Again.

I had some kind of sinus/head cold about 3 weeks ago and wound up missing a day of work. When I did go back, whatever it was I had was already tearing through the entire population at work and at least half of them wound up with it, some missing an entire week of work.

Eventually the symptoms slacked off but the damn thing seemed to linger for a long time.

At least two weeks.

Friday I had to climb all over a big piece of equipment like a kid on a jungle gym for half the day. By the end of the day I was feeling beat.

I have to keep reminding myself that I’m almost 63 years old and probably shouldn’t be doing that kind of shit in the first place anyway.

Saturday I didn’t have enough energy to pour piss out of a boot.

I laid around almost all day and even took 2 naps in the afternoon.

Yesterday I didn’t really feel bad but again, zero energy and I just laid around.

When I got up this morning, it started in.

As I was drinking a cup of coffee, I could feel it kind of burning way down in one side of my throat.

I had to do some wrenching right away and didn’t get done until 3 hours later. At break I could feel my throat starting to get sore, by 11 I felt like I had been riding around town in the back of a cement truck. At Noon even my supervisor told me I looked like shit and I should probably go home. By then it had gone straight to my chest.

But no, I don’t have a bunch of sick time built up so I stuck it out. I did tell him that he could count on me not showing up tomorrow.

While I was killing time waiting to leave, I saw a news article saying that The Flu is just tearing through the entire country and Washington State is one of them getting blasted hard. Hospitals are filling up and the works.

Funny that, two years ago it was like The Flu had been completely eradicated, they reported zero cases of it. Covid on the other hand….

Now this year, Covid seems to only be a going concern in certain areas but The Flu has come tearing back with a vengeance.

If my sniffer was working right I would say that there was an over abundance of bullshit in the vicinity.

Anyway,

On the way home I swung into a Walgreens and loaded up on the original Lysterine, some Zinc lozenges and some Alka Seltzer Plus.

There is already a bottle of my old friend Nyquil up in the cabinet.

I cracked open the Lysterine right in the drug store parking lot and gargled a huge dose of it before even leaving.

I had plans to come home, get dosed up real good and zonk the hellout.

But No.

I see The Kid’s rig as I pull up and the instant I walked in the door he tells me that it’s on me to take care of everything because…

The Wifely Unit has got it too.

I could hear her hacking and coughing before I got all the way in the door.

She’s in bed, cranky as a motherfucker and pissed off because she thought she was going to able to lay in bed and I was going to get to wait on her hand and foot for once.

I has some bad news for you chick…

So now we both have this crap, some kind of chest cold/flu, we both feel like dog shit and someone is going to have to step up to the plate and take care of our Autistic son.

It ain’t gonna be her and it ain’t gonna be The Kid either, he has to go back to work.

As they say, ain’t no rest for the wicked.

Looks like I am going to have to step into the breach here and tough it out.

Yippee Ki Yay, Motherfucker.

One cup of soup for her coming up and Thank God for frozen TV dinners.

That will take care of them, I have no idea what I’m going to do for eats but whatever it is will not involve actual cooking.

I’m sure there are either more frozen TV dinners in the freezer or I may just open up a can of Spam and grab a fork.

I don’t even feel like messing with paper plates at this point.

What a Maroon.

I’ll bet this clown thinks he is some kind of intellectual too.

Yet another Bozo who doesn’t understand that we just want to be left the fuck alone.

For that we are fascists?

Because we like Farmers Markets?

Are you fucking serious?

Pay attention here you Commie Bitch.

I have a piece of advice for you Poindexter.

Quit playing with things you obviously can’t comprehend and nobody will get hurt.

MMkay?

You want to live in a city, we don’t give a rusty fuck.

We’re like that, ya know?

Your pathetic attempts at division are pretty weak sauce.

Some full gas cans.

For the first time in a long time, gas went under $4 a gallon around here.

Even one of the most expensive stations in the area had it for $3.99 yesterday.

I paid $3.89 a gallon when I filled up my truck last week and I’m pretty sure it has come down a little from there even.

I’m going to go round up all my empties, find my Stabil and go fill them up again before it goes back up again.

Dirty sonsabitches anyway.

Merry Christmas to you too, fuckers.

Sometimes things get exciting around here.

I’m not the least bit bashful.

I dare ya to try and take it down the track just once.

The torque that would put out would twist that little beer can into a knot.

Gee, I wonder why she would do that?

I’m here to tell you that this story is going to make Watergate look like a Sunday School Picnic.

It is going to be MASSIVE.

Have a smoking gun.

Oh there is much, much more to come.

The fuckers responsible are going to find that there is nowhere to hide from this.

THIS, is why I am not THE LEAST bit impressed by peoples misplaced exaltation of fucking Limousines.

Because I have worked on the miserable Hack Jobs and I know what’s under the skin of these overblown skateboards.

Plywood, screws and brackets with electrical wires and heater hoses just laying on the floor behind them.

Home made wooden boxes with heater cores and air conditioning units glued to the damn floor.

All covered up with upholstery glued over foam onto the plywood.

Multiple drivelines spliced together with carrier bearings and hoops to keep them from falling down into the ground.

Frames hacked and spliced together, I have literally seen these things up in the air on two post hosts and sagging so hard in the middle the doors won’t open and those fancy windows in the middle were popping out of the frames.

Oh but they look so nice don’t they?

They just ooze money and power going down the road.

You should try parking one of the miserable bastards inside a shop sometime, let alone work on one.

I had to empty out four work stalls just to get one turned ninety degrees and get it into the work stall I was going to tear into it in.

Then the real fun started.

The best part?

It was the exact same make and model as the one in the picture.

I’m almost done.

If you are like me, wiper chatter drives you nucking futz.

For me, it’s right up there with fingernails on a chalkboard or some sniveling Leftard reminding me every ten seconds that they are Vegan.

For two years now I have been grinding all 3 of my teeth together all Winter and Spring putting up with it from my old Chevy pickup.

I have tried several different brands and types of wiper blades and even if it stops for a couple of days, the next thing I know It comes back.

I always just assumed it was the hold down springs being worn out.

Until I ran across this Youtube video the other day.

I am kicking myself repeatedly now that I have seen how simple and quick it is to fix this problem.

It’s so easy, I cured 90% of it by just doing this to ONE SIDE in the parking lot at work before I came home today.

So if you have chattering wiper blades driving you nuts like I did, watch this video and fix it in less than five minutes.

You are more than welcome.

Right on dude. Is we related by chance?

You look kinda familiar….

To be honest, that old boy looks EXACTLY like a friend of mine and damn near sounds exactly like him too.

They both have Dopplegangers.

Cederq’s two cents and the meaning of the knot, the old guy is wearing on the scarf, called a Buckaroo knot…

Quaternary Celtic Knot Meaning – Whats-Your-Sign.com

Here are a few meaning possibilites of your Quaternary knot design… Meanings for Four-Cornered (Quaternary) Celtic Knots ♦ Indication of the four directions: North, South, East, West. ♦ Indication of the four seasons. ♦ Indication of the four great treasures of the Tuatha ♦ A more modern indication of the four Latin Gospels in the Book of Kells

Need I say more?

I found this video that shows just how much labor is involved in an Open Pit mining blast.

Pretty interesting.