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  1. We went to dinner last friday at a local BBQ place. They have 6-7 stores in the OKC metro, been in business over 20 years. We go in and the first thing I notice is another family standing around. Usually you get seated right away, and there were plenty of open tables, so it was odd. We had to order our food at this walk-up counter and I heard the manager (I assume because he was the only one wearing a polo shirt) quietly tell my wife "We have no servers tonight". Our food was delivered quickly and it was fine, no complaints. I did notice the place was nearly empty. I have no idea if they're a shitty employer that is now reaping what they've sown or if it's just the way things are going. 

  2. 40 minutes ago, Bodhi said:

    I've heard this is the case but no guarantee it will get all the way back to previous levels.  Additionally, the transisition process supposedly is not very fun. 

     I had a snafu with my insurance earlier this year, I didn't get a shot for 5 weeks or so. I had resigned myself to the idea that I was just never going to get it again. I didn't feel near as blah as I did before I started taking it but I damn sure didn't get hard at the drop of a hat like I had been doing. Glad to be back on the spike again.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Bodhi said:

    I suspect that is the case but before shutting down my natural testosterone production and committing to a life of injections I wanted to exhaust my other options. I could drink a lot less, drop 10lbs, exercise differently, and improve my nutrition. Unfortunately, I'm not significantly overweight, eat well, and work out regularly currently. I imagine my efforts will result in slightly improved numbers without making a material impact on the symptoms 

    I asked my Dr about that and he said if I were to stop the injections, my body would eventually start producing on it's own again. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

    We should make Cuba the envy of the world with our aid package. 

    Honest question: If this would work, why hasn't the US government dropped this level of aid on Detroit or West Virginia? Do we think the local authorities are any less corrupt than foreign ones?

  5. 4 minutes ago, cam4mav said:

    Took this yesterday on the way from Seattle to Woodinville with my dog because the parents house has AC while my deathbox does not. Only even one ceiling fan in a 3 story townhouse. The previous night I moved the car outside and slept on an air mattress in the garage cause it was 80 down there vs upper 90's in the bedroom. Gotta do what you gotta do emoji1787.png

    Seattle is not built for this shit. Entire area is cranky to say the least. e3434bc3aa034278d5205bccfbd0a485.jpg

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    Here in OKC, it's been in the 70s and raining for the last few days. I don't know who ordered this weather trade but I for one would buy that guy a beer. 

  6. 3 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

    I think Celery is right here.  A lot of times we don't take mental health into account when symptoms are so obvious.

    Not saying that's you Sandman but your nephew appears to be dealing with some stuff that's just not run of the mill laziness.

    His last job was at Domino's, delivering pizza. He straight up asked my dad if he'd get kicked out of the house if he were to quit. Dad said no, nephew quit. Dad said he worked long enough to save up for some video game system and then quit. I think it was the Wii U. 

    His sister managed to get on disability for her supposed mental illness. His response was "Why does she get to not work but I have to?", so I'm not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt just yet. Maybe I'm biased because of my dealings with my ex-wife. She was always "too depressed" to go to work, but she could go out almost every night with her friends, smoke weed, etc. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Newdoc said:

    This. In the armpit that is Waco, I meet a ton of students at TSTC that are in 18 month programs that spit them out into jobs paying close to high 5 figures. Steady employment with benefits with pay that can easily can jump into low 6 figures without tons of student debt. Some of these jobs are going to make you sweat your ass off but you are going to have steady employment with benefits and know you are doing your part to keep this country running.  Skilled labor is in high demand.  I guess you can still stop at the coffee shop for your latte anyway. There is opportunity in this country if you are willing to work. We just need to make sure those born into poor circumstances obtain this opportunity as well.

    How do you convince someone to do a job that they think "sucks" or is beneath them? 

    My nephew is 29. He hasn't worked in a few years. He lives with my dad as sort of a half-ass caretaker. My dad had a massive heart attack five years ago and it was damn good my nephew was there and able to take him to the hospital. He helped my dad with some household things while he reovered. But now that dad's pretty much back to normal, he won't work. He claims to have applied for jobs online but never gets an interview. He refuses to take a menial job, such as fast food. He told my sister (his mom) that he'd rather "eat a bullet" than work fast food. So he stays up all night, eating, watching anime or playing PC games; then sleeps all day. My dad doen't have the heart to kick him out. My sister pays for his cell phone and car insurance and considers her job done. I don't think he'd admit it but I'm 100% convinced he's waiting for my dad to die and my sister to buy me out of his house, then he'll live in the house rent-free. 

    So he's 29, MORBIDLY obese and hasn't worked in at least 6 years. He's the poster child for the "I won't take a menial job!" crowd. He sure as hell won't try for a job in the oilfield or at a mfg plant. He wants to sit on his ass all day. If, for some reason, he was put out in the street, you and I will be paying for his life. My sister won't do anything about it, my dad is old and lost that edge that he always used on me (and I'm grateful that he did it). 

    How many more like him are out there? What can we do to convince them that it's ok to break a sweat at work? Or to move heavy shit while you look for a better job in your downtime? I spent 17 years in warehouses and in delivery vehicles before I landed my desk job. Who wants to do that now?

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  8. 2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    I think you need to own the number to be able to port it. If she pays for her work phone then that's fine. If the company is paying then she prob can't port it.

     

    You would use Google Voice app to make and receive calls.

    The company gave her the ID and password for the account, they're finewith her doing whatever. I think it'll work.

  9. My wife's company is no longer going to give them phones, they're just going to give her $90/mo to get her own work phone. She wants to port her work number to google voice and just use her personal phone (Galaxy S21) to take calls/texts on the work number. We looked at the GV page and it seems you can pay $20 and port the number over and that's it, no further costs. It seems too good to be true. What app would she use to make/receive work calls? Hangouts? And what about texts? I can't seem to find any specific answers. 

  10. 31 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    I'm on 0.75.  Appointment today, and my doc is shooting for top of the range.  Don't know if I'll get the green light for 1.0ml, but 0.75 definitely boosted the frisky factor.  I'm up for being a lab rabbit.

    You may laugh at this but I'm serious: When I was on 1.0, all I could think about was fucking. I couldn't concentrate on almost anything else. I was DTF at the drop of a hat. If I didn't get off at least twice a day, it was awful. My wife wasn't rude about it but she let me know that she could not keep up with that pace. We'd have sex and then 2 hours later, I'm rubbing one out because she wasn't going to do it again (I'm 47, she's 41 FWIW).  If you're single, that's awesome and I hope you'll share your stories. If you're married, make sure you give the wife a heads-up that she needs to start taking her vitamins.

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  11. I've been on TRT for a few years now. My initial test results were around 250. My Dr at the time put me on 0.5 ml, then increased to 0.75 after a while. Then he went up to 1.0 and man, I was rock hard pretty much 24/7 and I wasn't having ED before I started this. This just turned it up to 11. My wife was not amused. Then my Dr quit and I got a new one, he had me do bloodwork and I was at 1100. He dialed my dose back to 0.5 and now I'm running smoothly, wife is happy. 

  12. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    What did you order?

    I honestly don't remember, I think it was chicken. I do know that it was in the late afternoon/early evening and I did not order breakfast. Perhaps their breakfast would've been better? I doubt I'll ever go back, so that will probably remain a mystery. 

  13. 4 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Seriously, all my anti-chain bullshit just washes away you show me some damn Bob Evans.  Down on the Farm, bitches! 

    My mother from Mexico makes the best scratch huevito con pappas or con chorizo you've ever had, with a lot of tradition and pride.  But if while she was cooking it, I said, "forget it, let's go to Bob Evans"...we'd all ditch that shit and go out for breakfast.  Are they even still around?  I tried looking at their store locator but it wouldn't show you a nationwide map, just really specific zip codes like Decatur, IL and Merriville, IN.  I think the last one I went to was in Florida years and years ago.  csb.  

    I went to Bob Evans a few years ago while visiting family in Bloomington, IN. I had never been there and had always wanted to go. It was fucking gross. I'd crawl on broken glass to get to Waffle House before I'd to to Bob Evans again.

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  14. 46 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    you and I both read the same shit after every mass shooting, "Man, if I was there...this guy woulda got dropped after the first few shots."  But that almost never happens. 

    We also read similar things after a child is killed or abused, "I'd kill that muthafucka if he did that to my kid!", but that doesn't happen either. People like to talk big online. 

  15. Had a bit of an angry meltdown yesterday. 

    We left for a short getaway on wednesday morning. While waiting for the wife & kids to get their shit together, I decided to hop online. My PC wouldn't power on, it would try and then shut off. It finally said that I needed to reinstall windows. We were leaving in 15 mins, I was almost in a panic, this has never happened to me before. I decided to go ahead with the reinstall and hoped it would be ok until I got back on saturday. I arrived home to find that it was "working", as in it powered up but my PC was all fucked up. Apps were gone, of course, but it won't let me reinstall them. I can't figure out what's going on. I've had this PC almost 5 years and have been thinking about getting a new one anyway but I wanted to do that on MY terms, not because my old was is "broken". When I couldn't get my Plex server set back up, I lost it. Just started gorilla-bashing the keyboard as it sat on my lap, keys flew off and were scattered around the room. My wife was sitting next to me and was understandably startled. I threw the keyboard down and stormed away to my room and just laid on the floor. I was still mad but embarrassed as well. More like ashamed, really. 

    I ordered a new PC on amazon this morning and now I'm trying to get past my outburst. I have already apologized to my wife, she was as gracious as ever. I'm lucky to have her.

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  16. My wife likes to buy shit at Lowe's but hates driving my F-150 because it's size makes it hard for her to drive and park. I'm sure she's not the only one that feels that way. There's probably a lot of women that would find the Maverick appealing, and I don't mean that as an insult to any guys that would buy one. I'm way too tall for a midsize or below but I'd give it a hard look if I could fit comfortably inside. I'm seeing $26k for a loaded XLT, that's not bad.

  17. On 6/4/2021 at 5:50 AM, deadshank said:

    Some of my employees. My wife

    me:  I have asked you a “yes / no”question.  The only answer you can reply with is “yes” or “no.”   So which is it?

    employee Wife:  Uhhh....blue!!

     

     

    FIF me

  18. We had our performance evals done this past week (I crushed it, as usual). But when my boss emailed to ask if I had anything else to go over, I requested a meeting and got everything off my chest that's been bugging me for the past month or so. It feels so damn liberating to just unload that shit, even though I know it won't really change anything about my situation. It was almost like therapy. I already know that talking about things out loud really does wonders for me, but I need to figure out why it takes me so long to do it. My wife is more than willing to listen to me, I guess I feel guilty about dumping things on her. I need to be more open about it. 

    If you're on the fence about talking so someone (friend, co-worker, therapist), please just do it. I can't guarantee it will solve all of your problems but it absolutely cannot hurt. And it might just make a huge difference for you.

     

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