Flash back. The post that started my career on this illustrious blog, read it and weep.

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Aaaaaand, We’re Back

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OK then.

After the recent shit show of a bunch of people who’s mothers should be slapped for not beating manners into their little asses like the rest of us decided this would be a good place to stop by and fling shit on the walls at the last couple of days, I finally had to turn comment moderation on because I didn’t have time to fuck with it.

While I was at work, trying to do my fucking job and keep the comments flowing at the same time, Good Old Cederq dropped me a line and offered to moderate comments for me while I am busy doing other things.

You know, like trying to keep a roof over my family’s head and food on the table.

Shit like that.

I was a bit hesitant at first because I didn’t know how that was going to work but on my break I broke out the phone and started digging around behind the curtain.

Lo and behold, there was an option to invite someone to be an editor.

Perfect.

I sent him the invite, he didn’t get it, I sent it again, it wouldn’t work because WordPress didn’t like the browser he was using, he downloaded a new browser and got it going and then closed the window and couldn’t get it to come back.

Kind of a rocky start but we’ll get it straightened out here shortly.

In the mean time, I have turned the comments back on.

But…

There will be no more of that Anonymous bullshit to hide behind.

You have to put a name and an Email address in to be able to comment.

As was expectedly shown by the trolls, getting a bogus Email is actually pretty damn easy.

That didn’t fool my ass and I banned them again anyway but if you don’t want to use your real name and/or Email address, just Google search for temporary or disposable Email addresses and you should be back in business in just a couple of minutes.

I hated to do that shit but I have been blogging for 15 years now and I’ll be damned if I am going to let some dumbass shit slingers fuck my site up.

Their stated intention was to get me shut down.

At least one of them left a little trail of blood in the snow for their trouble.

So anyway, the comments are open again, if it turns out to be too much hassle I can always turn off the Email requirement but in the mean time I’ll see how it goes.

Oh BTW, all the shit that got flung?

Oh yeah, I have a copy of all of it.

So here’s the deal, all I ask is people try to be civil.

DO NOT EVER, threaten to rape or kill anyone here. I will ban your ass so fast your head will spin.

I shouldn’t have to explain that but I am finding out that there are some people that just don’t have any common sense.

Don’t be That Guy.

Hopefully things will get back to normal around here, I could most certainly do without THE FUCKING DRAMA.

I HATE DRAMA.

There has been a small but growing group of Most Excellent folks swinging by here and I want to not only keep that, I want to expand on it.

If you have any suggestions or gripes, leave them in the comments. I do read every single one of them, even if I get too busy to reply to them.

At this point I would like to thank everyone for their continued support while all this bullshit went down. It will stop eventually. In the off chance they do manage to get this place shut down, the joke’s on them.

I have at least three more blogs just waiting and I will be back the same fucking day.

Kenny, Irish, Hank and several other bloggers will be notified and will pass on the link toot sweet.

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Too Tired And Too Hot

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It could be that way for a couple more days too.

Yesterday was way worse than today and today was bad enough.

For those not familiar with what it is I work on and around now, let me give you a crash course.

You have probably seen a large roll of steel strapped down to the bed of a Big Rig Trailer before.

There is a huge machine where I work that takes that, unrolls it, flattens it out into a long sheet of plate steel and the cuts it to whatever length the customer wants.

Up to 1/2 inch thick steel.

It is actually called a Cut To Length machine.

Did I mention it’s rather large?

One of those rolls can weigh up to 50,000 pounds. Which is why you will generally only see one single roll on a truck bed.

There is a short rail spur that goes inside the warehouse and they roll rail cars inside that have 4 rolls on them and then unload them with an overhead crane, then stacks them up to wait their turn. We also get them by truck.

So if you take a closer look at the picture above, just to the right of the roll that is Orange colored, is what is called the Large Leveler.

This is a representative picture and not the actual one at work.

The top half of that box weighs 66,000 pounds.

There are two layers of hardened shafts, basically rolling pins, that squeeze the steel flat using hydraulic pressure as it rolls through the line.

Close to a millions pounds per square inch.

I don’t even remember how many huge bearings are inside bit it’s something like 200.

We are tearing that apart and rebuilding it. Us and some guys from the manufacturer.,

We have been short handed because a bunch of people are on vacation, just for fun.

This is a first for me.

Anyway, this thing is just naaaaasty. There is grease everywhere and it is thick and dirty.

I had to wash my hands and arms 3 times yesterday just so I could take a piss and it was a ten minute job each time. When I got home, I walked in the house, turned and went out to the garage, took my T shirt off and threw it in the garbage. There was no saving that sonofabitch.

The shower was a God send.

Because this kind of thing isn’t a barrel of monkeys all by it’s self, we got blasted with a heat wave yesterday.

It was 108 degrees outside when I got home yesterday and it was about 103 today.

All this while dealing with all the medical issues I have been experiencing.

Like drilling out broken 3/4 inch bolts, sideways, a foot off the ground, while kneeling on concrete today.

I am tired, sore and sweating my balls off even with the A/C going.

I am very grateful that CederQ has been picking up the slack because I am working this project and it is supposed to last until Friday at the very least.

If I last that long.