Random Ramblings

gomersbro wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:Even though there (thankfully) hasnt been anything in years, I still worry about something bad happening on either 4/19 or 4/20. I’m hoping we sail on by with no incidents at all.

It used to be that April 20th was when I thought about Columbine. But now it seems like there is always the next one. When can we have the last one?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/maryland-student-school-shooting-threat/index.html

Tomorrow is Hitlers birthday. FFS I hope the scoreboard operator at the Spring game doesn’t use that for a trivia game.

BBQ board started over 20 years ago. I joined almost 10 years ago. Owner is migrating it from vBulletin to Xenforo this weekend. Got invited to be a beta tester a month ago. The new board looks a lot different from vB and might take time for some folks to adapt to.

The Pantry wrote:BBQ board started over 20 years ago. I joined almost 10 years ago. Owner is migrating it from vBulletin to Xenforo this weekend. Got invited to be a beta tester a month ago. The new board looks a lot different from vB and might take time for some folks to adapt to.

People hate change. It’s human nature.

DWags wrote:

gomersbro wrote:

It used to be that April 20th was when I thought about Columbine. But now it seems like there is always the next one. When can we have the last one?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/maryland-student-school-shooting-threat/index.html

Tomorrow is Hitlers birthday. FFS I hope the scoreboard operator at the Spring game doesn’t use that for a trivia game.

Can't believe greenway shares a birthday with Hitler

tGreenWay wrote:

The Pantry wrote:BBQ board started over 20 years ago.  I joined almost 10 years ago.  Owner is migrating it from vBulletin to Xenforo this weekend.  Got invited to be a beta tester a month ago.  The new board looks a lot different from vB and might take time for some folks to adapt to.  

People hate change. It’s human nature.

Trevor upgraded vB TOB once or twice.  IIRC data was lost each time...then all went to hell with the move to 247.  Lot of funny/memorable stuff, just gone...

BBQ board owner has been extra careful nothing gets lost.
 

tGreenWay wrote:Hope everyone’s okay. Nitrous oxide tanks would be sending craploads of shrapnel.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2024/03/04/explosions-clinton-township-groesbeck/72846780007/

Owner of Michigan warehouse in deadly blast is arrested at airport with one-way ticket

This sucks man. I mean, it isn’t that big of a deal in that you can still shop in the area and buy whatever you want and a gigantic parking lot mall is outdated. But I grew up not far from there, lots and lots of teenage memories in that mall. It’s an old guy thing now but we really did go there to just hang out and be hooligans

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2024/05/01/lakeside-mall-permanently-close-july/73510484007/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR01u4QtJWhGkRv1wYg4t7fnb0n4NWK5n9CYhA9M8Tenp2uRcQzlpJ5oUyE_aem_ATxEkjhg1Vg52amdpiS5OK_h7vePXQgX3xaxhaNHsPOfUQ2lIB3Yt4GzOOXyNhmgeG3a_bsabCBB_Y8u0UlolKTY

Who thought that out of Eastland lakeside Oakland that macomb would be the last one standing.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:This sucks man. I mean, it isn’t that big of a deal in that you can still shop in the area and buy whatever you want and a gigantic parking lot mall is outdated. But I grew up not far from there, lots and lots of teenage memories in that mall. It’s an old guy thing now but we really did go there to just hang out and be hooligans

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2024/05/01/lakeside-mall-permanently-close-july/73510484007/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR01u4QtJWhGkRv1wYg4t7fnb0n4NWK5n9CYhA9M8Tenp2uRcQzlpJ5oUyE_aem_ATxEkjhg1Vg52amdpiS5OK_h7vePXQgX3xaxhaNHsPOfUQ2lIB3Yt4GzOOXyNhmgeG3a_bsabCBB_Y8u0UlolKTY

I was in there sometime in the past 12 months and it was kind of creepy. Poor old Macy's wasn't even bothering to put lipstick on the pig, the carpet and displays looked like hell.

The first time I went to Lakeside was 1977 and I remember it vividly because I went with some friends from HS and driving down from Ortonville it was kind of like a road trip. I spent a good part of the 90s and early 2000s dragging my kids around the mall.

End of an era.

I read somewhere that the first shopping malls were in Michigan...

For me the first one I was in was outside of Saginaw.

Trapper Gus wrote:I read somewhere that the first shopping malls were in Michigan...

For me the first one I was in was outside of Saginaw.

Northland opened in 1954, often credited as being the 1st mall of it's kind. Mom started dragging me around there in 1962.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:I read somewhere that the first shopping malls were in Michigan...

For me the first one I was in was outside of Saginaw.

Northland opened in 1954, often credited as being the 1st mall of it's kind. Mom started dragging me around there in 1962.

Greenway was working as a greeter at Woolworth’s when it opened.

DWags wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Northland opened in 1954, often credited as being the 1st mall of it's kind. Mom started dragging me around there in 1962.

Greenway was working as a greeter at Woolworth’s when it opened.

Here is something crazy, they still have Woolworths here in Germany.

gomersbro wrote:

DWags wrote:


Greenway was working as a greeter at Woolworth’s when it opened.

Here is something crazy, they still have Woolworths here in Germany.

Do they still have the lunch counter?

DWags wrote:

gomersbro wrote:

Here is something crazy, they still have Woolworths here in Germany.

Do they still have the lunch counter?  

Not to get too far off track, but hey this is random shit thread...the last lunch counter I ate at was in EL at the State Discount, probably 1982. I bet I haven't thought of that in 30 years. That place was awesome.

Lazy project managers and programmers annoy me. This is a line straight out of an email from Consumer's Energy.

Thank you for your last payment of $1,946.89 on 04/01/2024. The remaining balance from last month is $0.00, which is included in the payment due.

That second sentence is totally useless and would take about 2 seconds to programming to make it appear only when someone is delinquent.

DWags wrote:

gomersbro wrote:

Here is something crazy, they still have Woolworths here in Germany.

Do they still have the lunch counter?

No lunch counter at Woolworths now. Just lots of cheap Chinese made products. I occasionally stop to buy arts and crafts things for the five year old.

gomersbro wrote:

DWags wrote:


Do they still have the lunch counter?

No lunch counter at Woolworths now. Just lots of cheap Chinese made products. I occasionally stop to buy arts and crafts things for the five year old.

For some reason I remember the one in Manistee as the Woolworth five and dime. It had a lunch counter.

DWags wrote:Who thought that out of Eastland lakeside Oakland  that macomb would be the last one standing.

Oakland is still there, sort of.

Went to Lakeside a lot in the late 70s, early 80s.  Use to hit ChiChi's often.  Haven't been to Lakeside in about 25 years.  Last thing purchased was a washing machine at Sears.  Sears going down took away most of my reasons to go to a mall.  

Haven't been east of M-53/Van Dyke in 7-8 years.  Only seen pictures of the Golden Butthole...what were they thinking?

Haven't been to a mall in probably 20 years and that was Somerset to pick up multiple pairs of noise cancelling headphones at the Bose store for a work project.

Today turned out to be black May Day at work. Company let go about 10 office staff, including some I considered excellent at their jobs. They'll find new work soon, I'm sure. Still sucks.

Feed your lawn. Feed it.

DWags wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Northland opened in 1954, often credited as being the 1st mall of it's kind. Mom started dragging me around there in 1962.

Greenway was working as a greeter at Woolworth’s when it opened.

A greeter when I hired in, but I quickly got promoted to muscle.

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Trapper Gus wrote:I read somewhere that the first shopping malls were in Michigan...

For me the first one I was in was outside of Saginaw.

Worked in the Sears for a couple months after graduation while still looking for a job... Lol.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Proud member of the anti-No Mow May club here.

Won't your lawn be really hard to cut in a month?

duffy munn wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Proud member of the anti-No Mow May club here.

Won't your lawn be really hard to cut in a month?

They should make it no mow July when grass is getting dried out and barely growing. Seems like it's growing at an inch/hour now

Have any of you guys watched this Anotoly?  He's a power lifting champ.  He pretends he's a custodian at Gyms and freaks out big power lifters with what he can do.  Watch the first 7 minutes of this if you haven't. He's funny as hell.  

duffy munn wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Proud member of the anti-No Mow May club here.

Won't your lawn be really hard to cut in a month?

He said anti. I'm thinking Bob will cut his lawn whether it needs it or not, sorta like the way he loves shoveling snow.

Been working a quote for almost a month, on-and-off while working on other stuff, waiting on information/pricing on some technologies was previously unfamiliar with.

Finished the quote today.  Glad to be rid of it, for now.      

I know my gladness is only temporary.  Will eventually be a tech review with customer asking for further breakdown of the stupid breakdown they requested in their RFQ scope of work.  

If it wasn't for clients, this job could be kinda fun.

Rick Saunders wrote:Update. Went with the mower last night. It was tough but I cut that virtue right off at 4". Did not even roll over a bunny nest.

Try lowering the deck.

Just sent out a couple of checks in the mail for doctor bills. I could have done it online but figured eff it, I'm tired of searching for some obscure website and worrying about whether or not I got the right one to hand out my credit card information to. If my check gets intercepted in the mail by some person that steals mail for a living, so be it.

Rick Saunders wrote:Update. Went with the mower last night. It was tough but I cut that virtue right off at 4". Did not even roll over a bunny nest.

I've got a bunny hanging out in my backyard so I make sure to look for bunny nests. I've missed one once, don't want to do it again.

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Rick Saunders wrote:Update. Went with the mower last night. It was tough but I cut that virtue right off at 4". Did not even roll over a bunny nest.

I've got a bunny hanging out in my backyard so I make sure to look for bunny nests. I've missed one once, don't want to do it again.

While I never hit a bunny nest, I did catch a good-size turtle (like a cantaloupe) under a riding mower deck once, slicing off the top half of the shell. It was not pretty. Ever since then, I go out of my way to be nice to turtles.

I get a snake a year usually. Used to get a ton of frogs.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:I get a snake a year usually. Used to get a ton of frogs.

So you’re the reason the frog population is way down. Nice job, killer.

Pot was over $150k so bought 3 fantasy five easy picks yesterday. Put the ticket in a jean back pocket. Wore a different pair of jeans today and left the ticket in the other jeans.

Checked the lottery at work. One FF ticket won the $167k pot. Winning ticket was purchased at the same store I bought my tickets. Was wondering if I'd won all morning.

Got home...nope.