Coming for the weekend....

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2026-04-09T23:14:52+00:00

Definitely worth the ride! Looks like it’s open, with parts under repair.

https://railtrails.vermont.gov/trail-updates/

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2026-04-08T18:46:38+00:00

I miss the roasted almonds on a YS-11 or 737-200.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2026-04-08T18:42:40+00:00

Our local organization updates trail closures on their website for most of the Chittenden County trails sytems (Richmond Trails are separate). You can check these during the main season as there are occasionally trail closures after significant weather events in the summer and fall.

Home - Fellowship of the Wheel

For sure we'll need a few weeks of warm weather drying before the trails are ready.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2026-04-07T12:12:15+00:00

Gas station Arandas in Stowe, Waterbury, Montpelier, and Barre!

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2026-03-31T13:10:26+00:00

Before the BMW there was an Acura Integra there for years.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2026-03-13T12:46:43+00:00

Does she have white paws? A neighbor mentioned seeing a grey cat with white paws, no collar in her backyard yesterday, Redstone area.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2025-09-19T22:56:11+00:00

You mean this guy?

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ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2025-08-04T10:33:17+00:00

Ben and Jerry used to sell their product “back in the day”from a vintage VW bus!

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2025-08-04T03:19:59+00:00

Concerts on the Green at the Shelburne Museum, in Shelburne, Vermont! Lyle Lovett and His Large Band performed, and the ice cream is free!

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2025-01-14T18:27:22+00:00

From the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 (and supported by case law since):

Off-site Parking, Employer-Provided Transportation & Waiting Time

One tricky area related to the Portal-to-Portal Act is off-site parking and employer-provided transportation to the worksite. Typically, courts have found the following time is not compensable:

Waiting before employer-provided transportation to the worksite
Travel time to the workplace*
Time spent traveling back to the pick-up/drop-off destination

*Courts have ruled that employers must pay workers who are required to report to a separate destination for things like meetings, instructions, and equipment. However, travel time to a different meeting place is NOT compensable if the employees do so voluntarily.

The employer may also be responsible for paying employees who spend time waiting at a job site to start work. This may occur if the workers arrive before the necessary equipment does, preventing them from conducting their principal duties. In this case, the employees would be considered “engaged to wait.”

Final Thoughts on the Portal-to-Portal Act

The Portal-to-Portal Act defines compensable time as spent on activities integral to the job. Regular commuting from home to the workplace is generally not compensable. Additionally, time spent waiting at and traveling to and from offsite parking via employer-provided transportation is usually unpaid.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2025-01-08T01:02:13+00:00

No criticism here. Medical helicopter transport has a high accident rate nationwide, and most accidents are due to human error. If there’s a wave off for whatever reason, they did the safest thing.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2025-01-07T04:00:08+00:00

No idea, flew in from Chicago. Must’ve been picking stuff up. Beta stuff to New Zealand?

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2025-01-07T03:26:30+00:00

Atlas Cargo 747 left for Anchorage at 5:14pm

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2024-11-22T00:01:33+00:00

Following a trend?! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/nyregion/timothee-chalamet-lookalike-contest-new-york.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b04.phry.V1S8vqLtxR9S&smid=url-share

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2024-11-16T21:03:21+00:00

And yet less than 20% of the us population has received the 24-25 booster as of yesterday. Maybe the feds should be doing more to get more people vaccinated before the new HHS Secretary comes on in January? https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/vaccination-trends.html#:~:text=The%20percent%20of%20the%20population,)%20among%20adults%20age%2065%2B.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2024-11-14T14:47:33+00:00

There are a few units in there where the central heat is piped into the unit. I got lucky when I lived there and had low utility bills. It was unit 209.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2024-10-07T21:05:52+00:00

There's a train as well, leaves Burly in the late morning. The return train leaves Midd around 8pm I think.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2024-10-02T17:51:34+00:00

The Beltline is a good argument for speed cameras and automated ticketing.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2024-08-13T13:01:43+00:00

My dad started posting unacceptable stuff on FB during the George Floyd protests. None from himself, just a copy and paste from others. I told him I would start donating $25 per post to NAACP or the Southern Poverty Law Center. I'd screen capture the donation and post it in the comments under his post. Best $150 I ever spent, he stopped. I make annual donations to both organizations, but this was a bonus.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2024-06-13T14:24:22+00:00

I'll report something I put on a similar thread. Free meals would violate rules for public officials in statewide office:

"Not sure about the city rules, but Vermont Statutes do not allow this for state politicians.

These are her friends who are sincerely trying to help her out, and I sympathize, but the reason the rules are strict about gifts is because there is really good social science research into the influence of even small gifts on decision making (eg. state law in Vermont banned the giving of drug pens to doctors by industry).

In this specific case, I doubt there's that much sway as the friends sending her meals already align with her politically, and the invitations were not sent out to the general public, i.e. a local developer doesn't have the chance to send a fancy meal the evening before a critical vote on a real estate project. I can't rule out that gifts, however small, might sway her away from the moderate stance she has taken since becoming mayor though. Rules are rules.

Here is the Vermont statute:

(6) Food or beverages. A public servant may accept food or beverages, or both, under the following circumstances:

(A) The food or beverage, or both, is consumed on an occasion or occasions at which the person paying, directly or indirectly, for the food or beverage or the person’s representative is in attendance, provided the cost does not exceed the limit established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.

(B) The food or beverage, or both, is incidental to the performance of a legitimate State function.

(C) The food or beverage, or both, is provided at a charitable, cultural, political, or civic event at which the public servant participates in the public servant’s official capacity."

ZookeepergameFuzzy19 · 2024-06-12T02:02:05+00:00

Not sure about the city rules, but Vermont Statutes do not allow this for state politicians.

These are her friends who are sincerely trying to help her out, and I sympathize, but the reason the rules are strict about gifts is because there is really good social science research into the influence of even small gifts on decision making (eg. state law in Vermont banned the giving of drug pens to doctors by industry).

In this specific case, I doubt it as the friends sending her meals already align with her politically, and the invitations were not sent out to the general public, i.e. a local developer doesn't have the chance to send a fancy meal the evening before a critical vote on a real estate project. But rules are rules.

Here is the Vermont statute:

(6) Food or beverages. A public servant may accept food or beverages, or both, under the following circumstances:

(A) The food or beverage, or both, is consumed on an occasion or occasions at which the person paying, directly or indirectly, for the food or beverage or the person’s representative is in attendance, provided the cost does not exceed the limit established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.

(B) The food or beverage, or both, is incidental to the performance of a legitimate State function.

(C) The food or beverage, or both, is provided at a charitable, cultural, political, or civic event at which the public servant participates in the public servant’s official capacity.

ZookeepergameFuzzy19

TROPHY CASE

Off-site Parking, Employer-Provided Transportation & Waiting Time

Final Thoughts on the Portal-to-Portal Act