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Mitty38 said:
I think my I Q has dropped a few points over the last few years. It use to be 128 but I think it has dropped . To around 65 now. At least according to the way my new boss treats me.
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Do not despair, Emmett, it is he who is the idiot, for being blind to your all your work contributions.
 
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Do not despair, Emmett, it is he who is the idiot, for being blind to your all your work contributions.
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Oh, I will get him broke in eventually.
It's just tough dealing with someone who is trying to prove himself. My last shift supervisor was the same way. Till he found Out how much easier or harder I could make his job.
 
At my age and stage of the "work" game, I just let all the young bucks think they know everything. I'm just sailing through and staying out of the way of the idiots. I just smile and keep to myself.
 
Watched my my Midway order on ups.
It just bounced around MO for two days then went out on the 29th. To who knows where, so been in limbo for two days
Sometimes I wish we did not have access to that info.
I remember the old days when you just sent your order form in with a check. Or called it in with a credit card. Then 6 to 8 weeks, after you forgot about it. It just shows up on your step. Like a mini Christmas
 
They shut down for New Years. Some pickups for big accounts, reduced service for others. At least they know where your package is. I had to buy Temiplaq from Midway last Thursday, and UPS at least acknowledges having the package. My schedule delivery date is next Friday. Kansas City is normally a two-day point for us.
 
I work(ed) better if left alone. It took some bosses longer than others to learn that. The last 2 jobs I had I could set my own hours and for one of them I even got to write my own job description and that worked well but I worked a lot more than my appointment(s) called for.
 
I seen part of a TV rerun episode of "Dr Quinn Medicine Woman."
I was channel surfing and only stopped to watch a bit, because one character looked like Johnny Cash.
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Sure enough it was Johnny Cash. He was part of a group of unarmed white folks that were being chased by Indians. They took cover in a small building at a stage coach stop in the middle of no where. The Indians were shooting (leverguns) at them from up on a Hill. Some shots went through the wooden door. Then one lone Indian charges down the hill towards the building. One of the white fellas had a tomahawk with that looked more like a shingling hammer. Johnny had some pistol cartridges, but no gun (maybe he lost it earlier in the show?)
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Johnny grabs the the tomahawk from his friend, then says, "everyone step back, there might be some splinters." Johnny puts two cartridges in two different bullet holes in the door. He taps one, it goes off, no splinters, but you hear a ricochet as the camera zoomed in on the charging Indian. Johnny taps the second cartridge, again no splitters, and the Indian goes down, he was at least 50 feet from the door. The Indian gets back up, and badly limps back up the hill.
 
Wait, what was this thread about?

I might have the answer to wandering off course, forgetting where you were,...

I bought these new insoles for my shoes - "memory cushion insoles," the lady called them.

NOW, when I walk into another room, I won't forget WHY!:headscratch:
 
RicinYakima said:
Bought the wife one of those memory foam pillows. Now I wake up every morning with knots on my head.
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We each have one. Both are like day and night and are Temperpedic, like our mattress. Mine is like a conventional pillow, can shape it to conform. Cindy's is firmer foam in a distinct shape............dished in the middle. I don't want any part of the one.
 
Oh, and cool avatar, @JonB !

I'd almost bet that shot was from a roll of 126 which was exposed over a period of years. Looks to be about that "vintage," or at least cultural/fiscal mindset.

I recently ran across a set of photos which included three birthdays for ONE KID on that ONE roll of film. Didn't waste shots all willy-nilly back then, like we do with our phones now.:)
 
Moved a bunch of misc. no longer used stuff out front to sell (give away) to the re-cylers who come around daily.....
Except today !
 
Jeff H said:
Oh, and cool avatar, @JonB !

I'd almost bet that shot was from a roll of 126 which was exposed over a period of years. Looks to be about that "vintage," or at least cultural/fiscal mindset.

I recently ran across a set of photos which included three birthdays for ONE KID on that ONE roll of film. Didn't waste shots all willy-nilly back then, like we do with our phones now.:)
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My cousin who lived next door back then (older than me obviously), now is a farmer in WI. Anyway, she has a seemingly unreal amount of photos. She posted this on the Book of faces on one of my birthdays a few years back. I have no idea of the origin or what camera/film type it was.
 
JonB said:
....I have no idea of the origin or what camera/film type it was.
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No expert on photography here. Just seemed to be a "thing" around the time that format was popular in cassette-type cameras. Film wasn't cheap and when you did spring for it, you "bought" the impending financial burden of having it developed and printed in the future. That was akin to spending money you didn't have, which was a little unsettling for people who were frugal by circumstance, rather than by choice - a day when most people I knew were averse to the idea of debt.

Often, a single frame or two for a birthday was reserved for a special event. A kid might not see his birthday pic from his sixth until some time after his ninth. By that time, he was "grown up" and didn't want to see it or for others to see it. Pretty common in our family, but we were a bit backerds anyway.:)
 
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