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  1. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

    Friedrich Kugelschreiber marshmallow Contributor

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    Chilling out to Aja and eating Great Value™ semi-sweet chocolate chips. I love this damn album so much. Steely Dan was one of a kind, that's for sure.
     
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    CHINESE MUSIC IN THE BANYAN TREES, HERE AT THE DUDE RANCH ABOVE THE SEA, DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH. AJA, WHEN ALL MY DYING DANCING IS THROUGH, I'LL RUN TO YOU. BUM BUM.
     
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    you have a very pretty voice
     
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  4. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

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    thanks
     
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  5. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    No more lunch ever. Period. Over my dead body. Dinner only, baby! I've been trying to kill it since the first week I was hired. Been blowing up payroll and over taxing resources for years. The joke around the company was it took a pandemic to finally kill lunch.
     
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    Are you trying to make me go on a diet or something? So, now we're down to 1 meal with change as I don't consider what passes for breakfast round here to be a real meal.
     
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    Keureg coffee and then starve the rest of the day until good ole dinner, like the rest of us :p
     
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    Trying to survive this ice storm we're having. We've lost quite a bit of trees already!
     
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    Is that a demographics thing? I'm guessing your restaurant(s) is (are) more upscale. Does the lunch crowd favor fast food, or is it your location, etc? Reminds me of the owner of the auto repair place I go to -- he told me he had been trying for years to get rid of the gas pumps, because the profit margin was so tiny and not worth the effort.

    Somebody must be making money off those folks, even now. Lemme get to work on my Excel and build you an alternative universe.
     
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    It's a little bit of everything. The restaurant isn't upscale at all--it's actually a carefully crafted balance between classy and trashy, and can hit any note it wants along that spectrum--but it's super expensive, so that turns off the cheap seats. And we're downtown, so we're not getting the "neighborhood" crowd. Office population has been shrinking for years, and the pandemic has turned it into a virtual ghost town. Nevermind the death of the three martini lunch. Most people don't get an hour for lunch or leave their desks to eat. Lots of brown bags and delivery services.

    Most importantly, though, restaurants cost a fortune to run. And if you commit to lunch, you need to turn tickets quickly, which means more cooks, more prep, more food SKUs, a separate menu, etc. And you can't justify that without volume, and it's been a decade since we saw any of that. Before the lockdown, our proportion of lunch sales had gone from 8.7% to 7.8% to 6.7% in the three years I've been there. When we reopened after the lockdown, we went from 70 hours of service to around 30ish (57%), a $12K a week payroll to right around $8k (33%), while only losing that 6.7% in revenue. Now, we're making more money per seat per hour per labor dollar than we have in 20 years.

    Of course, having half the available seats and essentially no bar buttfucks the bottom line, but that ain't my fault.

    (and never mind what the management team can get done in a workday when we unlock the door at 4pm instead of 11am)
     
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    Got it. BTW, the wife still insists you don't give kale a fair trial. Says that every time she cooks some and insists I eat it. I'm really sorry I told her your opinion on the topic.
     
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    Any botanists in the house? I'm looking for an ID on this pond weed/plant.

    pond_plant.png
     
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  13. Homer Potvin

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    We got a kale salad on the menu. I don't eat it myself, but it's there in all its leafy, tasteless glory.
     
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    I’ve just been refused a credit card by my bank, on the grounds I haven’t had enough credit in the past. So because I’ve only ever bought things I could afford to buy outright, I’m a risk. What kind of twisted logic is that?
     
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    Looks like some kind of water starwort to me (narrowleaf?). https://irishwildflowers.ie/pages/581a.html
     
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    Brilliant! Looks like a perfect ID. Thanks much!
     
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  17. Homer Potvin

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    Because you're not going to rack up a ton of interest fees for them, silly.
     
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    I‘m going to rack up as much as anyone might. The interest for me isn’t going to be any less just because I’ve had little of it in the past. I probably paid my last credit card off 5 times over it took that long.
     
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  19. Homer Potvin

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    Winterizing the stupid house. 3 inches of snow before Halloween? That's a new high score.
     
    Homer Potvin, Oct 30, 2020
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    It snowed last weekend here too. 18 degrees on Sunday morning. Very unusual.
     
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    Counting down the minutes until weekends start. :cheerleader:
     
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    lying to my self....


    "just one more episode"
     
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    finished watching my second psychological thrillers.... i don't think i have another in me. They were good, but too slow paced for me right now.
    I want to watch Blade again, but that's not a free offering :pity:
    Lets see what Hulu has
     
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  25. Link the Writer

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    Me, I think I'm feeling mental fatigue, what with political elections literally just days away, and the stress of work. I have no desire for creativity. :C
     
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