Running Bear's September 2022 Coffee Shop

[Patrick]

Almost quitting time and I'm glad it's over....

Days like this make me wish I were closer to retirement....5 years, 5 months to 67...

 

[kbkchooch]

Almost quitting time and I'm glad it's over....

Days like this make me wish I were closer to retirement....5 years, 5 months to 67...

5 Years, 4 months for me!

 

[Jaz avalley]

Yep, those guys finally finding out they were lied to and are tired of the whole BS that's going on. People in Russia are protesting, most haven't heard if there loved one are alive or not, food shortages, high inflation, and so on. It's turning into a big mess over there.

FYI I feel sorry for the people of Russia, both in Russia and outside it, I have heard of horrible things said and done, the Ukrainian refugee near us speaks Russian not Ukrainian as many do. I would not be horrible to a person outside that country, and feel sorry for a lot of the Russian lads, I will also say not much sympathy for the non Russian conscripts tho. war is a terrible business.

 

[santafewillie]

Almost quitting time and I'm glad it's over....

Days like this make me wish I were closer to retirement....5 years, 5 months to 67...

5 Years, 4 months for me!

You don't have to wait that long. You just can't claim full sociable security pay until 67! You can still get Medicare at 65. I didn't wait, my circumstances allowed me to retire at 63. Never looked over my shoulder afterward.

 

[Smudge617]

FYI I feel sorry for the people of Russia, both in Russia and outside it, I have heard of horrible things said and done, the Ukrainian refugee near us speaks Russian not Ukrainian as many do. I would not be horrible to a person outside that country, and feel sorry for a lot of the Russian lads, I will also say not much sympathy for the non Russian conscripts tho. war is a terrible business.

Ok, bit confused here. You have a Ukrainian refugee that only speaks Russian, correct? That's weird, most Ukrainians speak both, having to learn Russian in school when Ukrain was still part of the USSR

 

[Boris]

Oh, my Crabby friend,

I never expected the playoffs this year. I would enjoy it!
"It aint over till it's over" Is there any need to credit Yogi for his quotes?

I look at it this way. So, we lost six out of the last ten? The baby birds were competitive in nine of those ten games. The Blue Jays are seventeen games over .500 and the Red Sox are only three games under. Both tough opponents. Yesterday was a 1-0 loss and the birds are still 6 games over .500.

Who knows the way Camden Yards plays now with the wall moved back. We might even attract a free agent starter in the off season. I can dream, can't I? Either way we are ok. The system is stocked with strong live arms.

For me it is all about improvement, not a playoff race. I see better days on the horizon.

Not for nothing, I expected the Birds to rival the Nats for the absolute worst record in MLB, again this year. I find it difficult to follow the Birds in the off season, and I don't always remember to check the schedule for the MLB out of market telecast. So, I was shocked and surprised to see just how strong their player development has been, and that all these new people are actually competent ball players from day one with the big team.
It was an exciting season, to see them come back from, what?, 15 games below ,500 ? I hope they recover sufficiently from this slump to finish 10 games over ,500. It would be a tremendous milestone. Regardless what happens, they have had a successful season, but I want more...

 

[D&J RailRoad]

Ahhhhh, retirement. I did that a few years back.
Worked till I was almost 69 merely because I enjoyed my job and really didn't have anything else to do of great interest. I was still doing long trips on the bike for some meetings and occasion use of vacation time.
Didn't draw SS till I was able to pull the full check. I was already drawing on my late wife's account as her survivor. Basically, that was my hobby money.

 

[bnsf971]

Ok, bit confused here. You have a Ukrainian refugee that only speaks Russian, correct? That's weird, most Ukrainians speak both, having to learn Russian in school when Ukrain was still part of the USSR

You DO know that ended about 1991 or so, right? And anybody born after around 1987 never had to participate in all that stuff... So, if they're younger than 35, they didn't have to learn Russian as part of their "education".

 

[Boris]

Ok, bit confused here. You have a Ukrainian refugee that only speaks Russian, correct? That's weird, most Ukrainians speak both, having to learn Russian in school when Ukrain was still part of the USSR

Smudge: My Maternal Grand Parents, were from Lithuania. They immigrated in 1905.Our next door neighbors, came from the Ukraine. They came here within a few years of my Grandparents. When my father bought the house next to the Yaceks, in 1949. Their family had been raised and on their own. All were rather successful. The couple were "empty nesters". My "Grandmom", only spoke Lithuanian, she never learned English, or American customs. "Pop", however, was fluent in not only his native language, but Russian, Polish, German, and English. (He also learned Italian while working for Baldwin Locomotive). He would sit there on the porch and have conversations with the Yaceks in Russian. (He also would speak Russian with the Shamoffs across the street, who immigrated from Russia. All of these folks left their former homelands before the establishment of the Soviet Union. I think the real difference between Ukranian and Russian, is regional dialect, similar to New Yawk and Georgia and Alabama English or for that matter, Brit English and US English. Another factor, is Ukranians who belong to the Ukranian Orthodox Church, vs those who belong to the Byzantine Rite Catholic Church...creates a divide that is only meaningful to those involved. I lived in a community where both the Ukranian and Russian neighborhoods still spoke in Russian. The discussion of separate languages may be true, but it was new to me.

 

[bnsf971]

Good evening. It's mostly clear and 77.
Earlier this evening, I went down a Google rabbit hole.
For whatever reason, I started humming the Armour Hot Dog jingle, and realized I hadn't seen Armour hot dogs in quite a while. So...
I found out Armour had been acquired by Greyhound (the bus company) in 1970, Stevie Nicks' (Fleetwood Mac) father was one of the mucky-mucks for the company, they owned Dial soap, and Armour Pharmaceuticals. These were sold to Revlon, Smithfield, and ConAgra.
All this doesn't mean anything, other than a lot of time was wasted reading up on this. All because I started humming about the dog kids love to bite...

 

[santafewillie]

Good evening. It's mostly clear and 77.
Earlier this evening, I went down a Google rabbit hole.
For whatever reason, I started humming the Armour Hot Dog jingle, and realized I hadn't seen Armour hot dogs in quite a while. So...
I found out Armour had been acquired by Greyhound (the bus company) in 1970, Stevie Nicks' (Fleetwood Mac) father was one of the mucky-mucks for the company, they owned Dial soap, and Armour Pharmaceuticals. These were sold to Revlon, Smithfield, and ConAgra.
All this doesn't mean anything, other than a lot of time was wasted reading up on this. All because I started humming about the dog kids love to bite...

So how many of us do you think followed you down that rabbit hole too?

 

[CambriaArea51]

Tom- That's funny. I looked H&R up on internet and it appears to be open.

That's good, when talking with the locals at the time the owner wanted to retire.

 

[CambriaArea51]

FYI I feel sorry for the people of Russia, both in Russia and outside it, I have heard of horrible things said and done, the Ukrainian refugee near us speaks Russian not Ukrainian as many do. I would not be horrible to a person outside that country, and feel sorry for a lot of the Russian lads, I will also say not much sympathy for the non Russian conscripts tho. war is a terrible business.

I feel bad for the mothers and wives that don't know if their loved one is even alive. The Russian people are finding out more and more what really is going on from news outside their country. Many are surrendering or wounding themselves just to get out of the fighting.

 

[Smudge617]

Smudge: My Maternal Grand Parents, were from Lithuania. They immigrated in 1905.Our next door neighbors, came from the Ukraine. They came here within a few years of my Grandparents. When my father bought the house next to the Yaceks, in 1949. Their family had been raised and on their own. All were rather successful. The couple were "empty nesters". My "Grandmom", only spoke Lithuanian, she never learned English, or American customs. "Pop", however, was fluent in not only his native language, but Russian, Polish, German, and English. (He also learned Italian while working for Baldwin Locomotive). He would sit there on the porch and have conversations with the Yaceks in Russian. (He also would speak Russian with the Shamoffs across the street, who immigrated from Russia. All of these folks left their former homelands before the establishment of the Soviet Union. I think the real difference between Ukranian and Russian, is regional dialect, similar to New Yawk and Georgia and Alabama English or for that matter, Brit English and US English. Another factor, is Ukranians who belong to the Ukranian Orthodox Church, vs those who belong to the Byzantine Rite Catholic Church...creates a divide that is only meaningful to those involved. I lived in a community where both the Ukranian and Russian neighborhoods still spoke in Russian. The discussion of separate languages may be true, but it was new to me.

My understanding is that only Russian speaking Ukrainians come from the Dombas Slobozhanshchyna and southern parts of Odessa and Zaporizhia oblasts regions.

Fun fact.

The Ukrainian language and country are older than Russia and Russian, is derived from Finnish.

 

[TLOC]

So how many of us do you think followed you down that rabbit hole too?

I did after I couldn’t get the tune out of my head

 

[Smudge617]

Smudge: My Maternal Grand Parents, were from Lithuania. They immigrated in 1905.Our next door neighbors, came from the Ukraine. They came here within a few years of my Grandparents. When my father bought the house next to the Yaceks, in 1949. Their family had been raised and on their own. All were rather successful. The couple were "empty nesters". My "Grandmom", only spoke Lithuanian, she never learned English, or American customs. "Pop", however, was fluent in not only his native language, but Russian, Polish, German, and English. (He also learned Italian while working for Baldwin Locomotive). He would sit there on the porch and have conversations with the Yaceks in Russian. (He also would speak Russian with the Shamoffs across the street, who immigrated from Russia. All of these folks left their former homelands before the establishment of the Soviet Union. I think the real difference between Ukranian and Russian, is regional dialect, similar to New Yawk and Georgia and Alabama English or for that matter, Brit English and US English. Another factor, is Ukranians who belong to the Ukranian Orthodox Church, vs those who belong to the Byzantine Rite Catholic Church...creates a divide that is only meaningful to those involved. I lived in a community where both the Ukranian and Russian neighborhoods still spoke in Russian. The discussion of separate languages may be true, but it was new to me.

My understanding is that only Russian speaking Ukrainians come from the Dombas Slobozhanshchyna and southern parts of Odessa and Zaporizhia oblasts regions.

Russian and Ukrainian are distinctly different languages and not a different dialect or accent. Russians don't understand Ukrainian, but weirdly most Ukrainians do understand Russian.

Fun fact.

Ukraine and it's language, is older than Russia, whose language is partly derived from Finnish.

 

[Smudge617]

You DO know that ended about 1991 or so, right? And anybody born after around 1987 never had to participate in all that stuff... So, if they're younger than 35, they didn't have to learn Russian as part of their "education".

Yeah, I'm aware, but certain parts of Ukraine are still only Russian speaking, mainly in the Dombas, Slobozhanshchyna and southern parts of Odessa and Zaporizhia oblast regions

 

[TLOC]

I guess it depends on where you get your information from. I have 2 friends living and working as consultants in Russia. One is a Canadian and the other a son of USA Russian immigrants who because he could speak the language took the consultancy. Both have been there since 2018. Most Americans have left but not all.

Neither report any more shortages then what they were experiencing in 2021. They do report though that like in the USA businesses are having trouble hiring help. They both terribly miss the McDonalds though. They see very few American goods. They miss mainly the soaps, detergents, Campbell soups and chain restaurants.

Both have told me Russian media started a few months to question what’s going on. The Internet has not been throttled back or blocked to their knowledge. So access to the outside world is still available.

 

[Smudge617]

I feel bad for the mothers and wives that don't know if their loved one is even alive. The Russian people are finding out more and more what really is going on from news outside their country. Many are surrendering or wounding themselves just to get out of the fighting.

Unfortunately as all news is state controlled it's being described as propaganda and as one American put it "fake news" so they are having a hard time believing what's true or not, but the Russian governments handling of this is making the case for the "fake" more plausible.

 

[PNKFLOYD]

Both my wife and I are finding this Covid episode's worst problem being the isolation.
We were supposed to have relatives to stay overnight last night and fly out this morning at 6 AM to Salt Lake City. One daughter got to be the motel before going to work and the other daughter became the taxi driver.
I was up anyway working on my pipe loads as shown below. I will have to decide which ones to keep.
(The camo pipe is used on above ground pipe lines to blend with the background. lol)