So, I basically skipped the Steve Thomas era of This Old House. Sorry, Steve!
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So, I basically skipped the Steve Thomas era of This Old House. Sorry, Steve!
The former.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Or Hobbits, apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Beautiful Sunday morning in the SA. Sunny, low 60s and the humidity has dropped 15 pts from yesterday.
Aimo delivers. Always.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Poor little Hobbits. FWIW, they likely share your inclination to open toed footwear.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
He may be a Proudfoot.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Proudfeet!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Excellent!Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I don't have a problem with guys wearing sandals or flops. But, just like women, be mindful of what your feet look like before you do. Just sayin'.
Now, tank tops or muscle shirts . . . that's a WHOLE other issue. Unless you are Tom Selleck from the 80s, go for the sleeves.
I concur. And I also wear them to play tennis and basketball. I'm ok being judged for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Sometimes it seems like you're asking for judgement. I'm ok providing this service for you. Consider yourself judged.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Yeah. Well take a number.Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
I judge you for requiring me to take a number.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Aimo?Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
What's the scale?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Good question. Not sure, but I would argue I am more remedial math than advanced math.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Penchant was the word I was looking for. Sometimes the words escape you.
Do you have a penchant for not finding the right word?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I wish I was an inch taller.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
*For my weight...
I wish I were (still) a baller.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
That's some fine Skee-lo!Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
<tips hat>Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
My wife always screws up the words when we sing this song around the house - which happens more often than you might imagine.
Instead of
"..wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and '64 impala"
she sings
"...wish I had a rabbit ina hat with a bat, what 'chu think about that?"
I'm not mad at her.
Last time I saw my primary care doc, she praised my feet, but I rarely choose to display them in public because, among my many admirable traits, I have great humility.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I'm with you on muscle shirts, sitting next to some guy wearing one on an airplane is among the reasons I tolerate air travel rather than relish it.
It probably happens exactly as often as I think. Which is at least weekly.Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
Neal Bortz (Atlanta based talk radio host) called them “Fleshy Fliers”.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
they do tend to be on the large size, something I don't want to criticize, but I really don't want to that much of them regardless of their bulkitude. We've come a long way from the days when people got dressed up to travel on airplanes (not that I long to).Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
I prefer Buick or Pontiac over Chevrolet, so I understand what she is doing there.Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
Busted.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
The irony is that she knows the lyrics to every song and I make up my own lyrics.
I thought it was "Give me the Beach Boys, and free my soul"...
Matter-of-fact, I still think that may be what they meant.
My feet have been praised. But there is no truth to the rumor that they influenced Kyrie's views on Earth's shape.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Ha, was thinking of Kyrie views yesterday as I watched flights go overhead (VT) including Paris to Dallas, Dubai to Houston, NYC to Ethiopia, tough to reconcile with a flat earth map...Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
During a lecture for Physicians this week I was asked for my opinion about something that is not officially within my purview currently, but about which I have spoken at conferences in the past. I told the Physicians this and then I answered. And after I gave my answer I left them with this little gem: "That is my inclination based on the data and current literature, but I am not officially authorized to answer this in my current capacity, so, to quote Young Jeezy: 'If you get jammed up don't mention my name.' ".Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
Jay Bilas? Is that you?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I am a huge fanQuote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
Just a fan, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
He quotes Young Jeezy. You quote Young Jeezy.
He uses self deprecation as a humor device; you do, too.
QED
ClemmonsDevil = Jay Bilas
I don't harbor the ill-will that many do here toward Bilas, so I guess he (you) are ok in my book.
But Jay is from California. And if Dre and Tupac taught us anything it's that California knows how to party.Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
I'm not from California. Although, I do know that one must fight. For their right.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Are you Shadrach, Meshach or Abednego?Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
Gone 12 days. Only damage seems to be 1 dead mouse. Not bad.
I wish I could drop some lyrics from that song, but the majority would be wankerized.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Instead, I will just link to the obviously NSFW music video which I hold is in the pantheon of all time music videos.
Again, in case you missed it, NSFW:
https://youtu.be/5wBTdfAkqGU
In Brooklyn for a lecture I went to Adam Yauch Park. In Vegas I went to where Tupac was shot. Because that's what's up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
There's no place like home?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Mice are everywhere. Rats, mice, roaches, pigeons, trash pandas...life finds a way.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Seriously. Saruman didn’t need orcs, he needed to stop by Petco for a pack of Jacks.
The Uruk Hai are soooooooo mad at you right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I was gonna say, no such thing as one mouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
They’re always grumpy though so par for the course* and all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
(Sings “topppiccccalllll”)
Yes. This is good workQuote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
And here I was thinking LTE had been on a tear...
Noticed. They are amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I love messing with song lyrics!Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
I know. I regret telling you. I'm cool if everyone else knows.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Oak pollen is horrendous right now.
Hard rain last night washed away a lot of the 1/2 inch of pine pollen we had here. Still some left to fall, but I think the worst is over. Other pollen is still bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
It's really not hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Watch golf, makes it easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
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Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
It is an investment of time.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Amazing how quickly fortunes can change.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
No rain in our forecast right now, but it will cool off from 90s.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I misspoke, it could happen for us Friday or Satuday. Lots of time between now and then.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I feel like we’re pretty prolific on this thread but they’re prolificer.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I wonder how long it would take me to tire of a spaghetti and pizza diet?
The children are our future.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Hmmm. Can you vary toppings? That could bump me from a month to forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Of course! That is the beauty of pizza. From breakfast to dessert...
Same as it ever was.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I would say that breakfasts are open. This isn't a desert island scenario as mentioned earlier in the LTE.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
One mouse wouldn't have you burning down the house, would it?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Yeah. I could go a while without getting bored.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
But what would you eat first on the dessert island?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Spaghetti is fairly amorphous also. How long to tire of a diet of dough and pasta?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I know what I would eat last.
I’d get bored of spaghetti way before pizza.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
It's all in the sauce...Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
The sugar sand?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Volleyball soup.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
And just like that...
When it comes down to it, I'm a pepperoni and mushroom fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I’ve got a roster of 8-10 homemade pies that I’m pleased with.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Now it is time to vacuum. Weekends are such fun.
Of course, if I had a new vacuum cleaner, maybe?
I've been debating an Ooni purchase.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Sausage, pepperoni, mushroom and onion. Thin crust. I miss this.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Well, post your review if you do. I’m still just using the oven but have thought about a pizza oven.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Will you ever eat another carb?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I wish they’d bump the 60 second wait to 30.
Not regularly. I have an asthma component to whatever wheat/gluten issue I have and I don't miss sweets even a little bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Agreed...waiting. Waiting. Waiting.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I pray you never get stranded on dessert island with me and Ymo then!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I do think I would be easy to kill and quite delicious.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Yikes. I had a b-school classmate who knew several of the guys featured in the movie, Alive. He was a member of that club.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Tom Petty has a lyric for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
The waiting is the hardest part.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
For those not aware.
I have a new vacuum cleaner!Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Still angling lot of vacuuming to go. Need to run the dishwasher also.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Say it ain't so!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
It's a Dyson Ball Animal 2 and it is awesome. It arrived yesterday.
That would be a few day quarantine for me. I'm trying to relax my routines, but it isn't happening very quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Which ones?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
But not sweet so useless on dessert island. On desert island you might be on the menu.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
And the thunder rolls...
Sitting in church watching your own recorded children's message is worse than doing it live. Although Gavin does a great job editing it.
I need to get a picture of my hellabore plant. I think this is the first time it has bloomed.
I HATE my voice. I love how I sound in my head, but hearing it recorded is terrible and jarring.Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
38 on 16-22.
This means you are a human boy and not a narcissist.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
He is gonna be ok I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I speak for a living and have a weird voice.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Not sure, ones that lived but beyond that I don't know the detail. Plus I've never seen the movie. The subject did come up in a class somehow.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Zion again?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Say it ain't so!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I though it was 28 or 6 to 4?
That song is older than I am.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
And I'm not young.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Camshaft ordered.
I had to look up what this is.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Some cars these days have multiple.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Most respiratory therapists are very much gear heads and closet engineers. I am not. I am in that small (and exceedingly dorky) group that is more into gas laws, anatomy and physiology and mathematics. I can tell you that, by and large, this wing of the profession didn't date a ton in college.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Yeah, I though they were on about catch, neuter, release with feral cats again but then I realized I’d misread.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Not a car guy. Or a machine guy. Or a tool guy.
Wish I was. Am not. Have other skills though.
Does the lightning strike?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I'm just trying to keep people on their toes. Furry or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I like to think of the lady in Two Pina Coladas as the same lady in The Thunder Rolls, just a year or so later getting her groove back.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
What a difference between threads.
In other threads, this might say:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Experts, please feel free to FIGHT ME!
Hmmmm...I am willing and comfortable speaking in front of large groups and I seem to be compelling enough that people will at least entertain what I discuss. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a skill. I can do a little woodworking (I made our valances) and I can rewire a lamp or light fixture. I can change a ceiling fan and light fixtures too. I can change a tire in less than 10 minutes. I can cook most anything, but I'm awful at baking...can't follow directions. Not sure how many of these are actually skills or proof I die as "unnamed character" in the opening scene of a zombie apocalypse movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Apparently, I am the same age as that song, so thanks for making me feel old!Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
And isn't it 25 or 6 to 4? Or did I miss a joke somewhere?
It was either a typo or a reference to post scored by Zion?Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Oh, you guys!Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Read the book. It's better.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
nipping into a store today to buy carpeting for our stairs...a pretty rare public appearance, may have to go with sunglasses.
I wear my sunglasses at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
I'm just smart enough to know that there's a lot I don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Rummy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Early in the Pandemic and UFO threads I weighed in. But then RSVman, John B and Devilhorse weighed in in those 2 threads and I recognized that I was like Donny. Out of my element.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Definitely they are carrying the load. I feel like I have gained more reliable information from DBR about COVID than any other source.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Not sure what that says, actually, now that I type it and read it.
I think that is 100% accurate. We have been lucky in neonatology that this is not something that affects babies. I have taken care of a few babies that were covid positive but not many.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
My co-worker's grandbaby (3 mos) was just tested for COVID this weekend. Turns out he was just clogged with pollen.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Those kids have been brutal to take care of. Glad your coworker's grandchild was negative.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
It's truly insane to imagine how burly this could have gotten if it were infectious and lethal to younger folks.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Got a 33 inch, 26 pound monster with some flint stones band aids from his boosters.
I do feel lately that I keep repeating myself in this thread, but, you know, after 13+ years, do I really have anything new to say? Anyway, because of my husband's work, I have met (and had dinner) with a lot of Nobel prize winning scientists. They are, by and large, a humble lot. The smartest people are the ones who know what they don't know. The Nobel prize winners also admit it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
We didn't know in the early days of the pandemic and we were in a situation where all of the ventilators at hospitals were being utilized on adults and I got to be part of a Consortium of medical professionals working with the FDA with resource allocation and it was enlightening to say the least. Even though it didn't affect babies, the loss of material resources did and we were scrambling to fill the void. I worked with a very heroic neonatologist in South Carolina to come up with some emergency solutions for neonatal ventilation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
This child will not need to be worked up for failure to thrive. Seems to like the groceries.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
It is impossible for me to agree more. The truly intellectually advanced are humble, willing to share their information and open to new ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Yeah. I think I mentioned before that at that the last appointment he had grown so fast from being premature <3% to across the board 90+% in a year that they ordered a bunch of extra tests just to be sure. Turns out he was just wired for size.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Leaping into World War I with my 7th graders today. It’s a remarkably easy way to come back from Spring Break...I love to teach this material, kids this age find it really engaging, and I know it so well that I can pick it back up very easily. I’m also extremely proud to be more or less on schedule with my rather aggressive World History curriculum this year.
Doesn’t even feel like work.
That's pretty cool. You're also making me think that maybe I'm smarter than I thought, which can't possibly be the case. I do know what I don't know but it's just A LOT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
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Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
So Marie carried the act?
You are not alone in that thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Day 3 of 4 on all day video meetings.
Ugh.
https://youtu.be/rpqYPBi6iHIQuote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
speaking of world history (which I happen to enjoy) I'm currently reading the new, most excellent biography of Sir Francis Drake entitled In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Pretty fascinating to read about some guy circumnavigating the globe in the 1500s...
Almost a three foot Antichrist.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
-jk
I have a nephew who is 2 1/2. At 15 mos, he figured out how to open the refrigerator and help himself to snacks. Not fat, just a big kid, solid as a rock. We were at one of the last Duke football games of 2019, and at 11 mos, he was twice the size of an 18 mo girl he was chatting with.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Of course, the other day my niece told me she caught him licking the headlight of a car in the parking lot. Not sure about the mental growth just yet.
The Guns of August was an UNBELIEVABLE book about the outbreak of the war.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
This was on one of our CDs when I managed American Eagle Outfitters after college and it is straight fire.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I'm curious how much you may alter content or I guess emphasis on certain events, etc. based on class/individual interest?Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Maybe he was attracted to salt from the roads due to winter storms?Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
How could that happen? Everyone knew it was flat back then! I heard it from Kyrie.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
plus from what I gather, there were NO McDonalds or Motel 6s on his route, nothing. But they did have a lot of wine and ale...Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
A teacher cousin of mine is convinced he’s partly to blame for an uptick of flat earth questions in her 8th grade science class.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I had a professor in grad school who was a rather renowned expert on Drake. I wrote my term paper for his course on Drake's work as a privateer for Elizabethan England.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Drake was a fascinating guy...there should be a movie.
I think this is actually a chicken-or-egg thing. There's been an uptick in recent years of tongue [sort of]-in-cheek flat earther material on Hikory Dikory Dok or whatever inane social media apps the youths are using these days, and Kyrie is pretty well tapped into that zeitgeist. I think he started his flat-earth stuff as an intentionally inscrutable nod to that tongue-in-cheek joking, and then it got away from him a little bit. I believe he always intended for people to not be totally sure whether or not he was joking, but also that he underestimated the extent to which people would take it seriously, especially the aforementioned youths whose ability to incisively discern sarcasm is rudimentary at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I too have seen an uptick in flat earth comments/questions in my class in the last few years, and although I'm known for my everyday humor in the classroom, that's one thing I refuse to joke about or give a whole lot of breathing room in my teaching. It has jumped the shark in the sense that there are people now unable to recognize any joke about it, who've genuinely lost their ability to see how absurd the notion of a flat earth is.
I have also met a number of intellectually advanced folks, including some Nobel laureates. I would not say that the bolded is particularly true. In fact, I attended a gathering held in honor of a world-famous musician who had sponsored the lecture at which a certain Nobel laureate had given the keynote address. The latter seemed a bit miffed that the mere musician was getting more attention than he was.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
In my experience, a good number - probably the majority - of extremely gifted folks are, indeed, humble. A rare few are not humble in any way. And a substantial group of others have learned to use humble words and maintain humility to most outward appearances, but while nevertheless maintaining a rather high opinion of themselves. In other words, I don't think humility is particularly a signature trait of the gifted. It seems to occur with rather normal frequency.
Internet board hot take: Nobel Laureates are also likely a subset of extremely gifted people that may skew humble based on their career pursuits but extremely gifted people also occupy finance, business, political and other realms that may skew less humble than the laureate pool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
We were thinking pollen on red plastic = sugar-coated candy.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Bundabergdevil's wife thinks he has a Golden Hind. Or so he claims.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Almost all of my interactions with these folks is confined to people who take care of babies. I have had one of these super advanced folks postulate that perhaps people who take care of babies are just nice folks. So I made a generalization and it probably wasn't correct. If virtually all of my interactions have been good, that is perhaps not true of the wider world. Although I was piggybacking on Bostondevil's experiences too. Maybe I know nice people and you know jerks? 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
Yeah this. I should have kept readingQuote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I know quite a few a-holes who have generally well cared-for babies.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
All of the Nobel laureates I have met were given their prizes for either physics or chemistry. My hypothesis is that since research in the scientific fields requires much more collaboration than the other fields where one might win a Nobel prize, scientists are more likely to be humble because they know they didn't get there completely by themselves. Are there big jerks in science? Absolutely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
It's kinda like what I see in the theater world. I have long maintained that the hardest people to deal with in theater are playwrights. I have a friend who argues with me that actors beat playwrights. We have however reached a compromise. I have conceded that on the whole actors do need more attention but mediocre playwrights, those that have had just enough success to think they have more talent than they actually do have, are insufferable. Insufferable. My friend agrees. I have met many a Harvard scientist who acts the same way. For more than a few Harvard science types, the pinnacle of their careers is getting tenure at Harvard. In the world of science, they've made it to the NBA, but they aren't starters and will never come close to being an All Star. For many of them, it's a bitter pill and it turns them into jerks.
I'm not talking parents. I'm talking neonatologists. I'm a fantastic parent and also an a-hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I'm interested to hear more of your thoughts here. Are they mad about "missed" notoriety, or what? The average tenured Harvard professor in the hard sciences makes something like $250-300k per annum, which is a downright fortune in an academic career. Do they just think the rest of the world should find them more important, or something? I will say, tenured professors in any field are one of the dourest, most sullen lots I've ever encountered, but getting tenure at an Ivy would seem to clearly qualify as having "made it." To me, it seems that many of these people are determined to see a glass as 5% empty, rather than 95% full. Sheesh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Yeah, I was mostly messing (and thinking of a couple of particular a-hole/parents who happen to be on my mind at the moment).Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Also, you're definitely not an a-hole. I still owe you for, among other things, companionship and a nice meal in Charleston when I was broke and bored and lonely.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Me I assume?Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/...d-chicken-legs
What's on the docket for tonight. As always, recipes are General guidelines and I put different stuff in here but this is really tasty stuff.
Then I think you'll really like this book...thoroughly researched, very entertaining in its detail...Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Well, being as I am a jerk, and it is a cosmic law that like attracts like, you're probably not wrong. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Hahaha! We should hang out!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
Speak on....o toothless one
Sleepy, need more iced tea.
That about sums it up. Also, at a place like Harvard, there a multiple Nobel laureates attending the faculty meetings reminding you that even though from the outside looking in, you are one of the best in the world, you are still second tier in your home department. The administration likes two kinds of faculty best, famous big deals that up their prestige and nose to the grindstone producers who get lots of grants. The majority of Harvard faculty is neither.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
The hubby was the 2nd type. That kind of professor is appreciated by the administration but vulnerable to getting screwed over, mostly by other faculty.
A baby keeping you up?Quote:
Originally Posted by tteettimes
Also look forward to your monthly posts.
Green chicken chili will put Monday in the bag.
Ideal hours per week and days per week to work if you had complete control?
I sort of do and 25-35Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I'm making larb with ground turkey.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I like larb almost as much as I like lamp.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
You sound like you work way more than that with all the travel.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I don't count that. I should I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Depends on if it’s fun travel.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I had a travel schedule I did NOT like and it felt like every minute preparing, in transit, and at the inevitable colleague dinner was a fresh Dilbert hellscape.
I love traveling. I usually go to dinner alone and I LOVE it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I like four tens in some circumstances, depending on the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I've worked 4 9s and a half day which I liked. Being forced to get up and going on Fridays meant that I was ready to take on the rest of the afternoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I've worked four 12s(days), 4 off, 4 12s(night), 4 off, repeat. The nights are not easy. But those 4 days off are awesome.
I like time where the rest of the world is busy and I have the time off.
I don't do enough cooking with ground turkey. And probably too much with ground pork.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
About five more years.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I like to travel alone and have done so a lot in my life on a personal basis. I do not like going to the same Hilton Garden Inns in Des Moines and Indianapolis week-after-week and going to the same 4 restaurants with the same colleagues and then meeting in the same stale foyer to drink the same crappy coffee to go to the same office. Flip side, every once in a while, they let the rank and file book passage on the corporate jet when the execs weren't on it. That was cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
So, 40 hours/week, regardless?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
You seem like you like your work.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
30 years down this summer. Looking towards the wind-down.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
What did you do that was 12 hour nights? That sounds medical. I thought you worked in insurance.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere