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Upgrayedd

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  1. Avatar flies out of town for a few days on a direct flight where AA lost her bag.

    Me:  When did they say they were going to have it up to you?

    Avatar:  I don't know.

    M:  Not a lot of flights up to there.  How much are they compensating you for the stuff you gotta go buy?

    A: It's usually not a lot.

    M:  That equates to how much?

    A:  I don't know.  I'll have to turn in receipts.

    M:  They didn't tell you at the baggage office?

    A:  I didn't go into the baggage office.  I just got a notice on my phone that the bag didn't make it.

    M:  So you don't know when it's coming and you don't know how much they are going to reimburse you because you didn't take 10-15 minutes to pitch a complaint?  Glad I won't have to hear any complaints about this ever again.

    A: Tone

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  2. Pfft.  Like it's not that way already.

    Trying to post some content from an article in the San Jose Mercury News on the expansion from Pac-8 to Pac-10.  Told from the first-person perspective of John Sandbrook who was the assistant to then UCLA chancellor Charles Young.  Interesting read.  AU was the original school that wanted in.  ASU needed to come with.  Good background on the politics and finances of the Pac at the time and how two schools (looking at you UW and Tree) looked to thwart the movement until someone threatened to blow the whole conference up.

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/29/40-years-ago-the-arizona-schools-joined-the-pac-8-an-insiders-account-of-the-process-that-nearly-destroyed-the-conference/

    Somehow Mercury News thinks I'm at my article quota, even though this was the only article I read.  Clowns.

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    I would LOVE to but I can't.  Thanks for the invite. I'm headed to Italy on Monday. Going Miami-Milan, and doing Rome-JFK on the 14th.  Staying there in New York for a few days and won't be back home until 16th or 17th.

    Really appreciate the invite, and I hate to miss a good tailgate.  I hope it's a great game.  The Murph is a fun tailgate.  I don't get crazy for SDSU games as much, but we had a blast at the old hornfans Holiday Bowl tailgates. 

    Better plans for sure.  

    Hey- leave the key under the mat would ya?  I'm staying at my brother's in La Jolla, but could always use a spare place in case I get lucky (the Avatar isn't going).

    Thanks!

  4. 49 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    I’m pretty biased because I went to a shitty high school. Knew of 1 current and 1 former (drop out) students killed in drug deals over marijuana during my time there. Both instances involved $50 or less worth of weed or cash. I read a lot of local news too, every other murder is a drug deal gone bad. 

    Do I think marijuana is dangerous? No.

    Do I think that smoking/buying/selling it increases your chances of running across some shady, dangerous folks? Yes. There’s no way I’d let my kids do it as long as it’s illegal.

    I call bullshit

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