Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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GasBandit
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I was right. I was right.
Staring down the tail end of a 12 hour day at work. 9:30-9:30 without leaving this building.
Hell, I'm not even sure I'll be outta here at 9:30.
I am super pukey from my prescription...I saw the doctor this week and his only suggestion for my pain is to double the prescription starting next week. Double meds and double pukiness? Yay.
I've only seen most of it (on cable television waaaay back in the day), but I saw enough. I'm unhappy with just how much they deviated from the source material.
I mean, they fundamentally changed it from being SciFi into being a Fantasy film, for instance.
--Patrick
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We made an offer on a house. Why whine? Because house was sitting with no offers for 6 months, then suddenly the same day we offer, someone else offers. THE SAME DAY. I trust no realtor. I can't help but think it's a shill bid, especially since our agent said the other bidder's agent is in her office, and that's how she knows. I'd understand if some significant event like a price drop had happened yesterday, but it did not.
If it's a shill bid and you know, then call them on it. Wait out the time... if it's a shill, they'll "suddenly" have second thoughts and back out. If it's not, then whatever. Finding a house you like it hard but finding one at a fair price is harder.
So I've been on a few dating sites lately. And I swear, the number of women that either have facial piercings or do drugs has risen over the years.The piercings aren't so much a dealbreaker so much as just something I'm not attracted to, personally. Drugs (and smoking), on the other hand, are immediate dealbreakers.
Worse, there are many that list Drug Use as "No," but then mention they're 420-friendly in their profile. Um, no, that's drugs. Pot is drugs. You do drugs. List that you do drugs if you do drugs. It's not that hard.
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against people that do drugs. If that's how they want to have fun, go nuts. I'm all for legalization (and taxation). I just can't stand the smell of it or how people act when they're high.
Worse, there are many that list Drug Use as "No," but then mention they're 420-friendly in their profile. Um, no, that's drugs. Pot is drugs. You do drugs. List that you do drugs if you do drugs. It's not that hard.
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against people that do drugs. If that's how they want to have fun, go nuts. I'm all for legalization (and taxation). I just can't stand the smell of it or how people act when they're high.
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Family adventure day!
The ghost town I had my heart set on seeing would involve a 14k return hike. Not for kids and honestly not for me until my pain is better managed.
I pick an alternate site.
We start with Subway for lunch and they switched to Pepsi. Gross!!!
Then we finish the day with running a few errands at Walmart and decide to stop for supper. McDonalds ran out of gravy. No gravy!!!
The fast food gods are plotting against me.
The ghost town I had my heart set on seeing would involve a 14k return hike. Not for kids and honestly not for me until my pain is better managed.
I pick an alternate site.
We start with Subway for lunch and they switched to Pepsi. Gross!!!
Then we finish the day with running a few errands at Walmart and decide to stop for supper. McDonalds ran out of gravy. No gravy!!!
The fast food gods are plotting against me.
And ew my left hand is super sticky. What was on our table???
McPoutine.
McDonalds has Spam with all of the breakfasts here. Portuguese sausage, too. They have taro pie and haupia pie as desserts. I'd bet you can even get POG to drink.
Nope, still the same crappy burger they sell everywhere.
More than a decade ago, they had a "texas burger" for a while, which was just a quarter pounder with no ketchup or mayo, but with double mustard. It was lame. Heck, the "texas burger" they sell in Japan at mcdonalds is better than the one we got in Texas.
We have a few here in Ohio. For instance, Donatos sells the All-Ohio here in Columbus, which is just a pepperoni, moz, and ricotta pizza... but made with all local ingredients. It's decent and pretty cheap. A lot of other places sell Cincinnati Chili (you might know it as a 3-Way or 5-Way) and it isn't on the menu outside of the state. There's also all the usually test market stuff.When the local McD's starts selling pepperoni rolls, I'll believe the "regional favorites."
You still can't get a biscuit for your Egg McMuffin outside of the South ether. All we get are English Muffins.
It's because McDonald's all-day breakfast menu is split, geographically.
http://time.com/money/4062667/mcdonalds-all-day-breakfast/
Nowhere sells McGriddles after breakfast hours, so meh.
Cajungal
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Parent teacher conference day... the only thing about teaching science that I really miss. I had maybe 2 conferences a day, and then I got to spend the rest of it planning and making copies! I like talking to these parents, but I have so much to do that I'm feeling distracted. Luckily, they're not all "he/she is awesome--let's talk about that for 20 minutes" conferences. They're actually going to be productive.
Now how in the hell is it too difficult for locations to serve both muffins and biscuits during the day?! Muffins just go through the bun toasters the same as the rest of their lunch offerings and biscuits are microwaved. Does Chef Mike go away in the afternoon?
I've worked at Micky D's in my youth, but never in the morning shift.
This video implies they're handmade, though.
It has to do with space and cost. During the day they have a few different bun types available, adding another "bun" may make use of the same equipment, but they can't run to the freezer for each order, they have to keep a tray of buns available for each bun type for every offering. So a restaurant set up for 4 types of buns can serve 4 different breads in the morning, and four in the afternoon. If three slots are taken up by lunch/dinner foods, then they can only choose one additional bun, say the muffin *or* the biscuit for the additional food. This slot would normally be filled with seasonal foods and specials, like the mcrib which is only occasionally offered. They would have to make significant changes to the restaurant to support a fifth bun, for those equipped to support only four at a time. Further, the more items you have on offer, the more food wastage occurs. All the ingredients are replaced at regular intervals whether they are used or not for food safety and freshness, and the clock starts ticking once removed from the fridge or freezer. One of those bread types is going to be used less frequently than others - if the location is busy enough it might not matter, but in slower restaurants you might only use 3/4 of a full try before it "expires" and has to be discarded. If you are limited to only 4 types of buns, they'll be used faster. Add another tray for a fifth, or another for a sixth, and you end up more frequently wasting food.
If the kitchens are upgraded to support more food options, then except for the additional food wastage there's no big impediment, but if you're doing a national rollout and forcing all franchisees to adapt to the new menu, you're not going to change every single restaurant to support more options. Instead you'll just use the seasonal slot for breakfast.
Which means, I suspect, that the mcrib has a lower chance of appearing than it used to.
They were, once upon a time, way back in the 80s when my mother worked there, but since the mid-90's they've been "hand-made" by someone at a baked goods company that supplies Golden State Foods (or other regional McD's distributors), and shipped to the restaurants par-baked on trays, so all the restaurant has to do is microwave them for 18 seconds and brush some butter flavored oil on the tops. At least they were at the franchise I worked at from '99 to '01.
This is a huge issue at the fryer. Somebody wants hash browns at 2 in the afternoon, you gotta make a batch of 8 (this is how you are trained). If you don't sell those 8 hashbrown patties within 15 minutes of leaving the fryer, you gotta toss them... and having the hash browns out means less room for bags of fries and fries in the fryer. You also have different condiments on prep at different times... this all day breakfast is leading to butter shortages at McDonalds locations and it's just MORE clutter to deal with in the back room.
Personally, I think this is what McDonalds needs to remain successful:
- Keep all day breakfast, it's the only place the McDonalds is beating everyone else. Trim everything else.
- Only keep hamburgers that use the normal patty (singles, doubles, etc) or the Big Mac patty (I think just Big Mac and Quarter Pounder). Keep frozen fish patties and chicken patties in these sizes. Only keep buns for these two burger types. Keep ether english muffins/biscuits as your third.
- All future products will use ONLY those three bun types. Put the McRib on a double stack bun like the Big Mac if you bring it back.
- Limit frozen stuff to shakes and frozen yogurt. Ditch the fucking ice cream machine, if people wanted Ice Cream they'd be going to Basken Robbins, Dairy Queen, etc. Make shakes in only vanilla, chocolate, and something seasonal (so we still get minty Shamrock shakes). Only do one flavor of yogurt.
- Stop this fucking arms race for healthy options: keep side salads, trim them down to 1-2 bases that can be altered quickly with toppings. You only keep them to shut up the health groups anyway.
- Keep 1-2 special items up for offer. Switch them every few months.
The key idea behind these changes is SPEED. I'm going to McDonalds because I want something cheap to eat NOW, not because it's GOOD. So you want to double down on that... Wendys and Burger King can keep expanding their menus for diversity, but they will NEVER beat McDonalds at speed if they trim down and trimming down is what saves money. McDonald's is losing because of bloat, not because it's not offering a product people want.
GasBandit
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It's definitely past time to replace my work PC. It's about 8 years old, running windows XP on 2 gigs of ram and a dual core 1.6 ghz celeron cpu. My hard drive is only 80 gigs! Any time I want to look at a thread here involving GIFs or videos I have to do it on my phone! It still has a floppy drive for crying out loud.
But I drag my feet on this upgrade because I don't have the time to build one from parts, and any prefab (Dell) I get is gonna come with windows 8 or 10, and I still don't like 8, and 10 has issues with our networking environment I've learned (from one machine in the building that is already running 10).
Le Sigh.
But I drag my feet on this upgrade because I don't have the time to build one from parts, and any prefab (Dell) I get is gonna come with windows 8 or 10, and I still don't like 8, and 10 has issues with our networking environment I've learned (from one machine in the building that is already running 10).
Le Sigh.
My children have those conferences. I love seeing the work the teachers put in their portfolios, but just send it home if we have nothing else to discuss!
This post made me realize that despite being out of high school for over 5 years, I still have a sharp drop in my stomach when I hear/see the phrase "parent teacher conference."
Well, when you do upgrade, the new one is going to feel so amazingly fast compared to the old one.
--Patrick
Well I feel old now.