Martinez seems accessible to the regulars @Patrick @ceffer @RichWicks The train ride along San Pablo Bay and then the southern shore of the Carquinez Strait is cool. @mell It's a nice drive down 29 to 12 and then 680 to Martinez
I know a cool place where we could enjoy some micro brew and food and just hang out for an hour or two.
Invite only. I don't want exact time and place to be published. Afraid of ducks driving by or someone coming to my house.
Anyone else interested in going to a party to celebrate the mega-post that Patrick could vet as not dangerous? .
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday July 28 through 31? The first weekend of August 4th through 7th?
Who's interested in a get together the next couple of weekends?
I haven't met BayArea, but he seems OK from his comments.
He's a total dick (that's a joke). I like that you said he "seems ok" though. His comments seem pretty straight forward, and doesn't get aggressive with others. BayArea is one of the users I'd be interested to meet.
I'd love to get out there. Need notice though as I'd have to fly obviously. Don't plan anything around me though. I'd need probably 30 day notice. I've only been to the Bay area twice and I was 18 or younger. So I really don't know the geography of the places you're talking about, though I could easily figure it out.
I've been wanting to do a solo trip with no real end goal. And not with friends or family. I've done it for a night here or there non-work related (Spokane, WA is fun solo), but I think it would be fun. I'm the main parent as my wife travels a lot, so I'd love to get a break from the kids so I don't go crazy.
I'm up for it, and San Jose is OK for me, for harder for those in the East Bay.
We just need strong leadership to pick a date and place.
Date is probably most important. From there location. I'd love to try and do it, just depends on flights and as long as the wife isn't traveling herself. You guys can just drive and don't need lodging. So my prep would take more time. I'll give it a shot if you get a date. I know CA traffic is a bitch, but once there I can figure it out and don't really care location as long as it's not ghetto. Even then I'm okay. Just prefer something nicer. Dive bars are fun.
Have fun fellow patnetters! I'm stuck here on the east coast at least until Labor Day. Social calandsr is already pretty full!
I was going to ask where you live, but NYC is pretty obvious. I'm trying to help a friend move out of this shithole.
I'm almost tempted to recommend Malta, but it's NY. NY is as bad as Commiefornia. I'm thinking of the research triangle on the east coast. He's not going to put up with the LGBTQ shit.
San Jose is OK. Martinez is a stretch from my stomping grounds.
Expand your horizons! Martinez is a two hour train ride from San Jose. Martinez is quaint. If it wasn't the county seat it would be dead. Because the jail, court, and administrative buildings are in town it's quite lively.
@WookieMan How about any Saturday? You pick the Saturday, and if you get a plane ticket, the rest of us will conform to that.
October 8th would be the earliest. I'm not accounting for kids soccer either as we don't have the schedule yet. And my wife's fall schedule fluctuates. But the 8th is the first clean date. Or not... Just checked the calendar, wife is at a conference Friday the 7th. I really cannot give a solid date at this point.
I want to get out there, but it's going to be really hard. I'm at the mercy of kids and the wife's schedule since she kicks my ass in earnings. It's not a money thing, just timing. A 9, 10 & 11 year old consume a lot. Plus we're super social.
Maybe it's another meetup. I'll 100% be out in San Diego fall 2023. I know it's a long time away. Maybe plan and make it an annual thing in different parts of CA for a night/weekend. In the meantime you guys might want to plan your own time for the million post party. Spring break 2023 in March might be possible as well and I can sneak off. I'll comment again on this tonight or tomorrow. Putting our dog down in 30 minutes. So distracted.
Putting our dog down in 30 minutes. So distracted.
Sorry about that. I know how hard that is.
It sucked as usual. #4 for me personally. Basket case as I tend to be. Good dog, but it was time. Did it in home.
We're done with dogs. This shit is hard. It's going to be weird being an animal empty nester. Maybe in 20 years, but our kids are too busy and so are we. It's not fair to the dog. For some reason I have more emotion with a dog than a human when they pass. Probably because you're playing god so to speak and ending a life. You can't turn back.
Let me get my head together and see what I can do. I've shared way too much info here about my life and so it's going to be weird explaining to the wife, so that's the other layer. I'm committed to doing it though. I'll figure something out. Just not right now.
We're done with dogs. This shit is hard. It's going to be weird being an animal empty nester. Maybe in 20 years, but our kids are too busy and so are we. It's not fair to the dog. For some reason I have more emotion with a dog than a human when they pass. Probably because you're playing god so to speak and ending a life. You can't turn back.
Yeah, you spend their entire life to keep them healthy and happy, and you have to kill them in the end. God mode sucks.
You might enjoy doing dog fostering for a rescue group. That's how I started, but I'll warn you that you will eventually get a dog that is awesome, and wouldn't be well suited to anybody else other than you. That's how I got mine and you'll not want to give it up. I got two dogs that way, and when I put them down, I was done.
Let me get my head together and see what I can do. I've shared way too much info here about my life and so it's going to be weird explaining to the wife, so that's the other layer. I'm committed to doing it though. I'll figure something out. Just not right now.
Well, this is not my call, but I wouldn't care if you brought your family along. Do they know your political views?
Hopefully me. I still might need a little help with getting it done.
Side note: I once went sailing with a couple nurses (male). They were debating on the best way to end it and the conclusion was to get blackout drunk and fall off the back of the boat.
They were sailors.
One of the nurses fought and beat lung cancer. Unfortunately he then came down with brain cancer. Before he lost his mind and the pain got too great he arranged to overdose on morphine. He had a chance to say goodbye and did not have to go to the hospital and languish until the inevitable end.
My mother died of brain cancer in 2008. I flew back to visit when my sister said our mother was dying, and found that the nursing home was clearly giving her too much morphine. I made them stop, and she was no longer immediately "dying" and had a few more months where she was quite coherent.
The nursing home was definitely going to kill her with morphine, without anyone asking them to, least of all my mother herself. Maybe they wanted to save money or free up a bed, but it was not about pain.
In the end, the brain tumor paralyzed her to the point where she could not swallow anything, and since she was in hospice care, she died of thirst. They don't do anything at all to save you in hospice, no matter how simple or easy. People forget that. That was grim, takes about a week. Don't believe anyone who tells you you'll die in 3 days without water. Maybe in a desert you would, but not in bed.
She probably would have lasted quite a bit longer again with merely a saline drip, but they wouldn't do it. It was never clear to me what the best thing to do was.
She probably would have lasted quite a bit longer again with merely a saline drip, but they wouldn't do it. It was never clear to me what the best thing to do was.
Consider your own impending death.
I've experimented with starvation. It's not painful, although people claim it is. I've stopped eating for 2 weeks. After day 3, you are no longer hungry, but you don't function well, but there's no pain. At some point, I expect that's how I will die. It's acceptable in Catholicism.
My grandmother used to lie down "out of tiredness", and my well meaning mother, father, and her sister convinced her to see a doctor. She was put on a ton of medications, and lived 20 more years in a mist. When she broke her hip, she was taken off from all medications and became aware again. She lived 20 years in senility because of drugs. The drugs MAY have prolonged her life, but in a way, they ended it.
My mother is on statins, I have warned my parents against them, they attack all cholesterol, and that's what your brain MOSTLY is. Mom is in senility now, nobody listens to me though, I'm an engineer, my brother is a nurse. He's a true believer in all this bullshit. He knows more about medicine than I do for certain, but I know corruption better than anybody in my family.
Death is inevitable though, but I've seen dead people walking in my life. My mother is happy to hear from me, but, she remembers me as I was 30 years ago. They did the same fucking thing to her they did to her mother. Fuck them. They are parasites.
I have ZERO trust in medical professionals. If I die in 5 years, fine, better than giving these goddamn vultures anything. Look at these fucking sniveling shithead cowards, they MUST know the vaccines are useless, when we do. Yet how many of these mother fuckers will stand up? 0.01%? SOME do, very few do.
Same for my profession. I'm an EE in Silicon Valley. Our corporations spy on you, infringe your rights, silence you, lie to you. My colleagues enable that. It's a paycheck, even if it means their kids become slaves. They profit from it. We are INFESTED with the intelligence agencies, you didn't break terms of service when you were suspended, you told the truth, and our government doesn't want the public to know the truth.
I'm so fucking disgusted with the corporations WE CREATED.
We have to make a system that can't be centrally controlled. Nobody to bribe, nobody to threaten, complete dispersion.
We are an EARLY technological civilization. Remember that, but we are approaching a stability. In 1000 years, the visual display you have as a TV won't be any better, it can't be any better, nor will be audio. We are fast approaching the fastest computer chip, maybe it can be 100 times faster, but do you need or care about that? It's probably less than 10 times, probably less than 5. Now that we've done the fundamental work, let's see what society does with it.
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Martinez is pretty cool. It was the place to go to during the pandemic as they close down the streets on the weekends and let people eat outside.
@patrick What did you think of Martinez?
Martinez seems accessible to the regulars @Patrick @ceffer @RichWicks The train ride along San Pablo Bay and then the southern shore of the Carquinez Strait is cool. @mell It's a nice drive down 29 to 12 and then 680 to Martinez
I know a cool place where we could enjoy some micro brew and food and just hang out for an hour or two.
Invite only. I don't want exact time and place to be published. Afraid of ducks driving by or someone coming to my house.
Anyone else interested in going to a party to celebrate the mega-post that Patrick could vet as not dangerous? .
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday July 28 through 31? The first weekend of August 4th through 7th?
Who's interested in a get together the next couple of weekends?
I’m in pleasanton
Pleasanton a quick drive up 680 the other way from mell.
Can Patrick Vouch for you that you're not crazy?
I meant dangerous. We're all a little crazy at this point.
I've been interested in doing that train ride. I think any of those weekends are OK with me.
He's a total dick (that's a joke). I like that you said he "seems ok" though. His comments seem pretty straight forward, and doesn't get aggressive with others. BayArea is one of the users I'd be interested to meet.
I'd love to get out there. Need notice though as I'd have to fly obviously. Don't plan anything around me though. I'd need probably 30 day notice. I've only been to the Bay area twice and I was 18 or younger. So I really don't know the geography of the places you're talking about, though I could easily figure it out.
I've been wanting to do a solo trip with no real end goal. And not with friends or family. I've done it for a night here or there non-work related (Spokane, WA is fun solo), but I think it would be fun. I'm the main parent as my wife travels a lot, so I'd love to get a break from the kids so I don't go crazy.
You in the Bay Area?
I think one person has put me on ignore during that time and I still can’t figure out why.
Work in tech, EE background, married with kids.
Rest assured, even if I vehemently disagree with you here, I'm pleasant drunk.
We meeting up or what? Did I miss out on anybody in this thread?
You know, San Jose might be a good central point to meet, it's at the end of the bay. San Jose isn't as horrible as it once was.
I'm taking time off, so I don't care really where it is, I can travel. I'm just throwing shit out there.
We just need strong leadership to pick a date and place.
Date is probably most important. From there location. I'd love to try and do it, just depends on flights and as long as the wife isn't traveling herself. You guys can just drive and don't need lodging. So my prep would take more time. I'll give it a shot if you get a date. I know CA traffic is a bitch, but once there I can figure it out and don't really care location as long as it's not ghetto. Even then I'm okay. Just prefer something nicer. Dive bars are fun.
@WookieMan How about any Saturday? You pick the Saturday, and if you get a plane ticket, the rest of us will conform to that.
I was going to ask where you live, but NYC is pretty obvious. I'm trying to help a friend move out of this shithole.
I'm almost tempted to recommend Malta, but it's NY. NY is as bad as Commiefornia. I'm thinking of the research triangle on the east coast. He's not going to put up with the LGBTQ shit.
Maryland, but used to live in the Bay Area.
Expand your horizons! Martinez is a two hour train ride from San Jose. Martinez is quaint. If it wasn't the county seat it would be dead. Because the jail, court, and administrative buildings are in town it's quite lively.
Works for me.
@WookieMan When's the party?
October 8th would be the earliest. I'm not accounting for kids soccer either as we don't have the schedule yet. And my wife's fall schedule fluctuates. But the 8th is the first clean date. Or not... Just checked the calendar, wife is at a conference Friday the 7th. I really cannot give a solid date at this point.
I want to get out there, but it's going to be really hard. I'm at the mercy of kids and the wife's schedule since she kicks my ass in earnings. It's not a money thing, just timing. A 9, 10 & 11 year old consume a lot. Plus we're super social.
Maybe it's another meetup. I'll 100% be out in San Diego fall 2023. I know it's a long time away. Maybe plan and make it an annual thing in different parts of CA for a night/weekend. In the meantime you guys might want to plan your own time for the million post party. Spring break 2023 in March might be possible as well and I can sneak off. I'll comment again on this tonight or tomorrow. Putting our dog down in 30 minutes. So distracted.
Sorry about that. I know how hard that is.
It sucked as usual. #4 for me personally. Basket case as I tend to be. Good dog, but it was time. Did it in home.
We're done with dogs. This shit is hard. It's going to be weird being an animal empty nester. Maybe in 20 years, but our kids are too busy and so are we. It's not fair to the dog. For some reason I have more emotion with a dog than a human when they pass. Probably because you're playing god so to speak and ending a life. You can't turn back.
Let me get my head together and see what I can do. I've shared way too much info here about my life and so it's going to be weird explaining to the wife, so that's the other layer. I'm committed to doing it though. I'll figure something out. Just not right now.
Yeah, you spend their entire life to keep them healthy and happy, and you have to kill them in the end. God mode sucks.
You might enjoy doing dog fostering for a rescue group. That's how I started, but I'll warn you that you will eventually get a dog that is awesome, and wouldn't be well suited to anybody else other than you. That's how I got mine and you'll not want to give it up. I got two dogs that way, and when I put them down, I was done.
WookieMan says
Well, this is not my call, but I wouldn't care if you brought your family along. Do they know your political views?
Hopefully me. I still might need a little help with getting it done.
Side note: I once went sailing with a couple nurses (male). They were debating on the best way to end it and the conclusion was to get blackout drunk and fall off the back of the boat.
They were sailors.
One of the nurses fought and beat lung cancer. Unfortunately he then came down with brain cancer. Before he lost his mind and the pain got too great he arranged to overdose on morphine. He had a chance to say goodbye and did not have to go to the hospital and languish until the inevitable end.
The nursing home was definitely going to kill her with morphine, without anyone asking them to, least of all my mother herself. Maybe they wanted to save money or free up a bed, but it was not about pain.
In the end, the brain tumor paralyzed her to the point where she could not swallow anything, and since she was in hospice care, she died of thirst. They don't do anything at all to save you in hospice, no matter how simple or easy. People forget that. That was grim, takes about a week. Don't believe anyone who tells you you'll die in 3 days without water. Maybe in a desert you would, but not in bed.
She probably would have lasted quite a bit longer again with merely a saline drip, but they wouldn't do it. It was never clear to me what the best thing to do was.
Consider your own impending death.
I've experimented with starvation. It's not painful, although people claim it is. I've stopped eating for 2 weeks. After day 3, you are no longer hungry, but you don't function well, but there's no pain. At some point, I expect that's how I will die. It's acceptable in Catholicism.
My grandmother used to lie down "out of tiredness", and my well meaning mother, father, and her sister convinced her to see a doctor. She was put on a ton of medications, and lived 20 more years in a mist. When she broke her hip, she was taken off from all medications and became aware again. She lived 20 years in senility because of drugs. The drugs MAY have prolonged her life, but in a way, they ended it.
My mother is on statins, I have warned my parents against them, they attack all cholesterol, and that's what your brain MOSTLY is. Mom is in senility now, nobody listens to me though, I'm an engineer, my brother is a nurse. He's a true believer in all this bullshit. He knows more about medicine than I do for certain, but I know corruption better than anybody in my family.
Death is inevitable though, but I've seen dead people walking in my life. My mother is happy to hear from me, but, she remembers me as I was 30 years ago. They did the same fucking thing to her they did to her mother. Fuck them. They are parasites.
I have ZERO trust in medical professionals. If I die in 5 years, fine, better than giving these goddamn vultures anything. Look at these fucking sniveling shithead cowards, they MUST know the vaccines are useless, when we do. Yet how many of these mother fuckers will stand up? 0.01%? SOME do, very few do.
Same for my profession. I'm an EE in Silicon Valley. Our corporations spy on you, infringe your rights, silence you, lie to you. My colleagues enable that. It's a paycheck, even if it means their kids become slaves. They profit from it. We are INFESTED with the intelligence agencies, you didn't break terms of service when you were suspended, you told the truth, and our government doesn't want the public to know the truth.
I'm so fucking disgusted with the corporations WE CREATED.
We have to make a system that can't be centrally controlled. Nobody to bribe, nobody to threaten, complete dispersion.
We are an EARLY technological civilization. Remember that, but we are approaching a stability. In 1000 years, the visual display you have as a TV won't be any better, it can't be any better, nor will be audio. We are fast approaching the fastest computer chip, maybe it can be 100 times faster, but do you need or care about that? It's probably less than 10 times, probably less than 5. Now that we've done the fundamental work, let's see what society does with it.
You don't know the power you have.
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