HP,

And Adam Duritz is still trading in hot 25yo chicks for younger, hotter ones! What a boss!

TM,

You can still tie a gable into the slop of your roof. Just need to find a good way to hide the connection to the roof or the existing shingles that would end up under the new canopy.

edit: wait, do you want it roof in, or open? obv the above doesn't work if you want it open.

ideally, i would want it roof in, in the middle, and then open on the ends. it is 24' across from the compactor. if i choose one or the other, it would be roof in.

My friend pointed out the other day that Beyonce's "Crazy in Love" is 11 years old.

The smell of hospitals in winter can gtfo.

The lyric, not the smell.

It's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls.

TM,

You could do something like this where you roof in the gable area, and tie it back to your existing roof. Then just do a pergola/trellis thing over the flat area.

I'm mostly impressed by Mary Louise-Parker. Chicks dig tortured artist types.

I like the lyric. Song was triggered by him visiting a friend in the hospital who had been in a car accident. In December.

Seeing them in a couple weeks. Getting back to my angstful youth.

oT,

Are you getting pumped about starting the Official Long December LC Thread? And maybe the Official November Rain LC Thread?

I hate you

Ended up having four beers before my flight which helped me pass our for the three hours of my last leg. That really helped with the jetlag too, now I can go to bed at a decent hour instead of passing out at 7pm.

So after running multiple interviews for consultants, with the job title clearly stating "Expected to Travel upwards of 70%' i have now had 9/11 candidates ask after the initial and secondary meetings if they could cut down the travel to minimal as they have obligations limiting travel.

Total waste of time, and quite frankly im pissed that people cant read a job advertisement correctly, or am I over reacting?

Edit:
When you read a job add, do you glance over the expectations?
Would you ever apply for a job knowing you couldn't travel?

Tough to say, maybe they didn't have those obligations when they applied, but suddenly came up.

When I was job hunting though, I never overlooked the expectations, because they're pretty important. Unless you're applying for a low paying/responsibility job.

Although, some applicants know that they can be valuable to an employer, so they apply to any position, and once the meetings happen, they get moved to where they would be better suited. Like, being over educated for a warehouse worker and use that as a quick way to get an interview with the intention of asking for a desk job.

It sounds like they don't really give a **** if they get the job or not. I'd hire them.

Not looking forward to the September Morn: We danced until the night became a brand new day LC thread.

jsplit, standard advice for applying to jobs is that the job requirements are the employers wish list, and that even if you don't meet all of them you should apply anyway. So if you require a degree in X and 10 years experience doing A, B and C, you're typically going to get applicants with just some combination of those requirements.

The applicants don't know which of those requirements you'll be flexible about, so they apply even if they don't meet all of them. It sucks for you that they wasted your time by not accepting that 70%+ travel time was a required requirement, and maybe that should have been obvious, but people apply for jobs for which they don't meet all the requirements all the time.

Next time you'll put something like "Expectation to Travel upwards of 70% is Non-Negotiable," and then you can be really pissed off when people ignore that anyway.

Oh, yeah: more on August. This from Wallace Stevens:

Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination

Last Friday, in the big light of last Friday night,
We drove home from Cornwall to Hartford, late.

It was not a night blown at a glassworks in Vienna
Or Venice, motionless, gathering time and dust.

There was a crush of strength in a grinding going round,
Under the front of the westward evening star,

The vigor of glory, a glittering in the veins,
As things emerged and moved and were dissolved,

Either in distance, change or nothingness,
The visible transformations of summer night,

An argentine abstraction approaching form
And suddenly denying itself away.

There was an insolid billowing of the solid.
Night's moonlight lake was neither water nor air.

We constantly have people applying for entry level jobs, with the job description clearly stating the salary range, that are shocked that they can't get 2-3 times more.

Didn't killa apply for a job with a ton of travel and see if he'd be able to travel less than they were asking, or maybe that didn't come up until they were already interviewing him

I disagree somewhat, if only because many consulting jobs are like this, and I'd expect candidates to know that fact. I'd be really quite irritated at candidates who can't meet this requirement.

I just realized I've been a member if these forums for less than 1/3 of my life. That's terrifying.

At 9 of 11 I'd start to assume there was something about the presentation of the information or the interview process that was causing at least some of the problem.

Whenever I've dealt with position that have something like that, it's a pre-screening question for me to avoid that exact waste of time.

20% of my life, and I'm old as ****.

Do you remember the 21st night of September?

In reality, I got home and was thinking of something along the lines of "August Gentlemen", but couldn't piece together anything I liked. Then I remembered that album title and of course, if I start such a thread, I have to Bruiserize the subject.

Anyway, I usually don't start threads (Scramble With Friends, which was actually Words With Friends, and jargon were both extracts) so I figured I'd change it up a little.

Augustus Caesar Salad Days of Summer