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Broke one drawer pull ages ago. The other one finally gave up the ghost last week. I went to the website to try and buy replacements. Nada. Got sick of pryimg the drawer open......

True. It is for me, 2 days ago I passed the 12 year mark for days unmissed, I forgot to mention it, this has reminded me.

....and having to account for every second, this place has taken some getting used to. Last May, my boss tells me “We’re going on summer hours now....” I’d seen the email, but that said 8-4:30 and didn’t really know what that meant. He says “The other guys are working 8-4.....if you want to work around that.....” (Their normal hours are 8-4:30, mine 7-3:30). I thought “....did he just tell me I can leave a half hour early....???” Yup. I assumed that when the students came back in September, we’d go back to “regular” hours. Nope. It’s almost a year later, and I’m still leaving at 3.... A couple of weeks ago, one of my other bosses came downstairs at 3:15 or so. He asked me “What are you still doing here?” I said “Oh, I just wanted to finish these up before I went home....” He said “Oh, that’s great! Thanks a lot!” He walked away and I thought “Did I just get a pat on the head for not leaving early??? That’s fucked up!” ? Yesterday morning, my boss says “Are you going to be here before 7:30 tomorrow??” “Uhhh, Yeah, why?” “Oh, they’re turning the power off for a few minutes at 7:30. Make sure you have a flashlight”. I’m supposed to be here at 7 and he wants to know if I’ll be here at 7:30? Crazy stuff.

Yard work deferred? Winning!

Sounds like your boss appreciates your work. Good job. BTW, I thought I was going to open this and you were going to say that you retired.

That train had no high vis or blinky lights.

Mooseknuckle went home early today, sick. Project badass also drive her husband home and he threw up on the way there. Maybe it is going around and I should go to the health center.

Heavy on the arugula, kale, and red peppers for inventory control. Veggies are persnickety, especially parsnips and persimmons. although I don't have those. Some very old sundried tomahtos that fell oot of the fridge were a nice touch too, as long as I don;t die.

This is what I envisioned, too!

like Every day? Or every working day? Either way 12 years is an impressive feat, but do ride 365 days a year. Wow. I don't even get out of bed 365 days a year

No blinkie lights - blinding or not! Tom

What is...... A Devo tribute band.

Still better than responding to a domestic.

Protective covers for the static dischargers? Now I've seen everything. On the other hand, I probably changed well over 100 of them over the years. Some broke in flight, but many were run into by people (including yours truly). Story about static dischargers. I was TDY up to Wright-Patterson AFB to teach advance aircraft mechanic classes on the T-39 Sabreliner. The T-39s had an odd mixture of static dischargers. Sometimes they would be on the wings, like the photo above, sometimes they would be on the tail, and sometimes they would be attached to the lightning dischargers near the fuel dump valve. While showing the mechanics how to do a proper preflight, I noticed that one aircraft didn't have any static dischargers. Not a one! Also there was a very old write-up in the forms about static in the radios at times. Well it didn't take a genius to figure that one out!

Oh, that's one of the best things about the wacky lady! The normal store gives me boring dark brown cases and you get no choice. The wacky lady has a wide variety of colors and designs. The last cases I got from her were a shiney, metallic-y purple and bronze, respectively. Another one was a matte blue and pink. She usually puts a large number of fun cases on the counter and lets me pick whichever ones I want. That makes me feel very happy!!!

For what it is worth during a training exercise held at a nearby, inactive/storage base, MP's stopped our transport bus at the gate and required the that we jog in with field load. They were taking great joy that we were 'soft' medical personnel. Two female officers flat out smoked them as the MP without any load couldn't keep up and barely broke a sweat in the two mile jog. Little did they know that the females were marathoners...and we didn't tell them. I kept up with the MP's leasing us to the site and it was a joy just watching their reaction. During live fire exercise we are crawling through trenches with stretchers, and later through an obstacle course, trough windows, etc. We weren't dumb, we picked the lightest nurse as the patient strapped to stretcher. The next year they used sandbags. One year the weather was so bad that the projector bulb went 'plink' in the cold so we were not subjected to training classes...but had tent stake detail, pounding them back in throughout the night as the rain soaked ground softened and the wind was gale force. Upon leaving, while there was snow in the AM, noticed the concrete block softball dugout was totally demolished. Arriving back at the main base, tree limbs were down all over the place and we learned they closed the base yesterday, sending all personnel home and was still closed. We camped out in that crap...but we were no longer considered 'soft' as the news spread to operational units.

Just to be clear, the wacky lady just runs the eyeglass store. My actual eye doctor is a nice, normal person.

Share the road Chris

No, I'm pretty sure his blades are still sharp when he's done.

I'm always more willing to work harder and sacrifice more when people treat me well. Glad you've found a place where they appreciate you.

Just saying. Tom

Maybe they wouldn’t be if they took some of Larry’s supplements?

It's not the actual doing of it...and by this I mean carrying heavy loads over long distances in the shortest possible time. It's how the injuries you carry come back when you are old to haunt you and make your life a wee bit difficult....speaking as an ex Para with buggered knees and little hearing.

There’s an intersection I deal with every night on the way home. The two lanes I’m in merge on the right with two lanes of interstate off ramp. The people coming down the off ramp are trying to get over to where I am and I’m trying to get to the right where they are. It’s a giant X. I can turn my head like a goddamn owl and am still never sure if there’s anyone in the lane I’m trying to merge into.

Well he did kick the devil's ass, so he has to be tough!

That's true but I think that you shouldn't be too hard on Chris....it can happen to anyone.

FTR, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Abe Vigoda are still dead. Elvis too.

He sells supplements on TV, now. Or did, until he died or not.

I was actually thinking about putting that on there.

French chicks are hot! Tom

My GPS on WAYS talks to me in a nice British or possible Australian voice. I let her give me directions to places I know how to get to just because I like her sexy voice.

My truck does all that too, but it seems like I spend more time arguing with it than doing anything when I use the voice prompt stuff. My son likes to send me text messages with cuss words so my truck is always cussing me out in a nice female British voice.

Try everything once, except incest and Morris Dancing.

And they keep adding more touch screens and "features" in them to distract people even more.

Maybe Max is right, I don't know how to jump, corner like a queen or thread the needle. I should sell them all. Our net worth will go up considerably.

They might want to get their hearing checked after that.

That’s a great place to carry a spare tube!

20 on the cross county trail (gravelly mixed surface trail following a water course). A lot of mud and downed trees from Sunday night rainstorm. 15.6 avg with a top speed of 60.43 mph. I think my app needs calibration.

If they can meet the physical and mental requirements, no problem. Heck I once trained a lot of female Airmen on how to change 250 lb aircraft wheel and tire assemblies. What I do have a problem with is that 18 YO men still have to register for the draft while 18 YO women do NOT. Of course it's very unlikely that we will ever have a draft again, but if women want equal rights, equal pay, etc., then responsibilities should be equal also.

Not always. As a cop a female patrol officer requested a code 2 (urgent) follow. I was the closest patrol so responded. She was talking to two burly biker dudes and they were walking towards her as she was backing up. They saw me coming so said now or never so one dude grabbed her. She judo flipped the dude, stomped him in the head and then drew down on the second shit head who promptly went unconscious when I arrived. The first shit head had her by 5" and 100 lbs easy and she took him out without the use of any aids.

Well, do they?

Even with her training, I'm impressed she could handle the situation so well without any ice cream sandwiches.

Bangor......., I hardly even knew 'er.