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Fill ’em up, and we’ll make another.
Wow, this morning is going to be a long morning for me. I’m taking off a bit early today & getting kiddo out of school a bit early so that we can hook up the boat & get on the road to Devils Lake. The walleye aren’t really biting anywhere right now, but hopefully we can coax them out of their slumber & land a few.
We’re only two days away until Vikings football, as the Vikings will host the Cardinals on Sunday. Kickoff is at noon, unless the game would happen to get flexed to a prime time spot. This is unlikely, but you never know. I expect to see a fairly close game. Now, I expect the Cardinals get a lot of yards on Sunday, but if the Vikings defense can continue to prevent them from converting those yards into a lot of points, then the offense SHOULD be able to do enough to help the Vikings to get the W. I really hope the offense can figure out a way to “click”, as they have yet to put together a complete game this season. This would be a perfect week to get it figured out. Just win, baby. SKOL!!!!!!!!!!
Minnesota Vikings News:
From Vikings.com, Justin Jefferson says that they’re confident going into this game knowing that they haven’t played their best football yet. Also, they share all the ways you can watch or listen to Sunday’s Vikings-Cardinals game.
Check out Week 8 Skoldiers’ Spreads: Cardinals @ Vikings.
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Here to kick off this Friday, it’s the great George Jones. Enjoy!
b Rad was so excited about taking the runtling to the lake of the Devil, he didn’t post a weekend thread.
In spite of that it’s the weekend. Skolly is off to the inlaws for the golden shower, KFEY is working at the bar w.no pussy and bRad is off to the lake of the devil.
Thank goodness Jobu has our back and MT made it through gina pox.
So we´ll use this one as the weekend thread. Unless Mick or someone can post a new one.
Here’s how fucked of a coach Zim was…so self involved. Explains a lot about how this team just didn’t perform.
Lol….Dalvin was so baked at this game…
LOL, he does look pretty baked in this pic
Lol panthers only one game out for NFC south lead 😂
Living here in NC naturally Panther fans around and I was making fun of their GM saying we’re still competing for a playoff run after McCaffery was traded but I’ll be dammed he’s right they’re right in the thick of it.
They could beat us if Jobu leaves
I don’t get the chase clay pool chatter: sounds semi legit too.
we’re not paying both him and JJ… impossible.
all bs, don’t need anybody on offense, defense another story, we suck bad
Oh it’s true lol….
https://twitter.com/queencapybaraiv/status/1586024151210463233?s=61&t=ASrCy_sJCxT_sVjQA-rawA
Suppose it’s time to break out the blaze orange. Deer may break in to hunting shack.
Haven’t you learned by now that Orange Man Bad! lol
Yeah, maybe blaze blue. I’ll look into it.
Go get em chief, kill or be killed
Guess I shouldn’t be all that surprised. I know there is a repository of the floor murals for the dorms I lived in back in undergrad living on Flickr, I knew one of the years listed a bunch of our full names. I was thinking I wonder what happened to that a-hole that knocked me out with a right cross in a pick-up hockey game…oh yeah what’s he up to…probably an axe murderer…stumbled across a eulogy he gave for a guy that (get this) he met on 5H (my floor for three years). I remembered they were buds and that the deceased and one other guy absolutely slaughtered me and a fourth guy at 2 on 2 basketball one weekend, had to pay beer money out, etc.
Anyhow, so the a-hole and the Michael Jordan type roomed together for five years after living in dorms, beyond college. I had no idea.
The whole TL;DR part of my story which was of some interest was that 3 of the 20-some guys on the floor he said had died in the eulogy. Of course since I haven’t set foot in Edmonton in decades I have no contact with anyone but still struck me that 3 and possibly more early 50’s guys had died out of 20.
Never know with that kind of thing. I have watched it w/different grades from my school
Seems weird with the lymphoma thing…a high school friend that I kissed but didn’t date (so I don’t want to make her haunt me for calling her a girlfriend) died of it…a girl I dated my first summer back home from college died of it, and two of the guys living in that dorm wing back in 86-87. Cancer, sigh.
Yeah being from WVa where there are some of the highest rates of cancers in the nation with things like lymphoma, lupus etc because of the chemical plants like Union Carbide and DuPont. So many people I grew up with dead.
Inbred hillbillies work dangerous for cheap. Had one client from there. Worked in the chemical plant. Expected to be dead by 55 due to toxic exposure.
these people aren’t inbred lol and they make 6 figures working in these plants it was always coveted jobs to get…but naturally with a huge cost. Death.
My examples aren’t even plant workers just citizens living in the greater counties around these plants. Exposer to leaks, ground water and toxic vapor that’s why cancer rates are so high.
Yep, bad stuff. Better than 50 years ago but still bad.
HS friend dead at 23 from it, decades and decades ago. I think of him often
When is light and dark up there?
right now before the time change, 9;30 am to 6:30 pm, losing an hour a week. 9-5 in a week
One of my college roommates died back in July. I had lost contact with him, but saw in in our school flyer this month. He was in his late 50s.
Mine college buddy died in 20. Diagnosed in Dec 1 and dead March 1. Ugly.
Just went to a memorial of a high school classmate who died of stroke complications.
It was no fun getting a run-down of the complications.
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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Always nice to start the weekend with a win… local hockey team just beat some Italian squad, we had a few beers with sister-in-law and her family and lot of fun. Any hockey games worth watching tonight in the NHL?
Avs vs devils is about it. Rest are lopsided games
Thanks Skolly, might check that one out.
Well tomorrow night the upcoming Stanley Cup champions will hand the Flames only their second L of the season in their own barn.
Did you see my story of trying to tell the Italian exchange student staying with my stepdaughter my dream place to visit in Italy?
Thanks MT, I´m sure the Oilers will do just fine.
I had read that you had an Italian exchange student around, the one properly brainwashed by the Italian/EU education system to auto-hate Meloni? Must have missed that particular story though, sorry.
Oh, I don’t know how you could have missed it, it was so @excellent@.
I have always wanted to visit the five towns on the Italian Riviera, near La Spezia. Since the student was from Pisa, I assumed she was familiar with them. Several times in casual conversation, I would bring it up and she would say I don’t know this place. I’m sure she found it odd.
I of course pronounced Cinque Terre the French way, but looked up the Italian pronunciation which is singk teh-ruh. Nope.
Finally one day she said maybe you can show me on a map? I pulled it up on my iPhone. It was so classic, (you have to picture an Italian teenager saying this), she said “OH! You mean shayn-quah teh-ruh!” It was so perfectly Italian. Of course she has been there often.
LOL, great story!
I have found that native English speakers have a hard time pronouncing certain phonemes from other languages, maybe that got in the way.
Hope you get to visit Cinque Terre one day, never have been there myself so far, would love to go as well some day.
Well she did say that we could stay at their guest house, which is the same house as their house, only across the street and it is only a short drive to Napoli and Florence.
Sounds good, take her up on that offer.
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People don’t realize we would be 0-6 without Jobu.
Think most of us see what’s going on.
Yes, we have been the luckiest team in the nfl, by a mile. Yet you tell our luck to get fucked. Bad juju.
Not caught up on luck. Prob a playoff, one and done. I’m a realist. Prob have to be the NFCN.
If they eliminated some of the bone headed play calls, evolve some plays to try and take some shots down field that’s primarily what the offense needs and that’s well within reason.
Defense worries me a bit more as we saw against the power house offense. Not sure outside of Hunter starting to beast a lot more, Wonnum getting more snaps and continuing to develop. I’m actually pretty impressed with our secondary and run defense is what it is bend don’t break.
They are lucky, can’t argue. Seen some improvements, more fun to win. Any tee times left?
Defense is bottom 3 and offense is below average. Jobu is all we have. We stay healthy and every other team missing 10 guys, we could go a long way.
Cards injury list
Take 9 random guys off the Vikes, like last season, and I wonder if we would suck more?
is conner their normal starting back?
Ya they’re out starting RB and center. LT is wuestionable
Their secondary also has 3 out/questionable guys who were starting.
48 – 10 The Purple Guys
You must have forgotten we suck and will only win due to turnovers and penalties. It will be very close.
But Jobu will be strong with us on Sunday
Exactly, which is why will suck, yet still win.
Fuck Jobu.
He must want us to win as many games as we deserve by our quality of play. We would be 0-6 if not for Jobu.
Expect more injuries during the game, like the Lions. Jobu will see us through
ill probably miss most the game. Wife and I visiting my in-laws for her baby shower and then Sunday we’re celebrating their 50 year anniversary so we’re going out to lunch right at noon…
What?!?!?!?
How can you miss a Viking game? Funny story, back in ’87, game 7 of the world series AND my sister in laws wedding at the same time (for those of you “yutes” out there, Twins / Cardinals). I went to the ceremony, first hour of the reception, then was home for the opening pitch.
I think it was the start of the end of my marriage. But the good guys won!
Go to brunch, better selection, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
You don’t go to the baby shower I hope. Good time to have a few w/the FIL.
1 keep Murray in the pocket
2 put Patrick Peterson on DeAndre Hopkins
3 throw lots / abandon the run if it’s not working
4 win the game
5 Score more points than the Cardinals.
Should pretty much do the trick, if they can pull it off.
Teams don’t even bother running on AZ they’re so bad in pass D. Keeping Murray in the pocket isn’t so easy. I predict a 23-23 final score.
34-35 Jobu. Cards have 5 turnovers in the game and 4 defensive penalties on final game winning drive by Vikes
but they got rid if PP so they are better than we are, lol
Step 1: Collect underpants.
Step 3: Profit.
LOL
they actually have fair elections there
LOL. Treated myself to the $7 cafeteria special. As good as momma used to make.
Honestly, that looks good, Id wreck that whole meal.
Five “low grade dog food”
It is really good.
Yum.
For $7 that looks quite impressive.
They take the $22,000 IV billing and put it into a cafeteria subsidy, lol
Damn LFA, I keep forgetting you are one of the sharper tacks in the box.
Hopefully the 200k IV comes with a complimentary meal.
Ok, I actually laughed out loud at that one.
It is seriously among the best deals on the planet. I have no idea how they do it. The CEO had his monthly “do you still love us” meeting with me on Wednesday and one of the things I mentioned is whatever you are doing with that cafeteria keep it up. I also asked for a new MRI, with they way inflation is I think a couple of Thanksgiving dinners should cover the cost.
LOL, surprised you didn’t ask for a raise!
20% annual already bult into his contract
I don’t tell many lies on here. One thing I am not lying about is the amount I get paid per RVU (a number assigned to a given work unit based on a variety of factors) has not changed since I started working in 2010. Therefore, I have never received a “raise”.
I have had some radiologist clients. Not the last 5 years though. I know a couple made $600-800K all based on volume. Basically piece work. You busy you make $$, you post on skol holes, maybe less, lol.
Correct. The incremental increase in my compensation over time has solely been a result of increased productivity which is driven by increased demand for imaging interpretation. But no raises. Hence the problem with wage compression that is occurring in medicine right now. I would have to be insane to do what I do and get compensated the same as an NP seeing a dozen ambulatory patients a day.
Problem is people don’t want to die or have their loved ones die so the gvt stepped in and made a mess of things
Which is what the government always does, about the only thing they are REALLY good at.
The only thing they haven’t messed up in my lifetime is WW2. And since I wasn’t yet born during WW2…
yep
Have they increased the price of your work and cut you out?
Depends, the feds determine medical payments in many cases.
BIA pays 5% of costs, costs.
Well boys and girls, I need to decide what to do with my life. As some of you may remember from earlier this year, my current job is winding down. I was supposed to be done at the end of June, but they had another big project for me to do. I will be done with that sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Here are my options.
Obviously number 4 is the correct answer, but I suppose I should at least look like I’m mulling the other options over a bit.
If you love books and therefore your book business then stay with that.
“If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
I always saw my army life as an ‘adventure’, don’t regret a day of it.
Send me some info on your book biz?
[email protected]
i’m so gonna spam your email now
Can’t be worse than the cigar people.
Used to be the viagra people but I guess they finally figured out I didn’t need it.
i emailed you. not spam though.
Man, it didn’t even go straight to SPAM heaven
I get tons of spam, but most of it ends up in the spam folder. Plus I get tons of stuff from all the things we have accounts with. I just do a lot of deleting.
Freezey I left a message for you on the earlier thread.
do i need to go find it, or can you write it here?
Well jeepers embarrassing I said I adore you too just like your kids do.
thank you!
unfortunately for kodiak, i don’t think my kids will grow to not like me.
and for real, i believe we are heading out for christmas, i wanna get together with you
I didn’t say I hoped it happened, it’s just that I have seen it happen in extremely religious families before. Kids rebel sometimes.
Sounds good! If all goes according to plan Mrs. MT will be up and around after her surgery by then. Right now I am really hoping she doesn’t catch the ‘rona with her surgery date only 11 days away.
Hoping all goes well for you guys!!
Hopefully you won’t have to sleep in the doghouse again with that plague.
I think it died early Thursday morning when I defervesced with a sweaty climax.
i know what this means in layman’s terms, but this sounds so gross you perv
I can name that phrase in 2 words
I like to sprinkle saucy phrases in my dictations. Things like “Mrs. Doe was mowing the lawn when…”
Done.
That e-mail account I used is my business one, not the one I’m signed up with on Skoloholics.
if you took another part time gig, and kept doing your book stuff, how many hours a week would you be working….
i think you should throw yourself into the book biz (you seem to love it) and give that a whirl.
(also, what exactly is your book biz)
I currently put in probably about 50+ hours in per week between the book stuff and the other job. So if I went with another pt job, it would probably be the same.
My book business is me selling books online. I curate used books from a variety of places and list them on various websites (ie. eBay). I really enjoy it but it is currently not returning a living wage.
i will not tell mrs freeze about your business.
i bet you and her would be kindred spirits. she LOVES and lives for reading. she reads like nothing else. i must be so boring to her that she lives through her books (thankfully not the fantasy crap)
Once I reached about 6,000 books I had to dang near 12-step the books.
i think she reads around 200 books a year.
My wife will get on reading kicks also, but not usually during the school year. She is more of a romance book reader however, just not the trashy stuff, more of the historical or Christian romance stuff (is there such a thing?). She used to read a lot of mystery stuff, but so much of that has become predictable as I think the publishers give the writers a formula to follow.
my wife likes mystery stuff and historical fiction as well.
lots of ww2 stuff
She needs cookbooks, you’re welcome.
Nice.
At an auction back in August I got a whole box of cookbooks. Unfortunately cook books are a dime a dozen, so most are not financially worthy of selling online.
I’m sure there’s a big market around here for Lutefisk cookbooks.
Yeah my comment was just based on him saying yesterday she makes a terrible sloppy joe that includes pepper, like who puts peppers in a sloppy joe?
why buy a book when you can find 100recipes online in .1 second?
Exactly. However, some people are collectors, so there are a few cook books that sell. I know some book sales are just for people that are reminiscing about their childhood.
It’s funny you mention cookbooks and nostalgia. There is a cookbook I was given while I was in college, I can’t recall the name, but it was published or written by the Edmonton Journal and was something something “Bachelor’s Cookbook”. It was a great resource for me but my girlfriend chucked it when we moved in together…I eventually married that gal so maybe her gambit paid off haha.
The other book I am nostalgic about that I threw out at some point when I realized I was never going to medical school was something like the “Real MD guide to becoming a doctor” or some such. It was very tongue in cheek but there have been times I wished I had it for the photos and illustrations which I would use to spruce up my staid presentations.
Do you have a link to where to buy your books?
I sell on various sites and to let you know publicly I would have to share my last name. I’m skittish about doing that on social media. I am ok sharing it individually, but then you would have to be brave like LFA.
My email is listed on my old DN member page, you can find it here, plz don’t send porn, just where to find yore books.
https://www.sbnation.com/users/benjaman
Done. Not the pron however. You will have to take care of that yourself.
Path 5: Cook meth and make a ton of money. Breaking bad style
How did I forget that option? Ok, one more to add to the list.
Depends on where you are on retirement. If you have 5 mill set aside I would go 4, but I have small needs. Doubt that would get MT a year.
Also depends what you are worth. Workforce is in the gutter and basic retards can run things since companies are so desperate. Turning down $500K a year to make $30k selling books seems silly unless you have the aforementioned $5 mill
One of my concerns is that age discrimination is real. It seems most companies want to hire young accountants. I’m not sure I want to wipe down tables at McD’s. I don’t have $5 mil, but again, like you, we have simple needs.
Corporations are desperate right now. You would get hired at way more than you likely expect. If you really are an accountant I would think you would make $200k and up
One of my degrees is in Accountancy. However, I have not used it much in the last 15 years. In the area I’m in the $200k would be CFO level and I’m not going back there. If I’m going to be putting in 60 hours per week, it is going to be in something I love, not just tolerate.
We all have choices. Sounds like you already know what you’re doing
I am definitely leaning towards one of the choices I listed. I may not actually decide until after the holidays.
Most depends on what you want to do when you retire. Sitting at home reading is easy, going on Viking cruises is not.
We have one expensive trip we want to take to Sweden, but I’m sure most of our retirement travel will be to see kids and grandkids.
Been to see the kid and grandkid twice this year.
Trying to decide if we can drive to the homestead in Alaska and back next summer with a kid just over 2 years old to pick up a load of son’s stuff.
Driving that far with a 2 year old rug rat would be a challenge.
Yup… 3 is a go, but 2… hmmm. Son still will go get stuff, though.
CPA 200K omg
I just texted my CPA buddy the fact that he should be pulling down 200K+. He seems suspicious that is sarcasm.
200k would probably be more of CFO level. When I was a CFO of a small company a couple of decades ago, I wasn’t making anywhere near that amount.
Depends on where and what. W/his experience VP could be pretty close to that.
My buddy wants to know if he can be your accountant.
I do it myself, lol
I do also. I guess I should be paying myself more for that.
you already are by not paying others
My niece’s hubby is working his way up the biggy firm CPA ladder.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s pulling in twice that much.
Oh my goodness. “Go to medical school” they sez. “Spending nights in the library instead of the clubs will be worth it in the end” they sez. “36 hour shifts will prepare you for the difficult nights caring for patients” “200000 in SL debt is worth it” “It’s only ten years”
F’ing CPA with a four year degree pulling in $400000
FML
Hind sight. If we had known then what we do now.
4 years at the Ewe of Minnesota
2 years at Notre Dame getting the Masters (can I say that any more?) in Accountancy
If you are a CPA in a CFO type of role yes 200k+ easily but if you’re just a staff accountant probably more like 100k.
He has CFO experience
He should be a CFO then
Hey Kodiak I replied to your query on the other open thread. Really can’t get into specifics but it’s bad. I think even with your marshmallow soft center you would give Kathy Ireland the boot if she treated your kids that way.
Can anyone give Kathy Ireland the boot? I had a major crush on her back in the day.
Seriously, what’s not to crush on?
Hopefully she wouldn’t kill me in my sleep.
I’ve got to stop looking at this picture.
Think pure thoughts.
Avoiding is one thing, abusing is another. Sounds like avoiding is the best choice under the circumstances.
I would have no problem having Kathy Ireland sleep in the shed when the runtlings come over. As long as she did her household chores evry day and paid all the bills from her trust.
Have you tried a tour as a Chippendale dancer?
Add another one to the list. I’m shaped like Chris Farley, so I should be a hit.
That’s still one of the funniest skits I’ve ever seen, especially since Swayze was in his prime and his dance movie had just come out.
Do what you love, and you will never work a day in your life.
That sounds sorta illegal…
To you maybe, but not to VP.
Preaching is hard.
Both my sisters are preachers. The old one (70) just got her first gig. Both are Karens.
LOL, your parents gave your sisters the same name, that’s funny.
I wish it were funny. One I tolerate, one, not so much.
Different worlds.
Yeah I’m the same as far as one I tolerate one I don’t, the one I don’t tolerate doesn’t speak to me anyway so I guess it works out fine.
Same last 12 years or so.
Aren’t families great? I have 3 sisters. One I’m close to, the other one I tolerate, the other one I rarely see and it is her husband that I just tolerate.
I have 4 sisters, none of whom I have much in common with.
I have one I talk with once a month, one once a quarter, one once a year, and one not in the last 10 years since she shunned everyone in the family.
The one sister I rarely see is bipolar and has been since a teenager. Sometimes it is hard trying to make a connection when someone is so messed up.
The sister I don’t doo-dad with might also be bipolar.
She’s not a druggie or a financial wreck or anything, just an angry angry person about anything or everything having to do with all people in our family.
She won’t tell anyone why, so figure it just might be a chemical imbalance or something therapy could help, but she won’t go.
Gee imagine, others know crazy women too.
Asking what scripts they are taking usually clears them from the dating web sight, lol.
Yeah, sister that doesn’t talk to me I used to be super close with, but she got divorced like 7 years ago and has grown increasingly more bitter, angry, and drunk. After I told her I was getting married it wasn’t long before she just cut me off completely. Kinda sucks because she used to be super fun and cool.
Told her you were getting married the 2nd time?
I agree with many of the comments below. Do what you love, if you can.
Follow your passion, which I detect is the book bus.
combo of 2, 3 & 4
throw yourself into your book business with the side hustle being a youtube channel about book businesses. your wife will pick up the slack.
Justin Tucker trolls Russell Wilson
Alright, I’m outta here. Y’all have a great weekend, drive fast & take chances.
Leave a couple of spawners, don’t take ’em all.
Got a busy weekend. Work until 5 today, Bartend from 6 until whenever the hell were done cleaning up probably 230-3am. Get up around 10 or 11 am, mow lawn for the last time, pick up all leaves, apples from the tree, put shit away for the winter. Bartend again from 6 until whenever the hell. Get up Sunday for Sunday Funday. Have Monday off.
Damn son that is a busy weekend
enjoy Monday!
You should switch bar tending jobs to a bar that actually has women go to it.
That’s was my first thought too, take some time to crush a few drunk girls.
Poor kid needs all the help he can get. He makes me think he’s like Quasimodo, draggin a leg schlepping drinks
Monday off sounds great. I´ll work from home on Monday, national holiday in Austria on Tuesday, so I´m basically looking at a long weekend until next Wednesday. I like it.
I thought National Day was the 26th?
It is, should have worded that better. All Saints´ Day is an official holiday in Austria, their National Holiday, as in Nationalfeiertag, is the 26th.
I’m wrapping up here soon, it’s been a long enough day already. Gonna go get kiddo out of school an hour early so we can get up to the lake before dark. Get a fire going, make some s’mores, play some games, & relax tonight, hit the water early in the morning & try to find some walleye or even some perch. There are some very big perch in that lake, excellent eating.
Enjoy!
Have Fun!
Have fun kid!!