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Ram27 Offline
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Howdy gang. ram27bat
Gene363 Offline
#52 Posted:
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Good Monday Morning! It's 58° on the way to 77° today.
Gene363 Offline
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BuckyB93 wrote:
Yeah, I wasn't going to do it. It's just a silly ceremonial thing but my kids encouraged me to do it. The official ceremony walk is sometime mid November.

I guess it will set an example that if the old man can go back to school for another degree, then there is no excuse for them to not continue on and further their education after they graduate from high school.


Awsome! It's a ton of extra work finishing school while working, you deserve the recognition. Your kids are correct and they want you to get the recognition.
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Not sure I'd classify my current job as actual work. A trained monkey can do it so, from that aspect, I qualify. It's just a means to an end for some extra money and milking them for their free tuition, 401(k) match, and employee stock purchase plan benefits.

Spent too many years building a career and chasing money in the corporate environment. I'm proud of my accomplishments, learned a ton of interesting and fun stuff but burning the candle at both ends just led me to burn out.

I'm too old for corporate BS. I made a conscience decision do something different. Some might call it a midlife crisis or whatever but I felt it was time to turn the page for my next chapter in life while I'm still alive.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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A trained monkey could do a lot of the jobs out there. Don't tell the bosses though.
BuckyB93 Offline
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I wouldn't mind having a monkey for a pet. My apt complex doesn't allow dogs or cats. To the best of my knowledge there is no fine print about monkeys.

Then again, if I had one, it might out smart me (not an insurmountable task).
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
A trained monkey could do a lot of the jobs out there. Don't tell the bosses though.

I thought the bosses were the trained monkeys?
Gene363 Offline
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BuckyB93 wrote:
Not sure I'd classify my current job as actual work. A trained monkey can do it so, from that aspect, I qualify. It's just a means to an end for some extra money and milking them for their free tuition, 401(k) match, and employee stock purchase plan benefits.

Spent too many years building a career and chasing money in the corporate environment. I'm proud of my accomplishments, learned a ton of interesting and fun stuff but burning the candle at both ends just led me to burn out.

I'm too old for corporate BS. I made a conscience decision do something different. Some might call it a midlife crisis or whatever but I felt it was time to turn the page for my next chapter in life while I'm still alive.



Sound like sound planning. At first changing jobs was a challenge, but learning new things is more fun than doing the same things day after day. I spent almost nine years as a government employee, a dam operator, but got fed up with civil service BS so I quit and never looked back. I did miss living on a remote site.

I've been construction labor, a welder, welding instructor, welding inspector, dam operator, quality assurance engineer, lead quality assurance engineer, field material engineer, nuclear power plant spare parts administrator, cost accounting manager, information services manger, cost account planning engineer, contracts engineer, configuration management engineer, data administrator and system administrator, with a few other odd/temporary jobs mixed in.
danmdevries Offline
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TRUCK IS SOLD!!!!
DrafterX Offline
#60 Posted:
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And there was much rejoicing... Mellow
Gene363 Offline
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danmdevries wrote:
TRUCK IS SOLD!!!!


Buh Bye! Applause Applause Applause
Ram27 Offline
#62 Posted:
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Great news danm on 🚚 truck 🚚 sale. Applause
dkeage Offline
#63 Posted:
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danmdevries wrote:
TRUCK IS SOLD!!!!

Great news! I hope you didn’t sell it to a friend or relatives
MACS Offline
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Went to the county tax collector's office... because that's pretty much where you do every-damn-thing in FL. Pay your taxes, register a vehicle, get a license, get a fishing license, get a CCW...

Anywho... applied for my CCW. Took a grand total of 15 minutes from filling out the online form to taking the picture and getting my prints taken. Dude said they usually expedite the process for those with DD-214's. I should have it in less than 30 days.

Florida sportsman's license for veterans... $20 and it covers hunting and fishing... ocean or freshwater. I'm digging it.
deadeyedick Offline
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danmdevries wrote:
TRUCK IS SOLD!!!!


Congrats! Applause
Gene363 Offline
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MACS wrote:
Went to the county tax collector's office... because that's pretty much where you do every-damn-thing in FL. Pay your taxes, register a vehicle, get a license, get a fishing license, get a CCW...

Anywho... applied for my CCW. Took a grand total of 15 minutes from filling out the online form to taking the picture and getting my prints taken. Dude said they usually expedite the process for those with DD-214's. I should have it in less than 30 days.

Florida sportsman's license for veterans... $20 and it covers hunting and fishing... ocean or freshwater. I'm digging it.


Nice! Did they have the electronic fingerprint scanner?
HockeyDad Offline
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danmdevries wrote:
TRUCK IS SOLD!!!!


WAIT….WHAT?!
MACS Offline
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Gene363 wrote:
Nice! Did they have the electronic fingerprint scanner?


Yessir... livescan. Filled out, I think, 3 pages of "fill in the blank" and "yes/no" questions. Signed it. Uploaded my DD-214 right there. Got a picture taken, rolled my own prints on the scanner... paid the fee, got a copy of the app and I was out the door.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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But...what will we do for tranny tales now? Gonz
BuckyB93 Offline
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danmdevries wrote:
TRUCK IS SOLD!!!!


No more lemon tranny tales or racoon wars... The forum will never be the same.
Palama Offline
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danmdevries wrote:
TRUCK IS SOLD!!!!


Applause

Hallelujah! PTL!
Gene363 Offline
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MACS wrote:
Yessir... livescan. Filled out, I think, 3 pages of "fill in the blank" and "yes/no" questions. Signed it. Uploaded my DD-214 right there. Got a picture taken, rolled my own prints on the scanner... paid the fee, got a copy of the app and I was out the door.


Hats off to Florida, equipped for issuing, instead of preventing, carry permits, unlike some freedom hating states. I looked into a Florida non-resident permit before Georgia and South Carolina got off their aazzes and adopted reciprocal recognition of carry permits. Before that I had a Utah non-resident permit to drive into Georgia while carrying.
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
But...what will we do for tranny tales now? Gonz


I will buy another and given my luck there will be more tranny issues.

But it's gonna wait a while.

Already spent every dime. Paid off credit cards, wife's car, and a chunk of my HELOC.

Was talking about buying another truck wife said don't do it with your luck it could be raining tiddies and you'd catch a d1ck in your face.
MACS Offline
#74 Posted:
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LMAO!

Positive mindset, brother... roll with your beater for awhile, but eventually... a man needs a truck. Especially when you like to do the things you do with the camping and the gridlife and such.
danmdevries Offline
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Right now I'm gonna hold out until a truck I know about comes up for sale. Buddy sale, known history and issues etc. With the Ram I thought having warranty was the solution. It was not.

Don't want to buy anything 2020-22 they've all sat in fields and lots pre-rusting.

I'm more tempted to look for something 20 years old from the southwest.

Was thinking I'll need something before I start on the kitchen remodel next spring. But Menards rents trucks for $20/hr. So really I don't need a truck for 2 years. I will want/need one when I build a barn. I'd even say screw a truck and go cargo van, but those are even harder than pickups to find right now.
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BuckyB93 wrote:
Whoop Whoop! Final paper has been submitted.

Schoools all done..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbNEOJMGFAo

^

is Alice Cooper still alive?


Buckminster got his Propers!
Knew you'd do it.
8trackdisco Offline
#77 Posted:
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Gene363 wrote:
Sound like sound planning. At first changing jobs was a challenge, but learning new things is more fun than doing the same things day after day. I spent almost nine years as a government employee, a dam operator, but got fed up with civil service BS so I quit and never looked back. I did miss living on a remote site.

I've been construction labor, a welder, welding instructor, welding inspector, dam operator, quality assurance engineer, lead quality assurance engineer, field material engineer, nuclear power plant spare parts administrator, cost accounting manager, information services manger, cost account planning engineer, contracts engineer, configuration management engineer, data administrator and system administrator, with a few other odd/temporary jobs mixed in.



Nuclear Power Plant Spare Parts Administrator?

You led the effort to add extra parts in the nuclear power plant that come in the box?
Guess it is less disconcerting than Spare Parts Searcher.
Gene363 Offline
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8trackdisco wrote:
Nuclear Power Plant Spare Parts Administrator?

You led the effort to add extra parts in the nuclear power plant that come in the box?
Guess it is less disconcerting than Spare Parts Searcher.


LOL

When something critical breaks, you don't want to be ordering or searching for parts, power plant down time is expensive.

Once a nuke plant in licensed to load fuel and operate, the license holder has period of time to build a database of critical spare parts for safe and reliable operation. They also need to know the shelf life of those parts, purchase the parts and maintain them in a controlled warehouse.

As you can imagine, there are thousands of components in a power planet and many of them have several thousand internal parts. Some manufacturers supply lists of spare parts, some do not, in either case, there are thousand of manuals and drawing that need analysis. Identical/similar components, e.g., air operated valves of specific sizes can be analyzed as a group, but only if their function and criticality to operation is the same. It's a daunting and critical task, time constrained and under the critical eye of the NRC.

Oh, and meanwhile, manufactures sell off product lines, change their designs, their materials and decide to leave the nuclear business entirely. So it also include commercial dedication of standard parts for use in a nuclear plant.

The job was interesting technically and it exposed me to my first relational computer database, Data Ease. Probably long dead software by now, but good in the pre-Window days of DOS.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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But any other power generation type, you'd still be a spare parts admin, yet never be given a budget for spare parts to administrate until something critical breaks

Morning, peoples
MACS Offline
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Hello.

I need to get my butt outside for the walk. Puppy dog is snoring in his bed. I don't think he's ready.
BuckyB93 Offline
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Let sleeping dogs lie
deadeyedick Offline
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Morning ya varmints.

Don't know what got into me but for a layabout I was industrious yesterday. After my 5 miler I pulled the cars out of the 3 car garage, vacuumed the floors, then pressure-washed the whole thing. Pretty sure that is the first time it has been thoroughly cleaned since the epoxy coating was applied when we moved in 14 years ago. Looks like you could eat off the surface as nothing sticks to it.

Wife is looking at me funny like she can think of other projects so I better grab a cigar and go outside.
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Mornin Ya'll 57 with a high of 60 today and 100% chance of rain that started after midnight last night!! Herfing

We got our Hickory Log Sawn and Stickered just in time!!!
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Gene363 wrote:
LOL

When something critical breaks, you don't want to be ordering or searching for parts, power plant down time is expensive.

Once a nuke plant in licensed to load fuel and operate, the license holder has period of time to build a database of critical spare parts for safe and reliable operation. They also need to know the shelf life of those parts, purchase the parts and maintain them in a controlled warehouse.

As you can imagine, there are thousands of components in a power planet and many of them have several thousand internal parts. Some manufacturers supply lists of spare parts, some do not, in either case, there are thousand of manuals and drawing that need analysis. Identical/similar components, e.g., air operated valves of specific sizes can be analyzed as a group, but only if their function and criticality to operation is the same. It's a daunting and critical task, time constrained and under the critical eye of the NRC.

Oh, and meanwhile, manufactures sell off product lines, change their designs, their materials and decide to leave the nuclear business entirely. So it also include commercial dedication of standard parts for use in a nuclear plant.

The job was interesting technically and it exposed me to my first relational computer database, Data Ease. Probably long dead software by now, but good in the pre-Window days of DOS.


Gee, little pressure in that gig. Could feel my heartbeat quicken just reading the list of responsibilities.
Gene363 Offline
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Good Tuesday Morning! It's 45° on the way to 78° today. Enjoying this Fall day at the range this morning.
Ram27 Offline
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Tuesday morning greetings gang. ram27bat
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I think I will do nothing today.

Looked at the big end of the tree I cut down on Saturday and thought about slicing and splitting it. But then I felt some raindrops so that's not happening.

Might go buy chicken feed but that's about it. I do still need to grind the brisket trimmings and make burgers
Gene363 Offline
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8trackdisco wrote:
Gee, little pressure in that gig. Could feel my heartbeat quicken just reading the list of responsibilities.


Yes, and there were quite q few of us doing the job, including contractors. I was seconded to the utility owner to help after construction we completed. During construction I was the lead quality assurance engineer for contractors, mechanical, welding and NSSS nuclear steam supply, (the reactor system), so spare parts was kinda of fun.

The job site had been shut down and slapped with a show cause order by the NRC, about as serious as it gets. The previous contractor had been fired. When we took over we had to do a crap ton of work just to get construction started. That meant dealing on a daily basis with questions and concerns from a group of NRC inspectors on a project with extremely negative confidence levels.

To be direct, the construction takeover job was a mo'fo, lots of heart problems, divorces, tempers, meeting and stress. We, Bechtel, were the managers and engineers, Ebasco was the constructor. The client was timid and difficult to work with and our constructor was very difficult to work with. I was quite happy to hear the whine of the turbine making power and even happier to leave the job. Oh, and it was a fixed price contract too.
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Gene363 wrote:
LOL

When something critical breaks, you don't want to be ordering or searching for parts, power plant down time is expensive.

Once a nuke plant in licensed to load fuel and operate, the license holder has period of time to build a database of critical spare parts for safe and reliable operation. They also need to know the shelf life of those parts, purchase the parts and maintain them in a controlled warehouse.

As you can imagine, there are thousands of components in a power planet and many of them have several thousand internal parts. Some manufacturers supply lists of spare parts, some do not, in either case, there are thousand of manuals and drawing that need analysis. Identical/similar components, e.g., air operated valves of specific sizes can be analyzed as a group, but only if their function and criticality to operation is the same. It's a daunting and critical task, time constrained and under the critical eye of the NRC.

Oh, and meanwhile, manufactures sell off product lines, change their designs, their materials and decide to leave the nuclear business entirely. So it also include commercial dedication of standard parts for use in a nuclear plant.

The job was interesting technically and it exposed me to my first relational computer database, Data Ease. Probably long dead software by now, but good in the pre-Window days of DOS.


Gene, Sounds like we had similar careers. Mine was in semiconductor manufacturing and was more on the procurement administration and certification of a supplier base of about 27000 worldwide and something like 5 million components. Spent the last 20 years of my working life helping to make Moore's Law function.
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My mostest favorite job was working at QinetiQ-NA. Our bread and butter was as a military subcontractor making applique armor for both land based vehicles (M-ATV, and Stryker vehicles) and the fleet of C-130 and C-17 aircraft. During Gulf War 2 we were the second biggest consumer of Velco (it was a key component to applying the armor). We were only second behind the biggest consumer of Velco products - baby diapers. Also had the fun of working with some robotics and unmanned vehicle projects while there there. If they were located closer to me and not in the Boston commute area, I'd take a job there again in a heartbeat.

It was fun and educational.

Second mostest favorite job was working on fiber optic gyroscopes at Northrup Grumman. Sadly, they moved their fiber optic gyro production out to Utah.

Third on the list would probably be working with superconductors. Worked for a start up that exploded during the dot com era (the CEO was a great salesman) and the company had a ton of money to burn. Cut my teeth doing that after graduating college. It's kind of a small market and pretty incestuous. However, again, I was able to experiment with different stuff and learn a ton as money was almost free. Just write up a SBIR, know the people that approve the SBIR's and you could get approved and financed for pretty much any R&D project you wanted.

Vapor doping mercury into silver wires... yeah... there's some real world solutions right there. We really need some super pure silver (99.9999% pure silver aka 6 NINEs purity) superconducting wires doped with mercury. SBIR approved and funded. Our tax dollars at work.
Gene363 Offline
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Some truly awesome high tech stuff right there, way more advanced than a nuclear plant.
MACS Offline
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I delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, washed dishes, bussed tables... joined the Navy and worked in a steam plant, then in military LE. Then I worked in corrections. Then I, very briefly, drove a wheelchair van.
Gene363 Offline
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MACS wrote:
I delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, washed dishes, bussed tables... joined the Navy and worked in a steam plant, then in military LE. Then I worked in corrections. Then I, very briefly, drove a wheelchair van.


I recall you did more in the Navy and thank you for your service.
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MACS wrote:
I delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, washed dishes, bussed tables...

if you had also mentioned shoveled snow it coulda been part of my life from age 10 to 18
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No. No. No. Iffin ya choose to reenter the work force, her gonna have ta work on your resume. Sumpin like
Network news distribution
Environmental plant management
Supply chain disinfection and sanitation
Floated on a boat for a bit
Rehabilitive reeducation
And Mobile mobile operations
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frankj1 wrote:
if you had also mentioned shoveled snow it coulda been part of my life from age 10 to 18

Precipitation relocation management
8trackdisco Offline
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BuckyB93 wrote:
No more lemon tranny tales or racoon wars... The forum will never be the same.


Well... he does have to buy another truck. So... there is that. Anxious
Gene363 Offline
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
No. No. No. Iffin ya choose to reenter the work force, her gonna have ta work on your resume. Sumpin like
Network news distribution
Environmental plant management
Supply chain disinfection and sanitation
Floated on a boat for a bit
Rehabilitive reeducation
And Mobile mobile operations



I'd go for, "Premature Carrier Realignment Specialist."
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Precipitation relocation management

sounds like Mrs. McConnell shoulda paid me more than a roll of life savers.
My bad for not ringing her bell before I started relocating her precipitation.
Didn't wanna wake her up.
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Happy Hump Day danm & peeps. ram27bat
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