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#231,701
That's why I stay away from the city limits. They can keep that shit.

I think Florida should close its borders and make interstates 75 and 95 northbound only.
I-10 should just allow for northward exits or the west border of FL.

Then, we can begin the exodus of the Ft Lauderdale and Miami areas.
Then Orlando, then most of Pinellas County.

Florida could once again be a great place to live.
 
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EddieNFL said:
Guaranteed. Back in October I4 eastbound was closed on a Saturday morning at 62. Took me three hours to cover 40 miles with maps constantly updating to ”faster” routes.
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Eddie, I don't envy you having to drive anything, anywhere near the I-4 corridor or even the Polk and orange parkways.
 
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hankpac said:
Doesn’t hurt my feelings. I retired from practice almost 20 years ago, when medicine became an industry. Admins destroyed medicine by various means including the ones you listed. I hate insurance companies, too.
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Same here;

Administrators and payers all seemed to know more about medicine that we did. I didn't realize that business schools included medicine in their curriculum. Fucking smug bastards.
 
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Maxwell said:
@168BTHPM, speaking of retirement, I still dream that one of my IBM mainframe systems has crashed & I have less than 1 hour to get everything back up & on line!

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What are the latest models? When I started (in college) it was the S-370s. I dealt with a 155 (OS/MVT) and a 138 (DOS/VS - which we converted to VSE/Power). When I left college, they had just introduced the 4331 and 4341. When I last worked with them, they were up to the 3090 series (MVS/ESA).

Edit: Never mind. I see them updated on Wikipedia, now. Looks like it's the "Z" series. With which, then, are you working?
 
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EddieNFL said:
I’d like to do that to I4 from exit 62 to 67.
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Agreed. That’s the worst section and where 90% of the stoppages are. Then the back all the way past exit 55 often. That’s why I pay the tolls to take 417 to bypass that shit.
Mike Casselton said:
Why not all the way to exit 82
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Because honestly, while that wouldn’t phase me in the least, the worst stoppages, every…freaking…day, are in that section.

And yes, I-4 has always been a PITA from one end to the other. At least since ‘81 when I moved here. It’s the only East-west corridor between I-10 and gator alley.
 
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Maxwell said:
@168BTHPM, speaking of retirement, I still dream that one of my IBM mainframe systems has crashed & I have less than 1 hour to get everything back up & on line!

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I've got 168 beat by a couple of years.

l have those same/similar kinds of dreams. I just roll over and go back to sleep (with a smile on my face).
 
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lash said:
Agreed. That’s the worst section and where 90% of the stoppages are. Then the back all the way past exit 55 often. That’s why I pay the tolls to take 417 to bypass that shit.

Because honestly, while that wouldn’t phase me in the least, the worst stoppages, every…freaking…day, are in that section.

And yes, I-4 has always been a PITA from one end to the other. At least since ‘81 when I moved here. It’s the only East-west corridor between I-10 and gator alley.
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You forgot I-4's Grandpa.

State Rd 60. Clearwater to Vero Bitch. Uh, I mean Beach.

It's just as bad as I-4.
 
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Threadcutter308 said:
I've got 168 beat by a couple of years.

l have those same/similar kinds of dreams. I just roll over and go back to sleep (with a smile on my face).
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I have not had work nightmares since I retired. When I left the salt mine the first time I retired I left because I could not sleep at night worrying about work. When I went back to work (different company) they treated me with kid gloves because I told them up front, "I have retired once, I will do it again if this doesn't go my way."

I still stop by the workplace during the day and ask if anyone wants to go shooting with me.

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Mike Casselton said:
That's why I stay away from the city limits. They can keep that shit.

I think Florida should close its borders and make interstates 75 and 95 northbound only.
I-10 should just allow for northward exits or the west border of FL.

Then, we can begin the exodus of the Ft Lauderdale and Miami areas.
Then Orlando, then most of Pinellas County.

Florida could once again be a great place to live.
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Easy, easy there Chuck.
I'm a floribaman i need to get to our beach.
 
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168BTHPM said:
have not had work nightmares since I retired. When I left the salt mine the first time I retired I left because I could not sleep at night worrying about work
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I thought I was the only one, and I had something wrong with me.
Actually it took several months before the nightmares stopped completely for me.
 
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armorpl8chikn said:
I thought I was the only one, and I had something wrong with me.
Actually it took several months before the nightmares stopped completely for me.
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They really weren't nightmares, per se. It took me about a year to completely come down from being keyed up and tense all the time. About two thirds of it was due to my "management".

Don't miss 'em, in the least. Liked the job though.
 
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How Horus fell to chaos is an example of dumb people writing smart people. Horus is supposed to be the most brilliant tactician of the 20, and was well aware of chaos and its influences prior to the events on Davin. Even his brother Magnus goes out of his way to break every rule he lived by to turn Horus away from Eribus, but Horus be like “Despite my dad searching for and finding me across the galaxy and spending 50 years of 1-on-1 time mentoring me, giving me a legion to command, and making me warmaster over my brothers and their legions, i 100% believe this rando in this totally legit fever dream telling me ‘yo dawg that’s fake new bro trust me your dad’s a cocksucker and chaos is totally rad.” Most disappointing aspect of the whole series, and it’s cannon.
 
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@Fx51LP308, first started off with punch cards. Some of my early stuff I had to change disk packs to load the entire program. That lasted up until we went to a IBM VM machine. Thought I was hot stuff when we could have VSAM file access on the VM machine. One of my last batch job stream had 34 programs which did an accounting conversion. Could only run that at night because of limited resources. Went to the control room to shut every job down so mine could run.

Second to last job had 5 underground floors of nothing but IBM mainframes and disk packs. There were CPU’s / disk packs as far as the eye could see. Only light was the ‘EXIT’ signs and the single freight elevator.

Last job we had MVS/XA, 4 mainframes. That was in 2019 when I retired. I was doing CICS w/ DB2 database. Others were doing Oracle database.

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