Mountain Goat Needs Some Encouragement

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Our dear MG is having a stressful time and hasn't posted for a while. How can we cheer him up?


Love you MG

Best wishes Mountain Goat. Even when you've been going through hard times yourself, you've always brought a lot of compassion and humour to Wrong Planet right from the moment you joined, and you've become a much loved "veteran" in an astonishingly short space of time; which is well earned.

It seems from your recent posts that you have reached a point where you are very torn between the comfort of sticking with what you know, and making frightening changes in the hope of brighter future. I have some idea how overwhelming that can be; but, to use a railway metaphor, I also know that what seems to be a train coming headlong towards us can turn out to be the light at the end of the tunnel. Whatever you're going through at the moment, I'll be thinking of you, and ready to listen whenever you feel ready to join us here again.

In the mean-time, here's an uplifting video involving both railways and a mountain goat that found itself in a rather overwhelming situation...

Mountain Goat is a great person!

Thank you all. I am ok. I will get back to being brave and posting again. Love you all. xx

Mountain Goat is a good egg.

Yep. I wish he could go back to being a ticket guy on the railway---preferably on the late shift where there's little stress.

Sending good wishes to you, Mountain Goat.

Thank you all.

Oh no... Though my body preferred late shifts, the busy earlier shifts were somewhat easier as I was numb working them through lack of sleep BUT I didn't have to deal with train loads of drunks.

Is a young mans job these days... A battle hardened young mans job! Actually, the job would be all the more pleasant if one was allowed a machine gun and had permission to use it.

Nope. While I would love to be able to cope with that sort of work again, I would want a different position. Something more sheltered... Maybe a train driver? Uhmmm. Though they do see some terrible things. Uhmmm.

If you could work the signals and points for a heritage railway? They use (if I'm not mistaken) the manually thrown points and keep someone in a guard shack to work the levers. I don't see what'd be too bad about that.

Why not working with heritage stuff? Early diesels & steam engines are a hassle to maintain & run, but there are other jobs on the railroad itself.

As part of my guard duties I used to work lever frames, which were basically open air signalboxes minus the extra equipment.
Most of the local signalboxes atill have levers in them in my area. Yes. I have thrown some heavy levers on a preserved line, one of which the volunteer signalman did not expect anyone to throw, as the signal was well over a quarter of a mile away.

I would not be allowed to do any railway work now though as I never knew what I was experiencing were partial shutdowns.

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Mountain Goats can climb even the most flimsy of mountaintops....and survive unscathed.

If this were Games of Thrones that would be a perfect House Insignia for our Mointain Goat friend.

Always love your posts MG, your ways of describing things are the best. Feel better soon

Thank you people. I didn't know I was that popular.

It doesn't take much--just being genuine and good. You're both.