Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

69F partly cloudy sky for today low 80's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...not sure yet.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
cloudy this morning with thunderstorms this afternoon.

I know this sounds strange, but I never had a chance to become a plumber or an electrician.
Both parents were lawyers, business lawyers, not PI or criminal.
Was taught early that obeying the law was really important.
and that going to college was critical.
My dad went to Brown and became a lawyer.
My oldest brother went to Brown and became a lawyer.
I got into Brown only due to family history and I sure didn't want to be a lawyer.
pretty sure we can agree there are plenty of lawyers out there....

From early on I thought I would teach. Only teaching I wound up doing was teaching insurance at Education Center
at Travelers Ins in Hartford. Vietnam nixed that career choice, there were zero openings in 1971.
So you get a job and hope it's a good one. My first one, institutional food service, was a terrible 80 hour a week job.
I lasted one year and then took a job for half the money working for Travelers. Early lesson....the most money is not the best deal.

not having children has allowed me to try different things.
I think like some when you figure out your job, do it as well as you can, then sometimes you get bored and want more challenge.

now what would I have done differently?...

 

[daugen]

my father made enough money that he could not get scholarships for us kids. So he paid out of his pocket to send four kids to college, two to grad school, and also my cousin for four years of college when her father ran off and left the family.
My father was not a material person, so he didn't mind driving old beat up Chevy sedans to the train station.
But the cost of college really impacted our family, we were land rich and cash poor.

Bottom line in our family is that everyone worked (I'll give my sister a pass).
Hard working grandfather, hard working parents, hard working kids.
was told early on you had to be smarter and work harder to be successful.

but I really think I would have enjoyed being an electrician...

 

[Buppies]

67 this morning diarrhea from mid night on time to rest prayers for all our Country

 

[KilroyJC]

67 this morning diarrhea from mid night on time to rest prayers for all our Country

Feel better! STAY HYDRATED!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

A lot of people say, find a job at what you enjoy doing.

Since I enjoyed doing lots of stuff, I got a job at what payed the best at what I enjoyed doing, and still got to do the other things I enjoy, like designing and building. I can even do plumbing and electrical work, but don’t enjoy it as well. I’ve even done masonry, drove dump trucks. I enjoy running equipment, that could have been my 3rd career choice.
I used to joke that I went to college because I grew up on a farm where you had to do real work.

 

[Popgadget]

Paul glad you get a opportunity to learn in shop class. I did not take shop as that was the dumping ground for the non-academics.

That’s the way it was when I was in high school as well. It was only the school’s poor planning and my taking advantage of the situation that enabled me to take two years of all shop courses.
The irony is that I ended up with a much better education in spite of the system, getting to actually apply some of the academics in practical situations.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 72˚F heading to 100˚ with clear skies no breeze. New kitty and I are on the back porch watching the dark sky turn orange.

The irrigation system is soaking down the golf course across from the backyard with, exempt from restrictions, reclaimed water of what they call "purple pipe water". The water restrictions have eased up a bit for half the town, my half, we are allowed one day to irrigate the other half is still on zero days.

Got some locks fixed at moms old house yesterday and some frogs out of the A/C drain pipe. Looks like a full time job of organizing stuff over there.

 

[Popgadget]

Kyle, I have always thought I would like add a small DoAll surface grinder to my shop. But never found one that fit my budget. Used one to make fixtures during my apprenticeship. I do have grinding attachment for my lathe. Have not used it in years.

The last time I used the tool post grinder was to to true a new chuck.
A surface grinder would be nice to have, but like Ron, I never found the right “deal”.

 

[wngsprd]

70 going to 90. Very foggy.

Buppies, hope you're doing better. Sounds like no fun.

A little nostalgia...

My dad and his brother were the first in his family to go to college...did it the way many did back then...joined the Army, then used the GI Bill for college, worked while in school, bought no car or other "luxuries." Graduated in 4 years (not 6, today's average), no debt, then worked two jobs. Seems like nowadays some folks want it handed to them on a silver platter.

Colleges back then focused on basics and were so much more affordable.

Remember when loans were hard to get? ...one needed to show a reliable, clear method of repayment...and most folks feared that missing a payment would tarnish or even ruin their credit record...and were proud when they made that final payment. Now having a lower credit score can actually get you a lowered mortgage rate.

Times are different now. Much all for the better. Some not.

 

[wngsprd]

Good morning! 72˚F heading to 100˚ with clear skies no breeze. New kitty and I are on the back porch watching the dark sky turn orange.

The irrigation system is soaking down the golf course across from the backyard with, exempt from restrictions, reclaimed water of what they call "purple pipe water". The water restrictions have eased up a bit for half the town, my half, we are allowed one day to irrigate the other half is still on zero days.

Got some locks fixed at moms old house yesterday and some frogs out of the A/C drain pipe. Looks like a full time job of organizing stuff over there.
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Good that they can recycle the water...hope it doesn't have an off-smell.

 

[wngsprd]

Took my wife for her annual eye check-up...dilation.

While waiting, went over to the Kubota dealer...came out with 5 gallons of Super UDT, and a box of filters for the tractor and the zero-turn...but $313 poorer. Then I got home and realized I bought a hydraulic filter I already had, thinking it was an oil filter...so of course, I didn't buy one of the oil filters I actually needed.

But we did some grocery shopping and stopped in at the Mexican restaurant for lunch.

 

[txdon]

Good that they can recycle the water...hope it doesn't have an off-smell.

No smell. The common areas around the sidewalks are also purple pipe water and I cringe when I see people cool off with a walk through the sprinklers.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 68 with a high in the low 80’s forecast. Humidity is climbing, chance of thunderstorms increasing into the evening.

Yesterday was a good day, accomplished all the planned activities, nice trip to Martha’s Vineyard, and dinner at Mission BBQ. Had the half smoked chicken which was excellent.

This morning will likely be breakfast with the professor, then I’m not sure what will happen. I still have TSA training to complete, there is lots of grass that needs mowing, there are some repairs that need attention in the barn, small things like door latches, water bucket hangers and other necessary, but mindless tasks. And I might get a text or a phone call…

As far as career path, I still haven’t decided what I want to do when I grow up. My wife would say that’s an “if” not a “when”, but I have been extremely lucky to have wandered through life pretty much doing what I felt like, and somehow was successful at it.

All three kids got though college at our expense and use their education in their chosen professions, one is a mechanical engineer with degrees in math and education as well, one is in health care as an NP, and one is a VP in a fortune 100 company. Their aviation department is one of his responsibilities, and he does actually fly some, he left Southwest Airlines to return to the corporate world.

So my path worked very well for me, but was quite unconventional, and lacked any real focus or direction, other than continuing education in multiple disciplines.
Perhaps Pete Seeger said it best when addressing a matriculating class (at a school that I can’t remember) when he told them “don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education”.

 

[NHBX]

70° now dew point 67° partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms after noon time, had a couple of frog stranglers late afternoon yesterday.

Yesterday was errands and grocery shopping, did manage a bit of mowing before the storms hit.

This morning a trip to the vet for a routine check up and a new batch of heart worm chews. Not sure what else today will bring.

Enjoy your day everyone

 

[pennwalk]

"Do you take the northern route, to avoid the big cities?"

There are a lot of choices. the trick is to guess right before you are stuck in traffic.
We ran 78 to 287 to 87 to 84 to 90 to 290 to 495 to 95 to 295 to 95 then local roads from Augusta to Deer Isle.

I have two sisters and a daughter who are teachers. They are between a rock and a hard place. It toughens you up of you get out. There is a lot of politics in it. You do get your summers off.

Here in PA the state hasn't been putting enough money into the state schools so while they are a decent deal they are a lot more than they used to be. The private schools are incredibly expensive.

Take care.

Chris

 

[KilroyJC]

I went one year to college and had entirely too much fun, and got disinvited from further participation, which meant parents weren’t going to pay for anything further. So it was all on me. I then got a full-time job, a part time job (or three), and went to college at night for seven years and finished with a 3.49 GPA (I really should have taken that last statistics class Pass/Fail…).

Th fact that I am supposed to now be responsible for someone else’s contractual obligations to repay a contractual debt to which I am not a party really irks me…

 

[scootr]

Mowed the front lawn yesterday evening. With daily highs over 100º I raised the mower 1/2" to allow the grass to take the heat. Taller grass shades the ground better slowing the water evaporation.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 78 going up to 84, calling for rain later.
Got ballast for HID headlight replaced after removing bumper, grill, trim.
Considering how big the front end is, the replacement of parts is always so difficult.
The ballast is located on the bottom of the headlight, if ti was on top this would have been a 15 minute fix instead of hours.

New dryer came, looks like outside dryer flap is stuck and dryer is complaining about it, so that is on the agenda today.

Finished painting bird bath.

While reassembling car, it rained a bit, by the time I moved all the tools under cover it stopped, of course.

Dryer delivered with a nice dent in the back in factory wrapping :-(

I went for electrical engineering and worked in that field on radar and camera systems for about 7 years before moving into computer engineering and then to project mgmt which I do today with a PMP certification.
I know a lot of software people in security and web API who do well today, but long term, who knows with AI and changing languages.
My son want to be an English teacher, we want him to have a minor that works as a backup plan. My brother went to college to be an art teacher and ended up working for a hedge fund.
Brother and I both went to state colleges as they were much cheaper. I stayed local to work during college, so did my wife when she went, with some small loans. Our parents didn't help much.

Be well,

All this just to be able to remove the headlight fixture to drop in the HID ballast.
Cleaned up in there too and sealed up the headlight as it seems to have had some water in it.

 

[two_bit_score]

I paid for both of their college expenses, so this talk of student loan forgiveness irritates me. I worked and paid my way thru college, but that’s tough to do today.

It was tough to do even then.

Just a few zeros added but a dollar was still a dollar 50 years ago. (At least more of a dollar than it is now)

I paid all my own costs.