The Coffee House

shefjr · Jun 16, 2015

oldhippy said:
My son Bob in his tower crane, ready to greet the Stanly Cup WinnersView attachment 103536

Your son has my dream job. I have operated almost every piece of heavy equipment out there except for the tower crane. For me it is the coolest job a person could have. I'm in awe of tower cranes everytime I see one.

vintagesnaps · Jun 16, 2015

I probably still have the album (but am not inclined to go hunt thru old records in the basement!). Hmm maybe should get the CD...

Well fellow hosers and hosettes, needed extra coffee today. Yesterday went to an eye specialist and now my shoulder hurts. lol So woke up early not too comfy, a couple of hours perched in various weirdo chairs did it. And having to sit with my arm out on this shelf thingy while they ran some dye in there, jeez. Will need to have a laser procedure that literally will take 2 min. And it's a half hour away. But at least it's fairly minor and preventive (history of eye problems in the fam).

I feel for Snerd, my shoulder at one point was frozen and I'm tellin' ya that's the most painful thing I ever had.

NancyMoranG · Jun 16, 2015

Looks like your son has the best seat in the house!!

minicoop1985 · Jun 16, 2015

Whew. Can't wake up today. Wow, not enough coffee in my veins, I'm thinking. I can't drink too much though or I start to have panic attacks.

waday · Jun 16, 2015

minicoop1985 said:
I can't drink too much though or I start to have panic attacks.

If I have more than ~12 oz, I start to get real jittery.

minicoop1985 · Jun 16, 2015

I did one day and NEEDED a Xanax, but I don't have any. Ugh.

waday · Jun 16, 2015

That stinks

minicoop1985 · Jun 16, 2015

Oh man does it. I think I may have overdone it today. We'll have to wait and see.

oldhippy · Jun 16, 2015

shefjr said:
oldhippy said:

My son Bob in his tower crane, ready to greet the Stanly Cup WinnersView attachment 103536

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Your son has my dream job. I have operated almost every piece of heavy equipment out there except for the tower crane. For me it is the coolest job a person could have. I'm in awe of tower cranes everytime I see one.

Have Six sons. Bob is by far the most adventurous. He attended Formula 1 Driving school in leMans France. Even did a month walking tour of Madrid Spain. All these things on his own with no financial assistance.
Just a proud dad, living vicariously through my sons. Ed

snowbear · Jun 16, 2015

Gary A. said:
snowbear said:

Spent the day property parcels with null-value fire box areas. In other words, changing labels (field values in a database) from blanks to things like "3802" and "2404N" for mostly rectangular spaces on a map. I'm hoping I'll be able to knock out the areas for three to five stations per day. With 40 more stations this will be my work life for the next two or three weeks.

Oh, and this is round one of the edits. After these are done, I'll run some more traffic analysis measurements to pinpoint the real problem children.

Then I get to create the maintenance procedure and pull all of the documentation together.

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I'd ask for a raise.

I did. They doubled my salary.

shefjr · Jun 16, 2015

oldhippy said:
shefjr said:

oldhippy said:

My son Bob in his tower crane, ready to greet the Stanly Cup WinnersView attachment 103536

Click to expand...

Your son has my dream job. I have operated almost every piece of heavy equipment out there except for the tower crane. For me it is the coolest job a person could have. I'm in awe of tower cranes everytime I see one.

Click to expand...

Have Six sons. Bob is by far the most adventurous. He attended Formula 1 Driving school in leMans France. Even did a month walking tour of Madrid Spain. All these things on his own with no financial assistance.
Just a proud dad, living vicariously through my sons. Ed

Your son sounds like quite the accomplished man! I'm jealous of his adventures. I can certainly see why you would be proud.

sm4him · Jun 16, 2015

snerd said:
Cutting back on the coffee............... just 2 cups of weak joe today. Planning another week in the Ozarks in Arkansas if the doc says my shoulder is infection-free on Thursday.

I should "hire" you to take some pictures. We were supposed to take Mom to the Ozarks at the end of May. She has many, many fond memories of growing up in that area, visiting her grandparents and her aunt and uncle who lived on a farm in...err...Jasper? Harrison? I don't remember, but somewhere in that area. Her grandparents lived up on a hill in a place they homesteaded. I've got a picture of them in front of their "house." Looks more like a broken-down barn than a house. The area where they homesteaded is now called McElroy Gap, named after them.

When it became clear that we likely will not be able to take her there now, we had the idea to "take" her there virtually, via Google Earth, but there are relatively few pictures available in the areas she was most interested in. If I felt like I could leave for a week, I'd go out there myself and take pictures of the things she wanted to see. She was nervous anyway, about just how different it would all look and whether it would just depress her how much had changed, so if I went with a list of photos to take for her, I could simply pretend not to have gotten ones of any places that had changed too much for the worst!