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HybridCRoW wrote:
Cottage cheese and peaches? That's a thing?

Canned peaches? Fresh?

You have never heard of cottage cheese and peaches? I figured that was a common thing.

Porksta wrote:
Now that you mention it I have seen a prepackaged container of cottage cheese and pineapple before. But I don't think I've ever encountered cottage cheese and peaches.

Tony wrote:


they can charge you an extra $5000 for a $.10 disc...

Work rented out a family center (arcade, bowling etc) for 3 hours. Unlimited play. Got to play some of those ticket games unlimited (no tickets or prizes were awarded). My goodness they are so obviously rigged. Rough estimate would have cost $500 for 3 kids for 3 hours if we had to pay.

Sorry all, busy weekend at HorrorHound Cincinnati.

MRI CD - I was told it's for me. If anyone wanted a copy of the results, they had to request for it. I'm guessing they're going to send the images to the chiropractor that ordered it as well.

Peaches and cottage cheese - I think I've only ever had it with canned peaches, not the fresh kind straight out of the produce aisle. I don't think I've ever seen pineapple and cottage cheese, but maybe I have and dismissed it.

I am getting into the dumbassery of gradeschool sports. I've seen it with certain coaches in certain sports for two years now. We are talking K-4th grade. Disgusting.

MRI results - no stress fractures or anything bad.. just a case of the "I banged my elbow."
cottage cheese and peaches - Nothing yet... think it'll happen this weekend.... on the side note of fruit, somebody doesn't either know what a mango is or they cut the mango before it ripened...

@KCPenguins - you're getting into the dumbassery by participating in it or finding the "it's so stupid it's hilarious" of it?

At the airport headed back up to Vermont. I can’t wait to see my kid again. Nervous and anxious as fudge but it’ll all be worth it. For only being a month and a half I forgot how tedious and bullcrap traveling is. Get here 2 hours early to wait for an hour and 56 minutes.

BucketofJustice wrote:

My wife and I have been flying for many years and we still have this discussion every time we fly. She wants to wait until the last minute and I prefer to go early in case there are long lines or other delays. I would rather be 2 hours early and have to kill time than 2 minutes late and miss a flight.

Twice we have almost missed flights. Several years ago we were actually called on the intercom by name to get to the gate immediately.

Last year, we had a long line at security and still had a long walk to our gate at the far end of the terminal. I decided to run to the gate and was told my wife had two minutes to get there before they would have to close the door. There was a cart about to leave so I asked the driver if he would go pick up my wife. He got her there just in time. The airlines agent had booked us a very short layover in Dallas where we had to switch terminals. We barely made that connection before the doors were to be closed. Very stressful trip.

Air travel sucks. That's why I've only been back out to California 2 or 3 times since I moved to KY 15 years ago

Welp, got out of DOGE.

Only took 3 years to break even. Had I waited until I woke up and not had a limit order in, I woulda made another grand.

Oh well, feels good to get off the roller coaster! Already withdrew enough to pay taxes this year.

Haha right before the run up too... Ugh. Will I buy the inevitable dip?

There's always SHIB, letting that ride for now ($3k).

BucketofJustice wrote:

I used to HATE traveling in my early consulting years. Over time though, it becomes fun. Put in some ear buds, grab a couple drinks, do some work, and people watch. Having two drinks is really the key!

That sounds like undue stress Tony. When you get here early, yeah you kill time like you said… but if you wait and get here later then something always, inevitably, happens to make it stressful. I do think there’s a happy medium but I haven’t found it yet. I’m glad I brought a book haha.

MrBean wrote:

Man I have a 3 hour layover in NY. I can definitely get 2 drinks in.

@BucketofJustice it's expensive but so worth it! Old fashioned or Manhattan is my airport jam!

If they got Jack and Coke I’m in no questions asked.

BucketofJustice wrote:

I never travel without a book. It helps pass the time, and it signals people not to try to start up a conversation with me.

Tony wrote:

If you always dress and act like Jeffry McWild people don't want to talk to you either

I mostly like random conversations I have with people while traveling.

bill wrote:

This! I've had some fantastic random chats with people on a plane. I've always found older travelers, and mothers, to be the best ones to chat with.

Falkor has landed on my desk, first 3d printed toy.

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HybridCRoW wrote:


I help out, but I find certain coaches are absolute tools. Treating gradeschoolers like pros, and just generally being bad human beings.

MrBean wrote:


What did you get?

MrBean wrote:

You're lucky if someone interesting wants to talk to you. I was on a plane going to Baton Rouge once and was seated next to an elderly lady. Even though I had my book open, she insisted on telling me about how her family ignores her and how much (Megachurch tele-evangelist) Jimmy Swaggert means to her. (This was before Swaggert was disgraced by scandal.) After a few attempts to simply nod and go back to my book, I finally gave up and just gave my attention to a lonely old lady.

KCPenguins wrote:

Falkor

I think a lot of people just need someone to listen to them sometimes.

MrBean wrote:


I meant what type of 3d printer did you get, but maybe you just purchased the print?

KCPenguins wrote:

Ahhh, sorry. Dunno, bought it on Etsy for $15.

Hope to get a 3d printer when we finally move.

@HybridCRoW

I was watching an episode of a show earlier. Of all things, cottage cheese and peaches (and other foods) were served to someone in a scene.

Tony wrote:


I had a similar situation. My daughter and I sat next to an elderly man on a plane once. You would have thought that my earphones and the fact that I was looking at a screen would have been enough of an indicator that I was occupied, but that didn't stop him from initiating conversation on more than one occasion. Much like you, I finally relented. At one point, he asked us to pray with him, which we did out of respect for the nice old guy.

Anyone here do actual 3D design and printing? I'd like to pay someone for a project. It'd be a modified version of a Pez Dispenser, but for guitar picks. I started looking on Fivrr, but thought that I'd ask here before I proceed...

I do, but unfortunately between my job and family I don't have enough time to complete many of my own projects.

Tonight is/was the last night in Vermont before I head home to Oklahoma. Saying goodbye to Abbi sucks and I don’t like it one bit. Hopefully come summer I can get her/her mom to come down to OKC but if not I’ll be ready to make weekend trips until I get more vacation time.

BucketofJustice wrote:

My girlfriend lived in central Michigan and I lived on the southern Indiana border (just across the Ohio River from Kentucky). At the 55 mph speed limit of the time, it was about an 8 hour drive. Over a span of about 4 years, we saw each other fewer than 10 times in person. You paid for long distance phone calls by the minute, so we wrote snail mail letters that took a few days to get to the recipient. This fall we will have been married 47 years. Sometimes long distance relationships work.

Hey Tony! Where in Central Michigan? (That is where I am.)

John wrote:
"The middle of the mitten". If you don't know what that means, you aren't from Michigan.

When I met her, she lived in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Then her family moved to Weidman. He sister and brother-in-law still live in Sumner (near Alma and Ithaca). We end up somewhere in Michigan every year.

I don’t know how parents can leave their kids. I’m about halfway home and this feels like crap. We left on great terms and have plans for communication in place and everything! I got Abbi an iPad so that we can FaceTime and she can use it for whatever else too. I feel like I abandoned Abbi and her mom and I don’t know how to handle this constructively.

Tony wrote:

I live in Weidman. And work in Mt. Pleasant.

@BucketofJustice - sorry to hear man, never easy ... Sorry to ask, but is this a split with you and her mom or just a temporary thing?

It’s a long story. Cliffs notes is we were together and then we split and then I moved and we tried again long distance and that’s when Abbi was conceived and then we split again and I found out about her long after the fact. I had some alcohol and substance issues and was generally a douche about the whole thing and got myself cleaned up and we’re talking again and getting along great. I wish I saw years ago what I saw now.