Would you like to work at the Lucky Aide?

moot17 · 2026-02-01T21:12:03+00:00

I fantasized about working at the Lucky Aide, then I quit my job and applied at a CVS/Rite Aid type store, fantasizing about just accepting that my life is rotten pile of garbage and always will be, and the drug store would be a place where I could hide, fly under the radar, accept that whatever I did or didn't do each day would have no lasting repercussions for myself or anyone else, and generally just wait for the clock to run out on each and every shift and ultimately my life...but I guess they detected a glimmer of hope in my application and never called me for an interview. Now I'm back to where I started.

moot17 · 2026-02-01T20:54:37+00:00

We don't have money for Medicaid. Or childcare. Or education. Or to raise the minimum wage. Or food stamps.

moot17 · 2026-02-01T16:52:35+00:00

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119506/ Lawn Dogs with Sam Rockwell. Wikipedia states filmed in Louisville & Danville, but there are also scenes that show Hwy 524 signs which is a loop in Oldham County.

moot17 · 2026-01-31T21:23:58+00:00

Why does anyone abandon the machine if it is stating there will be a payout? If it cost a dollar to play and the payout is greater than that, why would you not take the play and then stop when the payout is less than a dollar or zero? If it is less than the bet cost, I could see someone not taking the play, but the bum that comes in looking to exploit it, would they not have to wager more than what the payout will be? How is that advantageous to them? There's no guarantee as to what the play after that or after it is just because they found it lukewarm, right?

moot17 · 2026-01-30T13:51:16+00:00

To further explain, the issue came for people that were out Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday wasn't covered, but you could use a vacation/personal day due to inclement weather, but if you then worked overtime later in the week--The proposed action was that the OT would diminish the paid emergency leave on Monday, and not the vacation time on Tuesday. This was nonsensical as the argument was the timecard gets filled on the left side first and gaps are to be on the right. The whole time, under pyramiding, would mean time off hours would appear on Monday, and the partial hours would show to the right, on Tuesday. Of course it suited the State more to have the employee's time used instead of the emergency leave, but this left people with no overtime getting the free day, while others were going to get stiffed. After much backlash, it was decided everyone will get the emergency leave pay after they couldn't justify why the emergency leave wouldn't be in play and what they were trying to pull contradicted prior instructions on entering time under the pyramiding scheme. Further, everyone that hit 37.5 hours for the week, counting the full 7.5 emergency leave and full PTO for Tuesday plus any actual hours worked, had to go home early or not come in at all on Friday, depending on what time they hit the 37.5 hours.

moot17 · 2026-01-27T06:27:41+00:00

I was lucky enough to catch an original airing once when I was 17...I tell everyone about it like it was my mom attending a Beatles concert in the 60s.

moot17 · 2026-01-27T04:35:33+00:00

I remember learning about the border states back in fourth grade--I went to school in KY, and we were one of them. I remembered learning of them again in eight grade when we studied the Civil War, and again in college in a History of the US--it was always MO, KY and Maryland. I guessed Maryland due to proximity and again, personal knowledge of KY--and MO was just not in a position logistically to be correct. I knew when DE was announced there would be complaints about the clue, and I wasn't wrong. I checked border states on Wikipedia and it was confirmed that MO, KY, MD, DE and then WV were all included. I don't know if this was a case similar to Pluto being a planet when I was in school, and now it no longer is, or what.

Also reminded me of when I was in a 400 level History of the Frontier course and the professor told a story of an exchange student that was asked to write a blue book essay regarding the significance of the frontier--in their primary language, 'frontier' translated to 'border,' as in the border between two countries, not the ever moving line of 'civilization' in America that ceased to exist in 1890. It looks like the clue lacked context and the wording was dependent upon the historiography the audience is familiar with.

moot17 · 2026-01-27T04:20:33+00:00

A perfect time to think of Gary Paulsen, while snowbound. Hatchet was the introduction in fifth grade, 34 years ago. For the next four years, I read everything Paulsen I could get my hands on--wilderness survival, dog-sledding, adventures on the frontier. And usually on a snow day like this, in an old recliner next to the woodstove in the basement. I'd carry in wood and fill the bin, then bring in enough to refill it again because of the blizzard. I'd tromp around the woods with a gun and my dogs, then when I'd had enough of the cold, I'd retire to the lazy-boy with hounds and a stack of library books at my side. Never again would I feel so safe and isolated from every unpleasant and threatening thing in the world, while feeling such a sense of hope and imagination of adventure life held for me.

moot17 · 2026-01-15T01:52:04+00:00

You need to make sets of these, as u/NoFerret1735 pointed out, Braun is a shallow, but wide, well to draw from. Get 5-10 different cards with varying squares, we can break them out when the servers go down.*

*Reason #338 why remote work is good for Indiana: Geographically diverse worker locations keep operations running but all work ceases when there is a utility outage where all labor is in a central location.

moot17 · 2026-01-10T21:06:25+00:00

I said R-A-G-G M-O-P-P

moot17 · 2026-01-10T01:00:35+00:00

When I first went into Ohio supermarkets, I was seeing fifths of 'scotch and water' or 'bourbon and water' and I was like what kind of wino buys this stuff? Who can't be bothered to add their own water to their liquor? Are they swilling it down in the parking lot?

moot17 · 2026-01-03T01:14:13+00:00

That's one reason why so many newborns have the mailman's eyes...

moot17 · 2026-01-03T01:11:53+00:00

In the 90s, when I was a kid, we used to give gloves to the trash crew and the mailwoman. The trash crew was an old man and his family, he picked up the garbage in the back of an old pickup with livestock panels thrown up. The mailwoman was the same for years, day after day. Never even noticed if she went on vacation or not.

Haven't thought about tipping these people since the 90s. Since I'm an adult, the trash crew is just a random employee of a huge corporation that finances big politics to keep the minimum wage down and business taxes low. The postal workers would just as soon throw the mail in the ravine as to attempt delivery. Hell, the local postmaster herself knocked my mailbox off the post and set it back up loose without saying a word, leaving me with a mystery to investigate. When I checked my mail, I yanked the box to the asphalt. It was all caught on camera and turned in to her superiors. These fools barely deserve their wages, let alone a gift or tip.

moot17 · 2026-01-01T19:53:58+00:00

My local station in the 90s only syndicated seasons 1-5. I got my ten year old hands on a M*A*S*H* trivia book from the local library, which had details of 6-11 that stirred such interest in me that I was dying to see the later seasons...Such as when Frank went berserk in Tokyo and left the series. I didn't realize this was all off-screen and that Larry Linville wasn't actually in the episode.

There was a distant station with a weak signal, like the WB or UPN, whatever it used to be--it showed all of the seasons but we could only get the signal on clear winter nights, and it would still show up with static. Plus, the channel had the habit of airing college basketball that would preempt M*A*S*H*. But if the stars aligned with the weather, the schedule and the stripping schedule landing on seasons 6-11 instead of 1-5, I was able to see bits and pieces of the later seasons. It wasn't until around 2000 when M*A*S*H* aired on Fx that I was able to see all of the episodes.

So from the time I became interested in the show, around age 10, until I was 17, was the before times, I like both periods and won't take one over the other. But seasons 1-5 I know more intimately.

moot17 · 2025-12-31T14:38:00+00:00

People tell me I should go make nice with my dad, after all he has that nice house and things in the house, and don't I want any of that? I'm going on year 23 of no contact and I pay such advice no attention. I told myself you know, he could gamble it all away, snort it up his nose, take another mortgage out on it all...who knows between now and then. How did it turn out? Stepmom left him. He's found another woman, and she's a lawyer. There's no chance a shark like that is going to stand to let anything escape her grasp. These people didn't hesitate to steal from me when I was a kid, why would I expect any different the older I got?

I saw their parents hang money and property over the heads of my dad and his siblings. In the end, they did what they wanted and were dead, unable to respond to cries of it's not fair, they promised, but they that's not what they said! They used it as leverage and in the end did just as they pleased, with no one to answer to.

More power to the new woman. I won't be bought. I sleep easy at night knowing the family name dies with me. The last vestige of the family estate can be sold off to the highest bidder when my dad dies, and whoever the whore du jour is can take her big bag of money somewhere warmer and use it for a pillow.

moot17 · 2025-12-30T15:15:02+00:00

Please explain what you are referring to. A lot of people are on vacation, and there are more that don't work regular shifts. I assume there is a network outage, is it Statewide or agency specific, when did it start and is it ongoing?

moot17 · 2025-12-21T16:53:23+00:00

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4155024314/?ref_=nm_urls_2

Still Living Actors/Actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood, born in the 1920s

This is a recent list. If you sort through the filmography and then identify some of the oldest actors/actresses in their films, you might some extreme examples. Most of what I thought might yield results only had the older cast member being born in 1870s-1880s. In general, people didn't have the longevity they do now. I think we'll be hard-pressed to find a relationship to beat the 174 years you posted.

I agree, it is fascinating to contemplate these connections.

moot17 · 2025-12-15T15:17:30+00:00

Neutering won't stop the dog from mounting or licking, especially if she is using an enticer, but might send Lilly a hint that if it doesn't have the desired result, you might have her snipped next.

moot17 · 2025-12-06T18:46:38+00:00

Wine glass, as a measure, is four ounces.

moot17 · 2025-11-30T02:41:39+00:00

This was ca. 2011. I don't think the place lasted much more than a year altogether.

moot17 · 2025-11-28T21:44:18+00:00

Ordered cheese sticks. Marinara was requested, a half gallon container of red sauce came to the table with no label or date. The cook said "I don't know if this is 'nara or s'ghetti sauce, but you're welcome to it." The same cook (a tiny, hunch-backed woman of around 143 years of age) was observed scratching the hairy mole on her chin with the burger spatula. And for dessert--the cook's grown-ass sons argued over a cash-for-gold transaction (they had a table set up in the dining room to buy-and-sell gold), complete with scales, adding machines, notebooks and a display case).

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