Random Thoughts XII - This Thread Delivers
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That's always pleasant. My last project in the dead of summer it routinely pushed 78 inside our office building. AC unit was undersized and couldn't keep up. They also had boiler heat that only went to the perimeter offices in the winter so they roasted but the center of the office froze. I showed up on monday morning and it was 59 inside the office. Nice and warm.
My old office was so bad that I bought a portable air conditioner--it was an older building that had a boiler and a chiller (and no windows that could be opened plus ****** circulation) and when temperatures started changing in Fall and in Spring it would hit 85 in my office. The new digs are better.
It was expensive when I was a student (speaking from experience). I would think that now it could cost your first born!Chances are high you will get kicked out since I won’t be there.I will be wearing a yellow shirt at home, though. And won’t make it to volleyball because the middle schooler has her first dance tonight and has to get ready with a friend here beforehand.
Just heard that my nephew forgot to move his car out of the student lots last night, oops. He is even in the band so knows when home games are. Last week he and his mom were here at my house on Friday at 11pm and had to remind him to move his car. “Oh yeah, have an hour to do that.” Expensive reminder for the college student.
I was surprised when I found out it was only $65. I spent close to that on pizza Saturday night!
That seems a little steep still though. Although the value of those spots in relation to the donations those parkers pay its probably a little low.
Haven't been in there yet. We were going to visit during the OU tailgate but "No alcohol allowed!"Found out where the old folks hang out before games, the Alumni Center. Most of the people there were older than me which ain't young.
Lot of old and quiet people at the volleyball match to. They should have let us getting in on football tickets sit in the season ticket sections since those looked 75% empty. Kinda of a shame, most of the crowd was in the horseshoe end away from the court.
Do they allow pop bottles? Vodka is basically odorless. A nice tropicana bottle of OJ never hurt anybody.
Ours has had warm and cold spots ever since our old building manager type person spent an obscene amount of money getting it all upgraded. He also was in charge of the building of a lights out data center in North Carolina. That place has multiple conference rooms and break rooms which is odd for a lights out facility. Pretty sure he was told leave or be fired. He also expected a going away party for some reason. Guy had a real high opinion of himself.
My first office on campus will win the crappy office award every time, hands down. Show of hands - how many of you remember "Old Botany" and the addition that was on the northeast corner of it? We were housed in that addition for several years while our building was remodeled and the east wing was added. There was a stone sub-basement where some of the corn breeders stored sacks of corn which attracted rats...which would occasionally wander up to our ground level. There were gaps in the windows on the upper floors where pigeons and bats came in to roost. One time security found a couple of students who had found their way up there (upper floors were all locked up) for some *ahem* private moments, so they got the bright idea to shut off all of the heat pipes to the upper levels...which then drove the bats down to our level. It was not uncommon to come into the lab first thing in the morning and find bats hanging from the curved faucets over the sink. There was also an interior loading dock loosely constructed of old wood that was built directly over the steam tunnels. Cockroaches as big as your thumbs came out of there at night, and sometimes were still in my office in the morning. Then, of course, there were the ubiquitous mice, silverfish & potato bugs, that were a beyotch to keep out of the file cabinets. You know those 7 & 10 year record keeping rules? Yeah, riiiiigggghhhhtttt. And that doesn't include the two motherboards I lost in my Apple III due to mice nesting and/or peeing inside the unit. There was NO A/C in the building (and labs), and just a window air unit in my office. The leaks in the walls and the windows on the upper floors and the poor airflow through the steam pipes made it cold as hell in the winter. Ever try to type with gloves on?
Soooo...top that!!!
Soooo...top that!!!
The americans fell apart after about the third season or so. About the time Martha was shipped to Russia.
Remember I flip a lot of crap. Just getting you worked up. I can make some other story lines also. How many seasons you got done? 2?
Just started 2.
Middle daughter Alana took her ACT and scored 33. She wasn't happy, so she took it again and scored 35.
Similar mindset, without the emotion.
You are in the good part now, IIRC. Story lines flying around left and right. They kinda run out of material and end up stretching things out after awhile. The last one to one and a half seasons pick back up and get more entertaining. So if you start to get blah, just wait it out and it picks back up.
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