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(mixing my metaphors)

It was a short bus.

Cheese

Funny, at your age I figured you were fully depreciated.

I'm on the pec machine facing the stretch & limber area and there's one of those multi station pull/chin up bar stations in the corner. So this younger-than-me guy jumps up & grabs the bar about shoulder width & proceeds to rotate hips & pulls his knees through the opening between his arms. Now he's hanging ass straight up and proceeds to do several pull ups touching his ass to the bar. It was impressive.

A full strength aspirin and a Move Free Ultra. I have also been supplementing my beer drinking with single malt scotch drinking, or is it the other way around.

Well here's my rationale. Safety is a term that represents relative freedom from harm or an acceptable level of risk. Nothing is perfectly safe, i.e. risk free, not even sleeping. Based on the last 45 years of driving experience, I'm a better than average driver. I don't drive distracted, impaired, overly fatigued or medicated. I drive a late model, well maintained vehicle. I accept that weather, traffic and construction are a part of normal driving experiences. I don't weave thru traffic or otherwise behave like an asshole. I drive faster than the posted speeds only on divided/interstate highways when conditions allow and there is time to save. On an 8-9 hour trip, I can typically shave an hour off of transit time that's an hour to sleep, post, rest, etc. It's also one less hour on the road and the implied risk of negatively interacting with the incompetents, old timers, drunks, druggies, sleepies, eaters, talkers, texters, surfers, Texans, assholes, and motherfeckers The V1 evens the odds with the blue brigade.

Stolen from the Airedales.

I ran over a piece of strapping steel one time, the tire was cut to the beads. I had to call Wo2 for a ride.

Hmm, no Planet Fitness in Meridien, may have to stay in Jackson. There's a PF in Tuscaloosa, but Bama playing at home on Saturday, so I'm sure there aren't any rooms available.

I'm driving towards Texarkana today. Prolly stay overnight in Jackson, MS & the rest of the way in the AM. I have a meeting from 1-5 PM & then I'll head back this way, prolly staying in Meridian, MS and driving the rest of the way Saturday AM ( WTF schedules a 1-5 PM meeting in Texarkana on a freakin' Friday?? ) No liquor stops that I've identified , but I go by a cigar store on the way to the highway. I'll be driving my 2015 Silverado Z-71 LT with the ablative shielding & Valentine1 threat locator.

They ride bikes in Europe? Who knew? But, he seems to be riding on the wrong side of the road.

Well, if the average penis is 6" long and the average vagina is 8", then there's over 60 miles of under used RAM in New York City alone. Maybe you could borrow some of theirs?

Or the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan yell

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I think the hourly folks get bennies the first of the month after 6 months.

Well, at least it's a short trip.

IIRC, EEOC doesn't ever say "they were dropping the case as there was no evidence of wrong doing on our part". It's more along the lines of "the EEOC wAS unable to find evidence to substantiate the charge at this time" then some other mumbo jumbo.

We pay ours about $30/hour. Whatcha got?

First world gripe. The company pays for 3 x salary life insurance. New rule is that the IRS say the company has to treat premiums on anything over $50k as taxable income. Company's solution is to add the premium to our gross paycheck and then take it back out on the deductions side. Net result is $21 less per week in my check b/c it's subject to state & fed tax, fica and Medicare and 401( k). I get a little kick from the 401(k) match.

That looks pretty cool, I'd add it to my bucket list, if I had one.

Well, maybe you could offer to swap positions on the other side of the bars with one of your "co-workers"? That might harden you up a little.

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Or motorcycles. Or runners. People don't see what don't expect to see. It's a known phenomena, cops call it "Looked but didn't see". Hell, even the captain of the USS Greenville didn't see the (Japanese) fishing boat that he was specifically looking for. Chabris & Simons talk about it in The Invisible Gorilla