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I feel the same way about coffee that I do beer. I enjoy good coffee, so I roast beans and take the time to make some when I'm home, but when I'm on the road I drink whatever is most accessible, or if somebody only had Folgers I'll gladly drink that. With beer I buy good beer, but I'm not enough of a snob to turn down a bud light or whatever.
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My boss is nuts, and was very upset that the blizzard put a stop to all travel today, he thought I would be able to drive from Denver to SLC since all the flights were cancelled. Pretty much confirmed that I need to get a new gig ASAP. Dude has no concept of geography and its killing me
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EBB posted:let jesus take the wheel If I somehow didnt end up as part of the 100 car pile up that closed the highway northbound, I would have been stuck in Cheyenne, cuz they had the gates down by noon and weren't letting people into Colorado. Also apparently just because you have PTO approved, dont assume you will actually get to take it, that was an important lesson I learned today.
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RE: Denver food chat. There are decent restaurants in Denver Metro, but nothing mind blowing, and you are gonna have to deal with some bullshit like wonky hours or long lines. Yak and Yeti is passable Indian/Nepalese food, but they make a Chai milk stout this is mind blowing, worth stopping in for IMO. Sam's No.3 is diner food, but done very well. Get something smothered with green chili and you will be happy Uncle Ramen is supposed to be really good, but I've never been over there due to bullshit hours. Oskar Blues has decent food and food beer, and I think they have a few locations now, so you don't have to go to Longmont to get it, although there are a bunch of breweries in Longmont worth hitting up if you are into that kind of thing.
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I should also add that if you are gonna drive I-25 down from Montana, there are some pretty decent restaurants in Casper, and an ok steakhouse in Cheyenne.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Going to Vegas on Sunday with my wife for a couple of days. Right now my plans are go see the Grand Canyon and the Hoover Dam, do the Star Wars VR thing, do other cool stuff that doesn't involve gambling. Any recommendations? Go eat at Ramen Sora and Lotus Thai.
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Mar 29, 2019 14:58
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Sarah posted:I’m VA employee. There’s a reason the VA pays more than any other hospital I can work at. Because otherwise they would have no employees. Example: last year we worked in sweltering heat inside a trailer with the promise that the nice new department would be ice cold. Reality is they ordered the wrong AC unit for us and we are working in the heat still. Oh you poor thing, you are a scrub tech aren't you? I hated going into central sterile and the OR's at the VA because goddamn are they miserable. They were always good about paying their bills, but holy poo poo some of the contractors they would hire would stiff you every chance they got, especially those mobile OR fucks.
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Apr 19, 2019 03:01
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Sarah posted:I work in sterile processing. The OR here is actually fantastic — almost non existent infection rate, immaculately clean suites, rooms & core are ice cold. It’s nice to step out of our sweat shop into their cool air (we are attached to them, but do not fall under them for command purposes). ST79 has pretty tight recommendations for environmentals. You could always photo copy the relevant passages and hang in strategic locations. Nobody wants to fail an AAMI inspection. Edit: not that the VA gives a gently caress normally. I realize that your dept. leadership probably has your best interests in mind, but the c-suite is too busy trying to learn six sigma leadership to fix any problems before they blow up bengy81 fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Apr 19, 2019 |
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Apr 19, 2019 18:21
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Sarah posted:They are getting around this by having the thermostats and Checkpoints in locations that don’t cause alarms. It’s pretty slick. I'm starting to get an angry twitch over this and I don't even do that kind of work anymore! What about airflow monitors? Please tell me they are just stuck in a closet somewhere?
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Apr 19, 2019 19:40
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I love plain Schweppes seltzer water. It's a shame it impossible to find it outside of liquor stores around here.
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Apr 22, 2019 02:17
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I have a sodastream, I'm just not home enough to use it regularly.
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Apr 22, 2019 02:25
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ElMaligno posted:OK, so the GF and her youngest one officially starts living in the apartment this saturday. This Sunday we are going to bake some pizzas in my new weber grill. A fanny pack and grass stained white trainers, preferably Nike or New Balance.
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LingcodKilla posted:Y’all still have sex? I'm fairly certain that nobody over the age of 25 bones down, at least not with any frequency.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Taking the wife to Vegas in July- Anyone got recommendations on places to go things to do/see and restaurant suggestions and poo poo? Vegas is hot as poo poo in July, so I guess spend a lot of time in the pool? I like the pools at the Mirage a lot, for whatever that's worth. As far as food on the strip or within a $10 uber ride: Momofuku and Milk Bar for your fancy pants eating, get some cereal milk ice cream. Ramen Sora is the best ramen I've ever had in my life. Lotus Thai is awesome for thai food. In N Out obviously, Bruxie is a good sandwich, but you can get them in LA so it's not that big of a deal. I cant think of anymore good ones off the top of my head. This guy is a fat Vegas poker player, and you can basically trust that anything he recommends is probably gonna be worth eating: http://jimmyeatsvegas.com
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May 3, 2019 02:06
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Walk by Guy Fieri's place just so you can point and laugh at all the idiots that paid 25 bucks to eat one of his burgers.
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May 3, 2019 04:59
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Vasudus posted:It's amusing seeing a grand tour of identity theft stuff. About every two weeks I get an email with a new account that I haven't used in years is compromised. Apparently this time around it's my <checks notes> Mojang account? Oh...ok. I guess it's not a Minecraft account anymore. I got one yesterday for my FSAID account, which is perplexing, because what kind of information can they get from that account that they don't get from anything else I have? I guess maybe they can take a private student loan out in my name? I dunno, but identity theft is definitely the lamest cyberpunk future problem to deal with.
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May 5, 2019 18:30
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gently caress the haters, that Weber is a nice piece of cooking gear. I'm jealous, I have a knock off masterbuilt or something, it works, but it's not THE BEST. Still have a Weber kettle grill and a smoker, but man, a Weber propane grill would really round out the collection.
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May 7, 2019 04:46
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Handsome Ralph posted:Before: Hey nice job! Also I think my propane grill is the same model as that. Not sure if it's a CharBroil or a vanity store brand though.
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Most people I've met that have been at a big 3 last like a year to two tops. VAS has been doing it for 5+???, therefore he isn't people anymore. I wouldn't worry about him based on that alone.
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May 10, 2019 03:50
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Vasudus posted:There's a lot of different factors that play into turnover. Washout rate (one way or the other) at 2 years is about 80-85%. Even though we don't use an up-or-out system (hardly anybody does, because they're dumb as poo poo) that doesn't mean you can stand still. The environment constantly encourages you to improve yourself, and failing to do that results in getting a 3-5% raise every year and left alone, wondering why nobody is paying you more or asking you to do special projects or proposals. Junior staff in particular will bounce around between companies at the junior/mid level forever and never build any equity, then eventually wonder why nobody wants to pay them more. I've always been curious about big 3 life, but between not wanting to move to a major metro area, and not being able to pursue higher education it's going to remain a curiosity. So basically keep posting about your job because its entertaining to read about.
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My gross lunch is a can of sardines in oil, drained of half the oil, mashed up with diced onion garlic powder and yellow mustard. Serve on wheat bread or crackers. Don't eat if you are going to be around humans that you like immediately after consumption.
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May 11, 2019 15:42
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I'm just being an rear end, they're fine. A little too Jimmy Buffett for me. I mean if you arent rocking your MJ's with Tommy Bahamas and an In N Out shirt are you even in dad mode? Jimmy Buffett is the dad spirit animal.
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May 18, 2019 15:39
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So I'm on a work trip this weekend, we are doing training on some Salesforce modules, and it sucks. Besides the fact that Salesforce and ServiceMax are mostly broken, I got a job offer yesterday that I'm pretty sure I'm going to take, so dealing with a working weekend has been extra agonizing. So I spent all day today fantasizing about not working this job anymore, but I cant help but feel kind of slimy that I'm going to call my boss first thing Monday morning and give my notice. Anyhow, being an adult sucks, there is no reason I should care about quitting this awful job, but for some reason I do. In other news, I got a couple fig tree cuttings in the mail that I'm pretty excited about. Hopefully my wife doesnt kill them before I get home.
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bird food bathtub posted:Don't ever, ever feel bad for quitting. If you give your two weeks notice you've covered your bases, and they'd for god drat sure cut you loose in a heart beat without a single care in the world. Yeah, my brain is broken, I hate this job, and my boss is a dipshit, and I dont have any attachment to my customers or coworkers, but I hate confrontation, and the ensuing panic that come when you put in notice.
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Wasabi the J posted:6 weeks unemployment streak over. Hey, congrats dude! Hope the new old job works out.
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I need to go have a crown redone, I'm not thrilled about having a mouthful of teeth that cost more than a mid 2000 Honda Accord. I had a good dentist, he was able to kill crowns in office so you he would fiddle with them until the fit perfectly, but he was expensive and constantly trying to push poo poo like invisalign and night guards. I moved so now I have to try to find a new dentist, or drive south an hour and a half to have the work done. ^^^ same, those fuckheads yanked mine out in basic becuase they were worried they might be impacted later.
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:I mean I didn’t want to have to come here and say it but same. Honestly, most of my bitterness stems from the fact that I was too broke to have the pulled when they were coming in, so I had to deal with the pain on and off for two years, and then the Navy just yanked them out when they finally quit hurting. I also think that most problems people have with Navy medicine in general is that if you are attached to an at sea command, you are never seeing the same doctor twice. It can be really frustrating to have one doc make a recommendation, then when you schedule your follow up the next doc is confused about why they are doing what they are doing. Also just like in the civilian world, not all doctors and dentists are good, its just easier to hold onto a good one in the civilian world than the military.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I live in an old 1950s era air force base housing neighborhood. Practically every house has been added on to or renovated in some way, but many still do not have central heating and air, and all of them are still the same old 2/1 cement houses built all over the country in that time frame. It took me a moment to realize you didnt forget a couple zeroes. I get real tempted sometimes to sell my house and move somewhere that I could straight up pay cash for a house.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Flight back from NYC to Chicago got cancelled today. Felt real good emailing work to let them know I won’t be in till the late afternoon tomorrow. LGA to ORD? If so my condolences. Actually, any of the NY metro airports suck, and its worth the train to philly or DC IMO. I'm so sick of flying, thank god it's my last week with this company, my travel should go down to something more reasonable than 120 nights a year on the road.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Also better than loving cricket powder. gently caress you, everyone pushing the "Oops, looks like you and your children and grandchildren will have to eat an insect based diet because we destroyed the planet's resources" idea. I've been toying with going vegetarian or pescatarian, i think we are gonna get thunderfucked on pork prices in the near future and beef is already kind of expensive. I think the meat industry is getting scared, I've seen a bunch of articles lately with headlines along the lines of "IMPOSSIBLE BURGERS MIGHT TASTE GOOD, BUT ARE THEY HEALTHY????" Like motherfucker, beef burgers are gonna send most of us to an early grave, how much worse could a fake meat burger be? I still havent tried one, I might next time I hit up Qdoba though.
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TCD posted:Oh what the poo poo WaPo - no longer allow incognito mode? All the lovely local papers I read did the same thing. I'm not paying more money for a single podunk daily than I pay for the WaPo.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:there are days you pray for baby shark BABY FINGER BABY FINGER WHERE ARE YOU???  For real, Baby Shark is leagues better than the Indian nursery rhymes and cartoons.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:my apple non phone stuff has usually lasted for loving ever with barely any issues My wife has an iPad 2 (7 years old) that still works great and I have a first or second gen iPad air that works great too. I could give or take the phones, I have to use them for work, they are fine, but I wouldn't own a tablet that wasn't an iPad. Having said that, unless I start flying more frequently, I dont see why I would need to buy a new tablet. I buy a lot of Chinese junk electronics off of Amazon. Anker headphones and chargers and they are fine for what I use them for, I wouldn't mind some noise cancelling headphones, but I'm not about to spend 300 bucks on a pair.
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UI, ease of use, they are the perfect grand parent computer, it would take a lot of work to gently caress one up too bad. Also, I think the cult of Mac is built on nostalgia, at least as far as computers are concerned. I know personally I had a handful of Apple computers between like 1998 and 2012, and man, some of those were pretty nice computers. There was a bunch of indie software that you couldn't get on PC that was pretty great too. Thanks to so much stuff being developed as web apps and Apple trying really hard to limit software sales to their stupid store, there isn't really a software advantage as far as I can tell, and new machines cost too much $$$, so I haven't seriously looked at one for a while. A Mac mini might be cool though... Edit: FireWire ruled for transferring video, and I had an Elgato external card for pirating TV that was pretty dope. bengy81 fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It makes me angry on a lot of levels. Thank gently caress I'm surrounded by all things weed. The climate change focus group blew me away, because I distinctly remember when the conversation shifted away from "Global Warming." I'm glad that I was 18 when that election happened, and too young to realize the ramifications of everything that happened, at least during the first term, but holy poo poo does it make you feel helpless in retrospect.
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Hi Sarah, have some nightmare fuel! I dealt with some of this last year while it was unfolding and it has made inspections a blast. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/16/porter-hospital-infections-surgical-sterilization-lawsuit/
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Sarah posted:Holy poo poo. What's really scary is that's not even the worst facility I've seen. One of the major systems here had a pretty good kill count in 2015, but their legal and PR teams got ahead of it before press got too bad.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Gonna be in Boulder in August for a wedding, anything good around there? Both dispensary and tourist stuff wise. Only gonna have a full day to do my own thing though. Boulder is fun, depends on what you want to do, pop into the Denver thread for specifics recommendations. I dont have any food recommendations, haven't really eaten at a great place in Boulder in years. Bunch of good breweries, Avery is probably my favorite in Boulder, but Left Hand and Oskar Blues are both a short drive into Longmont. Foothills highway is a good drive, and Nederland is a cool town if you want to see where all the old hippies go to die. There are a bunch of good hikes in Boulder, and just outside of town, just keep an eye out for rattlesnakes.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Denver people: Ask in the Denver thread, you will get the best food recs there. For beer, Denver Brewing Co, Great Divide, and Prost are three of my favorite breweries to drink at. Fiction is pretty good too, there is a metal themed brewpub called Black Sky Brewing, been meaning to check it out, but havent had the time; I vaguely remember their beer being good when I tried it at GABF.
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