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Old Tracker said:
It can get cold enough in Abilene so that you think you're in S. Dakota or Montana.
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It's sort of the weather, plus school at present (finishing bachelor's #2 in healthcare administration) and Creek being a good place, and I want the MHA from U of H too...it's doable in the time I have left on the GI Bill. On the other hand, I really want to run somewhere, and I'm unlikely to get that at Creek. On the other other hand, I also want to teach, and I think I'd be a somewhat better teacher than a leader (although I'd do well at both).

Also, the Abilene jobs have been a meat grinder recently, and it seems like there's some turmoil there. I'm not sure why, but I don't like it.

I just dunno.
 
It's like I've woken up and found myself with knowledge and abilities that I haven't used before, with education and credentials and such, but I've never done anything like these would require outside of a small-town shift supervisor/trainer role (which is not quite the same), and it's intimidating to leave what I know I am good at to do something I am uncertain about.
 
Jim37F said:
For anyone that's ever wondered, I just got quoted $1400 to ship my pickup from LA to Honolulu
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I'm not surprised. While I've never checked into what it costs to ship a car to HI, I was always quite certain it would be fairly expensive. One of the reasons things are more expensive there is the cost of shipping.

Otherwise, Congrats!!!
 
Jim37F said:
For anyone that's ever wondered, I just got quoted $1400 to ship my pickup from LA to Honolulu
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Doesn't seem too bad at all, considering distance and logistics. I was quoted almost that much to have my Jeep shipped from Charlotte to Denver.
 
...aaaaannnndd after my pickup started overheating and running real rough and having a not good rattling sound, mechanic said it looks like I'll need a new radiator, possibly a valve job or something? :confused:
 
Jim37F said:
...aaaaannnndd after my pickup started overheating and running real rough and having a not good rattling sound, mechanic said it looks like I'll need a new radiator, possibly a valve job or something? :confused:
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Or perhaps a sign to up and leave your truck, m'halo.
 
I've had my truck 8 years (bought used, I'm the second owner, after getting back from my first deployment in 2009), just shy of 150,000 miles, and this is only the second time I've had a breakdown forcing me into the repair shop (I've had my share of visits to the shop sure, but not where I've had to stop what I was doing to limp in vs following up a check engine light or whatever "yeah I have my 4 day coming up I'll take it in then")

(The other breakdown was while I was still in the Army, can't remember, but within the first few years of me owning it, but basically either a dead battery killed the alternator or vice versa and I had to replace both at the same time....otherwise I've successfully driven from NC to MO and back for a weekend concert fest shortly before my third deployment and then cross country home after the Army, but still have the monthly round trip to/from LA to San Diego, plus commuting in LA traffic ~40 some odd miles one way for most of the last 5 years, plus a few road trips to Vegas and whatnot without major issues, I did have an expensive transmission service dine but that wasn't a breakdown like this, overall I'd call my truck reliable.....)
 
Jim37F said:
after getting back from my first deployment in 2009)
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Jesus I didn't think you were that old... I was a freshman in high school in 09.

Jim37F said:
just shy of 150,000 miles, and this is only the second time I've had a breakdown forcing me into the repair shop
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My truck is going strong at 135,000 miles... with a gigantic *** dent in the tailgate from a stupid *** tree... yeah I'm still bitter about it... should go back up there with my chainsaw and show it whose boss.
 
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