Still here ranger. I won't make it this moth most likely. Will you be returning to this area after your service call up?

 

Good morning all, Man am I glad this night will be over soon! Only 2 1/2 hours till bedtime...lol.

Fitter

 

Ok Mike like everone else on this thread youmust properly introduce yourself. Such as what the heck are you doing up at such an ungodly time in the morning and what you do. The rest we'll pick your brain on and find out as we desire. BTW we consider ourselves a rather elite bunch and don't violate our little lair with a day time post. LOL

We've dern near become family in the last couple weeks. LOL

 

Ranger I also should have included in my welcome to Southern Illinois that your best off to just wave at everyone as you meet them on the road. I think sometimes it has caused a police officer not to turn and pursue me for speeding and sooner or later someone will coe up to you and say "you didn't wave at me the other day" so you're best off to just wave at every car. There aren't that many of them anyway and you'd be surprised how many people wave back or say hi at the store or something.

 

Well you know my name..lol, I'm a Maint foreman working night shift on a Fall plant outage. It will last only a couple of weeks but, I normally get up at 4:00am to start my day. So I hope that doesn't qualify as a daytime post...lol

Mike

 

I ran outta meds a day early. Ive been taking them for years. Tonight I seem to be doing the withdrawal thing. I can't lay in bed and relax, cant sit here anxious and very tired.

 

Taz does the same thing, up at 4 am so we'll let you slide I guess. I assume with a name like "fitter" you're a pipefitter foreman.

By the way Taz you alive and at it this morning yet?
Speakin of alive and at it are you still awake Pep?

 

Speaking of meds... I was all plugged up but I ran out of Claritin and took two Diphedryl (diphenhydramine hydrochloride) tablets instead. That was a mistake! That reacted with the high blood pressure and other meds etc. Heart was pounding, sleepy even after 9 hours of sleep, exhausted, sweating, shaking like a leaf, weak as a kitten. -Bad news city! I won't do that again. The weren't any warnings on the side of the bottle. The effects have worn off mostly and now those allergies have kicked back in -sniff. I guess I will be in line at the pharmacy when it opens this morning.

 

Sorry for the unexpected interlude...ended up leak-ckecking my ocular cavity covers.

As far as waving to people in southern IL, I like to wave at folks anyway. Seems like it was more common back home.

So what's up with people from Pope County? Is that the land that time (and state tax dollars for education) forgot?

 

My meds: Now keep in mind I'm 24 and still bulletproof. LOL

Allergies: A few beers or a few stiff drink and off to bed.
Common Cold: A stiff drink, vics vapo rub un my chest and undermh nose and off to bed with a sweatshirt, joggin pants and a thick blanket. You sweat like you're in hell and feel great the next morning.
Soar Throat: Vics again under your nose and on your throat area.
Muscle Pain/Aches: (Ankles still kill me from a bad high school football injury) {at work) several Asprin, tylenol or ibuprfoen, {away from work} beer, preferably Coors light.
Stomach pain: Means I probablyhaven't ate in a few days so i'lleat, othrwise I just feel like hell and beer don't help. Otherwise no cure has ben found.
Hangovers: Don't drink enough to get one and haven't had one in a long time. No cure found excpet hard work and be tough to pay for your fun from the night before.
Headache: Tone out mom, no wife to tone out so what else could drive me nuts

 

Pretty much right on. Keep in mind that this area of IL is economically depressed and if you have a job you're doing good. If you're keeping your head above water your doing great. If you haven't noticed what are the biggest industires around here? Answer-prisons and other state jobs.
Also the 5 counties with the highest incest rates are right near us. I think Pope, Alexander, Pulaski, Hardin and Gallatin are the winners. massac is just kind of isolated there by itself, of course most of massac County lives in Metropolis. I love the drive on US 45 from Vienna to Metropolis though.

State tax dollars for education, what that? If you're around here long enough you'll learn that most of our tax dollars goes up north and most of our laws are determined by folks that think we are in Kentucky or are dumb residents that belong in Kentucky and that Southern illinois is everything outside of Chicago. Being a former student at SIU and having alot of classmates from Chicago area they were surprised that it wasn't flat cornfields down here. Massac is fairly flat but venture out and you'll think you're back home in SW Mo again, minus the streams. You ever notice the big thing down here with Governor candidates is guns, true it is an important issue in our area but we would like to be able to afford to buy one. Our state is sick, instead of "Land of Lincoln" we should be "Illinois, if it's normal it didn't start with us"

 

I work with another foreman from Pope county and he's hilarious. Actually a smart guy that was able to rise above his schooling. We do give him a pretty hard time about his home county though.

I'm checking out. My relief is coming in early to make up for me covering for him last night for class. See you all tonight.

 

To you guys that are 25 and bulletproof... Wait till you hit 40, -all hell breaks loose. I guess that was why up to 100 years ago 40 was considered OLD and people died at that age. The old bod was not designed to last past 40.

 

c'ya all tonight! Going to bed... yipppeeee

Mike

 

I'm signing out too. I sleep in the evenings and work allday after I get off work at 7 am on the farm. See yall later.