1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

220 range, maybe more. Depends on how I feel when I get there.

Edit: I'm 6'2. I tell people that I'm 6'8 when my hairs poofed up. Always gets a laugh.

 

No I mean how many pounds have you lost?

 

220

 

I hear the black ones install the fastest.

 

Oh, 13.3 since April 22nd.

 

I heard, once you go black.....

 

I mean I get it, you're not going to do a job and realize after costs that you made $100
But fuck, this shit is not the definition of capitalism
I haven't gotten shit extra working as a nurse through all this except the same old OT if I decide to pick up extra shifts

 

Plus you don’t have to go as tall with black chain link since it always looks bigger in real life.

 

I prefer me some arborvitae or cedar hedges

 

Round hea’, they were/are paying Nurse an extra $1000 per shift over their regular 4 days. That was as of last month. Hand Model $$$!

 

I'm working on a nice rose of sharon hedge row at the road. Fence keeps the dogs in better though.

 

That's awesome. Great job! Keep on it. I think I'm down about 20lbs and I feel pretty good. It's hard to find the motivation to lose much more than 1lb a week for the last couples weeks though.

I'm sure you are starting to feel like a new you. When I lost about 15lbs I started noticing hiking was much easier.

 

I hope things getter better for you soon! I feel you with regard to things being slow. I just pulled the plug on my welding career and the oil/gas industry. It was getting too unstable and I was tired of making less than 3rd year apprentice wages with a journeman ticket and no overtime. Time to try something else.

 

I hear plumbing is doing pretty well or was doing well around here. We just lost a good welder/ fabricator because he was getting enough calls offering $35+ an hour to go back to plumbing/pipe stuff. Good guy, I'm very happy to see the good ones go on to make more money.

 

Wurrld Peas yesterday and today. My Earth Credìtz are building again after pouring that Used 6.5 Quarts of Oil down the Storm Drain. I can tell by the way these are growing so fast.

 

Mist keep the good stuff inside?

 

Plumbing is doing well here too. My brother is a plumber and he's constantly busy. Even in a recession, people need their plumbing. I ended up taking a position with a provincial power company on a huge infrastructure project. 3 years of guaranteed work, almost certain probability of more after that, at least double the money I was making in welding and real schedule with serious time off and benefits. No more 10+ hour days for weeks in a row when it's busy or having the boss come around half hour before quitting time on Friday "so...I'm going to need you guys to work this weekend. That'd be greeeaaat."

 

Politics and pretending to be green cost you your job. That sucks.

 

I got 22g from a local metal supplier, 30$ for 28”x 6’ sheets. They had 26g but I wanted a little more rigidity for it being a large panel section. I think homies and lowers has the galvanized in like 30g or something.

 

Yup. Politics in Canada drove 98% of our product to the US which kept us going while most in our industry in Canada folded. Then the politics shifted in the US and it's a race to the bottom. The irony is my new job is on a "greener" project, a hydro electric dam. I'm sure the enviro nuts will whine about that though. Meh.

 

At our hydro plant, we are getting a lot of guys from coal plants getting phased out. Hydro powa is here for the long haul.

 

You have some cool stuff I've been trying to teach myself to weld with this little guy except I have the older green one. You Tube makes welding seem easier than it really is. Props to all you welders

 

Thanks, it’s organized chaos.
I’m not good at welding by any means, but I can make metal stick together, and that’s usually all I need.
If it’s aluminum or something important(my rear bumper) I’ll just tack stuff together and have my friend who is a professional, do it for me.

 

Why doesn't toyota make a work van?

 

“Work van” doesn’t appeal to the bearded hipsters who buy sprinters.

 

I have a beard and I also love Toyota 4x4 vans.

 

Haha so do I, there is a sweeeeeet white Toyota van that runs around town here, I’ll try and get a picture.

 

Got some new patches today