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Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2003 - 8:00 p.m. There are many ways that people use to decide if spring is actually here. If you live in the tropics, you don�t have this concern. If you don�t ever suffer through winter weather, you can�t understand how the changing seasons effect the rest of us. After working in the cold and snow for almost 12 weeks straight, the temperatures have finally started hitting what they should for mid-March. It made it all the way up to 45� today, which is just a little bit below are normal high. The forecast for tomorrow is 50�, with showers. Tomorrow night, the weather-heads are telling us to look out for THUNDERSTORMS! Highs should reach 70� by the end of the week! We haven�t been that warm since LAST OCTOBER! Didn�t I spend a night fighting snow just 7 days ago? As a matter of fact, this is the longest period of time I have gone without fighting some form of winter weather since CHRISTMAS EVE! NO MORE WORDS WITH ALL CAPITOL LETTERS, AND UNNESSESARY EXCLAMATION POINTS! �R� at work today had the sighting that tells us all that spring has finally sprung. He said that on his drive to work this morning he was sitting at a stoplight, when he noticed two grackles (ugly black birds, if you didn't know what a grackle was) �having sex� on the grass median next to his car. Well, actually he said they were �fucking�, but I didn�t want to be crude about it��. Check this next photo out, and tell me what you think the image is of:
No, it�s not a blast furnace from a steel foundry. Maybe this next shot will clear things up a little:
Yeah, that is what�s left of a door hinge. It is located on the following door at work:
This door is located in our wash bay. Because of its location, this poor overhead door gets bathed in salt for 5 months every year. Even though the guys make an effort to wash all of the over spray off of the door every day the wash the trucks, this kind of damage is unavoidable. And you thought getting a little salt brine on your car's undercarriage in winter was a big deal! We are now in the need of a new replacement door. If not, this rusty mess will soon collapse and fall down. Probably kill someone if they have the misfortune of standing under it when it comes apart. Gordo called London and asked about replacing it today. The folks down there said no problem. I had to call around and get three people willing to come out and give us estimates. This is not easy, considering we have called them all before without using their services. Only one company ever gets our contracts, because they undercut they others. After they submit their bids, the State will likely give the usual company the contract. If they slip us another cheap-o door, it will rot out just as fast as this one did. How fast is that, you might ask? 6 winters. That is all the last one has been in service. The door needs to be vinyl clad, with stainless steel everythings. That is what the other contractors specify in their bids. The company that always gets the low bid uses a cheaper quality for their doors. That way, they come in every 6 years and install another one. Gotta keep their men busy, don�t they. This time around, I have told them that the door has to be rust resistant. No stamped metal hinges (look at the rust on them in the photo above). If they submit something less than that, I will throw their bid out. I will then call the last contractor left in the county, and have them submit their estimate. If the people in London won�t learn from past mistakes, I will have to do it for them� This is San-D, the winter tech:
She, like most every woman I know, doesn�t like to have her photograph taken. This shot came before she realized I had my camera today. I took another 5 or 6 photos of her, but she kept covering her face, or turning as I hit the shutter. I sent those to her in an email. I wouldn�t put them here. She would have to kill me tomorrow if I did�.
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