wacky1980

quiet. this is already over your head.

but you said it happened today.

none of this happened today.

this is like the 3rd or 5th time you've explained that in this thread. learn to read, folks.

i hate my employees...well, that's not fair. i don't hate them all. i don't even really hate any of them. i'm just disappointed in a few of them right now. it's like, i gave you a promotion, a raise, and a bit of extra clout. and it took you approximately 3 weeks to start abusing your new power. and now you're being a worse employee than someone who i would have fired by now, if i wasn't as invested in you as i already am. no call/no shows are one thing, but when you're responsible for handling orders and maintaining inventory, you can't just not show up. your job is not rocket surgery. and i'll be happy to spend the next month training your replacement you if you can't take it seriously. and you. i've personally helped your ass out of several tight spots over the years. i bend over backwards sometimes to help you. and the level of disrespect i'm seeing from you right now is stunning. i'm trying to help you exit gracefully. and you know this. don't go behind my back and tell other employees i'm making this difficult. you haven't seen difficult. i'll send your ass packing right fucking now. and all of this "oh, i need a mental health day, someone please work for me" bullshit is OUT.OF.HAND. you little shits don't know how good you have it. try living in a fucking auto repair garage, detailing cars for enough cash to eat and put 15 minutes on your pre-pay phone so you can talk to your mom 5 hours away once a week. your kitchen is a microwave and a stack of whatever canned shit was on sale at the dollar store. your bed is a couch in the back room of an office. that's how i lived when i started working here. a mental health day. fuck. you only work three days a week. no, i was right the first time. i do hate my employees.

just make mid learn the songs. then he can play/sing them while he follows you around.

this is big news ... if you're into craft beer, and live in downstate illinois (i.e. not chicago metro). so pretty much just for me on these boards. anyways. three floyds, the indiana brewery responsible for several delicious beers including the almighty ZOMBIE DUST pale ale, has finally secured distribtion in downstate il. i contacted the distributor yesterday to see how soon we might be able to get some. sounds like there will be 7 selections available, starting next week. and since i got in early with the request (supposedly), they will allow us to do a launch event next weekend, with all 7 kegs + a few cases of bottles. holy balls, talk about feast or famine. whenever a friend is heading up to chicago or into indiana (ugh), our beer drinking group always sends a couple hundred bucks with them to grab as many 3F 6-packs as they can. zombie dust is usually restricted by retailers to a couple 6-packs per purchase (at $20 per...ouch) because of scarcity, so it's harder to get in quantity. now that 3F has ramped production and added distribution here, as long as i dedicate 1 or 2 taps in my bars to 3F flagship beers (alpha king or gumballhead), i'm supposed to have access to as much zombie dust as i can afford to buy. brand allocation is a bitch like that. in order to get access to the high-demand stuff, you have to dump a lot of cash into other varieties as required by the distributor. i haven't seen prices on the kegs yet, but i'm assuming our cost will be anywhere from $200-350 each. and i'm supposed to come up with the cash to buy 7 of them by next week. ok, not impossible, but it's not exactly part of my alcohol budget this month. anyways, this news yesterday was just the icing on the cake for us. it's been a busy but very good week of planning for our new venue. we booked out lots of music of the next 6 weeks, a couple private parties, a series of yoga events, a cornhole league, two theme parties, and a "queen of hearts" raffle that is bound to grow into a huge weekly event. but of all the events we have coming up, i'm definitely the most excited about 3F.

oddly enough, doesn't bother me. nope, not one bit. *vomits* totally fine. carry on.

*waves from bank drive-up window* so tired. slightly hungover. yay saturday hours.

yeah, these. i had prime before they launched music and video, and they're nice additions to the shipping thing, but they're not necessarily worth picking up the entire service if you don't already use it for shipping. i pay extra for music unlimited ($8/mo) which isn't too bad of a deal, considering i've yet to search for a trademarked song and not find it. and i use it occasionally when i'm doing the dj thing at the bar. yeah, not legal, i know. eat me PROs, i pay you assholes plenty already. still, nothing beats a solid private tracker. add kodi to a fireTV stick and you have all the streaming services (including youtube once again), plus all your local media, on a single $25 stick. it's lovely.

nothing wrong with making out. it just comes from like, hands or arms or random objects. and it's not that i wouldn't let ever let her touch my face, it was just that it made me uncomfortable as hell (and still does, but not nearly as much). she liked to practice facials when she was in her cosmetics phase, and it took every ounce of willpower to sit through those sessions at first. never had a problem with a scalp massage either. just front-of-the-head stuff.

it took a few years before i became ok with the wife touching my face. the kids have been good since day 1. that's the full sum of people allowed to touch my face. it took me 2 years of fretting before i went to the doctor to have a mole removed from my cheek. it literally took fear of developing skin cancer to make me go along with it. you can keep your dentist visit. no thanks, not for me. not at all.

err....i kinda hate the dentist. anything where someone else has to touch me on/around my face, i'm pretty much not ok with it. i'm sure if they knocked my ass out with the gas, i'd manage. but i'm just not really interested in letting someone else put their fingers in my mouth. god damn. kinda makes me gag to think about it.

little, as in 10k+ people in its first week and counting. wiu alumni from approx 1995-2005 are putting together a reunion party for fall 2020. the school is losing students badly (enrollment was 13k when i was there in the late 90's, and it's down to around 7k now), and there's fear that the school may eventually close down entirely if the trend continues. that would also deal a big blow to the town, which relies heavily on the school. so the big reunion is intended to kinda breathe some new life into the school and the town, hopefully bring down a bunch of charitable contributions to benefit them, and remind people how great the school once was (and hopefully will be again). any wiu leathernecks on the boards? i kinda doubt it, but it's worth a shot. show yourselves!

foreal, light sensitivity is super sucky. i don't go outside during the daytime without wearing sunglasses, because i'd have to squint so hard that i may as well have my eyes closed. driving is the same way. it's well after sunset before i even think to take them off. people give me a hard time about it but whatever. i'd probably wear sunglasses inside too, if it was more acceptable. must be one of the fun qualities of all these irish genes.

eventually, maybe.

god damn, that whole thing sounds kinda nice. our honeymoon was a 10-day road trip through some national parks and the rockies. visiting monuments and historic sites, hiking and camping, sleeping under the stars with wolves howling in the distance. it was perfect. these days, "vacation" usually only consists of driving a few hours north to visit family for the weekend. wow-wee. been thinking of taking the wife/kids up the east coast sometime. the boys have never been anywhere farther than a few hours from home, and the wife's never seen the atlantic ocean or any of new england. we'd bunk up in coastal villages, eat fresh crabs and lobsters, and maybe pop into nyc to watch the boys lose their minds with the tall buildings and mass of people. we contemplated going this fall, but i have a co-worker who plans to take 12 weeks of maternity leave starting in sep/oct. and since she's the only other person at the bank who knows how to do my job, i'm forbidden from taking extended time off from 9/1 until after she's back. so we shall wait til 2020+.

what's a real vacation look like? not sure i've had one of those since the honeymoon...8 years ago. ~~~ so i spent around $14,000 on new plumbing/water systems in the hop garden. all brand new, from the sewer main and water meter, all the way up. seven sinks of various type and location, water heater, manifold with cleanout...and two toilets. two toilets, and only one of them will flush. today was supposed to be a good day.

root beer is caffeine free. the sugar will wear off after about an hour. so let them share a can about an hour before bed, and they'll crash out like clockwork.

pizza/movie projector is always a hit. add popcorn/soda and an inflatable mattress/tent and maybe some youtube on a tablet for after the movie, and you're all set. they require occasional pee breaks and a change into pajamas at about dark. and then maybe some mini donuts and oj in the morning. you'll be the favorite aunt/uncle destination in no time.

i gave up smoking entirely a little over a year ago. woke up one day with bronchitis and just didn't feel like smoking anymore, and that was that. after almost 25 years of being a smoker, and never had withdrawals or urges or anything. weird shit.

vaping only made me crave an actual cigarette that much more. i gave it up and went back to regular smokes after about a month because i couldn't hack it.

the talkbox is massive on that song. i think i like rocky mountain way a bit better, but this is a close 2nd in that regard.

i have frampton comes alive on vinyl somewhere. since i can't load yt videos on this computer, i have to assume the song you're talking about is "do you feel". it's one of my favorites from that album.

never even seen one afaik.