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Off-brand? That sounds like buying tires from Wal-Mart, dude. And that's never a good proposition.

Nah. That was what I did at one of the places I worked at between stints at my current place.

not for PMs though, I'm noticing

Oh so it's a tire retailer on the west coast; our biggest tire shops are the national chains and local shops that partner with the national brands, like Goodyear.

Well, I've worked there for 4 of the past 6 years. It's the place I do IT stuff at.

Might be fixed now tho

Never heard of them.

Nonono, I work for a place that makes a component of the cheeseburger. But I don't make it myself.

well that's bad, yeah

Most dealers are good shops. Some are total crap.

At least in my case my job is less affected since I work for a place that does food.

I did not get notified about that first VM of yours

Tires are very expensive. But was the tread really worn down that badly already? Fluid flushes/changes are actually not terribly expensive if you find the right places to go.

December is a frightening prospect.

Just realized I never replied to you on this. I think I started to and then just trailed off...

But yeah, I fully intend to. It looks interesting, and I mean, you've been talking about it for a while so it's kind of hard for me not to have my curiosity piqued. This is just the opportunity that I needed/never expected.

so we gonna have a shutdown this year or nah

huh

Up up and away is the trend we'll probably be dealing with for a while.

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Sword Boys and Ship Girls

I thought that was Saturday

Is it Talk Like a Pirate Day

No u >:(

Casual schoolage, eternally waiting for games and having generally Pokestick, good times.

You?

Probably worse there than here. Our metro-wide vacancy rates were cited at ~2.7% last I saw, iirc.

Zyagarde/Vegeta

wat?

We're having a mid and low tier rent squeeze, ourselves. Developers only ever want to build the high margin high end stuff.

Well, some of them aren't totally morally reprehensible. Though the culture tends to be better in smaller mid size companies.

Minneapolis has 9 lakes in its city limits and Saint Paul has 7. None are as big as Lake Washington, though. And the largest lakes in the metro are all at a minimum 10 miles from either downtown. There are a hell of a lot of them in the area as well as a ton of both natural and manmade ponds and wetlands, but, again, none are anywhere near the size or engineering obstacle of Lake Washington. Our biggest, Lake Minnetonka is only about 23 square miles in surface area (and is composed of tons of bays and 2 main lake areas), while Lake Washington is about 34 square miles in surface area and is basically one large body of water with a large island on it.

Well, it's either Seattle or the Bay Area if you want a prestigious tech company name that everyone will recognize attached to your resume.

Though for non-tech jobs if you want to have a resume filled with Fortune 500 companies, Minneapolis is a better choice than Seattle since there's 16 to choose from versus 10.