Post Race!

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Originally Posted by dday9

I like turtles.

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Are you a shill for a shell?

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Originally Posted by dday9

I like turtles.

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cooked or alive ?

Teenage Mutant Ninja ones?

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

it's almost a bromide.

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Forgive this meager servant for boring thee with tedious, overwrought platitudes. Perhaps his lordship prefers to joust with something sharper?
But he only armeth hisself with little more than the wet slap of trout in a bottle? And three of these at once no less!

A man with a damp, fishy magazine presents no hazard to me. What say ye, scoundrel?

Look at all those chickens!

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Originally Posted by wossy

Forgive this meager servant for boring thee with tedious, overwrought platitudes. Perhaps his lordship prefers to joust with something sharper?
But he only armeth hisself with little more than the wet slap of trout in a bottle? And three of these at once no less!

A man with a damp, fishy magazine presents no hazard to me. What say ye, scoundrel?

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I say unto thee: Thou hast not yet smelled the fish. For ye, verily, had thou done thus, mighty would have been thine reaction.

My wife tested positive for COVID :(

We aren't too worried about it because we are young, we have been masking up, and we have not visited our elderly family in quite some time. It still sucks nonetheless.

Sorry for that :( . Does she has bad symptom ?

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Originally Posted by wossy

Forgive this meager servant for boring thee with tedious, overwrought platitudes. Perhaps his lordship prefers to joust with something sharper?
But he only armeth hisself with little more than the wet slap of trout in a bottle? And three of these at once no less!

A man with a damp, fishy magazine presents no hazard to me. What say ye, scoundrel?

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I say unto thee: Thou hast not yet smelled the fish. For ye, verily, had thou done thus, mighty would have been thine reaction.

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Thanks for the good laugh :D

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I say unto thee: Thou hast not yet smelled the fish. For ye, verily, had thou done thus, mighty would have been thine reaction.

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I have no desire to sample such foul offerings firsthand. My agents have done so at my bidding and have confirmed that your braggadocio is not entirely unfounded.
They are not easily nauseated. You are clearly a force to be reckoned with.

You will be contacted in due course with full instructions.

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Originally Posted by dday9

My wife tested positive for COVID :(

We aren't too worried about it because we are young, we have been masking up, and we have not visited our elderly family in quite some time. It still sucks nonetheless.

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Everything is happening to you, this year. Hurricane after hurricane, deaths in the family, and now this. Hopefully, it will pass without symptoms of any sort...but...you seem to be a lightning rod of the weirdest kind this year.

She is just very lethargic and lost her sense of smell. Every once in a while she'll catch a fever, but so far it hasn't broken 101.

2020 has been a rough year, but I'm just grateful that I am still employed and have a good core of friends and family. That alone is much more than some.

Hope your wife gets better soon :)

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Originally Posted by dday9

I'm just grateful that I am still employed and have a good core of friends and family. That alone is much more than some.

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I was laid off at the end of July after nearly 15 years at a job I quite liked. It's a bummer for sure.

Will the job come back, or is it a permanent change?

Well they said that engineering was not a key skill in the company anymore. Which struck me as sounding a bit odd because it's an engineering company.

So I reckon it's gone forever. So it goes.

Maybe it's all just marketing, now?

Anyways, you have nine lives, so you'll get over it.

When I was an exclusive agency owner with Allstate, they made a shift from being an insurance company to being a data collection company that sells insurance.

That was when I saw the writing on the wall for the traditional brick and mortar franchise model that I was under. If I had to guess, the will be less than 1 agent per parish (or county) in the next 10 years and everything will have been moved to their mobile app, website, and/or corporate customer support (which is more often than not outsourced).

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

Anyways, you have nine lives, so you'll get over it.

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Have you considered becoming a bereavement counselor?

I counsel you to avoid it as much as possible. Bereavement is no fun for anybody, so it would be best if you just avoided it. As we get older, that becomes harder and harder, but it's still a goal.