"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Thanks mate.Its difficult to judge sometimes just how far to go on the internet.Offending anyone does not sit well with me despite the fact that it is one my most polished skills.
You can be treasurer.
Just as soon as we see that 98 with its chosen name. Doesnt have to be a bird seeing as how New Zealands fiercest native wild creature is an almost extinct fat ground dwelling flightless parrot that pretends to be a moss covered rock .Although there used to be the Moa and I believe Fes (yeah remember him?)once mentioned the enormous Haasts Eagle now extinct.
Anyhow pop down to the Downunda bar.The beer is so cold that I have a Polar Bear to test the temps 'I dont wanna go in mum, its too cold' he says.
 
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Henry Beige said:
Yep. Brooks B67. Coil spring comfort for the potholed streets of St. Paul.:)
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I hear ya. Some of the roads and highways of NSW are more pothole than road.
They even have special little trucks that go around filling them in with tar or asphalt or ....whatever they have down at the yard... might be fish guts or cottonwaste...that type of thing.Depends which council area you are in on how much they have to spend on the roads.
The men (and more often than not these days women) who crew these trucks are known as "the brylcreme boys" -just a dab'll do.:)
Interestingly if not a little morbid is the fact that prolific serial killer Ivan Milat was a one such roadworker. He preyed on foreign backpacker hitchikers.
But lets not tar all roadworkers with same brush:eek:
Read all about him in the book "Highway To Nowhere".
Hes pretty much one of the main inspirations for the grisly character Mick Taylor in the Wolf Creek movies and now series.
 
I found something worse than a 12-hour workday.
It's a 13-hour work day.
I'm gettin' too frickin old for this sort of thing.
 
Low point of the day:
Had to explain to a senior design engineer the purpose of a torque stripe.

Some days it is just scary.
 
knarfeng said:
I found something worse than a 12-hour workday.
It's a 13-hour work day.
I'm gettin' too frickin old for this sort of thing.
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Deployed, I work 12-16 hour days every day of the week for months, day in day out, week in week out. It does suck. Especially as you get older. We've got guys in their 60s doing it. You get to a point you lose keenness and become just a bit dull.
 
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Saw an Elk farm on my daily travels around Northeast Ohio.
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As well as an interesting carving of a Buckeye.
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leghog said:
Deployed, I work 12-16 hour days every day of the week for months, day in day out, week in week out. It does suck. Especially as you get older. We've got guys in their 60s doing it. You get to a point you lose keenness and become just a bit dull.
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I've worked those kind of hours, but I was younger then and not doing detailed technical work. For a continual workday length these days, I max out at about 10-hours per day. Otherwise the numbers and words start fading into one another and I have to check the work the next day when I'm fresh. For a short spurt, I can still do a couple of 12's. But I'm not fun to be around. (Not that I'm a bag of giggles normally, either. I come by my title honestly.)

On a brighter note, I'm off for 5 days, starting tonight. BEER NIGHT! "Old Viscosity". Good boogie!
 
knarfeng said:
I've worked those kind of hours, but I was younger then and not doing detailed technical work. For a continual workday length these days, I max out at about 10-hours per day. Otherwise the numbers and words start fading into one another and I have to check the work the next day when I'm fresh. For a short spurt, I can still do a couple of 12's. But I'm not fun to be around. (Not that I'm a bag of giggles normally, either. I come by my title honestly.)

On a brighter note, I'm off for 5 days, starting tonight. BEER NIGHT! "Old Viscosity". Good boogie!
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That's what I meant by losing keenness and become just a bit dull.
 
leghog said:
Deployed, I work 12-16 hour days every day of the week for months, day in day out, week in week out. It does suck. Especially as you get older. We've got guys in their 60s doing it. You get to a point you lose keenness and become just a bit dull.
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Do you know me??

- GT
 
When I was in college I used to work with draft horses (best co-workers I've ever had) for 70-90+ hours a week every summer. I'd still find time to party and cause trouble too. Looking back I'm not sure how I did it but I do know that heroic amounts of caffeine were involved. Anyhow I hope you hard working folks out there are finding time to relax and let loose this weekend.
 
Dr-Mabuse said:
When I was in college I used to work with draft horses (best co-workers I've ever had) for 70-90+ hours a week every summer. I'd still find time to party and cause trouble too. Looking back I'm not sure how I did it but I do know that heroic amounts of caffeine were involved. Anyhow I hope you hard working folks out there are finding time to relax and let loose this weekend.
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In my parts, this weekend is one of remembrance. We'll take in a MLB game on Sunday, but the remembrance is the core.

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Long shifts can be tough indeed.
I got used to 12 hours shifts (day and night) when I was a resident, and it's just part of my job, so I can say I'm used to it...for the time being. I have some colleagues who are 60 y.o. (more or less), and still do the same...and I know it's heavy for them. We're about to start a sort of gentlemen agreement that you stop doing nightshifts when you get 60, which I personally consider a fair rule. Too bad I'm very, very far from getting that benefit myself :rolleyes:
As a sidenote, I've learned that (generally) anyone can handle one very long (>12h) shift, but repeating them is a whole other story. I know some jobs just require such rotation, but in the end you're never at 100% nor even close to that (no matter the caffeine income), and that can be counterproductive or even dangerous.

Fausto
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I am sorry to hear that Jack. A lot of great and brave men and women have sacrificed all for our freedom. God Bless America and our allies!!
 
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