sbxx1985 

I like The Final Cut.

Wish You Were Here is one of the finest albums of all time.

Division Bell has High Hopes.

rjones28 

The first concert I went to under my own power was U.K. at Penn's Landing in Philly circa 1978.

sbxx1985 

This was a decent double album. I hoped for more at the time, but it was pretty good.

sbxx1985 

Grew up in Chicago?

Dannihilator

Been a hectic couple of days.

gc3

The western suburbs of Chicago, DuPage County.

How about these....

.... Ten Years After @ Fillmore West 1970

.... Pink Floyd @ Festhalle Frankfurt Germany. 1972

Ramona_W

The good news is a store has been found for me to train at in whatever. More good news is that for the next two weeks, starting Monday, I will be working 40 hours a week and will have both weekend days off. The bad news is the store where I will be training is 45 minutes to an hour away. And the worst news of all is that the eight hour days I'll be working are going to start at 7am and I like to get there 15 to 20 minutes early. I'm not trying to be a baby about this and I'm happy that the check resulting from those two weeks will be around $900 before taxes. Still, take a moment to let the numbers sink in. Arrive by 6:45 after an hour of driving means leaving the house at 5:45 and allowing a half hour to get ready and on the road means waking up at 5:15 and that means if I want eight hours of sleep and time for whoopee then bedtime is 8:45. And believe me when I say those last two are very necessary; you don't want a sleep deprived and cranky person handling the firearms, do you?

@3alarmer would have appreciated today's CBL (computer based learning) module on "Labor Relations". One highlight was when the VO guy said something like "Associates are not prohibited from discussing unions during working hours. In fact, they can talk with their peers about whatever topic they choose. This right is protected by Federal law." Damn straight. In a little thing called the Constitution in the amendment right before the one people get so het up about. Good to know we won't be violating the Bill of Rights or anything. That being said, people talking about unions or griping about their pay or benefits may be warning signs someone is considering joining a union or attempting to bring one in and these should be reported to a "salaried member of management" right away. So, you have the right and you're free to exercise that right but, if you do, you should also anticipate being snitched off for it. Except you didn't see this module so you won't know that's what's happening until afterwards.

And, yes, I do think a businessperson has a right to know if someone may be making plans to disrupt or otherwise interfere with his livelihood. I just wish that didn't include tattling on people who think they're doing what's best for them, their family, and their co-workers.

truckstop

you really only needed to mention the former for me to assume the latter.

sbxx1985 

Rush Roll the Bones.

Heathpack 

If it makes you feel any better, I need to be at work by 8:15 most days, 7:15 if I have an early meeting, am teaching rounds or have journal club, the early days are once a week minimum, most weeks twice a week.

To get to work on a normal 8:15 day, I leave my house at 7:10. My day does not have a set finish time, it's over whenever I'm done. If I want to be sure to get whatever weekday workout done, it has to be done in the AM because I never know when I'll get out of work. So I'm up at 4:50am to be to the gym or yoga by 5:30 or on my bike by 5:15. Done by 6:30, home & in the shower by 6:40.

To get to work on an "early" 7:15 day, I leave at 6:15. So I get to sleep in those days, until 5:15 am. But no workout or ride is possible those days.

Bedtime is 9pm for me.

This is all mitigated somewhat by a 4 day work week. And the fact that I usually ride a train to work, so I actually get a little "me" time during the commute.

H

coasting 

hey Rowan

I might be able to ride with you and machka by the end of the year. are you fast or slow? i only ride with slow pokes.

3alarmer 

..ratting people out is also Constitutionally protected. Just do your job and try not to get
too upset about this stuff. I did the union rep thing for the feds for a couple of years, and I
think I might even have saved a person or two from dismissal, but at some personal cost.

The biggest deal I ever got done was a non-smoking policy for the Merced, CA office, and
given the way things turned out, it obviously woulda happened anyway after a few years.

Like that trombone player in "Treme' " is always saying, "Play for that money, boys."

coasting 

my first pop concert in taiwan was Girls' Generation from S.Korea:



And no..I am not apologetic at all.

3alarmer 

.
....did you go backstage and get passed around between the band members, like a cheap, sexually objectified groupie ?

coasting 

of course. great being a groupie.

3alarmer 

.
....as a man, there are few experiences finer than cheap, impersonal, objectification by a good looking woman. I was totally used by a resident internist once. It was great.

SpeshulEd 

I didn't get Harvard, but I did get NDSU over Oklahoma. Right now, Harvard is my only miss. That was my best first day of brackets ever. I'm in a 3 way tie for first in my group. However, we're all from Michigan (most went to MSU) so about 95% of us have MSU winning it all. Things could get ugly in the end.

They were one of my favorites back in the day, unfortunately, they didn't do much after the double album. They should have just quit while they were ahead. Now Billy is just an embarrassment to his former self.

LAJ

Welcome to life.

sbxx1985 

LAJ and Indy just dropped off some peppers at the office.

I was wondering if any of you got some of Mrs. LAJ's hot peppers today? Didn't think so.

rjones28 

RollCNY

I hope Indy slobbered on them unbeknownst to you.

sbxx1985 

Good guy, that LAJ. He was scoping out Sunday's Stazio crit.

In other news, I sent Rob Curtis another email. Pure impatient harassment. It happens.

3alarmer 

...is it just me, or do the grapes taste really sour today ?

RollCNY

Dog slobber adds Scoville units.

sbxx1985 

We're dog watching for a week. Dogs rule.