That goat managed to escape a few times. Twice that evening. I really got the neighbors goat. I wasn't trying to kidnap him, or anything, he just kept butting into our evening.
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That goat managed to escape a few times. Twice that evening. I really got the neighbors goat. I wasn't trying to kidnap him, or anything, he just kept butting into our evening.
I'm pretty sure it was a baby goat, despite him constantly taking it on the lamb.
Wow. That was awesome.
Do we have a button fly site? What's with the 503?
I've asked Steve about it, but he's as in the dark as we are.
You moderators get all the good stuff. We just get Error 504.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Oh, I get that, too. It alternates, just to spice things up.
Grilled goat is good, you didn't take the opportunity to taste it ? you could also try to get some milk to do some cheese.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
(We French have a particular relation to food ;) :D and almost everything is food : either for the body or for the mind and soul )
I'm a big fan of curried goat... nom
drool.... or curried mutton, and speaking of thatQuote:
I'm a big fan of curried goat... nom
prefer a bit of Brebis myselfQuote:
you could also try to get some milk to do some cheese.
There wasn't much goat there, so I wasn't about to bite it. It was just goats, too. I have mutton to do with sheep.
I like my lamb raw.
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And silent, apparently.
I got a pay raise today.
It was unexpected. I opened my email today to find an email from my CEO saying that he reevaluated the market and internal salaries and determined that I needed a raise.
That's good news. Unfortunately, yesterday my son was told that his raise was a mistake and they were cutting it in half. He's not a happy camper.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Glad your news was good.
Oh man, that's terrible.
What does he do for a living?
Also, what was the amount. I'm getting a pretty nice raise in a couple weeks, but there have been plenty of years where raises were small enough that cutting them in half wouldn't have made much of a difference.
Just got home last night after a nine+ hour drive.
The drive sucked.
I was coming from Zion National Park, though, and that was pretty spectacular.
The drive was NOT spectacular.
He's an assistant manager in produce at a grocery store.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
SH,
It was as small raise to begin with (less than 2%). Which actually made it worse because he was already a little bitter about how small it was.
On Saturday, I drove my camper to Lake Charles, then drove up to DeRidder, then drove back home. All in all it was about 9 hours, but it wasn't all at once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I just hate pulling my camper. I don't go over 55 mph when pulling it and the roads absolutely suck here, so I feel every single bump.
Man, I'm really sorry to hear that. I used to work in the deli/bakery combo at Kroger's, which is unionized, and we were guaranteed a raise every so often. It was so minimal that it practically didn't make a difference. But I will never forget Mrs. Alice, the old lady I worked for. She was my department manager and I swear she practically lived at the store. She was 67 when I left and I remember asking her when she would quit working.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
She was actually one of the reasons why I decided to get serious about getting into insurance. I remembered thinking that I didn't want to be getting paid peanuts and work until I'm dead.
Yeah, no one wants to do that. But it happens for a wide range of reasons.Quote:
She was actually one of the reasons why I decided to get serious about getting into insurance. I remembered thinking that I didn't want to be getting paid peanuts and work until I'm dead.
Nomad land.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking down on anyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I was very fortunate to have worked with her when I did. I was also very fortunate that my dad owned an insurance agency, so I knew I could get a job once I got licensed.
I'm just saying that I remember really admiring this woman and felt incredibly sorry for her because there was nothing I could do to really help her other than being the best employee that I could be which just didn't feel like it was enough.
Ah, there's a thread for that.
Yeah, the post race!
Oof. That was accurate.
Couldn't resist it :)
Bout time they put that out there without an ad wall in front of it.
WOW! Now that is some crappy management.Quote:
yesterday my son was told that his raise was a mistake and they were cutting it in half
Nah, crappy management is the supervisor at the septic cleanout company. That was horrendous management.
I was at a hatchery where we thought there was sewage leaking into the hatchery building. I volunteered to be lowered into a storm drain to try to snake a pipe that we found on the blueprints for the hatchery. That did no good, as that wasn't the source of the problem, but there were some mighty big rainbow trout swimming around my feet while I was down there.
The point was that we tracked the problem to a sewage uplift pump that had sucked up a stone and was jammed. A guy had to be lowered into THAT to fix the pump.
Somebody kept flushing while he was down there, even though we thought we had everybody blocked off. Nobody ever really did understand the plumbing of that hatchery.
No brown trout were involved.
That should be worth a big fat raise right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I just started a new job making well over $100K. Which is about average for someone with my experience in NY, SF or Chicago, but huge money in a city where the cost of living is a tiny fraction of those places because nobody else wants to live here. LOL
Did you move recently?!
No. In fact, I'm not quite sure whether anybody even asked me. I just thought it would be fun, and it was, though ever since then, I've been tempted to bring a lawn chair, a beach umbrella, and a fishing rod, and set up over that manhole. Not so much to catch the fish, but mostly because it would make for such a hilarious picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
Hello
Are you here?
No, I am there.
Well, that's neither here nor there.
This post serves a purpose.
We're doing a bit better on rain. Unfortunately, it would have been much better had this fallen as snow in January or February, rather than falling as rain in April and May. This has been a bit of a trend, or late.
Next Wednesday I will be on your ground. forcast is 82°F
We have been in the 80s pretty much all week, but there is a bad set of thunderstorms rolling through so hour high today is... well 86. Crap, I just looked at the weather and it looks like it stops raining at noon which means that it will get hot and humid.
I'm expecting more rain this afternoon, but then an unusually cold air mass will move in. The highs for the next few days will be only in the low to mid 50s. Quite odd for May.
White socks, slip on shoes, leggings, puff ball skirts and terrible musicQuote:
We have been in the 80s pretty much all week
Well, today we'll be in the 70s, so you might call that bell-bottom weather.
It was in the 60s today, with a little rain, and inter-cloud psychedelic-like lightning show! It was a trip!
We've had plasma and rice today.
That wasn't rice.
How'd it taste? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Bonker Gudd
Or maybe it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Bonker probably pissed off his neighbor recently, so they pelleted his property with it during the storm. :bigyello: