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YAY! I finally have some time off.
I had figured I'd draw, or work on a story..or do something!
But..my trusty (..and now becoming really rusty after all these years in NY Snow and salt)..94 Jeep Grand Cherokee..decided to blow a brake line.
And here in NY.. we have rain due for 4 days in a row.
So..I made some calls.. found a mechanic friend in need of work and money.. and then drove 50 minutes to his place..where he has a lift.
I had brake lines, fittings, brake fluid.. one wheel cylinder just in case of a problem..and THEN, of course..Both Bleeder valves on both wheel cylinders were frozen.
So I drove to an auto parts store..got the part I needed and got back in time to hear my mechanic friend bitchin' about my rusty old junk. LOL
Anyways.. I now have all new brake lines to the rear..new drums, wheel cylinders, brake shoes, springs and crap...
And I can slow down in a hurry if I need to. YAY!
And then my phone rings.. Uggghhh! My Lesbo farmer friend wants me to take a long drive to deliver a load of pumpkins down south.
(Ahhh, take the money when ya can...)
And...so much for drawing!
I had figured I'd draw, or work on a story..or do something!
But..my trusty (..and now becoming really rusty after all these years in NY Snow and salt)..94 Jeep Grand Cherokee..decided to blow a brake line.
And here in NY.. we have rain due for 4 days in a row.
So..I made some calls.. found a mechanic friend in need of work and money.. and then drove 50 minutes to his place..where he has a lift.
I had brake lines, fittings, brake fluid.. one wheel cylinder just in case of a problem..and THEN, of course..Both Bleeder valves on both wheel cylinders were frozen.
So I drove to an auto parts store..got the part I needed and got back in time to hear my mechanic friend bitchin' about my rusty old junk. LOL
Anyways.. I now have all new brake lines to the rear..new drums, wheel cylinders, brake shoes, springs and crap...
And I can slow down in a hurry if I need to. YAY!
And then my phone rings.. Uggghhh! My Lesbo farmer friend wants me to take a long drive to deliver a load of pumpkins down south.
(Ahhh, take the money when ya can...)
And...so much for drawing!
To catch up...
...Work slowed down dramatically last week. I went from 18 hour days, 7 days a week, to doing 2 days a week.
I'm burned out. I can keep going, if needed. But because I don't need to, I'm just vegging out in front of the big screen TV, catching on a LONG list of DVR saved things, and messing around on my tumblr page.
And running my long neglected dogs every day until they look like they will drop dead.
Life is good. And my dogs love me!
The farm life.
Hey all. I've been working 16 hours every day, (some 18 hour days, some 14 hour long days, but on average, 16 hours every day.) For the past 6 weeks. Then I had two 20 hour days, followed by a 22 and then a 21.5 hour long day, and then right back to the 16 hour long days.
So, I have NOT had any free time to check email, or anything else. Tomorrow, I think the farmer will pick the last of the hemp crop. I know the fields are mostly picked, but then I'm sent an address, to a new field I never knew about, and end up working to 3 AM, backing up in completely dark fields. (I have a farm worker drive slow down a twisty field road, and I just bac
I'm back in the saddle again..
Esssh. I didn't mention it, but I've been out of work the last few weeks. Had to have emergency surgery on my eye.
Having a detached retina repaired ain't as much fun as I thought it'd be.
3 weeks ago, the day after the surgery, when the nurse held up a hand in front of my face and asked how many fingers, I had no clue at all. I was just happy to see a flesh colored blob waving in front of my face.
2 weeks ago, eye surgeon said I was seeing 20/400. (Yano that ridiculously gigantic, sideways letter "E" you sometimes see on an eye chart? Well, if that's ALL you can see, THAT's 20/400!)
And...Last week, the stitches behind my eyeball we
Desperate for a driver
Hey. Anyone out there wanna job?
We lost two drivers at the farm.
I need a CDL B driver. And a non CDL driver.
Pay for CDL to start is 21 bucks an hour. Non CDL, 18 an hour.
I can get you free housing, and maybe food included too.
This week, I did over 80 hours. But that's just me. If ya like to work, we will make your day.
NO over time pay. No Benefits. (IT'S for a farm!)
But, if you can drive in places like NY City, I'll make life easy for ya.
Lemme know.
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Lesbo farmer + pumpkins + long drive = another great story coming up soon. I'll wait to see what adventure you encounter on this job.