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This morning started out good till I finished my coffee.
I had a pot of coffee and messed with Joes head, life was good.
Now Yesterday I sold an old 53 foot van that I haven't moved in 2 years.
I need to deliver it 1/2 mile away no sweat and it's freezing raining.
Now this country is wetter than I have ever seen ut in over 20 years.
The first thing is I get my truck stuck, Finally get it unhooked from the stepdeck the trailer sunk so the fifthwheel was in a bind. So now I start to back up to the van and get stuck before I get there. I get it backout on the pavement and chain it up, this is mud not snow but red sticky clay.
Now I finally get under the van and hook up the air and there is a major air leak. I go to the back and look under there and a rubber slide line is broke into no big deal except there is mud and water every where, so now everything I have touched has turned to %^&* so I go in the shop and get a splice and crawl under there and the line wasn't broke it was cut about 3 feet was cut out of it. I guess someone needed a siphon hose or something, now I'm covered in mud and getting madder by the minute.
Well I keep plenty of airline so I get some and the right brass fittings and get in the mud again. When I fixed the line and hit the air nothing would go through the valve apparently a dirt dobber has stopped up the open line now I'm really pi%^$# so I go back in the shop after crawling around in the mud and get the stuff to cage the brakes, this means sliding on my back in the mud and cageing the brakes. I got her done and it moved about a foot and went down. This trailer is loaded to the ceiling front to back with tires. and I'm stuck with chains on.
Now I get my 1 ton wrecker and hook to it and lift the front tires till the hitch hits the ground and then get in the truck and pull up till the wrecker is back on the ground, this step is repeated until I moved the truck about 20 feet and I'm free lo. Now before I can deliver the trailer I have to get the chains off 5 minutes and I'm finally on my way, wrong I have clay packed solid between the tires every hole in the aluminum rims has a column of mud sticking out to the outside of the rim it takes me over an hour to get the chains off. Now I left a steady stream of mud, thick mud half way to where I delivered the trailer and it finally stopped raining about the time I got through, so the highway dept will probably come tell me to clean the road.
I was in a 3 hour long charlie foxtrot of a meeting this morning listening to a bunch of turds try to figure out "ship-loose". After lunch I was instructed to read and critique their typical subcontractor subcontract. It was horrible. Then I made a template for a scope of work because they didn't have one and hammered out a SOW. The best part of my day was walking out to my truck and NOT seeing a power steering fluid puddle on the ground.
Spent half the morning in meetings... another couple hours working out a problem between two employees and the rest of the day fighting a machine to make a simple part. Seems rather mundane after hearing your mud story! But hey I survived another Monday w00t
Damn Star, I'm going to have to give you a break. Sounds like you're on somebody's list. I hope your week improves! I guess it's like eating a toad in the morning, nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day.
I've been up past 1:00am several nights in a row reading product briefs for brushless DC motor driver boards. Need to find or adapt a replacement for the controller in my car since a small fire started during the last test drive.
Still at square one after the first week of research.