H2O

Chief Timer of all the lands and the Lord Humangous of B meets

Just wanted to drop by and let @Jonger know some good personal news. This shitplant worker is retiring tomorrow. No more scooping turds and having coworkers heckle me while at the water cooler. I get to enjoy something you won't. its called a pension. And it will pay me more in retirement than if I kept working. And it won't be going anywhere cause the pension lasts as long as the shitplant lasts. And given the amount of poo people you support like to generate it will be around for forever. Here's the other thing, Captain Gorton's beer battered fish sticks, I just turned 50. So I get to enjoy many many years of retirement. I'll be enjoying life and you will smell like squid bait and be slinging prawns for years to come. Hell, I might even buy some of your sashimi grade cod with my pension money. That glorious non taxpayer funded pension money. And my retirement fund. And my social security supplement. That I get monthly. All while living diabeetus free. Some will read this and wonder why I'm coming in here to post this. Its because for years on another board Jonger liked to joke and make fun of my job because he's: A) jelly b) Jelly and I'm better looking C) hates the idea people can work hard and retire before him D) also hate on people who work for a place that benefits society and be an essential industry. E) sucks at snowmobiling So he's earned this post from me. And I keep my pension regardless of marital status

Speaking of retirement. Tomorrow is my last day. Then

mattie G: "its *checks calendar* july"

Don't worry about it at all. You got this and will effing crush it. I just know it.

I'm so glad we don't do those. We just cram in IMs in the B meets. Which in itself is prolonging death. Hope it rains for you tho.

That wasn't me. I treasured every BN temp day like it was the first Coke slurpee you get out of the machine

Magic mountain still runs up to CAT 3 i think

Dont fret the OC trip. No Gloria for you. FL tho? Eeeeehhhhhhhhh, thats gonna be sketchy. Its their year. Gulf coast and NC/SC had it the last couple. Time to make an example of the worst state in the south(tough call tho)

my thoughts for today as well

no dying

Lets hope it goes the way you wish it would.

lots of SAL to flush out in the next couple weeks before i see anything popping

We def timed better.

Took over an hour to do free. We had an occasional breeze but we also were in a low lying area that had a trunk sewer line running along the creek. So the occasional whiff was pungent. The ONLY redeeming value from the meet was.....adult gatorade for timers. The host pool had margaritas in a jug. Oh man.

we didn't get done until 9:30. I'm def dead

110 heat index

This evening's B meet gonna suck. So close to retirement too

@FXW176 would be our resident expert. And he looks like ZZ Top now

Gonna find out today how the beach place faired. Neighbors will let us know.

Tree fell on a house just about 10 houses down from me. Total crush job

Apparently that storm NA1 posted dropped some serious rain and lots of thunder at home. My kid at a friends house lost power too

I have all kinds of creamed corn ready to go.

yum!!!! But I am safe from having the same fate as QueHeraHera

The one drawback I still have of being a meet official is that I can't really focus on my kids and watch them. I have to wait until after to find out how they did. Last night my daughter dropped a second in her fly leg of her relay and she was THRILLED!!! I can't enjoy that until the meet is done and want to cheer for her during the meet. Funny story. So two weeks ago at our B meet that was also hot I was doing assist chief timer due to being away at another pool. Well its winding down and we are in the IMs part. My oldest daughter is actually in the lane nearest to where I was doing my job. She's doing the IM and I see her starting to lag a little. So I broke form and went dad mode. Yelled loudly some encouragement. All of a sudden she kicked into high gear and rallied. After she got out she came to me and said "dad, I HEARD you!!!" And she said it helped. Thats what I wish I could do more.