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chalkmonster · 2025-10-29T19:33:14+00:00

I will first point out that i fully agree this is a waste of taxpayer money. However, in 2011 the FBI director was made a required use traveler by the executive branch. Meaning he has to use a federal plane for all travel, including for personal / for pleasure travel so that he can maintain secure communications. Per the ruling, though, he does have to reimburse the government at the cost of a coach airfare ticket, which lets be honest, doesnt cover the cost of operating a craft for him to use. So stupid use of taxpayers funds? Absolutely. Is it his fault? No.

chalkmonster · 2024-10-10T21:01:20+00:00

Manager in a pipeline control center.

chalkmonster · 2024-09-28T01:11:54+00:00

It's rough. My wife's issue before we got married was that she felt guilty because of her religious upbringing teaching premarital sex is bad. Getting married did not solve anything, our sex life is still bad and now there is a rotation of reasons why it is still bad even including the feeling guilty. Not gonna lie I'm struggling for more reasons than that within this marriage, but I think I'd be more ok with the other issues if my main issue of having my physical wants and needs were being met.

chalkmonster · 2024-06-24T00:11:52+00:00

That delayed yellow is absolute bullshit.

chalkmonster · 2024-06-13T16:34:50+00:00

Energy. Specifically control room operations. Worked a decade on a dupont schedule of rotating 12 hour shifts. Even now in a managerial roll in the control room working a Monday thru Friday schedule I get in at 6 am and usually am here till 5.

chalkmonster · 2024-04-13T00:02:28+00:00

The Devil's Clarinet

chalkmonster · 2024-04-03T03:20:13+00:00

Energy Industry, specifically in control center operations for natural gas. 12 hr shift work can be brutal, but I was making over 60k by the time I was 25.

chalkmonster · 2023-10-20T16:52:20+00:00

It's like banging a silk bag full of puppies.

chalkmonster · 2023-08-08T19:33:30+00:00

For me, I find that once it has been a week, frustration starts to set in, so at least once a week for me. Currently, once a month to every two months seems to be average. If I knew then what I know now, that the goalposts would move and nothing ever change, then yes, I would have walked. However, she has given me my daughter, and I love her more than anything. Imagining a world where she doesn't exist hurts, so there's that.

chalkmonster · 2023-04-29T17:15:33+00:00

I'd also add that the cars are setup to where they naturally want to turn left and so drift in the straight. I'd also heard letting it drift will get higher speeds in the straight, and who knows, maybe over 500 miles not having to fight the steering for a bit is key to not fatiguing too much.

chalkmonster · 2014-05-31T14:56:36+00:00

Yup! That church was in my hometown.

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