
Today started off like any other...
6:15 Alarm clock ringing. Hit snooze button, 3 more times.
6:45 Roll out of bed, no Adam on the phone. Very nice.
6:48 Find pants, go downstairs. Pack lunch, fill water bottle. Make, then eat a PB and N sandwich.
7:10 Go to Mac's, get O.J. and a banana. No Bronco, though.
7:15 On the road again.
7:40 Arrive at site. Del already there. Converse in basement about life, the universe, and everything.
8:30 Roll out and stand some trusses. All of the main trusses were stood. All that was left were the jacks in the corners and at either end of the cottage roof. Ask Del if I could leave at nine for a bit.
9:00 Leave for FutureShop. Meet wife there. Drop off Jeep so command start could be installed.
10:15 Go to get son's shots.
11:30 Drop wife off at home with cranky kid.
11:40 Pick up 3 large french vanillas from Tims.
11:53 Arrive at site. Drink coffees. Get out of truck, get back to work. Del and Adam finished off the jacks, and now were sheeting the walls and nailing the girders together.
12:30 Lunch. Budget Gourmet Mac and Cheese. Gratsi Mama ( sorry, my Italiano needs some brushing upo). Also, a granola bar that my son left in my truck, an apple, a nature valley bar. Water.
1:30 Back to work. Pack sheets for Del. Cut sheets for Del. Tell Adam what to do. Laugh to myself as I remember the time that Adam was shoveling the floor and had a big pile. He then took a run at it, and the pile didn't move, but the end of the shovel caught him in the stomach and he went ass over teakettle and basically kicked himself in the back of the head whilst in midair.
1:45 Bring the memory up with Del.
1:46 Point our fingers, throw our heads back, and laugh at Adam until our sides are so sore we can barely stand, and Adam's self esteem is so low that tears are welling up in his eyes.
2:00 Regain control. Side still split.
2:17 Adam's phone rings. It is not that guy who is supposed to buy his car. He was supposed to have called at noon.
3:00 Install girder truss with Adam.
3:30 Patience wears thin with "Mitch", or "guy who had better buy Adam's car or else" as I like to call him. So I call him.
3:31 Put on my fake "greasy car salesman" mustache and turn on the charm.
3:57 Hang up. Tell Adam that I negotiated a deal. Full asking price, plus three goats and a free Big Mac coupon (valid only with the purchase of a sandwich of equal or greater value). Mitch drives a hard bargain.
4:30 RRRRROROOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL UUUUUUUUPPPPPP!!!!!!!
4:45 Drive home.
5:30 Eat supper. Italian Beef Lasagna. Thanks Hon. Plus a glass of milk. 2%.
6:30 Drive to FutureShop to pick up Jeep.
6:50 Flip out on dweeber in the back. (anything in quotations to be read with nerdy voice). "Actually, this Jeep needs a converter kit that will allow it to blah blah blah 70 dollars more blah blah blah have to bring it back in so that we can install blah blah blah special order.) Oh really, Steve. Well, you have known about this for two months now, and we discussed this very thing when I bought this, and you told me I didn't need a converter. (Steve) "Actually, we didn't know until we saw the vehicle that we needed it" It's not a Maserati, Steve. Don't act like you have never worked on a Grand Cherokee before. (Steve) "Actually, you are going to have to talk to the sales guys about this, I am just an installer. They don't pay me $9.50 an hour to deal with the customers, I just work on the cars. Wires and stereos are my only friends".
7:06 Find out that the sales guy I bought from "just left for the evening." How convenient.
7:08 Wonder why I ever buy anything at Future Shop. O well. Drive home.
8:00 Give son snack.
8:15 Give son bath.
9:30 Realize that Kevin is on holidays in the Bahamas. That's what has been different around the job site.
10:29 Write this line
10:45 Shower s and s
11:00 Go to bed.
Good night moon. Good night sow jumping over the moon. Good night all readers, big and small.
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