Christmas Countdown - 2015

[snowflake22]

Good morning, (morning? it is for me), sigghhh, just having my coffee, quiet here, no here but me, but it is a little relaxing. I just checked my phone, and those idiots, that I work with, tried to call me at 9 am this morning. Ummmm, lets see, I was in my 5th hour of sleep at that time and as tired as I was last night, a bomb could of have gone off beside my bed and I would not of heard it...

Rough one last night, going to be another long night again dragging that 8 foot ladder around all night and climbing up and down it, popping ceiling tiles, getting all covered with insulation, dust, mouse poop and or whatever else drops down upon you...

I saw that while I was sleeping, it appears that we got about a 1/2 - 1 inch of snow this morning, enough to make the car, driveway and sidewalks white again. That's ok, I like to look at it, it feels natural and right for this time of year. It's like looking at bees and blossoms in the spring, ripe tomatoes growing in the garden in summer and multi colors of all the trees in the fall, it feels natural/ normal to me....

That's one good reason to why I like to live in this zone of the country, because of the colorful multi season we have and you also get a good feel/ taste of all 4 seasons~
Although, I sometimes talk about buying property in Florida (to be near Disney, Universal Studios and Key West), or maybe Aruba, or Grand Caymans, so that when it's -20 here, I could go there and live a couple months of the year.:thumbsup:

Hope you slept really well!

Hope tonight goes smoothly~

Thinking of you

Enjoy your coffee, and have a great day!





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[snowflake22]

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[made582]

Good morning, (morning? it is for me), sigghhh, just having my coffee, quiet here, no here but me, but it is a little relaxing. I just checked my phone, and those idiots, that I work with, tried to call me at 9 am this morning. Ummmm, lets see, I was in my 5th hour of sleep at that time and as tired as I was last night, a bomb could of have gone off beside my bed and I would not of heard it...

Rough one last night, going to be another long night again dragging that 8 foot ladder around all night and climbing up and down it, popping ceiling tiles, getting all covered with insulation, dust, mouse poop and or whatever else drops down upon you...

I saw that while I was sleeping, it appears that we got about a 1/2 - 1 inch of snow this morning, enough to make the car, driveway and sidewalks white again. That's ok, I like to look at it, it feels natural and right for this time of year. It's like looking at bees and blossoms in the spring, ripe tomatoes growing in the garden in summer and multi colors of all the trees in the fall, it feels natural/ normal to me....

That's one good reason to why I like to live in this zone of the country, because of the colorful multi season we have and you also get a good feel/ taste of all 4 seasons~
Although, I sometimes talk about buying property in Florida (to be near Disney, Universal Studios and Key West), or maybe Aruba, or Grand Caymans, so that when it's -20 here, I could go there and live a couple months of the year.:thumbsup:

Hope tonight goes well and that you don't find anything to nasty under those ceiling tiles!!!!

Enjoy the snow!!!

Have a great day, Xmastidings!!!!!

 

[xmastidings]

Hope you slept really well! Slept well for about 4-5 hours, then it was that restless, in and out thing for the next 4 hours. But in all, my body needed the down time to re-coup a bit.

Hope tonight goes smoothly~ Me too. Because I'm feeling it today!

Thinking of you Thank you!

Enjoy your coffee, and have a great day! I hope that you do the same as well, my friend!

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Thank you for your thoughts and well wishes. I'm a stubborn/ willful thing, no matter how much effort it takes, pain, sweat, blood, tears, no matter how long it takes or when the time frame is to do whatever task, I will get er done.... They usually send me out, on jobs like this, if there is a tunnel to crawl thru, attic spaces, interstitial spaces, hazardous spaces, I'm your man...I'm not afraid to go in and find out what's in there.

However, there was this one job, that creeped me out a bit, it was this old courthouse, built around 1800 and, it was haunted because they used to hold prisoners in the bottom of it and then they would take them out back and hang them; they had pictures of it. Well the place was haunted and the facilities guys, that worked there, wouldn't go down there, but I did, it was kind of cool, creepy and spooky, but I liked it...
:-D
Then there was this other job, a 1930's built elementary school, that when I went down in the crawl space (about 30 inches high), it was filled with spiders and cobwebs....:-D

 

[xmastidings]

Hope tonight goes well and that you don't find anything to nasty under those ceiling tiles!!!!

Enjoy the snow!!!

Have a great day, Xmastidings!!!!!

Thanks Made. I once found a six foot blacksnake above the ceiling on one project. Then there were these bats, in the copula of another job, mice... Oh man, I couldn't tell you how many times, I got home and had to undress in the garage, down to my dribbys, because I had mouse dropping, down inside the back of my shirt, from falling out of the ceiling tiles.... Ahhhhhhh, the job of a field investigative engineer....

Sometimes, I get so coated with insulation, I'm itching for days. And then there's they jobs that have asbestos above the ceilings and in the crawl spaces, Ohhh that's fun. Everyone has to remember, that asbestos is just like a snake, if you see it, do you go up and grab it by it's tail, no, because it will turn around and bite you. The same philosophy applies to asbestos, if you see it, don't touch it or disturb it, because it will bite you....

 

[Yuletide Junkie]

Once upon a time, I worked in the backroom of a bookstore in Northern California. Some mornings, when we walked into the area, it smelled like skunk, but we couldn't find any signs of the odorific critter. The "perfume" would go away within in an hour of starting up the store's heat/air system.

One Saturday, I found the culprit before I had all of the lights switched on. There in front of the shipping door, sprawled flat, was a bat. Wing tip to wing tip it filled up the doorway. The county animal folks came by, captured it, and took it some miles away for release. No more animal potpourri.

 

[MerryCarey]

Thanks Made. I once found a six foot blacksnake above the ceiling on one project. Then there were these bats, in the copula of another job, mice... Oh man, I couldn't tell you how many times, I got home and had to undress in the garage, down to my dribbys, because I had mouse dropping, down inside the back of my shirt, from falling out of the ceiling tiles.... Ahhhhhhh, the job of a field investigative engineer....

Sometimes, I get so coated with insulation, I'm itching for days. And then there's they jobs that have asbestos above the ceilings and in the crawl spaces, Ohhh that's fun. Everyone has to remember, that asbestos is just like a snake, if you see it, do you go up and grab it by it's tail, no, because it will turn around and bite you. The same philosophy applies to asbestos, if you see it, don't touch it or disturb it, because it will bite you....

Yipe! I hope you're getting danger pay for the dirty and hazardous work.

Still, I bet sometimes it's awfully interesting to see the "bones" of an old building. I work in an office building that was originally built in the 1880s as a clock and watch factory. Happily, they retained the original window openings and the brick interiors, including the flaws, chips, etc., so the place has a lot of vintage character. But when it was originally converted to office space, I imagine the engineer may have had the same sort of adventures you are having now!

I did some online research about the building, and discovered that one wing of it was the original factory; then some years later they built another wing, slightly narrower. You can see in the brick of the original wing where they bricked up window openings when the new wing was built. There was a big clock tower between the two wings. The old clock from the tower now hangs in our reception area. The floor I work on is where the finest precision work was done. In an odd coincidence, our previous location was on Woerd Street---and one of the men who had this building built was Mr. Woerd, probably the same one the street was named after. I also found a video online of the building that was made (around 1999, I think) just days before work began on the remodeling. It was still in use as a factory up to that point.

 

[snowflake22]

Thank you for your thoughts and well wishes. I'm a stubborn/ willful thing, no matter how much effort it takes, pain, sweat, blood, tears, no matter how long it takes or when the time frame is to do whatever task, I will get er done.... They usually send me out, on jobs like this, if there is a tunnel to crawl thru, attic spaces, interstitial spaces, hazardous spaces, I'm your man...I'm not afraid to go in and find out what's in there.

However, there was this one job, that creeped me out a bit, it was this old courthouse, built around 1800 and, it was haunted because they used to hold prisoners in the bottom of it and then they would take them out back and hang them; they had pictures of it. Well the place was haunted and the facilities guys, that worked there, wouldn't go down there, but I did, it was kind of cool, creepy and spooky, but I liked it...
:-D
Then there was this other job, a 1930's built elementary school, that when I went down in the crawl space (about 30 inches high), it was filled with spiders and cobwebs....:-D

Thank you!

I know you are, bless your heart.
Your company is lucky to have someone with such strong work ethic!

That would be so spooky! The courthouse sounds fascinating. I would have loved to tag along!

The crawl space would freak me out, though- I am claustrophobic!

=]




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[snowflake22]

Thanks Made. I once found a six foot blacksnake above the ceiling on one project. Then there were these bats, in the copula of another job, mice... Oh man, I couldn't tell you how many times, I got home and had to undress in the garage, down to my dribbys, because I had mouse dropping, down inside the back of my shirt, from falling out of the ceiling tiles.... Ahhhhhhh, the job of a field investigative engineer....

Sometimes, I get so coated with insulation, I'm itching for days. And then there's they jobs that have asbestos above the ceilings and in the crawl spaces, Ohhh that's fun. Everyone has to remember, that asbestos is just like a snake, if you see it, do you go up and grab it by it's tail, no, because it will turn around and bite you. The same philosophy applies to asbestos, if you see it, don't touch it or disturb it, because it will bite you....

Ahhhh!!!! Those all scare me!




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[snowflake22]

Once upon a time, I worked in the backroom of a bookstore in Northern California. Some mornings, when we walked into the area, it smelled like skunk, but we couldn't find any signs of the odorific critter. The "perfume" would go away within in an hour of starting up the store's heat/air system.

One Saturday, I found the culprit before I had all of the lights switched on. There in front of the shipping door, sprawled flat, was a bat. Wing tip to wing tip it filled up the doorway. The county animal folks came by, captured it, and took it some miles away for release. No more animal potpourri.

That is terrifying, too!




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[snowflake22]

Yipe! I hope you're getting danger pay for the dirty and hazardous work.



Still, I bet sometimes it's awfully interesting to see the "bones" of an old building. I work in an office building that was originally built in the 1880s as a clock and watch factory. Happily, they retained the original window openings and the brick interiors, including the flaws, chips, etc., so the place has a lot of vintage character. But when it was originally converted to office space, I imagine the engineer may have had the same sort of adventures you are having now!



I did some online research about the building, and discovered that one wing of it was the original factory; then some years later they built another wing, slightly narrower. You can see in the brick of the original wing where they bricked up window openings when the new wing was built. There was a big clock tower between the two wings. The old clock from the tower now hangs in our reception area. The floor I work on is where the finest precision work was done. In an odd coincidence, our previous location was on Woerd Street---and one of the men who had this building built was Mr. Woerd, probably the same one the street was named after. I also found a video online of the building that was made (around 1999, I think) just days before work began on the remodeling. It was still in use as a factory up to that point.

Very interesting!! I love old buildings.




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[trackrebel]

Ready to Crash for the night...been a good Day...back to work tomorrow, then off to a Birthday and weekend here we come!!!


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[trackrebel]

It s Throwback Thursday....so here....Baby Kandice at around September 2006


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[sugar142286]

Good Morning, MMC!!!!! It's a snowy morning here in Central Indy with a high of 20 expected for today. We should top out around 2 inches of snow too. Then tonight we are headed back below zero. Yuck!!! I'm thinking of running to the grocery store once the snow stops but it just kinda depends what time that is. I may doing so some baking this morning while I am waiting on that to happen. I hope everyone is having a GREAT DAY!!!!!!

Good afternoon, friend! Hope you were able to get to the store and enjoy your baking as well!

Stay warm and safe in the snow!


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[sugar142286]

Hope you get a good nap, Sugar!!! TTYL!!!

I did, thanks!


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[sugar142286]

Hey, Track!
We're glad you're back!

Hey, I'm a poet & didn't know it!
George Broderick, Jr. better watch out!
There's a new kid in town, no doubt!

cheesy

Lol! That's very good!!!


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[sugar142286]

Good Day to all! Haven't been on here in a while. I think I'm finally getting over my seasonal depression I think. I'm always bummed out after the holiday season. Now I'm looking forward to planting my seeds and growing stuff. I'm planning on growing some pumpkins this year. Have a great day everybody!

Good to see you, frostyman! Sorry to hear you've been dealing with the depression, but glad to hear it's gone. I'm excited to get my garden going too!


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[sugar142286]

Sleep well! Enjoy your day!




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Thank you!


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[sugar142286]

Good morning, (morning? it is for me), sigghhh, just having my coffee, quiet here, no here but me, but it is a little relaxing. I just checked my phone, and those idiots, that I work with, tried to call me at 9 am this morning. Ummmm, lets see, I was in my 5th hour of sleep at that time and as tired as I was last night, a bomb could of have gone off beside my bed and I would not of heard it...

Rough one last night, going to be another long night again dragging that 8 foot ladder around all night and climbing up and down it, popping ceiling tiles, getting all covered with insulation, dust, mouse poop and or whatever else drops down upon you...

I saw that while I was sleeping, it appears that we got about a 1/2 - 1 inch of snow this morning, enough to make the car, driveway and sidewalks white again. That's ok, I like to look at it, it feels natural and right for this time of year. It's like looking at bees and blossoms in the spring, ripe tomatoes growing in the garden in summer and multi colors of all the trees in the fall, it feels natural/ normal to me....

That's one good reason to why I like to live in this zone of the country, because of the colorful multi season we have and you also get a good feel/ taste of all 4 seasons~
Although, I sometimes talk about buying property in Florida (to be near Disney, Universal Studios and Key West), or maybe Aruba, or Grand Caymans, so that when it's -20 here, I could go there and live a couple months of the year.:thumbsup:

Hope you slept well and work goes well tonight! Stay warm!


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[made582]

Thanks Made. I once found a six foot blacksnake above the ceiling on one project. Then there were these bats, in the copula of another job, mice... Oh man, I couldn't tell you how many times, I got home and had to undress in the garage, down to my dribbys, because I had mouse dropping, down inside the back of my shirt, from falling out of the ceiling tiles.... Ahhhhhhh, the job of a field investigative engineer....

Sometimes, I get so coated with insulation, I'm itching for days. And then there's they jobs that have asbestos above the ceilings and in the crawl spaces, Ohhh that's fun. Everyone has to remember, that asbestos is just like a snake, if you see it, do you go up and grab it by it's tail, no, because it will turn around and bite you. The same philosophy applies to asbestos, if you see it, don't touch it or disturb it, because it will bite you....

You lost me at 6 foot black snake. I would have left the ladder and been on my way home before anyone even heard the screams coming from my mouth!!!