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I dont want to see it or hear it! PERIOD! We have built in text messaging in all of our systems. IMing is fine. Texting a No-No. :whip: That is an understandable policy. I don't like and for the most part won't talk on my phone while at my desk unless it is my wife and I am in the middle of something where I can talk. Now back to the story. They were sending pictures of each other on work e-mail? Dumb. Dumb. Dumb, Edit: just reread the story, the pics were from somewhere else. But talk about executing a plan.

What he said!

MTS I am curious on the cellphone policy? I understand your no PDA/Cell usage in a meeting policy (although I love the fact that my boss(es) have blackberries when they are meetings/offsite all day otherwise I would be waiting for an answer) but what is the ground rules for your cell phone in the office? Out of sight and ringer turned off or do have a total prohibition?

That reminded of me when years ago I used to visit Fark.com and they had a tag strictly for Floridia stories since so much F'd up stuff happened there. That story is pure Florida.

It has taken me 6 weeks to get through the first 4 weeks of the program. I haven't been dieting so I haven't had the startling results with weight loss but I was pretty active before I started so i have stayed about the same weight but I have noticed a change in my physique. The series of workouts really do work your whole body. It really has shown me how lacking my old workout routine was. It has really helped my running too, because I have been doing most of the cardio workouts which involve a lot of jumping barefoot, so my feet and lower legs are way stronger than before. If I can focus on diet for a couple of weeks while continuing the program I should be able to get the startling results (or at least noticiable). I find it is always a lot easier for me to lose weight in the Sept to Nov time period because there is generally nothing going on.

Umm I just noticed that I don't have any ads and my stars are the silver twirling kind? Dan B I want my ads!

Rob, I hope that you are feeling better and everything goes well at your follow up appointment. BTW what is FW?

That is a ton of weight to lose that fast. Do you know what your body fat % is right now? I just curious because I am 5' 11" too but the last time I saw the south side of 175 lbs I was a senior in highschool and had to starve my self to make weight at 171 for wrestling (after 2 years at 189lb). My healthy weight is around 190lb where my body fat is right around 8%-10%. I obviously have a thick muscular frame. Currently my workout routine is P90x dvds and running. I am running the river run half marathon on Sept 13th, which is the Browns opener. That should make for an interesting afternoon....

Well you can already be cranky so you are halfway there. But that is awful that you had to quit cold turkey, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do. I'd take health over coffee any day. I did get a lecture once from a Red Cross nurse when I gave blood because my blood pressure was through the roof because of coffee and lack of sleep. It freaked me out. It sounds like you were seriously addicted to coffee. My large coffee comsumption has more to do with my lifestyle with kids and 11 hour work days. On vacation I was only drinking two cups in the morning and that was it.

Just a sarcastic remark that popped into my head... "She probably shouldn't have agreed to do a shot for every point the Browns scored. Usually that it safe bet, who knew?"

Well I started in Jr high! Just kidding. I really started drinking coffee when I had summer job between sophmore and junior years of high school that started at 7:30 in the morning after being up late every night. When you have to stay awake you have to stay awake. Coffee works period plus it gives you that minty fresh breath that everyone loves....

R&R Your tuna salad sounds yummy.

14 cups? Were you gulping it? I probably have between 6-10 cups (would that be 8oz? servings) A nice big mug on the hour commute, another large around ten and then another at around three. And maybe a cup at home around 7 at night. If I were to double that I would freak out and be stuck to the ceiling. Sneak some decaf in there.

I find it kind of funny that after this restoration the building will be the original color for a lot longer than it was when it was originally built. The level of soot in the Cleveland air in the 1910's had to been intense. Like that it had to be built with bright red brick because anything darker would have looked black in ten years. Mayor how about telling us how you really feel :-D BTW I reread this entire thread this morning. Keep up the good work guys (and handful of girls)!

I kind of like the look of brick for the first 3 or 4 stories and then glass towers. It has a nice feel to it, old and historic at street level but modern and sleek going up towards the sky. I noticed that they aren't including a buildin in the parking lot between the National terminal Building and Bingham any more. As far as parking goes, even though there are a lot of surface lots (plus one two level parking lot), and I would need to do the math but I would think that two parking garages would have the same amount of parking spaces. Residents should be fine, commuters are going to b!tch and moan. I seem to remember that one of these sets of plans had the parking structure internal to the block with the buildings on the perimeter.

What do you do to people who wear Crocs? Open the trap door to the Alligator Pit? AJ are you an engineer by chance?

Ooh a butcher knife? Nice. Worst I ever had thrown at me was hairbrush by my sister that barely missed my head and stuck in the wall. My little brother was just uber annoying, he is 6 years younger than me so naturally we hated each other. I am just lucky that he was no where as creative as MTS. He started to like me when he discovered drinking and realized that I could buy beer.

In my building white tennis shoes seem to be for the women over 40, I see a lot of younger women in flip-flops on their way to work.

What happens in a gentrified community to a retiree who's house value and taxes go up and they're unable to afford the rate on a fixed income? how about a family that has been living in the home and just scraping by renting it and now the landlord kicks them out to get a higher rent or to sell the building? What about the relocation of the poor to neighboring areas that brings that neighborhood down? None of those things are illegal...but some of them could involve the questionable ethical treatment of other people who may not have the resources to fight. The first issue is a public policy issue to cap the tax increases in order to keep long time residents in the area. Traditionally this has not been a problem in Ohio, but I know states such as Maryland have such caps. The second one to me is one of the risks of being a renter. It may suck but it is part of the equation of renting, the upside to renting is that you have the option to move anytime your lease is up with out worrying about having to sell the apartment/condo/house.

No way!, Now I wished I had watched the game.

MTS..That is pretty twisted... Edit: I am the oldest out of three BTW.

Here are a couple of things that I think. I work in the utility field so I am going with what I know. I think there should be a minimum level of of coverage for everone regulated but not supplied by the government. There are two options for this both would probably require some sort of socialized tax rate, money distributed to the insurance companies by a governing agency. 1.Regulated monopoly, insurance companies would cover everyone one in a segment (state, region, some other grouping) in return for a regulated level of profit (return) and reimbursement of prudently incurred expenses. The cost savings would come when the regulators would review the expenses when approving the new rates. 2.Market Based Auction where the entire eligible population would be divide into traunches composed of a cross section of similar demographics (ie theroretically same amount risk) and would bid into auction to provide insurance coverage for 3-5 years at a time. After the 3-5 years the traunches would be rebalanced and the auction repeated. This should provide lower costs and stability to costs by forcing the Insurance Companies to bid low enough to win. Both of those methods require arbitrary hurdles to healthcare to be eliminated, your insurance should work at any doctor or hospital in the US. Unless they are entirely private and opt out of the Insurance system.

I never remember being impressed by Sears clothing either, unless you count Toughskins(?) jeans when I was four that had reinforced knees.... I can't speak for their tools but I know the Kenmore appliances are mostly made by other manufactures now. However my retired neighbors next door still have a 30+ year old 40-in wide Kenmore range with duel ovens and a built in griddle that is still going strong and puts most ranges today to shame.

I understand the difference between what they sell at the above stores and the stores on say...Madison Avenue. It's great if you can afford to pay top dollar, but how can a shirt--any shirt--unless it's made with gold thread and platinum buttons (can you imagine??)--be worth $600?!?! It's just not possible. Please explain. It makes you invincible? Seriously though I basically consider the cost of a custom tailored shirt to be the limit. Whatever that may cost in your city. After that you are paying for hype.

I will second (or third) that the baby furniture from Ikea is sturdy and a good deal. Part of the sturdyness is that they don't try and cram all of the features into a crib that the other manufactures do. More moving parts equals more problems. Our house is a mish mash. Spent the money on good couches that will hold up to three boys and two large dogs, lots of antique or hand me downs. Ikea bedroom furniture in our room that hasn't held up too well, probably because it was moved 4 times. I have been happy with the World Market assemble it your self furniture, it genuinely seems to be sturdy if put together correctly, our kitchen table is from there. I have a 100 year old dining room table that I need to get out of storage at my wife's grandmothers.