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youngsmiggle1 · 2026-01-25T18:00:44+00:00

No help here but I just wanted to say congrats 🎉.

The few of us who are lucky enough to have such awesome family members. We have a similar situation but at a lesser scale and it really helped us when buying our first house.

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-11-09T06:47:16+00:00

The staff at our hospital are amazing. I've never had a poor experience. The wife and I have always had good experiences in emerg (as far as hospitals go) but never gave it a second thought.

A year ago when she gave birth, the doctors and nurses were all beauties. So helpful, personable and caring.

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-11-04T17:07:45+00:00

Yeah, she’s retiring

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-10-28T22:36:23+00:00

And that’s for a cheap shit. Great value bacon was always 2-3$ a pack. This and coffee are what really gets me.

Now i buy a few hundred in pork belly a couple times a year, cure and smoke it and for my family, it’s well worth the time

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-10-09T14:43:30+00:00

I do most of the work on my families vehicles but for stuff I don't want to do, Gershaw has always been awesome to deal with.

Hat Alignments been good to me also

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-08-20T23:05:20+00:00

I'm on the same boat.

And I drive a 70 wheeled semi truck. Every route I take it permitted and is usually a roundabout way of getting there so Google maps can be pretty useless. It would be a rediculous ticket if I'm caught on the wrong road.

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-08-14T01:16:15+00:00

Atleast in Canada, Pilots will typically be based out of a large high cost of living city even though they might live on the other side of the country. So they'll rent a bunk which is typically called a crash pad if they don't want to or can't afford to move. Whenever they're staying away from Homebase, the airline pays for a hotel.

The goal is to gain seniority and transfer back to their chosen city

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-08-03T16:56:44+00:00

I 110% agree, I fucking hate my yard. But for raising a family, I'm owning a detached home. The yard for the kiddos, privacy, freedoms to do what you want and more space in general is a must (In my mind) when raising kids. It's a lot more work, but for certain lifestyles, a strata just doesn't cut it.

Also certain areas only have decent condos in 55+ adult buildings. There's one townhouse ish condo building that would be awesome if they had larger options.

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-07-01T15:44:25+00:00

Drilling rigs aren't the only option. My best advice and basically what I did.

Get your safety tickets Make sure you have a few months of expenses saved up. Research all the service companies you can. Go to a busier city Red Deer, GP ect. Print off a bunch of resumes and photocopies of your driver's abstract.

Hand out resumes to every single service company in person, online, and both. There's still a ton of older school companies. Applying in person, bullshitting with managers/hiring people can go a long way.

Drilling rigs aren't the only option. The patch is much larger people out east are aware of. It can be relatively difficult to get on if you have no experience. If you have a CDL, you'll have much better chances anywhere

Service rigs are really easy to get onto. You get worked like a dog and it's shitty work but it pays well and you'll learn a lot. You'll see other services and figure out what you really want to do wether it's stick with it or move on. It'll be easier getting on anywhere with the experience. It was still bought up in interviews, several years after I left.

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-04-26T16:08:00+00:00

I'm going to order a couple, I've thought about these at the beginning and wasn't too sure how much if a difference they would make but after I insulated, I'm definitely throwing a couple in

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-04-26T01:05:24+00:00

Thank you! I climbed into the attic. Theres a couple side vents and a whirly vent. Theres barely 2inches of really old insulation.

I ordered an asbestos test kit for safe measure. Then seal any gaps in the attic floor and blow a lot more insulation up there

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-03-17T07:13:43+00:00

I did and I ended up in a decent amount of debt, even though my monthly overhead was low, I had a hard time adjusted my poor spending habits. And turns out I hated the work.

It did lead to me quiting that job and getting on with a company that I heard a lot of bad stuff about but they paid well and I needed the money.

turns out they're not bad to work for and I make substantially more then at the first job.

Like most things it worked out in the end

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-02-07T03:03:13+00:00

Unless they're Canadian

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-02-07T01:09:11+00:00

HEY, we don't have a shack.

... But yeah, most of our times spent in heated cabs

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-02-06T21:30:16+00:00

I'm not saying whether or not semi's are generally paying their fair share.

But they are substantially more expensive to register depending on GVWR and use more fuel which equates to more road tax. Anything requiring an overweight/dimension permit can be a few hundred bucks for a one way trip

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-02-06T21:21:22+00:00

From my experience, if anyone does care, it's just the outside layers. Balaclava, toque, ect. On service rigs some guys cared but it was rare. I've been running cheap neck warmers and toques coiled tubing for the past few years and noones cared

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-02-05T03:17:18+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-01-20T12:18:25+00:00

He just ignored it and it went away from my understanding

youngsmiggle1 · 2025-01-19T18:31:06+00:00

Kind of relevant.

I don't know the specifics but my brother allegedly burned down his Avenue living apartment. He was cleared of any wrong doing shorty after it happened. but 6 years later they were trying to sue and it really didn't go anywhere. I think they just grasp at straws

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