Quitting the job I've been at for 3.5 years to go, finally, be a chemical engineer. I'm excited. There were a lot of reasons I decided it was time for a change, but a opportunity came up and I took it. Doesn't mean any more money, at least salary wise, but there is bonus potential, unlike my current job.
Does mean I will probably be on oppo less during the day, but I'll make some time for you guys. I was here from 2009-2013 then 2016 to present. I have no plans on going anywhere else.
From there being a Mrs. E90M3. Well technically it'll be Dr. E90M3, but that's besides the point. 
It's starting to feel surreal.
That's right, two weekends ago I got married.
Both @OpposResidentLexusGuy and @golfr-guy were in attendance. Used the M3 as the get away car, and since we sat in the back, it's where the four door comes into its own. I don't have a picture of that yet, but I'm sure I'll post it when I do.
Unfortuneatly, despite both being fully vaccinated, we couldn't really leave the county, so the honeymoon I would have wanted to do wasn't really an option, so we went to Amelia Island for the week. Where we saw @bluemazda2
Not really him, but probably a close cousin. We did have dinner at the Ritz one night and got the Corolla valeted. Naturally, they parked in front with the other nice cars.
I got a good chuckle out of it.
It was nice to be off for a week, but I was happy to get home. Looking forward to the next chapter of my life.
GTFAC - Go to fuck a camel.
Now that might sound like quite the strange insult, and it is, but its ours. It's pretty much our version of GTFO. While GTFAC didn't exactly originate on oppo, it was quickly and subsequently adopted. The origin is from a reply that a former opponaut, Roberto G, left to a comment on COTD:
This is how, the comment appears now, but at the time, he was banned for the comment. 
This is a screen shot I have from 2012; at the time I didn't have the foresight to capture the entire thread for posterity. However, since the original comment was made, and while Roberto G has left oppo, GTFAC has joined oppo lore.
It has been immortalized by @McMike with this excellent GIF:
It even has its own entry in urban dictionary. 
So the next time you see GTAFC, you know where it came from. Maybe you'll even be able to use it here.
This is a revised post of one that I made on Kinja back in early 2017.
Any additions or comments are appreciated and if you didn't like it you can GTFAC. I have a couple more history of oppo posts planned in the future.
Ok, so while that was a completely and entirely a clickbait title, there is some truth to it.
At midnight on October 16 I went from employed to unemployed, except unlike my parting from Schlumberger, this was on my own fruition. Also, unlike my parting SLB, this period of unemployment was a mere two days, not 347. All of this was done deliberately as a mere two weeks prior I left an interview with a job offer. Meaning this previous Monday, the 18th, was my first day at the new place.
My commute has substantially increased, which means the 3 is back to doing what I bought it for, eating up the miles. There is a silver lining, I'm going to start working 10 hour days and only work Monday through Thursday. Probably way less time for oppo, but I'll be around. I'm also going to be doing actual chemical engineering for the first time since school, and I'm very excited about that. I was filled with a little trepidation day one when I found out the reason the position came open was due to the fact they fired the previous engineer. That said, it did sound like he had ample opportunities to correct his behavior, and he was there for as long as I was at my previous place. I'm not too worried about being let go, I've been told already I'm doing a better job than the previous engineer.
Things are also looking promising on my wife's job search, so we are going to start figuring out where we want to live when our lease ends in July. Looks like we'll be making a foray into home ownership soon enough. Maybe there will be an E34 M5 sized hole in the garage soon. We do have to take care of her med school loans, but after that, there should be some left over funds for some fun things.
Moving from my one bedroom apartment into a three bed room apartment that will see me through July 2022, which is when my fiancée finishes residency. We combined phone plans in early January, and the wedding is less than three months away. It's getting very real.
My wife is attending some conference as part of her residency, and I had a morning to kill, so it was time for a drive. I had planned out the route before hand and sent it to myself. 
Started off on NC-215, which is one of my favorite roads, then turned onto the blue ridge parkway, then onto this fantastic piece of asphalt:
I had both NC-215 and NC-151 to myself and had a wonderful time. Stopped on the blue ridge parkway to quickly snap this:
Define out in a much better mood after the stress of waiting on interview results. Really needed that. Reminds me I need to drive the M3 more.
Mentioned last week that my fiancée and I took engagement pics and the M3 was coming along. Well, a preview was posted last night and this was one of the pictures included.
There hasn't been that much consistency in my life. I don't work for the same company, I don't live in the same city or even the same state for that matter. Apart from friends, this has been the one of the few things that been consistent in my life, my M3.
I've been through so much with it. It took me back and forth between Corpus Christi and San Antonio numerous times, both for fun and work. It took me to the meeting in Alice where I found out I would be furloughed. Then it moved to San Antonio with me. I didn't drive it to the yard the day I got laid off, but it did follow me to Roswell GA. Then to numerous interviews, although, ironically, not the one that landed me a job. I didn't drive it to work on my first day at either my job in Savannah of Greenville SC, but I did drive it my last day in SAV and will drive it to work again tomorrow.
Weird to think how many things have changed since I got the car in 2014, but it's been a faithful companion along the way.
@wrong-wheel-drive said in Salmon dinners at home are so much better than restaurants:
Any other foods y'all always prefer to have at home instead of out at a shop?
For the most part, if what you cook at home is better than out it's one of two things. Either you're a fantastic cook or the restaurants you go to are shit.
@nth256 Really annoying, the dealer I bought my 3 from tried to put a 700 doc fee on. I told them I would negotiate with that in the price. I paid 17k, for all intent sand purposes, I told them that they could make the doc fee 16,999 and the car a dollar. I ended up paying the fee, but it was included in the number I told them, which I was fine with.
@nth256 That's why the advertised price and the out the door price are never the same.
@spacekraken said in Your 5 car garage:
911 (fun and rallyx and other adventures)
I've seen that exact car before. 
@italianjobr53 I'm trying to convince my FIL he needs one of these.
@milky As a BMW guy, I would normally lean towards the 2002, but after some brief stick time on a couple Porsches, I get it now. I get why people like Porsches so much, and I would love to own one, but that would mean getting rid of my beloved E90 and that's not happening.
@benjrblant I have a pair of JBL L96s that needed to get re-coned. I've had them for years, probably should get around to fixing them at some point.
@taylor-martin said in The day has finally come...:
Just don't want to bounce around from job to job. Something needs to stick ya know?
As someone who once spent 11 months unemployed, some job is better than no job. There's also nothing wrong with a transitional job to pay the bills while you look.
