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No PT strikes me as very odd.

Not right in the area, but not too far SW Michigan has some roads. North of 90 and west of 69 there are a lot of nice sweeping country roads.

Anal? Well, I guess that answers that.

Shit happens.

Yes, wife and I will be there as they open.

Thread just got real.

Tony Packo's Cafe used to be really good, but now it sucks. I committed a felony in there once.

The zoo is pretty good. They have Meerkats!

I'm staying home and having sex with the wife because in a few months she is going to be bigger than a house.

I need to go underwear shopping.

Well shit, there are a ton of websites for this http://wfh.ninja/ http://www.randomexcusegenerator.com/ Hell, there is even an excuse generator for Casper. http://programmingexcuses.com/

You should publish it. I am sure lots of folks could use the info.

So as many of you know, Brian is quite creative when coming up with excuses for not going to OR events. The Cleveland IMS show is coming up and it occurred to me that he might be running out of ideas. So this thread is a place we can all add excuses for him to use. He can easily bookmark it and refer back to it in the future. They don't need to be IMS specific. I have a couple: 1) The dog ate my tickets to the IMS show so I can't go. 2) I found a great deal on a bike/Vette/Top Gun Poster on Craigslist and I need to go look at it. But I will be back soon with an excuse on why I didn't buy it.

Your current mental state/health is a result of the accident. The at fault driver is responsible for that. Check and see if you can get professional help on their dime. I think it really could help you.

He is in Windsor.

You sold a broke dishwasher and are giving away a perfectly food couch? And I thought I was f'd in the head.

See if you can get him to toss in the broke dishwasher with it.

So last night I was at an ATM and hit it up for 60 bucks. It gave me a hundred. Receipt said 60. Now I honestly think some dumbass left 40 behind because I notice that there was 40 there in the bin pretty quick then the 60 showed up. But either way it wasnt mine so today I called them. After 30 minutes of phone menu hell and 2 callbacks I said fuck it. Gonna spend the 40 on lap dances at the spring OR get together in Windsor.

Windsor

Yea, its been closed along time. Doubt it will ever be duplicated.

The best, off the charts. Jason's in Windsor will never be equaled.

Yea, but their Mocha's rock, worth the extra $'s.

You are golden, you all look the same.

Ok, I have better details and I will provide total ironclad details when I post the paypal address when tickets go on sale. Going on sale apx Feb 1. Tickets will be 10 bucks each, with only 1500 tickets available. Winner will have the choice of one of three prizes, 2nd place gets choice of the remaining two items and third places gets whatever is left over. Prizes will be the aforementioned Cav's tickets, a nice laptop, and decent sized flat screen TV.

If you only have one location but a decent link to the net then Scott's answer is the way to go. Do it during off hours. Use one of the cloud backup services. Carbonite and Mozy come to mind first for a small business. Simple, reliable and reasonably inexpensive. A hard drive attached to a computer that you swap out and carry around is a bad idea for many reasons. You will forget, you will drop it or some crack head will steal it out of your car when you stop for beer on the way home. As for frequency, weekly is also a bad idea. If you need this backup, it is going to be because something really bad happened. You don't want to add to that by having to say "It's going to take a week to rebuild our network and then we will also lose a weeks worth of data, so ummm yea this is basically a two week loss for the company'. That would be a resume generating event, as it should be. Neither Mac Automator or Time Machine are acceptable for this job. If you go cloud you will get software from them for this. If you have multiple locations speak up, then my answer changes.