OT - NO POLITICS The Leaves,They Are a Changing

[GordonHowe]

“Neighbor issue?”

Thankfully, Mrs. 103 and I have tremendous neighbors. We have become very close with the families that live next door to us and across the street.

Especially the family across the street… We dogsit for each other. Go to each other’s houses for dinners, cookouts and parties. And they let us stay at their lake house in NH whenever we like as long as no one else asked to have it first. The husband is a contractor and has done several (smallish) jobs at my house and never took a dime from us. I’ve done electrical work for them and wouldn’t even let them pay for the materials. One can never have enough friends, and honestly, I think isolation from each other is one of the many social ills that plague our faltering little republic.

As with anything, it would depend on the people involved. If two people genuinely share a common interest, that could serve as a starting point or ice breaker. If two people want to get to know each other - great. As with any kind of relationship or friendship, the best ones are built brick by brick over time, whether online or off.

I used to. Politics absolutely destroyed it and it was shut down because it became impossible to moderate. It was a great forum and did a lot of good for a lot of people. Thankfully, when I saw the writing on the wall, I made sure I got email addresses and friended my favorites on Facebook so we could stay in touch. I have fb, but I don’t consider it to be like this forum here or the one that was shut down.

Kind of.

When I was 12 or 13, some neighborhood kids and myself saw a gentleman park his Ferrari Testarossa in a parking lot and enter a nearby building. We rushed over to look at it and saw that he had left it unlocked. A kid who was a little younger than I dared me to open the door and sit in the driver’s seat. Naturally, I did just that. I can’t remember if I closed the door or not, but I definitely put both hands on the wheel and my right foot on the accelerator. The other kids couldn’t believe I did that. I eventually got out and shut the door. A few minutes later, the man came back - and completely without provocation - the kid who dared me to sit in the Ferrari pointed at me and blurted out everything that I did.

The owner sternly reminded me that I shouldn’t be touching what doesn’t belong to me, and said he was going to forget the whole thing happened as long as I never touched the car again. Sounded like the best deal I was going to get, so I took it.

As for the little rodent who snitched on me, he immediately ran home as soon as he realized I wasn’t going to get in any real trouble and that the only adult in the area had driven off and left us kids alone. He was very wise to run. In fact, after that day he avoided me like the plague until I graduated from high school.

I’m a ‘one woman’ kinda man. Never a good justification.

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These are some pictures near the Great Meadow that straddles the East Lexington - Arlington line. Ever since I was old enough to bike there (later I drove), my friends and I would meet there to hang out and commiserate away from adult supervision. I took these pictures last November on a warm day like today.

For several reasons I won’t get into here, I’m no longer in touch with anyone I used to spend time with there, but I always loved the scenery as much as any of the “fun” I had there with my friends. Unfortunately, there isn’t really a place like that where I live now, but my mind wanders back to that place and those days probably more than it should.

You're the cool sort.

Stay so.

 

[Fenway]

WMTW Channel 8 reports - Law enforcement sources confirm Robert Card's remains were found in a dumpster at Maine Recycling.

A few years ago WCVB visited Lewiston

 

[HHHH]

Son was able to come home from Lewiston tonight to CT, and I have literally been in tears since he told us that he was able to leave campus and make it back home. He is a strong young man and a college athlete and since he arrived home, he took a long bath and and has literally been asleep for about eight hours...while I don't think he is ready to process everything that has happened in the last 55 or so hours, it is awesome to have him home, and now that the shooter has been found I think I might be able to sleep for the first time in a few nights.

He was at that bowling alley with his girlfriend a little more than a week ago, so he is a bit shaken up and thinking of the "what ifs"...

Definitely gonna hug him a bit tighter over the next few days before he heads back to Lewiston., and prayers for Lewiston and those who lost their lives and everyone who is and will be affected by the events of a few nights ago...Lewiston is strong but thankfully the community can take the time to heal as best it can now that the shooter is no longer a threat.

 

[Fenway]

 

[Fenway]

For sure. Like you I'd have preferred he was taken alive, even though I knew it was unlikely. As the father of one of the victims said, "I have mixed feelings about the whole thing because at this point we’ll have no answers from this gentleman, killer. That will leave me empty forever because I wanted them so badly to find him alive." I totally get that, the desire both for understanding and some sort of learning. Not to be. At least this puts a line through the whole event, and avoids the rigors and added traumas of a trial and all that comes with it. There's pros and cons to both outcomes, I guess.

The flip side is even when a mass murderer survives you don't get answers as in the case of Michael McDermott who killed 7 coworkers in Wakefield, MA the day after Christmas in 2000.

I am just happy that the people of Lewiston can try to return to their normal lives today

 

[Fenway]

RIP Bull ( Richard Moll )

 

[rfournier103]

You're the cool sort.

Stay so.

Why, thank you, kind sir. I feel the same way about you and I enjoy your posts very much. Thank you for all you contribute here.

 

[GlenFeatherstone]

RIP Bull ( Richard Moll )

When they talk about the best comedies Night Court never gets it’s due. Was a great show. Plus that theme song I could jam out to all day.

 

[AngryMilkcrates]

 

[Ladyfan]

Do you?

"Thoughts and prayers."

Until the next time.

I am so depressed.

He threatened to shoot up a military facility while an active reservist. Why wasn't he locked up for a significant time? That's a terroristic threat and he got 2 weeks in a mental facility. I don't understand that.

Why did he have guns?

 

[Ladyfan]

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and it won't be the last. Wake the f*** up USA.

 

[Alicat]

The flip side is even when a mass murderer survives you don't get answers as in the case of Michael McDermott who killed 7 coworkers in Wakefield, MA the day after Christmas in 2000.

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I am just happy that the people of Lewiston can try to return to their normal lives today

Guys like him are the reason why I never sat with my back to the door when I worked in an office.

My company hired security when we were doing mass layoffs and the potentially volatile employees were taken to a place separate from people and they put a security detail, a retired marine, outside of the office and had code words in case shit went south.

My best friend (and former coworker) had to do a notification and the woman actually made a joke about shooting up the entire office. She ended up fired for cause and her access was terminated immediately and was put on the building's watch list. That was really hard for my friend and for the group.

I've only had one instance where a potentially dangerous employee slipped past building security and ended up through our security and into our office. He ended up being calm and not a threat. He still stayed on the banned list.

I'm not going to lie, we went through a different entrance/exit and a different way to work for a week after the layoffs just in case.

Be nice to your HR people especially when layoffs are happening. I can't speak for others here but we think about this every time. It is literally the only thing I hate about my job.

 

[Orr Fourever]

Texas cowboys give Saskatoon weather forecast.

Two Texas cowboys try their hand at a Saskatchewan weather forecast

Two cowboys in town for a rodeo tried their hand at a Saskatchewan weather forecast, with hilarious results.

saskatoon.ctvnews.ca

 

[Troublesome 85]

What a difference a year makes

 

[Ladyfan]

 

[NeelyDan]

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Ugh. This hit home.

 

[NeelyDan]

 

[Ladyfan]

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Great post and SO true.

 

[Troublesome 85]

Interesting

 

[caz16]

Guess it depends who you ask?

 

[LSCII]

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Weird, right?

 

[McGarnagle]

Guys like him are the reason why I never sat with my back to the door when I worked in an office.

My company hired security when we were doing mass layoffs and the potentially volatile employees were taken to a place separate from people and they put a security detail, a retired marine, outside of the office and had code words in case shit went south.

My best friend (and former coworker) had to do a notification and the woman actually made a joke about shooting up the entire office. She ended up fired for cause and her access was terminated immediately and was put on the building's watch list. That was really hard for my friend and for the group.

I've only had one instance where a potentially dangerous employee slipped past building security and ended up through our security and into our office. He ended up being calm and not a threat. He still stayed on the banned list.

I'm not going to lie, we went through a different entrance/exit and a different way to work for a week after the layoffs just in case.

Be nice to your HR people especially when layoffs are happening. I can't speak for others here but we think about this every time. It is literally the only thing I hate about my job.

And HR never tells anyone to do layoffs, that all comes from above and HR is just told to process the paperwork, but the employees blame them.

 

[Ladyfan]

Weird, right?

Not really...but you and I know that

 

[caz16]

Guys like him are the reason why I never sat with my back to the door when I worked in an office.

My company hired security when we were doing mass layoffs and the potentially volatile employees were taken to a place separate from people and they put a security detail, a retired marine, outside of the office and had code words in case shit went south.

My best friend (and former coworker) had to do a notification and the woman actually made a joke about shooting up the entire office. She ended up fired for cause and her access was terminated immediately and was put on the building's watch list. That was really hard for my friend and for the group.

I've only had one instance where a potentially dangerous employee slipped past building security and ended up through our security and into our office. He ended up being calm and not a threat. He still stayed on the banned list.

I'm not going to lie, we went through a different entrance/exit and a different way to work for a week after the layoffs just in case.

Be nice to your HR people especially when layoffs are happening. I can't speak for others here but we think about this every time. It is literally the only thing I hate about my job.

I understand this completely. I have never been in HR - always worked at smaller companies but that can be very uncomfortable when someone is let go. There was one time when we had a really strange guy working there, he was obsessed with Hitler and read books all the time about the Nazis. He was not a good worker and they decided to let him go. My boss, who was the manager at the time, fired him and then said to me "I'm taking the next couple of days off, I'm worried he might come back for revenge" - gee, thanks. I was the only person who had to be in the office every day, the rest were on the road. I was a bit paranoid for a while. When my boss came back, he brought a brick and sat it on his desk "just in case". What a coward!

 

[Alicat]

And HR never tells anyone to do layoffs, that all comes from above and HR is just told to process the paperwork, but the employees blame them.

Exactly. No one I know enjoys laying people off. It is brutal physically and mentally. Even when an employee gets fired, the what if's start rolling in your head.