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Rep Retirement Lodge #188: Hockey Is The Real Politics

Rep Retirement Lodge #188: Hockey Is The Real Politics

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #188: Hockey Is The Real Politics

Twitch Boy said:
I have personally witnessed sunny and 78 immediately followed the next day by 24 inches of snow that closed the airport.

Denver Weather: We Have No Idea What We're Doing.
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But the point is, if you think that is unique to Denver, you're simply wrong.
 
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I like the weather like this. Cold is fine with me, as long as we're getting snow, which we are. Sounds just about perfect.

Tomorrow afternoon's drive to Green Bay might be a little bit hairy, with the blizzard conditions setting in.
 
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I'm kind of in a crabby mood right now. I shouldn't be, as I've had a few good moment today. I drove in this morning because after work, my friend and I are going out to see hottie bartender and have our annual Christmas drinks and dinner, so that alone should have me in a festive mood all day. So let's review, shall we?

Good mood: Sent hottie bartender a FB message to ask if he knew if the upstairs bar would be closed for a private party as it is the holiday season. He messaged me back saying it wasn't and that he would save our seats for when we got there. Because he's just that awesome.

Bad mood: It will be sub zero here with 50mph winds so I drove in to park in the garage in our building and it's ridiculously expensive. I then walked over to my place across the street to get a grilled corn muffin for breakfast. Naturally, they were out of them.

Good mood: I went to our cafeteria to get a bagel, they had corn muffins and grilled one for me. It was delicious!

Good mood: One of my meetings got cancelled today so I can spend more time cleaning out my cube.

Bad mood: My boss is trying to be funny and supportive about me cleaning out my cube. I started last night and she was a bit over the top. She came by my desk this morning all jokey about how she wanted to help me do more today. I told her I have some actual work to do today and I will start when I can.

Good mood: I did manage to clear off any stuff on my back table last night that I had space to bring in my Nick Boni-gnome! Last night I tweeted out a picture of my Boni-gnome watching the Bruins-Penguins game with Nick on the screen and the Penguins twitter account liked it. Ha!!

Bad mood (and this is what tipped the scale over to be being more in a bad mood than good mood): While my boss (who, really, I do love her and she's been under some pressure lately and very supportive of our team, etc) was all in her jovial mood, she mentioned how we should all get these PureAvida bracelets as a team. I'm not a jewelry person, don't wear much of it, but she thought it would be fun for all of us. These bracelets are thin strings with an evil eye bead. And mind you, they're $26. As a Greek, I know all about evil eyes, in fact I have one from Greece. I also have an evil eye bracelet I got there as well. Anyway, she's like "I know you don't like this stuff -ha ha. Better than the stupid rubber bracelet you wear." I immediately knew what she was talking about but played dumb and said "What? My fitbit?" because I wear that every day. And she's says "oh that red BU one." I only wear it on game days, mind you, and due to the schedule this year, I've only worn it, like four times in the office. I was pretty insulted by what she said even though she was joking and was like "oh come on....need to lighten up!" I want to tell her that the red rubber bracelet I wear on game days was a fundraiser the team had in the 08-09 season in memory of one of the long time members of the Friends of Hockey who I adored and passed away due to cancer in September of 2008. She was such a supporter of the program that the captains that season developed this fundraiser in her honor and after that season where they won a freakin' national title, donated close to $20,000. It means something to me. The rope bracelet I wear was made by Travis Roy. Another fundraiser for a former player that's a quadriplegic. And he made it himself. So now I'm in a ****y mood. I wanted to say something right then but wasn't sure how it would come out. So instead I came here to type out my frustrations. :)

I may text her tomorrow. Or, the next time I wear it tell her the significance. I do somehow want to get it across that I was insulted by that remark.

GAH!! Need to let this go for now. Sorry for the vent.
 
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Sad she has so little in her life she needs to give all these little digs. you may think she is nice but I think she sounds very passive aggressive and not someone I would want in my life.

Cool about the red bracelet and the Travis Roy Bracelet. Instead of thinking she is a snot think of how cool it is you got those things to begin with!
 
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leswp1 said:
Sad she has so little in her life she needs to give all these little digs. you may think she is nice but I think she sounds very passive aggressive and not someone I would want in my life.

Cool about the red bracelet and the Travis Roy Bracelet. Instead of thinking she is a snot think of how cool it is you got those things to begin with!
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From reading it, I think she's "giving sh* to friends" like many of us do, BUT this is not the environment to be doing that. Now, I am blue-collar, always have been. You don't give some sh*, you're kinda out of place. Office environment? That's a bit different.

And the way she presents her "sh*-giving," is D material. It's not polite enough/polished enough to come across as insulting but not really insulting. As sports fans, I hope you know what I mean by this. If she were to post that, say, on here.....that would be trolling at best.
 
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Work just got worse. Not only am I expected to get through the workload I already do, but also take care of a backlog of crap that hasn't been worked since August. Has to be done by year end.

Crap. I should take confidence from it because it was my boss' boss that picked me for it. But, I'm not sure it can be done and I am now on the hook for it, not the person that didn't do it for four months.

Audit of the department starts January 3rd, and a fail on this stuff is the first thing they're looking at. A co-worker told me today, "Just wanted to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you."

Funny, but eff off. :D
 
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Good Morning, MEUSA! :)


Good Morning to the rest of tLodge! :)
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Actually it has a lot to do with it, in the same way Seattle sitting west of the Cascades = rain or Anchorage sitting next water = not -25.
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I had a typo, I meant to say that there is more than one city that sits east of a mountain range. So Denver isn't that unique. Other cities experience the same phenomenon.
 
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Brenthoven said:
From reading it, I think she's "giving sh* to friends" like many of us do, BUT this is not the environment to be doing that. Now, I am blue-collar, always have been. You don't give some sh*, you're kinda out of place. Office environment? That's a bit different.

And the way she presents her "sh*-giving," is D material. It's not polite enough/polished enough to come across as insulting but not really insulting. As sports fans, I hope you know what I mean by this. If she were to post that, say, on here.....that would be trolling at best.
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In the office you have to know your coworkers well enough to give them guff, you can't just assume that they can all take the a dirty of off-color joke. On my team, we can all do it with each other except with Hipster Boy, because he suffers a bit from Precious Snowflake Syndrome. Meanwhile the rest of us have our big boy and big girl pants on, understand the fun of gallows humor and cutting barbs so long as they don't cross certain lines.

Jimjamesak said:
Actually it has a lot to do with it, in the same way Seattle sitting west of the Cascades = rain or Anchorage sitting next water = not -25.
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I think he's going with the high desert factor, not simply there being mountains located to the west. High deserts have peculiar eco systems unto themselves, though one of those factors is that they're always near a mountain range. But those high deserts act much differently than low deserts right next to a mountain range.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #188: Hockey Is The Real Politics

Good Evening Lodge! Forgot to check in this morning. Baked myself silly. Now Nighty Night nocturnal ones!

Happy Birthday Biddy!
 
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