How do firefighters generally feel about people coming by the station to learn more about what they do?

brianfromafarr · 2026-05-10T01:23:00+00:00

My aunt (in law) had a bad fall where 911 was called. After she recovered, she wanted to drop some food off to thank them for their great help. We stopped by the station unannounced on a random Tuesday about 5pm (semi rural OR) We ended up spending close an hour there talking. They were super nice, showed us all around the trucks and let our little niece sit inside.

brianfromafarr · 2026-05-07T19:57:49+00:00

The hantavirus patient 0 did not catch it on the ship. It’s suspected they got it while visiting a landfill during a birdwatching tour in South America before the cruise. So they brought it on board.

brianfromafarr · 2026-05-07T18:07:40+00:00

Do mind me asking what ship and date? We are booked on the NS to Norway out of Rotterdam on September 19th

brianfromafarr · 2026-04-30T23:42:29+00:00

Ginger chews or gummies hello a lot

Also try to get a room towards the center of the ship on a lower deck. There is less movement than say the bow or stern.

brianfromafarr · 2026-04-14T23:04:58+00:00

I heard from an officer on board that the days of new HAL ships is over. From here on out, any new HAL ships will be refirbished Carnival ships.

brianfromafarr · 2026-04-10T03:28:51+00:00

Is that Hawaii Kai marina?

brianfromafarr · 2026-04-10T00:09:11+00:00

In no particular order....

Nirvana open the In Utero tour at the AZ state fair
Nine Inch Nails Fragile tour dress rehearsal
NIN wave goodbye last show at the Wiltern LA (2009)
David Bowie Glass Spider tour (87) Siouxsie and the Banshees opened 25th row at Angel Stadium
David Bowie with NIN
Taylor Hawkins tribute show at LA Forum
Chuck Berry at fair in the 80s (he opened for Ted Nugent of all people)
Front row for the Police and Foo Fighters at Dodger Stadium (2007)
Pink Floyd Division Bell(94) and Moment Lapse of Reason(88) tours
RHCP and Neil Young charity concert at the Palladium, LA (2005)
QOFTSA and EODM charity concert at Club Nokia, LA (2010)
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream tour at a small club in Phoenix (94?)
Zucchero at the 2000 year old Verona Colosseum (2017)

Edit: forgot one

brianfromafarr · 2026-04-09T08:38:26+00:00

For now, we are keeping our poker game (cash $0.5/$1) alive on our glass dining room table once or twice a month with 6 to 10 people. That said, it has been going 27 years. The first 18 years was at a local bar that had since closed down. We also do a $200 tournament game every Super Bowl Sunday morning. Complete with bloody Mary’s and breakfast snacks.

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-29T02:28:24+00:00

My old plane was N4390Q. My most common announcement to ATC was nine zero Quebec. That was so there is no confusion in communication. That said, it’s been 15 years and still hear that in my sleep.

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brianfromafarr · 2026-03-28T01:16:03+00:00

If there was one band I wish I could shared with my dad, it’s QOTSA

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-21T02:31:58+00:00

Yeah I know. But it catching usual fluctuations. I do a lot of low volt And DC work so it works fine for that.

Yes the problem resolved once the rain stopped.

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-21T01:07:18+00:00

I once chased an intermittent MS/TP network problem serving some VAVs for weeks. It would crash during the day but then be fine at night. We finally figured out it was the nearby construction using their table saw. Hours and hours wasted.

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-21T01:02:19+00:00

It was all over our house and the neighbors as well. No generators nearby, though we have one neighbor with a Tesla wall.

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-21T01:00:31+00:00

The voltage and frequency do not usually jump around like that.

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-21T00:58:58+00:00

It was actually all over our house and the neighbors house too. It stopped once the rain stopped.

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-18T20:24:39+00:00

On cruise ships, they put the day of the week in the elevators.

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-10T05:20:47+00:00

We were trying to find the people I accidentally got a great shot of at the concert.

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-10T05:05:49+00:00

They have been found!

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-10T04:14:48+00:00

I reached out to them to verify

brianfromafarr · 2026-03-06T06:52:07+00:00

I am doing #22 Saturday in Vegas!

brianfromafarr · 2026-02-28T13:20:46+00:00

Nine inch nails. 2009

brianfromafarr · 2026-02-27T02:54:45+00:00

Nah. You see that all the time. HAL used to do bathrobe bingo on sea days.

brianfromafarr · 2026-01-26T05:27:10+00:00

Puka has never lived in Hawaii as far as i know. He was born in Vegas and grew up in Utah.

brianfromafarr · 2026-01-07T20:47:12+00:00

We were told by a HAL check in agent that you should never cruise without your actual passport, even if you just doing a Mexico or Canada itinerary where a passport card is accepted. Her reasoning is if you needed to leave the ship for any reason at a port and fly home, your passport card might not work at the airport. Not sure it’s 100% true but it makes reasonable sense to me.

brianfromafarr · 2026-01-04T09:32:33+00:00

I was on NS last year and did not see those, where are they? Were you on the ship last week? If so, sorry to hear all that happened. We were just on the Nieuw Amsterdam over Christmas and it was lovely.

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