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Hardscrabble · Apr 26, 2025

Good morning

Belated HBD @Tacoma Mike

TomYotaNH · Apr 26, 2025

Mornin’

sdk1968 · Apr 26, 2025

Back in.... Cool wet morning here.

Girls are back from beach, so the quiet & calm have been shattered.

Its chaos as they slam, bang, throw luggage & dirty clothes everywhere, rile the pets......

And they are pissy at each other because they are at the Vaca limits of toleration.

Yay.... Didn't take 5 minutes for them to ruin a week's worth of animals routine, discipline & neatness. Everything was going so smooth & systematic...

Now I just wanna find a dark quiet corner & count backwards from 100. Vaca is for sure over.

lynyrd3 · Apr 26, 2025

Morning 50+

US Marine · Apr 26, 2025

Good Morning everyone

jwctaco · Apr 26, 2025

sdk1968 said: ↑

Back in.... Cool wet morning here.

Girls are back from beach, so the quiet & calm have been shattered.

Its chaos as they slam, bang, throw luggage & dirty clothes everywhere, rile the pets......

And they are pissy at each other because they are at the Vaca limits of toleration.

Yay.... Didn't take 5 minutes for them to ruin a week's worth of animals routine, discipline & neatness. Everything was going so smooth & systematic...

Now I just wanna find a dark quiet corner & count backwards from 100. Vaca is for sure over.
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Breathe deep

Metalskool · Apr 26, 2025

Morning.

jwctaco · Apr 26, 2025

Morning up way past my bedtime, but we had fun, pizza and good music . Enjoy Saturday

Marty65 · Apr 26, 2025

Good morning everybody

2ndhandTacoman · Apr 26, 2025

Good morning everyone, time for some bean juice.

US Marine · Apr 26, 2025

2ndhandTacoman said: ↑

Good evening everyone. I went to the spring Carlisle swap meet. I didn't even get half way through it when my feets and lower back were hurting so bad I decided it was time to leave. It also just started to rain as I was getting into the parking lot, so it worked out well.

I saw this hauler with a cool wrap. From 1' away you would still think that it was an old crusty beater.

Weesa could get Chebby and the camper wrapped with something like that, any creepers would just leave here alone and no one would want to set up camp next to her.

Pretty clean "ute" conversion on a Chevy II, the sign in the window said that it was customized back in the mid 80's.

The old firewood truck did ok on the trip, it's the longest one to date. The vinyl bench seat started to wear on my lower back on the way home, so it's no long distance cruiser.

It's been so long since I went to Carlisle, I sorta forgot which street to turn onto to get to the parking lot by the gate that I always like to go in through. I turned into a driveway that went to a lot where there were big RV's and big rig tractors were parked, as I was trying to get turned around some old dude yelled " just park it next to the fence" so I put it where he was pointing and b the time I got out of the truck to pay, he was already gone. I got to park for free this time!
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I've heard about the Carlisle swapmeet and the rare & hard to find car parts you can get there

When I was living in the Socal High Desert I would head to the Pomona / LA county fairgrounds for the Pomona swapmeet . It was located at the Pomona Dragstrip . This swapmeet was huge at over a quarter mile long . Just walking thru the rows of vendors and people selling parts it would take you over 5 hours

vssman · Apr 26, 2025

Good morning. It’s going to be a two coffee morning for me. Up way past my bedtime. I went to the Brit Floyd show last night. Harry Waters (Roger Waters son) is touring with them this year. Show was fantastic as always.

https://youtu.be/3Xak0UrFLKU

2ndhandTacoman · Apr 26, 2025

US Marine said: ↑

I've heard about the Carlisle swapmeet and the rare & hard to find car parts you can get there

When I was living in the Socal High Desert I would head to the Pomona / LA county fairgrounds for the Pomona swapmeet . It was located at the Pomona Dragstrip . This swapmeet was huge at over a quarter mile long . Just walking thru the rows of vendors and people selling parts it would take you over 5 hours
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I went that swap meet once, there was lots to look at. It was my first time away from the east coast, I was floored at the pristine condition of the parts (and vehicles) because of the climate, rust-free was a foreign concept to me at the time!

US Marine · Apr 26, 2025

vssman said: ↑

Good morning. It’s going to be a two coffee morning for me. Up way past my bedtime. I went to the Brit Floyd show last night. Harry Waters (Roger Waters son) is touring with them this year. Show was fantastic as always.

https://youtu.be/3Xak0UrFLKU
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Paul if you like Pink Floyd you've got to listen to this video

https://youtu.be/epILvLaAPiM?si=o9jfPzrNrwkxpbrM

CVYota · Apr 26, 2025

Morning all

jwctaco said: ↑

Breathe deep
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The gathering gloom

vssman · Apr 26, 2025

CVYota[OP] said: ↑

Morning all

The gathering gloom
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Watch lights fade in every room

BarcelonaTom67 · Apr 26, 2025

MTgirl said: ↑

That reminds me… I forgot to post my moron report last night
So IT guy is working on getting everything set up for me. He says he needs access to my computer here at home and get it set up to connect to the new computer at the office. I give him the team viewer info that allows him to do that. He logs in and I see him moving the cursor and getting to work on what he needs to do.
I see he closes MS Teams. <—- important detail there. Pay attention.
So I’m sitting here doing nothing because he’s got my computer here tied up.
And I’m waiting. And waiting. And waiting some more. I get my Kindle and start reading a book.
one of my coworkers texts me on my work cell and asks if I’m here.
Yes but IT guy is doing stuff so if you need anything from me you’re out of luck.
She texts back that it was the IT guy asking her to reach out to me because he wasn’t getting a response from me.
On Teams.
The program that he closed.
So I get on the computer and open Teams.
Lisa I need X password
Lisa are you there?
Can you enter the password?
Lisa?

FOR TWO FREAKING HOURS! HE WAS SENDING ME MESSAGES ON THE PROGRAM THAT HE CLOSED! AND SINCE HES ON MY COMPUTER HE CAN SEE WHAT IS OR IS NOT VISIBLE ON MY SCREEN!

FOR. TWO. FREAKING. HOURS.
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After 10 minutes max, he should have tried reaching you by some other means. It's called "Escalation", MF, do you speak it?!?!??? At the very least, he knew to ask one of your colleagues to reach out to you. This is likely the caliber of "candidates who more closely meet our needs" that I keep getting rejected for. Of course I know lots of companies are still posting ghost jobs that do not exist and will never be filled, just to make the Wall Street idiots they are doing tons of business........

BarcelonaTom67 · Apr 26, 2025

MTgirl said: ↑

you would think.
the city's idea of affordable housing is $2000 studios or $3500 for a 3 bed house. for rentals. average home prices are nearing $700k. or the cheapest option over there right now is a subdivision that is all new double wide modular homes. They're going for $240k to $290k PLUS an $850 lot rent so you're looking at $3k/month right there. I had actually looked into that before I moved but once I saw the lot rent in the fine print that pushed that option out for me.
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Holy Shit Sticks, Batman!!!! That's California level of bullshit crazy. But of course the reason for it is, too many Californians moving to the area. I freely admit, MT is in the top 5 States I would love to live in, but I do not do cities. I'd be out there like OneGiraffe and Twizted. If I can see a neighbor, I'm not far enough away. As long as I can get internets so I can work.......

MoneyMan55 · Apr 26, 2025

2ndhandTacoman said: ↑

Good evening everyone. I went to the spring Carlisle swap meet. I didn't even get half way through it when my feets and lower back were hurting so bad I decided it was time to leave. It also just started to rain as I was getting into the parking lot, so it worked out well.

I saw this hauler with a cool wrap. From 1' away you would still think that it was an old crusty beater.

Weesa could get Chebby and the camper wrapped with something like that, any creepers would just leave here alone and no one would want to set up camp next to her.

Pretty clean "ute" conversion on a Chevy II, the sign in the window said that it was customized back in the mid 80's.

The old firewood truck did ok on the trip, it's the longest one to date. The vinyl bench seat started to wear on my lower back on the way home, so it's no long distance cruiser.

It's been so long since I went to Carlisle, I sorta forgot which street to turn onto to get to the parking lot by the gate that I always like to go in through. I turned into a driveway that went to a lot where there were big RV's and big rig tractors were parked, as I was trying to get turned around some old dude yelled " just park it next to the fence" so I put it where he was pointing and b the time I got out of the truck to pay, he was already gone. I got to park for free this time!
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Did you see the smoke from South Mountain wildfire?

MTgirl · Apr 26, 2025

BarcelonaTom67 said: ↑

After 10 minutes max, he should have tried reaching you by some other means. It's called "Escalation", MF, do you speak it?!?!??? At the very least, he knew to ask one of your colleagues to reach out to you. This is likely the caliber of "candidates who more closely meet our needs" that I keep getting rejected for. Of course I know lots of companies are still posting ghost jobs that do not exist and will never be filled, just to make the Wall Street idiots they are doing tons of business........
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like i said earlier...if it were up to me i'd hire you in a heartbeat. you'd have the current guy beat hands down.

BarcelonaTom67 said: ↑

Holy Shit Sticks, Batman!!!! That's California level of bullshit crazy. But of course the reason for it is, too many Californians moving to the area. I freely admit, MT is in the top 5 States I would love to live in, but I do not do cities. I'd be out there like OneGiraffe and Twizted. If I can see a neighbor, I'm not far enough away. As long as I can get internets so I can work.......
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its wild over there. and getting less MT-ish every day. i really dont miss it - I've only been back 4 times since I moved. grocery shopping is kind of a pain for me and i have to go out of town once a month or so to get stuff that i cant get here. but my folks do the same so we usually stagger who goes where and when and buy stuff for one another so its not such a huge inconvenience.
but hell, when i was in Bozeman with tons of stores I was still going out of town for groceries because the stores there never stock their shelves. they can't hire enough people because they can't pay enough. summer time i would make time to stop in Helena whenever my travels took my that way or even if it was a tiny bit out of the way. I'd come home with the camper loaded with groceries. I gave up on the Bozeman WalMart years ago. You go in there and the shelves are empty but the aisles are full of pallets of boxes. no one to stock the shelves.
Local city officials all promoting how much new business they're bringing to town and how many more jobs. Great. But no one wants the jobs becuase they don't pay enough. Or the new jobs pay just a tiny bit more so they leave the less paying job. And no one's taking over that old job so that business is left shorthanded. Bringing more business to town is actually creating more of a problem from what I can see.

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