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57 minutes ago, christopher.annino said:

I'll be spending two or three nights in the Pittsburgh area in a couple weeks, I plan on spending quite a bit of the company dime on some good local food ???

My top 3 spots in downtown Pittsburgh in no specific order:

Gaucho

Meat & Potatoes

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Are you staying downtown or in another part of the city?

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1 hour ago, Infinit said:

My top 3 spots in downtown Pittsburgh in no specific order:

Gaucho

Meat & Potatoes

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Are you staying downtown or in another part of the city?

On the outskirts, I'll have at least a 16' box truck so I can't easily stay downtown. Plus with covid, I generally rely on DoorDash which ain't the greatest option.

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1 hour ago, christopher.annino said:

On the outskirts, I'll have at least a 16' box truck so I can't easily stay downtown. Plus with covid, I generally rely on DoorDash which ain't the greatest option.

When you know what part/neighborhood you will be in, let me know and I'll drop some recommendations ????

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God, I hate to post this on what should be one of the greatest days of my life, but I'm angry and sad and realizing  just how powerless I am. My 29 year-old nephew hung himself this morning. We hadn't seen him since mid-summer, nothing too unusual about that, new girlfriend(s) after being locked down with sort of a headcase for five years (Yeah, don't interfere, see must have something going on that makes him happy...) The break-up was as nasty and mean-spirited as one might imagine. Ty took his uncle's advice well, :"Aren't you glad you only invested five years in it? Ten years would be worse, you would have had kids and have had to deal with her for a lifetime, as it is, you can hang up the phone or walk in the opposite direction if she pulls some drama. It hurts, but it isn't permanent, I always thought "she was the one" until I met your auntie, and as it turns out, she was the ONE. SHE'S out there and you'll meet her..."  Word is that he was really skinny, last time I saw him was when I knew for sure that we wouldn't be bowling anymore. My back just wouldn't put up with that shit. I thought that I could transition from darts, but no such luck. Anyway, the skinny thing puzzles me, last time I saw Ty he was cut like a fucking wrestler (this is not the nephew that I kicked in the head, that's the 34 year-old nephew, who I'm pretty sure that I can take down and hold down; Ty would get up on his own and it wouldn't be pretty. To lose a bunch of muscle definition in such a short amount of time coupled with other stuff like basically disappearing from everyone's life has me thinking alcohol and meth, which has me pissed because with 32 years of sobriety I should be able to read that shit like a book. The duality is that I know deep inside that I'm fucking powerless over my own drinking, let alone anyone else's. But there was that odd visit in the middle of summer, "Let's go bowling, uncle!" We hadn't gone bowling since we moved from Rio Rancho where the drill was: Send Ty to the bowling alley to play darts or go bowling with uncle while parents and wife go to casino.. That way I'm not bugging them every half-hour to leave and I'm not freaking out about how much money is being gambled. It was such an odd visit, that I'm wondering if I should have picked up on some clues that there was something going on that I missed and it's driving me crazy... If I post something nasty and out of character, this is why. This is the weird thing about having a large family of in-laws, half of whom aren't speaking to one another for slights real and imagined, it's positively gothic at holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas where the traditional Irish attitude is "invite everybody, if they want to be shits to each other I don't fucking care it's one of two days that I pretend to be interested in football and I cook Salt & Pepper Shrimp which causes certain people to drink too much, which I find hilarious as they are such sanctimonious twats throughout the year and they still vote for the Orange Shit-gibbon. Despite being related to half the town, you can disappear from family and it is just assumed that you are lining up behind so-and-so's side in an argument and thus are avoiding talking to so-and-so. The usual clarification is to deliberately bump shopping carts with a loud "Sniff" and "Excuse Me!"  Ah, life in a small town...

Apologies in advance, (and no, I don't expect a pass for being a jerk, if I AM  a jerk, so be it, this is why, it's not an excuse, but rather an explanation. I've been wanting to go off on certain TV shows, this gives me an excuse. Michael Landon, Steve Harvey, and Dr. Phil, you're in my sights and I don't fucking miss...

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Oh, man, there's not much to say about something like that. That does sound like perhaps an attempt at a cry for help or an opening, but I'm no psychologist, so it could have just been randomly wanting to go bowling. Sorry for everyone's loss. That just sucks. Rage all you need to.

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5 hours ago, Ryan said:

Oh, man, there's not much to say about something like that. That does sound like perhaps an attempt at a cry for help or an opening, but I'm no psychologist, so it could have just been randomly wanting to go bowling. Sorry for everyone's loss. That just sucks. Rage all you need to.

Guess I wasn't clear in my babbling... *I* never saw him in skinny condition, last time I saw him (when it was for the random bowling, he was still cut like a wrestler.) We were also in the process of moving and he graciously offered to do the final pre-occupancy cleaning and would just drop off the keys in the mailbox. Hey, it's been forty years, since I tied the knot, but I remember all the codes for "I don't want to have to pay for a motel room if I don't have to!" The word on him dropping weight was second-hand from his mom (who unfortunately would know all about  meth and alcohol).

What a trip... I just realized that none of my nieces or nephews have ever seen me drunk, my step-sons and oldest niece are old enough to have had the "pleasure", but the timing didn't work out right...

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My wife tried to log in to pay our car note yesterday and the site kept saying our account was invalid.

Turns out we had lost track of time and we finished paying it off.  So that was a nice surprise.

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7 hours ago, Zimbra said:

My wife tried to log in to pay our car note yesterday and the site kept saying our account was invalid.

Turns out we had lost track of time and we finished paying it off.  So that was a nice surprise.

More people need THESE kinds of surprises!

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Just another week in the year 2020, starting with last Saturday:

- Saturday: I get the information that my cousin (55) was put into ICU due to Corona (as far as I know, he still needs artificial ventilation).

- Thursday: My mother (68) is put into quarantine due to being a close contact person to a Corona case. I spent the better part of the day to get my parents to understand that they should keep their distance for a couple of days, until it is clear if she got infected or not.

- Friday (today): My aunt (77) had to be picked up by the ambulance; apparently she has not eaten in three days and did not get up during that time - our first suspicion was that she had was suffering from depression (she is bipolar and was in hospital care in the past, though usually when she was in a manic phase), now it turned out it might be Corona as well (I guess we will know more tomorrow). She always was on the low side weight wise and lost more over the last year. When EMTs picked her up, I could only hear her groan.

My father (83) getting diagnosed with prostate cancer barely missed this week (as least it looks like that does not seem to be so bad, it seems as if it was detected early enough that it can be treated without surgery, chemotherapy or even radiation therapy).

And that is just the personal stuff. Going further, hospitals around here are close to full capacity regarding ICU and COVID cases are still on the rise. Austrian government so far has not dared to call a full lockdown and I fear if they do (which it seems they will do within the next couple of days), there will be huge demonstrations and civil disobedience.

48 more days until this fucking year is finally over. Short of a nuclear war, I don't think 2021 can be any worse.

EDIT: After this rant, I somehow feel like watching Network.

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