Larrymer posted:

Man, red delicious apples are the poo poo tier of apples. I usually buy honeycrisp but they were out at the store.

Applebees Appetizer posted:

hope you figure things out and get to where you wanna be.

MomJeans420 posted:

Mom jeans are huge in all the hipster areas in LA, I wonder if that trend has spread across the country.

slurry_curry posted:

loving high waisted hipster jeans have been super trendy in Seattle for a while now. It seems like the early 2000's fashion has come back into style, which should never happen. I thought that poo poo looked dumb in highschool and it looks even worse now.

LloydDobler posted:

I say quit and take the grants, that way you can see how the workload is without getting overwhelmed. Working while schooling sucks in general. Unless you make way more than 7-14k and it'll put you in the starving student category.

When I went back to school I was worried it was going to kick my rear end, so I planned on not working. Turned out that I was even better at school as an adult so after 6 months I went back to work part time to pay bills.


Different topic: Anyone in here experienced with buying a time-share property? This would be a 4 week/yr ownership of a specific house, not a big resort type thing. I'm in the honeymoon phase of it seeming like a great idea so I'm looking for a reality smack. Taxes are fine but the HOA dues appear to be horrendous, and I don't know how the time is scheduled. I guess I should call the realtor and talk myself out of it. Also it appears hard to sell, the current owners paid $47k for this share a few years ago according to zillow, and it's been on the market for over a year and is now $23k after 2 price drops. I can easily afford that and we can rent it out if we don't use it all 4 weeks, but I'm sure we would.

Background: my family has rented the same beach house at new year's for the last 25 years but the owners are retiring so it's no longer available (they told us as we left this year that it was the last time). We also rent a different house for a week every summer, and try to get the same one every time. But it's never available on holidays. We like tradition and going to the same place over and over so the idea of having a place that's ours is appealing.

nm posted:

JNCO just went under apparently.
Couldn't hold out just long enough for them to come back.

Rhyno posted:

People seem very upset about it.

nm posted:

I can't tell if t his is a joke or Indiana things.

spog posted:

Christ no.

The fact that they've lost $24k (and counting) in two years should be a good indication that it's a bad investment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42909256

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Yeah, I'm going to end up quitting and taking the grants. I'll get 650/month from the VA (one deployment - 50% GI bill coverage), and the grants will make up for the difference between that and rent/bills. Unfortunately I"ll still need to take out student loans, but it reduces my student loan load from 30k to 20k or less.

The most I'd be able to work is 3 days/month (4 week period), which is $500/month after 11% retirement contribution, and $360 after taxes. That's around $9k/year, which is more than the 7k/year in estimated grants. However, I can consider that as a $7k reduction in student loans, which would equal to about $1800 in deferred interest (making it close to the 9k), plus the free weekends for studying. Classes are 5 days a week.

BraveUlysses posted:

Fermented Tinal posted:

Owen Sound, which is everything the elephant's rear end in a top hat the locals claim it to be (apparently on old maps of Canada if you rotated them and looked at Ontario you'd see an elephant and its rear end in a top hat is Owen Sound).

At present I work in the print industry as a finishing assistant in the bindery of a print facility. I have two backup roles that put me on a forklift. It's shift work, and Dupont 12 hour nightmare rotation. Second largest employer in the city and if you ever wanted to know what it's like to see a bunch of boomers act like they're still in highschool stop on by.

I used to work in an office, designing analog and digital IC photomasks. I have experience with perl, tcl/tk, Tanner L-edit, Cadence, Hercules, and long list of things that doesn't include a degree and thusly negates the point of most of the list since I'll never get a job again as a physical designer without a degree. I'm hunting for jr dev positions in the $17/h range in the GTA, more would be better to offset gasoline. Something hand-holdy until I pick up whatever it is the cool kids do in software these days. As for the commute, it's very roughly on par with a commute I used to do from Kitchener to Toronto for the physical design gig. What's funny to me, is that commute was done in a '07 Nissan Versa hatchback, though that one was blue and had an automatic and mine is silver and has a stick.

Siochain posted:

Certified for any other heavy equipment? Want to get into the mining industry? There's work a bit north if you are interested, at the least I could probably get your resume past the screening point.

Rhyno posted:

I guess used JNCOs are pretty valuable?

Fermented Tinal posted:

No certifications for anything other than my forklift and scissor lift tickets but I have experience with backhoes, front-end loaders, and excavators.

I'm open to working in the mining industry if it doesn't see me in some tunnel in the ground because I am not good with tunnels. Also I'm not sure if it would fit in with my goal of "normal work week."

LloydDobler posted:

Different topic: Anyone in here experienced with buying a time-share property? This would be a 4 week/yr ownership of a specific house, not a big resort type thing. I'm in the honeymoon phase of it seeming like a great idea so I'm looking for a reality smack.

Siochain posted:

Our tunnels are v.large :P Kinda like <insertrandomforumposter's> moms vagina. There are surface jobs to. It is a rotation, but most people in the area work one, so its not too bad. Its normal work week for up here. And believe me, 5/2 sucks loving rear end. At least up here. I'd kill for a 4/3 or 8/6 so I have enough time off to actually do things.

BraveUlysses posted:

aint that the truth

gala apples are my go-to but i like fujis too

Fermented Tinal posted:

I don't want to flip between days and nights anymore.

cakesmith handyman posted:

Some guys are leaving to go work with Rolls Royce, going from a 3 week rotating nights afters days to continental shifts, some hosed up 28 day 2 days 2 afters 3 nights 2 off kinda poo poo if you're not familiar. I can't immediately bring to mind a number you'd have to pay me to do that.

BraveUlysses posted:

Fermented Tinal posted:

Four nights, four off, three days, two off, three nights, four off, four days, seven off. The "offs" are 24h blocks of time that start at either 7am or 7pm depending and the rotation spans 28 days.

cakesmith handyman posted:

Some guys are leaving to go work with Rolls Royce, going from a 3 week rotating nights afters days to continental shifts, some hosed up 28 day 2 days 2 afters 3 nights 2 off kinda poo poo if you're not familiar. I can't immediately bring to mind a number you'd have to pay me to do that.

cakesmith handyman posted:

RR as in Trent, not silver ghost.

But your point still stands.

cakesmith handyman posted:

RR as in Trent, not silver ghost.

But your point still stands.

The Door Frame posted:

I'm down 30lbs since January, thanks ketogenic diet!
Now I spend all of my free time having wet dreams about deep-dish pizza and beer

angryrobots posted:

Do you have pee test strips by your toilet like I do?

Not mine I swear. My wife has been very successful doing keto for about the same time period. She doesn't drink beer anyway, but no bread is tough for her. Though frankly some of the alternatives she's found are good enough to eat even outside of the diet. Cauliflower mac n cheese is pretty delicious. Ditto the shirataki noodles with homemade alfredo sauce.

angryrobots posted:

She says there's a thing of carbquick in the cabinet that she has yet to try. Have you tried cloudbread yet (made from eggs and cream cheese)?

jamal posted:

The pike, cogregation, beachwood bbq, hole mole, Roscoe's Chicken and waffles all good places in LB.

Fermented Tinal posted:

Owen Sound, which is everything the elephant's rear end in a top hat the locals claim it to be (apparently on old maps of Canada if you rotated them and looked at Ontario you'd see an elephant and its rear end in a top hat is Owen Sound).

At present I work in the print industry as a finishing assistant in the bindery of a print facility. I have two backup roles that put me on a forklift. It's shift work, and Dupont 12 hour nightmare rotation. Second largest employer in the city and if you ever wanted to know what it's like to see a bunch of boomers act like they're still in highschool stop on by.

I used to work in an office, designing analog and digital IC photomasks. I have experience with perl, tcl/tk, Tanner L-edit, Cadence, Hercules, and long list of things that doesn't include a degree and thusly negates the point of most of the list since I'll never get a job again as a physical designer without a degree. I'm hunting for jr dev positions in the $17/h range in the GTA, more would be better to offset gasoline. Something hand-holdy until I pick up whatever it is the cool kids do in software these days. As for the commute, it's very roughly on par with a commute I used to do from Kitchener to Toronto for the physical design gig. What's funny to me, is that commute was done in a '07 Nissan Versa hatchback, though that one was blue and had an automatic and mine is silver and has a stick.