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Prepare to be disappointed.

Oh boy! 45 and rain. Again.

@midwestern_ope Also Midwest: a side dish consisting of any form of potato/cheese will be a hit.

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@TURBOPOSSUM On #2 her water didn’t break until just before delivery as he was nearly 10lbs. Sounded like a wave crashing. (Every woman I’ve told that to “omg that poor woman).

@TURBOPOSSUM A gas powered Yamaha engined golf cart will basically run forever.

@shagbark_hick Love the city houses with 2nd floor porches.

One gamechanger in real urban living is rooftop access. Changes the whole game. Fresh air, place to have a beer, maybe keep a potted plant or two, get some sun. Getting increasingly rarer in larger cities, but in the Rust Belt I can attest that blessedly, this still exists.

@BlutaufdemEis @GordMagill The men of Bethlehem Steel. The Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, thousands of miles of rail. The industrial might that helped win world wars.

There's a sense of pride that comes along with doing something highly specialized in your field Being able to say to your kids "Hey you see that TV show, I worked with those people" Or "This road we're driving on, your daddy helped make that road" That sense of pride was passed down to me by my fathers and grandfathers The enemy would have that spirit destroyed They would have you feel as though you are spiritually homeless, and without purpose It's up to you to say no, we built this place, it's ours, you can't have it, you can't denigrate our history and purpose with your chicanery Be proud of who you are, what you accomplished and of your ancestors

@RamboVanHalen Ain’t no money in the cure!

Enabling drug use. This is the root of the rot.

I got our jenkins server updated to the latest version yesterday and the build node images updated to work with it, so today I decided to update the machine jenkins runs on to the latest Ubuntu LTS release but now I can't get to it from the VPN anymore so that's fun.

@TURBOPOSSUM How else do you get shirtless guys screaming obscenities at the store clerk who won’t sell him beer with no ID?

@baltic_dan Im sorry for your loss. I hope your family/friends are as good to you as mine were to me during that time. It meant a lot to me.

I can’t imagine having to deal with that right now. I’d be in jail. Thank god, I have my own shop

@TURBOPOSSUM @CyrusDeranged The fact it has some utility is how I justified buying it. Of course then I had to buy a bigger trailer.

@baltic_dan I was at work when I got the call that my dad died. My boss didn’t want to let me go home. Actual argument. 15 years there and had never asked for anything. Later, he couldn’t bother to submit obituary to payroll for 2 days of bereavement pay.

One of the best parts of owning your own business is that you can take whatever time you need when your father dies. As an added bonus, you’ll discover a lot about the empathy and personal character of your clients

On a drive from Houston to Nashville, Willie Nelson wrote “Crazy” “Night Life” and “Funny how time slips away”.

@wrowclif When I was new, I was baffled at how old men could get so much done in a shift; now I’m an old head and can out produce guys half my age because of experience.

@oldsman79 In the broadest sense, my job is to solve problems. And they seem to make new problems every day.

Finally decided we couldn't put it off any longer and updated our build server from a version released in 2021 to the latest version. A couple kinks to sort out still, but 95% of the way there.

@wrowclif I watched “Emperor of the North” with Ernest Borgnine, set in 1933. My job duties as a freight railroad conductor are essentially unchanged since then.

@oldsman79 Yes and no. Everything is always changing, and you have to learn new things, but "continuing ed" in the like school sense absolutely not. Also the tech stack for a project tends to stagnate over time, so you don't have to stay on the bleeding edge unless you're job hopping

@Hunter7___ Honorable mentions: Martina McBride , Broken Wing, what a voice, and Pam Tillis “Maybe it was Memphis” acoustic set at the Grand Ole Opry. Blown away.

@Hunter7___ “Funny how time slips away”-Willie. “For the good times”-Ray Price. “Drive”-Alan Jackson. “Pick me up on your way down”-Charlie Walker.

5 songs I think are 10/10 - Part 1: 1. "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" - Willie Nelson 2. "Still Not Dead" - Willie Nelson 3. "Big River" - Johnny Cash 4. "Is It Raining At Your House" - Vern Gosdin 5. "Rose Colored Glasses" - John Conlee

@HERDchronicles I’m obviously biased as I remember it being filmed here. Great film/cast.

“Pick me out a winner Bobby.” #OTD in 1984, The Natural was released in theatres. The film featured the #Bisons home, War Memorial Stadium (aka The Rockpile), as the home of the New York Knights – and numerous other locations around #Buffalo and WNY.

@RamboVanHalen @paulshaffer Just got it today. Review will be at some point.

@oldsman79 @paulshaffer Thank you sir. I'm glad you enjoyed it🫡

Shameless attention whore post. (I enjoyed reading your work here and looking forward to the book). @RamboVanHalen I also bought @paulshaffer s memoir.