Night shift check in
Posting Guru
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From: Summit, NJ
Just checkin in here from NJ. Trying to kill a big cricket that is in our bedroom. Normally this doesn't bother me, but this thing moves fast and all over the place. I have a can of Black Flag and I won't sleep until a six legged body hits the floor. Grr...
Of course my wife is unbothered by it and is sound asleep! Arrrgh.. the couch is looking awfully inviting - no crickets there.
Of course my wife is unbothered by it and is sound asleep! Arrrgh.. the couch is looking awfully inviting - no crickets there.
Posting Guru
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From: Summit, NJ
Oh man, its the worst! I'm usually persistent until I have a confirmed kill. Big things that hop or fly anywhere and everywhere isn't very settling. I had one good shot at him with the spray - I haven't seen him since. I think I may have gotten him. I think at this point I'll consider him presumed dead, but I'll sleep with the can on the night stand just in case. Work is gonna be tough tommorrow.. I'm looking at 3 and a half hours of sleep - been turning the bedroom upside down for 3 hours battling this thing.
Cargo Master
Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Murphysboro, IL
I'm back fellas, I just had to spend the last 3 1/2 hours reviewing 28 hours of surveilance video looking for someone doing something in particualr that they weren't supposed to be doing. The toughest part of this is that there is alot of people traffic in this area at all hours so it was real fun.
Did you get your cricket or not? If not try deisel fuel and a match, works great to kill everything else I've tried it on!!
What I usually do to change my sleeping times is to stay up till 10 pm on my first day out of here and just never go to bed on my first morning on. It makes two days of the week rougher thanhell and it will probably catch up on me sooner or later.
Did you get your cricket or not? If not try deisel fuel and a match, works great to kill everything else I've tried it on!!
What I usually do to change my sleeping times is to stay up till 10 pm on my first day out of here and just never go to bed on my first morning on. It makes two days of the week rougher thanhell and it will probably catch up on me sooner or later.
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From: Summit, NJ
I'm not sure if I got the cricket or not. After I got the one hit with the spray, it dissapeared.. never to be seen again. I think at this point I'll assume I got him 
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Postmaster
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: S/C Texas
Is it morning or night? Today was another one of those days.
I'm not whining or complaining, just sharing my day.
Woke up yesterday 0800, odd stuff all day long, worked 2000-0900 last night. Got home to a septic pumping guy in my driveway. Pumped the tank, found a problem
had to dig out the pipes by hand, found a bad connection in the pipe from the house to the tank. 
Had to take out the bad conections, put in new ones. 1000-1600 hrs. I cant get the smell off me. Yuk. Maybe its in my head. Got a 2 hour nap....here I am back at work. I managed a whole 90 minutes at work before I screwed something up. 
Gonna be a long night.
I gotta stop having days like this. But thems the apples when your house was built in 1849. Stuff may be new, replaced, and remodeled.....but its still always something next.
I'm not whining or complaining, just sharing my day.
Woke up yesterday 0800, odd stuff all day long, worked 2000-0900 last night. Got home to a septic pumping guy in my driveway. Pumped the tank, found a problem
had to dig out the pipes by hand, found a bad connection in the pipe from the house to the tank. Had to take out the bad conections, put in new ones. 1000-1600 hrs. I cant get the smell off me. Yuk. Maybe its in my head. Got a 2 hour nap....here I am back at work. I managed a whole 90 minutes at work before I screwed something up. Gonna be a long night.I gotta stop having days like this. But thems the apples when your house was built in 1849. Stuff may be new, replaced, and remodeled.....but its still always something next.
Last edited by peppy; Oct 19, 2004 at 09:41 PM.
Cargo Master
Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Murphysboro, IL
I used to be a sheetmetal worker doing hvacr work and I LOVE those old houses. Like you said Pep they sure are fun sometimes no matter how much work has been done to them. We'd get into a house job where someone was doing a remodel on an old place and i sometimes wanted to tell them they'd been better off to start with a bulldozer and then go from there to get to where they are now in the place. About like trucks sometimes, no matter how much you do to an old one ou have to keep doing something to it often.
Postmaster
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From: S/C Texas
sometimes they're so fragile, fixing one thing disrupts another. We had the floors leveled last summer....had to go and reset some of the metal roof panels, shim doors, seal the newly cracked chimney, stuff like that.
Sure isnt anything quite like a 100+ year old house to throw your money into.
Sure isnt anything quite like a 100+ year old house to throw your money into.
Cargo Master
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From: Murphysboro, IL
Originally Posted by peppy
Sure isnt anything quite like a 100+ year old house to throw your money into.
Postmaster
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: S/C Texas
Hi ya Mike.
Youre right Bird.......my truck takes a bit too. This month.............
brakes
bearings
thermostat, flush
tune-up
diff fluid
Next month...
stereo
another diff fluid change
oil change
front fuel pump replacement
All for my trip back to Ohio for the winter.
Youre right Bird.......my truck takes a bit too. This month.............
brakes
bearings
thermostat, flush
tune-up
diff fluid
Next month...
stereo
another diff fluid change
oil change
front fuel pump replacement
All for my trip back to Ohio for the winter.