Source: keamoose on facebook.

My dad was a Burlington Northern engineer for most of my childhood so with me being a kid and him doing that, we always had a little bond with trains. Trains in particular were one of the few things we talked about. I had more hats with the white and green BN than I can count and for many years I thought it was the number three with teeth.

Many a time I rode Amtrak while he was at the helm…

Anyways, he stayed pretty much around the mid-west but would sometimes talk about the locomotives out in Colorado, needing to plow through the winter snow.

When I was out in Oregon, before the Microsoft gig, Union Pacific advertised for a mass public hiring so I went to the gathering. There were maybe 50 people there and after they jerked us around for a couple of hours, they told us that they would only be hiring applicants with heavy machinery experience. Of course I just left.

Before I went though, I told my dad about it and he was pretty excited, probably for himself as much for me, and probably even more than when I told him about getting hired by Microsoft about six months later.

I didn’t need a job with the railroad anyway — long hours away from home and that whole industry wants to move to unmanned trains whether they say so or not.

Funny/not funny related news: the first month I was at Microsoft, this happened: Switching yard accident sends 17 cars rumbling through Portland.

#confessional #trains #videos #HeavyMachina

Came in from the garage and Maggie is blasting some Frozen song.

And so it begins…

#random #maggie

#messaging #worknews #screenshots

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience […] not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

—Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

#advancedsoul #comics

Peeps, here’s your video for today:

It’s early so it’s a nice and mellow. I <3 the thumping bass that pops in and out.

I do wish I could change the video thumbnail because it creeps me out.

#musicvideos #maneesh

#comics

Always good to see the peeps at 8 pm.

The bad news is that the Twizzler Bites I bought beforehand are now almost frozen. I will still eat them though.

#random

Sneak peek: ‘Poltergeist’ reboots for 2015 terror

They’re back! An exclusive first look at ‘Poltergeist,’ rebooted for 2015 after the 1982 original rocked horror film. Madison Bowen (Kennedi Clements) reaches out to apparitions that have invaded her family’s home. ‘Poltergeist’ opens in 3-D on July 24.

Maybe I’m out of touch with remakes and reboots but it seems like there sure have been a lot lately. This one’s original was as much a part of my childhood as any.

#movies

Peeps, here’s an original jangle just for you…

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Don’t bust my chops if it sounds like something else. I was in a groove. :-D

Peeps, the Feb 2015 Trader Joe’s Fearless Flier — wherein you will find organic celery hearts and such.

#photos #traderjoes