such as time off rules before they took their job? Or was that not an important factor?

I did not at my current job, as I was happy to be employed full time and have any benefits.
Time off was a deciding factor when I turned down the job at John Deere. I was only going to get I think 7 days off that first year, and then 13 days off after 3 years. I didn't try to negotiate salary or anything else. I asked for 3 weeks vacation. If I was going to move to middle of nowhere Iowa I was going to need time off. They didn't budge, I turned the offer down. That was back before the economy went down the tubes.

For those of you who enjoy political philosophy, there is a discussion of this topic in Makers and Takers by Peter Schweizer (pages 98-99), which you may find either interesting or enraging, depending on your ability to read the opinions of those with whom you might agree or disagree. It's a very conservative book, as the subtitle unsubtly indicates!

The gist of the survey data show that the questions asked in job interviews vary by political outlook. Self-described liberals tend to ask more about benefits and days off, whereas self-described conservatives more often ask about opportunities for advancement.

I will now brace myself for the incoming flood of positive and negative rep.

Good morning, Lodge!

 

[A Shot and a Goal]

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Good morning.

 

[Sloe Gin]

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I laugh when Michiganders complain about humidity. I tell them to travel South. (wT grew up in Maryland)

any time I go back to Minnesota to visit my parents, the humidity just kills me. In Denver, as Old Man Shot said, humidity rarely gets above 50%. The dewpoint is usually in the 20's or 30's. It's just wonderful.

Of course, Tucson is usually around 8% humidity. Granted, most of the triathletes down in that community wake up around 4-5 am to get their workouts done, cause by 9 in the morning, it's just too hot, and it's too hot until around 10 at night. Still, wouldn't mind living there...

 

[Sloe Gin]

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oh, and BPH?

Good job on doing what you were supposed to do.

 

[Beer Pong Horn]

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oh, and BPH?

Good job on doing what you were supposed to do.

I'm telling you - if MNSing is not knowing what to do, and DLing is knowing but failing anyway, BPHing is not knowing what to do but succeeding anyway.

 

[Twitch Boy]

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Way too humid up here in Anchorage - right on the ocean. I can break into a sweat in my apartment despite it being mid-50s outside.

Plus Quinne, my pet tarantula, is a species that likes it extremely dry, and excess humidity leads to who knows what setting up shop in her tank.

 

[legal_hit]

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Well, Dinner is the more tastier option, but if you just want them around without the dogs barking, Shock Collars would be the way to go. That would get them to quit barking there.

True, and we have considered it. I think we are worried that one dog's barking will trigger the other's collar which really wouldn't be helpful.

Not cool at all. Too many incidents lately involving severe weather and campgrounds. People just don't think about how they could be exposed to these elements when away from home, much less how they can prepare themselves to deal with it. In that light, I'm not sure that a warning for that storm today would have prevented a single injury or the fatality. It's just a sad situation.

In reality, what can you do? We dry camped a lot in various race track parking lots, so most places we were at just didn't have any sort of shelter at all. The campground in Sturgis might have had a shelter, but I seriously doubt it would have been big enough for everyone staying there.

I remember worrying about this when camping at the track in Loudon, NH. We were basically in the largest campground/trailer park in the state and no shelter except for the two tunnels going in and out of the track. Luckily it is NH, so full scale tornadoes are fairly rare.

I laugh when Michiganders complain about humidity. I tell them to travel South. (wT grew up in Maryland)

Yep, that was the biggest problem in NC, the humidity.

Just remind yourself that when you're older this will be a good thing. That's what I always do. Oh, and take advantage of it. I was getting children's discounts when I was 15. Still got college student rates when I was 25. And have come to accept that I am still getting carded at 28.

I still get carded from time to time and I am much closer to 40 than 30.

 

[GreatLakerMohawk]

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Getting really tired of Hokydad being a perpetual thread destroyer.