Was offically certified by the state to run a 5, 7, 10 ton & rubber wheeled rollers.
What did you do at work today?
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Spent 7 hours in my COTB Nissan NV1500 Courier Short running around the North side of Town and trying to dodge the ice ridges in the drives access roads, and parking lots. You know you are flirting with disaster when you are totally off the throttle and moving at nothing more than idle and you can still hear the lower air dam under the bumper grating away on the high spots in the ice. On the run back from the last stop I passed the cops dealing with a T-Bone wreck near the waterfront fire hall. Did the sort, fueled the unit and gave it a bath before parking it for the weekend and, on the way home, saw another accident with the fire crew and pumper pulling in just as I was about to exit to my neighbourhood.
Don't misunderstand, I actually enjoy the job. There is an almost total lack of interaction with humanity that goes with it. The mice stay in the wainscotting and I like it that way. What throws a wet blanket on things is the prolific number of squirrels who just have to drive like it is high summer and they are 20 minutes late already. F****** Morons.
Nick
Don't misunderstand, I actually enjoy the job. There is an almost total lack of interaction with humanity that goes with it. The mice stay in the wainscotting and I like it that way. What throws a wet blanket on things is the prolific number of squirrels who just have to drive like it is high summer and they are 20 minutes late already. F****** Morons.
Nick
Seen them. Our cost for new furd adapter is like only 90$ so we’re replacing it.
I tied the engine down on a motorcycle lift to pull the top end off. Worked really nice to raise and lower it to the height I was working on. Heads are the machine shop. Definitely the gasket looks shitty around number 6 cylinder and there was coolant in the ring lands.
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had to drive for the first time in a year last weekend for the auto parts store. now I remember why I stopped driving, dumb effin' morons! trying to turn left from the center lane, so stops in the middle of the intersection!
and the other terds who can't bothered to properly use the side street exit which leads to a light where they can turn left, so instead they exit right, move to center lane on a 5-lane road then whip a U-turn in heavy traffic. dmn jackasses!
I spent the earliest part of my day at a job interview for a Parts Manager at a Ford dealership. The HR lady took me to the person interviewing for the position and he had her sit me in his office. 20 minutes after sitting in the office alone, nobody ever coming to say anything to me, I walked out. I used about 5 minutes while sitting there to decide if I wanted to walk back out into the dealership and cause a hoopla about someone leaving me there, but just looking around, I didn't want that job and I could tell that it wouldn't be a good fit. I actually appreciated that that happened so I didn't waste any more time there.
I got back in my car and went to work (my current job). Hopefully I have better interviews next week.
I got back in my car and went to work (my current job). Hopefully I have better interviews next week.
That's the typical, my time is worth more than yours so you can wait attitude. Probably a good idea to just leave and not look back. I dislike people, and employers, like that.
Well, not today, but 27 years ago, I was topside for this evolution. Best sunburn I ever had.
Amazing to watch a 1000-foot long container ship rise up beside you while you're down there at the bottom of the lock.
Amazing to watch a 1000-foot long container ship rise up beside you while you're down there at the bottom of the lock.
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back in '92 as I was mustering out from my LA-class, another ET also getting out told me of the time when he was transiting the canal on a boomer with escorting gunboats. at one point something happened where the jungle gets close to the canal where it caused the gunboats to open up and start shredding the foliage. he said 'think chainguns giving a crewcut to the jungle'. how full of it he was I don't know. (he was young enough it would have had to happen between 84-92)
