In another life, this would be my dad.

Not so much for weight, but definitely for fitness IMO. You can always be faster/stronger/have more stamina.

I just give them cash. If you don’t take cookies in return, that money goes straight to the troop as a donation. The troop only gets about $0.80 per box.

I’m not my company’s IT person but it took me FOREVER to pound this into people’s heads that just because our freelance IT guy knows how to keep the network running doesn’t mean he knows how to set up our design software or any of the more complicated electronic survey equipment we use.

I’m betting there’s a ramp underneath the hitch somewhere.

Your 8th grade class sounds awesome.

As a civil engineer, I wish more people knew how much work and planning goes into infrastructure maintenance and construction. I can guarantee that the lane closure that annoys you every morning is the least disruptive way we can do the work that’s needed. Also, don’t wait until the end of the fucking merge/taper lane…

There’s also the fact that we/they (I’m generally the person who orders lane closures rather than performs them) have certain standards that we have to follow in how the lane closure is set up, ie how long the transition is to close down a lane, number of signs, etc.

I think it was some kind of anti-cheating thing but given that I never saw any of my exams again, I don’t know. What I do know is that my bridge engineering final was a shit show because I initially spent 2 pages (did I mention we were using blue books in 2011?) doing the wrong calculation so then I had to draw arrows…

Once I discovered mechanical pencils in 5th grade, that was it. Mechanical pencil, type, or GTFO...until grad school where we were forced to hand write the engineering exams in pen.

But it *looks* like it should be fast...

MD usually has them replaced within a week (on most of the major roads I see regularly).

What if your calves didn’t fit?

I had this happen at a really nice restaurant once. I just disputed it at the credit card level and it was taken care of. Credit card companies are liable for any fraudulent charges so it’s on them to resolve this kind of stuff when spotted. The trick, of course, is to recognize it. So check your statements before you…

Now less histrionics to stream The Big Bang Theory!

They screw up the photo-shopping of guys too...apparently.

Sadly enough, no.

Any exercise where bad failure = probable injury is ok for the squat rack in my book. And deadlifts (unless someone can tell me where I should actually do deadlifts if not in the power cage). Curls do not meet this definition, putting weights over your head/shoulders does.

There are actually a couple of CA vineyards which were grandfathered into the champagne designation, Andre being the one that I pull up most often as an example. The French get very pissy about their wine appellations.

Here’s a hug for you.