CycloneErik
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I worked with a gut who made a point every day for 6 months to argue that Jason Scales should repay his scholarship, simply because he had injury problems and failed to measure up to expectations based on that.
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I worked with a gut who made a point every day for 6 months to argue that Jason Scales should repay his scholarship, simply because he had injury problems and failed to measure up to expectations based on that.
I wasn't trying to shame anyone into helping earlier. One benefit to moving back to CR is having plenty of family and friends to help.
Although I wouldn't mind meeting you guys. I know the alumni club has an official game watch location at the Field house but I know a lot of people are not excited about having it there. So I was debating talking with CW and trying to maybe find a CR Fanatic game watch location.
Although I wouldn't mind meeting you guys. I know the alumni club has an official game watch location at the Field house but I know a lot of people are not excited about having it there. So I was debating talking with CW and trying to maybe find a CR Fanatic game watch location.
I actually was serious. I either forgot you had posted that or I never saw your post. My bad, bro.
I'm ashamed to admit that I had forgotten how awesome of a band Cake is.
Also, Lifesaver jelly beans are the ****.
Also, Lifesaver jelly beans are the ****.
Yeah it just isn't for everyone. My wife's aunt and uncle live in Newhall. Last night at Easter dinner they were discussing about some guy who cheated on his wife or something and his wife kicked him out but he was still trying to be in his kids life and what not. I just looked at my wife and said "example A of why I refuse to live in a small town."
Disclaimer: this can and does occur anywhere but gossiping seems to be much more prevalent in small towns.
I couldn't imagine going to a high school with 400-500 students in my graduating class. I had 86.
That part stinks, but the part where people know and help each other is nice. When we moved to our small-ish town, we had a problem with our house a week after we moved in. Contractor came and took care of it, which would be required anywhere, but the city engineer lives a block over and stopped by several times just to see how it was coming, the guy who was doing the excavating offered to let us stay at his house rather than be without water (we didn't need it, still hadn't closed on the old house sale) and stopped by a few times later on to see how we were doing. When our kids were born, people from our church brought days worth of meals, and Mrs. 00clone has started doing that for others. While our town is getting bigger, it's still small enough that there's one elementary, one middle, and one high school, so even if they don't already, the parents mostly get to know one another because their kids are with the same group of kids the whole way thru.
I grew up in a small town as well, and some of the women in my dad's extended family were horrible gossips, so I know what you mean...but I like the other parts, so my solution is that A: I try and not do anything that would make me a reason to gossip about (i.e. don't cheat on my wife) and B: I don't participate in it. I'm sure because our house repairs right after we bought our house were very visible that we were the source of gossip around town...in fact I'm certain of it...We've met several people from the neighborhood when trying to figure out where we live that the light clicks on when they say "Ohhh, you're the ones that moved in and they had to tear up your front lawn right away." but IDK, what do you do, and I got way more good help from that situation than I got gossip.
I think it was in here that people were talking about small construction places being bad at good business practices (returning calls, etc.). I just had one of the dumbest interactions I think I've ever had.
So this antenna project I'm working on...now that it's going up outside again, I needed a grounding block. It's like a $2 part. Put a load of laundry in and headed to Lowes. Looked in the cable/networking section, not there. Looked in the electrical section, not there. Maybe I missed it, but I couldn't find it. Now I'm thinking...where should I look next? Thought of the Ace hardware just down the street, thought....mmm...I hope they have it, I hate to run all over town for a friggin' $2 part, but that's my next best guess. On my way, I think of the custom audio/video place right next door to Ace. I KNOW they'd have them, it's their business. Sure, it might cost me $10 instead of $2, but it's worth my time to not have to possibly go to 3 more places to find one. Go in, ask the guy if they have them, and he's all....ummm, and walks away. Manager guy comes out and says "I'm not like Radio Shack where I sell parts. If you had a project or something, yeah, we have them, but I don't sell just parts that my guys use for installation. It's just not worth my time, unless it'd be like a $35 minimum." and then I think he saw my annoyance, so he keeps rambling on and on about how it's not worth it for him, he only does projects, doesn't sell parts, just does projects, can't just sell parts, not worth his time, and on and on, you could run to Menards or something, maybe Ace, etc. Like for 2 minutes, and I finally cut him off and just said "OK, I got it".
So, there's a box in the back with probably 10 of them in it, and they're $2 parts. He would have wasted less time going in the back and giving me one than he wasted justifying not being willing to sell me one. And I didn't even expect him to just give me one, I would have paid probably 5X what it's really worth to not mess around any longer over it. However, considering he wasted both of our time justifying to me how it wasn't worth his time and it was 'below' him, despite the fact that I've done business with them in the past and would likely do business with them in the future, the fact that he was so dumb makes it pretty unlikely that I'll ever waste their time again.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not super mad, but it's an example of how people sometimes are clueless as to how to operate a business.
Thankfully, Ace had them. I think it was $2.50 or something.
So this antenna project I'm working on...now that it's going up outside again, I needed a grounding block. It's like a $2 part. Put a load of laundry in and headed to Lowes. Looked in the cable/networking section, not there. Looked in the electrical section, not there. Maybe I missed it, but I couldn't find it. Now I'm thinking...where should I look next? Thought of the Ace hardware just down the street, thought....mmm...I hope they have it, I hate to run all over town for a friggin' $2 part, but that's my next best guess. On my way, I think of the custom audio/video place right next door to Ace. I KNOW they'd have them, it's their business. Sure, it might cost me $10 instead of $2, but it's worth my time to not have to possibly go to 3 more places to find one. Go in, ask the guy if they have them, and he's all....ummm, and walks away. Manager guy comes out and says "I'm not like Radio Shack where I sell parts. If you had a project or something, yeah, we have them, but I don't sell just parts that my guys use for installation. It's just not worth my time, unless it'd be like a $35 minimum." and then I think he saw my annoyance, so he keeps rambling on and on about how it's not worth it for him, he only does projects, doesn't sell parts, just does projects, can't just sell parts, not worth his time, and on and on, you could run to Menards or something, maybe Ace, etc. Like for 2 minutes, and I finally cut him off and just said "OK, I got it".
So, there's a box in the back with probably 10 of them in it, and they're $2 parts. He would have wasted less time going in the back and giving me one than he wasted justifying not being willing to sell me one. And I didn't even expect him to just give me one, I would have paid probably 5X what it's really worth to not mess around any longer over it. However, considering he wasted both of our time justifying to me how it wasn't worth his time and it was 'below' him, despite the fact that I've done business with them in the past and would likely do business with them in the future, the fact that he was so dumb makes it pretty unlikely that I'll ever waste their time again.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not super mad, but it's an example of how people sometimes are clueless as to how to operate a business.
Thankfully, Ace had them. I think it was $2.50 or something.
You could join and help the local club find a better place (if there is one available)! One of our young alumna up here in the Twin Cites worked to add another location for our fans here this fall.
Looked at the Linn/Johnson ISUAA site and they have 8,000 alumni in the two counties. Probably around 4,000 are on the ISU email so plenty of people who might be interested.
Finding gamewatch sites isn't that easy. Sports bars frequently already have existing commitments and arrangements with other fan groups. Non-sports bars aren't always set up with the TVs and all of the necessary sports subscriptions. And, of course, being in the middle of hawk country doesn't help and I expect many bar managers don't want to alienate their hawk clients. They are, after all, called Tavern Hawks for a reason.
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I couldn't imagine having a class with only 86 people. Dating pool seems awfully small.
the longer i'm in a small town to more i realize my brain is not cut out for it. if someone pisses me off I want to be done with them. not run into them at Hyvee, etc. and when 25 people all have the same last night but not be related? c'mon people. you know you're related so stop denying it.
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