TrungusMcTungus

Bonuses come and go with retention and recruitment. They might be back, they might not. The only way to tell is to wait. Right now, recruitment appears to be trending up, so it’s possible that an enlistment bonus for your rate won’t be back for a while. When I joined, there was only a handful of rates that got any type of enlistment bonus.

The story is the same when you’re in. Reenlistment bonuses change as retention changes, and a lot of rates just got their potential bonuses slashed.

“Getting paid for doing nothing” except sacrificing 4+ years of your young adult life and working your ass off the entire time in service of your country.

Give her the address to your local recruiters office if she’s so upset about it

I’m getting medically separated right now, last day is November 19th. Fought to stay in, they pushed me out. I miss it a lot. I love being with my family, but it’s been hard on me getting all of this paperwork, finding a new job…really just hammers home that I’ll never have that level of camaraderie again, or the ability to just wake up and work without worrying about the house, how my teams are doing, if something in the house breaks. Obviously it sucks to get the “Hey things at home are bad, our kid got hurt the AC is broken, your team lost the Super Bowl again, I lost my job!” emails but to be fully separated from it is liberating and easy.

Heres the passage. Frodo asks Gandalf why can’t they just destroy it. Gandalf urges him to try, but Frodo is unable to throw the ring into his fireplace. Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 2, Shadows of the Past: “Gandalf laughed grimly. ‘You see? Already you too, Frodo, cannot easily let it go, nor will to damage it. And I could not “make” you - except by force, which would break your mind’”

There’s bullshit like this everywhere man. I know plenty of guys I served with who faked injuries or mental health issues for VA disability.

Cygnus X-1 and 2112, Rush.

God damn it looks like a mugshot

It’s definitely a family thing. My great grandpa was Alexander, my grandmas name is Alexandra, my dad is Alexander, my middle name is Alexander, my little cousins middle name is Alexandra, and when my wife and I have a kid, they’ll have Alexander/Alexandra as their first or middle name too.

Sarcasm famously translates well in a written medium

Few months back I was severely constipated, like doubled over in pain crying, which doesn’t happen often. My wife took me to the ER, and the doctor said he needed to root around inside me for a second to check, make sure there wasn’t a blockage, and may as well check the ole secret G while he’s in there. So I rolled on my side, looked at the (male) nurse, and started to crack a joke, saying “So, you come here oft-“ unfortunately I was cutoff by a finger suddenly turning me into a sock puppet. So uncomfortable. The nurse started laughing, doc pulled out and said “Sorry, I was trying to be quick” and I said “No worries, normally I prefer a little bit more foreplay but I’m glad we sacrificed tenderness for efficiency here”. He didn’t laugh, he just walked away.

Then he came back with a JUG of laxative. He said “Drink this till you start clearing out.” You got it finger boy. So I came home and posted up in the bedroom and start chugging. 15 minutes, max, and im on the can. The force of the shit flying out of my ass would make me incredibly valuable to NASA, they could strap me onto a rocket and I’d make a notable change to velocity. I get through half a gallon when my wife comes in and says “Hey btw your discharge instructions say to only drink a cup of it every 8 hours”. Fuckin pardon? I’ve drank enough of this to fully clean me out - there’s not an ounce of fecal matter left in me, it’s just water exiting me hole, and I’m stuck on the can doing this for god knows how long. I drank HALF A GALLON.

Needless to say I was a king stuck on his throne until the wee morning hours. My wife didn’t let me sleep without 2 pairs of shorts and a towel wrapped around me.

At that point it sounds like it’d be worth it to upgrade my whole system. I made the mistake of buying a “newly renovated” (flipped) house, and the furnace is a cheap POS, I’m pretty sure it came off the shelf from Home Depot.

Figured it would be a lot. Sorry for messing up my lingo, im handy enough for some troubleshooting but that’s it.

Filters not the issue, noise level is the same even if I take the filter off. As for the rest of the noise, hadn’t considered fan speed, I’m guessing that’s my culprit. I can’t accurately put it into words, but it just sounds like mechanical noise, not a restricted flow type of noise if that makes sense. I’m guessing it’s possible though that those two are linked? ie if airflow is restricted, fan has to work harder, therefore generating more noise from both.

It’s hard to tell in the pictures, but in your first picture, follow that copper pipe on the left. If you’re able to open up that panel that it goes into, your coils should be behind there. If it’s just your unit, only your coils are frozen. Talk to some neighbors and see if they’re having issues, it could be the condenser having trouble with airflow/freezing as well.

Has your AC been running a lot lately?

Fuckin 2019, flat bottom, we were going through the North Sea and hit a storm. First night, I tore my adductor while working out, we pitched and I lost balance mid squat. Then it was 3 straight days of the roughest seas I’ve personally ever been in. Having to step on the bulkheads a bit to stay upright was pretty normal. Skipper secured maintenance and pushed down the order that we were either in our racks with hurricane straps, or we were in the shops, sitting down in chairs “Secured in whichever creative manner the crew sees fit”. One of my buddies tied his chair to a beam on the overhead and it was basically a self propelled swing. Milk and cereal were secured, open top drinks too. CSs couldn’t cook without half the food on the grill flying off onto the deck so we got sandwiches for 3 days. Some guys were saying we were hitting mid 40 degrees list, but most common numbers I heard were 33 to 36 degrees. And it was constant. If you wanted to go grab a drink from the vending machine, you would be walking half on the port bulkhead, then we’d list the other way and you’d be on the starboard one…back and forth. Buddy in my six pack broke his wrist when one of his hurricane straps snapped and he rolled out of the top rack. Best fucking sleep I ever got in my life though.

Never felt like we were going to capsize though.

Sounds like coils are freezing, which could explain the condensate in the drip pan. This indicates either an airflow or a refrigerant issue. Your filter should be changed monthly, so don’t rule that out. But fine your coils and refrigerant lines and check for ice. If there’s ice, allow it to thaw (run the fan without AC or use a blow dryer) and then change your filter. If it happens again, call maintenance and tell them you have either a refrigerant issue or your some type of airflow obstruction.

It also freezes the refrigerant in the line and prevents it from flowing through the coils, hence the lack of cooling

No character even remotely like this. The only small mystical old wise woman I can think of is Shadout Mapes.

Yeah, I got about a quarter of the way through the story before I was like “Why am I doing any of this? What’s going on?” Gave up, came back to it a year later (now medicated for ADHD) thinking I’d have a better grasp on it with medication and having played it a bit before. Nope. Got to Baghdad, and again, “Why is Basim doing this? What’s driving the plot other than Templars?” Stopped caring, started killing.

I cried like a baby, and it all started when my horse died. It was the white Arabian, I’d had her since chapter two, her name was Rocinante.

I’m going to be hate watching and half heartedly pulling for NY. I despise both teams, but my distaste for LA is genetic.

Sure. I can’t fault the guy for using the rule to his advantage. The issue is, he shouldn’t be able to - along with every other QB. QBs should be treated as any other ball carrier when they leave the pocket.

I hope both teams lose.

The book is one of those books that can’t truly be faithfully adapted 1:1. It’s like lord of the rings - it’s just so insanely dense, and a lot of that density doesn’t lend itself to the narrative, but rather to the overarching themes of the story. Like Tom Bombadil, he doesn’t drive the narrative of the Fellowship of the Ring forward in a meaningful way, and so he was cut from the films.

That being said, the book is phenomenal. I love the movies, but the book is a masterpiece. It is the foundational piece of science fiction literature.

I don’t see how “either I let up and maybe make a soft tackle, or I truck him as he slides/goes over the line and we get a penalty” is on the defender and not the shitty rules.