The Semi-Consolidated Leakage Thread again!!!

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Another goofy kind of day!!!


Some days, it's a real bitch getting people to do what they tell you they're going to do. Imagine that, you tell someone you're going to have some stuff somewhere on Monday, the assholes expect it there before Allah motherfucking damned Wednesday, FFS!!!!


She looks like she might have some teeth up thar in that thar thang what been a'gnawin' on that thar railin'.


Anyway, I'm now a grandparent:
 
Happy Wednesday!!! The new job shat money into my checking account, as advertised. That's nice, waking up to a larger bank balance.


Everything is supposed to be showing up this morning - dumpsters, material, all of it. The roofer should be happier today. He certainly was a fussy fucker yesterday.


I have to get moving earlier today, since we get site arrivals earlier today, too.


Meh. It comes with the job.

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So it was the longest day yet on the new job. Folks started the day off cranky and the heat didn't help. First, the shingles didn't arrive, and then the roofer was going to go back home - to Milestown. I mean, you drove all the way up here, and now you're bailing out??? I got a bit miffed with the old boy myself. Then the shingles arrived, but there still were no dumpsters. Then the roofer, who was leaving, trumped us all and called his buddy the VP, who apparently smoothed and soothed him over.


Then we had the first conference call, which will become a weekly thing, right in the middle of Wednesday mornings. If you want me to report in conference, then why do you want daily reports from me, too, FFS??!? I was just along for the ride on this one. Next week, I'll be sitting at the other job, out of sight and (I hope) out of mind. Theirs, not mine.


The roofer comes over to chat this afternoon. He proceeds to explain that the real problem was these hothead Guatemalans that he has working for him. He's a Mexican, so he's cool and can go with the flow. But those Guatemalans, they get angry and storm off and throw tools and all kinds of things that aren't very nice and serve to escalate a tense situation. And they're Indians, too, and not very clean. But these clowns were the only guys he could get to come (translation: the only ones who would work this cheap) , and they are very hard workers, so we have to make allowances for them, and he apologized for the uneasy morning.


This was right after the Big Boss had told us that this guy is a prima donna and needs to have his hand held. My solution? I showed them picture of my grandchild - the puppy.

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Man, that heat will make you cranky.

Tomorrow I have a late start, so the trailers with have the same temperature as Death Valley...
 
Happy Thursday!!! There be more heat today, and worserer tomorrow.


Not even a chance of rain. Good thing we got drenched the other night . . . except for the people who are still without power.


Last night,I had an interesting conversation with a woman I have known for awhile. We have butted heads a couple of times. She opinionated, kinda crazy, and not the sharpest tool in the shed. I was sorely pissed at her from the last thing we tried to do together. Anyway, I have relaxed my stance regarding her and have actually been chatting with her on occasion these last several weeks. She's trying to find a home for a cat that needs rescuing - she rescues dogs. As we're concluding our chat, she said a few conciliatory things and wrapped it up with, "you're not the asshole that I thought you were."


I said, "Honey, I'm every bit the asshole that you thought I am and more, but I have the ability to be your asshole, too." She laughed as much as her uptight disposition would allow.

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You're lucky, no rain.

It rains here at least once a day, which does cool things down, but then the following humidity is oppressive.

What's the Guatemalan word for asshole? :D
 
I go back and forth on the rain and its benefits and detractions. In the end, the garden likes it, so I like it.


The only other I-know-he's-Guatemalan-because-he-told-me-so Guatemalan whom I have worked with told me how much he hated Mexicans. IT's hard to identify your Central American rivalries without a scorecard.


No, but I almost asked if, since I was herasshole, if her asshole could be mine, to have and to fuck from this day forward . . .


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I was talking to Junior a couple of days ago, and we discussed staying home. He's staying, I'm almost staying.


We spent way too long going over several shop drawings for our cabinets at the two local projects. Give the Big Boss Man credit: he's pretty meticulous.


My immediate supervisor: not so much. But, he will get in a fucker's face what needs got into. Like the asshole Guatemalan. The vendejo.


Tomorrow is off to "my" project. I get my hand held, but it will be my eyes and my notes and all my observations. It'll be fine.

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Oh, by Allah's beard, it is still around 80 and on the way to 90+, work is going to be Hell, or Lago, or something special.

I would take off, but then, nothing, or little, would get done and that which gets done will be wrong.
 
Happy Friday!!!


Running a bit behind today. I slept in, slightly, probably because of the last couple of long hot days. It's a bit FAPtastic - wee pay from job #2. Next week's check from them will be infinitesimal.


Oh well - a piece of something is always better than all of nothing.


Hell will be late for breakfast but it assured to be here in full hot force by lunchtime.

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Oh yeah, working outside yesterday did me in. I was all tuckered out and sweated out very early on.

But I came inside and kept soldering on.

Asked Princess to do some weed-eating. She said yes, she would, and then spent six hours, not cleaning, but detailing her car...

Well when I get home this morning, I'll be taking a set of car keys away.
 
I felt sorry for the Guatemalans yesterday, even El Vendejo. Mucho mas worseness is in store for today and tomorrow.


I got a new windscreen installed in the truck, so round one of state inspection begins when I drop it off tonight.


It's always a guessing game as to what they're going to try to get me for. Last year was back brakes. He was right - one of those shoes was down to about matchbook thickness. So, how come the front brakes are still okay? My guess is, that's what's on tap this time.


Fuck them - I'm not being preemptive.

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It seems they always want to ding you for something. Then they want to "fix" it for you quick and easy. I told them that I was qualified to run out to Wallymart and purchase cheap wiper blades and install them myself, which I did.

I took the truck into the local Quickie L00b. The manager came in with a very long face, your power steering fluid is nearly black, you should change it immediately before any damage can occur. I looked at their price chart, $90+ bucks. I went over to see our mechanic and even before I could finish describing the situation, he was just shaking his head.

He said that I could go for years with it being black; get a turkey baster, empty the reservoir, and refill it. About once a week repeat until it's almost clean. That cost me under $10...
 
Or open the return line and put a bucket under it. It will all run out.


Last I checked, black hydraulic oil still does hydraulic shit, so . . . fuck it.


Lost of time, like today, I'll give them the wiper blades so they have something to "find".


State inspections are a huge loss leader for them, and it's a shitty way of the gummint sticking yet another cock up the ass of business.

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