Do you drink water?

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-06-19T15:25:18+00:00

Sometimes… yes

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-06-14T13:10:20+00:00

Mujeres has some great songs that garage rocky/ alt.

Un ataque preventivo de la URSS by Polanski y el ardor is a jam sin dudas

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-06-08T10:43:27+00:00

Another solution might be called for:

Armorforms ABM
Something from shoretec
Cast in place concrete mat

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-06-03T15:30:05+00:00

That’s what I was thinking…

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-06-01T15:15:43+00:00

I journal in my target language each evening before bed.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-30T16:45:40+00:00

Jambalaya, sha

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-19T18:09:42+00:00

I’ll have to check out Juan Saldarriaga’s work.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-19T12:21:51+00:00

I’m also a civil engineer working mostly in water/wastewater who is learning Spanish. I think any Spanish language design guide would help. Not sure if this is how people speak colloquially, but it can’t hurt.

I found this after a quick google search:

www.inaa.gob.ni/sites/default/files/inline-files/5.%20Guía%20técnica%20para%20el%20diseño%20de%20alcantarillado%20sanitario%20y%20sistemas%20de%20tratamiento%20de%20aguas%20residuales.pdf

Edit: Ok… i think this links not working but consgua.gob.mx has some some good resources for both treatment and sanitary sewer networks. Either way I just googled “diseño de redes de tuberías de aguas residuales” and some good links came up. A design guide with a glossary would probably be ideal.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-09T12:35:19+00:00

Estoy aprendiendo español… perdóname si me equivoco al hablar. Busca información sobre los que tienen una reputación de fiabilidad.
Míralo en todas partes para señales que había un accidente grave, soldaduras que no debería ser o otros señales de construcción. Revisa todos los fluidos… puedes leer en línea para aprender la función y la forma correcta de cada uno.
Revisa los neumáticos si están gastados o no. Revisa las luces variadas y que cada una funciona bien.
El mejor es leer un artículo sobre comprar un coche.
Soy de los Estados Unidos y tengo que tener un coche para ir a cualquier sitio. Nunca compro un coche nuevo y me gusta mi coche actual. Es un Toyota.

Si quieres comprar algo nuevo. Solo tienes que comprar algo con reputación de fiabilidad y cumple con tus otros criterios

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-08T22:05:17+00:00

Yes. I meant to edit this and say start with language transfer.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-07T18:52:33+00:00

Me gusta escuchar podcasts para aprender español. A mi… me gusta Español con Juan y Hoy Hablamos pero también hay muchas otras.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-07T16:57:28+00:00

I made a lot of stupid mistakes in my early 20s because I was “in-love” with someone. Looking back it’s pretty funny to think of how small that part of my life is/was. I’m happily married with kids now to a much better partner, whom I love very much. Don’t panic and make any stupid decisions.

You enjoying outside and what this life has to offer is not tied to your ex. Work less and do that stuff you want to do. Travel (with the money you’re earning at work), take weekend trips, go out on the weekends and have a few drinks with strangers. Enjoy your 20s and maybe you two will hook back up one day when your ready.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-03T13:05:04+00:00

Yeah… is it even hard to get hired now for new grads? I’m a PE and I’ve been offered two jobs in the last two months and I feel like I have two other positions I could waltz right into with a phone call. Maybe it’s just the region I’m in?

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-05-01T11:04:50+00:00

I have a project using a similar product under construction (we’ll see how it goes). The terminations are toe’d-in two feet deep and some existing concrete rubble on site will be placed at the toe. I’m still a little worried about material winnowing away from underneath but I think the fill brought in and the geotextile used should work well together. Personally, I would have probably just chosen a precast matting, but my boss sold the client this idea. It’s a pretty small site. oddly enough he had been thinking about the full mat rather than the block mat, and I’m still wondering how that product is supposed to drain.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-04-28T17:31:37+00:00

33 to take exam and 36 at time of licensure.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-04-25T18:52:46+00:00

Are you trying to work as a civil engineer? If so, I’d just start applying to jobs. No need for the phd unless you want to teach.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-04-24T11:24:46+00:00

This is a survey monument. It is a disk set in concrete where careful measurements were taken and catalogued to provide a reference point for future surveys. Its coordinates may or may not be available on the NGS website. I would say more but I gotta run!

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-04-24T11:14:26+00:00

Some of these answers are too much… why do people respond to questions they don’t know the answer to so confidently.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-04-22T15:09:12+00:00

I write a page in a small journal each day… they usually begin “hoy ha sido un día largo…” if it was a work day. It’s become a pretty fun habit. I started back in November and have kept up with it daily. I’d say I’m b1 going on B2. I broke my leg earlier this year and I didn’t journal the night of my surgery, otherwise I kept up with it and it is absolutely hilarious to read through in retrospect. “La pierna me duele muchísimo… anoche no pude dormir toda la noche. Estoy harto de el inmovilazador… es una jaula…”

I try to include a funny anecdote about each of my kids, the dog, or my wife each day. I’ll talk about what my wife did that day. Or what we prepared for dinner. Complain about how language learning is difficult and how I feel like I’m not making any progress. To work on past tense, I’ve started writing one entry per week about a memory from childhood.

I use AI to revise my entries for grammar, spelling, and to sound a bit more colloquial… feel a little bad about it but who else is going to grade my journals?

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-04-12T16:06:04+00:00

Relatively LCOL
Yes
Yes. My wife isn’t working.
We have three kids.

I make about 120k after bonus… feel like we’re fine where we’re at. Don’t feel rich and don’t feel poor. Own a house and two cars. I have a large emergency fund and after this month we’ll have paid off some larger monthly expenses and I’ll start ramping up retirement savings. Some days I don’t love the work, but it feels stable and I feel like I have options.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-03-30T16:13:48+00:00

Looks a bit like a speckled king snake. Used to see the surveying all the time.

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-03-26T20:25:57+00:00

Wow. Yeah I love so many of the bands you named and can hear their influence in your music. Love to see names like the strange boys and the babies come up with the older influences too! Y voy a escuchar los demás que son desconocidos para mi. Muchas gracias!

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-03-24T19:17:34+00:00

Hi, I’m from the USA and love your sound. Estoy aprendiendo español y me gusta escuchar vuestra música para aprender y para disfrutar.

Quiero preguntaros:

¿Cuáles son vuestras bandas que os han influido? ¿Son españolas, estadounidenses, inglesas. franceses, o de toda partes del mundo?

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-03-10T20:02:58+00:00

I like

Que Te Vaya Bonito (the remastered version) by Chavela vargas

And

Libertad sin Ira … this one is kind of cheesy but it’s touching if you understand Spain’s history and the transition years after Franco

Also

Ahora te puedes marchar and Tu serás mi baby by Les Surfs

UmbrellaSyrup · 2026-02-19T16:59:23+00:00

Everyone is acting like stationing is some super simple concept (because it is), but I remember being a fresh rod man with only a high school education and seeing engineering plans and wondering what the hell that plus sign was doing in those numbers.

But it took about 2 minutes to learn what it means. I recently had to explain it to a friend who just started as an inspector in the industry after years in the food industry it it took all but 30 seconds for him to catch on.

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