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Brew's Foul Concoction

NurseDave said:
I bet the dog is staying upstairs today....
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Thanks for taking the bullet Dave, I didn’t know what that reference might mean.
Brew said:
Actually, he is. But this one isn't an ash smell. Rather, it's that fresh cigarette smell you get when you tear the foil from a fresh pack. It then mixes with some coffee and maybe a bit of cedar. It is one of my favorites.
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Thanks for clarifying. Un-burnt cigs I get. If it had been burnt/ashy cigs...that’s ew for me. :ROFLMAO:
 
GearNoir said:
Thanks for clarifying. Un-burnt cigs I get. If it had been burnt/ashy cigs...that’s ew for me. :ROFLMAO:
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Some of the reviews mention pipe tobacco fragrance, but not for me. Sometimes there's a bit of chocolate in the mix to go with the coffee and tobacco. This is a really simple, well-done, frag, I think.
 
Brew said:
Some of the reviews mention pipe tobacco fragrance, but not for me. Sometimes there's a bit of chocolate in the mix to go with the coffee and tobacco. This is a really simple, well-done, frag, I think.
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This has my attention. I have a tobacco and coffee scented soap that I love; it irritates my skin, but that doesn't matter. Now I know of something to pair with it!
 
My trip to NYC earlier this week was hellish. Times Square and Rockefeller Center this time of year are not for me. All I could think, as I waded through the crowds in the rain, was, "rats live like this." My interview? Haven't seen me post much, have you? I thought it was awful. Logistics, interview questions, my performance, all of it awful. But what do I know? I heard from my friend who is trying to bring me in, and it looks like the trip and the new suit may have done the trick. Nothing official yet, but things look good, including receiving thank you replies from the interviewers in response to my thank you emails. That's gotta be a good sign.

Rainy day here, where I can swing my arms without hitting six people. I may have to switch my shave to something vetiver.

Have a nice day.
 
Brew said:
My trip to NYC earlier this week was hellish. Times Square and Rockefeller Center this time of year are not for me. All I could think, as I waded through the crowds in the rain, was, "rats live like this." My interview? Haven't seen me post much, have you? I thought it was awful. Logistics, interview questions, my performance, all of it awful. But what do I know? I heard from my friend who is trying to bring me in, and it looks like the trip and the new suit may have done the trick. Nothing official yet, but things look good, including receiving thank you replies from the interviewers in response to my thank you emails. That's gotta be a good sign.

Rainy day here, where I can swing my arms without hitting six people. I may have to switch my shave to something vetiver.

Have a nice day.
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Larry, I was afraid to ask when you said nothing about it, but am glad it is better than you thought. Hope it comes thru for you (y)
 
Keeping you in my thoughts! Sounds like things are promising! You never do know about interviews sometimes. The job I'm in I thought a interviewed horribly! But turned out I got the job.
 
When the first question was, "Tell me what you know about this position, what's a day in the life like?", I almost got up and left. I'm changing a 20 year career. I don't have a clue what my days will be like, other than drinking from a firehose, so to speak. A little later, "What's your philosophy on risk?", it's a risk management position. For 20 years I've developed a philosophy not to philosophies about stuff you're pretty much clueless on. Questions about my actual experience and how it might translate/apply went well. That's what I thought they were looking for, that's what I was ready to discuss. Questions about the new position did not go so well.

There were other challenges. Some I could have avoided, some were not avoidable by me. All in all, I thought I wasted my time.
 
Very well could be they have a set of questions everyone gets and they didn’t expect or care that you would have good answers to those knowing you didn’t have a history with that type of work.
 
I had an interview with the City Of Toronto almost 20 years ago, for a position in IT storage architecture and performance, they asked me about how I would build a secure network between remote offices and the data centre. I answered that I would bring in the network and security teams and leverage their experience to ensure a robust solution was implemented. When the re-asked what *I* would do, I told then that *I* would bring in the network and security teams and leverage their experience to ensure a robust solution was implemented. 😝

Didn't get the job and VERY happy that I didn't. Bunch of wack-a-doodles!
 
I'm sure you did just fine. I had a few questions like that thrown at me a few weeks ago. The very last question was, "why shouldn't we hire you?" The interviewers said that's where people get thrown for a loop. I said, "you should hire me, that's my official response." Maybe they didn't like that or some of my dumb answers because I haven't been called back. :ROFLMAO:
 
Hopeful for you Larry! I have a hard time reading interviewers too. It sounds like some of those questions are just in there to see how honest you are going to be with yourself and them.
 
dangerousdon said:
Start with a small continent first and spread out from there. You get the extra armies from the small continent so it builds up your man power for later. Go slow until you are unstoppable!

You are talking about the board game...right? 🤪
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I've always liked attacking from Kamchatka, simply because I think it's a cool name.
 
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