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I just got a message from Amazon that my daughter's prom dress won't make it through customs. Another friend of mine had a daughter that ordered a wedding dress that is being held up.

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They did it that way for years. Twice a year and every series was Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The thing is that these games are always guaranteed sell-outs. So they decided instead of wasting a sell-out on a weekend when they know they are going to sell more tickets anyway, they moved them to mid-week games instead. How often during the year do they sell-out a random Tuesday night game? The only way it would be more of a rivalry would be if they played in the same division. As it is now, I think the novelty has worn off quite a bit. They aren't much more than just another NL team at this point. Sure there is a little bit of bragging rights but I'd much rather lose all 4 games to the Cubs and win the season series vs. any or all of the ALC teams. I actually agree with this. I wish they played the other teams more often instead of just rotating through each NL division every year. I'd like to see them play the Diamondbacks and the Cardinals and the Braves all in one year rather than play the Tigers and Royals 19 times.

I'm starting to believe that anything would be better than what we have now. Here's a nice story about a woman that is literally getting paid to travel to Mexico to get cheaper prescription drugs. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/utah-sends-employees-mexico-lower-prescription-prices-68861516

But would it be better than what we have now? That's the real question. I just spent 2 months fighting to get a bill paid from last April that my insurance said they would pay but somehow never got despite the medical clinic saying they sent them bill to them 3 times. I've also heard stories of insurance companies denying coverage for things because the insurance company decided that the procedures that the trained medical doctors performed weren't "medically necessary". We shouldn't have people afraid to do to the doctor for things that could possibly be life-threatening because they are worried that they won't be able to pay for it.

Did you just re-do exactly what Kyyle23 told you not to do? ?

Interesting. My company is almost always looking for engineers. Although I think they are different types of engineering that what you would know. Most of the job openings I see are from mechanical, process or application engineers. I honestly don't know enough about engineering to know what the difference between them is though.

I just wanted to go back to this for a second. You have a BS in Chemical Engineering but have never made more than 8K/year? How is that possible? It seems like with that level of education there should be a ton of places you could work and make pretty decent money.

I hope this doesn't continue to turn the thread political but this right here is exactly the reason we need a system for everyone to have medical benefits that aren't tied to having a full-time job.

I would absolutely hate that. So would my co-workers who sit 5 feet away from me. It's bad enough that one of them already mumbles to himself throughout the day. Also, many programming languages have keywords that aren't really English words. Especially field names. It would actually make it more complex. Here's just a small sample of some of my code. Imaging trying to "speak" this:

There are companies that will hire people with disabilities. It's just a matter of finding one that's a fit for your skills. I have a friend that is disabled and receives SS disability but he did have a job at one time with a company that specifically hired and created jobs for people like him. I don't remember exactly what it was that he did and it was only like 15-20 hours a week but he enjoyed it. Here's the story of one person:

Not quite sure what you are asking for here. As mentioned in the post above, there are recruitment places that will do pretty much what you are saying. They take people and find a job for them to do. The thing is, there has to be an open job for them to do in the first place. I'm not sure if you are saying that companies should make jobs specifically for certain people. That's not going to work unless the job the person does is somehow making the company more money than it costs them to pay the person to do the job. About 10 years ago I was unemployed for a few months. While I was out job searching I had a friend of mine that gave me a "job" of handing out his business cards and telling people about what he does and how he could help them. I think it was more of a fact that he wanted to help me out and didn't want to seem like he was just giving me money for no reason. It wasn't a lot of money and he only did it one time but it did help out. But it just wasn't feasible for him to keep it up unless I was steering more paying clients his way so that he could make more money.

I just finished up Stick of Truth and I played Fractured But Whole before that. Plus I've been playing my backlog of the Kingdom Hearts games so I can finally get around to KH3. I've also played games like Uncharted and The Last of Us. Sure they all had collectibles and stuff but Dead Rising just ratchets that up X100. You can go into a store in the mall and there's like 10 things on one single shelf that you can interact with. It's not a knock against the game though. I'm really enjoying it.

I've been playing Dead Rising 4 and having a blast with it but also finding it extremely frustrating because I'm the type of gamer that has to check out EVERYTHING. There are a million different little things to pick up (guns, weapons, clothing, food items) and they are laying around all over the place but my character can only carry so much stuff. Then there are all the different things that can be combined into something else. I've been playing the game for probably 15 or 20 hours now and I'm only like 33% of the way through it. It's funny because I'll go do something and tell myself "OK, I'll just do this one thing and then I'll quit for the night." Then that one thing lead to 4 other things and the next thing I know it's like midnight.

Maybe try Brooks Boyer? He's the head of sales and marketing. Don't know if it's still the same or not but his email used to be [email protected]. That used to be a running joke on WSI. Every time someone came up with a suggestion it was "email Brooks!"

There were 4. The first 2 batters of the game, then one in the 7th and one in the 8th. I remember getting a text from my friend when this happened that just said "Who the hell is Phillip Humber?" I didn't see the game so at first I wasn't sure what he was talking about. Also interesting that they never showed a good side shot of that last out.

Honestly, I've gotten all my jobs including my current job without even specifically applying for them. They were all through job recruiters. My first job I applied for one job but the recruiter called me and said it had already been filled, then told me about another job opening. It also helped that I was in college at the time and 2 people that already worked there were in a few classes with me. When I got laid off from that job I lived on my severance and unemployment for about 6 months. Did all the usual stuff by applying to all the jobs I could, putting my name out on Linkedin, etc... Got one or two interviews but nothing came of them. Then I got a call from a recruiter about a contract job that I didn't even know existed. Ended up staying there for almost 5 years but the commute was a killer. My current job I got a call out of the blue. I wasn't actively looking as hard at the time but keeping my options open for a better opportunity. That was 5 years ago and I've been here ever since.

I'm currently playing South Park Stick of Truth on the PS4. I've already played Fractured But Whole and I'm starting to realize that having played the second one first really makes the problems with the first game stand out that much more. I saw a video where the SP guys literally went on Youtube and watched people play their first game and wrote down all the good/bad things about and then tried to fix them in the second one. I don't like the fact that you only get one buddy to fight along side you at any given time. (in the second one you get multiple buddies in every fight). I also hate the fact that there are certain collectibles or actions that are required for some trophies in the game but if you don't get them in a specific mission, you can't go back and get them later. I also think the battle system is overly complex. I think they simplified it a little bit in the second game. Overall it's still a fun game and pretty short storyline. For someone like me that only gets a few hours a week to play I can complete it pretty quickly. Unlike something like RDR2 which took me months to finish.

Same for me but it was an hour commute down mostly country roads. Luckily I had a strong signal from 670 the whole way home. Then got home in time to see the last inning or 2 on TV.

I knew all the other little tidbits listed but this is a new one for me. I never knew this!

They made an announcement on the forums. http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=3365925#post3365925

Did my pic not show up?

Don't know if this is true or not as I haven't seen any confirmation. FYI, this is the poster Fenway from WSI.

You'd be shocked at the number of companies that still use it. It's the old "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" mentality. And it's different companies in all different industries. Not really software companies. My first job was a company that handled magazine subscriptions. Second job was a large factory that bought and sold metal. I know I've seen job openings for credit card companies, candy companies, the company that makes Rubbermaid products. I also know a guy that told me about a friend of his that made a damn good living traveling around the country converting old programs to newer languages.

When I first got into coding the first language I learned was COBOL. It's an older language but fairly easy to learn and gave me a good base to learn other languages. Then when I graduated I spent the first 15 years of my career writing it. All the way up to 2015. You'd be shocked at the number of companies that still use it. My last company was desperate to find coders that knew it because the average age of their IT department was 55+. A lot of companies have literally 100s or 1000s of programs written in COBOL but very few places even teach it anymore. The companies don't want to spend the time/effort it would take to re-write them all either. So a suggestion... learn COBOL.