It's a Monday, do I need to say more?

Hey all, it's been a few days since I've been here and nothing has really happened. Last friday was the last day for all the guys that got layed off, and basicly not a whole lot got done at work, they told all the guys that got layed off they had to be there until 1:30 or they would change thier status from "layed off" to "they quit" which would screw them out of any unemployment pay. So, needless to say we had a bunch of guys hanging around that basicly did nothing most of the day, and at 1:30 it was pretty much a mass exodous around there. I start my new position today as a parts cleaner, yippie (not). Oh well, not much else to say today.

Until next time.
W.

Well, survived another layoff round

I gotta find a new job. About 60 people were affected this week, I survived by accepting a transfer to the parts cleaning dept. and of course a pay cut. From the looks of things, CCC is basicly taking the whole plant down to a skeleton crew and it's really starting to tick people off.

On the good news front, Sweets started her new job last night, she got a job dispatching at Storey Wrecking. Of course it's second shift, so basicly I'll only get to see her durning the day if I drive over there and visit because she doesn't get off until midnight. But she seems happy about it and I'm getting good vibes about the place whenever she talks about it, she doesn't seem stressed about it like she was with the last couple of places.

Well that's about it for this morning, it's pouring rain outside so, I need to get my butt in gear and leave early, it takes a bit longer to get to work on the bike in the rain.

Asta
W.

Well, the truck is totaled

Finally got an answer from State Farm last night, the truck is officially totaled. Sweets is going to get with them today and finish up the paperwork. Then we get to spend this weekend finding a new car because the rental has to go back on tuesday. I've decide to take tommorow off for two reasons, one, to go check out a lead on a part time job and second, to start looking for a new car. I say new but it's going to be a used one, we figure once everything is said and done, we'll have about 3,000 left over.

Not much going on at work right now, L. has been working on battery cables for the last two days, I've finished prepping every truck I could, and J. is actually three weeks ahead on chassis wiring. I had everything I could do finished up at about one o'clock yesterday and didn't have anything else to do, luckly J. had one chassis left, so I worked with him the rest of the day. Today is going to be rough though, because we've got nothing to do now. It's going to be a day of scrounging to find work, another reason I'm going to take tommorow off.

Well, time to get ready for the day.
W.

Joe Arpaio - "The toughest sheriff in the west"

I got an e-mail from my uncle the other day about Arpaio, I decide to Google his name and see what would come up. Quite interesting some of the info that popped up.

"Arpaio is among the state's most popular office-holders. He enjoys an 85 percent approval rating among voters in the county, which at 9,200 square miles is larger than some states, and includes the city of Phoenix. "

http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/27/tough.sheriff/

Granted, there are problems and some conditions do need to be addressed, but it seems the county is happy with him considering that they have re-elected him three times.

And here's something I find impressive. Source - http://www.mcso.org/

Arrests by Sheriff’s deputies of persons transporting or being transported illegally into Arizona

Month to date total as of 06/12/07: 546 illegals

Arrests by Sheriff’s deputies who, in the course of their duties, determine the arrestee is in Arizona illegally.

Month to date total as of 06/12/07: 177 illegals

And that's only this month, hmmm, sound like he's got the right idea to me, and they don't get an immeidate free ride back to Mexico either, they get to spend two years in jail first.

I noticed one thing though, everybody that is complaining about his tactics, either was an inmate or belongs to one of the liberal weeny organizations that wants us to molly-coddle prisoners, these people committed a crime and were sentenced to jail time as a PUNISHMENT, and that's what jail time should be!!!

Ok, that's my political rant of the day
W.

Another weekend has come and gone.

Well, this weekend is about over, not much to tell about it either. I stacked the remains of the stump up neatly in the drive next to where I put the trash out and weed-eated the yard, that about killed saturday. I did send a nasty e-mail to the channel 6 news team saturday night, it's the rainy season here in Tulsa and we had one of our usual sever thunderstorm warnings happen about 8pm, well the idiot weatherman on ch. 6 decided he just had to have a running announcement about it for 45 minutes, the alert only lasted for 30 minutes, he rehashed the cloud patterns, talked to other weather chaser via the phone, and basicly caused everybody in the viewing area to miss the first 45 minutes of "Die Another Day", I must have not been the only one to complain because the very next commercial break after he did go away he was back and made the comment that he was only going to interupt the commercial break and get us right back to our regulary scheduled programming. Anyway that was saturday. Sunday, well I got a haircut. Exciting weekend huh.

Till next time.
W.

Just though I'd post this

Here's a pic of the truck sitting in the fence before it got towed to the repair shop.

Made it to the weekend!!!

Well, another week survived. Stopped by the repair shop to check on the status of the truck, the State Farm adjuster was supposed to have been there today to finalize the estimate on the truck, he still hasn't showed up, according to the claims office he has 48 hours to show up. The State Farm estimate so far is a little over 5000.00 the repair shop has added about 500.00 more to that total, but we're still under the total loss value of 9025.00, so it looks like the truck is going to be rebuilt.

As for work, well, pretty much SSDD. Spent the first couple of hours making battery cables, then had to go down to the final assembly area and re-route a power lead breakout that wasn't done correctly, my fault on that, it was an engine that they only use when shipping the rig overseas, and I had wired and routed it the same as the standard engine setup. Spent a hour cutting it all loose and reworking it correctly after the engineer had explained the correct routing. After lunch was another rework job, not my fault this time, the build sheet for the truck had been revised with a new main chassis harness, but the dummies had forgotten to revise the parts kit pull sheet with the new part number, so the old style harness got pulled and installed instead. At first we were going to have to pull the whole 30 ft long harness out of the truck, but one of the senior engineers loked at the prints and discovered that there was only a minor difference in the harnesses, so I spent about 15 minutes altering and retagging the harness, instead of two of us spending a couple of hours pulling and replacing the harness. Spent about a half hour doing finish wiring on another truck and then spent the last couple of hours of the day making more battery cables, LOL.

Well, that's about all that happened today, looking over my to-do list for theis weekend, I'm going to be a busy beaver out in the yard this weekend, a lot of clean up to do.

That's all for now, you may return to your own borning life now.
W.


P.S. Check out a friend of mine on YouTube, he runs http://www.outragedpatriots.com/
He's speaking to our city council.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYxsM7W2F8g

More life to love

Well, I survived another fun filled day at work, most of the day was fine, but the boss walks by right before last break and tells me that S. is leaving for the day because of a dentist appt. (I already knew about it) and that he wants me to finish up wiring the engine that S. was working on. No biggie, I figure that S. has it pretty well finished and all I have to do is zip tie up the loose cables and maybe put a little sealant on some connections and basicly take the rest of the day off. Boy I was wrong, he had about half the wiring routed wrong, so I had to tear it all out and rework half the engine. Oh well, still got to kill about a half an hour doing nothing.

BTW, it's freaking HOT, it's got to be at least 90 out there right now!!!


And just think, only a couple of months ago we were all complaining about how cold it was. LOL



And now the topper for the day



After three whole days working at Nonni's Cookies, Sweets gets fired, and you gotta love this reason. She was talking politics with a couple of coworkers while they were on break. Yep that's the reason they fired her. Apparently since 95% of the workers there are mexican the management doesn't like anyone to talk about immigration policy and law even if they only do it on thier break time.

God bless America and all the stupid idiots in it!
W.

June 6, 2007 - Morning

Well, the truck is in the repair center for it's final estimate, they picked it up yesterday morning and I stopped by after work to sign the paperwork. hopefully it won't take them long to decide if it's totaled or repairable.

Not much went on at work yesterday, finished up putting all the ABS harnesses that I had pulled out back in along with fixing the other couple a trucks that I couldn't get to Monday. Only other thing I did was relocate a backup alarm that had been mounted in the wrong spot. Have no clue to what I'm gonna do today, I think it's time to start looking for a new job, this place has no problems with laying off people and after the last round, I know I'm next on the list if they have another round. Granted, I'll get unemployment pay, but considering that we're just getting by right know, we'll be screwed if I do get layed off.

Gotta love life.
W.

Well, survived another day

Not much happened yesterday, 4am came way too early, but I dealt with it. I figure I might as well get used to it and just consider the days that Sweets doesn't work a sleep in day.

Work was about the normal level of stupidy, just before lunch my leadman gave me a list of nine trucks that they wanted the ABS harness pulled out of because the new style engines have the exhaust running down the right side of the frame because of the turbos, so I pulled all the harnesses and piled them on a cart, just after I finished the engineer decided he didn't want the harnesses pulled that he wanted to try a slightly different routing instead. These engineers have no clue as far as I concerned. My leadman and me looked at one of the trucks that had the engine and exhaust all in place and decided that his alternated routing wouldn't work either so I suggested, just let me figure it out instead. It took me about ten minutes to figure out that if I ran the whole harness down the left side of the truck it would work just fine, so I ended up reinstalling three of the harnesses that way yesterday. Today I get to look at the others that had a different harness and see if I can do the same to them. At least I don't work in air piping, those guys had to strip all the air tubing out completely and start over because all of thier tubing is cut to length as they install it, needless to say there is a big pile of scrap air tubing laying in the middle of the line right now.

OK, time for me to get ready for work, catch ya all later
W.

I feel like do-do

Couldn't get to sleep last night, went to bed at 9pm, Sweets came to bed shortly after. The neighbors decided it was time to make noise, finnaly at 10pm I decided to get up and see what the hell was going on, couldn't figure out what N. was doing, but apparently they saw me standing at the frint door and decided to quit for the night, so I went back to bed and layed there for another hour listening to the various sound in my house: the chain on the ceiling fan ticking, Jazz's stomach doing I don't know what, Damien was coughing and hacking, and of course Morgan snoreing like a bear. I felt like I wa in a sound stuido durning the mixing for the latest Ailen movie. I ended up putting in my earplugs, they helped a little. Then 4am comes and Sweets alarm goes off. I think I only ended up with about 3 hours of sleep last night. Of course today is Monday, so we all know how that will go. Time to get things ready for work, I'd like to be able to get at least one cig in after I get there, before I hit the line.

It's been awhile since I've been here

Life has really gone screwy for me lately, actually to tell the truth it's bent me over the chair and is not even giving me a kiss on the cheek.

Let's see if I can sum up the last couple a weeks in short terms.

1. Company laid off about 20 guys, just missed the cut on that
2. A drunk plowed through the yard tearing out the gas meter, big flower box and ramming my truck into the neighbor's fence.
3. Sweets wanted me to kick the snot out of a little 20 yr old piss ant at the pizza place she worked at, she quit, has a new job now.

And that's just the last two weeks.

Just enjoying life
W.