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Sorry, just hate getting sick and didn't anticipate the drat near freezing rain. I suppose I should have prepared a bit better, but damned if it wasn't hard to be charming when I felt like death
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We're switching from everyone booking their own poo poo and making bad excel expense reports to Concur 
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Feb 7, 2019 21:35
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sneakyfrog posted:just visiting CA this week for business. I don't mind Florida at all, granted half of my time has been spent between Miami and Fort Meyers. I'll take Miami over Fort Meyers. The only real place I've never gotten a vibe for is Atlanta, Chicago and maybe Houston. Or maybe it's just because I'm always stuck in the 'burbs at a generic corporate satellite office.
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Feb 7, 2019 23:31
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Tab8715 posted:Yup but on the flip side if you fail then you still were living in California. Your consolation prize is living in hell?
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Feb 7, 2019 23:45
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Tab8715 posted:The only real place I've never gotten a vibe for is Atlanta, Chicago and maybe Houston. Or maybe it's just because I'm always stuck in the 'burbs at a generic corporate satellite office. Houston is a city that's better lived in vs visiting in my opinion. The layout, sprawl, hollow urban core (downtown proper is a ghost town outside business hours), and complete lack of decent transit options make it hard for anyone that doesn't live around here to really figure out how to enjoy it. We have all the things but not all easily together I guess.
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Feb 7, 2019 23:50
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KillHour posted:Your consolation prize is living in hell? California is hell to people from upstate NY? What kind of bizarro dimension am I living in where that’s normal?
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Cacafuego posted:California is hell to people from upstate NY? What kind of bizarro dimension am I living in where that’s normal? My girlfriend moved here from San Diego. She has no intention of going back.
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Feb 8, 2019 00:11
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I can't speak much of Upstate NY outside of Buffalo which appears to be a generic US City - which is fine - with Niagara Falls which is kind of cool?
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Feb 8, 2019 00:15
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KillHour posted:Your consolation prize is living in hell? San Francisco and Los Angeles have an obscene amount to offer and the local stuff is affordable. The only place that classifies as hell is actually living in Las Vegas or Oklahoma.
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Feb 8, 2019 00:17
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I live in Buffalo so, yeah. Generic US city is pretty accurate. We have well above-average food though. I HATE traffic. I would rather peel all my skin off with a mandoliner than sit in LA or SF traffic. The canyons are cool though.
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Feb 8, 2019 00:18
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KillHour posted:I live in Buffalo so, yeah. Generic US city is pretty accurate. We have well above-average food though. I don't get how so many US Cities ended up with today's terrible traffic and no mass transportation. It's worthless and automobiles do not scale. On the flip side, is the Canadian side of Niagara Falls just a tourist trap?
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Feb 8, 2019 00:26
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Tab8715 posted:I don't get how so many US Cities ended up with today's terrible traffic and no mass transportation. It's worthless and automobiles do not scale. Car companies, via regulatory capture, wrote transportation policy for much of the country in the 1950s.
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Feb 8, 2019 00:34
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ORD ground stopped due to wind just as we pushed back from the gate. Next update from ATC in an hour so here we shall sit. I should’ve eaten dinner.
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Feb 8, 2019 01:27
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My flight MIA-MCO was delayed for “minimum one hour” for a blown tire, so I got on standby for the next flight, which was less than an hour later. Got a seat on that flight and then my original flight starts to board after less than a 30 minute delay 
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Feb 8, 2019 01:52
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Zaepho posted:Houston is a city that's better lived in vs visiting in my opinion. The layout, sprawl, hollow urban core (downtown proper is a ghost town outside business hours), and complete lack of decent transit options make it hard for anyone that doesn't live around here to really figure out how to enjoy it. We have all the things but not all easily together I guess. Like Detroit, everything you want to do in Houston is a 25 minute drive away from where you are, no matter where you are.
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Feb 8, 2019 02:09
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Tab8715 posted:I don't get how so many US Cities ended up with today's terrible traffic and no mass transportation. It's worthless and automobiles do not scale. Yes. And the American side is just a crack den. Go to Goat Island if you want to actually see the Falls and go to Buffalo or Toronto for anything else. Edit: The Whirlpool Jetboat Tours are legit though.
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Feb 8, 2019 02:32
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KillHour posted:Yes. And the American side is just a crack den. Go to Goat Island if you want to actually see the Falls and go to Buffalo or Toronto for anything else. All this. Niagara is poo poo other than the view of the actual falls.
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PCjr sidecar posted:Like Detroit, everything you want to do in Houston is a 25 minute drive away from where you are, no matter where you are. You sir have completely summed it up
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Cacafuego posted:My flight MIA-MCO was delayed for “minimum one hour” for a blown tire, so I got on standby for the next flight, which was less than an hour later. Got a seat on that flight and then my original flight starts to board after less than a 30 minute delay How did the timing compare to if you just drove?
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Feb 8, 2019 06:40
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Thread title. was a long week
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PCjr sidecar posted:Like Detroit, everything you want to do in Houston is a 25 minute drive away from where you are, no matter where you are. make that 45 minutes for Detroit
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Feb 8, 2019 15:16
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Cocoa Crispies posted:How did the timing compare to if you just drove? It’s about a 3.5-4 hour drive, depending on traffic (usually none), but the last thing I want to do after waking up at 6am and working all day is spend almost 4 hours in a car, in the dark, trying not to fall asleep.
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This is what my mind saw when I read that post due to the line break.Cacafuego posted:spend almost 4 hours in a car, in the dark, crying Who hurt you? 
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KillHour posted:This is what my mind saw when I read that post due to the line break. Orlando's just like that. Cacafuego posted:It’s about a 3.5-4 hour drive, depending on traffic (usually none), but the last thing I want to do after waking up at 6am and working all day is spend almost 4 hours in a car, in the dark, trying not to fall asleep. Yeah, I've made the drive a bunch, but I always just plan most of a day for it. It's right on the edge of where I'd bother to fly, since I'd need a car in Orlando anyways, and I'd usually rather drive my car than anything you can rent.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Orlando's just like that. I live in Orlando, so i was flying home. And I like it here 
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Feb 8, 2019 20:48
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flying to Chicago the tail end of next week. But not for business...for a friggin wedding!!! in February! in Chicago!! and the groom and bride both live in Los Angeles!!! Ahhhh
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Feb 8, 2019 21:15
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Mandalay posted:flying to Chicago the tail end of next week. But not for business...for a friggin wedding!!! in February! in Chicago!! and the groom and bride both live in Los Angeles!!! Ahhhh I once had the pleasure of attending a black tie wedding in New Orleans. In July.
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I'm doing (again) SEA-LAX-SYD-PER-SYD-LAX-SEA. Except I'm doing all that solely for a four hour meeting in PER and I flew out today (Friday) early AM from SEA to beat the storm. I fly back Monday. About 45 hours of flying overall for one meeting. Don't even want to think about the number of hours involved here except Saturday never occurs for me and I get two Tuesdays! Layover recs at SYD? Don't have time to leave the airport this go around.
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Residency Evil posted:I once had the pleasure of attending a black tie wedding in New Orleans. In July. gently caress New Orleans. Been there twice, once at the tail end of July and this past October. Can't decide if the food and music is worth the miserable loving assholes in that city.
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movax posted:I'm doing (again) SEA-LAX-SYD-PER-SYD-LAX-SEA. Except I'm doing all that solely for a four hour meeting in PER and I flew out today (Friday) early AM from SEA to beat the storm. I fly back Monday. About 45 hours of flying overall for one meeting. What do you do for work that 45 hours of flying and the cost of that ticket was worth it for a 4 hour meeting? I assume that’s getting billed to something.
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Cacafuego posted:What do you do for work that 45 hours of flying and the cost of that ticket was worth it for a 4 hour meeting? I assume that’s getting billed to something. Engineering consulting (of course); one of my partners was the only one going for a week, but suddenly a meeting with 10 people from a major potential client appears and it was only $2500 in economy tickets to get over there. I'm the idiot, it's me.
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movax posted:gently caress New Orleans. Been there twice, once at the tail end of July and this past October. Can't decide if the food and music is worth the miserable loving assholes in that city. I was just in New Orleans this week. I'm pretty sure the entire city is one giant tourist trap.
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You guys are doing it very wrong if you think New Orleans is filled with assholes and tourist traps and I live downtown. PS. You guys are missing the Star Wars themed Mardi Gras parade this weekend. Chewbacchus.
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New Orleans is absolutely fantastic.* Excluding the week of Mardi Gras.
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Lote posted:You guys are doing it very wrong if you think New Orleans is filled with assholes and tourist traps and I live downtown. Oh my god this might redeem it. e: I have spent my time in New Orleans at night around Frenchmen St for music, and then wandering to Garden District and further away for food. gently caress Bourbon Street. I even made it out to Jake and Snake's last time I was there, which was awesome. But turbofuck the humidity. movax fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Feb 9, 2019 |
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If they ever give America an enema they'll put the hose in at Detroit and let it drain out at New Orleans.
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Midjack posted:If they ever give America an enema they'll put the hose in at Detroit and let it drain out at New Orleans. The light tunnel at DTW is a goddamned treasure.
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God drat I understand if you're constantly on the road to actually do things at a client site but for a consultancy meeting just use loving Skype
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