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"Pizza's Ongoing Life Thread"?

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Pizzaguy said:
Just spent the week at a nuke plant. Two days of training, testing and even a "lab" where we demonstrated our knowledge of how to work safely. I now have a badge and am officially cleared to enter the plant unescorted.

I saw stuff I have never seen before. Like a one GIGAWATT generator (actually walked right by two of them, both running 100% output). Oddly, the plant is HUGE, and it is all there to turn a generator that would fit in a three car garage! :

It is an amazing place. And it can power a CITY of 1.25 million people all by itself. (Or in this case, it can power a vast part of the state of Michigan). All with a plant that occupies what must be less than 50 acres. And no pollution except the heat it sends into the air.

Anyway...
I also saw (and am going to help replace) the most complicated distributed antenna radio system I have ever seen. And I'm doing it twice, since they have redundant radio systems - totally redundant. (If I say "redundant" enough, am I being redundant?)

The PM wants me to come come back on Monday, but my flight was tomorrow (saturday) so my manager told me I can stay all weekend. So............. In return for doing about five hours of work on my computer this weekend, I get three days in the town I grew up in at company expense! Meals, car rental, hotels, laundry, etc. - all covered. (My home town is about 65 miles from the plant.)

Best part is, the weather here is WONDERFUL.
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I admire his professionalism :thumbsup Congrats!!! :lol :biggrin
 
Finally home, got in late yesterday afternoon. I won't be traveling til about the second week of October now, and that's fine with me.

Awoke today with awful back pain (all those WalMart mattresses at Hampton Inns, I guess + the stress of the weeks). Well, one dose of SOMA 350mg and VOLTAREN 75mg and a three hour nap, and I'm almost pain free!

Dr Heather FTW! (She prescribed these drugs several years ago, last time this happened...)

The Nuke job is gonna be fun, challenging and sometimes stressful - wouldn't trade it for the world.
 
Pizzaguy said:
Finally home, got in late yesterday afternoon. I won't be traveling til about the second week of October now, and that's fine with me.

Awoke today with awful back pain (all those WalMart mattresses at Hampton Inns, I guess + the stress of the weeks). Well, one dose of SOMA 350mg and VOLTAREN 75mg and a three hour nap, and I'm almost pain free!

Dr Heather FTW! (She prescribed these drugs several years ago, last time this happened...)

The Nuke job is gonna be fun, challenging and sometimes stressful - wouldn't trade it for the world.
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Welcome home :)
 
Thanks. Should not be traveling til early October now. I like the traveling, but after 3 weeks I wanna be home and sleep in my wonderful bed for a while!
 
Less than a month away from the Fall Dragon....

[video=youtube;rN5FnjPxVRw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN5FnjPxVRw[/video]

(Two of my friends, I'm not in this video, can't keep up with these guys but riding in the "camera car" on a similar run this spring, I got car sick for the first time in my life.)
 
Pizzaguy said:
The Nuke job is gonna be fun, challenging and sometimes stressful - wouldn't trade it for the world.
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Yeah, and you get to enjoy downtown Bridgeman, MI, lol.

I haven't been there in 20 years, but if it's still like it was you'll have to go to St. Joe to entertain yourself. Bridgeman was really just a pass through to get to the Dunes to the South and St. Joseph to the north.

Oh, I just remembered a wonderful little story. There was a 'Chicken Coop' restaurant on the south side of Bridgeman and another one in St. Joe. To this day they had the best fried chicken I have ever tasted--better than the Colonel's. On the menu behind the counter was this quote from C. T. Studd:

"We’ve Only One Life, It Soon Will Be Past, Only What’s Done For Christ Will Last"

God used the owners bold public testimony displayed on that board to raise my God consciousness during that time just before I got saved. I saw it every time I went in there, and it got me thinking...and now I possess the kingdom of God. Look what can grow from just a small seed!
 
(Two of my friends, I'm not in this video, can't keep up with these guys but riding in the "camera car" on a similar run this spring, I got car sick for the first time in my life.)
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No video of this OK? :lol
 
Pizzaguy said:
Less than a month away from the Fall Dragon....

[video=youtube;rN5FnjPxVRw]http://
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(Two of my friends, I'm not in this video, can't keep up with these guys but riding in the "camera car" on a similar run this spring, I got car sick for the first time in my life.)
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Ooooo!
 
Jason is in the lead, he gets a little loose in the curves with that 365+ hp (his car is modded a bit).

Less than four weeks and I'm there ! ! !
 
Pizzaguy said:
Jason is in the lead, he gets a little loose in the curves with that 365+ hp (his car is modded a bit).

Less than four weeks and I'm there ! ! !
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I'm having my car set up today, four wheel alignment and setting the rear camber a little aggressive for the curves (car was wanting to pull left so I had to come in anyway).

This shop does race mods and setups - they have me sit in it from time to time while they are working on it, so it's really set just right - these guys are meticulous!

I'll be packing a sack lunch for about two months to pay for this.... but everyone says it'll be worth it in the curves!
 
:confused the pizza guy's ongoing thread has been going on so long I will have to go back to the beginning to see what he has been going on and on and on about all this time :lol
 
Blev said:
:confused the pizza guy's ongoing thread has been going on so long I will have to go back to the beginning to see what he has been going on and on and on about all this time :lol
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How God blesses people! Indeed, the thread has zigzagged into something astonishing - a testimony.

Eat more Pizza and enjoy
 
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