GM's thread about nothing (28 Viewers)

[Officer Pete Malloy]

anyone seen GM? Hope he wasn't at the mall yesterday.

As long as the mall isn't near Rite-Aid I'm sure he's fine.

"Arrrrggggg....*gasp*....save...the...*gasp*....butter"

 

[Captain Quinoa]

anyone seen GM? Hope he wasn't at the mall yesterday.

As long as the mall isn't near Rite-Aid I'm sure he's fine.

"Arrrrggggg....*gasp*....save...the...*gasp*....butter"

I thought bullets passed right through a ghost? Cartoons have got this all wrong.

 

[El Floppo]

So I miss a few months in here, and WHAMMO- K4 is pregnant. Congrats?

 

[Mr.Pack]

Kev- Still no CPAP???

Nope. Sixteen straight nights of lousy, interrupted, low-oxygen sleep. And counting.My doctor checked in with me today. Told him I was living on chocolate-covered coffee beans and Diet Mountain Dew. That should get his attention.

Dude, that's ridiculous.no chance in hell I'd stand for that. No CPAP Plus Stores near you? Hell I can give you a number and call them with a script with your setting and have them overnight one to you.

 

[-fish-]

lawyerguy chat activated:

This happy hour meeting was interesting, but I kind of think it may not be for me. When I was with a firm, I used to do 90% plaintiff's litigation and 10% general counsel. As a solo, those are reversed. I haven't had billable hours requirements in my entire career.

The firm that approached me is looking for someone to head up litigation in my field in their Seattle office. I'm more experienced than the managing partner and the guy who would be my direct supervisor. They want me to come in, hand over my book of business (which is admittedly relatively small at this point, but growing), and work for salary + bonus on a two-year track toward equity partner. The thing is, the reason they want me is that I have the ability to bring in business to their Seattle office as well as doing the heavy lifting. I wouldn't get a piece of anything I bring in, although it would somehow be factored into bonuses. Bring in enough cases, and it favors making partner in two years. In the meantime, I'd have a stable income, but I'd have billable hour requirements and bonuses are based on exceeding those requirements--way more like a defense shop. I have no interest in putting in 70 hour weeks anymore.

Other than the fact that I wouldn't have to worry about meeting my financial obligations (including marital and child support), this seems like a step backward, unless they're willing to throw buckets of money at me for salary.

Right now, if I can land a decent piece of litigation, there are two local firms that I can associate in with and would take 25-50% of the recovery, depending on my level of involvement.

Second interview after the holidays, even though I was pretty clear that I'm not impressed with their compensation structure and they'd need to do something unique to get me in the door.

Seems like I'm going to listen to what they have to say, but this is probably a pass, right?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

lawyerguy chat activated:...

Not Jay Cutler saying "don't care".

 

[Abraham]

Carmen is here cleaning. I gave her $20. She looked at me like I'm an idiot (she's right). She speaks no English and my Spanish is pathetic. I'm down to typing questions into my translate app but I'm not sure she can read. Krista?

Just TALK LOUDER TO HER.

Or do like my brother and add a Spanish accent to the English you are speaking.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

It beats super mario brothers

 

[cosjobs]

Kev- Still no CPAP???

Nope. Sixteen straight nights of lousy, interrupted, low-oxygen sleep. And counting.My doctor checked in with me today. Told him I was living on chocolate-covered coffee beans and Diet Mountain Dew. That should get his attention.

Dude, that's ridiculous.no chance in hell I'd stand for that. No CPAP Plus Stores near you? Hell I can give you a number and call them with a script with your setting and have them overnight one to you.

That really is ridiculous. Glad my insurance is thru St. Davids. You really should be raising hell somewhere. I mean its like you could die and ####.

 

[belljr]

It beats super mario brothers

But it doesn't beat bell ringing

 

[-fish-]

lawyerguy chat activated:This happy hour meeting was interesting, but I kind of think it may not be for me. When I was with a firm, I used to do 90% plaintiff's litigation and 10% general counsel. As a solo, those are reversed. I haven't had billable hours requirements in my entire career.The firm that approached me is looking for someone to head up litigation in my field in their Seattle office. I'm more experienced than the managing partner and the guy who would be my direct supervisor. They want me to come in, hand over my book of business (which is admittedly relatively small at this point, but growing), and work for salary + bonus on a two-year track toward equity partner. The thing is, the reason they want me is that I have the ability to bring in business to their Seattle office as well as doing the heavy lifting. I wouldn't get a piece of anything I bring in, although it would somehow be factored into bonuses. Bring in enough cases, and it favors making partner in two years. In the meantime, I'd have a stable income, but I'd have billable hour requirements and bonuses are based on exceeding those requirements--way more like a defense shop. I have no interest in putting in 70 hour weeks anymore.Other than the fact that I wouldn't have to worry about meeting my financial obligations (including marital and child support), this seems like a step backward, unless they're willing to throw buckets of money at me for salary.Right now, if I can land a decent piece of litigation, there are two local firms that I can associate in with and would take 25-50% of the recovery, depending on my level of involvement.Second interview after the holidays, even though I was pretty clear that I'm not impressed with their compensation structure and they'd need to do something unique to get me in the door.Seems like I'm going to listen to what they have to say, but this is probably a pass, right?

LOOK AT ME!!!! I DONT WANT TO ONLY MAKE !!! I WANT TO MAKE

If I wanted to make crap money, I'd have become a teacher.

 

[krista4]

Seems like I'm going to listen to what they have to say, but this is probably a pass, right?

 

[Tiger Fan]

Did Krista provide any literature regarding the procurement of female companionship?

NoYou're hooker-obsessed aren't you?

I think you may have me confused with Raider Nation, which is excusable since we have nothing in common.

your avatar would lead me to believe differently

 

[Tiger Fan]

anyone seen GM? Hope he wasn't at the mall yesterday.

I'm sure he knows malls are pretty dangerous.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

anyone seen GM? Hope he wasn't at the mall yesterday.

I'm sure he knows malls are pretty dangerous.

Missed this one. lol

 

[General Malaise]

anyone seen GM? Hope he wasn't at the mall yesterday.

I'm sure he knows malls are pretty dangerous.

Missed this one. lol

:finger:malls are stupid.

 

[General Malaise]

 

[General Malaise]

What the hell happened here last night?

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

What the hell happened here last night?

I think we all broke up for a few minutes

 

[General Malaise]

What the hell happened here last night?

I think we all broke up for a few minutes

I spend one night - ONE NIGHT - locked up in my house with all the lights off to avoid being shot at and you guys go and do this? For shame. Now do you guys understand why I'm anti-violent crime?

 

[Stoneys]

What the hell happened here last night?

I think we all broke up for a few minutes

Are we all back together now?

 

[krista4]

anyone seen GM? Hope he wasn't at the mall yesterday.

I'm sure he knows malls are pretty dangerous.

Missed this one. lol

:finger:malls are stupid.

On this we can agree!

What the hell happened here last night?

I think we all broke up for a few minutes

Are we all back together now?

Yeah, and we're about to have the make-up sex.

 

[belljr]

anyone seen GM? Hope he wasn't at the mall yesterday.

I'm sure he knows malls are pretty dangerous.

Missed this one. lol

:finger:malls are stupid.

On this we can agree!

What the hell happened here last night?

I think we all broke up for a few minutes

Are we all back together now?

Yeah, and we're about to have the make-up sex.

Sweet pregnant SEX!!!!

 

[Abraham]

What the hell happened here last night?

Iirc, we learned that krista is pregnant and Uruk hai = homer j Simpson. Any name suggestions for k4's baby?

 

[Stoneys]

What the hell happened here last night?

Iirc, we learned that krista is pregnant and Uruk hai = homer j Simpson. Any name suggestions for k4's baby?

Richard Mitten Four Humanzee?

 

[General Malaise]

What the hell happened here last night?

Iirc, we learned that krista is pregnant and Uruk hai = homer j Simpson. Any name suggestions for k4's baby?

Kristiver Humanza4?

 

[heckmanm]

Wife's having an endoscopy with a Dr Akbar. Trying not to yell "IT'S A TRAP!!!!"

Also, they have the machine that goes *BING*

 

[General Malaise]

Here you go, beer dorks....

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States.It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the "world's best beer" by reviewers and fans.Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey - and reservations are extremely hard to come by.But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis."I think it will be the last [time]," Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. "They say, 'We are monks, we don't want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that's it,' Back to normal again."Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent "bricks" of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99."The phone has been ringing off the hook," Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City's Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them.McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with "the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it.""It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world," she said. "It's been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it's been completely unattainable."

 

[cosjobs]

Wife's having an endoscopy with a Dr Akbar. Trying not to yell "IT'S A TRAP!!!!"Also, they have the machine that goes *BING*

You are now free to move about the cabin

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Here you go, beer dorks....

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States.It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the "world's best beer" by reviewers and fans.Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey - and reservations are extremely hard to come by.But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis."I think it will be the last [time]," Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. "They say, 'We are monks, we don't want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that's it,' Back to normal again."Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent "bricks" of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99."The phone has been ringing off the hook," Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City's Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them.McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with "the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it.""It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world," she said. "It's been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it's been completely unattainable."

Oh yeah, heard this on NPR this morning and was going to try and get some.

 

[krista4]

What the hell happened here last night?

Iirc, we learned that krista is pregnant and Uruk hai = homer j Simpson. Any name suggestions for k4's baby?

Richard Mitten Four Humanzee?

What the hell happened here last night?

Iirc, we learned that krista is pregnant and Uruk hai = homer j Simpson. Any name suggestions for k4's baby?

Kristiver Humanza4?

Wife's having an endoscopy with a Dr Akbar. Trying not to yell "IT'S A TRAP!!!!"Also, they have the machine that goes *BING*

, and

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Here you go, beer dorks....

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States.

It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the "world's best beer" by reviewers and fans.

Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey - and reservations are extremely hard to come by.

But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis.

"I think it will be the last [time]," Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. "They say, 'We are monks, we don't want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that's it,' Back to normal again."

Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent "bricks" of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99.

"The phone has been ringing off the hook," Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City's Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them.

McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with "the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it."

"It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world," she said. "It's been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it's been completely unattainable."

Oh well...I'm convinced.

 

[cosjobs]

Here you go, beer dorks....

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States.It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the "world's best beer" by reviewers and fans.Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey - and reservations are extremely hard to come by.But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis."I think it will be the last [time]," Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. "They say, 'We are monks, we don't want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that's it,' Back to normal again."Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent "bricks" of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99."The phone has been ringing off the hook," Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City's Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them.McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with "the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it.""It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world," she said. "It's been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it's been completely unattainable."

$85 a six pack?!?!!The guys should stop the monastic schtick and become hard-core capitalists.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Here you go, beer dorks....

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States.It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the "world's best beer" by reviewers and fans.Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey - and reservations are extremely hard to come by.But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis."I think it will be the last [time]," Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. "They say, 'We are monks, we don't want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that's it,' Back to normal again."Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent "bricks" of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99."The phone has been ringing off the hook," Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City's Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them.McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with "the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it.""It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world," she said. "It's been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it's been completely unattainable."

$85 a six pack?!?!!The guys should stop the monastic schtick and become hard-core capitalists.

They said in the interview it's a one time only thing to pay for a new roof at the abbey.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Carmen is here cleaning. I gave her $20. She looked at me like I'm an idiot (she's right). She speaks no English and my Spanish is pathetic. I'm down to typing questions into my translate app but I'm not sure she can read. Krista?

Just TALK LOUDER TO HER.

Uruk, did you solve the issue?

We came to an understanding - meaning she worked and I got the hell out of her way. Pancho came by & cleaned the pool. Nice kid.

 

[belljr]

Carmen is here cleaning. I gave her $20. She looked at me like I'm an idiot (she's right). She speaks no English and my Spanish is pathetic. I'm down to typing questions into my translate app but I'm not sure she can read. Krista?

Just TALK LOUDER TO HER.

Uruk, did you solve the issue?

We came to an understanding - meaning she worked and I got the hell out of her way. Pancho came by & cleaned the pool. Nice kid.

How much did you give him?

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Here's a list of liquor stores that received the 6 bottle "brick" which includes two glasses:

ALABAMA

Hop City, Birmingham

Piggly Wiggly, Homeland

The Nook, Huntsville

ARIZONA

Total Wine, Gilbert

Total Wine (Arrowhead Gateway), Glendale

Total Wine, Goodyear

Total Wine (Desert Ridge), Phoenix

Total Wine (Camelback Rd), Phoenix

Total Wine, Scottsdale

Total Wine, Tempe

Total Wine (The Corner), Tucson

Total Wine (Park Place Mall), Tucson

CALIFORNIA

Total Wine, Brea

Hi Times Wine Cellar, Costa Mesa

Davis Beer Shoppe, Davis

Holiday Wine Cellar, Escondido

Total Wine, Folsom

Total Wine, Huntington Beach

Total Wine, Laguna Hills

Stearns, Long Beach

Total Wine, Northbridge

Trappist Provisions, Oakland

Bruery Provisions, Orange

Total Wine, Rancho Cuacamonga

Total Wine, Redondo Beach

K&L Wines, Redwood City/Los Angeles

Total Wine, Roseville

Pangaea, Sacramento

Total Wine, Sacramento

Best Damn Bottle Shop, San Diego

Bine & Vine, San Diego

City Beer Store, San Francisco

Healthy Spirits, San Francisco

Ales Unlimited, San Francisco

Total Wine, Tustin

Total Wine, Thousand Oaks

Øl Beercafe, Walnut Creek

COLORADO

Liquor Mart, Boulder

Coaltrain Wine and Spirits, Colorado Springs

Argonaut Liquor, Denver

Wilbur’s Total Beverage, Fort Collins

DELAWARE

Total Wine, Claymont

Total Wine, Milltown

FLORIDA

Total Wine, Boca Raton

Total Wine, Boynton Beach

Total Wine, Clearwater

Total Wine, Fort Lauderdale

Total Wine, Fort Myers

Total Wine, Jasksonville

Total Wine, Miami

Total Wine, North Miami

Total Wine, Naples

Total Wine (Colonial Plaza), Orlando

Total Wine (Millenia Plaza), Orlando

Total Wine, Palm Beach Gardens

Total Wine, Pembroke Pines

Total Wine, Plantation

Total Wine, St. Petersburg

Total Wine, Sarasota

Total Wine, Stuart

Total Wine, Tampa

Total Wine, Village of Wellington

ILLINOIS

Binny’s, Bloomington

Friar Tucks, Bloomington

Binny’s (Downers Grove), Chicago

Binny’s (Marcey), Chicago

INDIANA

Keg Liquors, Clarksville

Crown Liquors, Indianapolis

Village Liquors, West Lafayette

IOWA

Benz Beverage Depot, Cedar Rapids

Royal Mile, Des Moines

Schera’s Algerian American Restaurant, Elkader

John’s Grocery, Iowa City

KENTUCKY

The Party Source, Bellevue (Cincinnati)

Wino’s Depot, Bowling Green

The Beer Trappe, Lexington

Louisville Beer Store, Louisville

Sergio’s World Beers, Louisville

Roof Brothers, Paducah

LOUISIANA

Whole Foods, Baton Rouge

Aquistapace’s Grocery, Covington

Whole Foods (Veterans), Metarie

Stein’s Deli, New Orleans

Whole Foods (Arabella Station), New Orleans

MARYLAND

Corridor Fine Wine, Laurel

Beltway Fine Wine, Towson

MASSACHUSETTS

Craft Beer Cellar, Belmont (Boston)

Provisions, Northampton

Redstone Liquors, Stoneham

Julio’s, Westborough

MINNESOTA

Heritage Liquor, Minneapolis

Andy’s Liquor, Rochester

West Side Liquors, St. Cloud

MISSOURI

tbd

NEVADA

Total Wine, Henderson

Total Wine, Las Vegas

Total Wine, Reno

NEW YORK

DeCicco’s, Ardsley

DeCicco’s, Brewster

Breukelen Bier Merchants, Brooklyn

Brouwerij Lane, Brooklyn

Beer Street, Brooklyn

Beer Table Pantry, Manhattan

The Cannibal, Manhattan

City Swiggers, Manhattan

Good Beer, Manhattan

New Beer Distributors, Manhattan

Top Hops, Manhattan

Whole Foods Bowery, Manhattan

DeCicco’s, Pelham

NORTH CAROLINA

Total Wine, Cary

Total Wine (Park Towne Village), Charlotte

Total Wine (Grand Promenade Phase II),Charlotte

Total Wine (Promenade on Providence), Charlotte

Total Wine, Durham

Total Wine (Battleground Square), Greensboro

Total Wine (Oakwood Square), Greensboro

Total Wine, Huntersville

Total Wine (Brier Creek), Raleigh

Total Wine (Triangle Plaza), Raleigh

Total Wine (Six Forks Road), Raleigh

Total Wine, Winston-Salem

OHIO

Lizardville, Bedford Heights (Cleveland)

Jungle Jim’s, Cincinnati

Belmont Party Supply, Dayton

Lizardville, Rocky River (Cleveland)

Anderson’s, Maumee (Toledo)

Vintage Estates, Youngstown

OREGON

Corvallis Beer Supply, Corvallis

Market of Choice, Corvallis

Bier Stein, Eugene

Market of Choice, Eugene

16 Tons Beer & Wine, Eugene

Belmont Station, Portland

Beer Monger, Portland

Saraveza, Portland

Hop & Vine, Portland

John’s Market, Portland

Market of Choice, Portland

Market of Choice, West Linn

SOUTH CAROLINA

Total Wine, Charleston

Total Wine, Columbia

Total Wine, Greenville

VERMONT

Hunger Mountain Co-Op, Montpellier

Beverage Warehouse, Winooski (Burlington)

 

[heckmanm]

Friend of mine went to Europe this past spring and brought some Westy back, so I've tried it. Good beer but sure as hell not $14/bottle good.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Here you go, beer dorks....

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States.It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the "world's best beer" by reviewers and fans.Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey - and reservations are extremely hard to come by.But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis."I think it will be the last [time]," Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. "They say, 'We are monks, we don't want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that's it,' Back to normal again."Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent "bricks" of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99."The phone has been ringing off the hook," Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City's Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them.McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with "the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it.""It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world," she said. "It's been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it's been completely unattainable."

$85 a six pack?!?!!The guys should stop the monastic schtick and become hard-core capitalists.

That's like $25 a bottle. Ridiculous.

 

[krista4]

Carmen is here cleaning. I gave her $20. She looked at me like I'm an idiot (she's right). She speaks no English and my Spanish is pathetic. I'm down to typing questions into my translate app but I'm not sure she can read. Krista?

Just TALK LOUDER TO HER.

Uruk, did you solve the issue?

We came to an understanding - meaning she worked and I got the hell out of her way. Pancho came by & cleaned the pool. Nice kid.

Interesting story about Pancho...one of the American ex-pats down there killed herself about six months ago. Left everything she had--including her house--to Pancho just because he's a good guy who works hard. Yet he still works cleaning pools. Nicaraguans are very hard workers, and he probably doesn't even know how to react to his sudden windfall.

 

[guru_007]

I pay 12 bucks per six pack for some Rogue Dead Guy Ale once a month or so. That's about my limit.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Carmen is here cleaning. I gave her $20. She looked at me like I'm an idiot (she's right). She speaks no English and my Spanish is pathetic. I'm down to typing questions into my translate app but I'm not sure she can read. Krista?

Just TALK LOUDER TO HER.

Or do like my brother and add a Spanish accent to the English you are speaking.

I do that. I know I sound like a fool but can't help. It's like Yoda on peyote but dumber

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Plow King

 

[General Malaise]

Carmen is here cleaning. I gave her $20. She looked at me like I'm an idiot (she's right). She speaks no English and my Spanish is pathetic. I'm down to typing questions into my translate app but I'm not sure she can read. Krista?

Just TALK LOUDER TO HER.

Uruk, did you solve the issue?

We came to an understanding - meaning she worked and I got the hell out of her way. Pancho came by & cleaned the pool. Nice kid.

How much did you give him?

Just the tip....

 

[Osaurus]

Going to a training this morning where I will learn to create and use pivot tables in Excel. Slap it high?

Big fan...use them all the time.

 

[General Malaise]

I have honestly never heard of any of these...

Belmont Station, Portland

Beer Monger, Portland

Saraveza, Portland

Hop & Vine, Portland

John’s Market, Portland

Market of Choice, Portland

I like this one the best. Market of Choice? Really? Do we have markets without any choices? What a stupid name.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Welp, the one liquor store in the Twin Cities that had monkbeer is sold out. I quit.

 

[General Malaise]

I pay 12 bucks per six pack for some Rogue Dead Guy Ale once a month or so. That's about my limit.

And you know...you would think that this beer would be a little cheaper out here, but it's not. They freaking gouge you on their beer prices.

 

[General Malaise]

Welp, the one liquor store in the Twin Cities that had monkbeer is sold out. I quit.

Want I should phone into the Market of Choices?

 

[Mr.Pack]

Here you go, beer dorks....

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States.It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the "world's best beer" by reviewers and fans.Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey - and reservations are extremely hard to come by.But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis."I think it will be the last [time]," Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. "They say, 'We are monks, we don't want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that's it,' Back to normal again."Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent "bricks" of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99."The phone has been ringing off the hook," Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City's Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them.McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with "the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it.""It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world," she said. "It's been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it's been completely unattainable."

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