General chit chat and shit talk.

Heading to Boston in a little while for the Red Sox game. Looks like a good evening weather wise. This is my first game of the year, usually I've been to a couple by now. Here's a view from my seat:


Go Sox!!
 
Heading to Boston in a little while for the Red Sox game. Looks like a good evening weather wise. This is my first game of the year, usually I've been to a couple by now. Here's a view from my seat:


Go Sox!!
I’ll be there a week from Friday unless we get demolished by that fucking storm system in the Atlantic.
 
I’ll be there a week from Friday unless we get demolished by that fucking storm system in the Atlantic.


The downside of living on a pool table in the heart of hurricane alley....
 
The downside of living on a pool table in the heart of hurricane alley....
I would have to work 12-hour shifts at our command center until all power and water is restored. I don’t like baseball, but I’d rather watch the Sox at Fenway than coordinate outage response and outreach.
 
I would have to work 12-hour shifts at our command center until all power and water is restored. I don’t like baseball, but I’d rather watch the Sox at Fenway than coordinate outage response and outreach.


Let me guess.....


You're salaried, rather than hourly, so it's a double nut punch.
 
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It really isn't all that bad. I'm a night owl to begin with anyways.
 
I'm sure it was really worth it ....

The herd gets a little thinner..



View: https://youtu.be/OC-cK2hS0-o


Every day we see perplexing, sometimes downright depressing stories about road rage in different parts of the US. But this one out of Highland, California is especially bad after a motorcyclist and driver got into a minor accident, then decided to shoot each other in a parking lot, both of them dying.


It all started on the 210 Freeway the night of July 27 as the motorcycle was lane splitting, a legal practice in California, but clipped the car as it passed. Instead of stopping to exchange information, the rider allegedly kept going, reports ABC7.

Angry, the driver followed and there was some sort of exchange between the two. Both vehicles exited the freeway and pulled into a parking lot. That’s when a confrontation exploded and both men pulled out guns, shooting each other.

Neither the motorcyclist nor the driver survived their wounds.

What’s even more tragic is the driver had his two young children, ages 2 and 5, in the backseat of the car. Those kids probably saw their father gunned down and now get to grow up without him. All that over a minor accident on the freeway.

We know people don’t think things through often when they get angry while driving on roads. Tempers flare, brains stop processing, and that’s when stupid actions are taken by one or both parties. Sometimes lives are altered forever and often over something rather trivial.

Everyone needs to have a way to either stay calm while behind the wheel or to calm themselves if their temper does flare. Count to ten, listen to soft music, go to therapy, or whatever else works – just don’t get into road rage fights. Far too often they lead to serious violence like in this case and that needs to stop.
 


But you can't trust the local stuff!



- U.S. Government agencies
 
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