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Stein, Stein, everywhere there's Stein

LOL

Well not really. On paper, yes. In practice, no. It takes months and months. And then you have to document, write up Performance Improvement Plans, and go through a million hoops. I’ve had to fire 3 employees over the years. The last one took 10 months to get the process completed start to finish.

Lol. Have to feed the family. I make way too much to walk. But yea, a lot of the lab folks have talked about “working from home” for about 6 weeks and see how long it takes to get this crap gone when the lab work doesn’t get done.

I work for a pharma company. Lol Anti science is right though. But it’s not us scientists making these decisions. It’s the lawyers and business types. They’ll follow the CDC guidelines as a CYA. If the cdc dropped the color coded non sense, we wouldn’t be doing it. I’m hoping this orange level only lasts a few weeks. Reminds me of the silly terror alert levels we used to have 15 years ago. All it’s doing is driving everyone back home again, except us that have to work onsite because we have no choice. That 10.1 number is what did it. Yesterday it was 9.7 and we were fine. It went to 10.1 this morning and we got the email at 2:30 this afternoon we were back in masks. Oh well.

I’m just tired of the masking. Nowhere else do I have to wear it. I think this time the compliance will be pretty low. Get past security and they’ll come down. I’m not sitting there again 8 hours a day in a mask. Fook that. And the hybrid folks will be gone again. Not like there were many back anyway. This will drive them home again. Mask 8 hours a day? Or Zoom in shorts and barefoot and outside in May/June.

So my 401 is down 200k since Jan ‘21, unsightly’s can now go topless on Nantucket, and worst of all, my company put us back in masks an hour ago. Mandatory. But we can sit together and eat lunch for an hour until we go back in the lab or at our desk. All hybrid employees can use their own judgement as to how safe it is to come in to the office. Im praying we go back yellow soon. It was a great 7 weeks maskless though.

He hates running in the cold. But he doesn't do distance. He does for conditioning, but he's a sprinter. 100 m and 4x100. Its over in less than 12 seconds (hopefully). To sprint you gotta get loose or you'll get hurt.

Hopefully 70 pans out here. Murky and damp here. 53. YUCK The Boys track meet got postponed until tomorrow. He ran last Wednesday in Marlboro. It was 52, gusty and miserable. They got there at 3:30 but didn't run until after 5 when the throwers got through. By then they are all cold and stiff. Times were way off. He usually runs 11.7-ish 100 m, but he was at 12 flat. Everyone else was slow too.

This month so far reinforces my strong thoughts that April blows. If I could leave NE for part of the year I'd go mid March to mid May. Those 60 days are ass. I have zero use for cloudy and 48-52 for a high.

Got sun on my nape yesterday. Today not so much. May is a week from today and it’s still deep stick season here. Even the early maples are still pretty much in stick mode. Oaks say it’s January. I was at 30 degrees I think Wednesday morning

Graupel!!

Stein, Stein, everywhere there's Stein

Framingham to 128 on the pike was bad. People doing 80, then hit the snow. Was so heavy that vis was down to maybe 500 yards at one point. 80 mph to 20 in about 20 seconds. Slick, and absolutely no treatment.

Wrath of Khan Chekov action.

Even covid talk beats this

Tip's spring starts in February when the sun starts to warm his nape through the car window. (truth be told, mine too)

Yes, I picnic was an understatement. How bout…was a shyte sandwich dripping with runny rhea?

It’ll come down. I wouldn’t be a buyer at these prices. You’ll be stuck underwater like people were that bought into a high housing market 14-15 years ago.

First day at work in almost 2 years with no mask. It was awesome.

I bought mine in 2008 right during the bust. Paid 450. Got the mortgage down to 175. I’ll pay it off in -5 more. House up the street is almost like mine and on the market. They want 730 and will most likely get it.

Memorial Day last year was no picnic. Neither was July 4th. And I remember 2005. Wife was out of town. Had my sites set on 3 days of golf. Nope!

Best news ive heard in a week, maybe a month

Different wells than oil. Geological formations are different. The north east has very little natural gas available. No pipelines like there are in other parts of the country. That's why we have so much heating oil. Outside of the north east and pockets here and there, nobody else knows what heating oil is. New nuclear tech isn't like the old 3 mile island, chernobyl, etc. Smaller plants can be built and the tech is much better. No electricity anywhere in the US should be generated by fossil fuel. save that for gas and diesel. Nuclear plants should supply most of our power.