I didn’t win a bracelet, so now I have to go back and build tires.
Sigh.

Monday night at work I got some money out of the ATM and wanted some change. I had eaten the “lunch” (in quotations cause it was 11 p.m.) that I had brought but I thought that maybe I could get some dessert in the cafeteria and get some change. Two birds thing, ya [...]

I’m not, shall we say, all that enthusiastic about my job.  I’ve been off since June 26th and I have to go back to work tomorrow.
Ick.

I’ve only got 13 hours of tire building to go.
I think I can, I think I can.

Have I ever told y’all how much I love my job?
Yeah, well, there is a reason for that.

An ongoing series in which you don’t have to be stupid, because I’ve done it for you.
I work alot of nightshifts. Half of all my regularly scheduled shifts are nightshifts and all the overtime I work nowadays is nightshift.
I mentioned to my doctor once about how tired and sleepy I get when on the [...]

So they recently began scaling back the available overtime at my job. Which was cool with me because I had 168 hours on my last paycheck. I get paid every two weeks, you do the math.
So this 7 day break was going to be the first full one I had taken in, umm, [...]

Man, have 10 days really gone by since my last post? Unbelievable. My life has become this haze of work, sleep, play with the kids for 10 minutes, talk to my wife for 5, work, sleep, work.
It sucks.
Marilyn has put her foot down as far as me working any more OT. I’m [...]

If you are like me and have to wear a uniform to work, there is a quick way to tell if you are working too much overtime. When you gather up your clothes to do a load of laundry from the past week and realize that only one shirt was not a part of [...]

A buddy of mine from work quit last night so that he could go open up his own construction company.
I’m so jealous I could chew my own tongue off.
His name is Nick Tindall and he is a helluva hard worker. There were many times when he would work a night shift, go put up [...]