Crikey, Freehold - glad you're OK!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
The Midwest is basically Britain of the culinary US. Except worse.I grew up hearing horror stories about my maternal grandfather's cooking (circa mid-1960s, Madison, WI), especially of "meat loaf sauce," which was watered-down ketchup mixed with sugar (served with Midwest-style meat loaf).
The only positive is if there is someone who knows how to cook lives there. Or at least have access to a smoker.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
If you see someone crying, ask them "Is it because of your haircut?".
Cant cry over a haircut if you don't have hair to cut.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
HOLY SHIT WOODRAVEN
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
HOLY S@@& WOODRAVEN
Just repressed trauma coming from your near death experiences lately. Jk
Its been a while
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Fantasy Monsters: Clockwork Calendarium
A big honking mechanical calendar that was supposed to be a weather controlling device.
F-king seriously?
It's Sunday (not a coincidence, really) so it might stay until tomorrow morning, I don't think there are any night duty moderators...
It seems to be part of some larger operation because when I googled the first paragraph, the search found two other websites where that text appeared (removed by now, but still buffered by search engine) yesterday.
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
Aaaaand… the campaign imploded today.
So yep… encouraging intraparty conflict. Not recommended.
Yup. Probably your email did it.
Aaaand! It's back...
Due to deregulation of small/midsize banks, this is not going to be an isolated incident, but it's also not the end of money as we know it. Not unless a lot of the midsize banks go, and maybe one of the bigs. Like the automakers, Congress will find a way to help out their banking buddies.
Could the worst happen? Sure. Is it likely to? Not really.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
F-king seriously?
All the flags.
More flags than a vexillology conference.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
We're getting a new clothes dryer delivered today which means I get to shovel a 3 and a half foot wide path from the street to the back door.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
We're getting a new clothes dryer delivered today which means I get to shovel a 3 and a half foot wide path from the street to the back door.
You are enjoying rubbing it in!
It's useful having underweight cats.
Fluffernutter: I don't want to be on that icky scale!
NobodysHome:
Fluffernutter: Woo hoo! Scales are the best!
(The point being, we're supposed to be feeding them as much as they'll eat, so getting them to eat treats while being weighed is a win-win.)
This really is getting to be impressive.
I remember back when I was in middle school we had a February without a single sunny day (so basically Seattle or Scotland), but nothing remotely akin to that in decades. Which mostly aligns with our wettest year on record being '82-'83. I was in high school for that year, but it was a stream of very wet years followed up by a small drought in the late 80s.
Our current 10-day forecast is another 6 days of rain, 1 overcast, and 3 with "chances of sun".
One of these days I'll be able to open the windows for a full day...
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
So, most companies have little "achievement" gifts that you can get nominated for, and it's usually the same whether you're working at a restaurant or a global megacorporation: They let you know you're being awarded with a $50/$100/$150 gift card, you get it in the mail, and you spend it.
Global Megacorporation changed its policy last year. You had to:
(1) Spend the money on an "approved" item, and you didn't know whether or not it was on the "approved" list until AFTER you'd spent the money.
(2) Not spend a penny over the gift card amount.
(3) File a carefully-worded expense report detailing what the award was for, why you deserved it, and why you thought what you bought was appropriate for this award.
(4) Hope that your manager would approve it.
I just got my second such award, but as is getting to be more and more delightful about Global Megacorporation, they got the message. I still have to spend my own money and get reimbursed, but they changed it so I can expense whatever I want and go over $150 and they'll cover the first $150.
(I also got an email this morning about the "return to work" policy that was MUCH clearer: "You're going to return to your pre-COVID status, so if you were a remote worker before COVID, you'll remain one." So good corporate news twice in one day. Go figure.)
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
We're getting a new clothes dryer delivered today which means I get to shovel a 3 and a half foot wide path from the street to the back door.You are enjoying rubbing it in!
Better him than you...
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
And my sister rejoined the party after the second sessions of joinig the forces with one of Nazgul being held by one of Nazgul.
We also learned that the stranger she spoke to through a magic stone that the Nazgul gave her was not Sauron (despite using semblance close to the Enemy) but projection of some sort of ancient dragon slumbering beneath the Eryn Vorn.
The dwarf and to a lesser degree the Dunadan are distrustful of my sister, though.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
So, most companies have little "achievement" gifts that you can get nominated for, and it's usually the same whether you're working at a restaurant or a global megacorporation: They let you know you're being awarded with a $50/$100/$150 gift card, you get it in the mail, and you spend it.
Global Megacorporation changed its policy last year. You had to:
(1) Spend the money on an "approved" item, and you didn't know whether or not it was on the "approved" list until AFTER you'd spent the money.
(2) Not spend a penny over the gift card amount.
(3) File a carefully-worded expense report detailing what the award was for, why you deserved it, and why you thought what you bought was appropriate for this award.
(4) Hope that your manager would approve it.I just got my second such award, but as is getting to be more and more delightful about Global Megacorporation, they got the message. I still have to spend my own money and get reimbursed, but they changed it so I can expense whatever I want and go over $150 and they'll cover the first $150.
(I also got an email this morning about the "return to work" policy that was MUCH clearer: "You're going to return to your pre-COVID status, so if you were a remote worker before COVID, you'll remain one." So good corporate news twice in one day. Go figure.)
Was there a rash of mischievious employees spending their gift cards on things that might bring Global Megacorporation into disrepute? If so, I wonder what they were?
Was there a rash of mischievious employees spending their gift cards on things that might bring Global Megacorporation into disrepute? If so, I wonder what they were?So, most companies have little "achievement" gifts that you can get nominated for, and it's usually the same whether you're working at a restaurant or a global megacorporation: They let you know you're being awarded with a $50/$100/$150 gift card, you get it in the mail, and you spend it...
Story time! Story time! Story time!
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Story time! Story time! Story time!Was there a rash of mischievious employees spending their gift cards on things that might bring Global Megacorporation into disrepute? If so, I wonder what they were?So, most companies have little "achievement" gifts that you can get nominated for, and it's usually the same whether you're working at a restaurant or a global megacorporation: They let you know you're being awarded with a $50/$100/$150 gift card, you get it in the mail, and you spend it...
This was our favorite local one.
Unfortunately, I can't find any follow-up as to whether Oracle actually paid.
But yeah, both SalesForce and Oracle are pretty infamous in these parts for what their sales reps get up to during their annual conventions.
EDIT: My first tech job had a great one with what the guy REFUSED to pay: If you're a U.S. citizen doing contracting work in Canada, you have to pay $100 for a work license. We all did it, we charged it to the company card, and the company paid us back. Except for our ONE guy who was a dyed-in-the-wool 'Merikun who insisted that no foreign power could extort him for money for doing work for his U.S.-based company, no matter where that work was done.
And thus we had the eternal story of one of our co-workers spending the night in Canadian prison before being deported. For not paying a bill the company would have reimbursed him for.
Story time! Story time! Story time!Was there a rash of mischievious employees spending their gift cards on things that might bring Global Megacorporation into disrepute? If so, I wonder what they were?So, most companies have little "achievement" gifts that you can get nominated for, and it's usually the same whether you're working at a restaurant or a global megacorporation: They let you know you're being awarded with a $50/$100/$150 gift card, you get it in the mail, and you spend it...
This was our favorite local one.
Unfortunately, I can't find any follow-up as to whether Oracle actually paid.
But yeah, both SalesForce and Oracle are pretty infamous in these parts for what their sales reps get up to during their annual conventions.
EDIT: My first tech job had a great one with what the guy REFUSED to pay: If you're a U.S. citizen doing contracting work in Canada, you have to pay $100 for a work license. We all did it, we charged it to the company card, and the company paid us back. Except for our ONE guy who was a dyed-in-the-wool 'Merikun who insisted that no foreign power could extort him for money for doing work for his U.S.-based company, no matter where that work was done.
And thus we had the eternal story of one of our co-workers spending the night in Canadian prison before being deported. For not paying a bill the company would have reimbursed him for.
Three guesses on what was his stance on illegal foreigners working in USA...
We're getting a new clothes dryer delivered today which means I get to shovel a 3 and a half foot wide path from the street to the back door.You are enjoying rubbing it in!Better him than you...
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Getting naked in the snow is a Midwestern rite of passage, everyone does it at least once.
Story time! Story time! Story time!Was there a rash of mischievious employees spending their gift cards on things that might bring Global Megacorporation into disrepute? If so, I wonder what they were?So, most companies have little "achievement" gifts that you can get nominated for, and it's usually the same whether you're working at a restaurant or a global megacorporation: They let you know you're being awarded with a $50/$100/$150 gift card, you get it in the mail, and you spend it...
This was our favorite local one.
Unfortunately, I can't find any follow-up as to whether Oracle actually paid.
But yeah, both SalesForce and Oracle are pretty infamous in these parts for what their sales reps get up to during their annual conventions.
EDIT: My first tech job had a great one with what the guy REFUSED to pay: If you're a U.S. citizen doing contracting work in Canada, you have to pay $100 for a work license. We all did it, we charged it to the company card, and the company paid us back. Except for our ONE guy who was a dyed-in-the-wool 'Merikun who insisted that no foreign power could extort him for money for doing work for his U.S.-based company, no matter where that work was done.
And thus we had the eternal story of one of our co-workers spending the night in Canadian prison before being deported. For not paying a bill the company would have reimbursed him for.
Huh. That sounds shady.
Huh. That sounds shady.My first tech job had a great one with what the guy REFUSED to pay: If you're a U.S. citizen doing contracting work in Canada, you have to pay $100 for a work license. We all did it, we charged it to the company card, and the company paid us back. Except for our ONE guy who was a dyed-in-the-wool 'Merikun who insisted that no foreign power could extort him for money for doing work for his U.S.-based company, no matter where that work was done.
And thus we had the eternal story of one of our co-workers spending the night in Canadian prison before being deported. For not paying a bill the company would have reimbursed him for.
Requiring a license or other document for a foreign national to perform work in your country? I don't know of any country that doesn't have some sort of requirement like that... the tech industry is practically built on H1B visas...
| 6 people marked this as a favorite. |
Not-So-Teensy Valeros will be ten years old in about an hour.
We spent the weekend at a state park campground down on the coast and went to the NASA museum next to Johnson Space Center all day Sunday. They don't actually have one of the space shuttles, which was a shame, but they do have a training shuttle the astronauts used for mission prep, mounted atop the 747 that was used to fly all the shuttles back to Canaveral. And so many other cool things, including a bit of moon rock you can touch, and actual Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules, and the only flight-certified Saturn V left in the world. Not that it's ever going to get used.
I've been waiting to go to this museum for forty years, and it did not disappoint.
Followed by a pre-birthday dinner at a Hobbit-themed pub. (I had the Fires of Mount Doom burger, WW had the Meadle-Earth burger, which featured mushrooms and onions caramelized in mead, and we all shared the Lord of the Onion Rings.)
And now I am modeling dinosaurs out of marzipan, which will be posed playing soccer on top of his cake tonight.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Requiring a license or other document for a foreign national to perform work in your country? I don't know of any country that doesn't have some sort of requirement like that... the tech industry is practically built on H1B visas...Huh. That sounds shady.My first tech job had a great one with what the guy REFUSED to pay: If you're a U.S. citizen doing contracting work in Canada, you have to pay $100 for a work license. We all did it, we charged it to the company card, and the company paid us back. Except for our ONE guy who was a dyed-in-the-wool 'Merikun who insisted that no foreign power could extort him for money for doing work for his U.S.-based company, no matter where that work was done.
And thus we had the eternal story of one of our co-workers spending the night in Canadian prison before being deported. For not paying a bill the company would have reimbursed him for.
No, the hundred dollars part.
It is snowing. A potential all day and all night snow.
But it isn't sticking.
This is the Freeholdian equivalent of fake
.
No, the hundred dollars part.Requiring a license or other document for a foreign national to perform work in your country? I don't know of any country that doesn't have some sort of requirement like that... the tech industry is practically built on H1B visas...Huh. That sounds shady.My first tech job had a great one with what the guy REFUSED to pay: If you're a U.S. citizen doing contracting work in Canada, you have to pay $100 for a work license. We all did it, we charged it to the company card, and the company paid us back. Except for our ONE guy who was a dyed-in-the-wool 'Merikun who insisted that no foreign power could extort him for money for doing work for his U.S.-based company, no matter where that work was done.
And thus we had the eternal story of one of our co-workers spending the night in Canadian prison before being deported. For not paying a bill the company would have reimbursed him for.
But yes, there was definitely shadiness. The $100 was supposed to cover a full year, but since it was a write-in permit, the end date depended on how nice you were to the bureaucrats. A fellow trainer and I came back from simultaneous training sessions in Canada. His permit was for 2 weeks. Mine was for the full year. They both cost $100.
I gave him no end of grief about being nicer to pencil-pushers.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Not-So-Teensy Valeros will be ten years old in about an hour.
We spent the weekend at a state park campground down on the coast and went to the NASA museum next to Johnson Space Center all day Sunday. They don't actually have one of the space shuttles, which was a shame, but they do have a training shuttle the astronauts used for mission prep, mounted atop the 747 that was used to fly all the shuttles back to Canaveral. And so many other cool things, including a bit of moon rock you can touch, and actual Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules, and the only flight-certified Saturn V left in the world. Not that it's ever going to get used.
I've been waiting to go to this museum for forty years, and it did not disappoint.Followed by a pre-birthday dinner at a Hobbit-themed pub. (I had the Fires of Mount Doom burger, WW had the Meadle-Earth burger, which featured mushrooms and onions caramelized in mead, and we all shared the Lord of the Onion Rings.)
And now I am modeling dinosaurs out of marzipan, which will be posed playing soccer on top of his cake tonight.
Happy birthday, matey!
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
In other news, before my colleague Mademoiselle de Glam-Glam put her foot down and insisted on having Mariah Carey on again, we had to spend all morning listening to '90s and Noughties pop-punk and nu-metal.
What flavor is the dinosaur cake?
What flavor is the dinosaur cake?
I'm assuming it's dinosaur-flavored.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
What flavor is the dinosaur cake?I'm assuming it's dinosaur-flavored.
Chocolate. Vanilla buttercream.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
It's useful having underweight cats.
Fluffernutter: I don't want to be on that icky scale!
NobodysHome:
Fluffernutter: Woo hoo! Scales are the best!(The point being, we're supposed to be feeding them as much as they'll eat, so getting them to eat treats while being weighed is a win-win.)
I had a newfie that was absolutely terrified of the vet. I'd either have to drag her into the office on her belly, or pick her up and walk through the door backwards.. because If i walked through the door forwards she would put her arms out to the side to stop herself from going in the door.
So I pick her up, put her on the table, help her her muzzled.
Doesn't help. She head butts the vet tech into the helper with he sound of colloding coconuts.
When she was (thankfullly) done the vet tech goes to lift her off the table. Pauses. "Oh. Right. Objects carried by a wookie are larger than they appear..."