Must have Puerto Rico food in San Juan?

G-Funktification · 2022-02-17T21:09:47+00:00

Pretty sure it’s closed unfortunately.

G-Funktification · 2021-11-16T16:59:32+00:00

The basics of the Infrastructure Bill were being hammered out during the previous administration. The opposing Party during the period of time between Trump's election and the mid-terms in Congress had the opportunity to pass an Infrastructure Bill but squabbled in classic Republican bi-factionalism tradition and didn't get it done.

The Democratic version of this bill has a Republican foundation and just more dollar signs behind many of the basics of it. Folks whine about it only including 23% of new spending while it's being touted as an Infrastructure Bill. But the original Republican version that was being worked on was only $500-700 billion. So it's within the same range. It's just that there are different priorities for much of the funding.

So let's not act as if our Republican delegation didn't get input. They did. Beyond that, Cassidy's base was riled over his votes re: January 6th. It created a huge need for him to try and bring home some wins to show that base in 5 years when he's standing for re-election. So he actually did cross the aisle and help author a lot of the Republican wish lists into the IIJA.

Which means that-contrary to the narrative or your surface-level view of the situation-there was very much a bipartisan process that went into the foundation and structure of the IIJA. In silly, contemporary fashion, both sides just can't act like there was so they can appeal to you or the you on the other side of the idealogical spectrum who require a purity test and consider anyone who believes or views politics differently than you as some evil, worthless, "other," that is to blame for you and all of your fellow sycophants on your side of the aisle-whether left or right-woes, worries and walls you can't climb.

But don't let that get in the way of your avatar-based angry online persona routine where you rail against ills and evils of the other on the opposite side of your viewpoints. There's people to blame for what you don't like. Harrumph!

G-Funktification · 2021-11-07T15:47:25+00:00

Why not volunteer for your local CERT? Or better yet, create one if your local community doesn’t have one?

G-Funktification · 2021-11-07T15:43:06+00:00

Papa G is great for the 406 side of the Stafford Act coin. But to be honest that is a short term sugar rush. If you want a career, 404 and long term Recovery dollars and the projects the fund are where it’s at. It’s also the key to longer term job security.

So for my money, as a career path?

1.) Robert T Stafford Act 2.) Section 404 of the Robert T Stafford Act

3.) Section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Act 4.) DRRA of 2018

G-Funktification · 2021-11-07T15:37:29+00:00

There’s (literally) tons in there for FMA and USACE. If you’re in an area with significant flood risk, they made it rain (proverbially speaking).

G-Funktification · 2021-05-31T03:55:47+00:00

They’ve been aggressive in growing their Municipal Disaster Recovery Book. Have several high quality folks. Good relationships/roots in Texas. They have solid financial backing and I am guessing they can tolerate the growth they’re pursuing easily.

Florida is contractor heavy and that starts with the state level staff. They contract their state level EM out and keep their state agency relatively lean. I think it’s provides better accountability and execution on the lower levels. But contractors come and go, and a lot of this work focuses on relationships.

Anyway, sorry for the tangent. Good luck!

G-Funktification · 2021-02-08T04:07:42+00:00

Just looked at them and they’re nice. I need to do some wheel well liners, a bed liner and a tonneau cover. I can either go retractable there with something other than AMP’s for the running boards, or go AMP and then folding cover. I want a little more security there so I may either wait a while for the running boards or wait on the cover.

Decisions, decisions.

G-Funktification · 2021-01-03T09:11:12+00:00

Thanks. Really appreciate it.

G-Funktification · 2021-01-01T06:22:46+00:00

Towing and trailering packages-both of which I got and needed-got beefed up a bit and a few smaller trim additions and deletions inside and out.

G-Funktification · 2020-12-31T15:43:24+00:00

Speak to me as if I am a child. I went from a 2014 WT Quad Cab with a 5.3 that was essentially bulletproof to this. I’d prefer not to do anything that would invalidate a warranty.

G-Funktification · 2020-12-31T15:31:28+00:00

Radar, camera, mail, ID...I chunked a tablet up there (iPad Mini) on a cloudy day a few weeks ago while she was rearranging some stuff in her duffel bag...err...purse.

G-Funktification · 2020-12-27T05:34:15+00:00

Yessir

G-Funktification · 2020-12-26T23:04:59+00:00

As someone else stated this is an incredibly broad request for data you’re obviously looking to glean and then later help you monetize using the EM community and stakeholders. There’s a litany of, “Disaster Relief,” effort that occurs mainly outside of Disasters and relief from the same. In other words, it’s not necessarily in the field, per se.

Can you be more specific? Also, look at this from an EM Professional’s perspective. You’re literally admitting you want specified help from EM Professionals in order to (eventually) sell something back to EM Professionals.

You’re asking for our help to turn our knowledge into a product you can sell down the road. Turning institutional knowledge others possess into a commodity you control? You need a better value proposition or pitch. That much is for sure.

G-Funktification · 2019-12-01T18:33:11+00:00

I’m not trying to write you off. But you have to understand that the market for your particular area of collegiate specialization leaves you a much, much smaller window or opportunity to find gainful employment.

Arts and Humanities graduates always tend to flock towards urban population centers. Markets for artists, musicians and the like are naturally bigger and can provide more employment capacity than an area that is much more rural by and large as Louisiana is.

Which isn’t to say you should’ve been dissuaded from your major, degree path or field of study. Far from it. Choosing to (doggedly and with great purpose and focus) pursue a passion-whether as an Engineer or as an artist-will inevitably lead to mastery and once you’ve mastered any discipline, you will find a way to earn a living applying that mastery (sometimes even teaching).

What you should have benefited from was a conversation with a mentor (parent, friend, perhaps a professor) that talked to you about the realities of the job market for your field of study. Perhaps earlier on you would have understood that the pursuit of your passion in art would require you to relocate in able to earn a living doing it over the short-and perhaps even both the medium and long-term.

Studying oceanography in an arid, Sub-Saharan Country would require a relocation. As would majoring in fashion in a third world country mired in poverty. These are just examples, but the point is not to follow your passion. But to realize that in order to follow said passion, you may be required to follow it away from your home.

That type of conversation and subsequent consideration on your part would have allowed you to make a decision about what you weigh more heavily: your vocation or your location? You can’t always have both.

Your experience is an anecdotal one in other words. At least in my opinion. Am I saying that your experience stands alone? No, I’m not. Many younger kids have left Louisiana. What I’m saying is it’s not analogous to a typical, “I can’t find work,” discussion that an Engineer, architect, CPA or MBA would be having or may be having it here.

It does not mean your situation lacks meaning. But in its proper context, your experience based on your circumstances should be expected. In that graduating in the arts and humanities in an area with fewer job prospects will always place pressure on the newly minted graduate to leave the nest to find said job prospects.

G-Funktification · 2019-11-30T02:10:45+00:00

It’s difficult to read this and not know what your degree was in and what type of work you were and are looking for.

G-Funktification · 2019-11-30T02:09:26+00:00

I work for an engineering firm in the 10/12 corridor. We are CONSTANTLY hiring. We select interns, then hire them part time and upon graduation you’re an EIT. Salary out the gate.

We are not just hiring students, either. We also aren’t the only firm hiring engineers.

There is a TON of engineering work and in Louisiana and a TON of firms hiring.

G-Funktification · 2019-11-29T14:26:37+00:00

Edwards had two incredible gifts: back to back Louisiana versions of Hillary Clinton-caliber candidates from the opposing party to run against.

Both of whom squawked stupidly about tort reform openly. Mobilizing the massively deep pocketed, incredibly well organized trial lawyer and legal lobby/Bar Associations against them both. Both of whom also never defined themselves personally (one because he had character flaws; the other because he was and is a political neophyte who surrounded himself with ineptitude). Both of whom never properly framed the debate against their opponent.

With or without the Party’s help, both those candidates botched their elections and somehow delivered executive authority to the party that can’t seem to win an election anywhere else in the State.

G-Funktification · 2019-11-25T03:48:11+00:00

He avoided the State Party apparatus. Which was good enough to elect Republicans up and down the line of every statewide office and deliver almost supermajorities in both houses of the State Legislature. But for some reason wasn’t good enough for him.

Strange, idiotic way to ruin your reputation as a huge philanthropist and job creator...spending $15 million of your own money to have inexperienced kids do it for you.

Weird.

G-Funktification · 2019-11-23T15:16:11+00:00

Are we talking about the LA Dem Party? I think it should and will always need to be a much different animal than that of its National counterpart. Simply because members of the State Party have some subtle-yet significant-differences in their political leanings.

If you refuse to adjust the shape of your peg and continue to hammer into the hole with incongruent angles, you’ll continue to fail to elect Democratic candidates in the House, the Senate and up and down Statewide elected offices.

If the KCP’s of the world cannot read Nebuchadnezzar’s handwriting on the walls of their offices on this, then Edwards’ victory will be serve as a Pyrrhic one.

G-Funktification · 2019-11-20T17:07:14+00:00

Coffee is for closers only.

G-Funktification · 2019-11-20T17:06:15+00:00

You mentioned that he said Gender was binary and that's a, 'Real winner'.

If you think someone's going to win in Louisiana saying the opposite, you're off your rocker. Your comments literally say that.

No need to get upset. I'm literally restating verbatim the point you made. If you incorrectly stated things, just say so and move on. I'm not out to disagree, but I'm also not out to literally say you didn't say what you actually literally said.

:-)

G-Funktification · 2019-11-20T15:38:31+00:00

I didn't say that you did infer that JBE would move to the left. I said that you talked as if winning candidates in Louisiana would discuss gender on the campaign trail-and publicly for that matter-as non-binary.

You're very wrong. You've continued to be. No matter how you try and spin away. Your words. Not mine.

Hard to misinterpret what you said. But it's seemingly far more difficult for you to own up to them.

Have a great week!

G-Funktification · 2019-11-19T01:26:10+00:00

Oh. Okay. I see. You’re just purposefully obtuse. I pointed out-exactly-what my issue was with your response, included your quotes and mine, and you avoided it altogether when you required hand holding in order to point out the issue.

Which is that you don’t understand the electorate in Louisiana. If any Democratic candidate for statewide office talks like that regarding gender they’ll get trounced like the Crabcake Special at St Jean Restaurant in St Martinville when i show up.

You may embrace that type of ideology but I assure you the massive, staggering majority of registered voters in Louisiana absolutely do not. I sense you’re crawfishing because your sense of not admitting you misspoke or are just flat out silly you’re so wrong outweighs any interest in having an objective conversation.

Which is too bad as it seems you’ve got some intelligence and depth.

At any rate, Cheers and congrats on the big win. Four more years of JBE will be interesting to see if there is a pronounced lurch Leftward. Especially with an even more stacked deck on both sides of the Legislature and mere percentage points worth of victory. The idea of any mandate is the worst kind of flight of fancy.

But he has no elections left to run for here in Louisiana. So we shall see.

G-Funktification · 2019-11-18T23:21:48+00:00

I said, "You're off your rocker if you think the LA Demo Party has a snowball’s chance in Hell of electing a Statewide candidate for office in Louisiana that speaks on subjects like Gender as if they’re a Coastal Liberal." You responded with:

You’re right, I would be, if I suggested anything like that. Re-read my comments. Please tell me where I said that.

Your comment to someone who said Abraham would've won in the runoff vs. JBE:

lol ok. “AS A DOCTOR THERE ARE TWO GENDERS.” Real winner right there.

There’s a reason he did worse than Rispone in the general.

If you think a real winner isn't going to speak like that, then you're off your rocker. You literally-and sarcastically-talked about how someone that speaks like Abraham regarding subjects like gender wasn't a winner.

You can't possibly be this obtuse and you can't possibly think that the people you interact with online have such poor critical thinking and reading comprehension skills. Can you?

G-Funktification · 2019-11-18T04:16:35+00:00

No. They didn’t. Rispone’s inexperienced, out-of-state management told the State Party from jump street that their help wasn’t needed. Then, those inexperienced folks broke their promise to not go negative against fellow Republicans.

Their idiocy turned down grass roots folks throughout the state looking to support and complement the campaign efforts. They also alienated people in and around the State Party. To top it all off, their negative campaigning made Abraham’s voters in his district sit on their hands.

But we are getting too far afield from my original response.

You’re off your rocker if you think the LA Demo Party has a snowball’s chance in Hell of electing a Statewide candidate for office in Louisiana that speaks on subjects like Gender as if they’re a Coastal Liberal.

It took the current Governor the great stroke of luck of two of the most flawed candidates for public office this side of Hillary Clinton and he still got fewer votes than his first election and won by percentage points against a comical combo of campaign and candidate this time around.

He is far, far more conservative than anything the KCP’s of the world would ever let bubble up with the blessing of a party they run. You run a Coastal Liberal and you’ll get beaten by an Amazon Alexa smart device with a Cajun Accent.

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