spdandpwr

what's the big d?

MC MiYoung3269

Hehehe BoA..... that's a singer...

opboarding

Big D is Dallas

MC MiYoung3269

Big Dicks in Dallas?

justnspace

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sounds like a porno

opboarding

I hate how dreams can completely change your mood. Yesterday was awesome and I was in a great mood all day. Then last night sucked and now today I feel weird.

robpp

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take a nap; maybe you will have a good dream to wipe out last nights bad one/

spdandpwr

hey! how've you been? Did you still get to keep the tsx?

TSXKid2010

Dude that's like the story of my life

robpp

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paint wrap

http://www.alsacorp.com/paint_wrap/paint_wrap.html

robpp

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thanks for asking.....so far so good.

I think I found an internal gig thats good for a year........so that gets me to early retirement, i was 9 months short, and who knows after that. i shud know for sure next week.


so for now the TSX is safe and sound/

I been using it some and its FUN compared to the rest of my fleet

MC MiYoung3269

Plastidip rip off with more colors.... hmmmm.............

araaadi

Changed my drls to my nokya yellow 2500 from the old civic

How it looks off

Nokya left, stock right

Both nokya

opboarding

Guys I'm finally going to achieve one of my goals since starting my grown up job. Free lunch all 5 days of this work week. I've gotten close before at 4 days in a row, but was let down on Friday. AND as a mega bonus, free dinner for the next four days and free breakfast Thurs and Fri. This is going to be an amazing week, I am going to eat so much food.

MC MiYoung3269

O_O
What kinda food though? lol

mrstak

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thats awesome that you got power back dave. i feel you on the lost memories though. i didn't back up any of my digital photos...all my hd's were soaked. pretty sure its a lost cause but i rinsed them in water and currently drying them via air.

still waiting for power...supposedly tues or wed? i'm not getting my hopes up though...

ssjoeboe9

Ohhhh my gawwwd. How many vendors come to see you?? I can barely deal with the ones now, and I'm only an intern.

spdandpwr

where do you work? The only place I know of that consistently get free/comp'd meals were doctor's offices.

spdandpwr

glad to hear!! Looks like you've still got some tricks in the bag in so far as illustrating your worth.

opboarding

An MEP (mechanical/electrical/plumbing) consulting engineering firm. I'm mechanical so we specify HVAC equipment for Hospitals. A few hundred thousand dollars of equipment on most of our jobs. The reps make pretty good commission on us. Most are pretty cool and our firm has developed a really good relationship with a few main ones. Only a couple I've met out of like 50 have felt like used car salesmen.

Well today and tomorrow we are having lunch and learns. Don't know if you have them or not but its where venders come to the office and talk for an hour about their product over lunch. Sometimes they don't talk about specific products but more of a informative lecture over basic engineering. Those types you get professional development credits that you need later to get your PE. They are almost all worth going to. Then wed,thurs,fri, a new hire and I are going to a seminar class. They are going to teach us stuff about engineering and break down how their equipment works.

opboarding

Tasty kinds. BBQ, fajitas, all kinds of catered stuff. I'm going to be saving so much money on food this week! More $$ for modzzzzzzzzz. I've got some plans.

MC MiYoung3269

I wish the free food I get was good... Fuck school food

opboarding

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benben01

Like Ryan, I am gonna be wined and dined the last week of November when I am in Vegas for work. Everyday, free breakfast, lunch, and dinner. All scheduled with vendors which = high end restaurants and lots of boozing

PyroDave

hey, my offer to be an assistant applies to the last week of nov this year! ;D

KillerG

just got back from chicago in time for this:
(pic taken by a uk redditor)

MC MiYoung3269

Dafuq is that? O_o

mrstak

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anyone have any household remedies for unclogging an outdoor drain that may be stuck with pebbles/gravel/mud/etc?

mrstak

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simon, i'm gonna guess it has something to do with halo 4 but i dunno

justnspace

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Yeah, its called reaching into the drain and getting the pebbles out.

mrstak

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what if i can't reach all the way in past the curve? i've already done that crabby.

MC MiYoung3269

Oh.... pshhhhh~

justnspace

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just giving you a hard time to an obvious answer.
lol

have you tried pushing something in there to clear it?

MC MiYoung3269

Stick your penis in there

opboarding

I have a friend who has some pebble removing nano bots you can buy.




But srsly, I dont really know. Maybe try flushing them out with some high pressure water?

mrstak

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yea i've been googling for ideas. friends dad has a snake thingie that i'm gonna borrow. i'm hoping it clears it cuz if it doesn't...its gonna flood into the basement again with this next storm

ssjoeboe9

Hey Ryan, did you take the FE exam? I'm like one of only a handful of mechanical people that's Gunna take it. For some reason I feel like being a PE would be cooler than getting a masters. How exactly does it work when you pass the test? Cause the company I work for now has no PE's and I know that's a requirement to work under a PE for like 5 years or something.

opboarding

Yeah, I took the FE. I just scraped by but that was kind of expected since the only studying I did was learn where the equations were in the equations book. I took it about 6 months after I graduated, since I missed the deadline when I was in school. My company paid for the test so it worked out.

When you pass the FE nothing happens really. I got to add E.I.T. to my title (Engineer In Training). Companies like to see that you have passed the test when you are applying for real jobs later on. The first firm that interviewed me said that they would start people who passes it at a slightly higher salary. I would take it while you’re in school so you have it on your resume, since it looks really good.

To become a PE you have to work under one for I believe 5 years before you can take the test. Working under one basically means just having one in your office to sign off on it. Internships don't count. It’s kind of expected for everyone in our office to take it once they have the experience. Two people at my office took it whenever it was a week or two ago and they said it was horrible. Once you become a PE you can sign and seal drawings making you responsible for those. I’m sure you also get a salary bump once you become one.

ssjoeboe9

Yeah I knew the implications of PE. Didn't know the 2nd test was that hard. I thought it was more like engineering ethics more than problem solving. I thought that was the point of the FE. I plan to take my test exactly a year from now. Sign up this February. Take summer to study and hopefully pass the first time. My bro is a civ. eng and didn't pass his first time. Hopefully that won't happen to me. I didn't know companies would offer more for EIT. Just figured u would get the bump when you are a PE.

opboarding

It might just be a firm by firm basis on how much they appreciate you have passed the FE. When I passed it, my firm just congratulated me on it and I didn't get anything special like a pay raise or bonus. But it for sure looks a lot better to them when hiring.

I like to explain the FE as just being a race against the clock to look up equations. There were some theory ones that I was able to do real quick and not have to look up. There were also a bunch of questions that were really odd and I really had no idea where to look them up. I feel like studying on your own for this test would be really difficult given how much material is covered on it. I read over the equation book a few times very in depth, and that’s all I did to study. Some problems I got almost instantly because I knew exactly where the equation was and just plug and chug. I hear the class offered for both the FE and PE are pretty helpful. They take a lot of time and money to do them but if you want to be prepared as much as possible they are worth it.