teachercd

I played 9 solo last week at Indian Creek (Elkhorn). They have the cups pulled 2" above ground, so you just hit the cup and call it good. You don't have to touch anything but your own clubs/ball. It was enjoyable, especially just getting out of the house, fresh air, sunshine, etc.

What happens if you get a hole in one with the cup pulled up like that? 
 

Would you say you’ve gotten a hole in one if it were a situation like that? 

Bro...I would say I did!

s#!t, I brag when I get a hole in 4 on a par 3.

I don't have any crazy quitting stories, but I did have a funny "firing" story (Teach knows this story).  I was doing some temp accounting work for a company which makes candles outside Chicago (think Yankee Candle, but not quite as successful).  My "boss" was a douchy guy who had an earring and thought he was hot s#!t because he was the lead accounting/finance guy at this place.  After being there 2-3, and not getting much work to do, the guy let me go on a Friday morning.  He said he was mad at me for not asking to do more work, even though I thought that his job was to give me stuff to work on.  On my way home, the temp company called me and they were upset with me.  They said the "boss" called me lazy and I stole a bunch of candles from their warehouse.  I changed my name of my fantasy baseball team to Lazy Candle Stealer that season.

I had a job once where my mentor was supposed to get me up to speed on some tasks.  I'd had a similar job for nearly 3 years so it wasn't like I was starting at ground zero.  But the mentor would have me do the same task over and over, making a few small changes each time.  Sometimes keeping me there until 8:00 or 9:00 pm doing this crap because he'd make more money putting in the extra hours.  I kept the revisions for a couple of tasks, and showed our boss what he'd been doing.  You could see that the second revision was substantially the same as the seventh revision.  I did this because I knew s#!t would hit the fan when they tallied up my meager work throughput.  Sure enough, a couple weeks later the boss called me into his office.  He told me that I wasn't getting enough work done, so I'd have to put in more hours.  I told him that not only was I not going to put in more hours, but I wasn't going to put in any hours.  I quit right there on the spot.   (I landed a job at a much better place about three weeks later.)    

Several years later I worked for a company that could have sent a great deal of work to that first place.  Needless to say, they never got a nickel's worth of business from us, or from any company I've worked for since.  

Many years ago I was working at a job that often needed working on weekend hours. I was basically in charge of one crew and a buddy of mine was in charge of the other. We had been there a few years and had it arranged to where we would each take off alternate weekends and still get all the work done. Well.....the company brought in a new guy over us and he had this wise idea that everyone was going to work 6 on and 2 off. That is a 8 day week so naturally your two days off would keep slipping back one day per week. I didn’t like the idea of days off being different every week and working so many weekends in a row but the new guy was trying to sell it by telling us we would get a 4 day mini vacation every 8 weeks. Anyway, I told him I thought it sucked and that he would receive my notice the day he announced that would actually happen. Of course he didn’t believe me. Well the day came and he said that’s the way it was going. I told him I’d already given him my notice, quit, wished him luck then I walked out and never went back.

@teachercd what were the other two magazines?

I think one was a penthouse...I don't remember the other one.

Stole it from a bookstore, lol. Accumulated a stack of them that way.

I get my butt in the car and go to the restaurant and pick up my own food. Always have. When your 8 piece chicken wings shows up with 7 pieces.

I have a Chase Sapphire Preferred credit card and they are offering a full year of Premium Doordash for all 'DashPass' restaurants, which essentially means you don't have to page the usage fee; you just pay for the food + tax and then a tip for the driver.

DoorDash has also added TONS of restaurants to the DashPass in the last few days because of the coronavirus. The service is currently defaulted to 'no contact delivery' so they drop it off at the door and text you through the app saying it's there. So far, I've been really pleased.

If you don't have a Chase card, paying for the premium service for the next couple of months may be worth it if you want to use it more than 3+ times. I think it's about $10/month for premium.

@JJ Husker I'm in the same boat. What they're recommending right now for delivery food is to transfer the food from the containers onto your own dishware (using your own utensils) and then making sure to wash your hands again before eating.

That's wild. I personally barely made it out of season two and that was almost a decade ago.

Sounds like it's time to send this baby out to sea on a burning longship.

I quit watching about the time Rick's son was wearing the hat and acting like he was some kind of badass. It's time to give up when you want the main characters to get eaten by walkers....

I started binge watching during season 3 being on TV.  Once I had caught up I started reading the comics.

Well, the comic ended last year.  The show deviated from the comic so poorly that it cannot survive.  The show show botched All Out War so badly that I essentially stopped watching a few episodes into the following season.  I'll catch up at some point but wow did they mess that up, so I had very little faith they would do justice to the Whisperers.  Sounds like I was right.

Saved by the Bell in my early teens, Beverly Hills 90210 when I got into high school.

Monday Night Football with "Dandy" Don Meredith and Howard Cossell.

The Simpsons. Right in the sweet spot too; early seasons.

Now imagine juggling that with a real job.

No s#!t...she works from home AND has to teach her two kids...brutal!

The only thing I've b!^@hed about regarding my kids schooling, relearning maths.

At an old job, co-workers and I would have a monthly game, my boss and a lot of mid and upper management and me, a direct report at the time.  Not a hug buy in for them, for me at the time it was a decent one, played one table tourneys and we'll play multiple a night.   First game, first hand, I get AK in the hole.   Flop comes A-K-7.   I bet a decent bet and get an immediate call and the other 5 fold.  So now it's heads up.   Next card, a dead card, can't remember what it is.   River card comes, another king.  So I'm sitting full house, Kings over aces.  I go all in, guy calls right away.  Flip my hand start going to collect my chips, he flips his hand.  He had A-A in the hole.  He wins with a full house Aces over kings.  Had to sit and stew for an hour and half waiting for them to finish the game

A baseball mother on one of old teams won the bad beat at a small Indian  casino a few years back- 160000 I think. Her husband was also at the table and won a little chunk as well 

I don’t have a bad beat that I can think of in a loss, but we played almost daily in high school and one friend we invited to the table lost bad so we kept inviting him back and he would continue to lose a lot of money. We would invite him and he kept coming back to the games, but then eventually that s.o.b. hung around so much he would catch the river or runner-runner so often that bad beats was renamed to “getting Chad’d.” Effin Chads, man lol. That guy lived on the river and ended up winning so often. 

Dude orders a beer from a guy bartender:  3 dollars...gets 2 dollars back...leaves a one dollar tip.

Dude orders a beer from a hot girl bartender:  3 dollars...gets 2 dollars back...leaves a two dollar tip...his phone number...orders a round of shots...one for her as well...tips her again...reminds her that he gave her his digits...orders another round and gives another big tip.

But hey, hot girls have it rough!  Ha

I bartended for about 5 years or so.  It was a blast.  Usually walked out with 200 bucks cash for about 6 hours of work/drinking.  Not something you want to do forever but definitely fun for a while.  

Yes, it was both a blast and annoying depending on the day and the customers.

@teachercd I like my boats more than I do most people! 

Teachers are the real heroes.  Some days off as children.

@man eating mastodon I like your boats (which I've never even seen) better than most people too. It's a low bar...

Voluntarily - not much. Just bought some extra food.

I'm dreading when my company decides we have to work from home. That's how I get away from Elaida.

Wife and I are working from home full time starting Monday.  Also kids will be out of school for at least 3 weeks because of this.  Bought a lot of extra freezer food (just in case).  We are going to do our best to isolate through this week and see how it goes.  I may need to go for a 30 minute drive every day to get out of the house.

If you haven't seen it, that WaPo simulation on social distancing left an impression on my wife and me.  We figure its a small inconvenience for us to help flatten the curve is worth it.

I'm scheduled to attend a meeting in another town today.  I'm going to call and let them know I've had a headache and upset stomach starting about the middle of last night, but would still be willing to come to the meeting.  I'm guessing they pull the plug on our meeting.  lol 

Bigger Choke Job:  2020 Millard North or 1989 Pius X (vs Wahoo)?  Pius blew a 16 point lead with 6 mins to go and a 9 point lead with 1 minute to go.

9 points with 1 minute left probably wins that one.  Ouch.

Yeah it's gotta be Pius.

Dang, they are making you come in?  So lame.

Westside is closing for a week. 

Talk now of really being closed for a long a$$ time.

I'll bet if you show up coughing uncontrollably they wouldn't object to you going home.  

I was told that if I was "at risk" that I could stay home.

Italy was playing soccer games in empty stadiums last week.

The US has been doing that for years.

Cold blooded!

https://www.nj.com/rutgersbasketball/2020/03/big-ten-tournament-canceled-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic.html

It appears so.  Of course they had to wait until we get knocked out of the tournament

It probably did not help that most of the footage of Fred was of him dying.  Ha

Man......just think the overreaction is a bit much about this thing.

@BigRedN The difference is that influenza only has about a 0.1% mortality rate, while coronavirus has a mortality rate of around 3-4%, and unlike influenza we have no vaccine and few treatments for coronavirus.

It's comments like BigRedN's that make me wish we had the eyeroll emoji back. 

Seriously--knock it off with that derp. You're not part of the CDC or any sort of expert on anything, and your rationale is completely off base. 

Hey, I've been eye rollin' the media and the coverage of this virus, so it's all good.  To me, there is no reason to create this kind of fear. 

We will see where the facts go.  I think it will be a small blip having no comparison to the flu.

... VectorVictor [Eye roll]

Is there a cure for the flu, or the cold?

The stats very from year to year.  I took an average.  https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/

If they’re of age, then I don’t see a problem with them throwing back a Corona or 2

Here's hoping they have limes in their fridge. 

Their age and excellent physical condition translates to a very small chance of death.  Like 1 in 200 or so.  Still ...  

I do s#!t a lot!

The CDC told us this like a week ago.

Back when no one thought they were serious.

Would love to see Miles make good at his booth gig.   I always liked him, and didn't think he should've been fired. 

I think he will find his groove in the booth/set and I think he will end up liking it a lot more than coaching. 

sketchy

I know!!!

I think it has more to do with their 19 game losing streak than the corona. 

Yeah...I think they were more than happy to call it quits.  s#!t, they probably developed the virus and infected people on purpose.

I just checked their twitter...their last tweet was in 2018!