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I thought the whole point of basic was to break you down and kill the inviduality you may have had and make a one size fits all soldier so to speak.

Shit's about to get me down. Since I lost the ability to walk it's really impacting my mental welfare. I'm a person that is outside 99% of the time if I'm not working. I backpack on vacation. I don't even own a TV. I used to take walks in the woods on a daily basis. Shit's getting old fast.

It's going to be a hot afternoon today. I just went outside and it was 95F here about 1-1/2 hours from LSU.

For no reason I thought of the sunshine bridge when you said that. They built a bridge between BR and New Orleans over the MS river. Only the bridge, no approaches. It was 10 years later that they got around to building the approaches, bridge to nowhere. Only in LA. Bridge named to honor the...

First place I went to work had a giant garage built onto the back of the office. In it was a giant bus/RV painted in purple and gold for tailgating. It was old 25 years ago and I saw it a few years ago in the lot, but someone else owns it now. It's probably 40 years old lol. You see shit like...

Exxon complex of the refinery, the chem plant, the packaging plant and the lubricants plant (IE the complex). 50% is a phrase. I have built a good bit of it. The bridge was before my time. The only bridge I built in LA is a special turn table bridge that is balanced at 1/3 of the way across...

Not going to the game but I may go to BR tomorrow. They are having a fly over at Tiger stadium of a pair of F-18's. Thier approach will put them over Exxon and leave over the I-10 bridge. Thinking of going to the Exxon dock on the river and try to get a pic of the planes behind the Exxon...

I don't eat many candy bars. But I always like paydays because they don't melt when you are out fishing or whatever. I used to love marathon bars then they discontinued them. I ordered some under a different name from England that were pretty good.

I've seen his show but never really watched it.

Gang sign obviously.

The secretary of the Navy came out last week and said they are looking at having female SEALs.

The company I just left was converting to using surface pro's for a lot of desktop work with a dock and taking the surface pro if you needed to travel and such. At work everyday nobody knows the differene when it's docked. It works well for them because the only travel is to another office...

I've never watched it but he's a big gun nut and is a regular on a big fun board I frequent.

There's no room for individuality in the military.

The problem is in some cases these women are taking slots in a training course such as the rangers. We spend a great amount of money on training to be "the tip of the spear" and none of them will ever be allowed in combat. Even if they performed every duty with the same efficiency as a male...

Good luck. I've had multiple doctors tell me that the spinal tap can be "inconclusive". It's pretty clear at this point I have MS. Anyway, here if you apply for disability they send you to a doctor recommended by the state to verify. I don't know what they do in reading spinal taps. I still have...

Reddit, like $25.

Saddens me. I used to listen to him on the radio do calls and then he was calling the Astros when I watched them most on TV. Can't believe he called Roger Maris's 61 home run all the way up to 3 years ago doing announcing.

I turned down a pay increase of 300% when I took my job outside San Antonio that would have meant moving to the bay area. Not for me and money ain't everything as they say.

Congrats! Is that the job that I looked at your resume?

Until the SEC Network and ESPN bitching in the last 2-3 years LSU never had a home game that didn't start at 7pm (rarely anyway). Now we get them at noon, 3pm, and 9pm etc...

Take the survey on live streams and get 250 gold in tanks, warships etc... http://survey.wargaming.net/s/LivestreamSurvey/

I used to play EQ back in the day when I owned the company and the shop had to work nights.

They didn't change the rate. So he's really gonna be screwed if he finds out the house is defective.

My USB 3.0 ports only work on some days, some days they do and some they don't. It's not a major issue, just annoying really.

That's why we "had" 7pm kick offs till our new AD got involved in it. He's liked only slightly more than the AD UT just fired. He's on record saying it's not a great idea for LSU to ask the other teams for us to wear white. Which is the rule but everyone has agreed to let LSU wear white. But...

I think FHA loans only send their own inspector but I have no idea. He said the real inspection hadn't been done. I've mentioned it before but I wouldn't believe anything an inspector said. I sold a house and the inspector was too fat to use a ladder so everything he looked at was eye level...

For once I'm glad I'm not going to the LSU game. Afternoon kick off and 95F heat.

Talked to an idiot today that is closing on a house with no inspection in 2 days. They are in a hurry to beat the interest rate hike. Fail on so many levels.

I send a thank you note, only because the people who interview me normally have 10,000 things going at once. Almost every time I sent one I heard back. They just had so much stuff going on they didn't do it till they got my note. Some of them I call. If you got interviewed with 50 other people I...

I live in the south and LOTS of houses have mold. There's mold and then there's mold. If you are interested have it inspected and find out. It's not uncommon here to have that smell of mold/mildew in out of reach places or not part of the main house and it's not great but it's not harmful.

Have thank you notes fallen out of favor a few days after an interview?

I have never been asked any of these types of questions. They ask about two things in almost all of the ones I have had in 25 years. One, tell me about your work experience and what you typically do. Two, tell us about the other companies you have worked for and what are they doing to solve...

Hurry up and wait. I'm sure it happens a lot of places. Guy interviewed me once because they had to get someone in place right away. That seemed to be the problem lol and he mentioned it 25 times and talked of timelines of getting someone in there in a few days. I didn't hear anything for a few...

When I first started in this work 25 years ago the shop unionized. That didn't last AT ALL. They put up a board listing what welder 1st class made, fitter 1st class made and on down the line. Everyone got grouped up and they found out a lot of them were getting above average pay and no...

I don't know. I wasn't involved in their negotiations. I asked the president who does all that once. He said they don't get anything the other shop and our shop got. Just health insurance (entire company pays 100% of health insurance premium) and two weeks of vacation and X days of sick time...

The place I just left is non union in TX obviously. We have 2 shops in MS about 15 minutes apart. One builds sub assemblies for the other. One shop is unionized and the other isn't. It's a very weak union. You can't call up and ask for another X or whatever. Anyway the unionzied shop makes on...

Well they way they phrase it doesn't help. Are you familiar with? That's a terrible way to ask a question. I'm familiar with how nuclear power plants work, but you wouldn't want me to have anything to do with them. But they always ask if I am familiar with X and Y. Yeah I'm familiar with a...

I attend one a year on average. They have the festival for it in the spring which is where that pic came from, but I've never been. I have to go out Thursday and kill a few hogs for this one. It's kind of like a crawfish boil. Part food, and part socializing while you eat and entertainment.

I always like when the interviewer or recruiter ask you a yes or no question because they have no clue what it means. Who doesn't answer yes. Recruiters always ask if I'm familiar with API, AWS, ASME, AISC codes and stuff and I know they don't even know what those mean in the slightest. Who...