Patiently waiting for your protest against the wildlife killed by oil spills.

Shortening deadlines, yeah, welcome to the boom in Vegas. 18 months from ideation and conception by the grand poobahs of the casino class to grand opening was the norm for 15-20 years.

I’ve heard all about St Louis for years. It is one of the best locals in the US. I had two coonass pipefitters from Lousiana telling me about it when I was 19. They drove up, “it’s got fences like a prison, barb wired, tall. We spoke into the intercom, and told them we were there for work, they were annoyed we…

That’s basically your response; that a sparky should be making 5 bucks an hour, painting with a wide brush, gross generalization, etc. The laughable part here is you. But you outed your self as an old git, who’s dollar value is stuck in 1978 and not adjusted for inflation. You’re not the arbiter of what the market…

Oh christ, no one is more over paid than firefighters. And lazy? Paid to sleep for crying out loud. And crooked too, oh jeez, the ones here in Vegas got caught scamming the county for hundreds of thousands in overtime, each.

So 1988? Decades later it’s morphed into something else entirely.

What do you do and how much do you make?

When my dad did contract administration for a power company, they specifically required subs to be prevailing wage contractors. During the boom in LV, he routinely canceled the contracts of contractors who stole wages from their employees by not paying them properly. If they’ll cheat their employees they’ll cheat you.

Union Pipefitter, who checked out working in San Jose local jurisdiction, and the 52/hr for a union sparky would likely be wages only. Pipefitter wages were roughly that and fringes pushed the total package to high 90s. That would apply to SJ, Oakland, Burlingame areas too. SF was low 100 total package. Sac high 80s.

Yeah, and the extra recline I got wasn’t comfortable for me. The extra width though was. Would repeat as long as the cost isn’t crazy. I made up for it by not sleeping the entire 13 hours on the way back and “running” the plane out of Glen Livet, at which point I switched to bourbon. Nice try Flight Attendent Dude,…

Next time! Thanks.

Happened to me on the flight back to LAX from Sydney. A whole row, empty but for me. Joke’s on me; sprung the extra 400 for Premium economy on Qantasa and the arm rests don’t go up.

I know this is an old post, but that’s not how torpedoes work, they don’t have to strike the vessel. They just have to blow up underneath it, and let the shock break the vessel’s keel. They don’t want to punch holes in hulls, they want to snap them in two.

For threads that are bent on a threaded rod, bolt or stud, thread a nut on, when it jams, hammer on the nut a bit, just taps you don’t have to kill it (1-10, a 3 will do), the nut will straighten the threads. Finger tighten some more until it jams again, hammer and repeat until the nut runs free up and down the…