HOSS429

finally i have a job .. part time and seasonal but still it`s a start ..at Lowes hardware as an assembler .. i was chosen from 28 people who applied .. i think i impressed them a little when i told them there is hardware that i have assembled circling the earth every day on the space station and on every flight of the space shuttle going to and from it .. that fully one half of all tomahawk cruise missiles ever built have parts i made on them ..i have advanced blue print reading training .. i have all the guv compliance training .. hazmat training .. sexual harassment trainings.. business compliance training ..safety and forklift use training .. i was the forklift training instructor at my last job ..i have a level 2 guv security clearance and i have done and seen things that i cant talk about even to this day ..i think i can put a lawn mower together .. the part that is hard is doing it the way lowes wants it done .. so much online and computer training .. i will endeavor to persevere ...

Mustang Freak

Congrats and good luck Hoss!!!

HOSS429

i actually would earn about twice as much money just going on Social security but i cant take the boredom of having nothing to do for the next 5 or 6 years till i reach full retirement ..

Rather B.Blown

Maybe it will hold you over til they get that Toyota/Mazda plant built and maybe you can get something there.

HOSS429

just spent 45 minutes filing my free tax return online cause i did not work a lick last year and they told me i wont get a penny back ..i only earned unemployment for 6 months ,, i had been told that i would get back all the federal taxes i paid on that .. do i need to waste 150 bucks on my usual tax filer person who may very well tell me i will get back zero $ .. i got $ 6890 in unemployment payments and $702 federal was deducted .. but i had no insurance coverage at any time during 2017 .. is that the rub ?

Mustang Freak

Trump did away with the Obama fine for no health insurance so you shouldn't have any problem with that part.

SpectreH

Hahahahahaha...sorry.

Mustang Freak

We used to have our own gas tank at home. My mom drove off with the gas hose still attached to her car.

Sarge

Have you all seen the Falcon heavy launch and landings, and the Tesla in space? It's pretty awesome, for a not-Mustang.

GrnT

That is really cool. When you have money to burn you put a car into space. $$$

SpectreH

I watched the live stream of the launch. Really cool! I've seen a lot of people complain about the car being wasted money, but they don't understand that this was a test flight without a paying customer. It had to have a dummy payload so Elon Musk picked something that he found funny.

Rather B.Blown

The coolest part of the whole thing to me was the boosters coming back and landing, hard to believe watching it. Almost like you're watching some CGI **** from a movie.

Sarge

That's exactly what I thought, like an old movie about invading martians or something. When you think about how tricky it must be to keep those rockets perfectly balanced for the landing, it's just amazing.

HOSS429

in an idiot move destined to doom pro stock ( aka chevy stock ) drag racing the powers to be at NHRA have decided this year that a team can run any " body " they wish to run with any engine they wish .. hence a dodge can and most likely will run a chevy motor .. a mustang will most likely run a chevy motor ..totally lost me before the season even started ...

Mustang Freak

That my friend is just plain farking STUPID!!!

Rather B.Blown

Bob Glidden only been in the ground a month and already rolling in his grave.

David Young

Sad to hear this . Racing isn't like the good old days, it once was .

SpectreH

We use armed guards for congress and anything else society deems valuable, but we don't have security at our schools. "Gun Free Zone" (target rich environment) signs don't work.

Mustang Freak

Sad but very true! Target rich environments...

Mustang Freak

Ok when I went to school we had our shotguns in our trunks because a few of us would go out hunting right after school. And you know what we didn't even think for a nanosecond about going out to our cars to retrieve them and shoot up the school. And why because we simply KNEW BETTER!!!