Random Ramblings

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Going to a show at the lottery amphitheater on metro pkwy tomorrow... where should I eat before. beer a must.

I'm a  needy poster, aren't I... sorry guys.

What you in the mood for?  How fancy you want?  Here's a few for now.

If Italian I'd go with Picano's over Luciano's.  Rochester Road 1/2 mile north of Big Beaver

Some of the best pizza around?  Alibi Rochester Road south of Square Lake

Gator Jakes is only a couple miles from your destination: Van Dyke just south of Metro Parkway (Big Beaver)

The Pantry wrote:

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Going to a show at the lottery amphitheater on metro pkwy tomorrow... where should I eat before. beer a must.

I'm a  needy poster, aren't I... sorry guys.

What you in the mood for?  How fancy you want?  Here's a few for now.

If Italian I'd go with Picano's over Luciano's.  Rochester Road 1/2 mile north of Big Beaver

Some of the best pizza around?  Alibi Rochester Road south of Square Lake

Gator Jakes is only a couple miles from your destination: Van Dyke just south of Metro Parkway (Big Beaver)

All good choices.

I'll throw in Great Baraboo and Roger's Roost too. Neither are fancy. Baraboo brews there own. Both are like two miles away from Freedom Hill.

What show?

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Holy shit, looks good Dwags.

Not sure it would be the best lead in to a rockin' show though. All that cheese.

Plenty of choices. Great fish. People order bottles of their salad dressing to go. My wife and I usually hit it up on date and movie night. Haven’t fallen asleep in any yet. Who’s playing up at freedom hill?

Floyd Robertson wrote:

The Pantry wrote:
What you in the mood for?  How fancy you want?  Here's a few for now.

If Italian I'd go with Picano's over Luciano's.  Rochester Road 1/2 mile north of Big Beaver

Some of the best pizza around?  Alibi Rochester Road south of Square Lake

Gator Jakes is only a couple miles from your destination: Van Dyke just south of Metro Parkway (Big Beaver)

All good choices.

I'll throw in Great Baraboo and Roger's Roost too. Neither are fancy. Baraboo brews there own. Both are like two miles away from Freedom Hill.

What show?

Forgot about the Roost.  Didn't know it was still open.  Haven't been in there in nearly 4 decades.

The Pantry wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

All good choices.

I'll throw in Great Baraboo and Roger's Roost too. Neither are fancy. Baraboo brews there own. Both are like two miles away from Freedom Hill.

What show?

Forgot about the Roost.  Didn't know it was still open.  Haven't been in there in nearly 4 decades.

It's been about 2.5-3.0 for me, but it's still kicking.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Holy shit, looks good Dwags.

Not sure it would be the best lead in to a rockin' show though. All that cheese.

Plenty of choices. Great fish. People order bottles of their salad dressing to go. My wife and I usually hit it up on date and movie night. Haven’t fallen asleep in any yet. Who’s playing up at freedom hill?

Great Mexican food?  Azteca's  Mound Road little north of M-59

Not to be confused the local chain called Grand Azteca...their food sucks in comparison.

Was in Saugatuck yesterday with my oldest and grandchild.  Went safe with my kid’s favorite Wally’s perch.

Saw El Burrito Feliz on Culver.  Anyone been there.  Looked busy for around 2 in the afternoon on a Tuesday in a tourist town.

Here’s my rant.  First stop was Oval Beach.  Busy but why we went on Tuesday.   We were about to put down a blanket and low beach chairs when the couple about 10’ directly in front came back with load 2 of stuff and proceeded to put up a 3 sided pop up cabana that was 6’-7’ high and about 8’ wide.  We moved when construction started.  We saw others that were about 4’ high and didn’t totally block out views of the water.

When did these cabanas that look like full size 4 person tents become a thing for some beach goers?

Stupid mobile duplicate.

Probably end up at Gator Jake's or the Barbaboo place. Beers and burgers.

Queens of the Stone age... first North American show for the new tour.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Probably end up at Gator Jake's or the Barbaboo place. Beers and burgers.

Queens of the Stone age... first North American show for the new tour.

If Gator Jake's, skip the Gator Bites...more breading than gator.  Their other food is pretty good and beer menu is decent.

Don't call me Chief, Big Guy!

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MiamiSpartan wrote:Don't call me Chief, Big Guy!

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“Boss”

Hate it.

DWags wrote:

MiamiSpartan wrote:Don't call me Chief, Big Guy!

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“Boss”

Hate it.

Yeah, that's condescending and just comes across as a douchebag trying to be buddy buddy with you.

I like to call people Bubba.

I don't call people anything. Fringe of being in IT.

I reserve names mostly for other drivers.  Idiot, asshole, and dog fucker come up frequently.

Gonna be a rough week, week and a half.  Got a request for quote from a customer I'd never heard of before.  Big job (guestimating at least $5M now) and little time to properly quote it.  Think we got put on the bid list late, after the customer didn't like numbers they saw from other vendors, who probably had a month or more to quote the job.

Owner of the company is Vinnie Johnson, aka The Microwave.  Didn't know he was in automotive.  Flattest shot I've ever seen.  Was like he was shooting a rope at the backboard and the ball got sucked in the net.  Making way more now than in the NBA.

He put some touch on this shot.

The Pantry wrote:Gonna be a rough week, week and a half.  Got a request for quote from a customer I'd never heard of before.  Big job (guestimating at least $5M now) and little time to properly quote it.  Think we got put on the bid list late, after the customer didn't like numbers they saw from other vendors, who probably had a month or more to quote the job.

Owner of the company is Vinnie Johnson, aka The Microwave.  Didn't know he was in automotive.  Flattest shot I've ever seen.  Was like he was shooting a rope at the backboard and the ball got sucked in the net.  Making way more now than in the NBA.

He put some touch on this shot.

Right on. But don’t let his fame dictate any of your quotes. I’m pretty sure you won’t.

DWags wrote:

The Pantry wrote:Gonna be a rough week, week and a half.  Got a request for quote from a customer I'd never heard of before.  Big job (guestimating at least $5M now) and little time to properly quote it.  Think we got put on the bid list late, after the customer didn't like numbers they saw from other vendors, who probably had a month or more to quote the job.

Owner of the company is Vinnie Johnson, aka The Microwave.  Didn't know he was in automotive.  Flattest shot I've ever seen.  Was like he was shooting a rope at the backboard and the ball got sucked in the net.  Making way more now than in the NBA.

He put some touch on this shot.

Right on. But don’t let his fame dictate any of your quotes. I’m pretty sure you won’t.

I quote cost.  It's up to management to determine the margin/how much they want the business.

A lot of the old school Detroit athletes are reps or business owners. Ran into Ted Lindsay a couple times. Heard Magic speak a few times, he’s got a gift for talking.

Everyone talks about succession… but fuck man I can’t get into it at all. I’ve been trying to get into it but getting through just the first two episodes is like pulling teeth. Hell it’s on right now and I’m posting. Someone just proposed or something.

Does it get better or should I just write it off as not the show for me?

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:Everyone talks about succession… but fuck man I can’t get into it at all. I’ve been trying to get into it but getting through just the first two episodes is like pulling teeth. Hell it’s on right now and I’m posting. Someone just proposed or something.

Does it get better or should I just write it off as not the show for me?

I bailed during e2 and have no regrets

They started talking about breaching debt covenants and my ears perked up enough to get me to the next episode. Still touch and go though.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:They started talking about breaching debt covenants and my ears perked up enough to get me to the next episode. Still touch and go though.

i don't think it's amazing by any means but worth a watch overall. does take some time to get into too i reckon

Highly recommend it.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:They started talking about breaching debt covenants and my ears perked up enough to get me to the next episode. Still touch and go though.

i don't think it's amazing by any means but worth a watch overall. does take some time to get into too i reckon

otpt halfway through episode 2 I paused and watched all of The Bear instead, but that ended early tonight (really like it, especially if you have any amount of kitchen experience) so I moved back to succession. Pushed through and I did like ep 3 a lot more, and kinda had to tear away a bit to go to sleep. So we might be onto something.

The Bear was excellent.

Succession might have been slow at first, but the drama is there to keep you entertained. It's not like any characters get likable, they are all horrible and fucked up, but there is drama.

Company moved a department out of our area few months ago and moved another one in.  Department manager brought in a couple guys since.  One is seated directly across the aisle, maybe 12-15 feet away.

Remember your mom telling you to blow your nose instead of sucking your boogers back in?  Nice enough guy but he's mid-late 50's and does it all day long, often multiple times a minute.  Many times the snort is followed by a slight throat clear.  Extremely annoying.  Don't think he's even aware he does it...like it's become normal to him. 

I've tolerated but it's starting to drive me insane.  I'm sure the guy in the cube next to mine hears it also.  We've never talked about it.  How do you bring up a subject like that?

The Pantry wrote:Company moved a department out of our area few months ago and moved another one in.  Department manager brought in a couple guys since.  One is seated directly across the aisle, maybe 12-15 feet away.

Remember your mom telling you to blow your nose instead of sucking your boogers back in?  Nice enough guy but he's mid-late 50's and does it all day long, often multiple times a minute.  Many times the snort is followed by a slight throat clear.  Extremely annoying.  Don't think he's even aware he does it...like it's become normal to him. 

I've tolerated but it's starting to drive me insane.  I'm sure the guy in the cube next to mine hears it also.  We've never talked about it.  How do you bring up a subject like that?

Put a box of Kleenex on his desk when he isn't there?

Trapper Gus wrote:

The Pantry wrote:Company moved a department out of our area few months ago and moved another one in.  Department manager brought in a couple guys since.  One is seated directly across the aisle, maybe 12-15 feet away.

Remember your mom telling you to blow your nose instead of sucking your boogers back in?  Nice enough guy but he's mid-late 50's and does it all day long, often multiple times a minute.  Many times the snort is followed by a slight throat clear.  Extremely annoying.  Don't think he's even aware he does it...like it's become normal to him. 

I've tolerated but it's starting to drive me insane.  I'm sure the guy in the cube next to mine hears it also.  We've never talked about it.  How do you bring up a subject like that?

Put a box of Kleenex on his desk when he isn't there?

Mistated on the boogers.  Tried recreating the sound he makes little while ago.  It's not nasal...more back of the throat.

The Pantry wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Put a box of Kleenex on his desk when he isn't there?

Mistated on the boogers.  Tried recreating the sound he makes little while ago.  It's not nasal...more back of the throat.

Sounds like allergies...sucks being him I bet.

So listen to this shit... I was going through old home videos the other day and I found one of my son and his buddy who are now roomates in college playing just dance on the wii when they were like 10 or 11...


Son thought it was funny because they were talking smack even back then and wanted to post it to their "group chat"... So I uploaded it to youtube. 5 min later I get this email...


Wha? K... I assumed it was AI scanning for bad stuff... fine. I will appeal and have a human look at it.


Aint that some shit. And I'm probably on a pervy watch list now.

Quit endangering children already.

Trapper Gus wrote:

The Pantry wrote:
Mistated on the boogers.  Tried recreating the sound he makes little while ago.  It's not nasal...more back of the throat.

Sounds like allergies...sucks being him I bet.

I doubt it's allergies...if so, get some medicine for that.  Sounds like he's trying to hawk/hork up a loogie but never does.  The sound is fucking gross.  Could deal with it if he did it a few times an hour.  It's constant and he seems oblivious he's doing it.

Thought about recording his sounds but don't want that shit on my phone.

Nordic wrote:A lot of the old school Detroit athletes are reps or business owners. Ran into Ted Lindsay a couple times. Heard Magic speak a few times, he’s got a gift for talking.

Dave Bing got into automotive for a while.  Old company did work for him.  Saw, but didn't meet him on a trip to the plant.  Joey Kocur became a manufacturers rep and did business with my current company before I got hired.  

Vinnie Johnson the most successful of all IMO.  10 facilities/plants so far.  Must have great employees.  Have never seen a request for quote nearly as detailed from a Tier 1.

The Pantry wrote:

Nordic wrote:A lot of the old school Detroit athletes are reps or business owners. Ran into Ted Lindsay a couple times. Heard Magic speak a few times, he’s got a gift for talking.

Dave Bing got into automotive for a while.  Old company did work for him.  Saw, but didn't meet him on a trip to the plant.  Joey Kocur became a manufacturers rep and did business with my current company before I got hired.  

Vinnie Johnson the most successful of all IMO.  10 facilities/plants so far.  Must have great employees.  Have never seen a request for quote nearly as detailed from a Tier 1.

I’m pretty sure the Bing Group dwarfs VJs company.  It’s one of the largest African American owned businesses in the country.

I stand corrected. I didn’t realize VJs company got so big. He’s one of the 5 richest former basketball players of all time?

The FAA must have lifted the ban on B17's flying as the Yankee Lady just went over my house.

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MiamiSpartan wrote:Don't call me Chief, Big Guy!

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I'm big on "man" and "dude".

what's up, man?

see ya, dude.

every now and then, I'll throw in "G"...

what up, G?

I'm white as hell, but you'll never catch me calling anyone 'boss', 'chief' or anything like that. Fuck that.

Whatever you say, bubba.