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FranC

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    Tucson, Tucson. I slept pretty well woke up at six about to get ready. I got to gather some things, bathe and I am almost ready. I don't really love the Tucson drive but at least I am not driving. Eh.

    Anna
    That must mean your husband is going to do the driving. Good for him!!
     

    hittman

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    Just sent my boss "one of those" emails. RJ is putting her foot down. Tired of incompetent people that I have to work with. Tired of getting work dumped on me that is not mine to do. Tired of doing all the work and getting none of the glory (or pay). I worked well past 6 yesterday when my quit time is 4. Happy Happy Joy Joy. :laugh: Wait until I get my retirement time in September. RJ will be speaking her mind more often.

    :rickroll:

    It sounds kind of like my work. Those who work hard and do their jobs get handed more work because the boss knows it will get done while those who don't just kind of slide by.
     

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    Morning, mixers. More rain :)

    Figure a Costco run is in the cards, dandelions will have to wait for some dry time :D

    bet I could probably count the amount of recipes I've written myself on less than two hands. I'm lazy when it comes to that. I don't have the best sense of taste and I see something that sounds good posted somewhere then I want to try it. It has helped me build my flavor arsenal.

    That last is a plus, since you now have more to play with :)

    When I started, after SFTs, it was, along with "found" recipes, just a question of "hmm, these might go well together." Some did, and, of course, some didn't. But small (for me, that's 10 ml) batches, so even the yucks weren't much of a loss. A few, and a few more with minor tweaking, became regulars. Many were, well, ok for 10 ml, but no longer on the list.

    Wait until I get my retirement time in September. RJ will be speaking her mind more often.

    :thumbs:

    I was "eligible" to retire about 5 years before I did, and for about a couple years before I did, the spreadsheet was telling me I'd be better off (financially) retired than working. THAT's when the boss got nervous. At that point, all I needed to say was "I'm retiring in 30 days" - and had enough vacation on the books to leave the next day :) Yeah, don't irritated the senior dam electrician :pervy: (Yes, that's dam electrician, as in hydro-electric facility ;) )

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    1-800 Contacts sent me THIS email. They were the cheapest which is why I used them, but if I knew they were going to do THIS, I may have thought long and hard about it:


    Brett in IT is working from home, but just shoo’d his kids out of his office to complete setting up your new 1-800 Contacts account, as requested. When he finished, he messaged the entire company to announce the good news: you decided to turn to us for contact lenses.
    Some called their moms. Some baked elaborate desserts. Others felt moved to write poetry. That really jacked guy in Finance started doing vigorous push-ups. All rejoiced.
    So, thank you for trusting us to help with your vision care...and for giving us a reason to get excited.
    Your new socially-distant friends,
    The 1-800 Contacts Team

    Dude, I am all for whimsy to a POINT but they really, IDK is this supposed to make me feel coronavirusly better becasue it DON'T. I was printing out my emails to get to all the complicate places I need to go ad I have gotten so good at this Tucson thing, I even have tie for this post but not MUCH more time.

    I was like, "Ooh maybe they will have a status update for me.: I wasn't expecting THIS. I guess it is a status update of a sort.

    Them damn Millenials, I know it's them. The snowflakes are all busy collecting unemployment and/or debating looting.

    LOL I kid I kid.

    I need to learn to tolerate more whimsy in this life I mean I get it's cute. I just hate it though.
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    englishmick

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    Just sent my boss "one of those" emails. RJ is putting her foot down. Tired of incompetent people that I have to work with. Tired of getting work dumped on me that is not mine to do. Tired of doing all the work and getting none of the glory (or pay). I worked well past 6 yesterday when my quit time is 4. Happy Happy Joy Joy. :laugh: Wait until I get my retirement time in September. RJ will be speaking her mind more often.

    :rickroll:

    My last job was in a hotel. I retired before that but got bored and took another job. I was responsible for keeping all the machinery running and fixing stuff that got broken in the guest rooms. There were three of us. One had been there for a long time and he was an obsessively hard worker. I was 68 and he was 30 something so I couldn't keep up, but I actually knew more than he did and I worked pretty hard. We got along fine. The third guy was lazy and always mad about something. The lazy guy got fired when a manager found him asleep in a conference room.

    That left two of us. The other guy refused to work nights or Saturdays, he was their MVP so I got put on permanent night shift and Saturdays. Seven shifts a week. It took them two months to hire a replacement. Right after that the general manager introduced some new policies. If the engineers had no specific work to do they had to crawl around the hotel on their hands and knees cleaning baseboards. Apparently the kitchen staff complained about us hanging out in the basement workshop drinking coffee. And during the day the chief engineer was in the building so the boss decided the day shift would go to half shifts. The next day I handed in my notice and went home.

    Getting to retirement age means you don't have to put up with crap any more. I would have stayed there for a while though. The last year I was over 67 so I started taking SS. With that on top of pretty good pay I was raking it in.
     

    FranC

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    Si Seniorita. I do not drive if the husband is in any way involved. We don't like each other's driving at all but I am more tolerant and I complain less. Etc.

    Also he has to go to the house, it's not entirely altruistic.
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    Can’t blame him for wanting to see how the house is going.
     

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    1-800 Contacts sent me THIS email. They were the cheapest which is why I used them, but if I knew they were going to do THIS, I may have thought long and hard about it:


    Brett in IT is working from home, but just shoo’d his kids out of his office to complete setting up your new 1-800 Contacts account, as requested. When he finished, he messaged the entire company to announce the good news: you decided to turn to us for contact lenses.
    Some called their moms. Some baked elaborate desserts. Others felt moved to write poetry. That really jacked guy in Finance started doing vigorous push-ups. All rejoiced.
    So, thank you for trusting us to help with your vision care...and for giving us a reason to get excited.
    Your new socially-distant friends,
    The 1-800 Contacts Team

    Dude, I am all for whimsy to a POINT but they really, IDK is this supposed to make me feel coronavirusly better becasue it DON'T. I was printing out my emails to get to all the complicate places I need to go ad I have gotten so good at this Tucson thing, I even have tie for this post but not MUCH more time.

    I was like, "Ooh maybe they will have a status update for me.: I wasn't expecting THIS. I guess it is a status update of a sort.

    Them damn Millenials, I know it's them. The snowflakes are all busy collecting unemployment and/or debating looting.

    LOL I kid I kid.

    I need to learn to tolerate more whimsy in this life I mean I get it's cute. I just hate it though.
    Anna

    Heck, just email them back and demand they add some of those desserts to the package. :)
     

    NolaMel

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    Nola, I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on the mb funky pineapple if you do a sft. I can tell you had fruit on your mind when you ordered.
    I tend to order in flavor categories for some reason. I’ll unpack it today. Yesterday I ordered a bit for River. A handful of MF (I want to see if it lives up to its rep) and some odds and ends.
     

    NolaMel

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    In the past I've tried 2 different cherry flavors, not too fond of either. On a whim I bought cherries-INW- what a difference. I believe these people about nailed it, and you don't need a lot.
    You might like MB Red Cherry then. I like the INW, but the MB is a bump up.
     

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    Lunch break here. We have someone on vacation today so are short handed more than normal. I'm pretending that I don't know it and continuing to do my own work instead of helping out in the office so they can all sit on their butts.
     

    FranC

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    Lunch break here. We have someone on vacation today so are short handed more than normal. I'm pretending that I don't know it and continuing to do my own work instead of helping out in the office so they can all sit on their butts.
    Good thinking.
     

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