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[St. Louis Bob]

My Vegas dry run yesterday was a success. Spent 12 hours at the casino yesterday.

 

[kevzilla]

I've played 227K hands of VP on my computer. I'm down a completely theoretical three grand. It's 10/7 DB, so my completely theoretical edge is 0.17%.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Uruk-idiocy Part 1: evidently, I thought it was a good idea to drive 60 miles to a Hooters today (& getting a hotel room I didn't use).Uruk-idiocy Part 2: I damned near ran out of gas on the way back, even though I was driving through one of the most congested areas in the free world.Uruk-idiocy Part 3: Finally becoming aware enough & finally deciding to stop, I couldn't work the gas pump so the girl - who looked hot at the time, being female and all - had to come out to tell me how to insert my card and push a button to choose the type of gas I wanted. Being as macho as possible, I chose high test.Uruk-idiocy Part 4: After filling my tank I wrote my phone number on an old receipt from a 7-11 purchase about 100 years ago and proceded to march in to present it to her. "Call me", I said. "Yeah, ok" was the response (followed by a snicker from her coworker).

Sammy, Wrigley, Congrats. YSR, Krista4 if I make another shot video, it will be dedicated to you.

She hasn't called. I'm shuked if I know why not

 

[urbanhack]

wow...lot's of wasted people left my place this morning around 3am.........including saintfool.

 

[Radio Free Homer]

One of my friends keeps posting pictures of his smoking hot 16 year old daughter. I'd guess she's an Offdee 8 at least. He keeps captioning the pics with things like my beautiful girl, my pretty little girl, etc. In the latest picture, someone made a comment and his wife wrote something about wishing that person had made it out last night. When I saw that the person had replied "I know, I really wanted to come" it took all the willpower I have not to reply with an inappropriate comment

Ummm, if you want to text me his name so I can look him up, I promise to make sure he stops posting uncomfortable pics.

 

[Radio Free Homer]

My Vegas dry run yesterday was a success. Spent 12 hours at the casino yesterday.

Did they check your neckbrace for cheating implements?

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Uruk-idiocy Part 1: evidently, I thought it was a good idea to drive 60 miles to a Hooters today (& getting a hotel room I didn't use).Uruk-idiocy Part 2: I damned near ran out of gas on the way back, even though I was driving through one of the most congested areas in the free world.Uruk-idiocy Part 3: Finally becoming aware enough & finally deciding to stop, I couldn't work the gas pump so the girl - who looked hot at the time, being female and all - had to come out to tell me how to insert my card and push a button to choose the type of gas I wanted. Being as macho as possible, I chose high test.Uruk-idiocy Part 4: After filling my tank I wrote my phone number on an old receipt from a 7-11 purchase about 100 years ago and proceded to march in to present it to her. "Call me", I said. "Yeah, ok" was the response (followed by a snicker from her coworker).

Sammy, Wrigley, Congrats. YSR, Krista4 if I make another shot video, it will be dedicated to you.

She hasn't called. I'm shuked if I know why not

The hotel I pioked had a swimming pool (dealbreaker)

 

[bentley]

Live auction over. The first couple hours of those are great but the endgame is like the Bataan Death March.

I think cosjobs told me go #### myself about an hour before it started.

 

[ScottNorwood]

How long does a live auction run?

 

[bentley]

How long does a live auction run?

We have 12 teams and 16 player rosters. Ours usually takes just over four hours including introductions, overview, rule proposals and the auction itself. 3:30 or so of that is the actual auction including a couple smoke breaks.

 

[ScottNorwood]

How long does a live auction run?

We have 12 teams and 16 player rosters. Ours usually takes just over four hours including introductions, overview, rule proposals and the auction itself. 3:30 or so of that is the actual auction including a couple smoke breaks.

Shorter than I expected - although I'm guessing the only way to get through it is to drink yourself into oblivion

 

[Thorn]

I've played 227K hands of VP on my computer. I'm down a completely theoretical three grand. It's 10/7 DB, so my completely theoretical edge is 0.17%.

what

 

[kevzilla]

I've played 227K hands of VP on my computer. I'm down a completely theoretical three grand. It's 10/7 DB, so my completely theoretical edge is 0.17%.

what

My video poker game of choice, normally found on Fremont Street or locals casinos around Vegas, has an expected return of 100.17% if played perfectly.

 

[Radio Free Homer]

How long does a live auction run?

We have 12 teams and 16 player rosters. Ours usually takes just over four hours including introductions, overview, rule proposals and the auction itself. 3:30 or so of that is the actual auction including a couple smoke breaks.

Shorter than I expected - although I'm guessing the only way to get through it is to drink yourself into oblivion

That's how I get through everything.

 

[Frostillicus]

So the ex and I recently had a talk about whether we are in Cincy for the long haul (well, at least until our daughter is in/out of college) or if there are other areas of the country where we'd be interested in living. Neither one of us is going to move without the other because we want to be involved in our daughter's daily life. We decided to independently come up with a list of our top 10 other places we'd be interested in learning more about and possibly living in. The good?/interesting thing is that our top 5's are pretty much the same (in no order): Austin, TXPortland, MEPortland, ORMinneapolis, MNSeattle, WAAny other places we should consider that might be similar to the list above?Any thoughts on the places? Pros/cons?One things I'm stuck on is trying to figure out employment opportunities. Even in my current company, I've managed to craft a bit of a unique role where I'm viewed as one of the experts in company for understanding the consumer and talking about changes in our products/new products will impact their lives. My background is in chemical engineering, but the work I do and love is more of a hybrid between Industrial Deisgn and Marketing. Most of the roles that I have found in quick searches in the cities above require a degree in one of those disciplines. Also, it appears as thought most of those places have a higher cost of living than Cincinnati, so in order to maintain a similar standard of living, I'd have to make a good deal more than I currently do, so that further narrows the pool of opportunity. For example, i did a quick look at Portland, OR - to maintain the same standard of living, I'd have to make ~27% more, but employers typically only pay ~4.5% more than Cincy. The lone exception to this is probably Portland, ME, where I have plenty of family and I would end up doing more things with them, so my net expenditures would likely be less. Does anyone have any tips? Thoughts? Suggestions? Somewhat similar experiences?

Target, Best Buy, and Supervalue are all headquartered in or near Minneapolis, so almost every company that sells a product to one of those stores has an office up here. Based on what I know about your background and job I'd bet you wouldn't have much of a problem finding employment up here.Plus meat raffles.

 

[Guster]

Target, Best Buy, and Supervalue are all headquartered in or near Minneapolis, so almost every company that sells a product to one of those stores has an office up here. Based on what I know about your background and job I'd bet you wouldn't have much of a problem finding employment up here.Plus meat raffles.

I agree. Plus I have a cousin that lives there. Unfortunately I think that might be the hardest sell of the group

 

[Frostillicus]

Baby Lukas is finally home in Minnesota, weighing north of 6 lbs. and with no current major health issues.

 

[Radio Free Homer]

Anyone got jobs for an insomniac alcoholic bartender?

Preferably near SLB or Stryker?

 

[Radio Free Homer]

Anyone got jobs for an insomniac alcoholic bartender?Preferably near SLB or Stryker?

Wait, I meant AWAY from SLB and Stryker!!!!!

 

[Marvin]

Anyone got jobs for an insomniac alcoholic bartender?

Preferably near SLB or Stryker?

We're always in need of yard duty aides.
Crap, never mind.

 

[Mr.Pack]

Baby Lukas is finally home in Minnesota, weighing north of 6 lbs. and with no current major health issues.

 

[Radio Free Homer]

Anyone got jobs for an insomniac alcoholic bartender?

Preferably near SLB or Stryker?

We're always in need of yard duty aides.
Crap, never mind.

 

[Radio Free Homer]

Anyone got jobs for an insomniac alcoholic bartender?

Preferably near SLB or Stryker?

We're always in need of yard duty aides.
Crap, never mind.

Wait a minute...if I wanted advice from a teacher, I'd ask how to work 6 months a year and still be a friggin' martyr.

 

[Tiger Fan]

Live auction over. The first couple hours of those are great but the endgame is like the Bataan Death March.I think cosjobs told me go #### myself about an hour before it started.

I'm 4 hours into a live draft where i'm the only one drafting away from the location:guninmouth:

 

[kevzilla]

Just finished my family league draft. Swilling a tawny port like it will get me an hour and a half of my life back.

 

[Marvin]

Anyone got jobs for an insomniac alcoholic bartender?

Preferably near SLB or Stryker?

We're always in need of yard duty aides.
Crap, never mind.

Wait a minute...if I wanted advice from a teacher, I'd ask how to work 6 months a year and still be a friggin' martyr.

Are you talking about Phillip Rivers?

 

[bentley]

Live auction over. The first couple hours of those are great but the endgame is like the Bataan Death March.I think cosjobs told me go #### myself about an hour before it started.

I'm 4 hours into a live draft where i'm the only one drafting away from the location:guninmouth:

Oooooooof. I guess it could always be worse.The worst draft we ever had was in the second year of the league (1996) when one of the guys couldn't make it. We communicated with him via an ESPN college basketball chat room (since we knew nobody else would be there then) via dialup. It took 7+ hours for that draft.

 

[shuke]

I've played 227K hands of VP on my computer. I'm down a completely theoretical three grand. It's 10/7 DB, so my completely theoretical edge is 0.17%.

what

My video poker game of choice, normally found on Fremont Street or locals casinos around Vegas, has an expected return of 100.17% if played perfectly.

You've played 227,000 of video poker with nothing at stake?

 

[shuke]

Baby Lukas is finally home in Minnesota, weighing north of 6 lbs. and with no current major health issues.

 

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

Anyone got jobs for an insomniac alcoholic bartender?Preferably near SLB or Stryker?

Wait, I meant AWAY from SLB and Stryker!!!!!

There's a bar on every corner here.

 

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

I won 15 pounds of beef at a meat raffle-ish thing today.

 

[Frostillicus]

I won 15 pounds of beef at a meat raffle-ish thing today.

Sounds made up.

 

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

I won 15 pounds of beef at a meat raffle-ish thing today.

Sounds made up.

Valued at $45

 

[kevzilla]

I've played 227K hands of VP on my computer. I'm down a completely theoretical three grand. It's 10/7 DB, so my completely theoretical edge is 0.17%.

what

My video poker game of choice, normally found on Fremont Street or locals casinos around Vegas, has an expected return of 100.17% if played perfectly.

You've played 227,000 of video poker with nothing at stake?

Yes. But usually 30 minutes at a stretch, over a period of years.

 

[proninja]

So the ex and I recently had a talk about whether we are in Cincy for the long haul (well, at least until our daughter is in/out of college) or if there are other areas of the country where we'd be interested in living. Neither one of us is going to move without the other because we want to be involved in our daughter's daily life. We decided to independently come up with a list of our top 10 other places we'd be interested in learning more about and possibly living in. The good?/interesting thing is that our top 5's are pretty much the same (in no order): Austin, TXPortland, MEPortland, ORMinneapolis, MNSeattle, WAAny other places we should consider that might be similar to the list above?Any thoughts on the places? Pros/cons?One things I'm stuck on is trying to figure out employment opportunities. Even in my current company, I've managed to craft a bit of a unique role where I'm viewed as one of the experts in company for understanding the consumer and talking about changes in our products/new products will impact their lives. My background is in chemical engineering, but the work I do and love is more of a hybrid between Industrial Deisgn and Marketing. Most of the roles that I have found in quick searches in the cities above require a degree in one of those disciplines. Also, it appears as thought most of those places have a higher cost of living than Cincinnati, so in order to maintain a similar standard of living, I'd have to make a good deal more than I currently do, so that further narrows the pool of opportunity. For example, i did a quick look at Portland, OR - to maintain the same standard of living, I'd have to make ~27% more, but employers typically only pay ~4.5% more than Cincy. The lone exception to this is probably Portland, ME, where I have plenty of family and I would end up doing more things with them, so my net expenditures would likely be less. Does anyone have any tips? Thoughts? Suggestions? Somewhat similar experiences?

I think the lesson here is that GMTAN posters have good taste in terms of places to live

 

[proninja]

I'm days behind and our daily update friend has abandoned us.

I need a week please, my drunk successful friend

 

[Mr. Pickles]

I won 15 pounds of beef at a meat raffle-ish thing today.

Sounds made up.

Completely.

 

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

There's a picture of the voucher on my Facebook page

 

[Marvin]

So the ex and I recently had a talk about whether we are in Cincy for the long haul (well, at least until our daughter is in/out of college) or if there are other areas of the country where we'd be interested in living. Neither one of us is going to move without the other because we want to be involved in our daughter's daily life. We decided to independently come up with a list of our top 10 other places we'd be interested in learning more about and possibly living in. The good?/interesting thing is that our top 5's are pretty much the same (in no order): Austin, TXPortland, MEPortland, ORMinneapolis, MNSeattle, WAAny other places we should consider that might be similar to the list above?Any thoughts on the places? Pros/cons?One things I'm stuck on is trying to figure out employment opportunities. Even in my current company, I've managed to craft a bit of a unique role where I'm viewed as one of the experts in company for understanding the consumer and talking about changes in our products/new products will impact their lives. My background is in chemical engineering, but the work I do and love is more of a hybrid between Industrial Deisgn and Marketing. Most of the roles that I have found in quick searches in the cities above require a degree in one of those disciplines. Also, it appears as thought most of those places have a higher cost of living than Cincinnati, so in order to maintain a similar standard of living, I'd have to make a good deal more than I currently do, so that further narrows the pool of opportunity. For example, i did a quick look at Portland, OR - to maintain the same standard of living, I'd have to make ~27% more, but employers typically only pay ~4.5% more than Cincy. The lone exception to this is probably Portland, ME, where I have plenty of family and I would end up doing more things with them, so my net expenditures would likely be less. Does anyone have any tips? Thoughts? Suggestions? Somewhat similar experiences?

I think the lesson here is that GMTAN posters have good taste in terms of places to live

 

[Marvin]

There's a picture of the voucher on my Facebook page

All it says is "one large beef roast" or some such nonsense.You don't gotta lie to kick it.

 

[FootballDummy]

So the ex and I recently had a talk about whether we are in Cincy for the long haul (well, at least until our daughter is in/out of college) or if there are other areas of the country where we'd be interested in living. Neither one of us is going to move without the other because we want to be involved in our daughter's daily life. We decided to independently come up with a list of our top 10 other places we'd be interested in learning more about and possibly living in. The good?/interesting thing is that our top 5's are pretty much the same (in no order): Austin, TXPortland, MEPortland, ORMinneapolis, MNSeattle, WAAny other places we should consider that might be similar to the list above?Any thoughts on the places? Pros/cons?One things I'm stuck on is trying to figure out employment opportunities. Even in my current company, I've managed to craft a bit of a unique role where I'm viewed as one of the experts in company for understanding the consumer and talking about changes in our products/new products will impact their lives. My background is in chemical engineering, but the work I do and love is more of a hybrid between Industrial Deisgn and Marketing. Most of the roles that I have found in quick searches in the cities above require a degree in one of those disciplines. Also, it appears as thought most of those places have a higher cost of living than Cincinnati, so in order to maintain a similar standard of living, I'd have to make a good deal more than I currently do, so that further narrows the pool of opportunity. For example, i did a quick look at Portland, OR - to maintain the same standard of living, I'd have to make ~27% more, but employers typically only pay ~4.5% more than Cincy. The lone exception to this is probably Portland, ME, where I have plenty of family and I would end up doing more things with them, so my net expenditures would likely be less. Does anyone have any tips? Thoughts? Suggestions? Somewhat similar experiences?

I think the lesson here is that GMTAN posters have good taste in terms of places to live

Austin ftw.

 

[proninja]

So the ex and I recently had a talk about whether we are in Cincy for the long haul (well, at least until our daughter is in/out of college) or if there are other areas of the country where we'd be interested in living. Neither one of us is going to move without the other because we want to be involved in our daughter's daily life. We decided to independently come up with a list of our top 10 other places we'd be interested in learning more about and possibly living in. The good?/interesting thing is that our top 5's are pretty much the same (in no order): Austin, TXPortland, MEPortland, ORMinneapolis, MNSeattle, WAAny other places we should consider that might be similar to the list above?Any thoughts on the places? Pros/cons?One things I'm stuck on is trying to figure out employment opportunities. Even in my current company, I've managed to craft a bit of a unique role where I'm viewed as one of the experts in company for understanding the consumer and talking about changes in our products/new products will impact their lives. My background is in chemical engineering, but the work I do and love is more of a hybrid between Industrial Deisgn and Marketing. Most of the roles that I have found in quick searches in the cities above require a degree in one of those disciplines. Also, it appears as thought most of those places have a higher cost of living than Cincinnati, so in order to maintain a similar standard of living, I'd have to make a good deal more than I currently do, so that further narrows the pool of opportunity. For example, i did a quick look at Portland, OR - to maintain the same standard of living, I'd have to make ~27% more, but employers typically only pay ~4.5% more than Cincy. The lone exception to this is probably Portland, ME, where I have plenty of family and I would end up doing more things with them, so my net expenditures would likely be less. Does anyone have any tips? Thoughts? Suggestions? Somewhat similar experiences?

I think the lesson here is that GMTAN posters have good taste in terms of places to live

Austin ftw.

I'll find out in December

 

[FootballDummy]

So the ex and I recently had a talk about whether we are in Cincy for the long haul (well, at least until our daughter is in/out of college) or if there are other areas of the country where we'd be interested in living. Neither one of us is going to move without the other because we want to be involved in our daughter's daily life. We decided to independently come up with a list of our top 10 other places we'd be interested in learning more about and possibly living in. The good?/interesting thing is that our top 5's are pretty much the same (in no order): Austin, TXPortland, MEPortland, ORMinneapolis, MNSeattle, WAAny other places we should consider that might be similar to the list above?Any thoughts on the places? Pros/cons?One things I'm stuck on is trying to figure out employment opportunities. Even in my current company, I've managed to craft a bit of a unique role where I'm viewed as one of the experts in company for understanding the consumer and talking about changes in our products/new products will impact their lives. My background is in chemical engineering, but the work I do and love is more of a hybrid between Industrial Deisgn and Marketing. Most of the roles that I have found in quick searches in the cities above require a degree in one of those disciplines. Also, it appears as thought most of those places have a higher cost of living than Cincinnati, so in order to maintain a similar standard of living, I'd have to make a good deal more than I currently do, so that further narrows the pool of opportunity. For example, i did a quick look at Portland, OR - to maintain the same standard of living, I'd have to make ~27% more, but employers typically only pay ~4.5% more than Cincy. The lone exception to this is probably Portland, ME, where I have plenty of family and I would end up doing more things with them, so my net expenditures would likely be less. Does anyone have any tips? Thoughts? Suggestions? Somewhat similar experiences?

I think the lesson here is that GMTAN posters have good taste in terms of places to live

Austin ftw.

I'll find out in December

It should be about 75% and sunny.

 

[proninja]

So the ex and I recently had a talk about whether we are in Cincy for the long haul (well, at least until our daughter is in/out of college) or if there are other areas of the country where we'd be interested in living. Neither one of us is going to move without the other because we want to be involved in our daughter's daily life. We decided to independently come up with a list of our top 10 other places we'd be interested in learning more about and possibly living in. The good?/interesting thing is that our top 5's are pretty much the same (in no order): Austin, TXPortland, MEPortland, ORMinneapolis, MNSeattle, WAAny other places we should consider that might be similar to the list above?Any thoughts on the places? Pros/cons?One things I'm stuck on is trying to figure out employment opportunities. Even in my current company, I've managed to craft a bit of a unique role where I'm viewed as one of the experts in company for understanding the consumer and talking about changes in our products/new products will impact their lives. My background is in chemical engineering, but the work I do and love is more of a hybrid between Industrial Deisgn and Marketing. Most of the roles that I have found in quick searches in the cities above require a degree in one of those disciplines. Also, it appears as thought most of those places have a higher cost of living than Cincinnati, so in order to maintain a similar standard of living, I'd have to make a good deal more than I currently do, so that further narrows the pool of opportunity. For example, i did a quick look at Portland, OR - to maintain the same standard of living, I'd have to make ~27% more, but employers typically only pay ~4.5% more than Cincy. The lone exception to this is probably Portland, ME, where I have plenty of family and I would end up doing more things with them, so my net expenditures would likely be less. Does anyone have any tips? Thoughts? Suggestions? Somewhat similar experiences?

I think the lesson here is that GMTAN posters have good taste in terms of places to live

Austin ftw.

I'll find out in December

It should be about 75% and sunny.

I was sort of hoping it would be 100%

 

[FootballDummy]

So the ex and I recently had a talk about whether we are in Cincy for the long haul (well, at least until our daughter is in/out of college) or if there are other areas of the country where we'd be interested in living. Neither one of us is going to move without the other because we want to be involved in our daughter's daily life. We decided to independently come up with a list of our top 10 other places we'd be interested in learning more about and possibly living in. The good?/interesting thing is that our top 5's are pretty much the same (in no order): Austin, TXPortland, MEPortland, ORMinneapolis, MNSeattle, WAAny other places we should consider that might be similar to the list above?Any thoughts on the places? Pros/cons?One things I'm stuck on is trying to figure out employment opportunities. Even in my current company, I've managed to craft a bit of a unique role where I'm viewed as one of the experts in company for understanding the consumer and talking about changes in our products/new products will impact their lives. My background is in chemical engineering, but the work I do and love is more of a hybrid between Industrial Deisgn and Marketing. Most of the roles that I have found in quick searches in the cities above require a degree in one of those disciplines. Also, it appears as thought most of those places have a higher cost of living than Cincinnati, so in order to maintain a similar standard of living, I'd have to make a good deal more than I currently do, so that further narrows the pool of opportunity. For example, i did a quick look at Portland, OR - to maintain the same standard of living, I'd have to make ~27% more, but employers typically only pay ~4.5% more than Cincy. The lone exception to this is probably Portland, ME, where I have plenty of family and I would end up doing more things with them, so my net expenditures would likely be less. Does anyone have any tips? Thoughts? Suggestions? Somewhat similar experiences?

I think the lesson here is that GMTAN posters have good taste in terms of places to live

Austin ftw.

I'll find out in December

It should be about 75% and sunny.

I was sort of hoping it would be 100%

Oh, it could be. Winter is intermittent in Texas. If you like hot, you'll love it here.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

They measure temps by a percentage in Tejas?

What's 110% like?

 

[Mr.Pack]

Happy Birfday K4!

 

[YSR]

Happy Birfday K4!

We need a :lolcat: or :catmeme: emoticon for days like today.

 

[belljr]

IT'S DRAFT DAY!!!

 

[boilerdave]

Happy B'day k4.