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Rep Retirement Lodge 135: Rain, rain go away

Rep Retirement Lodge 135: Rain, rain go away

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 135: Rain, rain go away

mookie1995 said:
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i need a refill. unca ray neg'd me for no reason..... :mad:
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There was a reason:
UncleRay said:
Mook- did I just bleep up my rep to you? F-ing mouse was driving me nuts.
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Not a good reason. But I was trying to do a copy/paste that wouldn't happen and apparently as I swore and bashed things I clicked the "neg" button on you. Didn't realize it until I was thanked for sending you negative rep. Sorry. Have a Margarita!
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 135: Rain, rain go away

That line of storms somehow avoided us. But there's a line of storms from West Lafayette to Benton Harbor that we're probably going to get in a couple hours. That's why I'm grilling my steaks in the next 1/2 hour or so.
 
Yesterday at little g's birthday party bil pulls up in a brand new 50k suv. FWIW he has not had a job in over 2 years. Not sure what to think.
 
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I was in the Warehouse District recording some trombone at a studio when all of this was going down. This was the conversation between us horn players and the studio guy:

Studio: Don't be afraid to really let loose, I feel you guys are playing a little too timid.

One of the horn players: Alright, no prob... Wait, are those tornado sirens?"

Me and the other horn player: "HIT RECORD! RECORD RECORD!!"

Studio: "Way ahead of you."

That track was awesome. We later got a few with police/fire engine/ambulance sirens.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
I'm guessing you were concerned that TK got destroyed, and not that brent might be in danger? :D
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I was sorta close to it, but not THAT close. And like a good Minnesotan, when I heard the sirens I stepped outside to see if I could spot anything. :)
 
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Is there some sort of reverse directory that I can supply a phone number and find out who it belongs to? Got a text from some number for the second time. It's a wrong number. Don't most people have names in their contacts? How do you text a random person? It's not like calling a wrong number.
 
Brenthoven said:
I was sorta close to it, but not THAT close. And like a good Minnesotan, when I heard the sirens I stepped outside to see if I could spot anything. :)
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I was at work...too busy closing the cash registers, and herding people to the back of the store (and trying not to smack people who complained they couldn't check out or shop while this was all happening). They also wouldn't let me outside to watch. Which sucked.
 
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Scarlet said:
Is there some sort of reverse directory that I can supply a phone number and find out who it belongs to? Got a text from some number for the second time. It's a wrong number. Don't most people have names in their contacts? How do you text a random person? It's not like calling a wrong number.
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Reverse lookups for people usually cost money. But you can try just typing the number into Google and see what comes up. I know for businesses you will almost always get the name of the business its for.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
I was at work...too busy closing the cash registers, and herding people to the back of the store (and trying not to smack people who complained they couldn't check out or shop while this was all happening). They also wouldn't let me outside to watch. Which sucked.
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There's a pic of the tornado that touched down in the MN Weather thread, thanks to FireHelmetGuy (I stole the pic from FB; yes I told him I stole it).
 
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Scarlet said:
Is there some sort of reverse directory that I can supply a phone number and find out who it belongs to? Got a text from some number for the second time. It's a wrong number. Don't most people have names in their contacts? How do you text a random person? It's not like calling a wrong number.
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a horrible woman i worked with two jobs ago was married and on vacation with her husband when she got a random text from a dude making a pass at someone (he obviously got a wrong number). she, being an awful person, replied back flirtingly. she ended up meeting this texter and having an affair... which led to her leaving her husband and moving in with this dude.. who she ended up marrying after her former husband got married.

so it happens...
 
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leswp1 said:
We told him if he pulls an F in anything XC season is over before it starts. He almost pooped his pants. :mad:
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I remember getting an F in health class once... i did all the leg work for a project in the class (gathered all the reference materials) but since I didn't write a word of the report I got an 'F'....

now, that being said, i'm sure that's not what is happening here... I don't know, I was notorious for not turning in homework 'cause I didn't care. In another case I struggled to a D- in bio because I couldn't remember all the **** parts to the animals.

edit: I think it has to be impressed upon him what performance in HS could do... if I did better in HS I may never have gone to Lowell.... but that being said, maybe that means I go to grad school at an Ivy League school. This stuff matters in the end even if it doesn't seem like it and even if it seems dumb in the interim. You know, I got hired at the same time as two ivy league girls... who got attention and opportunities? They did. You know who is more talented? I am*. While I'm proving that outright right now, its still a hurdle I can never climb. 20 years from now they'll still have graduated from Yale and Penn. I will still be a UConn (and a UMass-Lowell) graduate. People will say it doesn't matter where you go to school. Horse ****. It matters a whole lot because its short hand for those who don't have time to measure your abilities... and its also good for networking.

The harder you work now means the less you'll have to work hard later. I can't even being to tell you the level of stress I'm under to establish my capabilities in my field... the same capabilities that are assumed if you went to an Ivy.

*I believe I'm more talented than our Augsburg (BS), Columbia (MS), Yale (PhD) grad... I believe I'm on equal footing in talent with our UChicago (BS), Penn (PhD) grad (with a teaching stint at the London School of Economics)... yet that being said, I was seen as 3rd (or lower) banana. THIS STUFF MATTERS.

edit #2: another instance... one of the work mukity-mucks has a Yale Econ PhD. My division chief (think, chief of research) mentioned this as if this was a sign of his eminent intelligence. High school WILL make a difference.
 
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I just smashed the he77 out of my little toe. :mad::( Just walking through the house, no hurry, and rammed it into a table leg. Smashed the nail into three pieces, blood coming from under the nail, and now the side of my foot -- where the little toe would meet the foot, I guess -- is way swollen out and purplish.

Les, I need meds! :p

Big ice bag on it now. At least I can flex my toes. We'll see.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 135: Rain, rain go away

Patman said:
I remember getting an F in health class once... i did all the leg work for a project in the class (gathered all the reference materials) but since I didn't write a word of the report I got an 'F'....

now, that being said, i'm sure that's not what is happening here... I don't know, I was notorious for not turning in homework 'cause I didn't care. In another case I struggled to a D- in bio because I couldn't remember all the **** parts to the animals.

edit: I think it has to be impressed upon him what performance in HS could do... if I did better in HS I may never have gone to Lowell.... but that being said, maybe that means I go to grad school at an Ivy League school. This stuff matters in the end even if it doesn't seem like it and even if it seems dumb in the interim. You know, I got hired at the same time as two ivy league girls... who got attention and opportunities? They did. You know who is more talented? I am. While I'm proving that outright right now, its still a hurdle I can never climb. 20 years from now they'll still have graduated from Columbia and Penn. I will still be a UConn (and a UMass-Lowell) graduate. People will say it doesn't matter where you go to school. Horse ****. It matters a whole lot because its short hand for those who don't have time to measure your abilities... and its also good for networking.

The harder you work now means the less you'll have to work hard later. I can't even being to tell you the level of stress I'm under to establish my capabilities in my field... the same capabilities that are assumed if you went to an Ivy.
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Amen. He has been blessed with a good brain and the motivation of an idiot. Well. We own his itouch (he paid for it), he had to write a contract for himself about what he plans to do to fix things and he is currently on his best behaviour. He has lost things until he can have the teacher let us know he is back to being acceptable.

The kid isn't stupid. He just cruised thru Jr High and every time he had a low grade they gave extra credit. I hate that concept. :mad: Does not foster the idea of consequence.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 135: Rain, rain go away

Brenthoven said:
In the past hour: rain, tornado, sunny, rain, another tornado, more sun, rain, and sun approaching again. I haven't seen this extreme change in weather this quickly in years, if ever, here.
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Somehow jr's soccer team got their game in this evening during perhaps the longest stretch of clear sky today. The other team in his age class was going to start as we left. I doubt they got theirs in as I heard thunder at about halftime for them. Jr.'s team won 3-2 in an exciting back-and-forth game. (Well exciting for soccer anyway.)
 
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