InternetExplorer 2,609 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 That's really cool. I'm always in awe at the efficiencies you find and wish I come up with something half as cool for my job. I got extremely lucky. If I didn't take the first job, and then meet the guy that got me the second job, it would all have played out completely differently. If I had come in a year or two later, they probably would have already thrown $100-200k at someone to try to fix these problems, and I never would have gotten the at bat. It blows my mind. I guess quite a lot of things in life seem crazy to have worked out in retrospect. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 What are everyone's Thanksgiving plans? Link to post Share on other sites
Napa Lite 3,278 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 In MPLS for Thursday so I’ll probably just make something from leftovers unless somebody invites me to their family dinner and even then I might decline. Friday is our “Friendsgiving”/beer pong tourney. Saturday/Sunday I’ll go home for family thanksgiving. I’m excited to clock out on Wednesday. Hopefully around 2:30 pm but most likely it’ll be like 6 pm because budget is hell. Link to post Share on other sites
InternetExplorer 2,609 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Thanksgiving with the girlfriend. It was supposed to be me, her, her mom, and another relative. She has started adding more relatives since I agreed. I have let her know that this is not acting in good faith. Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Strat I have a standard cease and desist letter I can send her. Let me know. Thanksgiving with Mom and brother on Thursday, then with Dad, brother, grandpa, Aunt, uncle and cousins on Friday. I’m bringing desert, so it’s cookie cake and ice cream and fvck anyone who complains. Link to post Share on other sites
Theraflu 1,035 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 I'm off all week. Had some time I had to use, and it only costs me 2.5 days to get the whole week off. A good deal. Just hitting up both our parents on Thanksgiving for a couple meals. Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Strat you need to put on your holiday flexible pants. If it's only for a few hours, let her invite whoever she wants! I'm going to my mom's. About 30 people will be there. Should be a good time, but I'll "disappear" for a few hours at some point because I'm an introvert. Link to post Share on other sites
InternetExplorer 2,609 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Strat you need to put on your holiday flexible pants. If it's only for a few hours, let her invite whoever she wants! I'm going to my mom's. About 30 people will be there. Should be a good time, but I'll "disappear" for a few hours at some point because I'm an introvert. I wouldn’t have agreed to go if it was more people, that’s all. I am for sure driving myself so I can check out early. Link to post Share on other sites
Ron_Mexico 4,219 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 I wouldn’t have agreed to go if it was more people, that’s all. I am for sure driving myself so I can check out early. How you have a girlfriend is beyond me 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Napa Lite 3,278 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 How you have a girlfriend is beyond me i can think of 12 reasons. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Napa Lite 3,278 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 One of my best friends up here is an absolute blast to party with but her boyfriend doesn’t like to go out and so they’ll come to parties for 2 hours max, if at all, before leaving. And maybe she’s into that now but I don’t care for it. Her boyfriend is fine, I mean, I get it, but it doesn’t mean she has to leave. I guess I just miss my friend. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Sounds like she needs to dump the zero and get with my hero. She hot? Link to post Share on other sites
Ron_Mexico 4,219 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Having a partner that always wants to leave things that aren’t about them is the worst. My buddy’s wife is like that. He left our rehearsal and wedding after a couple of hours because she was tired and didn’t feel well. Always gets sick when it’s his friend. Plus, they had a hotel across the damn street. What, she needs to be watched? Part blame is on him for not having a backbone. Don’t get me wrong, I get being there for your spouse, but come on 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Ron_Mexico 4,219 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 i can think of 12 reasons. I actually thought of that, but let’s be honest here, does strat really strike you as a rambunctious, enthusiastic lover? Like, is he flipping you over for doggie and giving you a quick bit of analingus before he slowly puts it in and really going to work? Yeah, me either. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Napa Lite 3,278 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 She’s certainly not unattractive, but I have no shot. Link to post Share on other sites
Ron_Mexico 4,219 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 She’s certainly not unattractive, but I have no shot. That’s the can do attitude I love to see 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Napa I believe in you; I believe in that head of hair, and I always will. You can get her. She just doesn’t know it yet. Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 I guess I just miss my friend. Tilt wouldn't get this reference. COME BACK TILT! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
mrfritz 885 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 You can do it Napa! Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 I'm going to take the contrarian side, but I don't think you should risk the ruination of your friendship over shooting a low percentage shot, particularly since she already has a boyfriend. You should be shooting more, certainly, but not with women who you are close friends with, who are already in relationships. Now, you could encourage her to find a boyfriend that isn't so much of a complete zero, but do it for her sake, not for dirty macking purposes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
SuitedAces21 2,722 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 what kind of advice is that? he needs to use his inside knowledge to manipulate her in his direction. Link to post Share on other sites
Napa Lite 3,278 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Yeah, I have no intention of dirty macking. I don’t know who initially suggested that but it’s never going to happen. I do appreciate the confidence, but yeah, never going to happen. She’s a good friend and that’s just fine by me. She bought me lunch the other day. A burrito. There’s a casino about equidistant from our workplaces that we’ve considered going over lunch to play some blackjack but we both know if we got stuck we’d both have a hard time leaving down and then we’d end up getting fired. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
InternetExplorer 2,609 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 I tried pretty hard to get her to agree to just let me buy thanksgiving dinner from this really nice local restaurant. It's like $25/plate, pre-prepared, customized to the number of people you choose. I don't care, say it's five people, I just don't want to eat shitty food like last year (it was at a different relative of hers'). I didn't say it like that. She insisted on her mom cooking. I relented, and it now sounds like it is being built up into a Big Deal with more attendees. I just wanted this dumbass holiday to pass uneventfully. Last thanksgiving, her mom said something to me in reference to me being a "higher up" at my company, and now the whole situation just bothers the shit out of me. I make a positively middle class amount of money. I will never own a house that includes a mother in law suite. ****. Stop. Link to post Share on other sites
Essay21 2,385 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 This is a dumbass holiday, that’s for sure. Should be Chinese food and family poker games. The turkey bullshit is beyond me. Link to post Share on other sites
Theraflu 1,035 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Christ, I hate a lot of stuff, and don't have a large family that ever subjected me to awful holiday get togethers, but I find it hard not to get behind Thanksgiving traditions, whatever they may be. It's just: Eat lots of food. Link to post Share on other sites
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