What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

too bad you arnt closer I’d bring the schwing by!

 

OK, now I'm curious...what's specific piece of "schwing" do y'all have, a pumper?
Local pumper company just got a new truck that uses a series on long conveyor belts to do the same job as a pumper...faster and easier to use...I don't think it can go up and over buildings/obstructions like a pumper can though...works well for pouring foundation walls/floors/etc though!

 

My employer has a couple of these trailer pumps. It can be fun to run or a total nightmare. We never do more than 10 yards in one pour. There are 3 employees out of about 100 that get the “privilege” to run one. The owner says he likes to have the shop guys run it because we tend to give more f...’s. It good to get out of the shop and it pays a better rate so I enjoy it. Except for one crew it’s always a battle with them.

I forgot to hit reply brenndatomu

 

The more time I spend out in the woods, the less I want to come back. I've been working in the same industry for 20 years and feel burned out mentally. If I could find a decent paying career where I spend all my time in the woods or on a farm I'd be all over it. I have a very good job working for an aerospace/defense manufacturer and have grown to absolutely loathe it. I'm living the dream alright, just not my dream. I look at all these people around me and they're mostly money-driven lunatics. They remind me of a hamster on a wheel chasing that snack. A lot of people here work nearly 365 days a year, which makes my stomach turn. What good is making 6 figures a year working all that overtime if you're never home to enjoy it? In a big way I'm tired of being a cog in the wheel of the military industrial complex. Unfortunately, I have financial obligations that keep me from going back to school anytime soon. With any luck when my kids are older I can have the flexibility to take a 50% pay cut and follow a different path. Who knows? I may stick it out, work like mad to pay my house off early, retire at 65 with a little nest egg and become a recluse living in the Cascades or something LOL. Until then I guess I need to find more ways to enjoy myself, so that my career becomes merely a means to an end. Meh, enough complaining from me. I do have a lot to be grateful for.

 

Just this past year I was in what sounds like a similar situation. Worked for an employer for 17 years right out of highschool. I worked hard and made myself an asset to the company. For the last 5 years I hated going into work every morning. I never really looked around too much because I knew I was making good money for only having a high school diploma. When I did finally look around I found an opportunity. It was a hard decision to make with 2 kids and all that go along with them depending on me (and wife) I jumped ship and haven’t been happier in years. There are other jobs out there! Don’t be miserable life is too short!

 

Good productive day today. Wife's truck went in for sticker and service. All good. Did some attic work. Mowed the lawn. Boiler tech serviced the boiler. I wired in a new Nest t-stat into the boiler control. Now we are on two separate heat zones.

 

VERY true, thanks. I have worked for a handful of different companies, even taking a salary job for a while working on the sales-support side of things. The excitement of building things out of metal, while not completely gone, no longer has the same luster. I'm not too sure an employer change (for me anyway) will fix this sense of restlessness, irritability and discontent. Maybe it's mid-30s midlife crisis Even worse, maybe it's just normal?

 

I hear you there...
A good friend of mine bought THIS old house and found out during the inspection what happened there. I guess the inspector was a first responder on the scene in 1977.
Lorne J. Acquin - Wikipedia

 

I hope your friend got a good deal.

"A death in a home, especially a violent death, can decrease the home's value by 25% and increase its time to sell by up to 50% longer than comparable homes."
DiedinHouse.com™ answers 'Has Someone Died in Your House?'

 

I believe he did buy the house for a song and dance. To this day he likes to casually refer to his home as "the murder house" and has quite a few stories of strange things that have happened late at night there. I often wonder if all the really old homes are pretty much guaranteed to have been places where at least one occupant died in the past. Like the old Victorian homes, farmhouses etc. from back in the days when children were birthed at home and the elderly passed away there. Different times for sure.

 

And they laid them out for viewing for 3 days in the parlor!

story behind the family Maine house built in 1760’s: the old man passed in the middle of winter. Son snowshoed to the doc who came out to pronounce him dead. The ground was frozen and dad spent the winter frozen in the summer kitchen. I would think it was fiction but I have heard the story from several sources. With that and mentions of incest the house kinda gives me the creeps at times. We didn’t get there till the 1960’s not my family lol!

 

That was unnervingly common back then, even in places like Martha's Vineyard. People weren't nearly as mobile in those days. Small community, even smaller gene pool.

 

Not good to be hasty!
Detroit funeral home realizes woman declared dead is actually alive

 

The house I grew up in Gettysburg was used as a field hospital in the Civil War, it was wicked haunted...and I don't really believe in that stuff

 

I do believe in that stuff. I've heard some stories from credible people that make me not question it and keep an open mind about it. Let's put it this way, I don't go looking for them.

Our house is about 145 years old. A lot of people have come and gone through it. My wife has researched the Registry of Deeds and found the original owners. Local history fascinates us.

 

There’s a mountain of evidence to both rule out and confirm the existence of a spiritual realm, it just comes down to which evidence an individual chooses to ignore. Some believe the events of the past can imprint an energy of sorts on a place. I’ve never been to Gettysburg but I’ve been to Dachau outside of Munich Germany and can say from personal experience that place had an extremely heavy feeling in the air. I felt it the moment I got off the bus, despite being in an upbeat mood on the way there.

 

Got up to 89ºF today after only going down to 75ºF overnight.
Thunderstorms bore down on us mid-afternoon and like as per usual lately they dried up just before they got here. Poof ! Gone.
We could use the rain.
79ºF degrees and 90% humidity isn't my fave running conditions.
Plus my new shoes don't breathe as well as my old ones.
3rd world problems ...

Longest stretch of A/C use this A/C unit has had.