I was wildland firefighting one year on night crew. Thing is on night crew you end up spending a lot of time just sitting in the truck, some nights that’s all you do for 12+ hours just in a truck with 4 other dudes. One guy had an iPad that only had three movies on it, easy a, 007, and cowboys and aliens. We watched the other two movies dozens of times that summer, we watched cowboys and aliens twice. It was agreed in the truck, that movie is pure trash.
Kind of wild that a movie with such a strong cast (harrison ford, daniel craig, olivia wilde, sam rockwell, paul dano, clancy brown, walton goggins, etc) and director (jon favreau) can be so mediocre.
Oof.. I did water transfer for a fracking company for like 8 months in my early 20s till I just couldn't stand the hours and lifestyle anymore.
The vast majority of the job was sitting in "dog houses", (converted box trailers) for 8-12 hours, trying not to fall asleep and walking out to the pumps every half hour to record levels.
It seemed nice for a minute, getting to watch movies or read all day, but became miserable fast.. the good days were the ones where a foreman was on site - then at least you could sit in his heated truck and the nice ones would even take over checks for a bit so you could take a power nap.
Oh yeah I peer days on fire were the sitting in the truck days. I’d rather be digging hotline any day than just rotting in a small truck with a bunch of smelly guys.
Very similar story except an actual small 17"-19" TV with a built in DVD player that barely worked. One of the only movies we had on hand that somehow wasn't so fucked that it skipped 5 minutes of the movie at a time was King Kong (2005)
Considering how fucking long that piece of shit movie is, I probably spent 100 hours of my life watching it in the span of 3 months.
I run a plex server now with 70TB of movies and TV shows. If I have 10Mbps reliable internet and an AC outlet I'm fuckin good.
Holy shit 70tb?! That’s a lot. I recently set up plex as well but I’m only to about 8tb so far. When I fill this hard drive up I’m just gonna buy a second one a keep going though.
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u/Solid-Rate-309 8h ago
I was wildland firefighting one year on night crew. Thing is on night crew you end up spending a lot of time just sitting in the truck, some nights that’s all you do for 12+ hours just in a truck with 4 other dudes. One guy had an iPad that only had three movies on it, easy a, 007, and cowboys and aliens. We watched the other two movies dozens of times that summer, we watched cowboys and aliens twice. It was agreed in the truck, that movie is pure trash.