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Harry P. MCM Ohana

Harry P.

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Took MrsG and the grandchildren on a long day trip in central Nevada. Went to see the Little Ale'inn in Rachael NV, The Mizpah Hotel in Tonapah and the Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield NV. Great trip.

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What? No stop at the Bunny Ranch???

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Joe Handley

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My store has been insanely busy today, and the customers have all been patient and understanding of that! Considering I really wasn't sure if we were still going to be here when I was told the store was changing hands back in February, it's very, very good to see :)

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David G.

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Last night we went to the drive in movies for the second time this summer-saw Planes 2: Fire and Rescue

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Got a few good reference pictures of the speakers for a diorama too

The Cherry Bowl Drive In got one of the Honda grants to update it to digital projectors

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Wow, how things have changed. I remember back in the 60s and 70s drive in movie screens were at least four or five times larger than that one. Of course they're all gone now.

David G.

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Sad to say all the drive in theaters in New Jersey are long gone. The land was just too expensive. Movie companies knocked them down and built large multiplex theaters that could show many movies at the same time, all year around. Plus there was enough land left to build a shopping center! Ah, progress!

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Wow, how things have changed. I remember back in the 60s and 70s drive in movie screens were at least four or five times larger than that one. Of course they're all gone now.

David G.

Oh heck yeah!

Take a walk in the woods, sit on a hill and watch a movie from across the lot. If it were crowded enough at least one car on that side had the speaker loud enough for me.

G

Joe Handley MCM Ohana

Joe Handley

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Finally finished the first rebody of any of my R/C's in a couple years, and it's already been a bit of a show stopper and head scratcher for as simple as it is :D

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Here's what it looked like when I bought it back in 2011 ;)

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And here's what the body is "supposed" to look like.

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Needless to say, I'm kinda proud of it.

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charlie8575 MCM Ohana

charlie8575

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Another interview.

And I found out I'm actually still in the running for the other job I had an interview for.

Perhaps something will finally break...besides me?

Charlie Larkin

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charlie8575

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Everyone: "How big was it?" :lol:

It wasn't THAT big- about fifteen pieces, but they sounded really good and the singer was excellent. Reminiscent of Billie Holliday.

Charlie Larkin

Tom Geiger MCM Ohana

Tom Geiger

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Another interview.

And I found out I'm actually still in the running for the other job I had an interview for.

Perhaps something will finally break...besides me?

Charlie Larkin

Cool! Hopefully one of these will come through for you. Sometimes it will be months between the interview and the offer. Especially over the summer months, decisions just don't get made.

Job searches are long and tedious affairs. I just concluded one a few months ago and don't wish it on anyone. It's surely a numbers game, the more irons you have in the fire, the better chances you have. You can't count on any one opportunity or interview, as I've been told there were up to 300 applicants for some positions.

And you also don't even know the motivation of the company or reason for the interview. In this era of equal opportunity and transparency, companies have policies that have them go through the entire search process, even if they have a preferred candidate in their pocket. So they will do their internal search, posting the job for their own employees to apply, and then do the external search, posting on their own web site and the job boards.

And in some cases, they already have a person who is working in that job on a temporary basis, or someone they wish to promote into that job, but they have to go through the process. Yea, everyone who applies is wasting their time, since they are just being interviewed as a formality to be excluded. It really stinks.

In my year and a half of seeking a new role, I averaged an interview a month. I network in my industry and was able to find out what happened to all those positions. Of them a quarter of those went to preferred candidates. HALF of the positions never got filled. Companies change their requirements, sometimes eliminate open positions or change their mind during the process. I even had one company that pretty much brought me in to pick my brain on their process. So that leaves only a quarter of the positions where they were honestly looking for a candidate and I had a fair shot at the position.

And no doubt you've heard that most positions are filled through networking. After all my work at finding a fresh opportunity, I wound up being recruited by an old boss. So it's pretty much true!

Good luck to ya!

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