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I am going out of town for work tomorrow. I don't really like traveling for work but I've decided to make the most of the trip and bring all of you with me. LET'S GO ON A BUSINESS TRIP TOGETHER!!!  Where are we going?  For how long? We're leaving tomorrow morning at 6am and we're traveling home on Thursday. Why are we going?  We're going to install a new disk array for one of our customers. What's a disk array? Why does the customer need it? It doesn't matter. BUSINESS TRIP! What are we bringing? I like to make a quick checklist so I don't leave anything important at home. Here is the list so far.
I'll add more things as I pack tonight. How do we keep from blowing our brains out? I'm bringing season 6 of Community, season 1 of Vikings (heard it was good) and Mad Max: Fury Road to watch on the plane/airport/hotel. I'm thinking about going to see a movie while I'm up there as well. I don't know what else there is to do in Lansing. Last time I was in Michigan I was way up north and it was the most beautiful place I've ever been, but Lansing just looks like...a city. I'm also saving some music on Spotify that I can listen to offline. This sounds awful. Are there any benefits to traveling for work?  We get to eat pretty much whatever we want and it's on the company. We don't have to do regular work while we're on the road. We can do whatever we want at night when we aren't working. Why start a thread? Traveling alone is boring and this gives me something to do, even if it's just reading you guys saying "im gay" while I'm sitting in an airport restaurant. Maybe somebody will have a good idea of something fun to do after work. Maybe somebody will suggest a good way to pass the time. What's next? Finishing packing tonight, get to bed early, and wake up at like 4:30am to get to the airport on time  Feel free to use this thread for whatever as we pass the time on our business trip. Post your best travel tips, post suggestions for music and TV and movies to pass the time or things to do in Lansing, MI.
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Sep 20, 2015 21:48
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are we sharing a hotel room? let's get a double bed. no it wont be weird haha it'll be like sleepovers back when we were kids
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Sep 20, 2015 21:50
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Bardeh posted:are we sharing a hotel room? let's get a double bed. no it wont be weird haha it'll be like sleepovers back when we were kids everyone in one room and we're sleeping head to toe
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Sep 20, 2015 21:57
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Where are we flying out of? Are there direct flights to Lansing, or are we flying to Detroit and renting a car?
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Sep 20, 2015 21:59
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GAYS FOR DAYS posted:Where are we flying out of? Are there direct flights to Lansing, or are we flying to Detroit and renting a car? flying out of south carolina then to detroit then to lansing the layover is really short in detroit, otherwise i would have driven the 90 mins
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Sep 20, 2015 22:04
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u married op? try loving an escort (get one delivered to ur hotel room) and then when u bang ur wife try thinking of the escort and u will come harder and faster than u ever had before you'll feel like a toothpaste tube with all the paste squeezed out u'll come that hot and hard u loving gay
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Sep 20, 2015 22:07
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Jeff Sichoe posted:u married op? i appreciate these travel tips but i am happily married but if you want to use the hotel room for this please put a sock on the hotel room door so we don't interrupt you
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Sep 20, 2015 22:13
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Getting drunk as gently caress on the business trip
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Sep 20, 2015 22:14
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Let's have a beer and a gin tonic at the airport
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Sep 20, 2015 22:15
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Ehud posted:
hey moron you should pack some clothes maybe?
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Sep 20, 2015 22:15
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a real jerk posted:hey moron you should pack some clothes maybe? knew i was forgetting something 
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Sep 20, 2015 22:17
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i want to watch you sleep
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Sep 20, 2015 22:22
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nothing's open for dinner this late in this poo poo town except the bar. lets get wings at the bar
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Sep 20, 2015 22:24
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Serious Frolicking posted:i want to watch you sleep please wake me up if i sleep through my alarm Parallax Scroll posted:nothing's open for dinner this late in this poo poo town except the bar. lets get wings at the bar do you really live in lansing? what is my life about to be like this week?
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Sep 20, 2015 22:26
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How many beers can i buy at a time on the plane? 3? Also a gin tonic maybe? Maybe you can buy a couple for me if youre not drinking?
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Sep 20, 2015 22:28
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appalled that anyone would vote for anything besides "try to do a good job for the customer"
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Sep 20, 2015 22:29
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rear end cobra posted:How many beers can i buy at a time on the plane? 3? Also a gin tonic maybe? Maybe you can buy a couple for me if youre not drinking? it's a really short flight so probably just 1, but i'll give you mine so now you have 2
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Sep 20, 2015 22:30
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Not seeing to much on Yelp. This place looks alright though. Who wants to try it? http://www.yelp.com/biz/soup-spoon-cafe-lansing
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Sep 20, 2015 22:33
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Maybe I should just start drinking tonight and just stay awake until I go to the airport. A beer and a gin tonic at the airport bar and I should be good to go
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Sep 20, 2015 22:40
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Ehud posted:do you really live in lansing? no just been on enough business trips to poo poo towns
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Sep 20, 2015 22:42
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Maybe we could sit down somewhere during the layover in Detroit?
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Sep 20, 2015 22:43
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Maybe we could go to the Michigan Historical Museum while Ehud is at work. They have a special Civil War exhibit till the end of the week.
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Sep 20, 2015 22:48
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Maybe we could go to the Michigan Historical Museum while Ehud is at work. They have a special Civil War exhibit till the end of the week. Is there a bar nearby where we can sit while you go look at gay dead history?
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Sep 20, 2015 22:51
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This thread is going places. Voted 5.
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Sep 20, 2015 22:53
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let's use this opportunity to do all those phonecalls we've been putting off. alternatively, seconding the escort idea, OP. put him/her on the company card
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Sep 20, 2015 22:58
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rear end cobra posted:Is there a bar nearby where we can sit while you go look at gay dead history? Doesn't look like it but the State Capitol is close so maybe we can hit that on the same day if we start early. And you guys are going to be really glad I checked the webpage because they require you to call in advance if your bringing a group of ten or more on the guided tour.
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Sep 20, 2015 22:59
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as long as we're having affairs i'm down
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Sep 20, 2015 23:00
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Could we check out the local chuckle-hut/laugh factory and then go for late night pancakes after and bitch about the bad jokes?
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Sep 20, 2015 23:02
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we now have less than 12 hours until the flight takes off I'm trying to pack everything in a backpack and carry-on so I don't have to check a bag, which is my usual routine for work trips kind of a hassle to carry everything the whole trip but it's better than losing a bag or waiting around at baggage claim I wish I had a different life
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Sep 20, 2015 23:13
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What airport are we flying out of?
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Sep 20, 2015 23:18
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rear end cobra posted:What airport are we flying out of? GSP it's a tiny airport with tiny planes and we'll probably die
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Sep 20, 2015 23:22
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So what's our hotel options? The ever-classy Motel 6 or springing for something a bit more upscale, Marriott perhaps? And does it have a continental breakfast so we can roll in that sweet, sweet breakfast per diem that we just saved ourselves?
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Sep 20, 2015 23:23
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no checkbox voted one
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Sep 20, 2015 23:25
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I travel a lot for work too. It sucks. Have to use Amex for everything and is tracked meticulously. Imports into concur expense reporting automatically tho. Getting hotel per diem limit exemptions is equal to sucking the finance Vp's dick. You have no meal per diem?
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Sep 20, 2015 23:30
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Whaddaya mean they booked us in a smoke-free room? gently caress that poo poo.
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Sep 20, 2015 23:31
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Ehud posted:GSP Looks like they have a couple of bars so thats fine
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Sep 20, 2015 23:33
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Smoking Gun posted:So what's our hotel options? The ever-classy Motel 6 or springing for something a bit more upscale, Marriott perhaps? I've been busted by finance for trying this. Please don't get fired op 
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Sep 20, 2015 23:35
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Not seeing to much on Yelp. This place looks alright though. Who wants to try it? thanks for this by the way the restaurant situation in lansing looks really bleak
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Sep 20, 2015 23:38
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Darth123123 posted:I've been busted by finance for trying this. Please don't get fired op depends on the company tbh, large corporate i worked for didn't really give a poo poo about lil things here and there as long as you weren't completely stupid and went hog wild.
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Sep 20, 2015 23:39
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what's our wife doing while we're off on this business trip, OP?
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Sep 20, 2015 23:42
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