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To: xsmommy; Texan5; tioga; Slip18; Gabz

Just in about 30 minutes ago> The boss paid per diem and hotel bill for the weekend, but I had no chargeable hours.

Pretty blah sitting in a hotel room for two days when you don’t really really really have to be out of town. It was worse i think than being just off for a day while on a job because with the 24” snow (er, global warming) there was nothing open and nothing to “see” like museums or local historical sites.

It sounds like you and gabz are going to get hammered again on Tuesday, Wed, and Thursday.


166 posted on 02/08/2010 3:09:40 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

it would be a drag and i feel sorry you had to be away from home and bored. not much to see out the airport way there, snow or not. i am not looking forward to this. enough was enough and we have had ENOUGH.


167 posted on 02/08/2010 3:16:48 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

At least they spoke English. You could wander into the lobby or lounge and find someone to talk to.

I couldn’t do that on my boring weekend in Shanghai.


168 posted on 02/08/2010 3:48:59 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Glad you’re out of there at last!

We’ve got snow/sleet predicted for Wednesday and Thursday, but it isn’t “supposed” to get cold enough for the snow/sleet to stick.

I only use wood and charcoal on the grill-I’ve never liked the aftertaste a gas grill leaves.


190 posted on 02/09/2010 9:15:37 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line")
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To: tioga; xsmommy; Robert A. Cook, PE

God only knows what nemesis will do next-the first time we got together, he was my English Lit prof-newly hired part-time at a Catholic University, and involvement with students was an absolute no-no. Didn’t phase nemesis-he took me out on dinner dates at a dark, romantic Italian restaurant just blocks off campus. The only way I can excuse that behavior is that I was barely 21 and he 25-and dumb. When we hooked up again 20 years later, no such excuses apply.

I listed the numbers he left on my answering machine on my cell phone under the name “Nemesis”, and I’m gleefully waiting for the cell to ring and the screen to say “Nemesis calling”. Revenge is a dish best served cold...


191 posted on 02/09/2010 9:35:51 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line")
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