TGO David

  The boom is probably here to stay, thanks to hipsters, but worse yet is the bourbon shortage that a lot of distilleries are predicting.

Time for some White Knuckle Off-Road sliders for that bad boy! I had them on my 2010 TT and they did great. You can kinda seem them in this picture:

  Only if folks know who's behind the screen name.

I'm not trying to discourage you or anything but let me tell you what relationship certifications and experience have when it comes to getting hired.  And this is coming from me, a guy who manages a Tier 3 problem-solving team for a Fortune 100 company and has no problem ending an interview 10 minutes into it to either tell the candidate "Thank you and have a nice day" or "I think we might have a place for you here".   Certifications without experience will often get you in the door to get experience.  You passing an industry standard test in your field of focus tells me that (a.) you know the basics and have a foundation that I and my team can build upon, (b.) have the tenacity to see something through to completion and (c.) perform at least reasonably well under pressure and can recall those basics of your foundation when the heat is on.   Experience without certifications will often get you overlooked by the resume screeners.  Automated or human, doesn't matter.  I and many hiring managers like me want resumes screened to see if you have various certifications for the reasons I mentioned above.   Certifications AND Experience will not only catch my attention but, provided you interview well, aren't a douche, and can honest-to-God back up anything you put on your resume, may even land you a job with pay commensurate with your experience and skill level.     Seriously, if you listen to only one piece of advice I offer freely... don't fluff your resume.  If you don't want to risk being asked to expand on it or, worse yet, do it as part of your job... don't list it as something you are proficient in.   If you have casual experience with something and feel compelled to include it, mention that it is just that:  Casual Experience.   Nothing causes me to blacklist someone and spread the word about it faster than a candidate who wastes my time by seeding their resume with key words just to get an interview, only for me to find out that they misrepresented themselves on paper.  Nashville's IT community is staggeringly small, and word gets around fast.  Many of us who have been doing IT professionally within Nashville for 10-20 years have acquired a network of friends and former colleagues all over town.  A bad reputation with one of them can quickly spread to all of them.   I'd strongly suggest you pick a field of technology that really resonates with you and begin mastering it.  Pair that with leadership traits and back it up with a management degree of some sort, and you'll be amazed at what doors open for you.   Oh... and one last thing:  If you aren't applying for a management job, you might think carefully about specifically calling those out in your resume.  Some managers hate hiring people who were previously managers, as they feel threatened.  I couldn't care less and actually like seeing leadership roles on a resume, but I've got peers who wig out about it for some reason.   Hope some of this helps.

  Working for me.

It's the denial of the ND that bothers me.  So far I fall into the camp of "Hasn't happened to me yet" but as they say... There but by the grace of God, go I.   That could easily be me some day.  And as the OP said, we're all human.

  Got to be honest:  That is exactly why I have never picked any up.  For the price, this stuff tastes better than most anything Jack Daniel cranks out at twice to three-times the price.

Finally picked up some Jim Beam Black at the recommendation of Mike 357 and enjoyed it. Definitely a bargain! Also picked up some of this and am enjoying it tonight...

  It's just social media.  It's not a replacement for TGO.

So, I've gone ahead and staked some land on Gun District for TGO.   As of yet we have not been kicked off of Facebook, but if it happens I am likely going to just abandon Facebook entirely.   Anyway.... here's our Gun District page.   https://gundistrict.com/TNGunOwners

  A buddy of mine has an actual Marine Corps plate for Tennessee.  They are available, or were at least.

Yep.  Necessity.  Works great.

I'm going to make get things rolling on this.  I'll let you all know when it's time to start putting in orders.  :)

  Yep.  Chances are so's the device you're posting to TGO on, though.  ;)

I don't remember how many people it takes to get a custom license plate ordered but I do think the cause represented has to be a non-profit.

UPDATE... I've spoken with the supplier and we will be going with the 20oz and 30oz RTIC tumblers as they are the most cost effective and are just as nice of quality as the ORCA or the Yeti tumblers. I have pricing, I just need to nail down shipping costs so that we can begin taking pre-orders. I hope to have this done by this Friday so that we can begin taking orders over the weekend. The window for ordering will be two weeks. After two weeks are up, the window will close and I will get them on the way to us.

Picked up a bottle of Old Scout single barrel tonight.  A-maz-ing.

Feel good movie of the year.

  Chat license isn't expired... still working fine.  Again, it's hosted on IPB's server and not ours so if they had a problem, they must have fixed it.

  Harder to shoot in a robbery too.  Fast, nimble, noisy.

  Clever!  This made me laugh out loud.  Well played.  :)

  Ah ok.  I think the location thing can be fixed easily and is due to whatever "skin" they are using for the overall look and feel of the site.  Not sure about the quoting issue, though.   I'm mostly on all Apple and Mac stuff at home now too but haven't had quoting problems over there, but that could be attributed to familiarity with the software.  It's very similar to the old vBulletin software that we used to run here, and can feel a little antiquated in some respects.

  What part do you dislike about the new format?   They run a software package (XenForo) that I have owned a few copies of for several years now and have been tempted to switch us to on more than one occasion.

If it's the one a friend mentioned to me the other day, at the bottom corner is a reference to Isaiah 9:6 in which case it appears to be a billboard meant to reach out to Muslims from a Christian perspective.