What You've Just Bought!

[C0RR0SIVE]

Snagged a Ryzen 5 3600 on sale for $175 today, checked others to make sure it wasn't the only place with a sale, got happy. Wallet not so happy.

 

[PP Mguire]

Surprisingly easy, though I didn't go through normal immigration - I'm a DoD contractor so I'm working here as SOFA status. No different than going to another country and getting a stamp on my passport - just a different stamp.

Company paid for my car, is paying for my apartment, paying for all my utilities, is paying for language lessons, and I get money to take vacations (literally called an "R&R benefit" - $5k every six months! Got a massive pay increase out of it too.

Figured I could do this for a few years and outright buy a house when I get back to the states, if I ever return. It's a pretty sweet gig.

There were two of us in the ALIS team that were supposed to do that. Me to Japan and another guy to Australia and that basically was our goal too. I already had my house so mine was to drop a ton of cash on the principle and refinance.

 

[iFargle]

There were two of us in the ALIS team that were supposed to do that. Me to Japan and another guy to Australia and that basically was our goal too. I already had my house so mine was to drop a ton of cash on the principle and refinance.

Why didn't you do it? Totally worth it. I'm only in the office when needed so most of the time I use to explore Japan

 

[PP Mguire]

Why didn't you do it? Totally worth it. I'm only in the office when needed so most of the time I use to explore Japan

The other guy got sent to Luke for training and was in the process but the whole thing got canned before they started me up. Couple months later was when I was laid off and neither of us got to go because they were in the process of the project changing internal hands. As of Dec 31st that whole team will be gone.

 

[iFargle]

You're not at LM anymore? There's a Lockheed Martin guy here working on comms with Raytheon. I handle other parts of the base so I don't interact with him much.

 

[PP Mguire]

You're not at LM anymore? There's a Lockheed Martin guy here working on comms with Raytheon. I handle other parts of the base so I don't interact with him much.

I got rehired a couple months later back into my old scrub iLab position at half the salary. Been doing that a year and a half now.

 

[iFargle]

I got rehired a couple months later back into my old scrub iLab position at half the salary. Been doing that a year and a half now.

Raytheon's always hiring mostly in classified spots, not sure if you want that, but there's about 3,000 internal spots they're hiring for right now. There are even a few in McKinney TX.

On topic,
bought a lamp, a nightstand, a fan, recycle bins (recycling in Japan is.... intense), and an Antlion Modmic because I forgot mine in the states

 

[iFargle]

Bought an Ergodox Moonlander keyboard

 

[Nukem]

- Corsair Dark Core RGB pro mouse - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082LVNHW9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- NVMe dock - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084ZKLQR8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- Sata to USB adapter - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HJZJI84/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[PP Mguire]

- Corsair Dark Core RGB pro mouse - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082LVNHW9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- NVMe dock - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084ZKLQR8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- Sata to USB adapter - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HJZJI84/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hmmm, why?