Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

[JF_Gophers]

My friend worked as a Nurse Anesthetist in the Army. When he came out and worked in the public sector he was astounded at the amount of super morbid obesity he saw in the hospital. As an old rehab NP who took care of decubs on people who weren't turned I get it but I can't figure out how you turn these people effectively.

Straps, a crane, and a donut?

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #179: Crisp Autumn Weather, Football, and Hockey

Good Morning Lodge!

 

[goldy_331]

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Good Morning Lodge.

I know why we were putting lifts in the ceilings of all the nursing homes and hospitals I worked on for the last few years.

 

[St. Clown]

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Straps, a crane, and a donut?

Maybe some fried bacon.

 

[St. Clown]

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Over the past 12 months, my company has been neck deep in a project to change our trust account accounting and processing systems, this project is expected to last until 2020. As a result, we've been bringing in contractors left and right. Over the summer we've has a lot of Indians start here, and over the past few weeks we've had a lot of Indians show up to the office wearing ski jackets, hats and gloves. These folks are in for a very rude awakening in a little less than three months from now if this is how they're reacting to high temps in the 50s and 60s with low temps in the upper 30s. It's one of those things where you'd really think they'd take the time of investigating the climate of the place to where they're emigrating, see MN's average temps by month and just skip on down the road to California or Texas.

 

[goldy_331]

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Over the past 12 months, my company has been neck deep in a project to change our trust account accounting and processing systems, this project is expected to last until 2020. As a result, we've been bringing in contractors left and right. Over the summer we've has a lot of Indians start here, and over the past few weeks we've had a lot of Indians show up to the office wearing ski jackets, hats and gloves. These folks are in for a very rude awakening in a little less than three months from now if this is how they're reacting to high temps in the 50s and 60s with low temps in the upper 30s. It's one of those things where you'd really think they'd take the time of investigating the climate of the place to where they're emigrating, see MN's average temps by month and just skip on down the road to California or Texas.

There could be some real humor when it does get cold. I remember when a bunch of California based engineers, many of them from countries that do not get cold, went to a job site in NE PA. One thing several of them did (you'd think they'd figure it out after the first try) was pour hot water on the rental car windshields to get rid of the frost/ice. The local rental car companies were not amused at a rash of cracked windshields.

 

[Ralph Baer]

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68.0 miles to go.

Made it!

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Over the past 12 months, my company has been neck deep in a project to change our trust account accounting and processing systems, this project is expected to last until 2020. As a result, we've been bringing in contractors left and right. Over the summer we've has a lot of Indians start here, and over the past few weeks we've had a lot of Indians show up to the office wearing ski jackets, hats and gloves. These folks are in for a very rude awakening in a little less than three months from now if this is how they're reacting to high temps in the 50s and 60s with low temps in the upper 30s. It's one of those things where you'd really think they'd take the time of investigating the climate of the place to where they're emigrating, see MN's average temps by month and just skip on down the road to California or Texas.

Its funny. My Indian co-worker, that I work with all the time, has been here long enough and is used to the cold, so he is usually the one that is laughing at others not being ready for the cold.

One of my former coworkers is from Nigeria. She told me that her and her sister both came to the US for grad school, and the school they picked was Tech! She said that they were convinced to come to Tech because all of the brochures made it look so nice and the academics were exactly what they were looking for. There was no indication in any of the material they got that showed any semblance of the weather in Houghton during 90% of the school year. So they showed up in Houghton, straight from Nigeria, and for about 2 weeks they were fine, because early September is still pretty warm. After that it got too cold, and then it started snowing. She said they had to stick it out for the first semester, for visa reasons, but as soon as first semester was over, they transferred to a school down south.

 

[Patman]

Its funny. My Indian co-worker, that I work with all the time, has been here long enough and is used to the cold, so he is usually the one that is laughing at others not being ready for the cold.

One of my former coworkers is from Nigeria. She told me that her and her sister both came to the US for grad school, and the school they picked was Tech! She said that they were convinced to come to Tech because all of the brochures made it look so nice and the academics were exactly what they were looking for. There was no indication in any of the material they got that showed any semblance of the weather in Houghton during 90% of the school year. So they showed up in Houghton, straight from Nigeria, and for about 2 weeks they were fine, because early September is still pretty warm. After that it got too cold, and then it started snowing. She said they had to stick it out for the first semester, for visa reasons, but as soon as first semester was over, they transferred to a school down south.

I KNOW UConn does all their photography over the summer break. Leaves on the trees for the first half of first semester then not again until end of April.

 

[JF_Gophers]

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So the Lynx are 2nd most successful Minnesota franchise behind the original Lakers now, I think.

Can't think of anyone else with 3+ titles.

 

[St. Clown]

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So the Lynx are 2nd most successful Minnesota franchise behind the original Lakers now, I think.

Can't think of anyone else with 3+ titles.

I can't believe you're willing to claim the Lakers as a MN success. It's been something like 50 years since they left town, and they didn't have any NBA titles until after their move.

Gopher hockey, both men and women, are MN products and both have more than three titles, BTW.

 

[JF_Gophers]

I can't believe you're willing to claim the Lakers as a MN success. It's been something like 50 years since they left town, and they didn't have any NBA titles until after their move.

Gopher hockey, both men and women, are MN products and both have more than three titles, BTW.

Only that idiot Barry Melrose thinks college teams are franchises.

The Lakers won the titles that were available to them and were professional. They moved in 1959. So they did win NBA titles in MN. 4 of them.

 

[St. Clown]

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Only that idiot Barry Melrose thinks college teams are franchises.

The Lakers won the titles that were available to them and were professional.

Technically, the Vikings have won NFL Championship titles as they played in some of the Super Bowl games that existed prior to the NFL/AFL merger. Off the top of my head, I don't remember the count, though.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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I can't believe you're willing to claim the Lakers as a MN success. It's been something like 50 years since they left town, and they didn't have any NBA titles until after their move.

Gopher hockey, both men and women, are MN products and both have more than three titles, BTW.

And if you're going to college route, the Gopher football team is probably at the top of the list, with 6.

 

[JF_Gophers]

Technically, the Vikings have won NFL Championship titles as they played in some of the Super Bowl games that existed prior to the NFL/AFL merger. Off the top of my head, I don't remember the count, though.

Just 1 in 69 according to the internets.

I don't know NFL history that well, did the first few SB not include the other league?

 

[gmann]

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Good day Lodge.

Perfect fall camping weather. Not a cloud in the sky. Woke up to 34 degrees. We just got back from a bike ride now it's time to grill some burgers. Slow cooking a beef stew for dinner with homemade bread. Tonight it's supposed to get down to the low 20's. Take that mosquitos.

 

[leswp1]

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Made it!

I am in awe. I am lucky to get the time to take a walk

 

[leswp1]

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Straps, a crane, and a donut?

That was naughty.

 

[St. Clown]

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Just 1 in 69 according to the internets.

I don't know NFL history that well, did the first few SB not include the other league?

The NFL and the AFL were rival leagues, completely unaffiliated for a long time, and because of that there were no inter-league games. The first two Super Bowls weren't even called Super Bowls until the Jets played the Colts in SB III, when the brand name began. Still, for the first few years, the SB was like an exhibition game played between the two leagues' respective champions. It wasn't until the two leagues merges, sometime around 1970, apparently, that the SB champion was the league champion.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Over the past 12 months, my company has been neck deep in a project to change our trust account accounting and processing systems, this project is expected to last until 2020. As a result, we've been bringing in contractors left and right. Over the summer we've has a lot of Indians start here, and over the past few weeks we've had a lot of Indians show up to the office wearing ski jackets, hats and gloves. These folks are in for a very rude awakening in a little less than three months from now if this is how they're reacting to high temps in the 50s and 60s with low temps in the upper 30s. It's one of those things where you'd really think they'd take the time of investigating the climate of the place to where they're emigrating, see MN's average temps by month and just skip on down the road to California or Texas.

No kidding. I work with some Indians out of their office in Delhi, and they have told me they've never seen snow in their lives. I suggested to them to make a visit here in February, so they can experience sub-zero temps.