Thursday, January 22, 2009

Fukagawa, Japan it's cold outside.

Does the internet become more viscous when it drops below -20? Because hoooo doggy is she movin' slow tonight.

6:00 Alarm goes off. Hit snooze 2 times.
6:20 Get out of bed. Can't find clothes. Go downstairs, wave at neighbors, eat miniwheats.
6:45 Go to basement, find clothes, get dressed.
6:55 Look at forecast for the day. Put on more clothes. My thong...sandals won't cut it today.
7:05 Start truck. Start driving. Get out of my parking spot without having to be in 4wd. Thanks guys who were contracted to clean the parking lot. Swell job.
7:33 Arrive at site in Riverdale. Del is already there. Adam is there too in his 1968 VW Westfalia. Del tells me that the new trusses are here and that we have the fix specs.
7:35 Call KFC about my application. They said that I will not get an interview because I am too under qualified, but seeing as how I was already on the phone, could I answer some questions about Adam. He put me down as a reference. Through tears, I told them that he was a good man, can flip a mean chicken burger and makes poutine like a true frenchman. But I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him with the Colonel's secret recipe.
7:40 Realize that it has been a fortnight since I had some of his chicken.
8:00 Finish rolling out. Get to work. Del says "the sooner we get this done, the sooner we get to go home." So I started running up and down the roof, swinging my hammer, shooting nails, cutting wood.
8:45 Del stops yelling at me for all of the damage I caused and extra work I just created.
8:50 Push new trusses onto flat roof. Devise a way to get them across and into place. Starts snowing.
9:20 Get them into place. It sucked. Now we have to figure out where the new header needs to go, and then how to get it in place. 22 foot high vaults are not fun to work on, especially in the snow and wind. It sucked.
10:00 Coffee. Banana, granola bar, PB and N sandwich, snaps. Water.
10:30 Back to work. Hope that the salad I had for supper last night shed a few pounds off me midsection, because I had to cut the trusses while standing on them. Adam weighs less than me, I don't know why he didn't do it. Besides, he doesn't even have a family that would miss him. And he has life insurance. He told me once in a drunken stupor, and some papers were signed, and let's just say that his "safety" is in my best interest.
11:00 Came out unscathed and not on the floor amidst a pile of trusses and organs.
11:10 Put header in. It sucked. Nailed trusses to it, felt better. Adam nailed hangers. Finished moving the chimney hole.
12:30 Lunch. Leftover steak. Thanks Todd. An apple and a granola bar. More water.
1:30 Back to work.
1:35 "FULL SHEET!" Yells Del.
1:35-2:30 Sheet roof. It sucked. It sucked even more for Del, who had a sheet on his back in 40 KM/H winds and had to walk up the snow covered roof. Del's tough though.
2:45 RR RRR ROOO OOO OLL LL U UUU UUU PPP PPP P!! Del yelled though chattering teeth.
3:00 Drive home. Call Southgate Chevrolet and kick some ass verbally. Jokewads took my door apart, and then placed it back together, so now the panel falls off and hangs by the power window wires whenever I close the door.
3:30 Arrive home. ROCK! until...
7:00 Feed son snack.
7:15 Give son bath.
7:30 Put son to bed.
10:00 Watch Grey's Anatomy. I'm serious.
11:44 Write this line.
12:00 Bed.

No work in the morning, because it will be too cold out and I am a pansy. And I know that Jake's crew won't be working anyways.

Nighty night.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous1/28/2009

    Hey, I like Grey's Anatomy. I have all the seasons.

    Lisa

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