Everything posted by mininghorn88
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Courtesy Wave Violators
I am a fairly consistent waver. My son and I were driving somewhere once when he was still fairly young and I waved to someone in passing. He asked who it was. I told him that I did not know. He then asked why I waved at them. Just told him that I was being friendly and it was a country thing to do that did not require much effort.
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Getting old sucks
I have missed 3 days of work due to illness in 33 years. Picked up strep throat on a trip to China and was sick upon my return and then got ill after a trip to Mongolia. Now finding some wood to knock on. 0 days out of 40 is crazy. But they is how those guys did it.
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Getting old sucks
I thought increased bitching about certain things was part of the aging process.
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Pics of parking douche baggery
Surely wasn't expecting that. Nicely done.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Apples and oranges here. You would be the buffer here between your brothers. Understood. Your brothers are cool. Your wife is not being the buffer here. Your SIL is not cool. Rip the leach off or otherwise the parasite will suck you dry.
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best summer movies
Grease....there, I said it. Olivia Newton John.
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Most Arrests By Each NFL Team Since 2000
Using simple math (55 players x 32 teams) I wonder how this compares to other companies/employers with similar amount of employees?
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Anyone ever had a string of shitty luck??
This past Thursday I returned from a 2 week road trip traveling through the Dakotas. My orgin was NE Texas. I left on a Saturday and stopped in Hatings, NE. On Sunday, June 5th, I had made my way into southern North Dakota. I was traveling on a FM road and was passing an 18-wheeler. As I am passing the 18-wheeler it sounds like it was engaging the engine brakes. I think to myself, "Great, he is slowing down to let me pass". After I passed him I continued to hear the sound. Odd. Now I am thinking that something is wrong with my truck. Quickly check all of the gauges, I do not feel an vibration nor loss of power. The sound is coming from the right front of my truck. All of a sudden I see my bug deflector on the front of my hood flapping around. About 18" of it had worked itself loose from the double-sided tape. So I pull over and have to pry the bug deflector off of my truck in the rain and in the middle of BFE. On June 7th, while still on the trip, someone opens their door and puts a 2" deep, dark scratch, on my passenger side door. My truck is white so it is really noticeable. On June 14th, while still on the trip, I pull over on the side of the road to take a business call. WHile on the shoulder a series of vehicles pass by. One of them throws up a rock and takes out my rear window. On a positive note; Theodore Roosevelt NP is awesome. As is the Badlands NP, the Black Hills and Custer State Park. I managed to avoid softball sized hail while I was up there too.
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Shit My Kid Says
Glad you asked. I thought it was an incomplete post!
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
We have a bi-weekly production meeting that starts 9:00am every time. There are about 20 or so attendees. The host(ess) always logs on about 15 minutes early. Once 9:00am hits she always says “ let’s give it a couple of more minutes to see if anyone else is going to log on”. This infuriates me to no end. Last Wednesday I set up a different meeting (separate subject; one time event) at 10:00am with basically the same group of folks. 10:00 sharp rolls around and I start the meeting. She cuts in and asks “Aren’t you going to wait a minute to see if anyone else is going to log on?” My response was “No. If I wanted the meeting to start at 10:01 or 10:02 I would have said so in the meeting invitation. They will just have to catch up later on their own time.” Her response was a feeble “Oh, ok”.
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Band of Brothers
Today is the D-Day anniversary. Made me think of what these men jumped into and so many others hitting the beach. It always gets me in the feels.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Dang near every flight I take someone is bound to sit in the wrong seat. And, it is not me.
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Pics of parking douche baggery
I see parking like this all of the time at our local supermarket. It infuriates me. It is not poor parking it is just a bunch of lazy MFers that don’t want to take an extra step.
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Pics of parking douche baggery
I do this all of the time. A few, or many, extra steps never hurt. I cannot tell you how many times I have pulled into a parking lot and see someone waiting on a choice spot up front for me to only park away in the lot and get into the store before they do or even while they are still waiting.
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Pics of parking douche baggery
The industry that I am in it is pretty much standard worldwide to reverse park. I prefer reverse parking because of reasons previously stated. What does make it difficult is when I have identified a parking spot and have spotted up just beyond the parking place and someone comes along thinking that the space is open and then gets in my way as I am trying back up.
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Getting old sucks
A couple of weeks ago a lifelong buddy of mine mother passed away. She was in her early 80's. I went to her funeral along with a few other childhood buddies that I grew up playing baseball with. I had not seen many of them in years. I do not do Facebook so I do not keep up with pics of others. We took a group photo. That was the first time that we were all together since the mid-to-late 80's. Later one of the guys posted the photo on Facebook. A friend of mine showed me the post and all of the comments. Looking at the photo and the comments made me tear up. It was hard for me to believe that the guys that I was looking at were once pretty good athletes (we all had the opportunity to play baseball in college at various levels). We later got together again to go to lunch. A couple of the guys brought their dads with them. The same men that coached me in little league, etc. and that I have known my whole life. Again, the tears flowed as it was difficult to see these men walking with canes and/or being careful getting around and watching their now grown sons taking care of them. Gone are the days of them throwing BP or taking infield with us. It is one thing to see people every day and not recognize the aging process but to be separated from folks for a while and then seeing them, well, reality really sets in. I knew that I was "old" (almost 56) but the picture really drove the point home in a very visible way.
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I've decided to dig a hole
Digging for Lithium. We all know that battery power will be the wave of the future. Never mind on how to generate the electricity to charge the battery. Doesn’t the switch on the wall provide electricity?
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Emmanuel Acho
Did not attend this year’s Plan II graduation but I was at the 2014 graduation for my daughter when McRaven spoke. His was a solid speech. A best ever for me.
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Western Novels
Louis L’Amour is the go to. I read my first LL book (The Man from Skibereen) when I was in the 6th grade. It has been probably close to 25 years since I last read one of his books. At one point I had all of his books in my collection. He is very descriptive with his locations and geography so there have been folks that have identified the actual settings of some of his books. The Sackett Series is a must.
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Xavier Worthy - Chiefin'
I need crib notes on hand signs.
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Let's Talk Tractors , Implements and Such
A tornado damaged one in 2017. The winter storm of 2021 collapsed one. A third one was puposely taken down in the fall of 2021.
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Let's Talk Tractors , Implements and Such
This a very old picture. There are only two domes now. The two that are in the top left of the photo.
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Let's Talk Tractors , Implements and Such
P&H bought LeTourneau. Komatsu, in turn, bought P&H. All occured within a 6 year period.
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Surly official camping and backpacking thread
I tried to do some hikiing up there in 2020. I ended up abandoning one of the hikes because the trails were overgrown and I was stopping every 100 feet or so picking dozens of ticks off of me.
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Let's Talk Tractors , Implements and Such
Iron ore, copper, gold, diamonds, coal, uranium, platinum, etc. Iron ore and copper are the top two right now.