6ixString's Home Improvement and Mindless Ramblings Thread....
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 2016 00:48
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Good luck!
Wish asked
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Jo, from what I understand, aren't there two different kinds of transfats, one is "light" and one is "heavy" and your body needs a certain amount of one of them??
No. Youre thinking uv saturated and unsaturated fat. Therez polyunsaturated, but I'm not sure if thats the same az unsaturated or a different type.
Tranzfats do not occur in nature. They were invented az a way to thicken natural oilz into a paste to immitate butter. If I'm remembering correctly, hydrogen iz percolated into a heated and pressurized vat full uv wutever oil. Unfortunately, this stuff haz a tendency to stick to the surfacez uv our circulatory system under certain circumstancez. Our system haz no way to chemically unstick it. For sum sum people it happenz alot and they find themselvez riding in an ambulance before they are 30. In most people it accumulates slowly so they arent taking that ride till they are 80.
If Uncle Skam wuz working for us insted uv being a tool for any industry that can afford a lobbying team, tranzfats woud hav been totally banned 40 yirz ago. It took a group uv doctorz filing lawsuits to get sum action on this. And even so, it's a motley patchwork uv local banz, limited national restrictionz, and haf assed package label rulez.
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Best wishes on the potential new job Jack!
I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.
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Thanks guys,
I didn't get a call today like they said I would if I got an interview. I'm hoping maybe they got backed up and I'll get a call tomorrow.
Gorram it!
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No call today either... I assume it's a dead issue now.
Why the hell can't I even get a job interview at a normal company that pays decent wages and doesn't just hire anyone off the street!!!!!! I even gave them a resume when they didn't ask for one to compliment my application.
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Perhaps you shoud consider free lance cargo hauling. Get a second hand vehicle. Take on sum passengerz to help pay for fuel. Do the occasional related side job.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Why the hell can't I even get a job interview at a normal company...
Jack, do you talk as fast as you type? 'Cause if I were doing an interview and you did, I'd have to stake you like a vampire, no offence... People don't wanna deal with other people's OCD or over-eagerness. If you aren't relaxed, neither are THEY.
Also, maybe they just got busy and forgot. Such things happen, and can be terribly frustrating in an employment process, I know. I would wait until Monday evening and make a polite call, what do you have to loose? We had to hound a place for a couple months before they would give hubbs a job, one time... I wouldn't get too discouraged yet. And try to have a good weekend, anyways....
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Originally posted by JO753:
Perhaps you shoud consider free lance cargo hauling. Get a second hand vehicle. Take on sum passengerz to help pay for fuel. Do the occasional related side job.
Hey JO,
Is there a good market for that kind of thing? At this point I probably wouldn't need to put the vehicle on credit, and I'd finally have an excuse to splurge on a cargo van or truck I'd like to get for hauling tools around if I ever get a home improvement business off the ground... but without any income I'm a little concerned to be making a major purchase. If I didn't make a dime until mid November, I'd be out of money. (Actually, that's a lot longer than I projected I could go without working, so I've done good with what I had so far.... just figured I'd have a job now).
Anyway, that sounds totally awesome and very Mal-like in fashion.
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Jack, do you talk as fast as you type? 'Cause if I were doing an interview and you did, I'd have to stake you like a vampire, no offence... People don't wanna deal with other people's OCD or over-eagerness. If you aren't relaxed, neither are THEY.
Also, maybe they just got busy and forgot. Such things happen, and can be terribly frustrating in an employment process, I know. I would wait until Monday evening and make a polite call, what do you have to loose? We had to hound a place for a couple months before they would give hubbs a job, one time... I wouldn't get too discouraged yet. And try to have a good weekend, anyways....
Haha.... Nah, Wish...
I'm actually pretty quiet in real life. Depending on the circumstances surrounding the interview, and my mood of the day, I can be a little nervous, but I don't think it's any more nervous than they'd expect to see.
The posting about the "Hiring Event" said "no calls please". I assume this to mean after the fact as well, since they did specifically say that if I were chosen for an interview I'd hear from them by Thursday. At a lot of other places I'd say it was a crap shoot, but Aldi seems to be able to run a very tight ship.
My real frustration though is that I can't even get my foot in the door for an interview. (Aldi was NOT an interview. The conversation lasted 90 seconds tops). I don't even get the opportunity to blow an interview because I never get asked to come to one. The only places I ever get called by are places that hire anyone, and/or part time work making less than 9 bucks an hour. (This also includes no experience with training truck driving jobs and $11 and hour bus cleaning jobs).
I guess I would just appreciate it if somebody would at least let me talk face to face with them before they say no. And I'd REALLY like some constructive criticism of my methods so I can learn from any mistakes I'm apparently repeatedly making.
I'm just having a bad week is all.... I've been in a very foul mood and something really crazy happened to me the other night.
Have you ever sleepwalked before? As far as I know, I never had. On Wednesday night/Thursday morning I did. I went to bed watching an episode of Chuck. Where did I wake up????? In my crawlspace in the basement. NO
JOKE!!!! Had I jumped an inch higher I would have banged my head on a joist. That's not all though.... Not only did I wake up in the plastic lined crawlspace, but before choosing that as my prefered sleeping spot for the night, I methodically took the time to arrange the 15 or so unused strips of water pipe insulators to construct a makeshift bed for myself. WTF????
I can't wrap my head around it. I don't take any prescription stuff like Ambien that is known to cause that behavior. I haven't smoked weed in 14 months. I'm not drinking any more than I usually do, which is admittedly more than I should, but with 15 or so years of drinking under my belt, that couldn't ex
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My cargo hauling suggestion wuz a kinda sorta a joke. Firefly, hauling cargo? Get it? HAHA? ha. I gess you had to be there.
I used to sleep walk wen I wuz a kid. Last wun I remember wuz wen I wuz about 20. Woke up naked in the gangway next to the house! A lame end to a plezently x-rated dream.
Now I just take callz without waking up. I've reportedly had detailed coherent haf owr conversationz and I remember NOTHING wen wake up later.
Herez a pik uv my back yard:
Tryd to get the mower running, but it woud only go for about 2 minits and konk out. Gave it back to Tony.
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I don't think that qualifies as a lawn anymore, that's officially a fluffy weed farm... Your only options are: wait until next spring and get a jump on it, pay someone with a bush hog on a tractor to have a go at it, get out a garden hose and a dozen cans of that BBQ fire starter stuff and slowly burn off a section at a time... Or borrow a horse or a goat, or both 
Actually, the last one isn't too bad, your local aspca or shelter might loan out something like a foster pet deal...
Oh and Jack? Hormones have a great deal to do with things like nightmares and sleepwalking. When I was a kid I used to have sleepwalking episodes about "that time o the month"...Maybe your body is telling you it's time to get laid Or at the very least, to relax a bit. Not easy to do on a job search. Have you checked out the temp places? Not great jobs I know, but a distraction from your savings going down the drain??....
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I like that 'wait until next spring' idea! Its got serious slacker appeal!
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