I too have lived the city government life, Past 20 years here.
Being part of a City government for this long, I have watched "and it is happening", Pensions are going away...
^^^Money Man...It's all about the money....on both sides...
Thought for all here...Lets get rid of sides...
Money power will go away...
Edit to add this... Just my thoughts, getting rid of sides I think is attainable...Money is *****...???
^^^^^
No loss of sparkle drinking beers at Oktoberfest
Big wooden barrels pouring beers into Big glasses...No loss of sparkle and using the seasons temperature.
This is news on the Crappy Coffee Machine at my work place....🍻
I put .60 cents in it this morning and got a .60 cents cup of plain coffee...Plain, just the way I like it.
About an hour later I put another .60 cents for another cup of this Fine "LOL" Stuff.
The darn thing said try another selection and started spitting out small coffee cups.
I pulled as many as I could from the darn thing and gave up. The motor that engages to dispense cups just kept running...
So this started at 4:00 am this morning, the motor was still running at 8:00 am.
Have fun @JohnJ
I always enjoy connecting / re-connecting audio. I take my time, while enjoying the hopeful outcome "it plays", drinking a few. LOL....
If it works correctly after the connecting / re-connecting and having a few drinks, I rock out.
My brother in law "who by the way lives in High Point" always drank Black Label in the can. Come to think of it he would also buy the cheapest bourbon he could find and mix it with almost frozen Schweppes ginger ale.
I've got nothing to add except It's Friday and the crappy coffee machine kept ripping me off all week.
.75 cents for a large and .60 cents for a small plain coffee. I'd put .75 cents in and get a small sometimes plain, sometimes with creamer coffee and no change