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I used to be a TTI rep (Ryobi, Rigid, Milwaukee and more) and worked in the Home Depot’s. In the summer it would be dead inside the store due to Bakersfield’s heat. They finally put A/C to hopefully draw customers back in. But I will gladly go to Lowe’s over Home Depot, it’s such a sh*t show with them.

 

He and others

 

I am surprised some of you's are surprised that you are being tracked. Please don't tell me some you's have Alexa type stuff in your home and are surprised you're being tracked.

 

If you're truly paranoid, you avoid all commercial software and compile your own from scratch tailored to the machine you use... I lived that way for about 15 years. No worries for me when the _NSAKEY controversy hit...

 

Unless someone here is on the NSA Watch list....I'm not too concerned. I don't wanna be considered guilty by association.

Otherwise they can track all the other mundane crap that I browse through.

 

Um... Have you met some of these guys?!?

 

If you had to pick one…

 

... pick a winner!

 

We are all hypocrites. We all grumble about Big Brother and or communications companies spying on us and the like, yet we all continue to use means that make it possible.

 

I received my first debit card in the early '80s. I'm pretty sure I've been tracked ever since.

 

That’s why the MTB Hottie Boys thread is brilliant.

https://www.imtbtrails.com/forum/threads/where-are-all-the-hottie-mtb-boys.6359/

Click on it!

 

I got my military "secret" security clearance in 1982. That just guarantees that the government has no idea where I live, who I associate with, or what my political stances might be.

I went into a Social Security office to get a replacement Social Security card and they looked at me like I had just arrived from Mars... despite having a driver's license, passport, and Global Entry card. Apparently it was ok for them to print my Social Security number on my dog tags so that my body could be identified if I were killed in combat... but to get a replacement card was asking too much!

 

You did it wrong. I created a SSA account (so they'd know nothing about me) and ordered a replacement via that. Showed up in a few days.

 

Outstanding. Closely matched by the inner tube shot. Mikie, you’re a good sport. No, a great sport!

 

Yep, easy-peasy via the mail. We misplaced one of the kid's and needed to get a replacement. NBD.

 

Well... I didn't want to get into the gory details, but I HAVE a SSA account. I went online to order a replacement card, and they said I couldn't do it online and that I had to go into an office. I went into the office with three forms of ID, and (after waiting in a queue for more than an hour) they looked at me... looked at my ID... and then said "hold on a minute" and then a bunch of them huddled for a whispered conversation in the back of the office. Then the manager came to the window and said that there was a "problem" with my social security account, and they couldn't tell me what it was, and that I had to come back with a certified copy of my birth certificate. (Note that I have been receiving annual Social Security account statements from the first year I started working decades ago). So I get a certified copy of my birth certificate, return to the office, wait in line for over an hour, and fortunately get a different window with a Marine vet who said "let me get to the bottom of this". Turns out they had to correct my Social Security account because it had my birth location listed as "LOMBARDUPA"... which as far as I know is not a location on this planet. Sitting in the waiting room I had my mom on the phone and she was like "tell them if they can't figure out where you were born that I'll be happy to talk to them because I was there!" LOL! Don't make me unleash mom on you!

End of story - they used my birth certificate to edit my place of birth in my Social Security account... and then sent me a new card

 

And I'm suddenly reminded of Kafka's "Before the Law".

Everyone should take 5 minutes and read some Kafka... Just understand that the original German is far superior to the translation.

https://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html

 

It did give me a slight understanding for the plight of people who have their identity stolen, or people who are mistakenly listed as "deceased".

The whole reason why I wanted to get a copy of my Social Security card was because I needed it to get "VETERAN" printed on my driver's license. I had the original copy of my DD-214 (my official government record of my military service) and amazingly - it has my Social Security number printed on it. But apparently that wasn't good enough, and I needed ANOTHER form of ID with my Social Security number on it. Talk about a rabbit hole.

And of course, three months after I got "VETERAN" on my California driver's license... I moved out of the state. LOL!

 

Well, if I could remember enough written German I'd do that.....

At this point I don't think I'm going to bother relearning it. I'm kinda on Mark Twain's side on that one.

 

You did it wrong you should have said you are from Del Rio Tx and born in Port au Prince. Your uncle Joe said get a new ID. Everyone is doing it that way now

 

Literary references rolling over like a cloud…



@da big hills, here’s a challenge: no flying colors. Landlord’s orders and good sense.

 

Yep…

 

Tell me who you voted for without telling me who you voted for..


Disclaimer;
I don't actually want to hear it... Popular meme for the luddites out there. Ok. Thanks.

 

Assuming you haven't already read it, if'n you want a good chuckle see https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

Or https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/awful-german-language-mark-twain

 

soooo sorry. it seemed like a applicable view.

 

I voted for the candidate who is going to benefit me the most. Just like everyone else

 

Speaking for everyone else: A great way to be wrong.

 

Grand opening of the new local bike shop on foothill in Monrovia. Rad Bikes.

Currently a Revel, Yeti and Santa Cruz dealer.

 

That's also the name of a big ebike company.
Wonder if there will be any confusion?

 

My MWBA bell is amazing. Significantly louder than similar bells. Must be the better batteries.