I know the Tigers are winning the Central, but I like that the Twins are slowing it down.
129 thoughts on “September 24, 2013: Delaying the Inevitable”
So, I had a guy over last night to quote some replacement windows after the big hailstorm this summer. As the meeting was winding down, I mentioned that Mauer was out for the year with his concussion. He said, yeah, no sense in playing any more this year. Ok, that's reasonable. Ever since he got his [air quotes]concussion[/air quotes], I knew he'd be out for the season. He's got kids to play with! He did this a couple of years ago, when it wasn't even a losing season (remember, that was the year the Twins lost 99 games), so no one should be surprised that he shut it down again.
Oh boy.
I blame Souhan. Most people eat whatever they are fed.
I know an Andersen Windows guy that covers your area if you are still looking for quotes.
It was an Andersen window guy. Other than the Mauer deal, I was pretty impressed with what he had to say. And yes, Souhan is a big opinion former. He now acts as if he takes a ton of heat as a Mauer apologist. A neat trick -- mercilessly attack a local superstar, write one or two columns that say, hey you know what, he's actually pretty good, and then act like you are defending the local superstar against the ignorant masses that you helped poison in the first place.
It better have been an Andersen window guy, dammit. (Actually, I don't really care as much now that my dad is retired.)
Yesterday, I made my debut in the local seniors bowling league. They told me that since I'll be turning 55 by the end of the year, I was old enough to qualify.
I have to say, it was a lot of fun. Bowling is the one sport that I ever had any level of success at, but I've rarely done it since high school because I've never been able to devote one night a week to it, the way you have to do in a league. This league, however, bowls on Monday afternoon, which in my current schedule looks doable. Also, in a regular league, you can run into a lot of people who take it really seriously. In the seniors league, most of them are pleased to still be able to do it at all and so, while everyone is still trying to do their best, no one is upset if your best isn't very good.
I actually did fairly well, especially considering that I haven't bowled regularly in about thirty-five years. I went 153, 169, 165, for a series of 487. I'm really looking forward to bowling again next week.
That's a pretty good score. I have bowled three times since moving to Minnesota, all associated with kids events. I don't put any spin on the ball, I just throw it down the lane. Last time out, I rolled about 300 (in two games). I think it would be a lot of fun to be in a league, especially in a small town where there's not a lot of other things to do.
I'd be happy with any of those three games. Bowling is fun, though I don't do it very often.
Great scores! I've been in two bowling leagues as an adult, and both times I had my best round in the first week, making my handicap stupidly high.
That's definitely solid for that kind of lay off. Its been about three years since I left the sport, but I'm in the same boat with it being the only sport I've had any personal/team success. I do miss league bowling. I found a team with a bunch of guys I had worked with when I moved down to Madison that I enjoyed hanging out with. We were also good, winning 2 league championships in 4 years, including my last year which upset a lot of people when we disbanded. Man, I do miss it. I'm enjoying curling more because its a pure team sport (and I'm not too shabby at it), but I've had a couple 700 series and a 279 game (missed the first one, got the next 11, plus finished off the '300' by getting the first one of the next game) and those were really exhilirating experiences.
I usually get excited if I manage to break 100, so yeah, nice scores!
I had my best game ever out of absolutely nowhere a few months ago. I hadn't played in probably three years and I rolled a 180. In the other two games that day, I managed a 113 and something like 123, which are both closer to the truth (try as I did, I never could put spin on the ball, so I never managed an average of more than about 145).
I've managed a 199 around 23 years ago, and haven't played in quite a while, but I was usually good for 130-150: no spin, and velocity over finesse.
usually good for 130-150: no spin, and velocity over finesse.
That describes my bowling game to a tee, Rhu. By the end of three games, my arm is good and tired. I've broken 200 (212 is my top game) a handful of times- about as many times as I've failed to break 100, come to think of it.
Out here we have duckpin bowling. The ball is tiny, no finger holes, barely fits into the palm of your hand and quite difficult to control. Three rolls per frame - can have a strike, a spare, or get the points with the third ball with no point-push into the next frame. Haven't seen it done but wondered if a fast-ball toss in the air would be the most effective way to clear the decks.
I've seen that in a few alleys in South Dakota, but never played. It does look like fun.
And I would definitely like to try a fastball throw, but I'd likely either a)explode my rotator cuff or b)get banned for life from that bowling alley.
I think they're cool with it as long as you order many pizzas and pitchers of beer. DO NOT TRY TO THROW A NESHEK.
So, the Wilfs were ordered to pay $85 million in a real estate fraud case in New Jersey and the state of Minnesota handed them how much to build their stadium? #skol
Superior Court Judge Deanne Wilson made the ruling Monday after finding, in a decision issued last month, that the Wilfs committed fraud, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty and also violated the state’s civil racketeering laws in a partnership involving a 764-unit apartment complex in Montville, N.J.
I have BookFace "friends" who will scream bloody murder about any gubmint spending on social welfare for the poor, but will defend the Vikings' money machine to the death.
I should crank out an email to you about some recent topics that have been burning my buttocks.
I always enjoy that. And, I'm sure, the Citizenry will appreciate us taking some of that off-line.
I can at least appreciate that it's harder to stay on topic while the Twins are circling the drain and none of the other major sports have started back up again.
I have always said that if it had been my money, I would have been firmly against a stadium for the Vikings. As it is, I think it's darn nice of the people of Minnesota to pay for a stadium for the team I root for.
Who is going to pay for it is the $900,000,000 question. The fact that no one does want to pay for it led to the ridiculous e-pulltab idea, which is a massive failure. The difference between a baseball stadium, with its 81 home dates and a football stadium, with its 8 home dates, is enormous in terms of whatever positive effect the expenditure might have. The fact that we (we being the collective citizenry of the state of Minnesota, I'm not actually going to gamble, so I hope none of the money is mine) are giving this money to the Wilfs, who at the very least are somewhat shady is especially galling to me.
Based on the last legislative session, it sounds like the smokers will be paying for it. That's the endless well for funding isn't it? I used to smoke when I was younger. I don't know. But it really chaps my ass that a regressive tax like that is constantly used as a funding mechanism for things.
i think we're up to $10-$11 a pack in chi-town, which has gone up about $5 in the past couple years due to new taxes. i live just outside of cook county, so it's only about $5-$6 here. regardless, i'm glad i don't smoke anymore.
It's crazy to see prices this high here. I was at a 7 Eleven in Winnipeg and watched someone walk in and buy a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of coke, and a pack of gum and it came to like $20. I could hardly believe it.
When I quit smoking, packs were juuuuust about to hit $3. Once in Washington, while drinking, I decided to buy a pack because I was having a craving unlike anything in years. It was $9. Blew my mind.
It's pretty gross how as a society we only have negative things to say about addiction, but we keep taxing addictions because we know the addicts will come up with the money.
A couple of people have said this now, but is anyone quitting because of the expense? I have known hundreds of smokers, probably, and a great number that have quit, and I don't know that a single one of them did it because of the financial strain it put on them.
I figure there's data to support the idea that people quit for the expense because Citizens usually get these ideas from somewhere, but given a decent-sized sample, I've never once seen it happen.
I'm not saying people quit because of the expense. I'm saying that the expense isn't just to take advantage of an addiction, but also punitive because a lot of people, myself include, don't like to be around smoke. I'm guessing a few of those people are also legislators.
FWIW, there was a one-time tax on cigarette inventories and that went towards making the initial payments on the stadium. There is also a new sales tax but that goes to the general fund.
The cigarette tax is a funny one because yes it is regressive but it also is SUPER effective at getting people to quit smoking (which has all sorts of long term benefits for society and, you know, the new non-smoker and their family).
The e-pulltab thing is stiil the supposed funding mechanism but has raised a net $0 to date.
So cigarette tax as a thing-funder: boo. Cigarette tax as public health influencer: yay.
yeah, if i hadn't of already quit, i definitely would have by now. i loved smoking, but man, there's no logical argument against the wife in that fight.
as was pointed out above, equilibrium responses by smokers are to look for ways to get their fixes cheaper, including rolling their own. So you gotta tax rolling papers and pouch tobacco so as to make smokers indifferent across modalities, and you have to police the borders if your neighbor states have different policies once your tax level differences are "significant."
I have some issues with using tobacco taxes as a public health tool because there is a significant "failure of consumer sovereignty" issue here. Nicotine is physically addicting, and smoking is psychologically addicting. Hence, the taxes tend to work for revenue generation because demand is relatively price-inelastic. I think the research on this topic suggests that the biggest impact on demand of tobacco excise taxes is in deterrence of NEW consumers, less so on consumption of those already hooked.
A (nearly) global look at the dynamics of youth smoking initiation and cessation: the role of cigarette prices
Author(s): Kostova, D (Kostova, Deliana)
Source: APPLIED ECONOMICS Volume: 45 Issue: 28 Pages: 3943-3951 DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.736947 Published: OCT 1 2013
Times Cited: 0 (from Web of Science)
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Abstract: This study investigates the role of cigarette prices on smoking initiation and cessation among youth in a sample of eight primarily non-Western low, middle, and high income countries, with a particular focus on a subsample of 40 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Using split-population duration models on longitudinally-transformed individual data from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), the average impact of cigarette prices in the presence of unobserved country heterogeneity and shifting cultural norms within countries is identified by the variation of cigarette prices within countries over time. Price increases are found to effectively reduce initiation in early youth, and girls are considerably more responsive than boys. The price elasticity of initiation in LMICs is -0.82 for the combined gender analysis, -0.46 for boys only and -1.5 for girls only. There is some indication that youths in developing countries may be slightly less responsive to price changes than in high-income countries. No evidence is found that cigarette prices increase quitting rates in youth, which may be due to the difficulty of defining true quitting among smokers in early life.
Younger people in droves are choosing e-cigarettes over tobacco, due to cost and health considerations.
I saw someone smoking one of those yesterday for the first time.
It seemed weird, somewhere between huffing and smoking.
But I didn't stare, so that's what it looked like from the corner of my eye.
An MLS team in that location at a new stadium could probably bring in 20-30k/game for 17 home game a year plus potential playoffs plus international friendlies, which tend to be well attended, plus potential US men's team games. It's not the same as 81 games for a popular mlb team, but better than just 8 home games per year.
I could get behind this.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl98-HwR15s
[err, help?]
[gotcha covered. that junk at the end of the link was mucking it up, whatever it was. -hj]
You had a superfluous & that was preventing the embedding from working.
[what he said -hj]
thanky
looks like fun, but certainly not concussion-proof
I noticed this morning that Yahoo has introduced Google Doodle-like animations on their homepage (a little weight-lifting animation by the last "O"). Dudes, I'm pretty sure that's NOT Google's business secret.
I noticed it and had to do a double-take. Extremely phallic at points during the animation.
That, PLUS it reminds me of clippy PLUS in the midst of the animation it turns into a backwards question mark.
Gawd, not Clippy! That thing was horrendous!
Nice screengrab, btw- that was a poorly thought out design.
Looks like Kilroy.
bjhess trying to get the wgom filtered at Anoka-Ramsey area schools.
Can't filter encrypted sites!
Surely "clippy" is not considered a swear word there?
Ryan contends that the signing of Josh Willingham to a three-year, $21 million contract before the 2012 season — a record deal for a Twins free agent — is evidence that he will take a plunge into the rich end of the free-agent pool.
“I think you are mistaken when you don’t think $21 million is huge,” Ryan said.
If you don't think paying $1.99 for gas is huge, I can remember when gas was $.49 a gallon.
A) where do you get your gas and B) coffee was a nickle, damnit!
five pieces of gum for a penny!
Last I checked, coffee is still a nickel at Wall Drug.
The gas I buy at $1.99 isn't of a high enough quality to make my car run right, but my car is old, so it would be foolish to pay more. Besides, Oakland's car is running just fine by burning garbage.
And Wall Drug still has free ice water!
I'd make a shrewd trade for the Oakland or Tampa Bay organizations.
What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.
Man, he must think Mauer's deal is huger than huge. $23 million in a single year!
Did anyone else get an email from the Twins for an online survey? It was about corportate sponsors (as in, can you name any and what they sponsor) and the broadcasts (including the broadcast crew and how much they do or do not suck). It was interesting and I think I represented the nation well.
That sounds like what David Brauer was talking about when G&tG were drunk.
Yeah, I heard that. MLB and the Twins spam me at least 5 times a day and I haven't gotten it, so it must only be for season ticket holders.
Yup- I thought that was a season-ticket holder survey?
Edit: Darn it, HomerDome beat me to it.
I wasn't this year, but I did buy tickets for a group of 8 so maybe that did it. Anyway, interesting and I let them have it.
Guess who?
In the NFL's format, with just four clubs per division, each member team has a 25 percent chance of finishing first, plus a bonus chance of a wild card.
TMQ, of course. Each team has a 25 percent chance of finishing first, if you consider nothing other than the number of teams in the league. Other factors may influence these chances, but Mr. Easterbrook's analysis is usually about 1/8 of an inch deep.
If he went any deeper than that 1/8", he'd be some glory boy first rounder coasting by on his reputation.
I sorta miss Drew Magary's TMQ take downs, but when you are too much for someone who's career is based off of being angry and critical of the writing of others, you really, really suck.
In all fairness to TMQ, his point was "if victories were distributed by chance, each season there would be two worst-to-first outcomes. Turns out that in the last decade, there have been an average of 2.5 playoffs teams that were cellar-dwellers the previous year."
I think that's kind of an interesting point... that there are more worst-to-playoffs turnarounds than you might expect given random chance. It's not deep, but I don't find it worth mocking.
It's still 1/8" deep. He talks about the odds of worst to first and then conflates that with worst to making the playoffs, citing two teams that did that last year, the Colts and Vikings, neither of which won their division. You can, in fact, be third in your division and make the playoffs. The point he's making is that there is enough churn in the NFL, especially in some divisions (most notably the NFC south) that overall it seems that you have about a 25% chance to make the playoffs in any given year from the basement. Does KC have a shot? Perhaps, but this analysis leaves much to be desired.
This is the kind of thing that I shouldn't comment on in the first place. I'm tempted to go down a rabbit hole. As we all know, all last place teams aren't created equal. I'll bet it's much more likely that a last place team with 7 wins ends up in the playoffs the next year than a last place team with 2 wins... see, I'm almost down the rabbit hole. Stop me before I look it up.
Damn I wish I had a lapful of Japanese nose-bananas.
Ah, yes. A true classic.
How does her head just stay there?
Since I stole it from io9, I'll just link you to their article- I thought it was interesting, and oddly hypnotic.
I think some of the other gifs in the article are even better.
Damnit, now I need
1. Sterilized, Standardized, Scientificized Owl
to Rotate.
I'm full of cussing tonight.
Here, on facebook (Hi Neil!), in emails.
If I'm not careful, I'll end up like Geoff.
Sorry folks! I'll do better.
you haven't been around chickens much, have you?
Not ones with heads anymore, no.
I'd tag along on Chicken Butchering days.
You know what really sucks? Unemployment employment determination hearings (for my wife, not me.) Especially after a messy break up against awful people.
You know what I routinely handle? Unemployment determination hearings. In MN though.
Heh, i should have asked you for advice on a good way to approach it then. Witnesses got sequestered, so I'm sitting outside the room waiting for my chance to speak while my very nervous wife is in all by herself with a woman she absolutely despises. Good times!
We handle them over the phone over here. Much more efficient.
We might have been able to do it that way, as well, but we have good documentation that they changed her employment status without discussing with her and after delivering initial W2s, so it helps our case to do it in person. Plus, the bauble is on the hospital again (precautionary, likely still related to the UTI he had) 5 miles from heading office. Shop, much mow convenient for us to attend than then.
I'd like to say something about how many companies handle employee terminations, but it might lead me to using the most offensive compound word in the English language. So I won't. Just [redacted] those [redacted].
Mother-in-law???
I'll give that answer partial credit.
You guys conspired on that one.
Yeah, the 4ltr is sometimes an easy target, but they sometimes have to deal with stuff that we don't have to.
so, if the Tribe and Rays play a playoff game, do any fans show up at the stadium?
I was irritated at the small crowd to see the Reds a couple of days ago, too, when they were locking up a playoff spot.
If there has to be an NBA franchise in my town (boo! I was really looking forward to NOT being blacked out of Warriors games anymore), I want all Shaq, all the time. Shaqrifice for the good of the team!
So, I had a guy over last night to quote some replacement windows after the big hailstorm this summer. As the meeting was winding down, I mentioned that Mauer was out for the year with his concussion. He said, yeah, no sense in playing any more this year. Ok, that's reasonable. Ever since he got his [air quotes]concussion[/air quotes], I knew he'd be out for the season. He's got kids to play with! He did this a couple of years ago, when it wasn't even a losing season (remember, that was the year the Twins lost 99 games), so no one should be surprised that he shut it down again.
Oh boy.
I blame Souhan. Most people eat whatever they are fed.
I know an Andersen Windows guy that covers your area if you are still looking for quotes.
It better have been an Andersen window guy, dammit. (Actually, I don't really care as much now that my dad is retired.)
Yesterday, I made my debut in the local seniors bowling league. They told me that since I'll be turning 55 by the end of the year, I was old enough to qualify.
I have to say, it was a lot of fun. Bowling is the one sport that I ever had any level of success at, but I've rarely done it since high school because I've never been able to devote one night a week to it, the way you have to do in a league. This league, however, bowls on Monday afternoon, which in my current schedule looks doable. Also, in a regular league, you can run into a lot of people who take it really seriously. In the seniors league, most of them are pleased to still be able to do it at all and so, while everyone is still trying to do their best, no one is upset if your best isn't very good.
I actually did fairly well, especially considering that I haven't bowled regularly in about thirty-five years. I went 153, 169, 165, for a series of 487. I'm really looking forward to bowling again next week.
That's a pretty good score. I have bowled three times since moving to Minnesota, all associated with kids events. I don't put any spin on the ball, I just throw it down the lane. Last time out, I rolled about 300 (in two games). I think it would be a lot of fun to be in a league, especially in a small town where there's not a lot of other things to do.
I'd be happy with any of those three games. Bowling is fun, though I don't do it very often.
Great scores! I've been in two bowling leagues as an adult, and both times I had my best round in the first week, making my handicap stupidly high.
That's definitely solid for that kind of lay off. Its been about three years since I left the sport, but I'm in the same boat with it being the only sport I've had any personal/team success. I do miss league bowling. I found a team with a bunch of guys I had worked with when I moved down to Madison that I enjoyed hanging out with. We were also good, winning 2 league championships in 4 years, including my last year which upset a lot of people when we disbanded. Man, I do miss it. I'm enjoying curling more because its a pure team sport (and I'm not too shabby at it), but I've had a couple 700 series and a 279 game (missed the first one, got the next 11, plus finished off the '300' by getting the first one of the next game) and those were really exhilirating experiences.
I usually get excited if I manage to break 100, so yeah, nice scores!
I had my best game ever out of absolutely nowhere a few months ago. I hadn't played in probably three years and I rolled a 180. In the other two games that day, I managed a 113 and something like 123, which are both closer to the truth (try as I did, I never could put spin on the ball, so I never managed an average of more than about 145).
I've managed a 199 around 23 years ago, and haven't played in quite a while, but I was usually good for 130-150: no spin, and velocity over finesse.
That describes my bowling game to a tee, Rhu. By the end of three games, my arm is good and tired. I've broken 200 (212 is my top game) a handful of times- about as many times as I've failed to break 100, come to think of it.
Out here we have duckpin bowling. The ball is tiny, no finger holes, barely fits into the palm of your hand and quite difficult to control. Three rolls per frame - can have a strike, a spare, or get the points with the third ball with no point-push into the next frame. Haven't seen it done but wondered if a fast-ball toss in the air would be the most effective way to clear the decks.
I've seen that in a few alleys in South Dakota, but never played. It does look like fun.
And I would definitely like to try a fastball throw, but I'd likely either a)explode my rotator cuff or b)get banned for life from that bowling alley.
I think they're cool with it as long as you order many pizzas and pitchers of beer. DO NOT TRY TO THROW A NESHEK.
So, the Wilfs were ordered to pay $85 million in a real estate fraud case in New Jersey and the state of Minnesota handed them how much to build their stadium? #skol
Don't get me started....
I should crank out an email to you about some recent topics that have been burning my buttocks.
I always enjoy that. And, I'm sure, the Citizenry will appreciate us taking some of that off-line.
I can at least appreciate that it's harder to stay on topic while the Twins are circling the drain and none of the other major sports have started back up again.
oooh, Vikings burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
The Vikings are totally going to win the Super Bowl and it's going to be awesome when they do.
Oh, ubes! High five for that.
Feel free to CC me on that email, Boss.
And me.
What the heck... ditto.
maybe we need a chat room!*
*not really. Even though I am a state employee, I have to work sometimes.
That could be implemented here I think. Mozilla recently released a library that can do that, among other things.
Younger people in droves are choosing e-cigarettes over tobacco, due to cost and health considerations.
I saw someone smoking one of those yesterday for the first time.
It seemed weird, somewhere between huffing and smoking.
But I didn't stare, so that's what it looked like from the corner of my eye.
I could get behind this.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl98-HwR15s
[err, help?]
[gotcha covered. that junk at the end of the link was mucking it up, whatever it was. -hj]
You had a superfluous & that was preventing the embedding from working.
[what he said -hj]
thanky
looks like fun, but certainly not concussion-proof
I noticed this morning that Yahoo has introduced Google Doodle-like animations on their homepage (a little weight-lifting animation by the last "O"). Dudes, I'm pretty sure that's NOT Google's business secret.
I noticed it and had to do a double-take. Extremely phallic at points during the animation.
That, PLUS it reminds me of clippy PLUS in the midst of the animation it turns into a backwards question mark.
Gawd, not Clippy! That thing was horrendous!
Nice screengrab, btw- that was a poorly thought out design.
Looks like Kilroy.
bjhess trying to get the wgom filtered at Anoka-Ramsey area schools.
Can't filter encrypted sites!
Surely "clippy" is not considered a swear word there?
😉
That new Yahoo logo is GOD AWFUL.
SIGH.
If you don't think paying $1.99 for gas is huge, I can remember when gas was $.49 a gallon.
A) where do you get your gas and B) coffee was a nickle, damnit!
five pieces of gum for a penny!
Last I checked, coffee is still a nickel at Wall Drug.
The gas I buy at $1.99 isn't of a high enough quality to make my car run right, but my car is old, so it would be foolish to pay more. Besides, Oakland's car is running just fine by burning garbage.
And Wall Drug still has free ice water!
I'd make a shrewd trade for the Oakland or Tampa Bay organizations.
What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.
But see: https://wgom.org/2013/09/24/september-24-2013-delaying-the-inevitable/#comment-168257
So, a five cent cigar with a $2.50 excise tax.
Man, he must think Mauer's deal is huger than huge. $23 million in a single year!
Did anyone else get an email from the Twins for an online survey? It was about corportate sponsors (as in, can you name any and what they sponsor) and the broadcasts (including the broadcast crew and how much they do or do not suck). It was interesting and I think I represented the nation well.
That sounds like what David Brauer was talking about when G&tG were drunk.
Yeah, I heard that. MLB and the Twins spam me at least 5 times a day and I haven't gotten it, so it must only be for season ticket holders.
Yup- I thought that was a season-ticket holder survey?
Edit: Darn it, HomerDome beat me to it.
I wasn't this year, but I did buy tickets for a group of 8 so maybe that did it. Anyway, interesting and I let them have it.
Guess who?
If he went any deeper than that 1/8", he'd be some glory boy first rounder coasting by on his reputation.
Well done, cheaps.
As a Browns fan, I'm going to run with this analysis since it's better than reality.
P A R I T Y !
Pretty interesting article about the most popular EPL teams in the US. It tries to answer the eternal question: how can anybody ever like Chelsea?
Oh, and take the Footy Tags survey. Some of my answers amused me.
They are just so darn fun to use!
!?!?!???!!!?!?!?!?
Thank you for making the chicken gif look normal.
Seriously.
Damn I wish I had a lapful of Japanese nose-bananas.
Ah, yes. A true classic.
How does her head just stay there?
Since I stole it from io9, I'll just link you to their article- I thought it was interesting, and oddly hypnotic.
I think some of the other gifs in the article are even better.
Damnit, now I need
1. Sterilized, Standardized, Scientificized Owl
to Rotate.
I'm full of cussing tonight.
Here, on facebook (Hi Neil!), in emails.
If I'm not careful, I'll end up like Geoff.
Sorry folks! I'll do better.
you haven't been around chickens much, have you?
Not ones with heads anymore, no.
I'd tag along on Chicken Butchering days.
You know what really sucks? Unemployment employment determination hearings (for my wife, not me.) Especially after a messy break up against awful people.
You know what I routinely handle? Unemployment determination hearings. In MN though.
Heh, i should have asked you for advice on a good way to approach it then. Witnesses got sequestered, so I'm sitting outside the room waiting for my chance to speak while my very nervous wife is in all by herself with a woman she absolutely despises. Good times!
We handle them over the phone over here. Much more efficient.
We might have been able to do it that way, as well, but we have good documentation that they changed her employment status without discussing with her and after delivering initial W2s, so it helps our case to do it in person. Plus, the bauble is on the hospital again (precautionary, likely still related to the UTI he had) 5 miles from heading office. Shop, much mow convenient for us to attend than then.
I'd like to say something about how many companies handle employee terminations, but it might lead me to using the most offensive compound word in the English language. So I won't. Just [redacted] those [redacted].
Mother-in-law???
I'll give that answer partial credit.
You guys conspired on that one.
Yeah, the 4ltr is sometimes an easy target, but they sometimes have to deal with stuff that we don't have to.
so, if the Tribe and Rays play a playoff game, do any fans show up at the stadium?
I was irritated at the small crowd to see the Reds a couple of days ago, too, when they were locking up a playoff spot.
Minnesota Twins Show Some Fight With Another Comeback vs. Detroit Tigers
SBGville school wins award.
Shaq's new nickname? Shaqramento. Of course.
If there has to be an NBA franchise in my town (boo! I was really looking forward to NOT being blacked out of Warriors games anymore), I want all Shaq, all the time. Shaqrifice for the good of the team!