Update XVIII: 15 Miles From Lunch

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Hope Granny doesn't prepare any of the food substandard and earn a beating!

As if waiting hand and foot on the Clan Bushie for "several family dinners" isn't going to be enough of a beating for the poor old bat.

Will there ever be such a thing as "enough gravy" at one of these get togethers?

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Grumps, it's close enough to evening. 1500 for me is officially evening.  Plus, I'm yawning like it is 2100 or later.  Nap time?

Don't overexert yourself.  Nap time, indeed!

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Granny has been cleaning and cooking all day, no doubt.  I'm tired just thinking about all that poor woman did today prior to the invasion.

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Grumps, it's close enough to evening. 1500 for me is officially evening.  Plus, I'm yawning like it is 2100 or later.  Nap time?

1500 is not the evening and 2100 is also too early to be yawning.

Such a peculiar one he is.  I'd bet that a farmer who is up at the crack of dawn would consider 1500 to be the evening and well enough time to be putting things away for the day.  But Bushie isn't a farmer. 

It's like his weather radio ownership, and his pining for a Leave It To Beaver life.  I think he really, really wants it to be 1959. 

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any autocad today?

With company arriving?  Puh-lease!  That would be rude to fail to acknowledge your second cousin's uncle-in-law's son's stepsister just to work on your career!

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All I'm getting in my head is the image of Bushie sitting/napping on the couch and periodically checking the "% completed" to the tune of "Eye Of The Tiger".

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I think he really, really wants it to be 1959. 

1 minute before 8 o'clock?  All this military time on the previous page is getting me all mixed up.

Excuse me, you are correct.  The Year Of Our Lord Jesus Christ Nineteen Hundred And Fifty Nine.  That's what year Bushie wants it to be. 

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I am watching some basketball tonight.  Knicks vs. Cavaliers and Thunder vs. Clippers.  I want to play with my AutoCAD, but the program seems to have locked up and I killed it with the task manager, but it won't get off the screen.  I will keep trying.

Ugh!  What luck!

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We have success!!!!  I was finally able to try it again and it took a few minutes, but it came up to where I could draw something.  So, AutoCAD 2015 is operational.  My laptop did not let me down.  Now, in fine Bushie fashion - I'm going to bed!!  I'll play with this tomorrow.

Bah ha ha ha!  He gets the damn thing working and he goes straight to bed!  At 10pm after a long afternoon nap!

Too much, too much.  Can't take much more of this.

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Notice how he said "play" with this again.  patrick1 and J-Mann be damned!

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Happy Halloween everybody.  Today is the beginning of the 2014-2015 Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday Season.  The words Happy Holidays, Happy Thanksgiving, and Merry Christmas are all valid starting today.  The words Happy Holidays will cease to be valid after Thanksgiving.  In sane America, it is Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays.

So, with that said... Merry Christmas everybody!!

Shut up, Jeff.  Stop trolling. 

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No New Years Eve in Oklahoma?

To quote Lief: not sure if New Year's Eve is legal in Oklahoma.

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Bushie, ignore these scrooooooooges and focus.  Christmas needs your focus.

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In fact, if anything, I act like a senior citizen.

My 80 year old grandmother is a senior citizen. She sleeps less than you do, walks more than you do and is more comfortable using a computer than you are. She can also use a stove.

As pointed out before, Bushie...

A. Makes meaningless drives long distances to "check on things" and pick up paper bills from Tulsa

B. His current social life consists of family dinners

C. A wild night out is board games and the like

...pretty much operates as a little old lady would these days.  I would bet money that he also goes to the bank for no particular reason and pesters the teller with questions about his checking account. 

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BushOklahoma, what were some of your Halloween costumes when you were a kid?

I never dressed up after the first grade.  I was never a Halloween kid.  I skipped straight to Christmas.  (And still do).

Nice prognostication here from Lief.  Sounds like 1986/87 is right around when they made Halloween illegal out there in Okie. 

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Dad gave me an interesting project to do in my spare time today on the AutoCAD.  Draw his train tracks.  He gave me two small pieces of track, a curved piece and a straight piece.  He wants me to make a .GIF file out of them and then email them to him so he can print them out.  My laptop won't recognize their printer, so I can't print it out myself.

Will you not be allowed dessert if he doesn't have it by dinner?

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Dad gave me an interesting project to do in my spare time today on the AutoCAD.  Draw his train tracks.  He gave me two small pieces of track, a curved piece and a straight piece.  He wants me to make a .GIF file out of them and then email them to him so he can print them out.  My laptop won't recognize their printer, so I can't print it out myself.

Man, I love how important/symbolic trains are in this story.

Bushie's train has yet to leave the station.

Oh it's left the station, but the locomotive keeps dying, forcing it to be towed back to the station over and over.

It's not so much that the train breaks down as it is that the conductor tries to run it off the tracks when they pass a Braum's.

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Damn, somewhat random thought but wouldn't Update Monopoly be awesome?

Oh hell yea.  Wouldn't be that hard to come up with, would it? 



"In Jail, Just Visiting" = "At Mom and Dad's, Just Visiting"

"Electric Company" = "ONG"

"Chance" = "picture of Jesus"
(gersh dernit!  Left your cable bill in Tulsa... go back to start)

"Community Chest" = "Mom's pocketbook"

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If you guys have ideas on names for the board, I can make it.



I'm not sure the railroads aspect of the game should be a reconquest of Bushie's bedroom by owning all four of dad's lines or a side mission of owning Bushie's 4 favorite restaurants: Braum's, Cracker Barrel, Eskimo Joe's, and On The Border.

Definitely the latter.  Update is set in the greater OKC area, and I would want to have the freedom to include all the various little landmarks outside of dad's train room.

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Bushie, what's with the chain restaurants?  Seriously.  It's all such corporate garbage.  Don't you ever want food prepared by people with a passion for food?

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Bushie, what's with the chain restaurants?  Seriously.  It's all such corporate garbage.  Don't you ever want food prepared by people with a passion for food?

We like chain restaurants that are tried, tested, and proven.  Although mom and pop's would be great food, they don't trust the quality of their food.  I wish we would give them a shot, but they prefer certain restaurants, all of them chains.  We ate at one mom and pop in New Mexico and really enjoyed it, but as a general rule they prefer chain restaurants.

It's the quality of CHAINS they trust?  Oy vey...

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I want to know what makes a chain establishment "proven."

Well, the "chefs" at chain restaurants cut-and-paste meals together, basically, so you know what you are going to get most of the time.  I just feel like its a case of Papa Bushie liking a certain thing at the Cracker Barrel (for example) so he feels no need to switch it up.  I would hardly call the Clan Bushie creative when it comes to food, but this behavior seems common across the plains. 

I want to know, though... if you are an Oklahomie and you ask a girl out on a date do you take her to Chili's or something?  I would never, ever, ever even think of taking a girl to a chain restaurant until we've dated for weeks and we were in a rush and oh wow whaddya know there's a Don Pablo's sure why not.

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I want to know what makes a chain establishment "proven."

Well, the "chefs" at chain restaurants cut-and-paste meals together, basically, so you know what you are going to get most of the time.  I just feel like its a case of Papa Bushie liking a certain thing at the Cracker Barrel (for example) so he feels no need to switch it up.  I would hardly call the Clan Bushie creative when it comes to food, but this behavior seems common across the plains. 

I want to know, though... if you are an Oklahomie and you ask a girl out on a date do you take her to Chili's or something?  I would never, ever, ever even think of taking a girl to a chain restaurant until we've dated for weeks and we were in a rush and oh wow whaddya know there's a Don Pablo's sure why not.

If you think back to the early seasons of Update, I took Susan to IHOP of all places.

That's just so egregious.  IHOP?!  I mean, if you were literally getting out of church and stopping there, fine, but I doubt this is the case. 

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I tell you what, guys, I know we've had a lot of discussion about the length of this job, but at the end of the day, I am very excited and grateful to have another opportunity at such a company as this.  The length talk is all speculation at this point. All that matters right now is getting off to a good start.  I can't worry about how long this will last right now.  The only thing I can worry about right now is Monday, November 3, 2014.  I can't even worry about November 4 at this point.  One day at a time.

Well done and all, but I'm really enjoying this conversation about Oklahoman eating/mating habits. 

What in the world made you choose IHOP?  A very simple Yelp search reveals many nice little romantic Mexican and Italian spots, but instead it's IHOP with it's gaggle of senile senior citizens and little [Inks]ers screaming and yelling about crayons and pancakes.  What did you get to eat? 

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What in the world made you choose IHOP?  A very simple Yelp search reveals many nice little romantic Mexican and Italian spots, but instead it's IHOP with it's gaggle of senile senior citizens and little [Inks]ers screaming and yelling about crayons and pancakes.  What did you get to eat? 

You're very late to the party on this.  This was already discussed thoroughly nearly five years ago now.  Start reading from here:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=109091.msg2332294#msg2332294

Never read Update back in the day.  Suppose I shouldn't be bringing up the bad memories for Our Dear Friend.  I'll delve into the archives.  Good day Bushie... continue with CAD(D) Round Two.