| 201. Author: opelmanta1900 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 12:59PM EST | |
When it comes to delivery of things I've already paid for I want them in the hands of other people for as little time as possible... an extra $10 is always worth it... $25 for overnight if it's something like cigars... |
| 202. Author: Ram27 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 2:01PM EST | |
One of those Mondays. 🤪 |
| 203. Author: HockeyDad | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 2:08PM EST | |
Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays! |
| 204. Author: danmdevries | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 2:34PM EST | |
Ordered some more Christmas gifts. I think I'm about halfway done. |
| 205. Author: Ram27 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 2:45PM EST | |
🙈👀🙈 |
| 206. Author: Palama | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 2:58PM EST | |
danmdevries wrote:Ordered some more Christmas gifts. I think I'm about halfway done. Wife said she’s just gonna go with gift cards or cash this year. |
| 207. Author: delta1 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 3:03PM EST | |
I'm lucky my wife does all the Christmas shopping...
she's relying on Amazon for ideas, purchases at good prices, and free deliveries......................perfect for pandemic stay-at-home world... |
| 208. Author: Sunoverbeach | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 3:24PM EST | |
Got the wife clued in to Amazon Xmas shopping a couple years back. Saved so much hassle (for me) and bitchin' (also me) that goes with in store shopping.
Cash and gift cards sound even better. I'll start working on that one |
| 209. Author: delta1 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 3:31PM EST | |
I'm pretty sure this is how we're gonna do X-mas shopping going forward...in-store shopping is such a hassle |
| 210. Author: Stogie1020 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 4:14PM EST | |
"Stores" are sooooooooo 2019.... |
| 211. Author: danmdevries | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 5:49PM EST | |
Palama wrote:Wife said she’s just gonna go with gift cards or cash this year. It's the easy button, but I feel like it devolves to gift cards and cash why bother with gifts, just do dinner and company. My sisters and their families have been pushing for gift card christmas grab bag gifts. I have been the only one against it. You can figure out a $30 grab bag of bullchit that might be useful. It's used in an annual game like a hot potato, passed around till the timer goes off. Then whoever's left with whatever bag gets one opportunity to swap at the end. I have fun with it. I enjoy giving gifts. I don't enjoy these people's company. I will not entertain a gift card option for the gift game. I often go over the $30 limit. Typically my grab bag is well over that, but that's the fun I get from it. I've said I will not participate if gift cards are allowed. Might as well take a $20 bill and pass it to the right and go home. This year I've got a bottle of pumpkin spice vodka that's been passed around in the Christmas grab bags for 2 years now, cause nobody wants it. Got a portable charger battery bank, a window ice scraper/brush combo, a showerproof bluetooth speaker, 50rd box of 9mm, a bulk pack of 22LR, and some homemade potholders my wife crocheted. I think if it gets to gift cards, might as well just stop bothering with gifts. |
| 212. Author: Cheno | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 5:50PM EST | |
VR is addicting. May need to take a few days off work soon. Decided to get two VR headsets. That way I can play as the kid plays too. If we find a great game I might pay for it on each so we can play together but nothing yet. |
| 213. Author: Whistlebritches | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 7:35PM EST | |
Palama wrote:Wife said she’s just gonna go with gift cards or cash this year. Tell Patti I like cash but a gift card would be nice as well..........I'll just let her surprise me. |
| 214. Author: delta1 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 8:09PM EST | |
danmdevries wrote:It's the easy button, but I feel like it devolves to gift cards and cash why bother with gifts, just do dinner and company.
My sisters and their families have been pushing for gift card christmas grab bag gifts. I have been the only one against it. You can figure out a $30 grab bag of bullchit that might be useful. It's used in an annual game like a hot potato, passed around till the timer goes off. Then whoever's left with whatever bag gets one opportunity to swap at the end.
I have fun with it. I enjoy giving gifts. I don't enjoy these people's company. I will not entertain a gift card option for the gift game. I often go over the $30 limit. Typically my grab bag is well over that, but that's the fun I get from it. I've said I will not participate if gift cards are allowed. Might as well take a $20 bill and pass it to the right and go home. This year I've got a bottle of pumpkin spice vodka that's been passed around in the Christmas grab bags for 2 years now, cause nobody wants it. Got a portable charger battery bank, a window ice scraper/brush combo, a showerproof bluetooth speaker, 50rd box of 9mm, a bulk pack of 22LR, and some homemade potholders my wife crocheted.
I think if it gets to gift cards, might as well just stop bothering with gifts. the White elephant gift exchange was a popular part of our Division's managers' year-end holiday party...it was started by a popular previous boss...$50 limit, no gift cards, anything goes...everybody grabs one wrapped gift from under the tree, before opening, pass to left or right...trade if you want after everyone opens...lotsa fun...some thoughtful, useful stuff...some goofy stuff like a lifelike inflatable doll... most hilarious was the 11"x18" framed photo of our very unpopular boss...the struggles to sound complimentary were excrutiating |
| 215. Author: Palama | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 8:11PM EST | |
Whistlebritches wrote:Tell Patti I like cash but a gift card would be nice as well..........I'll just let her surprise me.
I just told Patti...she just smiled. Even after 38 years of marriage, I still dunno what that means. |
| 216. Author: Plowboy221 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 8:14PM EST | |
delta1 wrote: some useful stuff...like a lifelike inflatable doll...
Is she still with us?  |
| 217. Author: dkeage | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 8:33PM EST | |
danmdevries wrote:It's the easy button, but I feel like it devolves to gift cards and cash why bother with gifts, just do dinner and company.
This. We haven’t done gifts in years.. There is still some gift giving within households, like I usually get something for my wife and vice versa. |
| 218. Author: Whistlebritches | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 9:10PM EST | |
Palama wrote:I just told Patti...she just smiled. Even after 38 years of marriage, I still dunno what that means. 38 years here as well.....and I am just as clueless so don't feel like the Lone Ranger |
| 219. Author: Plowboy221 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 9:19PM EST | |
Glad I didn’t bet on the Da Bears, I came close to doing so...... |
| 220. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 9:26PM EST | |
rfenst wrote:USPS delivery is terrible the last several months around here. It is even worse when it delivers Rx from a pharmacy just 15 miles from here. Used to get it by FedEx in 2 days. Now FedEx delivers to USPS. It takes 7-10 days from there. The mailman has also been as late as 5:00 5:30pm and sometimes skips a day. Hope it gets its crap together around here. Lots of people from all over central Florida are complaining. Skip their service. Buy their stock. They, and especially FedEx a Zoom are loving the Covid. |
| 221. Author: Sunoverbeach | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 9:27PM EST | |
danmdevries wrote:
I think if it gets to gift cards, might as well just stop bothering with gifts.
Hellz to the yeah!! Food and drink and call it a holiday? I'm down like Ebeneezer. Going to take some work to get the rest of the FAM on board though |
| 222. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 9:28PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:I'm lucky my wife does all the Christmas shopping...
she's relying on Amazon for ideas, purchases at good prices, and free deliveries......................perfect for pandemic stay-at-home world... My plan as well. Being the gubmint is shutting down all of the mom and pop businesses, may as well shop it all online. |
| 223. Author: frankj1 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 10:15PM EST | |
what do I do if Chinese restaurants and movie theaters are shut down!!!
Will Jewish Christmas be another covid casualty?
Oy! |
| 224. Author: BuckyB93 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 10:21PM EST | |
Ditto. Online will be where most of my purchases will come from. Plus you can get them drop shipped to those who don't live locally.
My kids are getting tougher to buy for (early and mid teens). I pretty much just ask for a list and I'll fill a few requests for them then find a couple of things that might be more substantive and sentimental.
As 8 said, for online stuff it's probably best to get at it sooner this year. Last year I ran into back orders for some of the more hot items my kids were asking for especially the electronic things . |
| 225. Author: Plowboy221 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 10:22PM EST | |
Christmas is canceled, Santa is in quarantine due to COVID, his health and age.... you get nothing, good day and better luck next year! |
| 226. Author: BuckyB93 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 10:27PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:the White elephant gift exchange was a popular part of our Division's managers' year-end holiday party...it was started by a popular previous boss...$50 limit, no gift cards, anything goes...everybody grabs one wrapped gift from under the tree, before opening, pass to left or right...trade if you want after everyone opens...lotsa fun...some thoughtful, useful stuff...some goofy stuff like a lifelike inflatable doll...
most hilarious was the 11"x18" framed photo of our very unpopular boss...the struggles to sound complimentary were excrutiating Out here, they call it a Yankee Swap (New Englanders like to put their own name on things to pretend they invented it first). It's mostly done in a work, friends, or extended family situation and a focus of a party setting get together. |
| 227. Author: Plowboy221 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 10:32PM EST | |
I’m sure mid teen girls are hard to buy for, but teen boys
Premium Subscription to Pornhub
Fifth of Jim Beam
And a carton of Parliaments
Your welcome |
| 228. Author: BuckyB93 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 10:43PM EST | |
Girls, just give them $ or gift card for clothes.
I'd agree with the boy selection but it wouldn't fit into my masquerade as a responsible adult father. Plus it would be stepping on the toes and violating the rules uncles' role in society. |
| 229. Author: BuckyB93 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 10:44PM EST | |
Two hunnerd and twenty NINE! |
| 230. Author: Plowboy221 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 10:51PM EST | |
BuckyB93 wrote:Girls, just give them $ or gift card for clothes.
I'd agree with the boy selection but it wouldn't fit into my masquerade as a responsible adult father. Plus it would be stepping on the toes and violating the rules uncles' role in society. True, didn’t think of that. Yep your screwed.... |
| 231. Author: MACS | Date: Mon, 10/26/2020, 11:49PM EST | |
Sposta get off work at 7:30 pm. They send me a trip with a pick up at 7:15... in La Jolla... for a drop off in San Diego... an hour from the yard.
Mother fuggers are about to be down one driver. If I don't want to work Saturday or on-call, I damn sure don't want fuggin overtime. Jiminy flippin' Christmas. |
| 232. Author: danmdevries | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 12:23AM EST | |
Time to retire MACS.
Doesn't sound like they're treating it as a retirement gig, but as a job for a desperate retiree that doesn't have a retirement plan. Seems like more work than it's worth.
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| 233. Author: danmdevries | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 12:24AM EST | |
Happy Tuesday fellas.
Checked the traps, I baited them with marshmallows instead of peanuts. Caught a mouse and a chipmunk.
Back to peanuts. |
| 234. Author: Stogie1020 | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 12:48AM EST | |
Wtf??? It's 53 degrees outside right now and I am trying to smoke a damn cigar. It was just in the hundreds and now I am freezing my balls off. I smell global cooling.
F. U. Al Gore. |
| 235. Author: rfenst | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 6:05AM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:what do I do if Chinese restaurants and movie theaters are shut down!!!
Will Jewish Christmas be another covid casualty?
Oy! No! Carry out. |
| 236. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 6:15AM EST | |
MACS wrote:Sposta get off work at 7:30 pm. They send me a trip with a pick up at 7:15... in La Jolla... for a drop off in San Diego... an hour from the yard.
Mother fuggers are about to be down one driver. If I don't want to work Saturday or on-call, I damn sure don't want fuggin overtime. Jiminy flippin' Christmas. Was No OT part of your demands? |
| 237. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 6:16AM EST | |
danmdevries wrote:Happy Tuesday fellas.
Checked the traps, I baited them with marshmallows instead of peanuts. Caught a mouse and a chipmunk.
Back to peanuts. Coon Count is... 5? |
| 238. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 6:17AM EST | |
Best thing about Tuesday. It’s six days away from the next Monday. |
| 239. Author: rfenst | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 6:47AM EST | |
8trackdisco wrote:Best thing about Tuesday. It’s six days away from the next Monday. True, true. But, it's also only three days 'till Friday! |
| 240. Author: danmdevries | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 7:09AM EST | |
8trackdisco wrote:Coon Count is... 5? Currently at 5. Haven't wandered out back yet today. |
| 241. Author: corey sellers | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 7:40AM EST | |
Morning gents |
| 242. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 7:45AM EST | |
Morning deplorables. A rare 50 this morning due to a low front moving through. |
| 243. Author: danmdevries | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 8:17AM EST | |
Traps are all empty this morning. I think the rain all night had at least something to do with it, washed away the crushed peanuts from around the traps so there was nothing to smell/attract.
Had the tails soaked overnight in a salt water bath, washing them this morning, gonna scrape the fat and membranes off the skin and apply some tanning solution.
Next raccoon I'm gonna try to take the whole hide. There's quite a learning curve to skinning these critters. I've got the tails down. I've skinned deer in the past, a good 20 years ago when I worked in a butcher shop, but that was on a rig hanging from a winch on the ceiling, not on my knees in the woods. But I think the technique shouldn't be too different. Looking online people use a rig to clamp the rear feet, clamp the loosened skin from the rear, and winch the whole skin off. I think I'll be carving it off with a knife. |
| 244. Author: Sunoverbeach | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 8:44AM EST | |
On a random mid week vacation day. Going to spend it painting the bedroom. Think I can finish today if I stay motivated |
| 245. Author: Notthe1 | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 8:51AM EST | |
Good Morning all.
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| 246. Author: Ram27 | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 8:55AM EST | |
Welcome to Tuesday peeps.  |
| 247. Author: danmdevries | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 9:15AM EST | |
2 of 3 tails got tanning chemical applied and rehung.
One of them from yesterday still needs to salt cure another day or two. |
| 248. Author: MACS | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 9:23AM EST | |
Sunoverbeach wrote:On a random mid week vacation day. Going to spend it painting the bedroom. Think I can finish today if I stay motivated Well... um... I think you need to rethink what it means to take a day off. Take a note from the MACS' book of laziness and spend an entire day in a recliner... In and out of consciousness while the TV drones on in the background. Get up when you're hungry or when ya gotta pee. My name is MACS, and I support this message! |
| 249. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 9:27AM EST | |
^^ I'll vote for that. |
| 250. Author: DrafterX | Date: Tue, 10/27/2020, 9:56AM EST | |
 Dudes... |
