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rdb posted:Flying sucks I was flying home from Spain the other day (3 hours or so) and by the gate was a huge dude. Tall, wide, and overweight. My first instinct was, naturally, to pray that he wouldn't be seated next to me, but the next thing that hit me was that a) he probably hated flying very, very much and b) he probably hated being that guy who everyone dreaded being seated next to, and it made me realize that it's a sucky situation all around... How about telling your company to give you business class or to not put you on a plane at all? Does a CRJ even have anything acceptable?
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slidebite posted:Where are you going to be Aug 21 for the Eclipse? My parents are letting my wife and I use the vacation house by Charleston. Aiming to be on the beach for it, we'll see if that works. Need to start checking Amazon for eclipse viewing supplies soon.
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It goes against company policy to discuss it online, but I work for a composite building materials company. I managed one of their smaller plants. Right now its more of a project management role for the same salary. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the time it afforded me with my son while working from home post closure, but the flying part has continued to be a drain. And it looks like a small error may have just extended this project past the current end of my contract. The local economy continues to improve, I get Facebook adds all the time for the toyota plant hiring people at up to $32/hr for skills that I have. Its so tempting. Or a plant just down the road is has a position with the same job title. Or I have the money and time to go back to college, or my wife and I are in the position where I can take a job that pays less but is more satisfying even if it makes my resume look lovely. Idk. I could even take a vacation but I forgot how to relax while away from home and gently caress being on a plane.
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Jun 28, 2017 14:29
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bolind posted:How about telling your company to give you business class or to not put you on a plane at all? Does a CRJ even have anything acceptable? No, its all coach on a CRJ200 which I always seem to get stuck on for the last flight. Delta labels a bulkhead seat "comfort +" now and considers it an upgrade but the width is the same, if not less because of the tray tables in the armrest.
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Jun 28, 2017 14:34
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As someone who has no family and loves chatting up strangers at airport bars, I love flying. But I'm definitely in the minority.
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Jun 28, 2017 14:38
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rdb posted:It goes against company policy to discuss it online, but I work for a composite building materials company. I managed one of their smaller plants. Right now its more of a project management role for the same salary. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the time it afforded me with my son while working from home post closure, but the flying part has continued to be a drain. And it looks like a small error may have just extended this project past the current end of my contract. Make moves. Apply for those jobs if they seem better. Disrupt your comfort zone. The old job doesn't need to know about you looking elsewhere, and interviews are harmless.
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Jun 28, 2017 14:58
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have thought about losing weight op? start with what's in your power to change
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Jun 28, 2017 15:06
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I dropped from 350 to 220. Width was still an issue but the seatbelt extender wasn't. Back up a bit after getting married, and your right, it helps, but it doesn't change head into the the bin or knees into the seat.
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CRJ-200s suck hard enough as a short guy. Can't imagine being tall and being packed into one of those regularly. Oof.
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Jun 28, 2017 16:26
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As someone big who has started flying for work, I thank god that I live in California so all my routes are on southwest, and they'll fly 737s forever.
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nm posted:As someone big who has started flying for work, I thank god that I live in California so all my routes are on southwest, and they'll fly 737s forever. And they fly those goddamn things like fighters. Lufthansa pilots are so goddamn mellow in comparison it's a snoozefest.
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financially racist posted:the people down the road moved out of the house they were renting and left their non-running rx7 fd behind.
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Jun 28, 2017 18:26
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slidebite posted:Where are you going to be Aug 21 for the Eclipse? Passing almost directly over my town, I will be in my backyard with beer
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Jun 28, 2017 18:51
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If you have never seen a near totality or totality eclipse it is really weird. The animals get confused and think it is dusk. When it happened in 1999 we had all the birds singing their evening chorus and the bats coming out. Even had a fox jump into the garden and be very confused as to why we were out there. He was even more confused when it suddenly started to get light again.
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Jun 28, 2017 19:07
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rdb posted:Idk. I could even take a vacation but I forgot how to relax while away from home and gently caress being on a plane. Just made an offer on a house! More garage space, more land, more quiet (middle of nowhere yet close to things) and another bedroom. Best part is it's well under budget. NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jun 28, 2017 |
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rdb posted:I dropped from 350 to 220. Width was still an issue but the seatbelt extender wasn't. Back up a bit after getting married, and your right, it helps, but it doesn't change head into the the bin or knees into the seat. Even when I was 165lbs, I couldn't get comfortable on a 2.5hr flight in one of those sardine cans. Losing weight is always helpful for these situations, but those planes are not comfortable in any way. Hell, even walking down the aisle has to be done diagonally, and hunched over, because there's no room for as many adult humans as they want to cram in there
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Jun 28, 2017 19:27
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BigPaddy posted:If you have never seen a near totality or totality eclipse it is really weird. The animals get confused and think it is dusk. When it happened in 1999 we had all the birds singing their evening chorus and the bats coming out. Even had a fox jump into the garden and be very confused as to why we were out there. He was even more confused when it suddenly started to get light again.
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A guy dumped a burning Mk4 Jetta outside my house. It burned 1600+ acres and Jonny Galecki's house across the street. It made it 3/4 of a circle around my house, and the only way mine is still here is CalFire received a grant for fire prevention clearing and knocked down 30 acres of brush. Otherwise I'd be phone postin' from Motel 6 for a while. Pictures incoming.
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rdb posted:I dropped from 350 to 220. Width was still an issue but the seatbelt extender wasn't. Back up a bit after getting married, and your right, it helps, but it doesn't change head into the the bin or knees into the seat.
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Jun 28, 2017 20:49
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Josh Lyman posted:What did you do to lose the weight? My holiday weight gain has stuck around this year.
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Jun 28, 2017 20:53
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Josh Lyman posted:What did you do to lose the weight? My holiday weight gain has stuck around this year. Started by cutting out sugar, then eliminated more carbohydrates, started commuting on a bike, it was a lot of little changes that I have since let slide more than a bit.
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There was a bit of excitement at work today as a helicopter landed. Unfortunately it turned out to be an air ambulance because someone fell 30m off a crane. No report on how the bloke is but he was taken away via road rather than air which was odd because we have our own onsite ambulance so why would the summon the helicopter?
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freelop posted:There was a bit of excitement at work today as a helicopter landed. He probably didn't make it.
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InitialDave posted:There is nothing mental or dumb about this. i think wanting a car like this for american roads is quite mental. i also think the az-1 is an extremely dumb car, but it's my kind of extremely dumb car. it's lovably insane and it's amazing they ever made that thing. love it. slidebite posted:Where are you going to be Aug 21 for the Eclipse? i'll be driving 5 hours north to watch this poo poo
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DJ Commie posted:A guy dumped a burning Mk4 Jetta outside my house. It burned 1600+ acres and Jonny Galecki's house across the street. It made it 3/4 of a circle around my house, and the only way mine is still here is CalFire received a grant for fire prevention clearing and knocked down 30 acres of brush. Otherwise I'd be phone postin' from Motel 6 for a while. Any parts left from the Jetta?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Any parts left from the Jetta? Securely in the hands of the Sheriff, actually. The story so far goes that this car was on fire already once a bit up the road. The CalFire hand crew doing clearing happened to be there and put his car out. He then continued to drive and it was fully involved in a 1/4 mile or so. This genius supposedly ditched it in the grass on the side of the road, and I'm sure the aforementioned Sheriff's department has some questions.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Any parts left from the Jetta? 
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freelop posted:There was a bit of excitement at work today as a helicopter landed. Helicopters actually don't take the ultra critical people. Sounds backwards, but you can do more in a box on the ground versus a noisy cramped helicopter. Flight medic either refused him due to criticality, or due to lack thereof. It's a very specific mix of "type of injury" along with "elevated ETA would cause harm" that a helicopter is good for.
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DJ Commie posted:Securely in the hands of the Sheriff, actually. The story so far goes that this car was on fire already once a bit up the road. The CalFire hand crew doing clearing happened to be there and put his car out. He then continued to drive and it was fully involved in a 1/4 mile or so. This genius supposedly ditched it in the grass on the side of the road, and I'm sure the aforementioned Sheriff's department has some questions. Saw the updates on FB as they happened, glad you are okay and suffered no losses.
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Rhyno posted:Saw the updates on FB as they happened, glad you are okay and suffered no losses. I lost all of the poison oak on the property, and now I drive around the old Yamah Rhino like a moon buggy.
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DJ Commie posted:I lost all of the poison oak on the property, and now I drive around the old Yamah Rhino like a moon buggy. All the cars survived, that is all that matters.
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Wish me luck, goons. I'm going to check out a Focus from Craigslist. The street view of the address doesn't show the house from the ad, and said house is blurred out. Everything else in the ad checks out though, so hopefully I will not be murdered.
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Jun 28, 2017 23:28
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slidebite posted:Where are you going to be Aug 21 for the Eclipse? poo poo. Closest to me is like 9 hours away.
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Rhyno posted:All the cars survived, that is all that matters. drat right, though the firemen left the ignitions on and ruined the batteries. It'd be harder to buy a battery for a melted hulk that was formerly a car.
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Do you have a battery conditioner? I have a couple of CTEKs, and they've rescued some fairly terminal stuff.
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Darchangel posted:poo poo. Closest to me is like 9 hours away. About 14-15 hours for me, so even though it's on my birthday, I won't be celebrating by viewing the eclipse in person.
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I'll be in one of the best spots for it. My school is right in one of the prime locations, but we aren't in session, so I'm planning to do a viewing party for my students anyway. I attended a PD at the local science center and they hooked me up with enough eclipse viewing glasses for all my kids. I'm thrilled
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The Locator posted:About 14-15 hours for me, so even though it's on my birthday, I won't be celebrating by viewing the eclipse in person. We'll still be getting 'an' eclipse. It'll just be a partial. The "Chrysler Sebring" of Eclipses, if you will.
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So nowhere near as good as it could be, yet still going to have a lot of people really liking it? Sounds like a Mitsubishi Eclipse.
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InitialDave posted:Do you have a battery conditioner? I have a couple of CTEKs, and they've rescued some fairly terminal stuff. I ran one through a Noco Genius in conditioning mode, and it seems to have come back. I'm less optimistic about the Yellowtop, its life has been rough even before this.
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