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Adiabatic
Nov 18, 2007

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New girl is cooking me dinner tonight. We'e going out to eat with my family on Sunday and doing this cool Easter walk where everyone dresses up like they're in 1850's Savannah. Next Friday is my birthday and she's all excited about it. :3:

This next week is looking up!

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Nov 18, 2007

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Tusen Takk posted:

Where do you guys live? I didn't know there were any other Michigoons in AI :v:

I used to live in Flint and my roommate got a great dog from a shelter there. You should have zero problems finding a good dog on the cheap at a shelter in Auburn Hills.

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Nov 18, 2007

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kastein posted:

april fools suckaaaaaaa (it does have a hell of a rattle coming from the timing chain however, so the engine needs to be worked on regardless.)

God damnit.

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Nov 18, 2007

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rscott posted:

Where/when did you live there, we might know some of the same people. I peaced out in 2006 but a lot of my friends still live in the area

I went to Kettering from 2009 until 2012. I can honestly say I miss the most violent city in America.

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Nov 18, 2007

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Anyone here listen to the Harmontown podcast?

It's made by Dan Harmon, the brains behind Community and Rick & Morty. I watched a documentary about the podcast on Netflix a couple days ago and got hooked. It's one of those unscripted, straight from the heart shows and I personally think it's great.

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Nov 18, 2007

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Dr. Bigelow: What can I do for you?

Louie: Uh, well, I hurt my back today really bad. Uh. Can you help me with my back? I mean...

Dr. Bigelow: What's wrong with your back?

Louie: It hurts.

Dr. Bigelow: My professional diagnosis is your back hurts.

Louie: Well, what can I do about it?

Dr. Bigelow: Nothing.

Louie: Nothing?

Dr. Bigelow: The problem is you're using it wrong. The back isn't done evolving yet. You see, the spine is a row of vertebrae. It was designed to be horizontal. Then people came along and used it vertical. Wasn't meant for that. So the disks get all floppy, swollen. Pop out left, pop out right. It'll take another. I'd say 20,000 years to get straightened out. Till then, it's going to keep hurting.

Louie: So that's it?

Dr. Bigelow: It's an engineering design problem. It's a misallocation. We were given a clothesline and we're using it as a flagpole.

Louie: So what should I do?

Dr. Bigelow: Use your back as it was intended. Walk around on your hands and feet. Or accept the fact that your back is going to hurt sometimes. Be very grateful for the moments that it doesn't. Every second spent without back pain is a lucky second. String enough of those lucky seconds together, you have a lucky minute.

Louie: Okay.

Dr. Bigelow: Come see me when you have something fun like a blood disease. That's what I went to school for.

Adiabatic
Nov 18, 2007

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That dog is god damned adorable.

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Nov 18, 2007

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bolind posted:

Getting ready to cull the herd of my old university textbooks. On one hand, it feels weird to chuck four digits worth of perfectly good books. On the other hand I haven't opened them in years, they're horribly outdated, I've tried selling the lot without a single bit of interest and they can probably all be had as ebooks should the need arise.

Well yeah but what happens when the Obamocalypse comes and you need to reference them to make stuff?

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Nov 18, 2007

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fjelltorsk posted:

I think i am staying as manager of the garage. Some of you guys asked how they could gently caress us over to protect a busdriver, the entire management of the bus line consists of former drivers and they run it on a very "old-buddy" level where the old guard is protected from everything so that they can retire at 62 with a killer pension. But i am not the kinda guy that will let that poo poo fly. We had a meeting yesterday where day had put "deciding the level of reimbursment necessary from (my company) to busline" as the only point on the agenda. I decided to hire a lawyer who specialises in contract law, this was way overkill, because in the instruction for bus drivers that the bus line have written, they are instructed to wait outside for the bus to be delivered, and they are forbidden to drive buses inside the shop or washing area. On our health and safety protocol, anyone other then a tech with internal training are forbidden to move a bus that is indoors.

The lawyer explained this to them, and told them that the way the 43page contract where they hire us for maintenance and repair is written, the action of their employee was a breach of contract, giving me the option to actually fire them as clients. I am also obliged to report them to the norwegian version of OSHA(.jpg)

this made them very silent, and they agreed to take full resonsibility for the incident, paying us for the damages to our infrastructure, paying for any overtime that is due to one lift being offline, report them selves to the correct goverment body and writing a letter of apology to my tech.

today, i called a meeting with them, telling that i cant work like this. and offered a peace. i even had cake for them. they seem more friendly now.

i have also been able to ride my bike several afternoons this week, its loving great. hurts like motherfucker but it clears the head. this weekend i get to be super selfish and spend both saturday and sunday racing my rc cars.

i just wish i could celebrate with a beer

You're good people. There needs to be more of you.

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Nov 18, 2007

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BraveUlysses posted:

nothing makes up for living in michigan

Fuckin a right

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Nov 18, 2007

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lollllllllllllllll second breakup of the year and I didn't do either. Where did all the game go?

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Nov 18, 2007

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The Midniter posted:

I had this piece of poo poo digital watch that just chilled in the "junk" drawer at home as I don't wear a watch. Well the fuckin' thing kept randomly beeping every hour, so I promptly took it outside, put it on the patio, and stomped the poo poo out of it. It was cathartic but I think I bruised my right heel. Worth it.

this but my feelings

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