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Addiction LXXIX

Old 08-24-20, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by LAJ
Positive thoughts, Bill! You getting some new used cadaver bits, or are they going a different route? A friend went down hard, and it took a Vail doctor to get him going, using stuff from other people.
No, just needle and thread and some plastic anchors is my understanding.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
31 years with a soulless megagovernment.
At the end of this year I will have 21 years and two months with the railroad.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
At the end of this year I will have 21 years and two months with the railroad.
So it can't be too bad. Did they give you a lapel pin or something at 10 and 20?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
You just had a surgery.
Yeah, hernia, last month. This should wrap up all my elective procedures, hopefully forever. #Icandream
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Sometimes timing is everything.

I was walking back from lunch today when I saw a woman trying to get change out of the parking kiosk across the street from my building entrance. I think she was not wearing pants, only a long t-shirt that came down mid-thigh. My bike was parked 20' away. Being a savvy city boy, I had good idea of what was likely to happen next. Sure enough, she drifted over to my bike and started to unzip my saddle bag. I quickly put a stop to her actions. You don't **** with a man's saddle bag.
She wanted your tire levers?!?
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
At the end of this year I will have been working all the live-long day with the railroad.
fixed for fun
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Old 08-24-20, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I’m coming up on 15 years with a soulless megacorp.
I did 31 with another soulless megacorp . . . so long as they keep that pension coming I can bury the rage. (keep those phone bills paid.)
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
At the end of this year I will have 21 years and two months with the railroad.
I was at my last job, the one I retired from, for 21 years and 2 months. I had 11 managers while I was there but the last one brought 4 mechanics and 2 advisors with him and that manager was brought in by a new general manager who used to work with him. I'm fine with all that as long as things are fair but they weren't.

They thought they body-snatched a guy to replace me when I said I was retiring so they did nothing to encourage me to stay until that guy ultimately backed out. By then I was so sick of their crap I wouldn't even listen to their offer to keep me on. I could have asked for a 50% raise and they probably would have given it to me, but I had to get out of there.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Good luck you will still be able to beat me and Vol in basketball. The Sharpsville area is not known for its basketball. Just awesome other things...
Such as?
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Old 08-24-20, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by big john
There is a street in L.A. that is 33% and there is an event there every year where people try to climb it. Years ago you just did it on your regular road bike but now it's mountain bikes and even bikes which are purpose built for the event with super low gears.
A friend went straight up it on a 42x23 around 1990. A few years ago I went there (to watch) with a friend who trains juniors and one of his racers went up seemingly effortlessly 3 or 4 times on a 39x23.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAbRTcwhNI
Slalom is the only way for most human beings.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Is that a piano in the next room?
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Slalom is the only way for most human beings.
I know! That's why I was so surprised to see the junior track racer ascend with such ease. I've never tried it, public humiliation is not my thing. I've climbed a short 23% section a few times and that was plenty. Really, 15% is plenty.
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Originally Posted by datlas
She wanted your tire levers?!?
Well...They are Pedro's levers, which are the best. There are also two tubes, a chuck and a spoke wrench inside. Not sure if that would be enough for a hit.
Many years ago someone stole my bag while my bike was locked up outside the office. It easily clipped on and off a bracket. Forgot to remove it one morning. It was gone when I left work. There is hardly anyone in my part of center city these days. One of the unexpected downsides to this pandemic is that I now have to open the door for myself at the Wawa around the corner. A such, I didn't bother removing the bag today.
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Oh, remember the picture yesterday and my concern about standing water at the construction site? My township engineer tells me that this is a SEDIMENT BASIN which is different from a DETENTION BASIN. The sediment basin is designed to capture all the sediment and crap from the construction site, and may not necessarily drain quickly, while a sediment basin should drain within a few days. I am not quite sure if it's kosher for a sediment basin to have stagnant water in it for several days, but apparently that can happen.

The good news is that once the development is finished, the basin will be converted to a detention basin so the skeeters may be with us just this year.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Oh, remember the picture yesterday and my concern about standing water at the construction site? My township engineer tells me that this is a SEDIMENT BASIN which is different from a DETENTION BASIN. The sediment basin is designed to capture all the sediment and crap from the construction site, and may not necessarily drain quickly, while a sediment basin should drain within a few days. I am not quite sure if it's kosher for a sediment basin to have stagnant water in it for several days, but apparently that can happen.

The good news is that once the development is finished, the basin will be converted to a detention basin so the skeeters may be with us just this year.
Probably a retention basin, not detention.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Probably a retention basin, not detention.
Maybe. Wikipedia tells me retention basin keeps water long term, while detention basin just keeps it for a couple days.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Probably a retention basin, not detention.
Unless they're trying to punish the water for something.
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Unless they're trying to punish the water for something.
Keeping it after school.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Maybe. Wikipedia tells me retention basin keeps water long term, while detention basin just keeps it for a couple days.

Interesting. Most architects around here call detention basins retention basins. Guess the EPA has some education to do

Some just call them stormwater basins, I guess that's the easiest way to go.
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Nope, arthroscopic tendon repair on the rotator cuff. It's hanging on by a couple of threads he says.
I'll be rooting for you! Good luck!
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Originally Posted by datlas
No, it's WAY more convoluted.

I am now a partner and own 1/31st of the practice. The practice is being split into a medical group and a medical services organization or MSO. My group will own 49% of the MSO which is essentially the guts of the practice including all non-billable providers, plus all infrastructure. We retain ownership of the medical group which is what's left after the MSO. The medical group has to pay 20% of its net revenue to the MSO. It's a house of cards and I had to skim over 500 pages of documents to get a sense of the details. But to answer your question, I will NOT be an employee I will be a partner in the medical group which is obligated to work with the MSO. It's the MSO where all the stuff will happen in the future.
My head hurts after reading that.
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President flew into Charlotte today, causing the airport to shut down twice. Getting home has just now become more difficult.

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Originally Posted by datlas
The new normal for physicians is to be a cog in a machine and just work.

The newer doctors have no idea that the healthcare organizations are billing the work they do at outrageous inflated rates and then accepting pennies on the dollar from most insurance companies yet harassing the uninsured and out-of-network patients. We don't do that because we own the organization. But the times are changing. I won't say much more for fear of getting into P&R, but the bottom line is that 20+ years ago most doctors went to work for themselves or for a doctor owned group, but now the vast majority are working for a system and have become employees. That solves some problems but creates others.
I feel for doctors. I've told stories here about my own family practitioner whom I really liked, same age as me, and I started with him when he was a fresh new doc. He gave me Hell when I retired young and then 10 years later, told me that he couldn't take it anymore and was hanging it up. I felt so sorry for him because he started off owning his own shingle and then became a part of the big machine, too. A lot of changes since our relationship started way back when.
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