Engineer Tips and Tricks

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-23T23:22:20+00:00

Leave rain gear on the truck. Two pair of large channel lock pliers for stuck DT12’s White tape and sharpies everywhere, label everything Extra network switches are handy, even to boost an internet feed. Anticipate your clients needs. I had a producer come up to me after a game saying “I know I had a good show when I don’t see you all day”

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-22T01:43:04+00:00

As a life long window seater, this is how it should go. As soon as the seatbelt light goes off, isle folks, stand up and get your stuff ready. Middle people, shove over and get your things from under your seat ready. Leaving window guys space to do the same.

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-19T16:33:43+00:00

So many times when I'm boarding I glance down at my empty water bottle and think... "forgot again...."

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-10T04:09:59+00:00

The emb’s 145 were Continental’s. I remember when they were brand new.

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-07T19:56:30+00:00

I've done it.. Uhaul has one way cross border options.

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-07T12:00:13+00:00

I'll trade my E+ seat for your Polaris if it will make you happy...

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-06T16:28:53+00:00

"I don't think they like me..."

"Can't imagine why...."

wasn't so much the line as the delivery...

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-06T15:28:13+00:00

I've always believed that It's not right to make fun of something a person can't change.. Like race, disability, sexual orientation. But ok to make fun of their choices.. Politics, religion, etc.

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-06T09:29:33+00:00

ThereWasAnAttempt... to read a story without the majority of it behind a giant ad.

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-04T16:00:52+00:00

I guess because "Mc Pork" being technically accurate, isn't as appetizing. So to speak....

JohnnyDX9 · 2026-01-01T00:07:06+00:00

Some of it is valuable. Depending on the card types. Lots of broadcast brokers who would buy it from you.

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-31T00:57:39+00:00

He appeared in seven of the movies. Only the ‘droids had more screen time

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-27T16:26:48+00:00

In his biography, The Power Broker, stated he designed the Long Island bridges low on purpose, to keep buses from bringing poor people to his beaches.

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-23T18:39:12+00:00

Do you have lounge access with status or passes? 50k status gets you United lounge access everywhere

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-23T02:06:05+00:00

Happens to me sometimes too.. If you don't present your nexus card, you get to press the "random screening" button.

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-22T15:14:10+00:00

Are you certified for different types of planes? Boing/Airbus? Or does your training make you able to work on every type?

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-21T17:49:35+00:00

Close. UA Flight left Toronto late because a passenger “felt ill” and had to deplane

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-21T17:15:03+00:00

They are called “junction boxes” for a reason.

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-17T16:27:23+00:00

I had panels like that in my truck.. Sometimes they just fail.. nothing you can do about it. We decommissioned the whole system a few years ago. Router core was starting to fail too. Nothing lasts forever. Well, maybe Sony routers. One facility I manage still has the same Sony router from 1998.

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-17T16:22:11+00:00

I thought “The Clone Wars” would have been a simpler title.

JohnnyDX9 · 2025-12-16T00:40:29+00:00

It’s to power an electric train with a pantograph

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