im bored allll the time lol

It's difficult to find good conversation, you gotta discord?

quite bored :/

Watcha up to?

sitting back waiting for the woodstove to catch and watching tv, you?

Getting ready for work, it's chilly out

yea it was about -38 below here today luckily it warmed up to -10 in the last few hours, not really looking forward to heading to work tomorrow but its been nice to get out of the house. what do you do for work?

My official title is operational engineer
Basically I'm an industrial maintenance mechanic that operates boilers with electrical knowledge

That sounds.....terrible...I'm out here at 47° and it sucks!

Thats pretty close to what I went to collage for years ago. Ha, yea its been a rough couple weeks, it started with about 2 feet of snow and rained hard then dropped off hard its spouse to finally warm up last I heard to about 0 if not a bit above this next week

That's rough, yeah that's the one thing we have here in California, we don't really have seasons

yea I'm in interior Alaska, It isn't to bad when your used to it. It'll be nicer when I get some stuff squared away for the house, This summer I do plan on some more mountain climbing and driving around the state

Nice nice, this summer i plan to work some more so yours sounds more fun

I get that, I'm tossing around the idea of a second job for the rest of the winter and spring to shore up some bills after a knee surgery I had recently. my plans for the summer changed recently with going through a divorce so I plan on taking a bit of time out and about, plus I've been working on building my house the last few summers and its time to get out

Sounds like you have a full plate bro, good luck to you! It's good you have a plan in place, hang in there!

Thank you, I'm trying to just keep myself busy, lots of puttering around the house working on finish woodwork and the such

Being handy is always good!

I try to, I've done and been many things over the years so I have a bit of experience over a wide range of professions. done a lot of seasonal jobs

Gotcha, well that's good, easier to get work when you know a lot

yea I always tried learning as much as I could at every job so I would have a variety of experiences, helps when you live out of town and when people are looking to hire

Yeah i can relate to that, little bit of knowledge at a time every place you work at, i myself have had a lot of knowledge given to me at this new job

thats always good, I get the weirdest looks when people look at my resume

Oh yeah? What's the weirdest things on there?

Well the job wasn't to weird but I was a cook for a place in a town called chicken, alaska its an old mining town that has a year round residency of 11 people I belive it goes up to about 100-150 people in the summer when I worked there, needed a change and my security job was coming to an end. the nearest thing to a town was about an hour away and only 1300 people, spent a lot of time drinking and panning for gold, then drinking again then there may have been a trip to Dawson with the bartender that may have been less than repeatable :3 mostly its odd to have gold mine lab tec, cook, mechanic, haul road maintenance and fire extinguisher re-builder/re-filler to say a few in one resume. how was work?

Gotcha, that is all over the place xD
Was? Is! I just clocked in, graveyard ftw! 1 man army

ha, yea I just transferred to another section of my job to assist and streamline the other shops work and the second week the only other guy that works with me had to leave for medical for a week with maybe 2 days of actual work to do. so I'm puttering around on my own trying to figure out were everything is and how to organize the shop from a pile of parts and tools to a working assembly. i get a lot of people from out of state reconize the gold mine fort knox were I worked as a gold assayer and the haul road also known as the Dalton hwy from ice road truckers were I worked road maintenance and learned to drive an 18 wheeler

Damn man that's wild XD really a bit of everything

ha, yea its been a weird trip through jobs

and that dosen't even cover weird, or odd hobbies

and that dosen't even cover weird, or odd hobbies

So nice you had to say it twice eh?
I feel you on that front, hell just being on FA is weird

ha internet must have twitched, that was weird. Yea furaffinity is a weird one, coworkers love to tease me because I enjoy restoring then using antiques while I was out for medical I cleaned up and repainted a hand cranked grinding wheel and just received a 147 year old dutch rifle I get to figure out how to make ammo for to get it working again

Very nice! What kind of rifle is it?

its a dutch Beaumont model 71/88 built in 1874 converted to the 88 in 1890 in 43 Beaumont. I'm a big fan of reloading and rebuilding odd calibers or firearms that were destroyed or worn out back to something usable

Gotcha, considered reloading myself a while back but there's just not enough time right now, and with all the demand, feels like people that can't seem to find their favorite caliber are going a similar route as yourself

I love it been doing it about 20 years out of necessity, found a rifle that hadn't had ammo made since 1938 so I started reloading, but it does take time to get a handle on it and its hard with the current state of reloading supplies

For sure, yeah i myself don't have any obscure calibers, and there aren't too many long range places to go and justify making something more equivalent to match ammo, so usually bulk for this guy

Yea I've been thinking about getting into long distance shooting with antiques, best we had was years ago there was a spot on the side of a bluff above one of our big rivers that you can look down for about 6-800 yards and when it was spring breakup trees and ice would fill the water and a good friend and I would go down shooting at the debris floating down the river I loved the challenge of something moving at that distance. there is a area were a river runs that is flat for miles and lots of wind I would love to weld up a gong and drag it way out. I could never hit paper I always needed a target

what do you shoot?

Standard stuff, semi autos, shot guns, a few bolt actions, mainly .308, 9mm handguns, nothing too wild, oldest one I have is a mosin

nice I just finished my 2nd ar a 50 Beowulf. I need to pack some snow down to the range to see how it shoot

Sweet! Heard those are fun! Haven't had the good graces to see one yet, soon perhaps

yea I was giggling like a little school girl when i shot the first round it was a satisfying thump that you get out of a big bore in a tiny plastic rifle. I've been eyeing up a drilling for sale in 10.75x65r

not even a little familiar with that round lol

yea its been obsolete for probely a 100 years, thats kinda where I shine the odd and weird I like them, its still a toss up if it will be rated for blackpowder or smokeless 1919 was the last year it was marked a certain way so all I know is the rifle was somewhere from then to as old as about 1890 even the 16 gauge barrels on it are probably 2.5 inch I love drilling rifles with a passion and picked one up last year in 12g and 7x65r

Currently at work and would love to chat as soon as I’m off in the morning.

Im on my way to work myself

I'm down for a chat :)

Talk to be bud, you have $100 what do you do with them (assuming no money problems)

If I had $100, eh? Iunno probably just be like "I have $100, that's pretty cool, I'm gonna buy a soda, chat on Discord, and play the gamey games that are games, yus!"

Lol

You?

I just meant what would you spend it on if you had 24 hours to spend an extra $100

Oh xD lol well, I guess... hmmm, probably on a friend x3

You?

Mmmm, probably furry stuff xD

Hehe furry stuff, eh? Well, wanna chat about furry stuff~?

Sure, you wanna note me?

Sent! <3

Or did I misunderstand xD

Aight yeah I'm down, I typically chat when I game out though!

I don't really do voice chats if that's what you mean :p

I've been stuck at home for a few days, so I'm both bored and restless! I'd love to chat. :3

Why stuck? snow?

Work related stuff, unfortunately. Hopefully I'll be able to go back soon, but until then, it's a great time to make a new friend. c:

gotcha gotcha, so what you up to? what else is going on?

Not been up to much! Mostly just fussing around on FA and chit-chattin' with folks. How about you? Everything going well?

Chillin my guy, just started day 9 in a row of work, if I'm lucky it'll stop at day 15, otherwise maybe 21 days, we shall see

Oof! I've been there before and it's absolutely no fun. x.x Hopefully you get a break soon, or at least make dat money!

The latter is more likely than the former, my record to date is 23 days nonstop, basically all of November, Thanksgiving saved me, or broke my streak, depending on your point of view

That really sucks. Hopefully you get paid well, at least.

I mean i suppose that's a bit subjective, but i sure think so lol

'Tis! :3 So other than work, what do you do? Anything fun?

I certainly think so, I'm kind of the multitool, can do a lot but I'm not the best at it

I do maintenance at a waste meat processing plant, electrician, welder, boiler operator

Those are all good skills on their own, for sure. I used to do electrical work when I worked at a yacht production facility. Worked on the generator, plumbing, fuel tanks, and all the electrical stuff in the bilge.

Eyyyy there you go! And on a yacht no less, much better than being around the stuff i work around

I wish I were out on the water on said yacht, but I got to work on them in a big ol' factory without climate control instead. xD Was always super hot or super cold.

Probably not as messy as what you have to work around, but a similar environment, for sure. Factories are ugh!

Add to that most of it is outside, so if it rains, hot, cold, you know it! Nevermind all the fumes and steam, enough of the smell is enough to make some applicants trying to get work here to throw up in the tour, it's tough for sure but it's the best job I've ever had lol

Oof. xD There was an adhesive that we used to bind the top of the boat to the bottom that could cause people to faint with how bad it smelled.

I have a weak stomach, so I'd be one of the people puking their guts out at your facility. xD That sounds straight up nasty! I'm glad it's good work, though.

Yea for sure, chemical fumes are probably more dangerous, or at the very least just as dangerous as the ones here
Just clocked in too, it's crazy to think how little i knew about this sorta thing until i got here, like you never think about what goes on in the world right outside your view

Right? Stuff like that's really eye opening. I didn't know there was a meat waste processing plant until you mentioned it.

Gotta go somewhere, might as well do something with it

True that! Do they turn it into animal feed or something like that?

I'm honestly not sure, I've heard so many things but that's something sales handles, we suspect fertilizer and/or animal feed but can't say for certain

That'd be my guess. Heck, it might even go into pet food. Or...or it winds back up in our food. xD Yum yum!

Probably not that last one lol, least not directly, but eventually yeah probably, recycling will do that

In before it becomes Taco Bell meat. xD

Lol i can neither confirm nor deny such claims