powderfreak

Red Sox game was a dumpster fire. Hats off to A's pitcher who made his first MLB start. Sox had several chances to put up a crooked number.

Absolutely. They will go where ever there is food. As more and more places further north bear-proof their dumpsters, they will need to move into new habitats. It's sad in a way, but they are pretty smart creatures that are much larger than they are aggressive. After you are close to them a couple times and they pay you no attention, they feel like deer. There's definitely a fear that they become large raccoons. Can't blame them when humans have all these easily accessible calories in the trash/compost. These millennial bears will do whatever is easiest, crushing the greasy pizza crusts in the trash. The older bears prefer to work hard for their berries and small bites of bland vegetation.

He's such a likeable main character that evolves over time, you really start to pull for him... not an asshole, always trying to do the right thing, respectful, good disposition but also lives on the fringes of society and ethics. Just gets better as it goes on, which is what makes it a great series.

Took me a bit to get into that, but loved it. Wife and I couldn’t stop watching by the 3rd season. Fantastic show.

That thought process sent every single kid to college for two or three decades and here we are. Now today’s conversation has come full circle and we can move back to talking about coins .

We need more snow in our lives for sure.

If you read this thread it’s almost shocking that any of you under the age of 30-35 could possibly be a hard worker, ha. A time honored tradition where older generations think younger generations are full of flaws. Things change, circumstances change... the blame game goes way back, I remember decades ago my now 98 year old grandfather thought my parents generation was worthless and weak because they had so many conveniences and didn’t come of age during a Great Depression. Life was extremely easy for you he always said about Boomers and Gen X... now boomers say it about millennials. I’m sure in 20-30 years we’ll be talking about how useless the Gen Z crew is. It goes on and on.

Damn, 40s in Raleigh in the daytime in May... that’s what the valleys were up here yesterday.

Haha. Is this something that resulted from an insurance settlement or something? Risk Management and Insurance had to settle one too many slip and falls on spills? So the insurance carrier asked "what are you going to do about it?" and the answer was "we can't have employees everywhere at every time!" So they created an action plan to reduce insurance costs and came up with a robot to detect spills to save some $$$ on the insurance premium, ha. That's what that sounds like to me.

Turning into a nice day as the clouds start to lift and break up. On another note, there are a lot of bookend season snows where the snow level finds the spruce line vs. the hardwoods. It's always interesting to me how nature works that way. The vegetation knows.

Have you not listened to anything I've written? You're right, we are currently at this moment in competition with the gov't assistance to get people to work. Everyone is vastly understaffed around here too... can't find them. So that's why incentives and pay are rising. I sit all day long in discussions about how to attract staff... increasing employee housing, wages, benefits. My wife has it top of mind every day as she can barely staff. She probably works 15 more hours a week right now than she did prior to the pandemic because she's stuck doing tasks part-timer older folks used to help with as a way to get out of the house a few days a week. We all can't wait till the unemployment assistance ends to see what happens. I think you seem to think I agree with a lot of this stuff... I don't have an opinion on it, I just know what needs to happen to get people in our doors working for us. And grabbing them off the street and forcing them to work doesn't work in the good ol' U.S. of A. I would highly recommend not going into hospitality or restaurant business as it will drive you batshit crazy. Can't shame or force people to work for you to operate your business. That attitude doesn't get bodies in the door.

Bingo. You get it. This is what I've been saying all along. We aren't talking emotional or fair.... it's just how the world works. If people don't want to work for you, you need to do something to get them. Not stand there and tell them they are lazy or shame them for not taking your crappy job, ha. Incentives, bonuses for staying on for 6 months, full benefits for even part-time workers, etc. All that is starting to happen.

My large pizza costs $20+ bucks here already. But wages are up too and the Piecasso pizza has no shortage of staff, place seems to have excess staff. No surprise. This is what I paid $100 grand to learn in my ECON degree . The entire world is run on economic theory. Incentives and disincentives. If you remove emotion from it, it's all very simple.

Generation doesn't matter. Circumstance does. All decisions come with negative externalities, obviously keeping the larger economy afloat with unemployment assistance was chosen knowing that there would be a labor shortage bleeding out on the end of it, affecting those who pay low wages primarily. Pretty soon that'll be over but human behavior will never change... circumstance dictates behavior. Just like wages and demand for trades right now. People will head that way because it's seen to be lucrative. I still believe there's a wave of change and reallocation coming in the service industries over the next decade or two.

A couple inches on the Snow Cam last night.

Just budget your restaurant to pay the dishwasher $23/hr with full benefits and health care, line cooks get 6 weeks PTO... you'll find employees . Ducking and running now...

Like the Trail Crew and Snowmaking team at a ski resort. Go spend a week with them and you can barely walk at the end of it. Dragging equipment by hand, cutting trees, moving deadfall, rocks... spend a 12 hour shift moving giant heavy hoses around trails all winter. Those guys have to burn like 2,000 calories a shift .

Picnic tables picked up a couple inches of snow overnight with upslope flow. Rain everywhere else. Hopefully we can Stein it for a while, enough of the wet gloomy weather. Let’s go full Arizona for a month.

A fresh coating of snow on the snow cam board this evening. Good ol’ May upslope precip bubbling up into the Spine.

Oh for sure. Love snowflakes, ha. Not a fan of 44F rain... much rather go find snowflakes or have it be 60+ degrees. Will’s always said that and it resonates... if it’s going to be shitty, might as well see some flakes.

July 4th for VT... it’s not science but the start of the summer tourism season. Celebrate your freedom from COVID regs .

Hiked the dog up to 2,400ft and it’s snowing lightly. Feels like October... not a fan but if it’s going to be cold, might as well see flakes. Can see the snow level by the visibility change under the ridge across the valley.

Further west at SLK... dipping to 37F in the last half hour. The evaporational cooling with these showers is pretty impressive. METAR KSLK 112020Z AUTO 27008KT 7SM -RA SCT031 BKN040 OVC050 03/01 A2993 RMK P0001

Had accumulating graupel too on elevated surfaces and the mulch beds. Temp outside the office got down to 41F in precip, lol. Then sun comes out and it’s 50F again.

Given all the stories over the years, I feel like he’s probably invested way more than that already. Now trying something that might actually be rewarding.