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21 hours ago, RogerDuke said:
Off the subject....I am so mad right now. My wife worked a double shift today. Her workplace has been having trouble finding employees the past 2 years so has been offering more and more money to attract people. They are now offering to pay their newly hired secretaries the same amount per hour that she is making.....AND SHE HAS BEEN THERE 44 YEARS!
I guess this is not the fault of management. They need people and this is the only way to get them. The government is just paying more money for people to stay home than work. Oh well, we aren't supposed to get political here. We can only do that if defending the Dukes so I won't go any further. It's infuriating. I can't wait for her to retire....hopefully in the fall.
Yeah and the younger generation thinks they should be making $20+ an hour and get hour lunches and half hour breaks and also make their own hours. One of them got their walking papers a few weeks ago at the wife's work when they went off on the foreman for changing their break.
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Lesson learned: Don't ever EVER buy a vehicle from family!!! Because they will never let you forget the deal they gave you. If it was my decision I would put a for sale sign in it tomorrow but it's the wife's car so it's up to her.
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21 hours ago, RogerDuke said:
Any New Year's Eve plans? My wife never stays up until midnight anymore but I always do....usually watching Christmas cartoons.
Visiting family for postponed Christmas. We never make it to midnight, either crash on the couch or in bed.
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On 12/24/2022 at 5:14 PM, Hobie Hartkins said:
we're having all that rolling black out crap where I am to!
Electric car owners in warmer climates that got the extremely frigid temperatures found out one thing about their better for the environment vehicle's....they won't charge in such cold temperatures
. One Tesla owner in Virginia found out the hard way when they tried charging at home and when that didn't work they drove to a nearby Tesla supercharger spot where it once again failed to charge, in fact it drained the battery further . That would explain why I only seen one electric car on the road over the frigid weekend.
This is why I say automakers should be throwing their money into hybrids instead of only electric cars. For one our national electric grid is not up to the task and is proving quite vulnerable to weather and attacks.
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6 hours ago, RogerDuke said:
Merry Christmas everybody. We are more than half way through the storm and still haven't lost our electric. I hope it stays that way. Our daughter and her family are visiting from out of town so electricity is always nice with a full house!
We just received an email from our electric provider that there's the possibility of rolling blackouts for the next 24 hours due to the grid being pushed to near limits. I really hope not as our heater is electric and so is the stove.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Yeah going to be a weird weather week. Christmas day is going to be about 15 degrees and new years day 60 degrees here.
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On 12/4/2022 at 11:06 AM, Garrett Duke said:
I never saw a cat on Dukes...but they tried blaming a sound on a cat when they were held captive on the farm. But Rosco or someone had to pipe in that they don't have a cat. LOL.
Thank you. <3
I swear I remember an episode where Bo or Luke is petting an orange cat when they were visiting someone.
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Speaking of the boxed set WB has put out a new one for the holidays this year that's even slimmer than last year's so it takes up less space on your shelf. Several stores had it on sale for $59.99 - 69.99, it includes the reunion movies too I think. However I also read in a few reviews that there is an issue with one of the DVD's not playing right so be warned.
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Welcome back Garret
Between work and my crazy personal life the past few months I haven't had time to update this topic either.
Silly Season Scorecard https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2022/12/17/silly-season-scorecard-a-new-mix-for-the-new-year/
As Garrett already stated Jimmie Johnson has bought an ownership stake in Petty/GMS Racing https://www.jayski.com/2022/11/04/jimmie-johnson-to-obtain-ownership-stake-in-petty-gms/
Jeffrey Earnhardt has joined Alpha Prime Racing and will drive the #44 Camaro in the Xfinity series https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2022/12/13/jeffrey-earnhardt-joins-alpha-prime-racing-xfinity-team-for-2023/
3F Racing has secured an Owners license and the #30 and has partnered with Chevrolet and is looking to debut some time in the Spring of 2023 https://www.jayski.com/2022/12/20/german-3f-racing-looking-to-enter-nascar-in-2023/ It will be the first European owned team in NASCAR Cup series.
Front Row Motorsports has signed extensions with drivers Michael McDowell and Todd Gilliland for 2023 https://www.jayski.com/2022/12/15/michael-mcdowell-and-todd-gilliland-return-to-front-row-motorsports-in-2023/
Stewart Haas Racing has had to make a driver change after Aric Almirola decided to stay for one more season. Ryan Preece was going to drive the #10 but will now drive the #41 and Cole Custer has been demoted back down to the Xfinity series https://www.jayski.com/2022/11/16/ryan-preece-replacing-cole-custer-in-cup-custer-moving-to-xfinity-series-with-stewart-haas-racing/
Kevin Harvick has stated he will decide by the Daytona 500 if he will retire in 2023 or seek a contract extension with Stewart Haas Racing.
Xfinity series champion Ty Gibbs, grandson of Joe Gibbs, will be moving up to cup and drive the #54 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing https://www.jayski.com/2022/11/15/ty-gibbs-moving-to-cup-series-in-2023-driving-no-54-toyota/
Helio Castroneves is still trying to get a ride for the 2023 Daytona 500 https://www.jayski.com/2022/12/06/helio-castroneves-to-run-nascar-race/
NASCAR is working on a Wet Weather package for short track racing and might debut it for the 2023 season https://www.jayski.com/2022/12/23/nascar-expected-to-have-wet-weather-package-for-short-tracks-next-season/
Jimmie Johnson tested the Garage 56 LeMans entry at VIR a few weeks ago https://www.jayski.com/2022/12/16/hendrick-garage-56-le-mans-entry-tests-at-vir/
The Race Team Alliance is looking into doing off-season exhibition races https://www.jayski.com/2022/11/30/race-team-alliance-considering-exhibition-races/
Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, oh and only 57 more days till the Daytona 500.
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3 hours ago, Hobie Hartkins said:
Health!!
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I stuffed myself the past few days lol. Work had a potluck on Wednesday and then had two thanksgiving dinners yesterday. Definitely feeling it today, probably skip breakfast this morning.
I'll definitely never forget this Thanksgiving. I'm 43 years old and people trying to dictate how I'm going to live my life like I have no
choice. We're still in shock after being blindsided yesterday. We never agreed to it or even had any input yet apparently the decision has been made and my family thinks it's a done deal 
. I don't know how the heck the discussion from last week that my dad's house needs renovated to bring it up to live-able code automatically turned into we're moving in and and taking care of him. I and my wife never agreed to that. In my opinion the house should be sold as is and my dad should move into an apartment or senior assisted apartment. It's probably going to cost $20-30,000 just to bring it up to current home code regulations and fix the things that he let go when he was in good health.
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It's like I'm living a Twilight Zone episode right now where common sense doesn't exist and multi time convicted felons have more rights than law abiding citizens. Our nightmare from two years ago is back and apparently the previous manager erased all records and history of complaints against them as the new manager can't find anything on him, even the no trespassing order. This
is not even a resident and he has more rights than the residents do 
. I even sent the new manager videos from our ring doorbell camera from 2020 showing him threatening us and other residents. She said they were very disturbing but there's nothing they can do without that no trespassing order. I guess it's going to take this psychopath to physically attack someone before they actually give a . I can not believe we're going through this again. What in the actual is wrong with this world these days!?! Like I don't have enough going on in my life right now!!!!! WHY WHY WHY????!
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Hope you get better soon Roger.
My dad was in and out of the hospital again. All the meds that were prescribed to him dried his kidneys out and put him into renal failure so he was rushed to the ER. They caught it early enough to reverse it. However his kidneys are only functioning at 40% due to him waiting so long to go to the hospital back in September for the heart failure. He was discharged again Monday and he's doing ok. He's getting his wisdom teeth pulled sometime next week. Then they will schedule the heart surgery a few weeks after that.
Wife got clearance to go back to work this week so she dived in and even did overtime. Nothing like taking it easy your first week back lol.
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Garret you're not the only one that didn't watch the whole Clash. Once they got to the "halftime" show I turned it off. I'm with Dale jr I hope this is the last year they do the coliseum race. There's plenty of short tracks on the west coast they could hold this race instead of having to temporarily build one. Or better yet move it to a short track in Florida and bring back the speed weeks.