Old Navy Goat
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Crabbies are off the menu, highly allergic to shellfish so I generally avoid all seafood here as a lot of their fish sauces are infused with shrimp paste
OT: OT-“Look, maybe I didn’t say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.”
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Old Navy Goat
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I went from no allergies to pretty much everything thanks to the vax cocktails giving while in the military. Iodine, shellfish, insect stings etc etc which sucks as I love shrimp, crab, lobster, squid etc
newfiejesus
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off-season, dear chap! Now I'm back trying to get caught up.
newfiejesus
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I have had a mild scent allergy for decades, contact with certain cologne/detergent/perfume would give me a headache or hives but not too badly. Doctors told me it'll probably get worse as I get older. This year it got worse. Had to head to emergency after a headful of cologne from passing a few teens in a hallway. IT SUCKS.
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Up to page 28 of 218 [equals out to just above 86,000 words] in my latest round of a novel revision. Going to have to add a good chunk throughout to flesh out some stuff. I figure this will end up between 90 and 93k when this revision is finished. Then I'm pitching it, hard, for 3-6 months. No takers, I'm self-pubbing come July. If you like vivid supernatural thrillers, this one's for you.
Jim Bob
RIP RJ
OK, I had a first at work today. I came in to an email about how layoffs at another company are affecting a project I am working on. I am only used to layoffs at my company affecting stuff.
Probably I dont recall The Penguin being a major part of the main story in the movie, I know the movie is a slow burn, Riddler wasnt even really a villain until the 3rd act.
brian_griffin
"Eric Cartman?"
Nowhere near enough mustard, relish, and onions on that Costco hot dog. I hit up Costco for lunch at least 1 workday a month. And Sweetwater revised their "tackle box" of IPAs with new flavors, so I have one of those in the garage fridge now also.
Ahhhh. If only P-Diddy suffered from the same fate, he may not have devolved into the mess he is in and has created for others.
My wife told me all about that Sunday morning (I was completely unaware - pop culture might as well be a leper colony to me - I have no interest in keeping up).
If somehow a deluxe Christmas edition box set of his "home movies" is released, I may need to get it as a Christmas gift.
Mike McDermott
blah blah blah
So when I was let go from my contract role in July, I was super excited because the company that laid me off in 2023 was literally was hiring for my old job. The job I was promoted in while I was there.
I thought "f***ing slam dunk", reached out to my former coworkers, the new manager, etc. Thought an informal job offer would be forthcoming because, who would know how to do this job better than me? Well, they never reached out. At all. Not a phone call,
On Friday, I saw they were doing MORE layoffs just over a year later. Guess a bullet dodged there.
Can I just say, the 'layoff culture' around tech companies specifically needs to be regulated.
Layoffs should be 'Well, we can't afford to keep this plant/office open anymore, lets give these people a fat severance and move on'
It's become 'Well we might miss our Q3 projection by 2%, lets lay off people to prop the stock price up'. Profitable companies should not be doing mass layoffs, period. At the very least, the government can put some worker protections where the minimum severance package is so worker friendly people line up to get laid off when they say they need to reduce headcount.
Jim Bob
RIP RJ
To be fair, my company has been on a slow downward spiral for decades.
And the people that were laid off from the company we are dealing with were not impressive to say the least. Things are already going better on this project and the layoffs are less than two weeks old.
In the path yes, not leaving *yet* unless it ramps way way up.
brian_griffin
"Eric Cartman?"
Contrarily, some might opine it would be wonderful if the government would lay people off when expenses exceed revenues.
With the temperatures in the Gulf, I would be surprised if it isn't. Cedar Key is going to get smashed - which considering they just had a fire in their shopping district that destroyed some businesses is going to be adding insult to injury.
As of this morning, looks like it's coming right for us. Fun.
sabremike
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sabremike
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MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
I believe in that war they fired around 10K bullets and only killed three.
So the Australian army is as efficient as the NYPD.
