the 100% directionless thread

Well my mama's 5'10" and my dad's 6'7", my one grandfather was 6', the other 6'4", my one grandmother had to have been close to 6'.

I also grew up in rural wisconsin. I was a corn fed, grass fed beef eating beast in the military. But getting out of the military, stopping working out, having 4 kids, and getting a desk job has about killed me

I come from a long line of tall people. Sadly though I'm also the fattesst one around too. I am working on changing my diet completely to healthier choices and finding a time in my schedule to consistently work out. I'm also trying to develop a body weight only exercise routine that I can do anywhere. That way if I can't make it to the gym, I can still workout, no excuses.

I think I should go to New Orleans and get a job with Holly from nightwatch.
 
Does anyone here Ice climb?
 
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I went to Milwaukee for WEMSA (state EMS conference), spent 4 days (first time there) having an absolute blast. Went to go home, found out I had no brakes on my truck, and I'm on the 5th floor of the parking garage.

Ride the parking brake down and get a tow, they want like $700 to fix the brakes. That's like half the price of my hoopty, so I start car shopping. Mind you I'm 6'9" 300lb, I don't fit in most cars. Car buying sucks. I think for the $700 I'll just fix the yukon, and buy a motorcycle to drive when the weather is nice so I keep the miles off the beast.
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I hope to end up at WEMSA someday when I achieve the proper combination of free time and money. What's wrong with the brakes that it costs $700 dollars to fix?
 
3 crews? As in 3 ambulances and 6 EMT/Paramedics? How big is your patient?? Or a three person unit waiting on the bari?
 
Crazy, how'd that go?







Ok, nerd alert!
Anyways I'm reading the novelization for Star Wars Episode VII (don't whine about spoiler alert, movie has been out for 3 months now..) and I'm at the part where the Rebe...I mean Resistance is war gaming how to destroy Starkiller Base, and I don't remember this from the movie, but the book is explaining how the bad guys are using some rare and exotic type of dark energy (even by SW standards) that basically causes the targeted planets core to implode into a nova powerful enough to scour the entire system (vs the Death Star only being able to blow up a single planet at a time) and how since this dark energy is basically held in a magnetic magazine of sorts in the Starkiller planets core, if they (the Resistance) take out the containment controls while Starkiller is loading up, without the containment it'll chain reaction and do to Starkiller what it did to the Hosnian System. Hence how a single X-Wing made the whole planet go boom. Movie science at its finest lol, but better than the no explanation in the movie IMO lol
 
Pretty smooth actually. But his legs were wider than my waist, which aint that small compared my friends. But his.feet were gross. I dont even know what was on them, looked like moldy food.
 
As the agency social media person, I feel obligated to pay attention the community page of where we are located, as I am not a resident and couldn't possibly hope to keep up with all the goings on in town. But good god, I have never seen so much whining in my entire life. As someone who has had social media for most of my life, I don't really know what it was like before it. And it isn't my generation on the page, it's the 30 and up crowd complaining about taxes, the schools, local business, town government, the snowplows, and yes even the ambulance.

So for the more elder statesman here, what did you do before?
 
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@Tigger Social media has finally given people a voice they thought they never had. Unfortunately, it seems easier to complain than to be part of a solution, so that's what they do.

What did "we" do before? I can only speak for myself, but if I felt something wasn't right, I tried to learn more about it so I can see if I can improve it.
 
We just had a different kind of social media. It was called, "talking to other people".

We have a tendency to associate with people that share our political views and ideals. That makes it easy to be able to have a spirited discussion about taxes, the fact that the town public works department hasn't fixed the potholes, the abysmal parking situation… Whatever the cause of the day is.

Social media has just taken those conversations, like the one you used have with a friend or two, and spread them out for the world to see. And the written word seems to have a bit more gravitas than spitballing a conversation over a beer or two... And it certainly gets people more inflamed. The lack of social and visual cues during a social media exchange, coupled with those inflammatory statements, work together and make truly civil discourse next to impossible.
(for example, reading this, what do you think my attitude is? How do you think I feel about all of this? It's probably not the way you think)

And finally, it's always easier to be negative on social media than positive. It gets more engagement and response, and in turn feeds itself.


(Edited: because ambien!)
 
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I applied for part time with my former company. I left on good terms with two weeks notice, so I'm hoping they give me a chance. I quit because I needed to go to part time and that's what they require if you've been working for them for less than a year. It has taken this long for a part time position to open up. I am officially accepting good vibes at this time. :D
 
In a moment of procrastination, I opened my English Comp reader at random and started reading in the middle of an essay. "She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors." I haven't read Maya Angelou before, but I'm going to now.
 
Promotional exams tomorrow. Let's see how they go
 
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