Sat 5 Aug 2006
For the past two weeks i’ve been living somewhat of a double life: Mild-mannered unshod IT hunk by day, and Teamster by night, and evening, and weekend. Here is where i would normally make some wisecrack about how the teamster reference doesn’t apply because i was working far too hard, but i think now i kind-of get it. You know when there’s a road crew and you see one guy jack-hammering and 3 guys standing around drinking coffee, and you think, “gotta love mt tax dollars going to 1 guy working and 3 guys standing around drinking coffe?” I don’t think that any more. I have been schooled. I have seen the light, and the darkness that lies there.
Who Knew
It seems that jack-hammering, and chainsawing and digging, and augering are all hard work. Like, “Oh-my-god-this-validates-my-decision-to-be-an-IT-geek-for-a-living. Thank-“Bob”-i-was-clever-enough-to-not-have-to-do-this every-fucking-day-of-my-working-life” hard work. One gets dirty. One gets tired. One gets blisters even with gloves on.
The Guys drinking coffe aren’t thinking, “boy ove got it good, i’m drinking coffee while that poor fool is working.” They’re thinking, “Oh hell, I’m next up on the jack-hammer.”
There is a bright side, though. All of this is going into the history books. I was fortunate enough to be working during some of the recent days of thermal record-breaking. woohoo!
August 11th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Dude… you know there are people that you can pay to do that shit for you, right?
August 11th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Penguin! It’s so very good to read your words. Yes, there are indeed people i can hire to do such work for me. The problem is onec of financing. If you read down a few more posts, you’ll realize that i recently bought a house. Given my obvious financial status since then, where, pray tell, would i come up with the money for such a thing?
Actually, we have hired a friend of a friend contractor who is turning out to be quite fabulous. Demolition and hole digging are things that i’m perfectly capable of. Though i have a basic knowlege of wood butting and carpentry (i got an "A" in shop if you recall), I lack the specific knowlege (and tools) to venture out on these particular projects on my own — hence the new hire. He’s very knowledgeable, good to work with, and most importantly, he brought nailguns.