Workin’ Again
Whew,
It’s nice to be working again after an almost two month break. Not that I didn’t keep busy with stuff around the house, getting the pool open, planting the garden, keeping my R/C cars running, you know, exciting stuff like that.
Today will probably go by fast as it’s the Friday before a three day weekend. I just have to write a couple reports and send them up to the home office, walk around and take some pictures of the progress and conditions, sounds like an easy day.
For the first time in a lot of years I’m not having a big 4th of July bar-b-q… Being out of work so long I’m just too broke and behind in all my bills so I can’t afford to buy all the food and supplies to feed thirty or more people this year. Going to keep it to just family and then have people come up later for the big fireworks show. I hear through the grapevine it’s going to be the biggest one yet!
Last week Grace and I drove down to North Carolina as planned and helped my Dad move into his new place there. Oh my God! What a long miserable drive, only to unload a ton of stuff, and then drive back on the third day. Definitely too much driving for such a short while. We did drive around the town though, Asheville that is, and it looks like a cool place.
The neat thing is they have all these fast food places I haven’t seen since I was a kid living in Michigan. And of course all the gas stations have moon pies and goo-goo clusters on the counter for munchies. I heard they even have Vernor’s Ginger Ale in the markets down there! If you don’t know about it, Vernors is one of the oldest soft drinks made in this country and unlike any other ginger ale you’ve ever had. Go to bevnet.com and read their review, they give it four stars, myself I’d give it five in the glass bottle, 4.5 in the can.
So the nice thing about this job is I’m in the trailer onsite with the government guys, so we have a lot of luxuries you wouldn’t expect on a construction site. Like high speed internet, satelite TV, a Keurig coffee maker, a real bathroom, and more office supplies then your local stationary store, to just name a few things. And of course since they’re with the federales, what they say goes, so they kind of always get their way if they really want it, not a bad thing at all. And the air conditioner kicks in this place. It was 60 degrees in here when I opened up this morning!
OK, I’m outta here, have to make a cup of coffee and walk around the site. My internet at home has been broken but supposedly it’s coming back up today, so I’ll post some pics from down south and take some more this weekend.
-later
