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    What you did today

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    get the truck tomorrow, move begins sunday.

     

    How long will it take?

     

    Sunday in Missoula, Monday in Billings, tuesday in Bismark, arrive in Minneapolis on weds, get keys to new apartment on friday.

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    What you did today

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    Saw a news story about the fact my company canceled reservations... heard my bosses voice as part of said news story.

     

    Am getting anxiety attacks because of impending move plus lack of vehicles. I'll soldier through but it doesn't feel great.

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    I just blew about $80 on playing cards. I forgot I even had this weakness!

     

    Two are pre-marked decks and ones a stripper deck. And then some decks that simply looked pretty. :(

     

    And I might mark up one of my bicycle decks when I get home. Never done it before, but now's the time to try.

     

    ... You should blow those 80 bucks on helping me move back to Minneapolis

     

    https://www.gofundme.com/olivers-going-back-to-the-midwest

     

    The bloody truck is expensive, and any proceeds I don't use will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

     

    (hopeful shilling to help make ends meet)

     

    i miss my Toyota celica

    Celicas were nice, sort of the little cousin of the Supra.  By that same token, I miss Mazda RX's.  They are making a new one, the RX-9, in 2019, though I don't know if they'll make it a production car or if it will just remain a super limited production concept car.  I kinda think Mazda will make it a production run, for a year or two, anyway.  They seem intent on keeping the Wakel rotary engine alive.

     

    Get a GT86. They should be cheap because they'll be refreshing the design soon.

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    What you did today

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    Oh dealing with bureaucracy is a wonderful thing. Especially when it's bright, perky, friendly and completely unhelpful while appearing to be helpful.  "I'll look into this for you and let you know."   Call back - "Oh, I'm afraid you'll have to do x to get into this"    Try to do X, get a different person "Oh no, that won't be possible. What you'll have to do is this..."

    Weirdly since working as part of a major corportation, I have become quite adept at chopping my way through the red tape.

     

    That said, am currently in the process of setting up a phone interview to take a pay raise as part of my move in a month and a half.

    What you did today

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    Nice!

     

    Wait, you live in California You have an nearly two month vacation and you might get bored? That does not compute!

    Have you BEEN to california?It's either overpriced garbage or seasonal overcrowding, nothing in between.

    What you did today

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    Have a phone interview weds with the GM and AM of the region I"m moving back to. The odd part I'm stressing over at the moment is that I'm not sure how I'm going to pay for this. Current estimate is ballpark and I'm looking at about 5 large to get myself back there.

     

    Admittedly this isn't a decision that I have to make until I've got a confirmation. Am debating a 'gofundme' type of thing where any excess I get would end up going to a suicide prevention charity (which, given my history, should be obvious why).

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    What you did today

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    So many sub-forums to this forum now. Since I don't allow perm-cookies, every time I visit I have to re-click that little + sign to hide most of them...which is fine. It's just funny to me - there were so few sub-forums when I first came here so long ago. Time flies/creates change and all that. :)

     

    About to eat dinner and rent/watch the movie "Life." Warm summer evening...relaxation...the good life.

    Oh, you mean back when we only had Kotor 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2

    What you did today

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    And got ticketed for speeding (yeah, it happened... bloody school zone to that's meh marked), and not having an operators license (a bloody lie given that I have my Iowa Drivers Licence, and I gave it to him... but apparently because I've lived in state for more than 30 days he declared I didn't have one).

    What you did today

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    Am starting the process of moving myself back out to the midwest. Fed up with the management in this region, and if asked directly would basically point at the promotion that was offered, interviewed for, then heard ZERO about afterwords (and know that the position is still open). Even when directly asked, the management just ignored it.

     

    Thus I contacted my previous region's GM (who runs MN, IA, and NE) and asked if it'd be possible to swap back there. The next morning I got an email back saying yes, but you need to get your current managers approval to fill out the paperwork, and I've got three spots in Minneapolis you could work in.

     

    So... yeah, I'm doing all the notifications now, and if I have to I will strong arm my way back to that region.

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    Politics 2017 Act 6

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    Thing is, the mandate is what allows the Exchanges etc to work. You can't operate an insurance syndicate where the only people who get your product is the ones who will use it the most. Only the "high risk" people would pay into the system and bankrupt it faster than lightning. It's why companies had things like pre-existing conditions built into their systems prior to the ACA.

     

    You remove the mandate and every insurance company that takes part will fall apart faster than Trump's administration. The biggest problem was that the bill artifically killed competition because of the "lines around the states" (as Donald put it), meaning that your options were significantly smaller.

    Politics 2017 Act 6

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    *randomly appears* I think the thing that says the most overall about how the administration is ever going to go is the fact that the WH staff (who are theoretically the most loyal) are currently leaking like a siv due to the level of incompetence they perceive above them. This is why the Times and Post are getting such delicious and juicy details. If you lose the loyalty of the very apparatus that you're supposed to he a piece of, you need to find another job.

     

    I would agree if Trump would appoint all those people, but that is not the case. 

    The problem is Obama appointed administration is lashing out because their candidate lost the election. 

    All that this situation proves is democrats should not hold ANY position of any level in government, ever.

    If they are so petty as to endanger their own country just to make it difficult for the guy they don't like who happens to be the president now.

     

    For the most part, any incoming administration replaces everyone who's a political operator of the previous one. To the point that, as a practical joke, when Clinton's staff were moving out (Bill's) the staff went through every computer and removed the W key from every keyboard. The people who are in that white house as staffers are either A) the loyal operators or B) the staff who can't get involved in those sorts of politics. This is also why there's a "Transition team" that's created to make all the appointments necessary to have a government apparatus that will carry out the elected head of states political will.

     

    What it means on trumps end is that he's managed to piss off the workhorses of his party enough that they feel they have to step outside of their positions to be able to get things done, or just to get the reality out there.

     

    And let's be fair here, During Obama's administration, the republican party was FAR more frivolous and petty about stuff. Or are you forgetting that the man currently sitting as our president spent 3 years fighting to get Obama's birth certificate released because of a rumor that their media arm manufactured? Or the fact that Mitch McConnell openly blocked everything he could to make Obama look bad to limit Obama to one term. No Negotiation, no suggestion of negotiation "Give us what we want, or we block it".

    Politics 2017 Act 6

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    *randomly appears* I think the thing that says the most overall about how the administration is ever going to go is the fact that the WH staff (who are theoretically the most loyal) are currently leaking like a siv due to the level of incompetence they perceive above them. This is why the Times and Post are getting such delicious and juicy details. If you lose the loyalty of the very apparatus that you're supposed to he a piece of, you need to find another job.

     

    Admittedly, Trump seems like the type of person who'd find a way to resign and declare victory, leaving Pence to clean up his mess (although Pence seems like he might bow out too given how little he's been in public).

     

    Would be strange that if the guy who's playing the Sitcom Dad for the Republicans (Paul Ryan) ended up in the white house.

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