12/15/06

Pillaged

Last night my job site was raided by some teenage hooligans. We first noticed it in the morning when we opened one of the electrical rooms and found that someone had sprayed it down with a fire extinguisher and everything was covered in about a 1/4 inch of white powder. Next we found that someone had pushed a material cart down one of the unfinished elevator shafts as well as thrown rolls of toilet paper down leaving white streamers gently fluttering in the passing breeze. Last but definitely not least, one of these fine youths, had to the surprise and I'm sure horror of the discovering pipe-fitters, felt the need to crap on a scissor lift.

These fine youngsters are the bright hope for tomorrow.

12/13/06

A certain friend reminded me of my goal of posting daily. Oops.

Part of my responsibilities as a Journeyman Electrician is having an apprentice work under me or sometimes several apprentices. This is usually not a bad part of work as it can be rewarding to be able to pass some knowledge on to someone else. However, when your apprentice is a 300 pound Slav with a short temper and a chip on his shoulder things can get out of hand. It's quite common to hear a thundering " I kill you mother bitch" when a suggestion on how to do a particular job is made that he doesn't agree with. Managing this guy is sort of like trying to point a charging rhino in the right direction, letting him go , and then you just have to hope he stays on course. This guy can literally and has on a couple occasions picked me up by the shirt collar.
You gotta love those Slavs!

12/09/06

Picked up a new book today titled Battles of the Medieval world 1000-1500( sweet!) I'm sure all you fellow history dorks....I mean buffs will share in my joy.

William the Conqueror was originally named William the Bastard.

Look at the lengths he went to change his name. If that's not a motivator I don't know what is. Sort of like Johnny Cash's "boy named sue".