mr. furley
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mine too and it's this afternoon. we're supposed to attend and still workMy work is attempting a Virtual Holiday Party
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RC94
Footballguy
For those of you doing a virtual holiday party, do you at least get free food (can expense up to $x for food during the "party")? A company I worked for a years ago had a holiday party somewhere not local for some employees so for those of us who couldn't go, they let us expense our dinners that night.
belljr
Footballguy
Mine was at 11. I took a napmine too and it's this afternoon. we're supposed to attend and still work
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the rover
Footballguy
every 30 seconds just say "uh huh", "yeah" or "oh." Didn't your fathers teach you anything? My dad has been pretending to be deaf for 30 years so he doesn't have to listen to my mom.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
My wife was going through her mom’s place yesterday trying to go through things to find the important stuff to keep and get everything else ready to get rid of. She found an old photo album that she had never seen before. It had LOTS of old pictures of her grand mother and great grandparents’ family back in Germany and Russia in the 1920s and 1930s. It was pretty cool going through it.
The only thing that sucked is that a lot of it was guesswork trying to figure out who people were. We may be able to figure some of it out if we can get someone that can read German, but a lot of them either have nothing written on the back or what’s written is just dates or obviously notes of where it was taken. My MIL had some really tough things linked to her family history so my wife understands somewhat why her mom never shared the photos with her before, but now that her mom is gone, there is little chance we will ever figure some of that out.
So if you know there are photos like that in your family and someone alive that knows who is in those photos and where/when they were taken, I would highly recommend asking them to write that info on the back of those photos.
Still, pretty cool to have photos of her grandmother as a baby and child and those other ~100 year old photos of her family that she didn’t even know existed.
The only thing that sucked is that a lot of it was guesswork trying to figure out who people were. We may be able to figure some of it out if we can get someone that can read German, but a lot of them either have nothing written on the back or what’s written is just dates or obviously notes of where it was taken. My MIL had some really tough things linked to her family history so my wife understands somewhat why her mom never shared the photos with her before, but now that her mom is gone, there is little chance we will ever figure some of that out.
So if you know there are photos like that in your family and someone alive that knows who is in those photos and where/when they were taken, I would highly recommend asking them to write that info on the back of those photos.
Still, pretty cool to have photos of her grandmother as a baby and child and those other ~100 year old photos of her family that she didn’t even know existed.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
This is good posting.
Growing up, we lived with my great-great aunt. I can remember several family gatherings where she, her sister, her nieces/nephews, and other assorted relatives would go through boxes of photos and write the names of the folks in the pictures on the back. They couldn't precisely date them all, but could get to - at worst - a decade. There had to be 1,000s and 1,000s of photos dated back well into the 1800s. My mom and her sisters have them now.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
It was kind of funny when my wife mentioned the Russian side of her family. I knew that she was German and that her grandmother had been a teenager in Germany during WWII, but she had never mentioned that her mom’s side of the family was Russian too.
When she mentioned it, I looked at her incredulously and said “yeah, you definitely never mentioned you were German AND Russian! That may have been good info to have BEFORE marrying you..”
I should probably also make clear that her mom’s difficult family history did not reportedly have anything to do with Nazis. My wife’s grandmother was a compulsory member of Hitler’s Youth due to her age and being in Germany at the time, but reportedly would sign herself into the compulsory meetings and then immediately leave and attend church next door, lol. I certainly hope that’s true and that if it isn’t, my wife never learns otherwise.
When she mentioned it, I looked at her incredulously and said “yeah, you definitely never mentioned you were German AND Russian! That may have been good info to have BEFORE marrying you..”
I should probably also make clear that her mom’s difficult family history did not reportedly have anything to do with Nazis. My wife’s grandmother was a compulsory member of Hitler’s Youth due to her age and being in Germany at the time, but reportedly would sign herself into the compulsory meetings and then immediately leave and attend church next door, lol. I certainly hope that’s true and that if it isn’t, my wife never learns otherwise.
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Osaurus
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urbanhack
Fight The Power!
Binky The Doormat
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mr. furley
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
An article in the New Yorker about the work-world I inhabit, for anybody interested. Definitely paints the picture of the ultra-ultra's projects, where it's never about budget.
I haven't worked with Mark, but I've had him bid on projects before.
I haven't worked with Mark, but I've had him bid on projects before.
boilerdave
Footballguy
That’s an interesting read. Being a Project Manager/ Engineer in Indianapolis has always had its challenges and stressful moments but the things I’ve read and heard about the construction business in NYC has always blown my mind.
ChiefD
Footballguy
heckmanm
Footballguy
Got a work meeting appointment the other day from my boss's boss's, boss's boss - one level below the CIO - for a "Virtual Dirty Santa" tomorrow after lunch. Now, having recently run across the term, I know that it's the same as a "white elephant" or "yankee swap" gift exchange, where people can steal others' gifts, so I didn't think much of it. But, the term "Dirty Santa" is not commonly used in this part of the country.
Was having a weekly status meeting with my manager today and she says "did you get an appointment yesterday from Scott...?" and it clicks that she has no clue what "Dirty Santa" means, and isn't even sure the e-mail was legit. So we had a good laugh after I explained it. She said she was (understandably) afraid to google it on a work laptop.
So I sent an e-mail to the rest of the team to share the explanation, and one guy replies with "Oh. Good thing Amazon takes returns".
I just hope he doesn't show up on this zoom call tomorrow wearing nothing but sleighbells.
Was having a weekly status meeting with my manager today and she says "did you get an appointment yesterday from Scott...?" and it clicks that she has no clue what "Dirty Santa" means, and isn't even sure the e-mail was legit. So we had a good laugh after I explained it. She said she was (understandably) afraid to google it on a work laptop.
So I sent an e-mail to the rest of the team to share the explanation, and one guy replies with "Oh. Good thing Amazon takes returns".
I just hope he doesn't show up on this zoom call tomorrow wearing nothing but sleighbells.
SWC
Bromigo
hey brohans i hope that you are doing good and that the season finds you well truth be told i read this here thread every time i come around and have for probably close to 20 years and thats pretty crazy to think about anyhow i like reading about all of your stuff and you make me laugh so good on you all but hey i wanted to ask if otis and tanner are still around of if they have been banned or just stopped coming by those guys both made me laugh a lot so hey if you know them see if you can get them to come back take that to the bank brohans
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Lomez
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FatMax
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So I rarely post anything online anymore. I'm way out of the loop regarding FBGs. I don't know who is still here, who has dropped off the face of the earth, or who might have had a boot implanted up their backside on the way out the door.
I think I might have made a couple of dozen posts in the last five years. But I don't even know that for sure. So my question is this ... is the search function here now just a flaming pile garbage, or am I just too dumb to figure it out? And yes, these are not mutually exclusive ...
I think I might have made a couple of dozen posts in the last five years. But I don't even know that for sure. So my question is this ... is the search function here now just a flaming pile garbage, or am I just too dumb to figure it out? And yes, these are not mutually exclusive ...
the rover
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FatMax
Member
There was either a massive purge of old threads, or the search function is incapable of finding them ... which might as well be the same thing
the rover
Footballguy
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Anytime I do a search I feel like Kramer is really on the other end of the query doing his Moviefone thing: “Why don’t you just TELL me what you want to see”
Osaurus
Footballguy
Yeah. It’s way bad. It takes me less time and offers less aggravation to go through all of my recent posts to find a thread versus the torture of using the search function and coming away disappointed.
For me, it’s kind of like going to Ace Hardware up the street. It’s close, but unlikely they’ll have what I’m looking for resulting in a visit to HD or Lowe’s. So ultimately going to one of those stores initially, albeit further away, will yield a better result.
Lomez
Footballguy
MAXIE!!!
Sac here. Some folks still around.
Search function blows, yes.
How you been, gb?
Lomez
Footballguy
One of the things you're looking for:
https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/472993-charlie-shining-path-bosworth-rip/
https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/472993-charlie-shining-path-bosworth-rip/
FatMax
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Hey GB! I'm good. I'd tell you a good story about where I've been, but involves way to much sex and deviant behavior to be allowed here. And I would never lie about that. Never, ever. Anyway, I tried to check LABS, but my bookmark sent me to a gambling/Asian porn site. Oddly enough, I was OK with that.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
There have been multiple purges. But the search feature here has always sucked and been the butt of jokes for years. Good to see you.
facook
Footballguy
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
Most threads got moved over to the test forum, if you can’t find it then pm that shuke person and they can show you where it is
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FatMax
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Thanks for the welcome, all.
I've spent the last hour reading much of the Russian Bride Draft. Still makes me laugh. But the thing that boggles my mind is that was SEVENTEEN years ago. I remember where I was living then, with my girlfriend (now wife). This was before smart phones, and our computer was on a table in the living room. I remember waiting for her to go to bed before searching for potential brides. I didn't know how to explain the draft to her, so I did my best to avoid it.
I've spent the last hour reading much of the Russian Bride Draft. Still makes me laugh. But the thing that boggles my mind is that was SEVENTEEN years ago. I remember where I was living then, with my girlfriend (now wife). This was before smart phones, and our computer was on a table in the living room. I remember waiting for her to go to bed before searching for potential brides. I didn't know how to explain the draft to her, so I did my best to avoid it.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Lomez
Footballguy
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RC94
Footballguy
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Footballguy
where's fish?
