June 6, 2012
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I'm rudely awakened to Ron (aka: Chas Manson) hollering thru the screen door as to whether I'm awake or not. dammit! he knows I'm a third shifter
! by the time I get up, he's gone. I assumed he had more leftovers for Rosie, but I see no plate (like he left yesterday. some old pulled pork and tator salad left to bake in the sun on the porch railing. I threw it out so Rosie wouldn't get Botulism). I'm up now, and the Pooperdog is ready for a barefoot walk, so we do our thing. Ronald stops me while we walk and being the nosy neighbor that he is tells me that 'across the way, Jay' girlfriend had borrowed my lawn mower last night and couldn't get it working (blah, blah, blah...he can never give me a Reader's Digest version), I told him that I gave her permission, and if the old mower finally blew, it was free to me and lasted a lot longer than it should have. he (being that mower repair guy) then starts giving me shit about how dirty the oil is, etc. me, being a bit pissed that he woke me up, and now getting lectured about how I take care of my stuff, take a minute to explain that I'm on a 12 hour/everyday shift and don't need his crap [paraphrased]....and speakin' of work, I take a 'bank day' (excused unpaid time off) on Monday, and because I put in 4-12'ers in a row on top of 3-10's, I was beyond exhausted, the first couple beers were fine while I washed my car, but once I laid down and turned the TV on I slept for forever. it's good to catch up on most needed sleep. the place is killin' me with these crappy hours. I know we gotta work these next 2 days, but haven't a clue yet as to if we gotta work thru another weekend (again!). I turn in a vacation form for the weekend, but was denied (nice!
). and leaving off from my last entry about quality issues, we continued to crank out bad parts and pass them as good (me, and others, using my line supports quality check ID number), just to have it all come to a screeching halt by the QA dept (finally, someone with authority puts on the brakes). a pretty good amount of parts were recalled and reworked and the unload set-up revised to assure bad parts are hand tested before being shipped (that's better). I'm starting to put my own number on the boxes again. meanwhile, a QA person walks around and asks everyone's name (prob'ly to add all of our names collectively on some sort of write-up for the situation that I wanted nothing to do with from the beginning...wouldn't that be awesome?!). Brian (room mate/almost neighbor) is back to work and repays the $210 (rent/cable TV payment for June) that he borrowed back (while taking a 2 week unemployment stint). it's kinda nice having the place completely quiet during the day again...
otherwise, nothing new. nice weather! my dune buggy runs better (engine light is now always off) now that I threw a bottle of 'STP complete engine cleaner' shit in the gas tank. it's about due for another oil change soon. also I get a few quotes for the badly needed clutch job for my shrimpy truck. seems $600 (seems like a lot for an old truck, but it needs to be done) is about the cheapest I can find (at the moment). I'll do some more shopping, but first, as per normal, I gotta get ready for the stalag...
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