Useless Conversation

[Yegolev]

The rebooked flight that landed in Watertown was interesting. I didn't know they still had places without modern security and you deplaned via stairs. Right outside Fort Drum. So tiny and primitive.

If you fly to Jackson, WY, you're in for a Small Airport Treat.

[Nebu]

If you fly to Jackson, WY, you're in for a Small Airport Treat.

I thought Jackson was nice compared to Laramie.  Jackson has people with money.  On a side note; we used to call the plane that flew in and out of Laramie the 'vomit comet' due to the turbulence.   

[Chimpy]

Alaska is pretty good (though I was flying on a companion pass with a friend who is one if their pilots so my experience could have been colored by that) of course they are only an option if you live on the west coast.

[Yegolev]

If you fly to Jackson, WY, you're in for a Small Airport Treat.

I thought Jackson was nice compared to Laramie.  Jackson has people with money.  On a side note; we used to call the plane that flew in and out of Laramie the 'vomit comet' due to the turbulence.   

Oh, it's very nice.  Only airport in a national park, also.

What I mean is that I was amused that the ground crew was walking alongside me on the tarmac with my bags, but I was expected to go inside the building to claim them.  Even better, they just stuck the bags through holes in the wall that I also went through, but I used a door.  The baggage claim was just on the other side of a normal wooden wall.  Same amount of oversight on both sides of this wall, but I could tell they wanted me to be on the inside of the building.  If I had taken the time, I could have stood in the doorway and seen the same bag on both sides.  It was like theatre: "How Much The TSA Does For You" or "This Is Bullshit: A Play In Twelve Acts In Other Places, But One Act Here".

I inevitably contrast every airport with ATL.  Except for the train, I like the other ones.

[Signe]

I ran out of fresh fruit and veg so I did a quick dash to Whole Foods where I was checked out by JIMI HENDRIX!   I swear it was him!!!

[rattran]

Oddly, I just got back from Whole Foods in Colo Spgs. My gf was pushed out of the way by an Asian couple grabbing all the cheese I was looking at, and one hipster looking young girl smelled like she had shat herself.
All in all, about what I expect from whole foods. At least I got good granola on sale.

[Ingmar]

Weird. Whole Foods around here seems to be mostly populated by attractive professional women in their 30s, at least at lunch time.

[Trippy]

So that's where they've all been hiding!

My local Whole Foods is almost all families since the city it's in is ~80% families.

[WayAbvPar]

Weird. Whole Foods around here seems to be mostly populated by attractive professional women in their 30s, at least at lunch time.

Yeah, our local WF is full of yoga pants at lunch. It is pretty awesome 

[Signe]

Yeah, but my Whole Foods has Jimi Hendrix.  So there.

[bhodi]

So I had this conversation with my mom the other day. She seems to think it's not unusual to meet people (to date) at a supermarket. I guess that was the way things were done in adult life before the internet? I thought it was really weird and a tiny bit skeevy. Who strikes up a conversation in a store? Everyone but me, maybe.

[Yegolev]

Piggly Wiggly = Facebook for Old People

I was rather late to a town hall meeting this morning, and I think my division is being renamed and reorganized.  WHEEEE....

[Trippy]

So I had this conversation with my mom the other day. She seems to think it's not unusual to meet people (to date) at a supermarket. I guess that was the way things were done in adult life before the internet? I thought it was really weird and a tiny bit skeevy. Who strikes up a conversation in a store? Everyone but me, maybe.

Probably. It was definitely a thing back in the 80s and 90s. Don't know if that's still true today. I still remember reading an article about how the Safeway in the Marina district in San Francisco was the place for singles to go to meet each other.

[HaemishM]

Weird. Whole Foods around here seems to be mostly populated by attractive professional women in their 30s, at least at lunch time.

They just opened a Whole Foods here this past February. It's kind of settled into a crowd full of that mixed with lots of hipster douche-looking men. Many Trilby's and horn-rimmed glasses to be found.

[Paelos]

The Whole Foods here is nothing but Buckhead Betties.

[Signe]

I rarely go to Whole Food Stores but it's the closest to here when I run out of something.  This time of year the Amish start putting up their produce stands, which is great.  We also have normal farmers who aren't judgmental.  There are about a million farmer's markets around here, too.  I love summer fruits.

[Nebu]

I'm jealous.  Most of the farmer's markets here are just producing early veggies (Kale, beans, cucumbers, etc).  No real fruits to speak of yet.  I'm guessing watermelons will show up soon though.

[Trippy]

Move to California -- we're drowning in farmers' markets stone fruit right now

[Sky]

I got some really good cantelope last week. Raining crazy so I'm not sure how many will show this week. I'm just happy we have a new farmer's market that is open after I get out of work and is on my route to the supermarket.

[Samwise]

So I had this conversation with my mom the other day. She seems to think it's not unusual to meet people (to date) at a supermarket. I guess that was the way things were done in adult life before the internet? I thought it was really weird and a tiny bit skeevy. Who strikes up a conversation in a store? Everyone but me, maybe.

Probably. It was definitely a thing back in the 80s and 90s. Don't know if that's still true today. I still remember reading an article about how the Safeway in the Marina district in San Francisco was the place for singles to go to meet each other.

"Dateway".     I used to pick up dinner there after taking night classes at Fort Mason and every now and then I'd see well-dressed people slowly pushing mostly-empty carts up and down the aisles, trolling the waters.

[Numtini]

The Marina "Social Safeway" pops up in Tales of the City. I thought that kind of thing was pretty much a relic of the 70s.

I'm usually the nasty bitch pushing people out of the way. Ok, not literally, but I do a lot of quiet raging and muttering under my breath. Shopping here on Cape Cod in the summer is a baffling ordeal. On one side are the pre-dead elderly, shuffling and stopping randomly. On the other are the tourists, who have no idea where anything is and bring the whole family who walk next to each other and clog the aisles. Then both groups use the self-checkouts except they can't, so they inevitably have to call for help.

[IainC]

I rarely go to Whole Food Stores but it's the closest to here when I run out of something.

Which store is closest when you aren't out of something?

[Paelos]

Pedant Foods

[Ingmar]

So I had this conversation with my mom the other day. She seems to think it's not unusual to meet people (to date) at a supermarket. I guess that was the way things were done in adult life before the internet? I thought it was really weird and a tiny bit skeevy. Who strikes up a conversation in a store? Everyone but me, maybe.

Probably. It was definitely a thing back in the 80s and 90s. Don't know if that's still true today. I still remember reading an article about how the Safeway in the Marina district in San Francisco was the place for singles to go to meet each other.

This is apparently still true of that Safeway, from what I hear. People get dressed up to go there.

[Signe]

You guys are SO funny.    I like to buy local when stuff is in season.  I can even get good fresh meat although I don't cook much meat in the summer unless it's on the grill.  For normal stuff, I go to Wegmans.  The one near me carries quite a bit of local produce, too.

I don't miss the ASDA.  I do miss Borough Market.

[Phildo]

I have a friend who dated an awful girl he met at the farmers market a few years ago because she knew one of the vendors there and got him discounts.

[Yegolev]

You haven't really lived until you have rebooted a laptop to apply updates and then rebooted a VM inside that laptop to apply updates.

[Ironwood]

[Merusk]

Fuck Adobe and their shitty, shitty, shitty coding and file handling practices.

Autosave and "don't overwrite the original file when saving" aren't hard concepts, unless you work for Adobe.  And now they're MY problems when some user is working too fast and saving too often during deadline day.

*network hiccup during save* *user closes file* Sorry, you just lost that whole .psd file. Snapshots happen every hour and it's 11:45, best of luck recreating. 

[RhyssaFireheart]

Oh yay for being 6 months into the year and just now realizing that at least one and possibly more consultants may have their hourly rates entered wrong into Project Server, which is an issue when we use PS to move costs into dedicated project budgets.  Joy.  Now I get to do a review of actual consultant rates versus what's in Project Server.

[Chimpy]

In the ER with likely appendicitis. Never a fun place to be but at least they have me on morphine already.

[Phildo]

Don't forgot to post a lot while you're on drugs.

[Chimpy]

Acute appendicitis it is. Going to be getting it snipped out later today it sounds like.

[WayAbvPar]

I always find it relieving when I get a firm diagnosis of something like that. Half the discomfort is from worry. Is it meningitis? Scoliosis? Lupus!?!? Is it lupus??

[Samwise]

It's never lupus.