Night shift check in
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From: S/C Texas
Well, its kinda more like a leave. Things arent working out at home. Instead of staying down here, I figure I'll take the winter in Ohio. I'll be able to help out some aging and sick grandparents thru the cold months. Also hope some distance helps things get sorted out while I'm away.
Heres a little about it on page two. Just happened to be a thread already started about such things.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...=291149&page=2 I guess thats why I've been kinda quite this week.
Oh, if it doesnt say it on the other thread. My gracious employer is understanding enough to give me a three month LOA, with longer available as long as I stay in touch.
Heres a little about it on page two. Just happened to be a thread already started about such things.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...=291149&page=2 I guess thats why I've been kinda quite this week.
Oh, if it doesnt say it on the other thread. My gracious employer is understanding enough to give me a three month LOA, with longer available as long as I stay in touch.
Last edited by peppy; Oct 11, 2004 at 02:01 AM.
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From: S/C Texas
Originally Posted by Ken aka Savage
I am here, pulling the third of four 12hr nightshifts, just try'n to remember what I used to do to amuse myself on nightshift before surf'n the internet became the craze... oh yea, work I guess, read the paper & used to bring in magazines to read. 
--Ken
--Ken
Coloring books/crayons, travel battleship, a couple video card games, a game boy, and a set of velco lined mit like things and tennis *****. Pretty much kept us amused at the station or out and about. Ofcourse that too was before unlimited cell minutes made surfing the net easier on the run, what internet there was at the time.
Last edited by peppy; Oct 11, 2004 at 01:59 AM.
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Originally Posted by Birdhunter1
Peppy, in you leave are you still going to be up at 3 am to post on the night shift post? Are you still going to be on FTE?
If the plan for employment goes thru....I'll be 2300-0600 Monday thru Friday.
I know the place there uses the same software as we do here....so maybe I'l be able to surf while working there also. I sure hope anyway.
I worked for this place once before.....left as the Communications Supervisor in '97. They currently are without a sup.....never know.
For sure, either way....I'll still be here on FTE. I am truly addicted. I can go a few days without.....but then I'm lookin for place to log in.
July I took a week vacation. When I got home, I was lookin for another trip to get me away. September I went to MD. Once again, a few days after being back, I was lookin for somewhere else to visit. I believe this is something needed. Not like its a mid-life crisis at 34........but certainly a few issues to be resolved.
I feel its all good........and will be all good. I have a very positive take on all this.
I know I'll feel all kinds of emotions, leaving, and being gone.....but they will have to be worked thru, just like everything else...its life.
I think your dumping the dip is a sound idea.....stuff makes smiling hard to do as you get older and jawless.
It aint all that gross, but aint all that pretty of a habit either.
Last edited by peppy; Oct 11, 2004 at 02:16 AM.
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If I remember correctly 2300-0600 in Ohio would be 2200-0500 for us here in IL. Yeah the dip thing is startign to bother me, its just the idea of "What do you do all night?" "Throw in a dip and surf the net." I use to smoke, quit that for dippin and later I had a girlfriend who smoked tell me that dippin' was gross, I told her at least she didn't have to smell it, it didn't rot others lungs as well as hers, others don't smell it on me or in my truck, and if I hadn't old her I was a dipper she never would have known it.
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From: S/C Texas
Yea, like here in my little corner of Texas, Central Time. Ohio is in the Eastern Time Zone.
I'm lookin foward to a very snowy winter. My trucks never seen anymore than a dusting of snow. I wanna see a foot or more frequently.
My truck takes 18" of beach sand without much complaining.....a foot or two of snow.......sounds like play time.
I'm lookin foward to a very snowy winter. My trucks never seen anymore than a dusting of snow. I wanna see a foot or more frequently.
My truck takes 18" of beach sand without much complaining.....a foot or two of snow.......sounds like play time.
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From: Murphysboro, IL
Mike you had to bring that up, I'm post #666 on this thread.
Pep, snow is fun with a 4x4, you'll enjoy. BTW check out this link, it's one of the out there stories on fox news about a guy who died two years ago who was just found recently.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134973,00.html
Pep, snow is fun with a 4x4, you'll enjoy. BTW check out this link, it's one of the out there stories on fox news about a guy who died two years ago who was just found recently.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134973,00.html
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From: Murphysboro, IL
It was a saddening story, the guy I guess had nobody to care for him. I find it amazing also that everything just went on as usual even though he was dead. How long could that have lasted if someone hadn't found him?
