Monday, March 03, 2008

My what strange weather we're having

Gotta love the weather, we've run through all four seasons in the last week.  But not necessarily in the correct order.  The last few days it's been beautiful, even hit the 70's yesterday.  Today we start the day at about 40 deg. and we're supposed to have major snow by 5pm, and then tomorrow it's supposed to start getting warmer all over again.  It's no wonder my sinus are in an uproar, they can't figure out what time of year it is.  LOL
 
Oh well, got to get ready for work, going to leave a bit early today, just in case.
 
Asta
W.
 
 Weatherman 1 Insane 





Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Sunday, February 17, 2008

The Weekend

    Been kinda busy this weekend mostly due to the weather, we had some major wind & rain yesterday, so it was a good day to stay inside and get some things done.  I got a bonus from work and we filed our federal taxes early by e-file, so we got our return back in a couple of days so Sweety and me had a little extra money, so we did a little shopping, actually we did a lot of shopping.  Bought a new recliner and loveseat for the living room, and a "Room in a Bag" kit for the bedroom, along with some new curtain rods.
   
    These "Room in a Bag" kits age nice, they were either designed by a guy or a woman that really used to having a guy do the shopping, almost everything you need to setup a bedroom is in the bag, comforter, fancy pillow cases, the little fru-fru pillows, bed ruffle, curtains, and table cover,  all you really need to buy extra is regular pillow cases, bed sheets and two curtain rods.  yes I realize this is all sounding a bit strange, LOL, but I felt the rest of you guys could use this info.  One of the main reasons I think it was designed by a guy is the curtains, most of us that live with a lady will understand this issue - hanging curtains.  When hanging the fru-fru curtains, you have to put up a rod for the shear curtain (the thin, kinda see through ones), then a rod for the regular curtains, then another one for the valance panel (the little short thing that goes across the top), so that's three different types of rods that you have to hang just right, so that it all looks right.  With these curtains on the other hand, they're all made together as one piece, that means one rod to get centered, level and at the right height.  Like I said, had to be designed by a guy, it's all in one bag, and for the most part makes logical sense.
 
    So anyway, Sweety and me put out most of it the night we bought it, but had to wait on the curtains until yesterday's shopping run, when I picked up a nice set of curtain rods.  I decided to be a nice hubby and surprise her by having it all done by the time she got home from work, so out came the tools and I put up the rods and curtains for her, and I flipped the bed up and got the dust ruffle on as well.  Sweety was surprised and tickled that I had hung the curtains and straightened up the bedroom all on my own.  Of course that was yesterday, today is all about cleaning up the rest of the house, which will include carting all my tools back out to the garage.  Speaking of tools, Sweety gave me my anniversary present Friday, a Skil 1-1/4 hp router, I'm a lucky guy, I've got a wife that understands a guys need for tools.  She of course got a pretty set of earrings, which is what she wanted.
 
    Ok, that's about all for now, time to get to work on the rest of the house.  Catch ya' all later.
 
W.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Veterans

When Veterans Retire

 

When a good Veteran leaves the "job" and retires to a better life, many are jealous, some are pleased and yet others, who may have already retired, wonder.  We wonder if he knows what they are leaving behind, because we already know.  We know, for example, that after a lifetime of camaraderie that few experience, it will remain as a longing for those past times. We know in the Military life there is a fellowship which lasts long after the uniforms are hung up in the back of the closet.  We know even if he throws them away, they will be on him with every step and breath that remains in his life.  We also know how the very bearing of the man speaks of what he was and in his heart still is.

 

These are the burdens of the job. You will still look at people suspiciously, still see what others do not see or choose to ignore and always will look at the rest of the Military world with a respect for what they do; only grown in a lifetime of knowing.  Never think for one moment you are escaping from that life.  You are only escaping the "job" and merely being allowed to leave "active" duty.

 

So what I wish for you is that whenever you ease into retirement, in your heart you never forget for one moment that "Blessed are the Peacemakers for they shall be called children of God," and you are still a member of the greatest fraternity the world has ever known.

 

Civilian Friends vs. Veteran Friends

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you're too busy to talk to them for a week.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years, and will happily carry on the same conversation you were having the last time you met.

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Have cried with you.

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Will kick the crowds' ass that left you behind.

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Are for life.

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have shared a few experiences...

VETERAN FRIENDS: Have shared a lifetime of experiences no citizen could ever dream of...

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had enough.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place and say, "You better drink the rest of that before you spill it!!"  Then carry you home safely and put you to bed...

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will talk crap to the person who talks crap about you.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Will knock them the hell out OF THEM..... for using your name in vain.

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will come and visit you in jail if you goof up badly and chastise you for being there.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Will be sitting right there beside you, saying "Boy, we really goofed that one up, but what a blast!!!"

 

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will ignore this.

VETERAN FRIENDS: Will forward this.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Been updating the websites

Well, not a whole lot has been happening lately, just pretty much the same old junk.  The weather has been screwy as all get out, 60's and beautiful one day, next morning, 30's and raining.  Gotta love it!!!  LOL
 
Anyway, I've been working on websites lately, I've gotten Sweety's main site up and running finally.
 
 
And I did a major revamp to mine.
 
 
 
Been fairly busy with that lately, that's why there hasn't been much posting to the blog, although I have discovered a nice feature of Blogger, you can set it up so that you can email your post.  Makes it easier and faster to create your posts in my opinion.
 
Well, enough computer burn for tonight, asta
W.

Friday, February 01, 2008

Survived another week!!

It's Friday!!! I survived this week in one piece, considering the weather I've been dealing with riding back and forth to work, I think that's a pretty good accomplishment.  LOL 
 
Well, work today wasn't that interesting, I finished up as far as I could on the Delta V panel, did the finish wiring on another panel, and started a third panel.  Like I said, not very interesting today.  It was a little iffy riding in this morning, there were a few wet spots here and there, the worst spot as usual was right in front of the Quick Trip.  It could be a perfect day otherwise and the road in front of it would be lousy, it's a main stop for truckers to refuel and they have a wash bay for them, so if it's a nice sunny day, all the truckers are washing their truck and the road is wet from them driving out.  The ride home on the other hand was nice, not too cold, not too windy, so at least it was pleasant.
 
One of Sweet's girlfriends stopped by tonight and brought her dog with her, it worked out pretty good, Woo didn't attack it, we were a bit concerned about that happening since he's an Akita and they are very territorial, but he behaved and they smelled each other's butts, then we put him outside until they left.
 
I did find me a set of hand warmers I think I'm gonna get, about 60 bucks and they're removable, now I just have to come up with the money.
 
 
They got pretty good reviews on a biker site I checked out, so I think I'm going to get these instead of a pair of heated gloves, especially since the cheapest gloves I could find were about $110.00, then you had to buy all the controllers separately.
 
That's about it for today, can't wait to see what the weekend will bring.
W.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Fun ride today

Well, today was interesting riding weather.  This morning it was about 40 deg. and raining on the way to work, then about midday it switched to snow.  All the guys were asking me how I was going to get home, I just answered, "The same way I got here, right down the expressway."  I cruised home doing about 45-50 mph, it wasn't too bad, had a few spots where I felt the rear wheel skid a bit, but I kept it upright and made it home safe and sound.
 
Most don't believe me when I say it's safer on the expressway, than on the city streets.  But, if you look at the conditions, you'd see it is.
 
Expressway Riding Conditions
1.  Everybody is going the same direction.
2.  No stop and go traffic to deal with.
3.  No side streets or parking lots for an idiot to blast out of.
4.  In the case of snow & ice, it's usually cleared before the city streets are.
5.  On the expressway the minimum speed is 40 mph, the average posted speed limit on city streets is 40 mph in Tulsa.
6.  No 90 deg hard turns, nice swooping ramps.
7.  Most people, when they see a crazy fool riding a bike on the expressway in the snow try to stay as far away from him as possible!   LOL
 
 
See ya on the flipside, they're talking ice in the morning.
W.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

It's Hump Day

Well, it's hump day, and not a whole lot has happened this week so far.  Work has been the usual for the most part, been working on a flair trailer, used in the petroleum industry I think, this week.  Big pain in the butt since our current shop isn't big enough to pull it inside, so we've been having to deal with the weather, working on it when it's nice.  Since nobody took any real notes and the reference pics of the last one were not that good, we spent quite a while discussing where things actually went.  I've decided that when we finish this one, I'm going to take pics myself, so that we actually have the angle shots we need to do the next one with.  Other than that, it's been pretty much business as usual around here.
 
Have a good one.
W.

Friday, January 25, 2008

It's Friday Again

Well, it's friday. The day started off with an ice rain storm, so I woke Sweety up and asked her to give me a ride to work since it didn't look like it would be safe to ride. I probally could have made it, but why take the chance with possible icy roads. Things turned out to be fairly clear, btw.

At work, first thing on the board was to finish up the field job with MS and PR, well PR was needed in the shop and really it wasn't nothing MS and me couldn't handle ourselves. We had to fix a problem, seems JCL didn't give up the correct info on how the wire tag numbers were supposed to be labeled, so we had to pull about 80 wire tags off and replace them, the bitch was that the foreman at JCL had the correct plans and hadn't bothered to give them to us until we were just about finished yesterday, so what should have been a hour finish up job turned into four hours by the time we were done. The best part was when our boss MM, stopped by to drop off some parts that we were waiting for, we just stood back and watched him rip the foreman a new one about this whole fiasco. He was p.o.'d because this happens a lot with them and he's getting tired of it. Well, the rest of the day went pretty normal, I finished up what I could do on the big JKZ enclosure, do to lack of parts either MS or me will end up on a field trip to finish it up on site, because the field crew needs to set it monday so they can finish up running the conduit. Monday I'll finish up the Delta-Vee panel and get it in its enclosure and that will probally kill off
the morning.

Oh well, not much else happened today. Got to deal with the cable company tommorow, that should be fun, they're still having line problems and we seem to be the only ones that will work with them on it.

Have a good one, and I'll catch ya later.
W.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

It's been awhile

Well, I've decided to start blogging again. No promises, but here we go again.

01-24-2008
The day started out at a balmy 20 degs, yep, it was a bit nippy on the ride to work. I've started a new job since I was here last. I now work at International Custom Controls it's a good place to work, I had gotten layed off from Crane Custom Carrier, so I had been seeing ads for a placement service called Prime Industrial Recruiting, so I signed up on the website and a day later had a job interview with ICC, and I started the next day, worked for me, I was only off work for three days.

OK, more later

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

WARNING!!! I'm a bit pissed right now

Sweety is in the other room trying to figure out what's wrong, I've already told her it's not her, she of course wants to talk about it and I don't, she's gonna find out soon enough and then it's really gonna blow up. I got a yellow slip of paper given to me today, shoulda been pink. Yep, as of this friday at 3:30 pm I'm offically unemployed. I got layed off, bumped out of my job by a half-wit dumb shit just because he has a bit more seniority than me. J. my foreman was irked when he gave me the sheet this afternoon, and after I mentioned that the guy bumping me had been red-flagged and had his fork truck license yanked because he ran into a truck out in the yard, he was really P.O.'d, you see you spend about a quarter of the day driving a fork truck doing the job, not to mention that fairly often you have to use a overhead crain to move some of the parts and I don't recall ever seeing him use a crane before. Enough about that idiot. I've now got three days to find another job that pays decent, because we were floating bills already just to survive and an unemployment check just isn't gonna cover things. I can't think really clear right now, more later.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

People Watching at Wally-World

I've kinda restarted a old hobby of mine, people watching. I did quite a bit of it while I was working at the mall in the cigar shop, now there's a place to see the world. All kinds come to the mall.

Anyway on to today's people watching, Wally-World, another good place to see America at its finest?

First, I have to tell you about Miss Priss & Gomer, both early 20's. She's all done up in her finest today, she's got on her low cut hip huggers, hot pink baby doll tee and matching hoodie, both of which are adjusted to proudly show off her belly button ring. Black stilleto heels with little rinestones on the long pointy toes, and matching knock off tiny handbag, she's not about to carry a women's purse that can actually hold more than a lipstick, cigs, and cell phone. And you can't forget, got to have the make-up and hair just so, you never know who your going to bump carts with in the frozen food aisle at Wally World. Then there's Gomer, most likely her first hubby, he's pushing the cart, following along behind her,looking like a puppy you just yelled at, wearing old camo pants, his faded out high school baseball t-shirt, dirty work boots and an old freebie ball cap he got somewhere. Scruffy would be a good description of him, looks like he hasn't shaved in a few days, probally rolled out of bed this morning and drug on whatever clothes were close at hand. What a pair.

Next up, your typical mexican family. Dad's a cowboy, got the starched,pressed, skin tight Wranglers on, multi-colored cowboy shirt, white ostrich skin cockroach stomper boots, tooled leather belt with chrome lacing and choncos with a belt buckle big enough to serve lunch on, and you can't forget about the blazing white straw cowbot hat either. He's strutting along like a peacock on viagra doing nothing. Wifey, on the other hand is wearing a pair of old jeans, frumpy shirt, and scuffed up old tennis shoes, her hair is pulled back in a no nonsence ponytail, and very little if any makeup. She's probally been running like mad all morning taking care of the house and everything else, including all of the shopping currently going on. Let's see now, on to the kids. The teenage son is pushing the cart, was drug screaming to the store, he's wearing baggy jeans, a t-shirt about two sizes too big, and high tops, the height of teenage male fashion. The teenage daughter is there as well, she of course spent two hours getting ready for the trip, making sure she looks like the biggest hoochy mama slut that you've ever seen, enough make-up for two girls on, trying her best not to fall out of her halter top that is about a size too small, skirt short enough that if she bends over, everybody's going to know what color panties she has on, and the best part is, I'd guess her age at about fourteen.

Well, that was the two most interesting sights today, can't wait to see who I see next.

Been Awhile

Yep, it's been a bit since I've posted anything. Life has a way of getting in the way of simple things like this. Not that a whole lot has happened since I last posted anything. As for what's going on now, a whole lotta the same old, same old. I have started a new project bike for Sweety, she's really been on my case lately for a bike to ride, she's realized the scooter, while cute and fun, just doesn't cut it in Tulsa traffic. So, I've agreed to rework my '76 Honda CB750ss into something she can ride. First order of business is lowering it for her, after a bit of searching and price gathering, I've decide on a set of 11" shocks for the rear, I bid on some on e-bay, but got outbid on them about two days later, so last Saturday I checked at a local shop and they had a set that would work for 90 bucks, pretty good price, I'll stop by Tuesday after work and pick them up. Then comes the fun part, lowering the front. It's time for tool shopping now, since I no longer work at a bike shop, I've got to start picking up some of the tools I'll need to do this kind of work, right now all I need to get is a disk grinder, cutoff wheels and sanding pads, so it's a trip over to Harbor Freight for those items, nice thing is, they pull double duty this fall when I start reworking the front porch, more on that later. After I get it lowered, then come the really big jobs, rewiring the bike and getting it running.

More Later
W.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Gotta luv Sunday mornings!

Yep, gotta luv 'em. I woke up this morning with a major kink in my back, amble to the bathroom for the morning routine, then head to the kitchen to make some coffee and find the pain killers, as I'm walking towards the kitchen I hear a strange hissing sound. Nope, not a snake, the water line going to the fridge's ice maker is spraying water. Fricken mice had chewed on the water line under the sink and there was water everywhere. Got the water shut off, looked around and decided - Damage Done. So I picked up the coffee pot and headed to the bathroom for water. I got the coffee started and pulled out the shop vac and started sucking up the water, after a bit Sweets stumbles out of the bedroom yelling at me about running the vac while she's still sleeping, I politly informed her about the flooded kitchen and got a repreve for being so rude. I don't blame her, I would've done the same thing given the circumstances.

After a quick inspection and figuring out what I needed, I headed out to the truck to go to Lowes, and had to laugh, Sweets had locked the truck as usual, but left the driver's window rolled completely down and of course it had been raining for awhile, so, back into the house for a towel to dry things off and on to the hardware store I went.

Gotta luv Sunday mornings
W.

Monday, June 25, 2007

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.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

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.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

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.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

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.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

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.

Friday, June 08, 2007

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.

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