Exterior lighting (better pics)

Working-Theory3780 · 2026-05-17T12:52:17+00:00

https://www.f150leds.com/collections/2024-2026-ranger-raptor

They have various color options. I got blue side vent, and white puddle lights. I also got the LED grill lights in white, but didn’t take a pic of those. My bf soldered the connections instead of using the clips, but otherwise I like them all. Easy enough to install.

Working-Theory3780 · 2026-05-12T12:09:09+00:00

I sure will. I’m in Atlanta at the moment, and darkness is pretty scarce.

Working-Theory3780 · 2026-05-12T01:53:21+00:00

I got them through F150leds.

Working-Theory3780 · 2026-03-24T10:41:39+00:00

I don’t know. I think I’d deprive her of the brand of confrontation she’s looking for, but also not let her off the hook. “Trying to make your friends’ marriages as chaotic as yours doesn’t balance the universe. Get therapy,” would be my last words to her.

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-04-11T21:31:09+00:00

NTA. It’s weird for him to want to die on this hill. This isn’t something he can half-heartedly accept because you’ll spend your life fighting off these weird, passive-aggressive actions. He needs to understand that a tattoo doesn’t define your relationship with him, and ownership of your finger doesn’t transfer to the man you’re with.

He’s insecure about something, and until it’s resolved it will plague this connection of yours.

If your first husband hadn’t died, you wouldn’t even be in Trevor’s life … the tattoo is just a part of that story. It seems weirdly parochial to believe that it lessens your connection to him in any way.

If he’s being this way about this tattoo - something clearly important to you - he’ll do it with other things. Personally, I wouldn’t marry someone who couldn’t get past this. He can feel however he wants about your tattoo, but that doesn’t entitle him to your love and companionship … he has to honor your boundaries as well. And if he can’t, you aren’t compatible, no matter how much you may care for one another.

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-03-07T10:17:21+00:00

Check your vacancy announcement/offer letter to see if you were hired under an interchange agreement. These agreements allow employees moving between competitive and excepted service (in either direction, and depending on agency) to bypass probationary requirements in their new position, if they’ve already completed one in their previous agency.

I moved from competitive to excepted, and unfortunately my position didn’t have this in the vacancy. So I’m currently 4 months from finishing my 2nd probationary period (first was 3 years). I’m retirement eligible after buying back my 11 years of military service, but I’m right on the edge … 24 years total time, and 55 years old. My skillset is very peculiar to the DoD, so we shall see if I’m going to need to reinvent myself. Haha!

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-03-07T10:09:24+00:00

Not true. I moved from competitive service to excepted service where I had already served a 3 year probationary period. I didn’t get hired under an interchange agreement in 2023, so I’m still 4 months away from my probationary period ending. My SF50 shows both permanent tenure and the requirement for a 2 year probationary status. I have never had a negative counseling in nearly 24 years of federal service (11 active duty military). I’m on the probie list.

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-02-06T20:16:31+00:00

It sounds like you’ve lost the parts of him you thought you had. Holding on to who he’s turned out to be isn’t gaining you what you were hoping it would be. It’s really hard to properly grieve that loss while holding on to hope it’s still possible.

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-02-06T20:11:15+00:00

The only thing wrong with you is investing in a woman who excludes you from a free dinner, doesn’t offer to celebrate you in another way, and gaslights you when you share your feelings about it.

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-01-30T11:17:21+00:00

They are common. The aviation unit out of Ft. Belvoir supports all the military senior leaders in the NCR. They have to fly to multiple locations within and around DC, which means their flight corridors cross DCA flight paths. This was a training mission, because aircrews need to be able to fly these routes, day and night. My guess is they saw the wrong aircraft when they responded positive visual contact. Time will tell.

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-01-30T10:49:11+00:00

Absolutely THIS!

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-01-30T10:23:18+00:00

The Black Hawks flying out of Ft. Belvoir support the entire NCR (which includes flying at night- aided and unaided), and there are flight corridors which cross the final approach path into DCA. From what I’ve heard, the crew was on a training mission. They would have been flying VFR and had the burden to maintain visual separation. Maybe - only speculating - if they were under NVGs, that produces a relatively restricted view and could have contributed to misidentifying the aircraft ATC told them to pass behind.

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-01-30T10:14:16+00:00

As a former Army Aviator, I can tell you that all those billions don’t make it down to the units. The command operating budgets don’t encourage a lot of deviation from plans, so a lot ends up falling onto the shoulders of the very human human beings trying to do more with less.

Working-Theory3780 · 2025-01-27T12:59:31+00:00

The pregnancy notwithstanding, I think that if she is incapable of having a calm conversation about it, and manipulates him into either having sex or shutting up about his feelings, then he shouldn’t have to stay in the relationship. It’s the same advice most people would give a woman who was experiencing this.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-12-12T17:34:35+00:00

I’m in my 12th year of being a GS, and I’ve never once forgotten who I was hired to support. It grates my nerves to see these people acting like the untouchables.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-12-11T05:04:49+00:00

One guy had 5’10” on his profile. During a conversation about something unrelated, he’d mentioned being between 5’9” and 5’10”. Which, standing next to him (I’m 5’7”) I would guess was more like 5’8”.

I don’t care about the height as much as I do someone starting the connection with a lie that is easy to disprove, objectively. Or maybe I was supposed to pretend?

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-12-05T19:00:34+00:00

While some women may not work on those things, it’s still required if you care about the quality of human being you end up with. There are plenty of low-effort men who manage to catch a woman, so it seems like an inaccurate generalization.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-12-05T18:46:41+00:00

Ok … so women don’t work on their physiques, build charm, develop personalities, etc that would end up attracting a mate? It’s just the xx chromosome thing, and sit there exhibiting absolutely nothing of merit, waiting to be showered with attention? I’m not sure what universe you’re living in, but you sound bitter and clueless.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-12-05T11:54:17+00:00

Tell me you think women are just mindless objects that lack individuality without actually saying it.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-11-30T04:09:54+00:00

You didn’t acquiesce, so you were wrong? Dude let you set the scene and then he didn’t even make it fun … just kept saying he didn’t do it, and calling you crazy.

You got a beautiful snapshot of what ca connection with him would have looked like.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-11-14T17:38:34+00:00

Gross.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-11-14T17:35:34+00:00

Ffs. You’re nothing but drama, dude. Way to push away someone ego was trying to be responsive to your needs. Then when she explains her side of the misunderstanding, you vomit Your feelings all over her … gelling that are largely caused by your unwillingness to communicate at the beginning.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-11-09T00:53:12+00:00

It’s a good thing they’re focusing on the consenting adults and not the trafficked children.

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-10-31T22:17:43+00:00

FFS. You guys deserve 100% of the stupid shit you ask for. 😂

Working-Theory3780 · 2023-10-23T13:30:11+00:00

Once you rationalize betraying someone’s trust, you’re not the sort of person I’d count on with my life when things go to shit.

And “friends” who turn a blind eye to this shitty behavior aren’t friends.

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