Genre – Slice of Life Anime
Series Reviewed Runtime – 3 Hours 12 Minutes*
Spoilers – Yes
*Total series runtime unknown.
A Rightstuf blind box buy, I only own episodes 45-51 and special #6. I have chosen not to hunt down the remainder of the series, because it doesn’t look particularly easy, particularly cheap, or particularly fun. The art style reads “90s Anime” to me. I did violate the “No Research” rule to check the date, and it was mid-late 90s.
I am starting pretty late in the series, so I might have some serious gaps to work around. Anyway, as implied by the title, the main characters are police officers. In this case, two policewomen. The first of our episodes starts with one of our policewomen losing an eating contest to some guy who is implied to teach rescue training. The real plot is how they keep running into the same guy on their time off. It’s framed in more of a “possible romance” than “creepy ulterior motive” plot. It is exceedingly slow. There are only 23 minutes of episode, but it feels longer. The choice of dub casting didn’t help. They are more wooden than the architecture of the rural town the characters were visiting. I can’t understand what the Japanese actors are saying, but at least it sounds like they put in some effort. So I switched to subtitles. Didn’t help that the plot is slower than molasses going uphill in winter.
Maybe episode 45 was just a bad place to start. Let us see if 46 is any better. This one seems to be a plot revolving around kendo and some kids who have not been named as far as I can tell. Our main characters are tangential to the plot and appear to be meter maids rather than beat cops. Okay, not meter maids per se, but traffic enforcement. But for whatever reason they have enough slack time to worry about whether the kid gives up on Kendo or not. How do they manage to make these episodes so slow paced that they feel like an hour passes when it’s only 20 minutes? (24 but subtract some for credits).
47? Rescue dude is going to teach one of the Meter Maids free climbing. I have nothing against slice of life in general, but it has to not be boring. Rescue Dude has the personality of a brick of tofu, and Meter Maid isn’t any better. You can tell a story about day to day lives if the characters are at least interesting. We get an interruption of the boredom because of an accident at a tunnel entrance where our characters… show up to direct traffic. Well, they are traffic enforcement. Fortunately for the pacing, the main two get pressed into helping with rescue efforts, so we get a montage of pulling people from vehicles. I was about to compliment the rescue sequence for at least having something happen. Until we get to get a kid out of the back seat of a car. They make a big show of desperately trying to push another car off the one the kid is in… All the while the rear windshield is completely unobstructed and there is nothing stopping them from just breaking it to get him out through there. I literally facepalmed. All you needed was to draw another vehicle blocking that window and the scene was fixed, but nobody sent it back to the animators. Too expensive to redo, I guess.
I don’t hold out too much hope as 48 rolls around. There is a farewell party for Rescue Dude, so I assume he’s leaving the plot, since he’s headed to the Himalayas. There is a real problem with the character designs – they use the simplified style of the genre, but stick to realistic hair and eye colors, for an all-Japanese cast of characters, meaning there are fewer markers to tell the characters apart. The two main Meter Maids are just two different hair styles and a subtle difference in shading. I keep mixing up which one is having the romance with Rescue Dude. I’m starting to see why there are so few copies of the DVD release on the market – nobody wanted it.
In Episode 49, they finally have a plot centered around their job. They’re looking for a car theft ring. Only there are no spare people, so the inspector rearranges shifts, and assigns braided Meter Maid to running the magic computer to predict the thieves’ moves. I wanted to pick on the POST screen for the workstation, but It’s not that far out of whack. Announcements of 1GHz processors were being given big fanfare in 2000, so a 777MHz machine a few years earlier would be a beast, but not outside the range of possibility. I do find it funny that their ‘vertical’ operating system has gone through only seven versions between 1945 and 1997, or that was even first released in 1945. Though on reflection, all the sevens are probably a result of the “Septium” being a play off the “Pentium”, but two higher! I would have had the copyleft date start in 1977 to stack it on.
Serious inspector takes over patrol with the other Meter Maid, tries to impart some sense of responsibility into the woman. Serious Inspector also demonstrates how to properly use communication to coordinate multiple police assets instead of recklessly chasing a suspect who’s on the far side of a canal from their car. The criminals elude capture because the plot demands it, and we wrap up this episode. Because something happened, it went by faster than the earlier ones.
Episode 50 continues the hunt for the car theft ring by finding the barge used to smuggle the goods out of the area. Braided Meter Maid is a bit in the dumps because of the organizational changes. But the moping time gets interrupted by a car chase. It is astonishing how despite the lack of detail in the character models how overboard in precision the animators make the mechanical bits of the engine and gauges during the chase. This is short-lived as the cops crash, and braided Meter Maid gets desk duty coordinating the ongoing search for the thieves. This results in more moping before she tries to do everything the currently absent other half of the duo used to do. This coping is the focus of the episode rather than the work against the thieves.
Last regular episode, and I think series finale. It starts slow with stakeouts regarding the thieves. I suppose they’re trying to invoke the “sad everything’s ending” feeling before returning to the plot. The thieves start moving to export their haul in the wee hours of the morning, so we get a nighttime mobilization of our cast. Mind you, this is unintentionally hilarious, as the cast is all either on motorcycles or in tiny, smart-car sized cruisers. It is not meant to be so as one of the secondary characters gets shot. But those tiny little traffic patrol units are inherently so. As the pursuit goes on we do find out that the secondary character survived, but the thieves elude everyone save the main duo. Mind you the thieves are armed, and the Meter Maids are not. The thieves decide that throwing their cargo at the tiny ticket patroller is the only remaining option, so the Meter Maids drive their tiny car onto the trailer and almost run over one of the thieves. They then lob tear gas into the cab while moving well above the limit for the expressway they’re on. Somehow this does not result in a fatal crash, but instead the thieves slamming on the brakes and getting arrested.
Roll credits.
Oh, wait, there’s “Special #6” left. Subtitle – “Traffic Control at the Beach”. (-.-)
From that title, I’m going to assume it’s intended as a fanservice episode, and after the revised 1999 opening credits, my initial supposition is supported by the gratuitous beach scenes. Problem for you perverts is that we’re talking 90’s TV Anime art style. That’s maybe three steps above stick figures for the character models. And being television, explicit content is precluded by broadcast rules, and the general vibe of the show itself. The cast is roasting in the heat of a particularly warm day, directing congested traffic on foot. The eventual problem gets telegraphed when someone who can’t swim is pressured into wakeboarding. Shouldn’t you work on swimming before any other waterborne activities? That way when you inevitably splash, you don’t immediately panic and drown? There’s also some thieves and perverts running around. As if on cue, wakeboarder is in trouble, so the Meter Maids rescue her. This scene exists entirely as the excuse to get the main characters out of their formal police uniforms and show them running in the swimsuits they wore underneath. You know – a Baywatch plot. This is extended when the thief decides to flee on jet ski, so they commandeer the wakeboarder’s jet ski for a pursuit, forcing him into the riprap before capture. Thus ends the obligatory excuse plot and we resume our filler, since the plot really is not the reason for this episode to exist.
So, while I only saw eight episodes, that was still enough to form an impression. It was… aggressively mediocre. Not bad enough to shut off as background noise, not good enough to seek out, just… there. If you get attached to the characters early on I suppose it could work, but if you don’t, well, as a slice of life, there’s not a lot else in there for the viewer.
I’ve had over eight hours of media set in Tokyo; I wonder what’s next in the queue. Do I hear Blue Oyster Cult?
🤔
I didn’t realize I had two slice of life Animes in a row.
Well, that’s a slice of your life, right there.
Who’s watching YOU? 🤔🤔
Aside from Big Brother, Big Tech, and the Dark Gods? I thought it was you guys.
🤦♀️️ indeed. What is the Japanese equivalent of blondes?
::tries desperately to make a joke out of “deviated Septium,” fails::
And now, of course, you know why it was a blind box buy. What we don’t know is why it was released in the first place.
I suppose somebody watched it in the original television run, there were enough eyeballs to go to 51 episodes and 6 specials.
So, I went back to the lego rifle with a new silver sharpie. After aigning the gas block I now see how hopeless the original calibration had been. 1/16th of an inch off alignment, with a fully closed adjustable gas block – how on earth did that first shot even eject?
😣
So I went to swap to the magnified scope. Turns out I didn’t think to get scope rings. Fortunately, Made in the USA 30mm extra tall rings are available. (extra tall because the eyepiece is a bit fat)
Actual rings or a mount?
You want a mount.
120% of mounts are spaced to fit 0% of scopes. I don’t know why that is, but they always fail in the basic task of mounting.
You’re doing something wrong. 🤷🏼♂️
You’re catching me in a bad mood. You also gave no reason why you prefer the unadjustable spacing design over separate rings. I’ve never had a scope shift or lose zero on rings, I have had trouble fitting optics on mounts.
Sean is right. If you’re having problems mounting a scope with an AR-specific one-piece mount, you’re doing something wrong. In twenty years of building and shooting ARs (mostly with variable-power optics), I’ve never once come across a scope that wouldn’t work with a one-piece mount. Not a single one.
That said, there’s nothing particularly wrong with using separate rings on an AR, as long as they’re high enough. Most are not.
I use and recommend this mount for ARs – https://warnescopemounts.com/maxlite-30mm-msr-mount-black/
That mount is lower than the rings I have on order. By only 0.04″ though.
I’ve been snide and uncharitable, and would like to apologise.
As my mood still hasn’t improved, I don’t trust myself to say more lest I turn argumentative again.
I also have to apologise to the adjustable gas block, it was not metric, it was 3/32nds. Mea Culpa.
Every mistake is a learning lesson.
The error was the result of a lack of standardized color coding. My one set of hex keys has a blue metric and red imperial plastic holder. The set I used here was a Red Metric and Yellow Imperial plastic holder. I wasn’t looking at exact sizes because I didn’t know what size the screws were, I just found whatever fit. As such my brain went “Red – Imperial” and the one that fit the set screw on the adjustable gas block came out of the yellow holder.
Your daily dose of misogyny. The modern woo-MAN. Wants a 10, but is pushing 40 and has herpes and has taken like 1500 dicks.
You better give her butterflies gentleman or she’s out. She knows her worth.
Truthfully, the body counts are just a product of their vapidity. Like there’s just nothing inside of that creature resembling a soul. What does she offer? Is there intelligence, loyalty, kindness etc.? Is she even funny? It’s going to be like talking to a chalk board all day who expects you to entertain her. And for all the bullshit you’ll get what back in return in your life?
You just don’t understand what a treasure she is. Her personal trainer flirts with her for Zog’s sakes!
When the subject of body counts comes up, and one doesn’t measure it by bodies but football teams, there is definitely a problem.
Yea, but just think if taking dick gave her a discernible personality. Can you imagine?
The first time I heard “body count” I was in the army and thought we were talking about killing people.
I was sad that I had a zero body count.
Still do.
Have a couple assists of that counts.
Once upon a time, I met a real woman, and thought this is interesting.
Sitting and talking one day, she started pulling rocks out of her bra. Maybe she noticed that her naughty bits had my complete attention.
Me: I’ve never seen that before.
Her: I keep magic rocks in my bra because they’re magic.
Me: How do you know if they’re magic?
Her: Because I’m a witch.
TBH, I’m pretty sure she just wanted me to go away. Gave her the ick, or something.
Is rocks in the bra kinda like wearing warlock battle spats?
I would think that would lead to tit dents.
Golfball aerodynamics for broom flying later.
A wise observation.
Sounds like the wife’s friend. She’s almost 60 and currently stepping out on her husband looking for “romance” and a big 401k in some other chump. I told my wife the reality is, a guy with money that’s willing to dump his wife isn’t doing it for a lateral play, he’s going to be “leveling up” as the kids say and likely looking 20 years younger.
Women as a gender have gone insane. I know we have a couple reasonable women on here, but it’s like a mind virus that’s consumed so many.
40 and under are worst inflicted, but it’s spread around to the dopiest of old ones too.
Like think of everything you kind of didn’t like about women. Amplify it exponentially and remove nearly all the positives. That’s modern woman.
I thought this was a modern woman.
Thirty years ago…
https://youtu.be/pBz0BTb83H8
38 going on 55. Also: you don’t want to “settle”… fine. No one can force you to marry if you don’t want to. However, measuring compatibility by “feelings” alone will doom your marriage no matter how perfect he is and how many boxes he checks. People that have ever been married/in long term committed relationships understand that feelings change with the wind. You are going to be incompatible in some ways with anyone and there will be times in which your “feelings” will tell you that it’s a bad match or that you made a mistake or that you “settled”. The difference between your delusion and those people is that they have the commitment and the effort to work through and push through to better times whereas you have already bailed.
Just stay single. Don’t have kids. Live your “best life” and leave the rest of us alone.
Like they don’t understand this. No marriage is going to last long term if you think you’re going to feel the exact same way as in the ‘honeymoon’ stage 5, 10, 15+ years down the road. It’s going to be a fucking rollercoaster but they seem to think it’s just sunshine and roses and ponies.
And they all tell themselves they ‘deserve’ it. It’s narcissism and envy and they paint it as a virtue.
And when they start talking about how they aren’t going to let their kids see them not “loved right” or how they want their kids to see them happy? Like go fuck yourself. The data is pretty fucking clear that divorce is one of things that impacts kids the worse. Kids whose parents die have better outcomes in the aggregate than divorced parents.
No, your child is not better off having their home ripped apart because you lost the butterfly feelings Karen.
Hard to tell when TV’d up, especially while she’s this emotional, and putting all that together, she ain’t no where near hot enough to put up with. I mean, I would for the evening, and hopefully more weekends, but that’s also me, and for me now, a ‘Better than Squirrel’ rating perks my eyes.
One thing women haven’t really thought about, the Male Loneliness issue is a pretty damn big one, and sex-bots are full-steam ahead. Let me tell ya, that’ll be interesting. Demolition Man ‘sex.’ *shrug* DTF.
Male Loneliness is because they’re evil shits who need to be more like women.
Female Loneliness is because the men are evil shits who treat women badly.
Thanks for posting the trailer for Digger on the ded thread. I hadn’t heard of it, and it certainly looks interesting.
*bows* Your unspoken wish is my understood desire to fill. Not like STEVE SMITH FILL YOU, but, ya know. Enough.
Brutal
He’s in the DL.
“Being a rich black man requires you to go through some sort of gay humiliation ritual.”
LOL
I mean, we know it was true in the rap/music industry…
Everytime I see a black dude wearing women’s fashion sunglasses.
I remember this show, I may have seen one or two of the specials.
The slice of life anime never interested me at all.
Like a sitcom. Which haven’t interested me for a long time.
“…the rear windshield is completely unobstructed and there is nothing stopping them from just breaking it to get him out through there.”
Maybe they didn’t want to further damage another person’s car. Ancient Japanese custom, perhaps. (If there’s a kid in there, that might be a bit of a ‘If the kid gets hurt, now it’s MY fault!’ fear going on. Best let the kid die than be blamed for it.)
Breaking a car windshield by hand is a lot harder than it looks, and also a lot easier to hurt yourself while doing than most people think.
A spring-loaded center punch is a useful thing to keep in your car emergency bag for just this kind of thing.
The characters in the scene included a dedicated rescue officer who should have your basic tools for overcoming car windows. The rear windshield is also usually less durable than the front, likely only being tempered instead of laminated.
I put my fist through 2 car windows in my youth (separate incidents). They both hurt like hell.
HaHA! My instincts are HONED!
(I’m pleased my ignorant instincts had the right idea…)
My kinda book….
That’s Pie’s vacation home, isn’t it?
Just a little delusional on pricing.
Exhibit one
Exhibit two
They’re maybe $700-$900 guns.
I am not the target audience for that. It does seem high. If it doesn’t sell in six weeks, it was a delusional price.
Both have been relisted at the same price. The one with the “instructor’s disc” (it’s not, it’s the remains of the dial sight from when the rifle was first made in .303) has been up at least three months at that price.
Delusional it is!
Posted without comment:
Online misogyny: the “manosphere”
Why without comment?
It’s really, really dumb. You’re welcome.
Why did I read it?
Because its retardation is self-eveident?
Land acknowledgement on the internet.
Those Stone Age people didn’t have a written language much less the ability to build transistors.
If the professor on Gilligan’s Island could do it, I don’t see why the natives couldn’t.
Are you talking about the article authors?
They also oppressed their women.
I had trouble making it past the land acknowledgement.
That was incredibly ponderous and I almost stopped.
Hey now. I don’t need anyone to teach me who to hate.
“Unfounded.” It just coincidentally was how all of human history was ordered up until like 5 seconds ago on the historical timeline.
What a disgusting display of Islamophobia from Canada. SMDH.
Do Lefty women just LIKE to be subjugated? I mean, it’s what they want in their own government. So, all-powerful state, culture, that ‘takes care’ of women, removes decision-making and accountability? (Cue Jack Nicholson line here)
Not a big stretch, though I think it’s subconscious for them? (Or just can’t admit it out loud.) Hence their adoration for ‘powerful brown men?’ All the quacking ducks seemed lined up for ‘reasonable hypothesis.’
I love the self-licking ice cream cone/feedback loop the left uses to reinforce its entire worldview.
Anyone catch Obama the other day wistfully dreaming of a world run by women?
I don’t think I’m much of a “misogynist” but holy crap that was funny.
I saw it. Totally vapid.
It gave me a tingle up my leg in a totally not gay way.
Lindsay Clancy for President!
I’m sure the fucking Indians have been “caring for the water”. Fucking retards. They deserve to be scalped.
That line got a chuckle out of me. And then I tapped the hell out.
Reminds me of the sewer line run straight to Lapwai Cr in Culdesac Idaho that was a well known thing. But on the Rez and the right people.
Ev T phone home: “[For] the first time, scientists have detected radio signals coming directly from [another planet], a massive gas giant named β Pictoris b. …
A team of scientists led by Kevin Ortiz Ceballos at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian used South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope to study the β Pictoris planetary system, about 64 light-years from Earth.”
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[Scientists] detected “faint, repeating bursts of radio signals originating from the β Pictoris system.”
They used “extremely distant background quasars” to serve as “fixed markers” for the review, and they reported “the first direct detection of auroral radio emission from an exoplanet.
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And no, this isn’t evidence of alien life communicating with each other. The radio waves come from auroras linked to the planet’s powerful magnetic field.”
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Hmmm. Ev T leave message.
Most alien life stopped using primitive radio waves eons ago. It’s too slow.
Radio waves move at the speed of light, no?
Either we’re too insignificant to bother contacting with whatever FTL communications might exist or there’s nobody out there.
Perfectly reasonable alternative: They know to stay away, or just figure it’s way smarter not too. We’re very germ-y creatures and we may not have any resources extra-smart aliens don’t desire.
rhy, we don’t have any FTL comms receivers. They could be pinging us right now and we’d never know it.
The new Plexaderm commercial with the loud happy music irritates me.
Ugh….cant sleep.
That piece on male supremacy and injuns.
Ten bucks ol’ Steve McCullough is trying to lay poison from hair girls and doesnt believe a word of what he wrote.
I suppose it is possible that guys like that start out that doing that but along the way they fall down the rabbit hole of lunacy that is progressivism, Get kaleidoscope eyes and start to ‘believe’ but that one is so far over the top….he is faking it for pussy.
Trump is doing many stupid things, but I’m glad Blue clearly demonstrates their anti-Israel, pro-Islamic views with shit like this and teaming up with El-Sayed, even getting Harris to front for him. (Damn. I hope that burns all DNC folk involved. Harris has to front for him, and he has to put up with it? Other way ’round? (Yes!)
“Cornell University’s lefty crowd gave Democratic Socialist superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a warm, hate-filled welcome by singing anti-Israel chants at a campaign event meant to gin up support for Democrats ahead of the midterms Sunday.
While warming up the standing-room-only crowd of roughly 2,000 people gathered for the congresswoman’s “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall in downtown Ithaca Sunday, Cornell University Young Democratic Socialists of America co-chairs Mina Petrova and Zoe Reisman led the crowd singing “from the river to the sea” and declaring “long live the student intifada.”’
‘“Cornell is fundamentally a capitalist institution that prioritizes billionaires and profit over students and community and is controlled by CEO trustees that are profiting off of genocide and war,” Petrova said to applause inside the Ithaca Downtown Conference Center.”
God, it’s tedious. Shout key syllables and enrage your Useful Idiots. After all: ““When we come out in numbers, they cannot take us all,” [AOC} added.”
*tap tap tap*
Looks like it took place across the street from where I moved out last month.
Abdul spoke to an adoring crowd at Cornell the other day, too.
So glad I left that ugly place.
Correction: It was Abdul’s pal Hasan Piker, joining in chants for the destruction of Israel.
Apologies to the innocent Abdul.
Thought: Piker’s (theoretically?) very wealthy, handsome, tall and brown. But, I think an obvious and powerful magnetic draw is from his exquisitely fashioned suits. Works on men and particularly women.
This isn’t true for just him, of course, just a part of social primates. Napoleon and Caesar and Michael Jackson wore elaborate dress for a reason.
Sometimes he wears a Mao suit, for honesty I guess.
He’s so over-the-top ridiculous I can’t tell if real or act.
BTW this is the same building I have mentioned several times that was constructed the year after I moved there as “affordable housing” above the Conference Center and populated with some vagrants they found at the local urban campsite who then proceeded to destroy it and make life miserable for the normal but poor people who got stuck living there with them. It got so bad they constructed a steel door entrance and posted a security guard.
Much has been said about Japan’s economic and population struggles. I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard feminism blamed.
I don’t know if this guy knows of what he speaks, or if he’s projecting the West’s shit onto Japan. But he cites specific laws and eerily similar trends to what we saw here in the West (perhaps even more successful legally than here in the States given our Constitution).
Where’s that queer Straf when you need him?
Projecting. Maybe feminism and legal changes around the fringes, but starting with Japanese society is a completely fucked up place to western eyes, “then” and now. And the vast majority of a non-Christian country do not view marriage in a Christian sense.
Still a country where the female employees are expected to make the tea and seen as likely to, or should, quit as soon as they get married.
Also, saw a story on the race grifting fake counselor lady who was convicted for squatting in a million dollar mansion. She was bonded out somehow despite that within 11 days (didn’t bother to look up how that worked) and then moved right back in. Yada yada. Blue shithole with no respect for basic property rights. It was an old story from January.
That said, what I did find kind of ridiculous was the black political creature demanding stiffer punishments. Not that I’m against the punishments, but he cited the cost of the home as something that should be the biggest factor. Like theft over a certain dollar amount.
I don’t know, I think everyone who owns a piece of property has to have their rights equally protected. I don’t care if it’s a shack (unless it’s a federally owned shack in the woods in a national park) or a mansion personally. Like he didn’t seem to give a fuck about squatting per se. He just kept stressing that this was a very expensive place she moved into in Maryland. The neighbor/kid who turned her in and drew attention to it all (19 year old Asian) talked about how the whole neighborhood was in ‘fear’ for their ‘safety’ because she was there.
Surprised more wasn’t made of the racisms, but regardless it had the air of classism. And beyond that, I feel pretty comfortable saying that the actual no-shit laws on the books in Maryland have plenty of applicable laws and that the main issue is DA’s who will use them in that shithole.
Also, her lawyer was probably the biggest example of a DEI lawyer imaginable. I have to think the wannabee social media influencer broad was fucking him and/or that’s all she could afford (she wasn’t good looking). I laughed.
Good on Nicki Minaj, (bless her?): “Then Lara Trump asked whether she thought that “there are more (black) people out there who vote for Democrats not because they like their policies and the politics themselves, but because they feel like they’re supposed to vote for Democrats?”
“I think it’s changing now, but obviously, for a very long time, black people specifically feel that they should just vote blue,” Minaj said. “I would say the entire country, there’s been a major shift where people are starting to wake up and see what’s going on and choose differently.”
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“Black people are not allowed, according to the Democrats, for the most part, to make a different decision,” she told Lara Trump. “We’re not allowed to think, we’re not allowed to voice concerns, to make an argument as to why we don’t like a particular candidate.”
Good for her.
Here is a fun look at how racist white liberals are.
They are vile people.
News from my neighborhood:
Driver sentenced to prison for 2024 crash in Nampa that killed passenger
The car went airborne and struck a home’s chimney before landing on another home’s rooftop.
Sentenced ‘up to twelve years’, eiligible for parole after three. He drove through a neighborhood with a 35 mph limit, because families and kids, at ~100mph.
He should have got the firing squad.
*cracks whip*
Back to work, slackers!
📥⏰😱
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eAsz0xmaMtc
🎶🎶
No.
My shift starts at 7.
Good morning, Sean, U, Ted’S., and Stinky!
Morning, GT.
I’ve logged in to work and have a few hundred emails to sort through.
A few hundred is nothing. My worst post vacation email backlog was over 9,000 one year. 😱
Yikes! 😨️ Any idea how long it’s likely to take you to go through those?
Oh, the over 9k was a few years ago – I finished those. I should be done with the few hundred later today. Cull the automated messages, triage which of the email chains are relevant, catch up on what’s been done while I was gone. Nothing too strenuous.
Whew! 😅️
8,000 of the emails are “Please stop using ‘Reply All'” emails.
That should expedite the process! 😄️
I have filters set up to ignore several hundred useless emails a day. Notifications generated by projects I have nothing to do with, mostly.
screw it, I’m having chicken wings for breakfast.
Hot sauce?
salt pepper, onion, garlic, paprika, and extra paprika.
Daring!
Sounds like a good way to start the day, just stay close to a toilet.
???
That makes no sense.
Chicken wings with spicy sauce in the AM seems like the kind of food that’ll run right through you. Depends on the person I guess.
Never had that happen regardless of time of day.
Why do I have a feeling “Crash analysis studio” equals massive grift?
Not a bad idea to review street design and the role it may have played in a given wreck but, yeah, the approach is also ripe with graft for the plucking. “Huh, this intersection does need reformatting and my politically connected buddy’s kid happens to own just the company that can do it.”
Clearly the answer is to imprison any analysts who have friends or relatives.
Not just that, but the anti-car people too.
Broadway in Kingston now is a bit of a mess thanks to them.
https://wrrv.com/broadway-safety-study-kingston-ny/
Good morning!
Last First Responders steel shoot was yesterday. I almost DQ’d my first shooter yesterday, wanted to ask him if he had ever fired a gun before. Zero concept of muzzle discipline, brought the pistol up to his eye to look through the red dot. Found out after I warned the MD about him that he was the DA. There were 20 plates on my stage, DA managed to knock down 3 in 45 seconds.
The team wearing the “Schenectady NYS Courts” shirts completely failed to complete the stage with any of their six shooters.
I got an envelope with fiddy dollars in it. First time I’ve gotten money for working a match. Made me feel icky.
🤯
I didn’t think that was possible for people who actually compete.
Most of these people do not compete.
From memory:
>50% of the people timed out.
There was a big cluster of people finished it ~25 seconds.
Smaller cluster finished in ~18 seconds.
All of the people that I recognized from matches were <20 seconds. The A class shooter was 17 something, fastest time came from an Albany FD guy under 16.
So, this event wasn’t a competition match, just a fun shoot?
Charity/fundraiser/fun/”celebrating our first responders”
Why are a DA and other court personnel even participating in a First Responders shoot? To see how the actual first responders handle the emergency they’re likely to create?
Envy?
Anyone can be a first responder.
Did the court folks all understand that a “First Responders Shoot” does NOT mean that you shoot AT the first responders? “It must be like a Turkey Shoot but with firefighters and cops.”
You’re getting arrested the next time you’re in Schenectady County.