icantdrive55

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by icantdrive55 9y ago
So many new books on Amazon are bad quality reprints. Certain subjects depend on quality, clear illustrations. I just assumed a new book meant quality of the original, but I was wrong. Years ago, when I was learning watch repair, I bought a
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
Yea, I bought an Atari St 1200 I believe in 1983 for college. It did seem like a big purchase initially. I used it for 6 years of college. I mainly used it for word processing. It never skipped a beat. Once every two years, I would need
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
1. They were having sex in vechicles. 2. There was nepotism in hiring. 3. The founder "hit" on employees. The founder also has a hedge fund in the city? What a guy. Quite the go getter. BOD gave him the boot, but will be at
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
1. I haven't read the article. Why--because for myself, all the talk makes the problem worse. 2. For myself, going on generic bupenorpine, and tapering off was not that bad. I took a year to taper off. I probally could have tapeed
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
Oh boy. Public housing: Section eight has been closed for years. The sign up list has been closed for years now--in many counties. Of yea, the current lease for Section 8 housing is 47 pages in my county. 47 pages of "can't,
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
And they should be. Two employees at my local hospital died sitting on the can in the bathroom, with a fentanyl Patch lying on the ground. One was a nurse, and the other a janitor. (They took the used patches out of the garbage.). (That s
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
If you're lucky you have someone to drive you to one specialist after another, and all they seem to care about is their fee. People don't need hand holding, but they don't need to put up with doctors who are deep in professio
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
Yea, this is way past due. Along with these implementations, I would like to see just an AA in psychology, and require at least 12 units of law, including a course in constitutional law. Just a high school diploma is not enough.
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
They just gave up, and that's the reason? You're probably young, and have a wonderful support sysyem (these days, a rich, sympathetic father), but be careful about throwing around aspersions. Life will throw you some real curves.
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I have found when it comes to money, and career; 95% just go along with the flow. "Hay--its legal?" (I got my first dose of reality in Chiropractic School. It was obviously placebo, but placebo was just not talked about. Sellin
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
The plastic bags that cheap wine comes in is Rogue river, class 5-6, over Rainey Falls, sucked 10 feet into the vortex tested. A few years ago I took a two week river trip with a buddy. We bought three boxes of wine. We nixed the boxes, an
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
1. In the United States most insurance will pay for a handful of Therapy sessions. 2. I had a breakdown years ago. Looking back it was just a massive Panic Attack. What really surprised me is I woke up the next morning feeling o.k., then
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I have found the average HN'er who summarizes does a better job the the original author, in many cases. They might have a better understanding of the information, or just better writers? I don't like reading wordy articles. I do
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
Really good story. Really good writing. I wasen't expecting this. I thought it would be another blame the alcoholic father. My dad was an alcoholic. He died of a football sized tumor in his liver. It went undiagnosed for at least a
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
Fun fact: My dad worked on the TransAmerica Pyramid as an electrician. He once took me to work. I was always asking him about the very top. That day, he took me to the top. He opened a steel door, and set up a 6' wooden ladder. He
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
It's hard to prove. Meal is gone. Should I save my throw up? I have had 18 gauge wire in my buritto, but figured it was just an accident. I have worked in restaurants. Some are filthy. Some workers could care less about food handli
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I've lived in San Fransisco/Bay Area my entire life. 1. Agree with most of what you have to say about San Franciso. Personally, even though I don't smoke, it doesn't bother me. 2. The real cheerleaders of San Fransisc
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
If anyone is really interested in Watchmaking, I wouldn't start out with G. Daniel's book. It's really about making a watch from raw materials. I would start with books by Fried. If you feel comfortable with 90% of Practical
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
Because we are at a time in history where we just pay the other guy to make a supposedly better product. I'm looking to buy a new vechicle. I asked the Salesman about repair/maintance of the vechicles on the lot. He said, "O
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
"general incompetence of public management, by misunderstanding how contractors manipulated costs to reach their estimates and establishing perverse incentives" 1. In the Bay Area, we have a Civil Contractor who's name rhyme
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I don't have an answer either. I do think they should make student loans bankrupt-able. It's time. Oh yea, and put a hiring freeze/salary cap on all administrative personnel for any school that accepts federal loans. The bes
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
Or, a company just refuses to sell you parts. If the Rolex on my wrist stops working, I can take it apart, and clean/oil it, but couldn't buy a part from Rolex. That is without going through a lot of expensive training, and certif
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
On the right day, you can get a high end watch for a lot less than going into a boutique. I bought a Omage Aquaterra, with the big white dial for $1400 years ago. This watch was going for $3500 in the authorized retail stores. Swatch took
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I agree, but let's say why we are doing it; we want to look better than the rest. There's nothing wrong with it. These days it just might backfire though. "Hay--what's fancy boy trying to hide? Ability?" I got use
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
Modern car engines reach around 200k--depending on the make. The transmissions are another beast. They just seem to die at 140k, plus, or minus how you drive. Their wasen't constant valve adjustments, or carb adjustments , distributor
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I like their trucks, and their high-end vechicles. I consider the Mustang high end. It's their entry line that's lacking. I'm looking for a new car, and would love to buy a Ford. Actually it's for an aging relative, an
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I think what you were taught in med school was correct. I was told by an emergency room nurse that Vicodin is not killing patients/abusers; it the liver damage that results from the acetaminophen. A few years ago, I heard they were tal
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I repair watches. I started out just loving Rolex Bubblebacks--years ago. I loved all watches. I started learning about the repair of watches. It took me a awhile to accumulate the right tools, at the right price. In order to be be effi
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I have found people like to claim they would do the ethical/moral thing, but from what I have seen; it's maybe 1 out of a thousand that will walk, especially when it comes to their job/career. There's this weird denial t
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by icantdrive55 9y ago
I'm color bind too. I'm actually jealous I didn't think of this. I have been working in Krita lately, and I'm guessing on colors. Krita will give hexadecimal # of a particuliar color, but not a worded description of t

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