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BearSchlong

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  1. She’s a beaut, Clark.
  2. Which is why I’m using them inside the house exclusively. I didn’t choose to escalate the conflict. I was happy to send POWs merrily on their way.
  3. Well at least the 6 figs I have sitting in a passbook savings account is safe for now. How much can I get for selling blood plasma?
  4. Have him consider Space Force.
  5. That might be a good idea for the garage.
  6. Haha From @southland, I mean. Not to threadjack but my wife was facing some serious retaliation bullshit in her state agency by a smarmy little fucker who was trying - and failed - to force her out. Wanna guess what that guy does in his side gig? You guessed it, minor division college football referee. Not enough that he gets to destroy morale and cultivate toxic work environments M-F, he spends his Saturdays insisting upon himself on the gridiron. Mr. Whistles is his nickname. I’d imagine a lot of referees are real assholes IRL.
  7. Thanks for that, @monkeydonut. I may just do that to expand the combat theatre of operations. I love king snakes and usually have a few of those huge scary looking fuckers visit from time to time, but obviously can’t rely on them. Regarding bait, what is the very best? I came across a tube of something at Tractor Supply last week that claimed to be superior to cheese or peanut butter, but didn’t buy it. Around Christmas, I threw a half dozen mice into a Home Depot 5 gallon bucket and when I returned a few hours later half had been killed by the others. And outdoor cats leave too many snacks for the dogs. They may be 99.99% wolves genetically, but I’m not raising them as wolves.
  8. A trade-off in moving directly next to a 10,000 acre woodland/field is that for the first time I’m in a kinetic war against mice, both in my house and in my garage/shop/office complex. What started last winter as a humane trap campaign is finished, as the little fuckers have figured them out. No more LARPing. The rubber-bullet halcyon days of humanely tossing live mice into the grass 300 or so yards away has escalated into a full-blown holocaust. So I ordered a big box of glue traps, a pile of cardboard and adhesive contraptions that can be folded into a small oblong box for discrete and sanitary disposal. I caught the recon patrol this morning, and euthanized them while asking God’s forgiveness. My CYHMWT question is other than having a professional inspect and protect my house against infiltration points, is there a better solution than glue traps? Constraints - I’ve got 3 dachshunds, and would rather they didn’t get their inquisitive little faces ripped off by snap traps. And no indoor cats.
  9. I just had a flashback. Would y’all find it weird for a woman have a C-section and then a tummy tuck while still under anesthesia? The way I remember it she was trying to swing a twofer with the hospital and anesthesiologist. It was 25 years ago, but at the time I could buy the logic.
  10. Agreed. Awful. I couldn’t imagine that call. I grabbed a few hours with my soldier at Ft. Polk/Johnson on Sunday; enough time to eat Crawfish in Deridder before his TDY ended. SF treats their guys like adults.
  11. I didn’t realize this had occurred. I ordered a few copies. https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/literature/F-00_PLBB_Flyer_MF1.pdf
  12. BearSchlong

    1923

    See, I like Banner, for those reasons. He is actually my favorite character.
  13. Exactly. TLDR - FUPM NOW While I was onboarding to my new role yesterday, my kid (programmatic advertising manager) was jumping to a direct competitor for a 26% raise. Her company countered with 11%. She replied “you’re not listening. I’m a 25 yr old living in Chicago, you’re going to disrupt a lot more than $30k in revenue and projects by not paying me enough to where I don’t have to bartend at special events and be an extra on The Bear just to cover my expenses” She knows that’s the only way to rise is to boomerang. Middle class success is now defined by how much you can squeeze from the financially engineered corporate overlords. As for me, my work horizon is how much I can make in the next 9 months before the next reorg. 18 month sales cycle? If I owned the company, sure. We are living in a strange timeline.
  14. Got the gig, now I’m a federal seller. Make that 8,999 layoffs.
  15. Buffet day from Omaha is going to be interesting this year. I was going to pass but I might go again before it becomes the Greg and Ajit show. At some point I need to either unload all my Nvidia or just forget about it and let it ride.
  16. The vibe I got with Uber Black was that the drivers were the Russians with enough snap to avoid getting sucked into Putin’s special military operation. iPhones in Cyrillic, answered questions with a glance and a grunt. I kept looking to see if they had earpieces with wires going down to their black suit jackets. I’m staying in my wife’s childhood city of Naperville at her godmother’s condo for a week in June, which isn’t convenient to our daughter’s place in Ravenswood nor my favorite places in River North, but whatever, it’s free. @irishtexan ain’t kidding about traffic in the loop - during rush hour you can walk faster than ride. My office is in River East, my kid’s (see below) is River North, and I definitely got my steps in.
  17. Every Saturday
  18. That’s a great summary. I’ve got an interview in a half hour with a former CEO of a company that got bought 9 months ago and now he’s a mere director. It’s really my only shot at avoiding the pink slip at megacorp, and I’m channeling my inner Peter Gibbons.
  19. Find a business partner that sells the solution that you’re great at solving and apply for a sales role. I’m curious as to what general problem you’re looking to solve. As a practitioner, you also might consider product management or enablement. I tend to look at everything through the lens of automation, because that’s been my gig for about 5 years now.
  20. @sbbruin bought his wife a Buick. I remember trivia like that.
  21. My wife loves to drive and has a very accurate sense of direction. This is counterbalanced by an intuitive talent for hitting every single pothole on the road. I’ll see one coming from several hundred yards in advance and immediately begin evasive maneuvers. But for her, it’s like a moth to a flame.
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