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Sending up smoke for your cousin Dubz. Hope everything went well.

A/C is a good thing up here. Must be damn near mandatory in Fla.

Good luck with the Frankenlimb orezona.
 
Smoke and prayers Dubz, any word yet how it went?

Smoke and prayers for you too Orezona. Knee pain SUCKS! At least you are getting it squared away.

As for me, I'm currently laying in the pool listening to classical music and drinking some Schlafly black and tan. It may not be Yuengling but it is yummying!
 
Thanks guys. My mom said the surgery went well this morning.
 
Yes, I'm a jerk for not saying that I wish your mom a full and speedy recovery as well...!

(((((((+++++positive vibes+++++)))))))
 
Well, I finally got the BK4 video published. For some reason some features were missing from Windows Movie Maker, most importantly the ability to speed up footage which would have been very handy in this instance. The video turned out to be 50 minutes long so feel free to fast forward or skip ahead if you even bother to watch it. Nothing revolutionary there anyway, just video of me using it same as any of you would do. I think Youtube has an editing tool so I'll probably go back and try to compress it some as well as add annotations since I didn't explain what I was doing for the most part.

It works great by the way. You should get a couple.
 
hope all the surgeries went well, are going well, will be going well.

been "busy" with landscraping, subsistance eating, and work :D

oh, in before the lock back.

that finn wolf looks interesting. Ethan will love it :D
 
Warrior, glad surgery went well. orezona, good luck with yours.

When's the new snark start? When it hits 50 pages?
 
Been stressing about my job a lot lately. As most of you know, a major company bought out the company I work for. I like it in the sense that I have a 401K, insurance, etc now that I never had. But I'm already sick of the corporate horse shit. I haven't had a raise in probably 3 years, as the old owners were running out of money. I overheard the new peeps talking about no raises will be forthcoming anytime soon. I've always had factory jobs, doing those same old repetitious tasks. That's pretty much what I'm used to doing. Now I'm a freakin' delivery driver. I take the product to the stores we own, and also do the wholesale accounts. You know, go into the back room of a grocery store, get the product scanned in, go in and put the product away. I hate it. Not my thang at all. Some people would say, are you nuts, you get to drive around all day and get paid for it? It does seem like that on the surface, but it's stressful. Nobody that works at the stores I go to that check in the product really like their jobs, and are normally in a bad mood. I get more than one person above me, that tells me what to do, nobody giving a crap what the other has told me. I could be in the middle of something I was told to do, then get a call or text wanting me to do something else. I'm so sick of this crap. I feel stuck. I wish so bad there was something I could do at home to make an ok living at. I'm sick of working for people that could give a crap less about anything except getting rich. Everything in this world is so dog eat dog anymore. Nobody cares about jack crap. I try not to bring my crap days at work home, but unfortunately I do, venting to my wife. I'm sure she gets sick of hearing it, but she goes with the flow. It seems I'm getting sick of a lot of stuff lately. My work, I don't want to live in the land of corn and beans anymore, but don't have the funds for a move. Not to mention I'm stuck like Chuck until my in laws pass. I don't mean that to sound harsh, it's just a reality. My in laws moved here from Florida to be close to my wife, as they're getting up in age. I wish I knew what the hell to do....
 
Hope it gets better. I'd say it's time to find a new job that you can be passionate about, but jobs are hard to come by these days. Maybe the best thing is to start actively looking for things to like about what you do, and see if you can't find something to enjoy. If you can't, you know you have to start looking elsewhere.
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
Hope it gets better. I'd say it's time to find a new job that you can be passionate about, but jobs are hard to come by these days. Maybe the best thing is to start actively looking for things to like about what you do, and see if you can't find something to enjoy. If you can't, you know you have to start looking elsewhere.
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I have been looking a bit, all online. When you work everyday there's not much time to go job hunting. There is ONE thing I like about my current job. The hours I work are sweet. 7am to 3:30pm, with weekends off.
 
I wish I had some great insight to give you Warrior. Sucky jobs...well they suck.

Glad your cousin's surgery went well.
 
Dubz: Sorry to hear that, man. I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets it. I'd like to move, but can't either, for financial reasons. There is a lot of other stuff in your, er....post...that ring true. I've been doing the same job for 21 years+, and I feel trapped as well - even if I have the skills (which I may or may not), what company is going to take a chance on a middle aged guy who's shown he's remarkably good at something other than what they're looking for....

On the flipside, I'm not starving, I have a roof over my head and, ah....most of my other needs met, and some free time. I have knives. I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to retire, except with the unlikely event of a PowerBall win....so what? It is what it is. You have an enviable collection of fire pistons, and a Brute. And a wife who likes to go camping, and a place to go. Looked at another way, we're more fortunate than many....and while I know it doesn't really ameliorate the feelings of spinning your wheels at work, as well as the suspicion that there are people who make ten times more money and have a tenth of your knowledge and life experience, I try to remind myself of some positive aspects of my life on occasion (at least once a week, :rolleyes:) - even though the the din of the crank in my brain usually drowns that out in short order.....

What I'm trying to say is, chin up, friend....and welcome to the rowboat.
 
I had a good friend who was super-stuck in life. As in, he was $300,000 in debt thanks to multiple degrees from MIT and USC. Despite probably being the smartest person wherever he worked, he got used by his bosses so they could make bank and cut him out. He had one guy actually not pay him at all and skip town.

So my buddy can't pay his huge loan payments because his bosses don't pay him. And because the $300,000 is federal student loans, he can't refinance or anything with a bankruptcy. So he marries a Swedish girl and MOVES TO SWEDEN (skipping town himself). Hey, great, no more student loans and a fresh start.

Only now he's stuck in some small town in Sweden where his field of work doesn't exist at all. His wife won't leave her parents and go to a city. So he's now working less than he did before plus he's got dependents. He actually ended up more stuck than he was to begin with.

The moral here? Don't go $300,000 into debt. Be smart like me, and only go $278,000 into debt (not kidding) and date the same girl for 14 years without getting married because you're both stuck in different cities without the resources to move. Then spend that extra $22K on knives, kick back, and live the good life :D
 
I don't have much debt at all really. Maybe 4 or 5K, that's about it.

I am thankful for what I do have. But that doesn't stop my job from sucking butt. I agree though GSOM, who the hell wants to hire a 51 year old?
 
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