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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 20, 2020 1:15:04 GMT -5
Geez, Kurt, don't scare us like that again. So glad you're recovering. What's important is to take the time you need to heal. Kick back, read some good comics, and relax.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 15, 2020 20:20:31 GMT -5
And I’m covid positive. And I feel like a used dish rag. Wear your masks guys. This shit ain’t fun. So sorry, man. This is serious stuff and sometimes even taking every precaution isn't enough. Which is why it infuriates me to see people wandering in stores, etc, without the bare courtesy, or sense, to put on a mask. It's not a guarantee, but it's the best we have.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 24, 2020 22:12:49 GMT -5
I hear you impulse. The kids have been back to school and then back home twice already as people wont do what they are f***ing told and social distance and wear masks that we get more outbreaks and the kids come back home. They are planning to get the kids back to school on Oct 5 and try again. I hope it's successful because from what my wife reports our youngest son is not taking to learning at home. He needs the structure (no pun intended) of the school and the teachers to learn better. Edit: Speaking of stress and anxiety I wanted to share this with ya'll. This thing really works. This isn't something I am promoting for financial benefit, so hopefully this is okay with the moderation team. I bought one of these, The Shift, for my wife for her birthday on September 5th. The day after she got it we went to go do some grocery shopping. She got seperated from me. When she finally got back to me, she said "This works really good." She said that she was trapped in a crowded aisle where people weren't socially distancing and she started to have a panic attack. She used it as you're suppose to and she said it did calm her anxiety and suppressed the panic attack until she could get out from that aisle and get back to me. I am so glad I bought it based on the reviews and the explanation of how it works on their website. She hasn't taken it off yet. She even sleeps with it. She said she feels much less anxiety when she knows she has to go out in public on her own too. I would tell anyone that after reading the website you think it would work for you, don't worry its not a scam. It's the real deal, though it is pricey. That's really cool that it's able to help her. Anxiety & panic attacks can be crippling, so anything that can help cope is a blessing.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 12, 2020 12:30:48 GMT -5
Had a pigeon squeeze through a break in my carport ceiling, managed to knock out a ceiling vent into my bedroom/storage room where I keep my comics and until he died left feathers and pigeon crap all over the room.😫 Had a very old cat I took in from my uncle who no longer wanted it around after my aunt passed away. I kept my bedroom door closed as the cat liked sleeping on my bed pillow. Cat managed to get the door open one day while I was at work and got itself caught in the window curtains. So I thought until I unhooked it's claws and then the cat dropped to the floor and went thump. It must have died from panic/heart attack as rigor mortis had set in.😰 Cat sat for friends when they took a 2 week vacation. Brought cat to my house and 1st night it caught a mouse and left it on my bed to as an offering in the morning. Of course I happened to be sleeping and woke to find it. Friends were so mad as had the cat for over 2 years and they had rodents but cat never brought them a mousey gift. I guess he loved me more.😁 Always finding random pigeon carcasses and feathers around my yards as many of my oh so great neighbors leave their cats outside to reproduce & poop in my yard.😡 One winter woke up and starting my car to drive to work and most awful scream and I thought my engine had blown up. Shut the car off & opened my car hood to find some stray had climbed up under the hood over the cold night. Presumably just after I got home the night before while the engine was warm and was up against the radiator so as I started the engine the bad ol' putty was sliced to pieces. 😰 Had moved into my grandparents home after my grandfather passed away & grandmother moved in with my aunt and uncle. Was going to live there for next year or so as we fix up the place to sale. Bought a mutt dog for watching the home while I worked all day so the 1st night I let the dog sleep inside with me to acclimate. Woke up to an odd smell, hearing little echoing yaps and found the dog with 3 newborn pumps in my laundry basket of dirty clothes inside the closet. Pound where I bought did NOT even know the dog was pregnant. 🤯 So I was going to ask you to cat-sit for me, but on second thought.....
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 31, 2020 22:41:30 GMT -5
Dude is just screaming for attention. What a knob. I started writing something else about how this is his way of getting praise and glory for his actions, not God, but it really doesn't need to be expanded on. This is his "look at what a good Christian I am" moment, all about him and his works, his overwhelming self-righteousness captured on video for posterity. My thoughts as well. He might try a little of that humility that the Bible keeps talking about. Also any sort of book burning is just a little too reminiscent of Nazis and other fascists.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 17, 2020 16:03:39 GMT -5
Best wishes and positive thoughts for negative results. I got quarantined for a couple weeks of working from home because someone at the office that I worked with tested positive. Fortunately I got tested right away and it was negative. Hopefully your brother will get the same.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 20, 2020 20:49:18 GMT -5
Tis' official. I am among the unemployed masses as of today. Emailed my resignation to my Director this morning. Now instead of hunting back issue comic books I turn to the elusive job hunting. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for a quick turn around. Good hunting. I hope your hunt is short and you land in a much better place.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 19, 2020 11:32:04 GMT -5
Not to name names, but apparently a company I may or may not have been treated shabbily by, is still a steaming, immoral pile of crap according to Google:
Is Funjet Vacations legit?
Do not use Funjet Vacations and do not let your travel agent book through them. ... Make sure your travel agent is not using this company to book anything. The Covid-19 virus forced us to cancel our large group travel and the company would not give us a full refund even though there was no way of flying to our destination.May 28, 2020
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 19, 2020 11:28:14 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that, DE Sinclair . It's clear that you were targeted and retroactively made into a villain so that they could maintain a veneer of propriety. I'm glad you won the fight for unemployment payments, but it's scant consolation when one is treated so shabbily. The one silver lining is that you know you acted properly, while they acted like contemptible swine. Since it's probably not the first time ( or the last) that they acted in such a fashion, they will have to look at themselves in the mirror each morning, knowing deep down that they are contemptible. And that kind of behaviour often comes back to haunt people... (The CEO I mentioned in the above story eventually got his just deserts, although in an unrelated matter... his devious behaviour being the same in all fields, he was eventually found to have misled the company's board and was fired. I was very, very glad). I don't believe that scum look in the mirror and struggle. Ever. But I believe that everything you do, good or bad, comes back to you in a similar form. I've seen it and it's happened to me as well. Sorry, that you were abused, DE Sinclair . Thanks RR & ICC. It was a long time ago and I've gone on to much better jobs, including my present one. Working at a company that builds and controls the electric transmission lines makes us pretty much the definition of "essential" so my job has seen no disruption from the coronavirus other than most of the office working from home. Makes the office pretty quiet and almost peaceful. I do wish I was a good enough man and Christian to say I've forgiven them, but I still have no good will towards the woman responsible. I'm afraid I wouldn't even walk across the street to pee on her if she were on fire. But I'm sure she never lost a moment of sleep over me, so hopefully she got what karma she deserved.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 16, 2020 22:38:12 GMT -5
If I understand brutalis post correctly, the company can document that your work performance is poor and terminate you. Sounds like a setup, they give you the work for 2 people and when you fail, they claim you weren't trying hard. Terrible. I've seen it done. In a company I worked for, the CEO wanted to fire a certain scientist who frequently disagreed with him. The law forbids firing a person without cause, so cause had to be found... and the CEO had a performance review process started, while at the same time setting certain unattainable objectives for the scientist. After a few months, the case was to be evaluated by a small committee supervised by the HR department. Since I was the scientist's supervisor, I was obviously involved in the process. I judged that the person was doing a fine job, especially considering the impossible goals that had been set. (It was really a great employee... just not one to say "there are five fingers" when there are four). Not only was I overruled, but I was removed from the evaluation process altogether... because I was "too personally involved with the members of my team". The Yes-men and sycophants who then passed judgement fired the scientist, "with cause" (because the impossible goals had not been met). The game had been rigged right from the start. Close to what happened to me, but they did mine retroactively. I was a computer operations supervisor and we had to shut down the computer system for an upgrade. Being a good employee trying to improve myself, I had spent downtime browsing the manuals and found an HP (computer & software manufacturer) provided "logoff" command that logged all the remaining users still on the system off at once, gracefully, instead of just shutting down and killing their sessions. So I used it and it crashed the system. Took hours and much work to recover from. A couple days later I was fired saying that it was a culmination of a series of mistakes. As another example, they said that I had failed to send backup tapes to the building next door as off site storage. Never mind that I was the one who initiated the off site storage program (they'd never done it before) and I hadn't sent the tapes over because I was waiting for proper storage cases for transport because they were still on order. I also later found out that the "logoff" command had a "known issue" that HP had talked about in the training that I was passed over for because I was a supervisor. They sent another guy in a "train the trainer" situation where he'd come back and teach us what he'd learned. Which he didn't do. Yet it was my fault that the faulty command, that I was never told about, crashed the system. But Wisconsin was a right to work state even then, so I was out. Then they tried to claim I had performed so poorly that weren't going to pay unemployment. Fought that and won. I'm sure it was also just a coincidence that there were two of us in the supervisor role, me and the other one whose lips were vapor-locked on the new manager's butt. The December before my firing, there was a training that the vendor wanted to get done before the end of the year. No urgency, just more convenient for them. The manager and sycophant-supervisor said sure, we can make all the computer operators cancel their vacation/holiday plans, which I argued against. I won, but they never forgave me for not falling into line. And I lost in the long run.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 11, 2020 21:12:23 GMT -5
Humidity here in England, especially down south near London, is pretty bad. Of course, we don't often get really scorching weather, but when we do it can be unbearable. And very few places over here have air conditioning. To give you an idea, the average relative humidity in a southern State like Alabama in July is around 70%, but in London in July, it hovers between 70% and 92%. This was certainly my own experience when we visited the South during high summer temperatures of 35°C (95°F) last year. I kept hearing about how oppressive the humidity was down there, but my wife and I actually found it more bareable than at home. Plus, of course, you guys have air con just about everywhere, which is wonderful. You folks don't have A/C very much over there?
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 26, 2020 22:26:47 GMT -5
My former brother-in-law Jeff, the father of my sister's three youngest daughters and the only real father the other two ever knew passed away this morning after a two-year battle with cancer. He was in constant excruciating pain these last few months and weighed only 108 pounds (on a 6'3" frame) at the end, so for his sake I'm glad his suffering is over. Later, when I'm not feeling so numb, I'll be angry with him. He could've lived another four or five years if he'd followed his doctor's advice and quit smoking cigarettes. Please, if any of you are smokers, quit now and prolong your life.
Cei-U! So sorry to hear, Kurt. I lost my mother-in-law to lung cancer as well. My daughter was very young when her grandma passed and only has a few memories to hold onto. Too many people I've known have had to fight addiction, and too often have lost. I hope some people hear you and are able to quit.
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 21, 2020 22:38:56 GMT -5
You'd thought the politics thread being closed would have stopped the flow of people leaving. As some did leave because of it or post very sparsely. One aside personally for myself, but otherwise I don't get the rage quit mentality of the internet. You have all the time in the world to form a post and iron out your thoughts and let the knee jerk reaction play out before posting. But I'm super laid back in 95% of life. Also welcome back Ms Jezebel, good to see you again. It's been boring not having anyone to debate about Rob Liefield with. ;-) Edit: Also I miss Dan. Great guy. In my former position of moderator here, I can tell you that the number one source of people leaving in a fit of rage was the politics thread. That was a major reason that thread was closed.
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 17, 2020 11:52:07 GMT -5
Next up... If you try to knock me, you'll get mocked I'll stir fry you in my wok Your knees'll start shaking and your fingers pop Like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock -M Since it's been over a day (and I had no chance of guessing it), I Googled it and found it's Intergalactic by the Beastly Boys. Here's another Superman reference that I don't think has come up: To be fly as a mother To supply all of my heart's demands Suit and tie 'cause undercover He's gonna save my life like Superman
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 7, 2020 14:36:30 GMT -5
My thoughts on mayo are much like DE Sinclair's thoughts on bananas. (Not that I much like bananas either.) I'll take mustard over mayo on most sandwiches, but there is no question mayo can't approach the sheer evil of bananas, no matter how much the Minions like them.
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