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11-07-2008, 11:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Big Island | | | I'm in Grand Forks, North Dakota!
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After spinning my wheels with the Biotech job market in New England, my nephew and I decided to regroup in Grand Forks, North Dakota for the winter. It's freezing cold already! 
I had an interview with Best Buy today. I have a final interview scheduled for next week. It's not biotech, but it is work.
I'll have to rebuild my music gear sometime in the future, as I had to sell everything off to keep things going. 
I hope to be in my own apartment this month and have internet service by next month. I'll try to check in more often! 
Mike
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11-07-2008, 11:13 PM
|  | Will work for groove | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middletown, OH | | | Good luck with the job search. North Dakota must be major culture and weather shock for you.
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11-07-2008, 11:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | Hey, man... There you are! I was wondering where you'd been. Best of luck, and welcome back! 
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11-07-2008, 11:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Big Island | | I'm glad to be back! I've been suffering computer withdrawals, something fierce! 
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11-07-2008, 11:46 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | We are getting unseasonably warm temperatures here. Got up to 19C yesterday and 15C today. You should have come to Canada! |
11-07-2008, 11:48 PM
|  | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | | I suggest Key West may be more palatable. You just seeing fall in ND, winter is a 'horse of a different color'.
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11-08-2008, 12:59 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Build a music gear collection on a Best Buy salary? That may take a while, unless you're managing the joint.
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11-08-2008, 05:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hawaii Islander After spinning my wheels with the Biotech job market in New England, my nephew and I decided to regroup in Grand Forks, North Dakota for the winter. It's freezing cold already!
I had an interview with Best Buy today. I have a final interview scheduled for next week. It's not biotech, but it is work.
I'll have to rebuild my music gear sometime in the future, as I had to sell everything off to keep things going.
I hope to be in my own apartment this month and have internet service by next month. I'll try to check in more often!
Mike | You're less than 2 hrs away from some of us! I think South Dakota got hit harder than us here in Cold Canada! BTW, I always liked Margarite's Music down there!
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11-08-2008, 08:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | I'm not ready for winter.
It's a mostly rain slop thing that's going on outside right now. Ick.
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11-08-2008, 08:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by seanm We are getting unseasonably warm temperatures here. Got up to 19C yesterday and 15C today. You should have come to Canada! | Uhhh, don't you think we should tell him about the winter we just had?
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11-08-2008, 09:35 AM
| | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bass Viking Uhhh, don't you think we should tell him about the winter we just had? | Nope!  |
11-08-2008, 09:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Go out and buy a nice warm coat, you will need it. North Dakota is COLD in the winter. -40 cold.
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11-08-2008, 09:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | As a former employee of Big Blue, be careful. I will leave it at that. |
11-08-2008, 09:52 AM
|  | It's time for Dodger baseball! | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Mentone Beach | | | Good luck in North Dakota, Punatic! My Best Buy has some pretyy nice Fender gear, which I know you're a fan of. Employee discount?
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11-08-2008, 12:00 PM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by steamthief My Best Buy has some pretyy nice Fender gear.... | Serious? The closest thing to music gear any BB I've been to has is the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games.
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11-08-2008, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 Serious? The closest thing to music gear any BB I've been to has is the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games.
-Mike | From what I've heard, BBs are starting to put in guitar departments. Prolly betting on the assumption that people will want to play REAL guitar after playing rock band/guitar hero. |
11-08-2008, 12:34 PM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Disraeli Gears From what I've heard, BBs are starting to put in guitar departments. Prolly betting on the assumption that people will want to play REAL guitar after playing rock band/guitar hero. | Dang, smart move. So I'll be able to get a Roscoe or a Nordstrand at my local BB soon, eh?
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11-08-2008, 12:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ5150 Dang, smart move. So I'll be able to get a Roscoe or a Nordstrand at my local BB soon, eh?
-Mike | Think Guitar Center, complete with the pimply teenagers whose incentive to keep their job is to load you up with accessories you don't really need. |
11-08-2008, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Omaha, NE | | | If you'd like to give living near other people a shot, Omaha is driving distance and our economy is pretty good right now.
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11-08-2008, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Louisiana | | | Have fun in Grand Forks. I got my bachelor's degree in music ed from Minot State, so I know a thing or two about ND. It really is a lovely state for its own unique reasons.
Yes, the winters are pretty extreme, and it's because of the continental weather system being in the exact center of the continent. To my experience, and I've lived all over the USA, some in Calgary, and over in Finland and Germany... while harsh, it's a different kind of cold because it's dry. I think the dryness allows the temperature to fall lower without feeling it so much. It's a different cold than here in the humid south where I live now. With a wet cold, you feel that more in your bones, so the suffering happens faster even on a "warm" number.
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