Good Morning Oh Kee Pa (Part 1)

Non-Phish General
#2121

Morning folks. Back in the saddle this morning after several crappy and near crappy days fighting the flu. Damn near slept Thursday and Friday of last week away, and although I sometimes dream of spending several days in bed with nothing to do, that’s not quite what I was thinking of.

During that fever driven sleep, I did have two seperate Phish dreams. One involved hanging with Trey just before the Hampton shows were about to start, and discovering I had front row seats which I traded away for seats closer to the soundboard.

The other dream involved meeting Page in a department store, but he turned into a woman as soon as I started talking with him, and that totally confused me, and I woke up right afterward.

Anyway, short week this week too. Today and tomorrow only for me, taking the remaining days off. Wednesday is a big prep day for the meal on Thursday, and usually a fun day for Marie and I working together doing something we love for the family.

So have a great day today Ohkeepa.

#2122

^Sweet Bill!! Hell yah short work week!!

Don’t really know what I’m doing for Turkey day yet…

Going to the Lions game with my dad, ONLY because it’s a tradition that spans two decades.

Then not sure what to do with my mom, she’s having dinner with her new boyfriend and his son and his mother, and I don’t really feel like spending the day with a guy i’ve only met once, and his kid and his mom, so i might just go do dessert with her afterwards at her house. I really hate holidays sometimes.

Have a good Monday Pa!

#2123

Hank - I was talking about Down Lo… They played the Taproom Friday night in Duluth at Fitgers on Lake Superior! Rocking good time, man it was a blast!

Short week here… Cold morning, everyone enjoy!

#2124

So yeah…anyone elses work talking about layoffs?

We have a “voluntary buyout program” going on right now, and I’m not sure what to do. They are trying to eliminate positions and not jobs and I’m not sure if they want to eliminate my position or not. Does applying for the “voluntary buyout” just look like insubordination if I don’t get chosen?

Our xmas party got cancelled due to the economic downturn, and xmas bonuses are even looking like a no-go this year. So yeah, this crisis is hitting hard. Anyone else feeling any impact yet?

Whoops…wrong thread…oh well, Good morning peeps.

#2125

We’re usually overwhelmed with Christmas season gigs … company holiday parties usually help us a lot. This year we’ve got like, two holiday party bookings.

Luckily my day job continues to be steady & busy for now. If it weren’t for the fact that my family can’t keep up with expenses I’d be real stoked, but as it is my wife and I are looking for kibosh targets. You know, something to place the kibosh upon. Some area of our finances to chop.

We just decided today to cut ourselves off from credit cards and to truly move to cash/debit card exclusively. This should cure the overwhelming frustration that accompanies recording our credit card transactions into the computer. Hopefully there simply won’t be any more of them!

#2126

OH YEAH!

Good morning everyone! Happy to be here once again, with you fine & funny folk.

#2127

Good Morning, blah blah blah.

My life is a wreck somewhat right now and it always seems to come close to the holidays.

But I’ve learned that, as bad as things seem, and as shitty as it might get, there are still a lot of things to be thankful for.

So if you have things and people that you are thankful for, let 'em know it more often.

peas

#2128

Good Morning OKP! I’m at work and very tired. I need to find some way to stay more awake. Maybe I’ll invent this drink that makes you super energetic, even more than coffee. All I’ll have to do is hide the fact that it contains a bunch of harmful chemicals that basically add up to crystal meth in a can. Yeah, that’s it.

#2129

^^Sorry to hear this man, hope things change in a hurry for ya.

Life is OK here, weather is OK and I am feeling OK… I hat OK, but it is better than shitty…

T-day is fun and I love some good food, sooooo… Yeah morning OKP…

#2130

I don’t have a 3-day work week. I don’t have a 4-day work week. I have a 3.5-day work week.

Meh, better than a kick in the marbles.

#2131

Worked only three days last week because of the flu. Worked only two days this week because of the holiday. Life is good.

Today is Thanksgiving meal prep day. Marie and I will be chopping, baking, roasting, frying, mixing, and setting up as much as we can for tomorrow since we dine at one on T-day and that doesn’t give us a lot of time tomorrow morning.

The family has also decided to get up early for Black Friday and go out into the shopping madness together. One of our daughters and her children will be sleeping over tomorrow night, and I’ll get to stay with most of the grandkids in the morning since the only crowds I actually enjoy being in the middle of is at a Phish concert. But I like the idea that our kids are getting along together to want to do something like this, so I don’t mind hanging with the gkids so Marie can go along as well.

Have a great pre-Tday, and I hope everyone that has to travel today does so safely.

#2132

^Have a great Turkey day Bill!!! Hope all the family drama shit worked out!!

And you all have a great Day of Turkey as well!!

I still don’t know exactly what I’m doing with the rents, but whatever happens, I’m sure will be cool.

Morning out there!

#2133

Good morning to everyone and I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!

#2134

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Morning OKP, I love this site…

Chilly but nice today!

#2135

Ack, Monday morning after five days off. Bummer.

Up earlier this morning than usual because of wild dream involving the Hampton shows again. I’m at the first night waiting for the show to begin and some guy from the venue is walking around with a sign like a chauffeur at an airport, looking for me. When I see this, we step outside where he explains that someone wants to trade me my two Sunday night tickets for four Sunday night tickets, and the venue would handle the transfer.

I didn’t have the tickets with me, but I assumed the seats were close to the front for someone to want to trade four for two the same night. And then I became very suspicious of the whole concept, and told the guy that I would only do it through the will call window and that he better have some form of ID.

But then the concert began, and Phish came out playing some of the strangest covers, and everyone was like what the heck? They opened with We’re Not Going to Take It, which totally confused everyone, and then the songs got wierder after that, so much so that I had to wake up.

Anyway, have a great start to the week everyone.

#2136

Welp, I hear ya Bill! A few days off can really make that first day back a biyotch.

Good Morning

#2137

GOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!

Have a great one folks.

#2138

^^^I hear ya man. I had a 4 day weekend and work is really kicking me in the ass today.

Overall a good holiday though. I had T-day with my girlfriend’s parents because we’ve been dating for 3+ years and we like to alternate on who we spend Thanksgiving with. Last year we went to my parents’ house, so this year we were at hers. However, my mother is an excellent cook and her Thanksgiving meals are mouth-watering to say the least. This year I ate my girlfriend’s mom’s food, which was good…but nothing compared to what dear old mom can whip up. Oh well, the company was good as her parents really like me, and her dad is awesome so after dinner he and I snuck into the basement and had a few tokes of some NYC Diesel I have come across recently (yum!). After this we were feeling nicely buzzed so we drank some wine and played an exhilarating hour and a half ping pong match. The guy is 54 and I’m 22 and I still have to expend all my energy to win! So yeah, my girlfriend is awesome as hell and loves phish (her birthday is march 6th so I’ve got her secret hampton tickets…shhh), and to top it all off her family loves me and her dad is cool as hell.

mmm…life is good…oh yeah, good morning OKP!

#2139

^Man, that’s a sweet Turkey Day Tale indeed!

A hearty good morning to all!

I’m actually psyched that it’s Monday. I had a hectic weekend, and things are looking up today. Desk is fairly barren, I’ve got 12/01/03 goin (on kind of a PH kick lately), lunch is around the corner. And the coffees have been good to me.

#2140

Hey, I’m listening to 12/1/03 too! I’m on “Guyute” right now.