Need Posting Help

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[MasterMason]

I just re-joined FR and I would like to post to my local NC state board but I am not able to. How do I get the ability to do that?

[ArGee]

I’ve been there. I still visit far too often.

[Slings and Arrows]

GMTA strikes again!

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

[NicknamedBob]

"I’ve been there. I still visit far too often."

I just do it out of habit.

[Tax-chick]

The new car has a problem already. I would have cried, but my makeup would run. In for a penny, in for a pound. I’ve sent a whiny email to my mother, and now I’m drinking wine and eating crackers.

[NicknamedBob]

I would like to introduce you to the concept called “the bathtub curve”. It’s the graph of how much trouble a piece of equipment might be over its extended lifetime.

When a machine is new, it is not trouble-free. New machines are often beset by woes, but they quickly diminish as the machine gets tuned in and comes up to working speed.

This is the “fill” portion of the bathtub curve, the place where the water controls are; a steep gradient which rapidly diminishes to a very low point. Then a long period of normal usage obtains, the nearly flat bottom of the curve.

Finally, as the machine ages and wears normally, troubles tend to increase in number again, a slow rise that looks like the “backrest” part of a bathtub. Eventually of course, the machine may wear out and need to be replaced, and then the process starts all over again.

This is the bathtub curve of normal mechanical problems.

So there are three rules about machines:

Do not expect a new machine to work perfectly first time out of the box.

Never expect a new machine to work perfectly first time out of the box.

Make sure you’ve read and implemented the instructions regarding setting up and operating your machine, and that you are familiar with its minor differences from you experienced before.

[ArGee]

You’re an ex-nun???

[NicknamedBob]

My career span from nun to ex-nun would likely have been one of the fastest on record.

And I thought I had done well to rise six enlisted ranks in three years in the Army!

[Tax-chick]

You’re a paragon.

[NicknamedBob]

No, I became a Staff Sergeant.

[Tax-chick]

DP was that in the Air Force.

[NicknamedBob]

When I was in, Air Force ranks did not come easily. My brother spent a lot of time in the Air Force, and then moved over to the Army and made Warrant.

“Woah”, one might say.

[Tax-chick]

It depended on what one was doing, as well as individual performance.

[NicknamedBob]

Well, I taught them a thing or three.

But as I once said, they gave an award for joining up, and then they gave me one when I left.

[Tax-chick]

[ArGee]

So what job did you have when you had to go to work in habit?

[ArGee]

Nope - there’s only one of him, and he’s still here.

[ArGee]

I was an ossifier in the USAF from 1982-1986. But I wasn’t rated (no job on an airplane). That really limits the promotional opportunities.

[Monkey Face]

Boy. I’m glad I didn’t read that until this morning. I would have gone out and gotten a box of Pink Drink and some Mustard-Onion pretzels and commiserated with you from 2500 miles away!!!

I bet we could almost make up a new language by texting while under the influence, eh?

[Monkey Face]

That cat looks like the late departed Evinrude. He was SUCH a purry cat!