I registered on a site in case of some shenanigans while I was in the US. Checked in tonight and got a rather interesting mail


I had to fight myself not to respond with "if only you were attractive enough to be picky" but decided to let her be the one to escalate things. I can't wait to see how she'll try to make me look like the rude one. Who the hell opens with something like that?

 

You know those are dudes, right?

 

I've had enough of comments like that in person too. I just reply tit for tat now. Don't know if you're meaning guys trolling or on those sites and honestly it's beside the point.

 

I feel like I'm back in my element...

Ridin' the train like a boss.




Exploring parts of the airport I'm not supposed to be in like a boss.





And, man, when this company is wooing someone, they don't skimp on the hotel room:




Those two balconies directly overlook the marina. This place is considerably larger than my NYC apartment was.

 

So, does New Bern qualify as a **** hole?

 

Haven't seen much of it in the daylight yet. The view from my room:

 

So, you haven't felt the Bern yet.

 

How tall are you?

I mean the tall guys get all the chixx...

 

I lived in Havelock (Cherry Point actually) for three years. I love the area and can't wait to visit. Not sure I would want to live there though.

One of my duties while there was barracks manager of a 1,700 acre airbase that is used primarily for pilots from Cherry Point to do dry strafing runs over and for Marines that work on the bombing range to live on so they don't have to commute 1.5hr each way to the island.

It had three runways (inactive), all in decent enough condition to do full 1/4 mile plus drags. If I was doing that today I could have a heck of a side job doing tuning.

 

 

lol I'm 5'6. Iceland has a higher average height than the US and my height hinders me in no way over here. I make more fun of my height than anyone else but it's funny how super important it seems to be in the US. And right now one is accusing me of using another guys pic in my "before/after" pic after I got in shape. I'm having way too much fun responding to that.

 

A good half of the female profiles are guys/fake profiles.

 

I'm aware of that. most of them attractive women used for phishing/blackmail. Not this below average "meh" of a woman.

But enough of that. we want pics here!

 

I suspect that this is regional. When I was on okcupid and POF 3-10 years ago, I'd say the amount of sketchy profiles I communicated with was at most 10%. Met a number of cool girls in my mid-late twenties and into my early thirties, a number of whom I'm still friends with today, despite now being fully-relationshipped. Got laid a good bit, too. But then I didn't hold out for 10s, I live in a pretty large, liberal, college city, and I travel and am unjustifiably arrogant enough that some women seem to find me interesting.

Related: I'm currently spending 3 weeks in an out-of-town hotel filled with stewardesses and a hot tub. It's a strain on my resolve not to be an ******* to the girlfriend.

 

^ Not bad.

Just finished up at Wheatstone. Did the tour, met the people, spent about three hours in the "interview" phase with the owner of the company, which was mostly general chit-chat, some tech talk, sharing war stories from back when we were competitors. (I used to be the Head Guru for the company which was their #1 rival, which subsequently went down the toilet and which they just purchased.)

Afterwards, he directed his ops manager to hire me, which I gather (from the ops mgr's lack of preparedness for this scenario) doesn't usually happen same-day. I've got an offer letter in hand. $15k relo, then $70k/year base pay, plus 1% commission on sales up to $2m, $5k bonus at $2m, then 2% commission on all sales after that with $10k bonus at each additional $1m milestone.

In the short-term, I'd be taking a pay-cut in absolute numbers, as I'm sure I won't be able to do $4m my first year. On the other hand, there's a huge COLA factor, and honestly, the town isn't a shithole. It's small, and tiny, and minuscule, and several other adjectives which have essentially the same meaning, but then so was Maineville, OH, and I thrived there.


The weirdest part was seeing a bunch of hardware that I designed years ago, sitting on the shelves of the company which I despised as the enemy at the time. Even ran into one of my old co-workers who came over as part of the transition. (And learned that several others have died / gotten cancer / retired in the mean time.)


I poured ten years of my life into this router (upper-right):




And I built this test fixture in my garage, 12 years ago:





When I left Harris, I assumed I'd never see them again. I have to admit, I got kind of emotional running my hands over that BMXdigital console (extreme left of first photo.) To the best of my knowledge, that board still holds the record for the most expensive broadcast radio console ever produced and sold in quantity.

 

First time at a drag strip. Son-in-laws car:

 

Anyone else have a song that you apparently loved as a child? According to my mother I would ninja out of my car seat and dance to this song constantly. For some apparent reason, I know it like the back of my hand and do it in Karaoke fairly well

 

 

Drunk Russians... and a laser engraver.

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