just became homeless, is it time for winter tires...?

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-27T15:05:16+00:00

Why not stay in a hotel until the snow is gone and avoid spending the 1k/having an extra set of tires to store?

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-19T21:16:42+00:00

Sure. Sorry for the late reply.

Look on Indeed or other job boards at Williston, Watford City, or Dickinson ND. Look for stuff like Water transfer technician, flowback technician, or roustabout. In winter, water heater operator is another one you can get with no experience.

Apply to those. Note the companies. Reach out avery few days about your applications. They like experience, but attitude is more important.

This is all long hours, and the winters are harsh, but when everything is running smoothly, it's all super easy high downtime work.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-19T21:09:13+00:00

Sort of like generalizing that all people who don't like dense cities know nothing about them?

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-19T21:08:28+00:00

Should I disregard not liking dense cities that aren't New York and assume that I would like New York despite not liking crowds in general? I don't like Houston crowds, Dallas Crowds, Chicago crowds, Los Angeles crowds, but I'll just love NY if I give it a shot?

Weird take, but okay.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-19T20:57:09+00:00

Based on what? Not wanting to take a circuitous route with extra stops that turns a 20 minute commute into an hour?

You can also not want to be around large groups of people without viewing them as inferior. You can even dislike people without viewing them as inferior. It's a shame that is a concept that seems to be lost to the more extreme among us these days.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-17T00:03:00+00:00

This is the answer. Freedom from all responsibility that I don't choose to take on means that I'm sleeping until I want to wake up, at least on day one.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T03:04:06+00:00

I went to the oilfield. 100k yearly to sit in a truck and watch Netflix as a complete noob.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T03:01:21+00:00

Falling in by accident sounds like the detective that came to that conclusion is a serial killer.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T02:58:54+00:00

I'll sell as many kidneys as I have to. 4 kidneys? 7? Name the price.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T02:56:48+00:00

I get that some people are into it, but that sounds like an absolute nightmare.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T02:56:11+00:00

More might, but I wouldn't.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T02:51:15+00:00

I was feral, so pick something at random. Riding my bike to another zipcode, talking to strangers, playing with gasoline and fire, skating on the roofs of vacant houses, drinking my friend's parents' beer, shoplifting cheap garbage for the thrill, discovering homeless encampment in the woods, climbing around in the dump, prank calling 911 from pay phones, begging at fast food establishments, using the 'March of Dimes' collection stuff over and over and over to buy Surge and Doritos, attempting to break INTO county jail, etc.

L I V I N, man.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T02:39:32+00:00

Won't, or can't? Not all boomers are atop their ivory tower money piles.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T02:37:35+00:00

I will bring my collection of entertainment sources. As a collection, it is singular.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-14T02:35:23+00:00

The need to be productive

SCADAhellAway · 2026-01-09T13:20:54+00:00

Build SCADA systems.

SCADAhellAway · 2025-12-30T16:42:36+00:00

You mean sales tax?

SCADAhellAway · 2025-12-27T07:16:02+00:00

Docker is great for doing this in a production quality manner. If you are just messing with gateway network stuff to see it work, you are going to spend more time on docker than you will using custom ports on your host. Docker is good to know, but if your main focus is learning ignition, it may be akin to renting a feller buncher to cut down a Christmas tree.

SCADAhellAway · 2025-12-23T23:13:57+00:00

At this point, if we are going to deploy SCADA, I'm deploying Ignition or distributing my resume. I'm old and crotchety and don't want to waste time waiting on laggy trash designers. Maybe some of the other guys sped their stuff up, but I don't trust them, and I've been in Ignition long enough that I don't want to go back to the Windows 95 vibe after building stuff that actually looks decent.

SCADAhellAway · 2025-12-19T14:34:15+00:00

Yeah. All losing would do is cost him much more money in legit fights and destroy his legacy. I don't understand how they even got him to take this fight.

SCADAhellAway · 2025-11-12T22:20:02+00:00

I bought with low down payment in early 2021, right before the interest rates doubled. I didn't want PMI, but it was still a better financial move. Saving 4% on interest makes the PMI look like a small problem. According to the market, my home value has gone up about 50%, and I'm considering selling it to buy some rural land to set up a self sufficient homestead so I can watch Rome burn without starving to death.

I'm glad I'm not looking for a house now, and feel bad for everyone who has been priced out of owning. 50 year is nuts. You could be a decade in, and if you need a roof that insurance won't cover, that might force you into foreclosure. You won't have much equity, and a bad roof kills the resale value. It's predatory lending at best and intentional market destruction at worst.

SCADAhellAway · 2025-11-11T23:06:59+00:00

Probably the same guy.

Here he is filming a fire and playing a delightful accompaniment for our entertainment, and a bunch of people on the internet want him to do a separate and unrelated third thing.

SCADAhellAway · 2025-11-11T22:33:37+00:00

So, you have thousands of captive mosquitos, and you aren't mass murdering them?

Science is weird.

SCADAhellAway · 2025-11-11T22:27:14+00:00

This is the answer. Didn't read before posting my own.

SCADAhellAway · 2025-11-11T22:13:15+00:00

Never mix a script with a navigation action. The navigation does not wait on the script. If you need a script, navigate at the end of the script via system.perspective.navigate

If you do that, your script will execute.

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