USMB Coffee Shop IV

[ChrisL]

Good morning!

 

[ChrisL]

I just got a message about a job offer. A company saw my resume and they just called (I didn't answer because I screen all of my calls). I let them leave a message and they are offering me an interview for the job of a benefits specialist. I'm going to have to look into it. It might be a good opportunity. If it is and if I get this job, I would have to give up one of my other jobs. Dilemmas.

 

[peach174]

Happy Monday !

 

[ChrisL]

Where is everyone today??

 

[peach174]

I don't know, but no one was here yesterday.
Strange.
Is everybody as busy as I have been lately?

 

[ChrisL]

I don't know, but no one was here yesterday.
Strange.
Is everybody as busy as I have been lately?

This place is dead! Maybe they are out enjoying some nice weather. It's good to get away from this place sometimes. Lol.

 

[ChrisL]

^^^

Not the Coffee Shop, but the forum is what I should have said. I love the Coffee Shop.

 

[peach174]

^^^

Not the Coffee Shop, but the forum is what I should have said. I love the Coffee Shop.

It has not been very active on the forum for the last 2 weeks around here.
Not much is really happening right now.
I think it will pick up tomorrow after the Iowa Caucus votes.

 

[Eaglewings]

I just got a message about a job offer. A company saw my resume and they just called (I didn't answer because I screen all of my calls). I let them leave a message and they are offering me an interview for the job of a benefits specialist. I'm going to have to look into it. It might be a good opportunity. If it is and if I get this job, I would have to give up one of my other jobs. Dilemmas.

Best news on a Monday Morning!

 

[Foxfyre]

Morning. How's everyone's pain lev--I mean, day going so far?

Good morning. Pain level down in my shoulder but I slept wrong and have a bit of a 'crick' in my neck. Working it out. Major annoying.

 

[Foxfyre]

And good morning all. To peach174 and ChrisL et al, I agree not much going on out there on the other forums except the usual sniping and trolling that is super boring to me. And it is why I don't venture out there much anymore. I think it even gets boring for the snipers and trolls. But in here, I think all is well. There is an ebb and flow to the Coffee Shop. Sometimes most of us are more involved in real life stuff and hopefully that is a good thing and there won't be a lot of activity and that's okay. And sometimes it's really jumping which is fun.

I'm happy Timur didn't do any damage to his goat buddy. And I'm thinking like GW seemed t be saying, that if no skin or bones were broken; i.e. the goat wasn't injured, he was just being disciplined and was in no danger. I bet there was no reason to separate them. On the other hand you never know when normal instincts could kick in with a wild animal and the fact is, most Tigers would view a goat as a tasty snack.

 

[SixFoot]

30,000+ posts, perhaps it's time for a USMB Coffee Shop V.

 

[peach174]

30,000+ posts, perhaps it's time for a USMB Coffee Shop V.

Nope
The new forum has taken care of that little problem.

 

[Foxfyre]

30,000+ posts, perhaps it's time for a USMB Coffee Shop V.

30,000+ posts, perhaps it's time for a USMB Coffee Shop V.

Peach is right. A lot of us didn't like the Xenforo software at all, but before C_K made the swtich to this from the former V-Bulletin software, the Coffee Shop was so active and was getting so many views that it was bogging down the entire board. So C_K closed it after 80,000+ posts and we resumed with Coffee Shop II. It got more than 25,000 posts before the same problem occurred and we had to close and start Coffee Shop III that only lasted 2800 or so posts before we had to close it. But the new software seems to have solved the problem and we can probably go indefinitely with Coffee Shop IV. I have Coffee Shop V all ready to go in my files though should that be necessary.

Some members want to catch up from the last time they posted when they come in and that's neat, but most of us don't want to expend that much time and effort. So we read back a few posts or a page or two and just pick up where we are. Sort of like we would do in a real life community meeting spot.

 

[Foxfyre]

Coffee Shop V would look better in the heading though. Too many read the thread topic as Coffee Shop intravenous

 

[Ringel05]

I'm finally awake. Couldn't sleep last night, finally went to bed around 3 am and thankfully (for the wife) she let me sleep.
Woke up to temps in the upper 30s with a rain snow mix, yesterday it was in the 70s.........

 

[Foxfyre]

I just got a message about a job offer. A company saw my resume and they just called (I didn't answer because I screen all of my calls). I let them leave a message and they are offering me an interview for the job of a benefits specialist. I'm going to have to look into it. It might be a good opportunity. If it is and if I get this job, I would have to give up one of my other jobs. Dilemmas.

Wow. A job you would really like? One you really want? I need to know what kind of vibes to send here.

 

[Foxfyre]

I'm finally awake. Couldn't sleep last night, finally went to bed around 3 am and thankfully (for the wife) she let me sleep.
Woke up to temps in the upper 30s with a rain snow mix, yesterday it was in the 70s.........

You too? We woke up to a pretty substantial dusting of snow this morning but it has pretty well melted now. But they're forecasting more of the same today along with high winds. We'll see. Forecasting for our area isn't exactly an exact science.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I just got a message about a job offer. A company saw my resume and they just called (I didn't answer because I screen all of my calls). I let them leave a message and they are offering me an interview for the job of a benefits specialist. I'm going to have to look into it. It might be a good opportunity. If it is and if I get this job, I would have to give up one of my other jobs. Dilemmas.

Good luck, Chris!

 

[gallantwarrior]

And good morning all. To peach174 and ChrisL et al, I agree not much going on out there on the other forums except the usual sniping and trolling that is super boring to me. And it is why I don't venture out there much anymore. I think it even gets boring for the snipers and trolls. But in here, I think all is well. There is an ebb and flow to the Coffee Shop. Sometimes most of us are more involved in real life stuff and hopefully that is a good thing and there won't be a lot of activity and that's okay. And sometimes it's really jumping which is fun.

I'm happy Timur didn't do any damage to his goat buddy. And I'm thinking like GW seemed t be saying, that if no skin or bones were broken; i.e. the goat wasn't injured, he was just being disciplined and was in no danger. I bet there was no reason to separate them. On the other hand you never know when normal instincts could kick in with a wild animal and the fact is, most Tigers would view a goat as a tasty snack.

Report mentioned broken skin, but no surprise. They might wait until a nearby female tiger goes out of heat. The keepers are attributing Timur's testiness to that little tidbit. Of course, the goat was pushing it a bit. The tiger finally pushed back.
My brief forays into the USMB jungles have been disappointing lately, too. I'll start reading a thread until it degenerates into the more typical one-on-one sniping and name-calling. Seems like only a few posts in, most of them are not worth wasting time with. I do like stopping by the CS, though. People are...well, decent here.