Trying to wake up this morning. Downing some coffee and getting ready for an interview for a full time position later today. It is hard not to notice the shorter daylight time as each day passes. I am defiinitely not a fan of the cold weather season. Looks like it will be a fairly warm and sunny day today. If the weather forcast is correct, it will ( Read more... )

Still waiting for word from the company I am assigned to for another road trip. My co-worker called today and was quite frustrated. He is trying to decide whether he can work in a short term work assignment with another company before things get going again at the glass equipment manufacturer. I have been wrestling with the same dilema. I had ( Read more... )

The last few days have kept me quite busy. Actually a bit too busy. It seems that way too many things have come together at the same time than I can handle all at once. Dealing with it though. Don't really have any choice. My new laptop computer was delivered on Tuesday. Also arriving on that day were the repair parts for my 5 hp air compressor. I ( Read more... )

It was a long day today. Finally winding it up with an update. Was up early at 6:30 this morning. Went out to breakfast at Sal's diner, took a 1 hour nap, then went to Southwest General Hospital to meet up with some former misfits of society. Need to find someone to take my paid spot for camping at Cook's Forest next weekend. Will not be able to ( Read more... )

Back home from my trip to Fall River, MA. A lot learned on this trip. Learned how to make the most of flight delays. There were delays at Cleveland and Philedelphia airports while traveling to the Providence airport. Also were delays at the Providence going home. Found that Fall River is a rather dead town. Apparently, it used to be a bustling ( Read more... )

I just finished packing for another trip for my new job. This time flying to Fall River, MA. Leaving super early tommorrow. Have to get up by 4:00am and get to the airport by 5:00am to have enough time to get through security checkpoints and catch my flight. I have never been to the northeast coast. Looking forward to this trip. Last weeks trip to ( Read more... )

Tuesday morning and already scurrying about trying to get something accomplished. Just started on fixing a leaky faucet valve on the kitchen sink and a few minutes after starting, my mom calls and wants help hanging a mirror at her place. Mothers have a natural knack of throwing wrenches into the wheels of progress. No matter what I have planned to ( Read more... )

I did a little research on the portable Singer sewing machine I was messing around with. One web site identified it as a model number 127. It had a link to another web site which identified it by the serial number as a class 27 (a.k.a. model number) manufactured in 1907 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. That would make the machine around 100 years old. And ( Read more... )

Spent some time today learning some new tricks:

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At last, my boss at the new work assignment called me today. He apologized for not getting back to me sooner. Apparently there were a few possible assignments available during the week, but the dude I was paired up with had scheduling conflicts with all of them for whatever reason. He is on the shit list now and probably will soon be canned. One of ( Read more... )