Good for you. I got laid off shortly after I was vocal about the virtual reality the management was selling to others in one of my previous jobs. My "career" has been a shitshow ever since.
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Extremely rare. We just don’t have the wide open sky’s that y’all have. And all the lights from urban areas reduces visibility a lot. So you have to get out into the backcountry and on a clear night to maybe see it.
I certainly have limited my career options at this place for voicing my concerns. One of the problems here is that we also have a lot of vocal idiots so it is easy for management to just label anyone who raises issues as chicken little and so even the valid issues are ignored. I could probably have gotten a promotion and a nice salary bump by now if I just played the game and complimented the Emperor's clothes but at the end of the day I need to be able to live with myself which is hard enough without being a groveling toady.
The humidity on the East Coast makes things difficult too. Best skies I saw were during deep winter freezes. Too much light polution here at home but a dry summer night in the Cascades is impressive.
I managed to drag myself to the gym. I was able to do pretty good and another indication its just allergies. Allergies still suck though.
Yeah when I got to see it was at Grayson Highlands out on a bald when I got up to go pee. Would have stared up at it longer if I wasn’t shivering in the cold Fall air.
Same here. Toronto has our sky glowing a lovely amber colour at night, even though we live out in farm country.
We can see some stars, but its nothing like going north an hour or two.
This place is cool to visit - no lights - https://www.torrancebarrens.com/
And some areas up north have light polution by laws, which is cool.
don't forget your mindfulness practice today
Manager meeting to go over goal status this morning: "well it looks like you're a bit short of your ytd from this one goal... But at [double checks numbers] 108% of your annual level for this one. So... Moving on to our next topic.
And this kids, is why we prep for meetings.
And this kids, is why we prep for meetings.
I'll never forget the starry nights and the beautiful display of the Milky Way in the middle of badlands during our Maah Daah Hey adventure. It was amazeballs.
Ugh. Wife just tested Covid positive (I am still negative) despite the fact that she almost never leaves the home - I am guessing our recent lunch at the Azorean place did the deed. My contractors just erected new fence posts a few (too many) inches inside our property line, further rewarding the neighbor for building his bullshit home extension at the very limit of the code. FTS is strong today.
Four hours of work left for the week, and in the morning we fuckoff in the van to seek out some red rox to ride bikeys on for the next week.
FTS is at an all time high.
FTS is at an all time high.
Oh, jeez, that's gotta be hard to loft the front wheel!
Kiddo said something hilarious to me...
"I'm hungry. Well. Not actually hungry, but my mouth is bored"
"I'm hungry. Well. Not actually hungry, but my mouth is bored"
That's how I got fat.
I said “so many jokes I can’t make right now because I’m your father”. To which he replied, “well you would, if you weren’t a pussy”.
i like this kid.
i like this kid.
Thanks for grabbing lunch with me! Had snow and ice showers all the way back to ORD.
Hopefully our trampoline doesn’t blow away today.
Potentially eating food with @chuffer today. Almost makes me want to go to work. . .
Next time out to Warsaw, I’ll bring helmet, pedals, etc.
I feel this.....
Ran Act 1 tonight and it went....well....some things need to get buttoned up but it's starting to come together. Off to watch the oldest get inducted into our foreign language honor society and then band rehearsal. Tomorrow is actually supposed to be a short day but once it's over I have to wrangle my kids into the car and drive 4 hours to a gymnastics meet. I plan on bribing them with Chick-Fil-A and pool time at the hotel. Saturday is a full day at Gymnastics League Championships then back in the car and driving home because I have to do our taxes on Sunday!...I know you all envy my glorious existence.
This is how *everyone* fat gets fat.
Goddam, man - put some NSFW tags on that shit!
Haley
and Reese today at karting. Reese is holding consistent sub-29 sec times now, which is holding her at league times. She's debating whether she wants to do the race next Tuesday at this point.
Haley's just pushing on herself at this point, but she's a rabbit for Reese. Given she only does 1-2 races per week max, she's closing on Haley fast.
And yes, the pictures are poor. Zoom catching fast targets on a cellphone is hard.
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OHMYFUCKINGGODTHEGORGEOUSWOMENWALKINGAROUNDSAYULITA. That is all.
No pics because I am a stealthy creeper, thank you very much.
No pics because I am a stealthy creeper, thank you very much.
My little Bosch laser tape measure is the shit!
Shockingly accurate too, accurate enough that I use it for trim installs, and Ive used it for all kinds of things that would otherwise be a total PITA to measure on job sites. They do eat batteries though, if I see a rechargeable one for a good price I’m scooping it up.
Yeah, this is why I would get a laser measure. I used one a lot at my old job to do QA on work lazy engineers did and the accuracy was great. My phone is useful but only goes to 1cm, which is fine for most stuff around the house until you need a tape measure or ruler anyway, but the fancy lasers are the tits.
Always wondered if they were accurate enough for trim. I despise running tape for a 14' span and praying it's good. Perhaps I'll pick one up, I do have several hundred feet of baseboard and crown to install.
I find them more accurate than using a tape measure between two walls where. Only thing you have to watch out for is the angle it’s pointing, make sure the dot is about thesame distance from the wall as the unit or all your measurements will come up long. Textured walls will fuck with you.
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This is what you need
Leica Absolute Tracker AT930
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'interferometer' sure sounds legit!
Or it sounds like some comic book sci-fi thing.
Or it sounds like some comic book sci-fi thing.
nope....not yet....i have been waiting for this one...
knew a kid growing up in virginia who was a comic book geek.....would basically redraw comic books panel by panel for shits and giggles pretty much flawlessly....the fact that his dad was a retired marine col who was about 5'6" and 140 lbs and the scariest adult i have ever come across made it even more funny....
Sorry, it only offers 3D measurements. I was really hoping to find something that offers 5D.This is what you need
Leica Absolute Tracker AT930
The Leica Absolute Tracker AT930 is the next generation 3D laser tracker to feature the Leica Absolute Interferometer (AIFM), giving high-speed dynamic measurement capabilities that set it apart from the competition.