Come on. Give the People What They Want...
May's Burger if the Month - El Guapo
1/2 lb burger on a scratch made bun topped with:

Sliced chorizo
Pico de Gallo
Chihuahua cheese
House-made crema
A pinch of cilantro and cotija cheese
(Available as chicken breast (grilled or fried) or as the Impossible burger upon request. (Sorry, we do not have Impossible Chorizo, although that's a good band name...)


Edit to include name of this bundle of joy.

Millenials like me don't care about business hours. If your place was closed I would just order it in Amazon.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Would you say that is a plethora of toppings?

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Yep. Definitely want to experience the chorizo before May is over. Just gotta get over their during business hours. When are they again?

edit: darned punctuation police

Apparently whenever the door is unlocked.

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They are very unpredictable, mostly determined by phases of the moon.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Interesting. Spaulding et. al get the royal board treatment. beni and I? 'check for the next blue moon'. hmmph

My 2nd daughter brings home a boy to meet us for the first time. I am watching the Rockets/Warriors game. He watches for a few mins and tells me, "this is a game I have never understood."

I am sorry son you will now have to leave my house and never talk to my daughter again...

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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As a good Samaritan, you should call his dad and let him know.

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well, at least you have nothing to worry about on the date

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Just show him some LTG basketball posts. He'll fun for the hills and never speak to your daughter again.

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Just got the motorcycle out of storage Saturday and it's going to be shit rain all week.

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Motorcycles, the truest sign of spring.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I dunno. Seems like a good opportunity to find out what he DOES get and why?

Disagree. Roadwork all over the place is the surest sign of Spring.

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Who gives a fuck if he doesn't like modern NBA?

we foster which puts us smack dab into some doozies of situations. This one I believe might be the craziest we've ever been involved with.

Mother has 2 children ages 3 and 1.5 with 2 different fathers. Also not really important to the story but of note...she is a little person. 2 fathers are not, 2 children are not. Children have been run through the system. 2 families they've been with have gotten divorced so they've got into emergency care a few times and have had 3 long term placements.

We took in both of them last fall with the idea that the older would eventually go to their fathers' house (he recently was discovered to be the father...they didn't know for 3 years) but he had to get somebody who couldn't pass a background check out of his house before that could happen.

3 yr old went to live with her father in January. These people are nitwits. they basically require she sit still and not do anything all day long and are basically livid when she does anything wrong. There is an old lady who lives there too who just shouts, make it stop and covers her ears when the kid crys from being punished. This has all been observed by the caseworker.

2 weeks ago they were evicted because they just stopped paying rent. They refuse any help from the state and are looking for rentals in nice neighborhoods in places they can't afford. They are now living in a hotel.

The mother is still with the father of the 1.5 yr old. The problem there is that they don't do anything. they don't come to visits, they haven't seent heir children/child in 12 weeks. They can't drive so they have to take the bus. DCFS has supplied the bus passes for them but has threatented to take them away if they don't come.

Side note : one thing that irritates the shit out of me is that DCFS bends over backwards to reschedule, and make accomodations for these shitheads. they called one time and were like they would like to move the visit to friday at 11:00 is that ok. i asked for the phone and told the caseworker... no this doesn't work. its a major inconvenience to everyone to reschedule a thing that they haven't came to 6 weeks in a row. its clear they are just trying to be difficult. a light bulb apparently went off wiht the caseworker.

The mother and father of hte 1.5 yr old keep moving and they keep moving into peoples homes who are on sex registries. Its absurd.

We just learned this morning that the father broke up with the mother because DCFS just cut off bus passes.

He has 8 kids with 8 different mothers. All of the mothers have like some sort of disability mentally.

In illinois, once you decide you will begin to terminate rights, it takes over 6 months to make happen. They state is finally deciding that this is the plan to take with the 1.5 yr old.

if the other guy becomes homeless, the state will have to take the 3 yr old back into care too.

the whole other part of this is that the mother has said that the father of the 3 yr old is inappropriate with children, and the father of the 3 yr old says that the mother and father have touched the 3 yr old inappropriately (every visit they HAVE gone to is supervised)

just needed to get some of that off my chest. I'm basically livid any time we are dealing with this.

Holy shit, dude. You and your wife are saints. Those poor kids.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Some people are assholes.
DCFS in Illinois is the worse. Is QCP one of your caseworkers? I have probably ridden the bus with these winners.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

You're a good man, hnd, despite your infatuation with trash and rectums.

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It's a specific rectum. Not rectums in general.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

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Now you're just trolling me.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

no he is an investigator and i don't think we ever have to deal with him.

our caseworker is new and is overworked. i believe she's working 15 cases currently. i can see how the whole system is discombobulated. I also get the 1st initial goal of any case is reunification. But I feel like in illinois, they drag on the reunification process way too long. too many chances. at some point in time the well being of the children has to take precedence and in Illinois that's way to far down the road.

Its made me way more empathetic to the plight of poor people (lets face it, that's who's getting their kids taken away) Most are born into identical situations. Many of the parents of the children we've taken in came out of the foster system themselves so that DCFS is involved is a natural eventuality for them.

my wife is the saint. i was hellbent on not doing this. I agreed to attend the training as a "learn more about it" thing that would hopefully placate my wife and then i'd say, nope.

about 2/3 through the training (4 saturdays of all day classes) i realized 2 things. #1, we have the means and there is a definite need...and #2, the alternative was these clods i was surrounded by in the training...one guy every question was about $$$.

it was obvious what i needed to do.

but regarding the poor kids. its tragic. the 1.5 yr old is thriving with us. we love her to death. I was pretty steadfast in telling my wife, WE ARE NOT ADOPTING ANY OF THESE KIDS....but this kid is eating away at me and the possibility of adoption is real in this situation and is tugging at me pretty hard.

the 3 yr old, is messed up. she's just gonna be. her dad and grandmother are just pieces of trash. but they get first dibs so to speak. but the kid is absolutely miserable there. But DCFS can't do anything because they meet the MINIMUM standard of care.

Now they are trying to manipulate the $ situation. Because its his kid, he does not get the room and board reimbursement (about $400 a month), but if she went to the grandmother, they would. So NOW he's saying that he does not want her....its too much of a drag on his lifestyle (he's a trucker who spends all the rest of his time playing video games) and of course the grandmother is like BUT I DO....they live together...

at the last team meeting, the mother didn't show up...this guy (the father of the 3 yr old) was like, "of course she didn't show up " in a can you believe the nerve of this lady type of way...i'm like mfer you are living IN A HOTEL.

rectums and trash is the exact description of dealing with parents who have their kids taken away.

Good kid

what is there to get? put ball in hoop. you get points.