Gasoline Blues

Gallon of drinking water: 64 cents

Two pounds of deli turkey: $6

Filling up the escort with gas: $37

Time when $13 worth of gas would fill up my tank and take me anywhere: Long gone

What Is A Mother?

A mother is someone to shelter and guide us,
To love us, whatever we do,

With a warm understanding and infinite patience

And wonderful gentleness, too.

How often a mother means swift reassurance

In soothing our small, childish fears,

How tenderly mothers watch over their children

And treasure them all through the years!

The heart of a mother is full of forgiveness

For any mistake, big or small,

And generous always in helping her family,

Whose needs she has placed above all.

A mother can utter a word of compassion

And make all our cares fall away,

She can brighten a home with the sound of her laughter
And make life delightful and gay.

A mother possesses incredible wisdom

And wonderful insight and skill -

In each human heart is that one special corner

Which only a mother can fill!

-By Katherine Nelson Davis

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM !

Money Maker

With 2 of these almost down and 2 more on the way I'll be busy for the next few months. Not to mention the freezer scheduled after that in which I'm told I'll want to pull my hair out trying to keep up with the demands of abrasive belts. This oven below is called the GCO 2 or GyroCompact Oven. When standing next to one of these you wonder why an oven needs to be that large. In fact, I think when I was looking for places to live around here there was one apartment with a smaller living area that what one of these ovens would have. These ovens are massive.

You can see the basic "guts" of it in the picture (Not the best picture). Now sit back for a moment and think about how many nuts, bolts, screws, washers, manufactured parts, safety harnesses, hardhats, flashlights, work gloves, abrasive pads, cleaners, degreasers, safety glasses, lifting straps, worklights, shop towels, batteries, denatured alcohol, teflon tape, threadlocker, rotary files, normal files, die grinders, grinding wheels, mandrels, hammers, tubing cutters, backup pads, wire brushes, weld studs, and about a million other things that go into making one of these from the ground up.

Now double it.

And make sure all your hardware is stainless steel. Then you can get a small glimpse of what I do exactly. I make sure everything they need is where it's supposed to be, when it's supposed to be.


The other fun part of the job is telling someone you don't have a certain part. Even if you put 500 washers in the right bin one day doesn't mean that they'll still be there when you show up the next morning and then someone comes to you and wonders why you didn't get any. Ah yes, good times had by all. Anyways, that's a look inside my world of work. Thrilling isn't it?