Yes, it’s real. And all made of metal, not fiberglass. No, I have not ran out of Darryl Starbird museum photos yet.
Must be a slow week. There’s a GlibCar! Today there is a very special crossover episode. GlibCar and GlibFlick! I found some fun recorded specials. God only knows where these ever played. Probably someone’s basement.
Ghost Cars a the Winchester Haunted House – Somebody put together a lot of different short films for this. Damn if it isn’t entertaining! Adam West hosts this show from the Winchester Mystery House (which I have been through many times, I love it). Among the many ghost cars featured is the real Bonnie and Clyde car. The actual death car resides in Vegas. But a fake Bonnie and Clyde car full of bloody mannequins is in Louisiana if you come to the Bonnie and Clyde Museum outside of Shreveport.
Racing through the Forest – Experience historic racing from before damn dirty commies ruined everything. Why do we let them ruin everything?
Speed Racer: Race to the Future – Kill it with fire. Or in the comments.
Enjoy this open post! Bitch about cars, commies, whatever you want. Also if you see this, please make more posts!
Speed Racer: Race to the Future – Kill it with fire. Or in the comments
No way. Despite my love of anime I couldn’t deal with the original. No need for a poor derivative.
It was so bad. I wanted to pull an Elvis on the TV.
I don’t know what the fuck that lavender thing is but I want one.
That is the “Star Trek Coupe”
Seriously? I don’t get a Star Trek vibe from it.
My feelings about Speed Racer are that it the most entertaining thing on in the mornings while I ate breakfast before the school bus came. I never really LIKED it. It was just THERE. I have found that my feelings about anime have only gotten more unfavorable as time goes by.
We had Star Blazers before the school bus arrived. A much better show.
https://youtu.be/7gHORDBZuOA
Translated. Space Battleship Yamato
First season great, but second season not so much.
It was a good show. Came on after school. Made us all sprint home. Ultraman was on afterwards.
Ultraman was the shit
There have been so, so many Ultramans now. It’s like Doctor Who.
Johnny Sokko was my go to hero in grade school.
I used to get my ass kicked (figuratively) by my 1st Grade Teacher for daydreaming about this instead of paying attention in class.
How I remember every episode or Space Battleship Yamato:
“The Wave Motion gun is so powerful we don’t want to use it.”
::Big baddy of the episode emerges::
“FIRE THE WAVE MOTION GUN!”
Why don’t they want to use it? The damage to themselves? The potential for collateral damage? Rare ammo? Or just because it would make the plot too short?
It was either collateral damage, or just overkill.
It was likely also a reflection of a culture that had somewhat recently taken the brunt of two atomic bombs.
That was a great series.
And the Japanese version was dark compared to the US dub.
Someone on here or back in the H&R days linked to the Japanese version, subtitled, on youtube. I watched it.
Yes. Definitely darker than the US version.
Yeah, Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets. Speed Racer seemed kind of dated even back in the late 70s.
I had Cartoon Carnival, it was all wartime Bug Bunny and Popeye.
Speed trailer
I’m thinking about the scene in 30 Rock where they were making plans for a zombie apocalypse, in an effort to fit in, Lutz tells everyone he has a car. He didn’t have one. Then they insisted on LARPing the apocalypse & Lutz had to come up with a car.
My car just tried to take the tip of my thumb. I’m at the ER now. And I was kicked out for not wearing a mask, so we’re waiting outside.
Science!
It’s a long enough wait I’m considering the super glue route now that the pain is subsiding. The problem is it’s a 360* tear, and some crushing was involved, so I’m a little concerned about nerve damage.
They actually kicked you out?
I said in triage that I’m asthmatic and have allergies so can’t wear a mask, no problem she says. Then some bitch (another patient) in the waiting room said something after about an hour and 5 minutes later security showed up. He said I could wait outside or put a mask on.
OFFS
I could have loaned you a rubber mask. That would have been epic if you sighed, pulled out a Frankenstein mask and put it on.
Knit Cthulhu mask. I have one, and would wear it when a mask is required during the early part of that bullshit.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176376923/cthulhu-hatmask?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=cthulhu+mask&ref=sr_gallery-1-22&frs=1&organic_search_click=1
Nice.
I have a plague doctor mask. kinnath posted about someone he knew that made those masks, so I ordered one.
It doesn’t work too well over my glasses.
My intention was to wear it for malicious compliance if the governor issued a mask order. I ended up just ignoring the mask order.
I wore the mask once. I wore it when I went to Ye Local Brewpub on Halloween in 2020. I got some strange looks from customers. The staff loved it.
For the first year I wore a red neckerchief bandana and asked the guard(s) to tie it for me. Second year wore a mask around my neck mostly. Hardly went anywhere anyway. PO and hardware store and grocery in Podunkville never said a word when I came in sans protective cover of any sort.
I had to produce my fucking vaccine card when Dad was in the hospital.
I produced a vaccine card. Oh, you mean you showed them one.
heh heh heh
HPV?
Sorry about your thumb and the mask insanity.
Eh, I’m a mechanic, that and scratched pupils go with the territory. But thanks for the sentiment regardless.
I was in the ER last night, and had to deal with the mask retardation. Nurses, Doctors, if no one was watching would let it slip, but one Cunte at the door, Hospital Mask Nazi wouldn’t let anyone in without masking and hand sanitizing. Well, unless you worked there and just walked past her to the elevator. I am walking in with a cane, clearly in pain, just trying to check in, and she was going nuts “sir, Sir!!” My wife was just put one on, don’t be a pain. So I complied. And later, a woman came in, mask on, carrying a fucking dog. And Hospital Mask Nazi did. not. say. a. god. damn. word. about. the. dog.
“Sorry, office, this is my Emotional Support Lack-of-Mask, and I can’t go anywhere WITHOUT IT.”
My wife, who was watching the whole thing with the dog also, leaned over and whispered to me “Now I now we are done as a society.”
Oh, and no one, at any time, asked about Vax status, or checked for Covid.
What a fucking joke. Covid is over, tyranny never sleeps.
I remember when Good Samaritan was a decent regional hospital instead of the SamHealth monstrosity.
Your own car and not a customer?
Reminds me of a HS friend’s dad missing the part of a finger. He was a machinist who did the amputation with his lawnmower cutting his lawn over a weekend.
Of course. My own car after I finished paying work for the day. That’s how it always goes.
Taxi!
And all made of metal, not fiberglass.
Impressive.
Experience historic racing from before damn dirty commies ruined everything.
Duryea Drive Hill Climb.
Background. I’m not certain this road is a road Charles Duryea would have used.
A first person view.
I like that!
cool!
That looks like so much fun.
Very cool. The drive was fun, and then at the end seeing all the other cars that had made the run was cool, too.
Speed Racer meets NASCAR
Not quite Pebble Beach, but my brother and I used to go to the USGP/MotoGP at Laguna Seca every year, and often would split the racing days by going for a long ride. One of which was to go out the main entrance at LS, cross over the road to Monterrey and take the road to Old Carmel Valley, which is tucked back up in the hills. And if you follow this road out, you get a nice road up and over the crest and down to the 101 near Soledad. Then take the 146 to the 25, which is the second best motorcycle road in CA after the 58. Head back up to Hollister to grab lunch and a beer before getting back to the track to get ready for the next days races.
Nice trip. The Carmel Road over the range was great fun if there wasn’t much traffic.
I had lunch today with a former GOP State legislator (who is now an LP county chair) and a former GOP committee man. Both say America is fucked if the Dems win the presidency again in 2024. So, realistically, the GOP candidates is the only hope, but only if he (or she) is the right one (and Trump isn’t the right one – in fact, they would love it if he croaked.) Their #1 choice would be Rand Paul, trailing poorly at #2 Gov. DeSantis. Well, Glibs, do you think Rand Paul could get the nomination? Can he beat whomever the Dems put up? Are there any indications that Rand Paul will even run?
Well, Glibs, do you think Rand Paul could get the nomination?
Sadly, no.
I don’t think Rand has a chance against DeSantis head to head, but a DeSantis/Paul ticket could work. Then Paul would be well positioned for the future.
But it could be a replay of Reagan/Bush-Reagan/Bush-Bush/whoever-Clinton/Gore
which would be great and then suck
Isn’t it hilarious I can’t even remember who GHW Bush’s VP was?
Holy shit.
I had to think about it. He’s that forgettable.
Quayle.
What triggered my memory was “The potato/potatoe guy.”
Oh, right, that dude. Would that all our politicians were so forgettable.
I believe I was living in Indiana during at least part of the time he was VP, and I was acquainted with a local newspaper editor who’d met the guy. I also believe the term the editor used to describe Quayle was “thumbsucker.”
Potatoe
That’s every time. Always looks great and then sucks. The only thing that would fix it would be removal of a significant amount of useless government in the first two years.
The Swamp is here to stay. The Swamp doesn’t care who the person is that sits in the oval office. The Swamp is the closest thing to perpetual motion ever seen.
How much gas does the Energy Dept produce?
Ed, not much learning coming out of that.
All the other depts ad infinitum.
No.
Maybe?
No.
The sort of person that should run for President will never, because the forces select against it. The sort of person that can win is blessed, or at least unopposed, by the same parasites that are actively causing much of the problem (leaving aside the complicity, right and wrong, of the American public). And the Overton Window is falling off a cliff.
Populism is the only sort of antidote to the structural controls in place, and then you end up with a blowhard like Trump at best. And all of the problems of populism.
It’ll probably be some dipshit like Pence, if he can wipe the Trump off himself (narrator: the MSM would never let him clean it off).
Pardon my lack of decency, but, I think we are fucked either way.
I don’t see a political solution to this political problem. Maybe the answer lies in:
a) not giving a fuck.
b) living your life the best you can.
c) eschewing politics altogether.
I would like to not give a fuck, but then I see gas and food prices, and all of a sudden I’m giving a fuck.
And we can do. . . what?
Vote is useless, the rest of the “boxes” are impotent.
Someone here described it as a “cold civil war”. That sums it up for me, entirely.
And don’t you forget they sure give a fuck about you. We are alarmingly close to say the wrong word and you’re unemployable – that is how fucked we, and I am not sure it matters who “wins” next.
Indeed. I’m just watching it all with a sick dread in the pit of my stomach.
For the last 40 years I’ve said the next president will be worse than the one replaced.
What ? Who can be worse than Biden? His back seat driver for one. On the other side of the fence, Trump, to make up for the slights he has conjured up during his 4 year vacation.
It certainly didn’t take long to go from Afghanistan to Ukraine.
The problem with C is regardless if you want to pay attention, it will pay attention to you. And the ratchet is increasingly moving one direction.
There are ways of ameliorating (50 cent word!) that:
Grow your own food.
Barter for the stuff you need.
Visit the black and gray markets.
Get paid under the counter.
/I’ll stop now. starting to sound like “Donation, not taxation”
Grow your own food.
Wickard v. Filburn
We have one cherry tomato plant taller than the deck roof line and I picked my first hot pepper pods this week.
That’ll feed you for a good… week?
*throws hot peppers at UCS*
The cucumber plants seem to be doing well too.
I put out more ladybugs last night.
I’m not certain if there is a political solution to the problem. I’m not quite willing to give up on it.
Regardless, a and b are good suggestions.
I wanted to fucking change the world when I was young. I thought politics was the WAY! At 16, I was a Senate page. THAT sure cured me of wanting to be in politics. After 51 revolutions of the earth around the sun, I don’t think politics IS a solution. I think it is THEE problem.
/sorry if that is too blunt
No, not too blunt.
I walked away from politics for a long time other than reading libertarian sites. Stopped voting. Stopped signing ballot access petitions. Stopped giving money. Stopped a whole lot of stuff.
Then the lockdowns happened.
As I got involved in pushing back against the lockdowns, I saw some good action going on at the state level.
Rand would never win the nomination, let alone the general. He’s too short, has goofy hair, and wears hearing aids. All terrible reasons not to vote for a person, but that’s what universal suffrage and decades of government schooling got us.
He also won’t promise free shit to people and doesn’t want to declare war just for lulz.
However, it was good to have Rand onstage at the debates because he introduced important issues up that the other candidates had to address.
I am hard pressed to think of a reasonable GOP candidate who can win, particularly with the Media carrying water for the Dems, and of course all that vote fortifying.
DeSantis will be vilified for being a “transphobe” and for punishing Mickey Mouse. Scott Walker seemed ok, but he’s been out of office a while.
One thing about Walker, he got out as soon as it was clear that Trump was going to win, before any of the others if I recall. In other words, he didn’t shit all over himself, like Cruz did. And didn’t show the world what a wet sack he was like Jeb!
And he doesn’t seem to do well in debates. At least the few I watched. I remember early on when I hoped someone, anyone would knock Trump out that I was very disappointed in Rand’s performance. To me he came off whiney. Granted, he hardly got any time to speak, but I remember him asking if he could speak over and over again and the way he did it, to me, came off as as weak.
If he can perform in a debate like he did going after Herr Fauci, than it’s game on.
Speaking as a man who has goofy hair, I am triggered I say!
He is much more useful in the Senate. VP would blunt his effectiveness.
But just imagine him presiding over the Senate in his own inimitable way!
I would love him presiding a divided senate, so much! But … otherwise it’s kind of a waste to have him VP, tbh. No replacement – unless he got Massie to run in his place, maybe, and I’m not sure Massie would do it – wouldn’t be nearly as good.
Yup, these are the major strikes against him, more than his positions. (And I didn’t even know about the hearing aids, lol.)
That is how shallow politics is now.
The consensus seems to be that when the grandkids say “Grandpa, what did you do when they came for our rights?” our answer will be “I saw no hope for stopping them so I ignored them.”
No, you didn’t ignore them, you wore a mask like a good boy. And agreed with your doctor that masks helped a bit. That’s what you did about my rights. But I’m supposed to care about your establishment Republican/Libertarian buddies.
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Not Adahn 18
Grumbletarian 19
db 20
Ozymandias 21
QuordleBot 21
Sean 21
Grummun 22
one true athena 22
trshmnstr the terrible 22
Cannoli 23
grrizzly 23
pistoffnick 23
Ted S. 23
Tulip 23
whiz 23
kinnath 24
MikeS 24
robc 24
Dr. Fronkensteen 24
JG43 25
The Hyperbole 25
Grosspatzer 26
Tundra 26
Chump
TARDis 117
Seems like we’ve had a lot of ties at the top and bottom lately. Not today. Not Adahn and TARDis win their spots outright. Congrats, gentlemen.
The tourney was very close today. The winners won by a combined total of only 4 points. There was also a tie (grrizzly vs. Tulip) so there will be a tie breaker tomorrow.
The Final Four will be the winner of that match vs. Sean, and Whiz vs. Cannoli
We’re back to the sub-30 scoring average we expect to see on my weeks; 27 exactly, oddly enough. Another oddity with that low-ish average is the T-line split: 8/14. A lot of 23s and 24s.
Tonight’s musical theme is shotguns. Don’t know why…just popped into my head.
S.O.S.
Heartbreak Boulevard
Woohoo! I beat both Tundra and MikeS!
That sax though!
Jr. Walker & The All-Stars – Shotgun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7CtxlisCk
“Shoot him before he run now.”
George Ezra – Shotgun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suzm8thg13M
Gonna get me a shotgun
Volbeat – Shotgun Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snItFJlBtTc
Shotgun Messiah – Sex Drugs Rock N’ Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LnDxNmcwc
Tim McGraw – Shotgun Rider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-eRgc7h6Y
Sixteen shells
Gun Street Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFwexoCJwk
Klute – Shotgun Blues
https://youtu.be/15uaOyGmc2U
Shotgun Blues
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ua_AMy6aKY
Shotgun, from Swiss’s favorite band.
Don’t shoot shotgun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jVdDpBDXZY
After 15 months and 6 months of PR vehicles Ford delivered its first customer Lightening.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1104920656/ford-electric-f150-lightning-electric-vehicles-automakers
Look out OPEC and Russia your days are numbered…
And a week from now, the recalls will go out indicating you should not park it near any flammable structures until the Ford Hazmat Team can come and take it in for service.
$5B to build charging infrastructure, is Ukraine ok with us doing that? That sounds like money that could go towards arming them.
Once a shit ton of those charging stations are around, the thefts will begin. Half of the charging stations will be stolen and broken down for materials. Lithium batteries will far surpass catalytic convertors for the car part theft of choice.
Don’t forget the copper!
They’ll all be serial numbered, no ghost chargers will be allowed.
lol
That’s so NPR.
“The clean energy worker took his F-150 Lightning on a camping trip with his wife and daughter his first weekend with the truck, and he found himself unable to find a charger. It was just not a great experience at all,” Schmidt says.
$100G for a pickup that you can’t drive anywhere. Sounds like he is already developing a case of buyers remorse.
“He says the Lightning is just as powerful and dependable as his conventional F-150.”
You just got it a month ago and nothing has broke…. not exactly a high bar for dependability.
“Dependable” “Unable to find a charger” Well, I guess being able to depend on it being useless is a form of dependable.
Because buying a back-up vehicle for virtue-signaling purposes is totally within reach of the average American. 🙄
Stop being so poor!
I bet Ford went over that thing with a fine tooth comb before releasing it for delivery.
I don’t know today’s details, but I think the Lightning is positioned around $40k.
The question for those watching the market is less about whether the rollout for Lightning is error free and more about why would you spend $40k on a Tesla when you could have a pickup.
Msrp on the forthcoming electric Silverado is the same. Let’s see how long those prices last with the huge increase in commodities prices.
Dude.
What a great collection of videos. Just watched ten minutes of the Ghost cars and it’s fucking awesome!
Thank you!
You are welcome!
This is on static display a couple blocks down
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-97_Stratofreighter
So pretty perched on a slight hill.
Drove on Dead Indian Memorial Rd today. Wonder how long that name will last. Used to be just Dead Indian Rd.
T minus 10 and counting until it is renamed Rainbow Sparkle Lady Penis Hill.
More banishing Indians from any sort of public role.
Indigenous Victim Rd.
Cool plane.
The Super Guppy made an appearance at our local air show a couple of weeks ago.
Super Guppy
Love it. The big big sister to that tanker. Amazing that the predecessor B29 was developed in the late 30’s and there still a descendent Super Guppy still flying.
There’s something absurdist about oversized transport planes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_BelugaXL#/media/File:F-WBXL_-_Airbus_A330-743L_Beluga_XL_(48928991596).jpg
Heh they are amusing when you’re used to seeing slimmer vehicles.
There is something funny, to me anyway, that it and Boeing’s version are used to transport large airplane parts.
The front fuselage profile of the Dreamlifter reminds me of an AK47.
I’m having trouble picturing it.
https://ibb.co/zHpMZbk
https://ibb.co/SnvcV0s
I’ve only had one drink!
(besides the beers)
Sorry GL. I’m just not getting the resemblance to an AK-47.
It’s the gas port which looks like the front of the Dreamlifter.
Is that The Thing That Goes Up™?
The Thing That Goes Up is… well… something lots of people speculate about, so I guess maybe?
They look like they should tip over on their big foreheads. Always good for a smile.
Bummed about the big Antonov getting destroyed. It wasn’t cute, like the bulbous supervillain head ones, but still, what a monster. Wish I could’ve seen it in person.
That would have been cool. Must have been loud as hell at takeoff with 6 jet engines at full throttle.
https://youtu.be/9FJVxtTNjJk
The days of no hush kits.
What was the design theory behind mixing props with jets?
https://c.tenor.com/1EPcfrfuO3UAAAAC/more-power.gif
Wiki sez they were grafted on later for shorter takeoffs and faster attacks. Props were for cruise.
KC-135As and B-52Gs using water injection on takeoff were loud as hell, I remember them rattling the windows in my office is the weapons storage area.
Smoke em if you got em.
https://youtu.be/xfTdRF66QPo
https://youtu.be/_OPfGCVIjQQ
I still kind of miss working the flightline. When flying commercial and boarding the turbo-prop planes with the airstairs, I get a wiff of burnt jet fuel and the memories come back. My last year I worked swing shift and it was nice launching and recovering the bombers with all the brass around. I still hesitate to cross the redlines at airports, that was how you would end face down on the asphalt in the AF.
Speaking of cars, youtube served this up earlier.
’70s Jaguar XJ coupe with V-12 and a manual transmission. Very well done. Sounds bloody fabulous.
Speaking of the end of the world, youtube served up a thing about the MIT Limits to Growth “study” from the ’70s. According to somebody or other who took a fresh look at it, we’re ahead of schedule on our way to societal collapse.
So we’ve got that going for us.
Link?
NPR is just discovering this.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/06/21/npr-sounds-the-alarm-on-how-disruptive-the-pandemic-has-been-to-students-development/
The Search for More Money!
Ha! I didn’t think of that. Your right.
FOR WHOM THE FIRST TOLLS
I read that as For Whom The First Trolls. Either way, time marches on.
https://youtu.be/qdlQyNe_9tE
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It’s the last time you will
Overlanding is just hipster car camping.
Go figure.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/21/enes-kanter-colin-kaepernick-relationship-story/?dicbo=v2-2a0061cfca707a2e8db68b3c5bf6869b
Hey Tulip! If you are around I’ve always appreciated your “second-wave” take on Feminism. Reminds me of my Mother. You are a good sport!
“I am Woman, hear me roar” rather than the cringe that came later. Actual Strong Women, not a facsimile.
Sobering video, but fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I
People wanting a larger Euro war should consider these numbers.
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/workers-find-civil-war-landmine-at-nj-soil-plant-police-say.html
Wait, what?
😲
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/06/21/skippack-pharmacy-covid-vaccines-kids/
Gross. Evil. I really hope there is a hell for these people.
““It’s the best thing in the world. I could cry right now,” parent Megan Gallus said. “We cried when the appointment was made, when the announcement was made. It’s just been a long two years.””
Ummm do you wanna tell her Sean or should I?
Skippack Pharmacy isn’t in Schwenksville.
It’s in Skippack.
I’d say “insert Capt. Obvious”, except I’ve driven past that pharmacy several times.
Skippack had a wonderful lil cheese shop. I haven’t been there in a post covid world though. I assume it’s still good.
And the great lil balsamic/olive oil joint went out of business prior to covid. *sigh*
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/western-newjersey/2-months-after-nj-legalized-recreational-marijuana-hunterdon-co-sheriff-says-there-s-concern-in/article_8b4725b8-f1a6-11ec-8256-83e5b0c7f750.html
Test them weekly and take their guns away. For the children.
I had a nice reply but WP won’t take it. Oh well.
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/chicago-police-cant-chase-people-just-because-they-run-away-says-new-policy/
🙄
Brilliant. I’m sure that will reduce crime in Chicago.
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Thanks db for posting my note.
Thanks Festus.
Lemme check…
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/chevron-ceo-slams-political-rhetoric-scorching-letter-biden
Yep, Biden’s still a douchebag.
He hates you and wants you dead.
There’s really no other conclusion one could arrive at.
If Biden read the letter at all, of which I have my doubts, he will likely have failed to understand that 18 billion dollars is a significant amount of money. Chevron’s CEO mentions spending that much on capital improvements in a misguided effort to convince Biden they’re doing their part.
To a creature of the Federal government, 18 billion is a mere drop in the bucket. Utterly insignificant, even though it represents a major investment for any company.
Also, based on my experience in heavy industry, most of that 18 billion is likely going toward maintenance capital, not new production plants and improved equipment.
Nobody will pony up that kind of money if they’re trying to shut you down from the get go. We’re screwed with that hardheaded old fool calling the shots and probably without him too.
More likely scenario?
Yep. No one makes a business decision to improve production when outside forces are constantly leaning on you to reduce production.
Even continuity-of-business projects get a very careful appraisal when the continuity of business is outside one’s control.
If this keeps on, the US oil industry in 10 years will look like Venezuela’s after Chavez: rotting equipment, production failures, safety problems, and diminished and demoralized workforce.
Good morning, Stinky, Tulip, db, Teh Hype, rhy, Sean, and any/all lurkers!
Mission accomplished! Running a day behind processing payroll because of the holiday Monday (it seems holidays invariably fall during payroll week,) all the supervisors got their folks’ timesheets approved promptly, and I got the timesheet data reviewed and exported into the payroll system a full two hours before the cutoff! Got the “draft,” with all the hours and minutes turned into dollars and cents, around 4 p.m., went over it with my usual fine-toothed comb, and gave final approval at 4:59 p.m.
At 5:00 p.m., I got an e-mail from one of the supervisors: “Can I revise [Member Service Rep]’s timesheet? I forgot to add some hours.”
Nope. The ship has sailed. You can jolly well tack those hours onto her time for THIS pay period. Maybe you’ll take the process a wee bit more seriously in future.
Until you get paid monthly or less frequently, there’s a 50% or better chance of holidays landing on a payroll weeks, all the way up to 100% for those who get paid weekly.
Pay is biweekly, and it certainly seems as if the holiday coincides with “payroll processing day” much more often than not. Memorial Day was a welcome exception. “Juneteenth” and Independence Day – next one on the agenda – are not. (Haven’t looked ahead to Labor Day and the other autumn holidays.) Oh, well!
At least I’ve once again avoided the pitchforks and flaming torches of my co-workers, an image that will now haunt my nightmares. Thanks, ‘patzie!
You’re welcome, GT!. Pitchforks and flaming torches are reserved for the supervisor who failed to take the process seriously. Good thing you don’t work at the Post Office, that could get ugly.
Oh – I almost forgot: today I get to start writing up the minutes of last night’s Board meeting (because the nominal “Secretary” of the Board doesn’t want to do the work that goes with the title) from the Zoom (or is it Microsoft Teams?) recording. I suppose it still beats having to attend the actual meeting.
Livin’ the dream.
I have to conduct two interviews, review 12 candidate responses for another position, explain to other business units why some service has been broken for years (short answer we don’t know), provide updates to the governance board, and have at least one unexplained meeting on my calendar that’s going to be a surprise regardless of what the actual agenda is because it’s too cryptically named. Nevermind the fact that the last of these meetings stretches out to 1.5 hours after the end of my nominal workday.
And that’s just looking at my calendar, I haven’t begun to enumerate the stuff waiting in my email…
Is it your birthday?? 😃
No. It looks like a knowledge transfer meeting for someone who’s leaving.
Ugggghhh. Hate those.
Mornin’
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Mornin’, reprobates!
Goddammit!
A few days ago I mixed up a gallon of pink lemonade to have some more flavorful noncaffinated hydration.
Or rather, insufficiently mixed, as the dregs are… extra flavored.
Ugh! Be sure to chew thoroughly before swallowing. 😝
Shake it up!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLNicMINmS0
Late for the gym. Time to go. Mornin’ All!
I picked up a Remington 572 last night. I’m pretty sure it’s Suthen’s fault. I seem to recall he planted the idea in my head that I needed one.
Where is that guy?