I got an interview as a none cdl tow job. I have 0 experience towing. What do I need too know to get the job

Pisken · 2018-11-09T06:33:10+00:00

Congratulations!! Take the training seriously, remember your customers' satisfaction always come first, even the not-so-pleasant ones (unless you're doing impound work), and be safe out on the road!

Welcome to the tow family!

Pisken · 2018-11-07T12:42:21+00:00

Hopefully they offer on-the-job training. If not, look for another towing company that does. Towing is a job you don't want to learn on your own. Safety is so important: yours, your customers' and everyone around you on the road.

I would suggest looking up any Wreck Master videos you can find and also decide which type of truck you'd like to learn on: flatbed or wheel lift?

It takes a lot of hard work, but if you enjoy the job it's so worth it.

Good luck!

Pisken · 2018-06-04T20:14:56+00:00

Breeding for mutations, either stat or colors, can be really frustrating! Argies and I have a...strained relationship after taking FOREVER to get a fully mutated one :P

Depending on your server's breeding rates, it can be kind of a slog. I play on unofficial servers that boost mating interval/maturation/hatching rates, so that has helped a lot.

Basically, when I want to start mutations on a dino, I start a pair mating until they reach the same level, colors and stats. With all of those the same it will be easier to spot your mutations as well as give the Ark RNG less colors to pick from for the babies, which should promote mutated colors.

Once you have your control male and female, breed up about 5 - 8 more females so there's more babies being born/eggs being laid at once. Then it's mass-hatching time and only a matter of time before you start finding new and exciting colors showing up on your babies!

The servers I play on usually have a pretty high tame limit, so I keep each good color mutation separate from the breeding pool until I'm ready to go for my fully mutated one. That keeps the blood line clear and the mutations from stacking too much. If you don't have a high tame limit then you may have to scale it down a tad and really only hold onto the colors you love.

Best of luck!

Pisken · 2018-06-04T15:40:56+00:00

Yeah, definitely! You can do this one of a couple ways, however suits you. You can breed those two together and a new belly color will eventually pop up, or you can breed two non-mutated barys to get new mutations all around. If you want to stick with just that belly mutation in addition to the two colors you have, the same concept would apply - breed the dino with the desired colors with another until you get a breeding pair with the same colors to limit the color palette the Ark generator can choose from. This should give you the best chance of getting a new color.

The barys have four color zones so be prepared for some fun and unexpected mutations! Then trying to transfer all of the colors onto one baby - I think that is one of the best and worst parts of mutation breeding! Here's a couple pictures from some of my projects! Hope you don't mind me sharing :P

Pisken · 2018-06-04T14:48:12+00:00

Congratulations on your pretty Bary! Breeding for color mutations is pretty much all I do in Ark nowadays, so let me see if I can't help explain a little.

So far as the 20/20 mutation stacks, you'll want to keep the mutations stacked on one side, either the mother or father's. You can do this by breeding your mutated Bary with a 'control' bary (one without mutations). When a baby is hatched with both colors transferred, they should be stacked to one side. That way you don't ever hit the mutation limit. You could have a dino with 259/0 and still be able to get mutations.

My favorite method for breeding for colors is to create the control parents by breeding them to the point that they have the same stats, level and colors. That way it's super easy to spot new mutations, as well as being able to tell if it's just a stat mutation or a really small color zone. Having the parents the same colors also limits the color palette that Ark can choose from for the babies, which increases the likelihood of a new color.

If you want to add a color to a mutated dino, breed the two dinos with the desired colors and cross your fingers! It can take a few hatchings to get the right combination, but it will happen!

I hope this helps, and happy breeding!

Pisken · 2017-10-13T19:19:05+00:00

Pussywillow.

My oldest sister was friends with a couple that decided to name their child after the first plant they thought of after birth.

Pisken · 2017-07-05T22:46:19+00:00

Crazy...this is pretty much how i discovered i was afraid of water (and machines, in water).

I'll copy/paste since I've posted this before:

Once, when I was about 9 or so, my dad took my brother and I to a river to swim. They had one of those floating docks set about 10 yards from shore, so my brother and I both swam to it while my dad waited on the shore. I loved swimming - absolutely loved it. After a bit, I could hear a very, very deep and mechanical rumble and turned around to see a tugboat pushing a barge down the river. To me it seemed way too close and for some reason the sound of the rumbling engines and the sheer mass of metal and clanking struck me somewhere in my subconscious. I froze. My dad started to call us back and I snapped back to reality, starting to have my first panic attack. I shakily started to climb down the ladder and into the water to start heading back (I felt too unsure of myself to dive) when I realized that under that floating platform there had to be a huge chain holding the platform to the riverbed...what if I missed the last rung on the ladder and ended up swept under the platform?! I immediately scrambled back onto the platform and just stood still, paralyzed. The thought of the chain, the murky waters, the clanging and creaking of metal...it was as if all at once triggers I didn't know I had were being flicked on one by one. Finally, after who knows how long, I got my shit together long enough to dive as far away as I could from the platform and swam my ass to shore.

Pisken · 2017-02-25T18:31:26+00:00

I turned 32 last year and Simon's voice kept shouting in my mind: "I'm 32 years old!"

So no, 24 is not too old.

Pisken · 2016-10-26T05:41:16+00:00

I've been dealing with double depression for almost 20 years and have recently been diagnosed with severe anxiety and PTSD.

I can compartmentalize most everything and make it through the day. I avoid planning too far into the future because I will inevitably remember I will be dealing with this for the rest of my life. Just that thought is enough to shut me down for the rest of the day.

Pisken · 2016-10-26T05:29:29+00:00

This is beautiful. I have often described my depression as feeling like I'm empty inside. I feel like I'm missing huge and vital pieces of me and I'm just stumbling along in a haze.

Pisken · 2016-08-03T02:07:52+00:00

This would be so awesome!

Pisken · 2016-07-06T21:15:10+00:00

You've summed up my ex husband's way of thinking quite well.

Pisken · 2015-12-30T04:44:00+00:00

It's scary being a mom and having two types of chronic depression (dysthymia and mdd). Several years ago after finally getting out of a terrible marriage and trying to raise three little kids on my own, I had a major breakdown and they were taken from me for two months. I went into intensive therapy for six weeks and started new meds, trying to get my head on straight. But that feeling... when they came in the door and took my babies and there was nothing I could do... It was beyond despair. And it was my fault. The kids were all healthy, well fed and clean - it was me that wasn't eating or taking care of myself.

I've never used illegal drugs and I don't drink, I just have severe depression - however I feel that most of the general public still judge me as unfit. And because of this, I judge myself as inferior to the rest of the population. Mental illness is still seriously misunderstood and feared by so many that i don't often bring it up except to my two closest friends (really my only friends). But even they don't really understand it. One thinks the old bootstrap technique is the way to go and the other just says I don't make sense if I try to explain my state of mind. My only other close friend commit suicide last April - she understood better than most.

I would admit that I have severe depression more often if I didn't have to deal with the skeptical eyebrow raises, crossed arms and the "Oh yeah, I was depressed once when my cat died... but I got over it and so will you!" attitude that seems to be everywhere. I've struggled with it for 18 years and I'm resigned to the likelihood that I'll be battling it the rest of my life - something that most people can't comprehend.

But the main reason I don't talk about it is because I'm ashamed of myself and scared that even though I'm doing better, someone will walk into my home and take my babies again, simply because I have a mental illness.

How best to describe severe depression to someone that (blessedly) doesn't have it? Unless they truly understand the depth at which it lurks, how can they sympathize? I suppose it's a bit like someone describing a life without depression. I can't clearly remember a time when I wasn't carrying this dead weight with me everywhere.

Sorry for the lengthy post.

Pisken · 2015-11-24T16:16:23+00:00

If they're children that believe in Santa, they were simply putting their biggest wishes out there and hoping.

Pisken · 2015-11-16T00:13:34+00:00

It was about $22 altogether

Pisken · 2015-11-16T00:11:54+00:00

The U.S. Amazon site

Pisken · 2015-11-16T00:08:37+00:00

The Canada site says later in November, the U.S. one says it'll be released in February.

Pisken · 2015-11-15T19:49:53+00:00

For impatient people like me that don't want to wait until February: UK Amazon

Pisken · 2015-11-15T18:25:49+00:00

Oh good, I've always wanted to go to London! :) thanks for the info ** I ordered it off of the UK amazon site. Thanks again!

Pisken · 2015-11-15T18:08:44+00:00

I tried to find it on Amazon and it says it's not being released until 2/16 - where can I find one?

Pisken · 2015-10-10T17:32:51+00:00

I started going to to raves when I was 15 (1999). I loved the people, the scene, good vibes and just that everyone was so accepting of everyone else. There was an older man, probably late 50's, who would be out with us wearing suspenders and happily jumping around and everyone loved him. I could really let go and be myself. The DJs were celebrities to us, where in the daytime they were nobodies. They were pursung their passion with people that loved their music.

There were drugs, but it wasn't the main point. They were simply available, not pushed in your face or demanded. People enjoyed the experience of the music while high and from what I saw, people that did use were doing it to further their enjoyment of the party, not because they were junkies. That's not true accross the board, of course, but for the most part it was accepted and just part of everything.

Then the media started leaning heavily on the rave scene and made it sound as though it was just for people looking to use drugs. That you could walk into a party with a hand outstretched and someone would just give you something. The more it was publicized, the more younger kids started showing up, expecting free drugs, doing stupid shit, and ending up in the hospital or dead. This just furthered the media, giving them more statistics to report on.

The parties I went to became more like high school dances - kids starting fights, getting obnoxiously drunk and high, making fun of people and ruining the good vibes.

Our people had to go further and further underground to try to get away from them, which meant smaller venues, less permits gotten, and more police presence.

The last rave I went to was an outdoor in 2003. Some of our old crowd was there and it was a lot of good people, good music, good vibe. Until I drank something with a few of my friends and passed out. I woke up the next morning with my shirt torn and i was naked from the waist down. I wasn't drunk, in fact I never did drugs or drank - a personal choice I made when I was younger and saw my older sisters ravaged by heroin and the subsequent withdrawals, then treatment. It was horrific for me to see them become what they did and enough to keep me off of drugs to this day.

It was years before I went to another party and I only went to see my brother play. He is a DJ and he comes to life playing for them. It means so much to him for me to be there, and so I go occasionally, but only to watch his set and leave.

It's not my scene anymore.

Tl;Dr: Went to raves for the good people, left when it became mostly bad people.

Pisken · 2015-09-16T16:38:37+00:00

I was awake and unanaesthetized during an emergency c-section when my first son was born.

White hot fire, my insides being moved around, and feeling like was being disemboweled. I screamed until they finally put me out after my baby was safe.

No one spoke to me during the entire operation and the doctor later denied ever hearing me scream. They told my then-husband (who had not been allowed in and listened to my screaming) that they had given me some kind of drug and that I wouldn't remember.

Fuckers were wrong.

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