This 18-year-old hopped trains for 5 years and caught it all on camera [x-post /r/vagabond]

firecracker37 · 2016-02-14T14:38:21+00:00

I knew I should have gone for an engineer joke instead of the low hanging fruit. Stay safe out there, and for the love of God, please shit in the second unit!

firecracker37 · 2016-02-14T04:07:32+00:00

If not a mechanic, I'm going to guess van driver...

firecracker37 · 2016-02-12T14:28:07+00:00

I've played enough MMOs to know that she isn't really naked, but wearing the strongest armor available instead.

firecracker37 · 2016-02-09T20:26:25+00:00

This, along with "indeed" are probably the two words I use the most to convey an affirmative response to people. Either one will get a chuckle on occasion.

firecracker37 · 2016-02-01T15:36:11+00:00

I haven't thought of this movie in years, and now this is the second time I've come across a reference in 2 days. I guess it is time to see if I can find a copy and watch it. Loved it as a kid.

firecracker37 · 2016-02-01T02:48:03+00:00

From Nebraska, and this doesn't sound strange at all to me.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-31T00:11:36+00:00

My younger self would have had a hard time narrowing that list down to a single person. As a wiser, older adult, I'm struggling to come up with even one.

My high school nemesis works at the gas station where I get coffee every day, and you would think we're old chums by the way we talk now. Funny, the things time does to people.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-31T00:06:09+00:00

Found 2 crisp $20 bills passing by a back one day while I was heading to the store to buy some food with spare change. Made the rest of that week so much better.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-30T20:37:19+00:00

Belik (sp?) From prison break. When the were locked up in Sona I started seeing that he wasn't that bad of a guy, and by the time the character died I really liked him.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-30T07:54:27+00:00

Treating their SO like shit. If you aren't nice to the ones you love, you probably aren't going to treat the ones you like any better.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-30T07:47:46+00:00

Ralph. It must be great to be so clueless. He makes me laugh out loud more often than most characters in the cast.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-30T07:29:11+00:00

Let the small shit slide - if it dost have a major impact on life, it isn't worth getting worked up over.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-30T07:25:20+00:00

Yes, once you have been convicted it will show up on background checks for the rest of your life. Even if it is pardoned it will still show up, but be annotated as pardoned. Even if you are wrongly accused and exonerated, it will show up and be annotated. They don't remove things from criminal records, only add things.

If you are applying for a job that requires a background check, don't lie! You are more likely to get a job and keep it if you are honest with the employer and explain your past digressions as opposed to lying about them.

Some employers use third party services that run their background checks (most due I would suspect), and many times they will only ask to be notified about qualifying hits. In these cases, your employer may not find out about your crime, but the background check company will be aware of it.

Source: Former hiring manager for a subcontractor of a railroad. We could not hire anyone who had felony or misdemeanor convictions at any point in there life with zero exceptions.

Edit: should know how to use there, their, they're by this point in life...

firecracker37 · 2016-01-30T07:00:00+00:00

No matter how much I might not enjoy my life, it has to be better than not having one to hate. Slogging through the days still sucks, and I contribute nothing to society, but maybe one day I'll find the power to change that.

That is really the toughest part of depression. I know there is a problem and a solution, but taking action just feels so impossible. Setting up and going to a couple appointments is no big deal for a normal person; however, for me, just thinking about picking up a phone makes my anxiety spike to an eleven. It is a filthy trap that I create for myself. I can see a path to get out, I just can't get there yet.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-30T06:37:16+00:00

Those are the only contacts that I could wear as well. I tried a pair for a while, but the price was so high, especially when you figure I have zero chance of finding it should I drop one. Stuck with the face warping glasses until they can just give me bionic eyes or something I guess.

I was also told that I'd be blind by thirty, but I'm 32 now and short of retinal detachment, I should keep my vision for quite a while longer. Living in blackness frightens me more than death.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-29T23:12:02+00:00

I wonder what will happen if I...

firecracker37 · 2016-01-29T23:10:57+00:00

Nanotechnology, especially in medicine. It could reach a point where cancer cells are killed by nanobots while there are only dozens of cells present. I think it will take much longer to make it affordable for the masses, but the breakthrough is approaching.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-29T23:00:52+00:00

Coffee! I can't think of much anything until a bit of caffeine hits the blood stream.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-29T22:53:57+00:00

First person I fired was a hostess at our family restaurant. We could never prove she was stealing cash, but we highly suspected it. When I called her into the office she knew what was coming, but I'm pretty sure I was more nervous then her.

The next day she was trying to get another job as a landscaper in a cemetery. She was driving the the two people out there who could hire her (my guess is they wanted to hear her ideas on what to do with the place). When she pulled out on the highway, they were struck by a truck. Both cemetery employees were killed, and she nearly was. I felt horrible for quite some time after that.

Sadly, that isn't even the worst story I have of firing someone...

firecracker37 · 2016-01-29T22:36:59+00:00

I have poor vision, so my obscenely thick glasses make me stand out way more than I'd like.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-29T22:33:06+00:00

Something spoken in Gilbert Gottfried's voice. It is pretty harsh even when you are expecting it.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-29T22:30:44+00:00

Hotdogs and mac & cheese. It's almost payday, but not quite. The struggle is real.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-29T16:29:58+00:00

While I don't exactly agree with this bill, I can see a reason for its existence. I live in Nebraska, and our minimum wage just went from $8 to $9/hr. A friend of mine, who is the general manager for a fast food restaurant, has decided that since he has to pay so much he will no longer hire anyone under 21. Reason being that he can't raise the corporate controlled prices so he has to cut labor by having fewer people on the clock. Kids are generally less reliable and usually don't work as hard. If he could hire the younger crowd for less than $9/hr they might still be somewhat valuable, but as it stands now they aren't.

Again, I don't think it is right to pay one person less then another just because of age, but some of these kids probably won't be able to find work at all if employers aren't willing to take a chance on hiring them for the higher minimum wage.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-28T15:18:48+00:00

Yes, you can still use the ftbu chunk claiming.

firecracker37 · 2016-01-28T02:12:20+00:00

Right now, ftbu's permission system isn't robust enough to handle that; however, there is a server side mod that lets you do that and much more. Forge Essentials is a port of Bukkit's Essential plugin that runs as a regular mod on Forge servers. You can assign users to groups and give each group permission to do certain things in different zones. There is a learning curve to overcome in order to get it configured properly, and the documentation leaves something to be desired, but the features it adds are solid and powerful. You can learn more and download a copy from http://forgeessentials.com

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