Looks like it was a fun night out at the Steelers game.

Found the Holland driver

Its really about what you put into it, that you'll get out of it. As a new driver, don't sign anything thats a lease. You'll be paying for all your own fuel tires etc. Personally I had a great experience starting out with Schneider. I was over the road for the first years but I learned alot. Now I drive ltl over nights and home daily.

Truck driver, running regionally home every day. Weekends off paid holidays.

I highly doubt the Amazon model of operations is desirable or replicable at every single business in the country. From the corner store in town or the 47 person factory out in bfe, there's a cutoff to the practical viability of automation.

Hows a self driving truck going to do pickups? Or deliveries? Self driving trucks serve the corporate desire for cheap transport on coast to coast, but it doesn't solve P&D on the small scale.

As a final comment, I've been driving for 7 years now. I currently work LtL, so I'm home daily. 4 years ago I bought my family a home in the country. I bring home about $1350 a week, so I can pay bills, buy food and save some besides. Kids need school clothes? Cool I can afford it. One of the cars needs fixing? Cool I got that. This is a career that will pay out in proportion to what you put into it. And you will Always have a job. Always.

Having the confidence to stick with it is the hardest part. You're gonna have days when you've boned something up good, and you'll question everything about your life. Its ok, do the best you can, move on. You're not completely alone, its not being stranded on an island. Nearly every driver i know is a Chatty Kathy, we talk on the phone alot. Get a good headset, borrow some audiobooks from the library (they're free), download some podcasts. It will help fill the days and you can learn something too, if you like. My Spanish isn't great but better than before. Be receptive to advice from veteran drivers (even though most of them sound like blow hards) and don't be afraid to ask questions. You're new, you're supposed to have questions. The biggest challenge will be you believing that you can do this. In the snow, or blinding rain, or lost in the dark, or trying to park at the truck stop after 10.5 hrs on the road. Yes, you can!

This should be cross-posted to r/accidentalrenaissance

Such a gorgeous photo! Good luck in lockdown, best wishes to you all.

Stick with it. Unless you continually run things over, get dui's or commit vehicular manslaughter, you will always have a job. Get good at reading a map, be prepared to figure out how to get out a bad situation (for instance, traffic is shut down on the highway ahead for the next 5hrs, how do you get around it without problems?) Its gonna be hard at first, no lie. But you will always have job. I repeat, you will always be able to find a job. Anywhere. Stick with it. Going otr for a year will be good for your experience, yes it suck. But you will see things wonderful to tell. And when you decide you've have enough, you can come into the interview for a local job swinging a Pringles can instead feeling a beggar.

Add a side of buttered & herby egg noodles and you've got a classic meal!

My kids & I call it going to for a flop. Like everyone else said, your chicks are trying to dust bathe. Once they're full size & outside, your girls will literally flop over, and kick n wallow in the dirt. This will look hilarious and produce a good size hole in their run or your yard. And once they've made a nice dust bath hole, they'll never use it again and move on. I let my hens roam about so once month I around the yard filling holes. They're quite the ankle turners.

The audiobook is only 4 hours long; this can't be a very big book. Now I'm curious as to wth is going on there. :) thanks for the recommendation.

Tl; dr. Is there a way to order this lovely print? That would improve any home

My apologies, my German is very rusty. What happened to all the trees? I think someone mentions this was planted with one type of tree and they have become contaminated? Or they all have a blight and have died? Its a beautiful view but shouldn't all the hills be green? Or is this picture taken in the early spring before the leaves come out? Again I apologize for not fully understanding. Thank you for your help and patience.

I've done that before, as a 6 week budget experiment. I did lose a bit of weight, bonus. After about 6 days, I could smell cooked sausage from appx 1.63 miles away. I know we should all do better about meat intake, but somethings I just can't quit. Chicken thighs and sausage. On the bright side, I hardly ever use beef anymore and my fish cooking skills have gone up noticeably.

No doubt! Took out the air ride suspension on my tractor and left me flat. That one black top patch headed east, in lane two. Y'all know the spot

Awesome idea, I'd just use chicken thighs instead. The fatty parts lend a more full flavor to the soup and are generally cheaper than chicken breasts. The thighs will need extra work tho, pulling out bones & knuckle gristle.

I was gonna ask. I never high hooked so many times in my damn life before I drove ltl. Now I know why ppl leave so many Gatorade bottles on the floor of the cab. Drop air bags (if applicable) stuff said Gatorade bottle under the tail of the plate to hold it flat, raise trailer (if needed) slide out. Now I'm dead paranoid about trailers sitting high. Naturally anytime i say it'll be fine, this is where I am at, cranking a wack landing gear in the rain.

As far as LTL, its the daytime Pick Up & Delivery drivers that get paid hourly. The night time linehaul jobs make the money. 70 cents a mile, potentially no dock work and Drop& Hook pay for sets. That can easily rack up to a 400$ night. And when thats your route, what you do 5 days a week, thats a nice nice paycheck.

The interior decorating sub is quite daunting. I browse that and leave feeling like I live in a cardboard box. I think you did a fine job. Rather traditional imo.

If you feel inclined, add pics of the fixtures. I love old homes like this and oftentimes, the subtly in the details is the delight. Back in the day of this house, ppl didn't keep alot of possessions, so a normal bedroom would seem fairly spartan to us. Single wide beds, shallow closets, yet finely detailed fixtures for knobs and lamps.

In my time and area, D&D and MTG were akin to devil worship. Satanists did that stuff. It was nice to own the guide books and stuff, but I had no one to even talk to about. I love the modern era of the internet. Thank you world wide nerds.

It looks awesome now! No doubt that was a struggle of cleanup and repair job. What happened with the light fixture on the ceiling? Did you install a new ceiling light yet?

What happened here? You sound like you need a hug.

This might be more of a shitty life pro tip, but go buy a nice rug scrubber from a large well known chain store, usually the letters on the building are in blue. Use the day lights out of it, they generally come with a sample soap inside to get ya started. Clean it up, put it back in the box and return it. You must have your receipt. When they ask why you're returning it, you was dissatisfied with its performance. You've just cleaned everything carpet and upholstered for free. Not particularly honest but frugal and it got the job done.