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Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003 - 8:10 p.m. Lease has to work tonight until 9 pm. She went in this morning at 7 am. Yes, that is a 14-hour shift. Why, you might ask? Because the local Cabelco (her employer) changed the location of some of the channels on the system at Midnight today (or would the proper term be yesterday? I always get that mixed up) The basic �granny� cable package increased from only 13 channels to 21. The small number of people who still get this bare-bone version of cable will now get 61.9% more channels for the same price, so logically they should be happy, right? Wrong. Some of these people are satellite dish owners who pick up basic to get the local network channels. These people aren�t the ones who care about the changes. No, it�s the , um , �Seasoned Citizens� (old folks) who don�t want ANYTHING to change. EVER! The local system moved a couple of channels to lump similar programming together (sports, news, etc.), and moved the �Preview Guide� from channel 2 to channel 13. This is just TOO MUCH TO LEARN IN ONE DAY! So, naturally, they spent the whole day, sitting on hold forever, just so they can call her a stupid beyoch for changing THEIR CABLES! Yes, many call the service �my cables�, like they have a different cable for each channel or something�. Yeah, it was all her idea to do this. And she just loves pulling 14-hour shifts, too! She has to pull these hours until the call volume drops to near-normal levels. They have her scheduled to work late until Saturday, and she will have to work all weekend if the social security set can�t get the hang of it by then. BTW- my dad will be 74 years old this August. He didn�t have any trouble figuring out where HIS channels moved to this morning. Maybe it isn�t an �age� thing. Maybe it�s just an �intelligence� thing��. Since I had to by my lonesome this evening, I did what most every adult male would do in my situation: I made a batch of strawberry-red raspberry jam. What, you figured I spent the extra time surfing porn? I guess I know what y�all really think of me, eh? No, I didn�t get to make any strawberry jam last summer because there were never any good berries at the farmer�s markets this summer. I have made this jam in the winter before, so it wasn�t that unusual for me to make it again. I think the California strawberry crop is near its prime in mid-winter. While we were in Springpatch we stopped at our old favorite supermarket chain- Jewel. They pulled out of Mohall about 6 years ago, and we make it a point to still shop at their store in Springpatch every time we are in town. They were having one of those �buy one, get one free� sales they always have, and 1-pound �clamshells� of ripe Cali strawberries were one of the sale items. I bought them with the idea of eating them in my lunch, not making the jam. When I opened the first container and tasted one of these ripe fruits, I knew that I needed to drag out the canning supplies. One problem, though: two pounds of strawberries only makes 4 cups of crushed fruit. The jam recipe calls for 5 cups. I had a large Ziploc� bag in the small freezer containing the meager crop of red raspberries I put back this summer. I thought I would get enough between my beds and my sisters to make a decent batch of raspberry jam. It didn�t happen, though. Her canes died from one of the wilts that attack these plants, and she had no harvest at all. Since I didn�t have enough to make my jam, I was keeping these for some other use. Ice cream, maybe, or some recipe Lease would come up with for a desert. They sure came in handy today. I ended up with 9 half-pints of rasp-strawberry jam, and I still have enough left for that batch of ice cream. From start to finish it only took me about 50 minutes to complete this job. I should be able make a batch this quickly, many times as I have done this through the years�.. They lined several trucks up in the parking lot at work today. These were the ones that still had salt grime on them from Saturday and Sunday�s little snow. The full time-temps were in charge of the task, and had completed about half of the trucks by lunchtime. Since we had a forecast for mixed precipitation tonight, the State decided to send the night shift home. Unfortunately for us, nobody was left to wash the trucks still sitting in the lot. Since the rest of us had other things to do, we didn�t even notice the trucks until 3:30, when we were putting things up for the night. A couple of the guys went out to pull the trucks back inside for the night, and they noticed something odd. One of the trucks wasn�t running any more. The heater was still blowing full blast, but the engine was off. Why? Because the truck had run out of diesel fuel. My truck, natch�. If you run out of gasoline, all you have to do is refill your tank. Pump the pedal a few times, and your car starts right up, right? It doesn�t work that way with a diesel engine. A diesel engine works only when the fuel is under pressure. Run the fuel out, and you have to bleed all of the air out of the lines, pump the engine�s primer, and hope for the best. Those steps didn�t work for my truck. The next step would be to remove the fuel filters, prime the system all over again, and try the ignition. Since they weren�t keeping any of us on the day shift over (nothing happening weather-wise yet), the truck ended up sitting there in the middle of the lot. If my partner has to come in tonight (still forecasting a mix, although much less now), he will have to drive an old truck. I called him at home to warn him. I wouldn�t like to come in at 2 am, only to see my truck dead in the lot. He didn�t seem to mind. He also couldn�t figure out how the truck ran out of fuel. It�s a mystery, I guess��.
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