Yeah no doubt, everything else is way way way too fuckin sweet

One thing I miss about traveling for work is the availability of 24/7 everything

When I was at the shop in St. Louis (apples to oranges to our whole state) I could get out at 3am, swing by Walmart and buy my lunch stuff for the week then have my choice of like 3 diners, a gaggle of Waffle Houses, Taco Bell or Chinese. The Chinese place was the farthest out if my way at a whopping 10 minutes.

That being said I’ll take our complete lack of traffic over the creature comforts of a large metro area. Getting on the highway there was an exercise in hoping and praying you didn’t die lol

> clam cakes

I’ve been awake about 10 minutes and read this as clam shakes, the gagging was audible

I really should be inclusive of the living dead huh, my privilege of a heartbeat is showing again I guess lmao

Probably be worth his while to get to a point where he can piss clean and apply at Huhtamaki, it’s right up the road from wherever he’s at now

~$20/hr with full benefits if you can fog up a mirror and virtually unlimited OT and you can jump to $23-25/hr by showing up consistently and maintaining your ability to fog up a mirror

It’s hot as balls in the summer and shift work blows but it sure as fuck beats $300 a week

When the federal government stops doing shit like spending 50 million on boosting tourism in Tunisia I’ll stop bitching.

I have no problem with mutual aid, I take a lot of problem with completely braindead spending.

Cut the spending, up taxes on the gaggle of people that don’t pay shit, but stop squeezing the little guy to death and threatening to ruin his life if he doesn’t cough it up

You mean other than maxing out every pre-tax contribution my employer offers and buying into their supplemental life insurance? If slam more in my 401k if I wasn’t trying to put cash in my savings

There’s no justification for taxing a person making ~$30 an hour $500-600 a week because I’m trying to sock some cash away and get ahead on shit

Being unmarried and no kids really blows when you like overtime.

I was monumentally closer to grossing 80 than I was six figures, and between the two governments I paid taxes too they felt entitled to almost 22k of it

Practicing doctor? I can’t imagine

But he’s got an undergrad in biology from Harvard, received his MD and an MBA from UPenn

Can’t speak to his proficiency as a surgeon but uh, dude is definitely a doctor legally speaking lol

Edit: got curious to see if he was practicing or not, he was vice chair of surgery at Columbia until he started his political career, make of that what you want. I can’t imagine you make it on the surgical board at Columbia by being a shitty surgeon regardless of the dumb shit you say on daytime TV and how obnoxious you are in front of a camera

They we’re definitely waddling around talking about how good Timmy’s is

I don’t think OP means under the ice when referring to chipping a hole, but rather a small place with no nice to swim in

Last time I got involved in a conversation here about running power underground everyone seemed to think I was a nutcase for saying this, like we can just directionally drill all willy nilly and pull cable like they do further west

Setting a pole up here can be enough of a pain in the dick let alone thousands of miles of power line in the ground

Might be kinda chilly for a piranha, pack of rabid muskrats might be the answer. Don’t forget the cattle prod when coming abs going lol

After talking to my old man I was less accurate than I thought, B is definitely hyperbole but I’d like to share what he told me

My dad did 25 years with Pike Industries, he’s been on both total rebuilds/redesigns of that York toll. This one they just finished was a fucking fiasco on the paving side and drove him to a new job

The only three paving seasons Pike never had a crew there in his 25 years were the big 295 north and south bound projects they did back to back summers and the big Route 3 bridge project in Augusta

I dunno if they use it as a money sink or if it’s someone’s pet project but they spend a very disproportionate amount of money on it for whatever reason. Base up highway paving in Maine 10 years ago was roughly a million a mile (that’s a number straight from Randy Pike’s mouth), and that was well before everything from wages to the price of diesel fuel skyrocketed

A: to make more money, that’s definitely the busiest entry by a long shot

B: the turnpike authority feels the needs to completely scrap, redesign and rebuild that toll both and every 5-7 years

frend

You will absolutely need to make an appointment though, they no longer take walk ins. They do have an app that makes that easy peasy though.

I’ve been seeing Mike there since 2017, I refuse to go elsewhere lol

The outage heavy trades especially; I’ve been on a “seven day” turbine outage that lasted 63 days because we realized just about everything that could be cracked was cracked lol

I miss those paychecks and perdiem like a bastard but I can pull the insane hours where I’m at now and sleep in my own bed every night

It’s not a pay issue, look into BNSF and their Hi-Viz attendance policy; even the revised version is completely asinine. The company basically owns you and you’re penalized for damn near any time you take off

Oh but you can earn some of it back! By working 14 days consecutively. As someone who also works in heavy industry currently (pulp and paper millwright) and has worked 40+ days in a row during turbine shutdowns as a contractor, lack of rest days is how people get complacent and die

“What’s he talking about it’s all cats and video ga..OH THAT is what we was referring to”

Dude probably needs to hangout in Riverview and get some help. I almost had it out with him one night at the Eastern Ave Circle k after he tried to initiate a screaming match over my not giving him a cigarette… which is hard when you don’t smoke lol

Teflon/PTFE was also an accidental discovery by a DuPont man; ironically it’s also one of the mostly widely used PFAS chemicals ever lol

1: moon

2: weather/changing seasons

3: they’re fuckin weird

Only place I’ve ever almost hit and killed one was right on 201 in Fairfield near the Purple Cow, take that for what it’s worth. Just got sone tail fur though

I’ve got liners I machined under the induction motors and radar arrays on the Michael Monsoor

I’ve machined Abrams parts, JDAM bomb parts, fighter parts, and more FN contract rifle parts than you can shake a stick at.

Government trough pays really good all the way down, and personally it’s a small sense of pride.

Two types of people in this world I guess lol

You can be an “marine electrician” down there your entire working life and accrue exactly zero hours towards state licensing. Quotes because the vast majority only pull wire/cable, and don’t terminate a damn thing.

No idea if you’re in maintenance, I’d really hope the hours would count but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they didn’t