Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)

[BCClone]

Same thought process, only yours is backward!

How's San Antone?

Not bad. We are right on the river for 3/4 of the trip. Spendy, but worth it since we get to walk every where. Alamo is a little unimpressive to us. San Juan was actually nicer and less crowded. We are next door to the Loyola Chicago team with all the stuff they have posted. Wondering where the other three teams are.

Worst part was the drivers and the roads are not marked until you have already exited onto them. So much road construction, our vehicle GPS is off (only a few years old) and I have had to go to my phone and that isn’t even right. They have given up on signage so you are guessing on streets and everything is one way.

 

[BCClone]

Don't get any ideas @BCClone. No need for sunburn pics from you, sir!

I wear clothes so no dicpics to be concerned about. At rooftop pool now and starting to rain. So I better go inside.

 

[SaraV]

I'm a purist. Plain or peanut. Nothing else.

Peanut butter. Yummy.

I’m getting sunburnt!!

Oh shush, you.

Husband and I have discovered HyVee has a pretty good salsa verde. And, only $3 a jar. (Not a sales price either) Teenage/20's me would think it was WAAAAYYYY too hot. I'm just coming to grips with the fact that my taste buds are dying.

 

[NWICY]

Stopped at a drive-thru during lunch. Bill was $2.96. I gave the guy $5.01 .

Change was taking a while, so I was anxiously awaiting the result. I get back $2.03 . I couldn't figure out the math no matter how hard I tried.

Went out for supper one night and gave the gal a 50. She tried making change twice and was waaaay off both times. I finally ended up making m own change for her.

I actually felt sorry for her, she should have just used her phone while at the bar or the cash register to get the right answer then just give me the proper amount.

 

[NWICY]

Math is hard. What I don't understand: Why do some folks use 'math' and others use 'maths'? I used to think it was just a European/US thing.

I have thought it was a internet thing. That is where I first heard it called maths. I always thought it was like calling the internet the interwebs, but all this strictly my humble interpretation.

 

[NWICY]

I’m getting sunburnt!!

Well at least a lot of the SNOW will be gone by the time you get back.

 

[SCyclone]

Peanut butter. Yummy.



Oh shush, you.

Husband and I have discovered HyVee has a pretty good salsa verde. And, only $3 a jar. (Not a sales price either) Teenage/20's me would think it was WAAAAYYYY too hot. I'm just coming to grips with the fact that my taste buds are dying.

When I was younger, I wouldn't dream of eating a hot pepper. But the vixen has gotten me into jalapenos, and we have also used serrano peppers in our cooking, too.

My brother (a pepper aficionado) grows his own habanero peppers. He dries them and flakes them, and puts it on almost anything. He and his son have also experimented with the hottest peppers of all - Trinidad scorpion, one with "chocolate" in the name, etc - and you can be sure I'm not going there.

 

[oldman]

My dad owned a shop when I was a kid, and we were his cashiers. No cash register, just a money drawer. We were taught to count the change back into the customer's hand, starting at the purchase price and ending with the amount we were given. Seemed to work just fine.

 

[oldman]

When I was younger, I wouldn't dream of eating a hot pepper. But the vixen has gotten me into jalapenos, and we have also used serrano peppers in our cooking, too.

My brother (a pepper aficionado) grows his own habanero peppers. He dries them and flakes them, and puts it on almost anything. He and his son have also experimented with the hottest peppers of all - Trinidad scorpion, one with "chocolate" in the name, etc - and you can be sure I'm not going there.

Does he vape them?

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

When I was younger, I wouldn't dream of eating a hot pepper. But the vixen has gotten me into jalapenos, and we have also used serrano peppers in our cooking, too.

My brother (a pepper aficionado) grows his own habanero peppers. He dries them and flakes them, and puts it on almost anything. He and his son have also experimented with the hottest peppers of all - Trinidad scorpion, one with "chocolate" in the name, etc - and you can be sure I'm not going there.

So no "one chip challenge" for you?

 

[SCyclone]

So no "one chip challenge" for you?

Negative, Ghostrider.

 

[SCyclone]

Does he vape them?

Yikes. That just seems wrong on so many levels.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I'm being forced to watch a 10 hour presentation on the concept of DevOps.
Pretty sure this should be included in the Geneva Convention. Like I have time to waste on this useless crap that has absolutely nothing to do with my job.

 

[Cybirdy]

My dad owned a shop when I was a kid, and we were his cashiers. No cash register, just a money drawer. We were taught to count the change back into the customer's hand, starting at the purchase price and ending with the amount we were given. Seemed to work just fine.

Hubby talks about having to count back change and get it out of one of those little change belts when he worked at Taco John's as a teen. Even now it is a good experience for the teen to work concessions at HS events. No calculator/cash register--everything has to be done in your head. And it is easy, everything is in increments of 25c.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Hubby talks about having to count back change and get it out of one of those little change belts when he worked at Taco John's as a teen. Even now it is a good experience for the teen to work concessions at HS events. No calculator/cash register--everything has to be done in your head. And it is easy, everything is in increments of 25c.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Does he vape them?

Man is STOOOOOOPID.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I got roped into a long stupid meeting that I didn't need to be in. Then I leave it and walk by an empty box of donuts sitting in the break room.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I got roped into a long stupid meeting that I didn't need to be in. Then I leave it and walk by an empty box of donuts sitting in the break room.

I'm sitting in a a problem review call that has been going on for 1.5 hours and from what I can will go at least another 1.5 hours. At least it is a call and I can sit at my desk and surf and work on other stuff while listening waiting for the one incident I was assigned to address even though it isn't my problem.

 

[oldman]

I was scheduled for a long boring meeting, but informed the parties attending that we needed to get my portion out of the way so I could get two bids finished up. 5 minutes later, I walk. 1.5 hours later, the meeting gets over.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I'm sitting in a a problem review call that has been going on for 1.5 hours and from what I can will go at least another 1.5 hours. At least it is a call and I can sit at my desk and surf and work on other stuff while listening waiting for the one incident I was assigned to address even though it isn't my problem.

Well, they just realized that after 2 hours they were 30 minutes over their allotted time. At least I had just gotten through explaining what I think they wanted me to address so I don't have to get on next week when they try to continue.