Sometimes i think that some people who cross the street deserve to get hit. On my way to work today driving down a road a pedestrian comes right out of no where and decides to cross the street without looking both ways to ensure the way was clear. Its below -30 C with the windchill today so the roads are still icy. I slam on the brakes to stop for this guy and almost slide right into him. Don't need to be doing that in my lifetime, i've had my license for 10 years now and don't need to lose it over something stupid like that
Basically the biggest highlight of my workday today was going with another one of the techs to the other side of the city to another dealership to pick up parts for the mulcher we are fixing up. We had to do a good couple of hours of reorganizing at the place in order to get at the components we needed. Then loading up the truck afterward with the -30 something with the bad windchill wasn't that fun :-(.
So doing all that took up most of the workday. I was talking with one of the techs and learned that out of all the staff at the branch i'm at from the executives to the techs. One of the receptionists has been there longer than all of us and shes only worked for the company two years. Made me realize how much of a revolving door the company is that i work for. I was told theres lots of BS to deal with at my company, just haven't come across it yet.
The weather was terrible on the ride home. What normally takes me 20 minutes to drive home took me an hour. Thats how bad the roads were. Some wern't too bad, but for some people if its snowing its a good idea to drive 30 km/h on a main road and not care about the people behind you. Frustrates the hell outta me :-S.
Thought it would turn into another lazy day when i got home, i played around on my computer for a good 3 hours until finally getting up to make my weekly chili. Afterward i managed to pick up the guitar for a good 45 minutes and practice those audioslave songs i learned parts of over the weekend. I looked up a decent tab and after half hour i was able to get most of "One and the Same" down, except for the solo, there are some parts of it i don't know what Tom Morello does, but i just can't figure it out.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
While were on the topic about the Foo Fighters, I will also talk about one of my favorite Foo Fighters albums. Two of their biggest singles off of the album were "The Pretender" and "Long Road to Ruin". The songs even had awesome music videos to go along with them to. I was really into "The Pretender" for the longest time, gave me a good adrenaline rush lol. A couple of my other favorites off of the album were "Erase/Replace", "Let It Die" and "But, Honestly". Let it Die was also another song i listened to for the longest time, until it became a single on the radio and was played everywhere i went. That just killed the song for me :-(
Here are the links to Let it Die, Erase/Replace and But Honestly:
Erase/Replace - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1DenjYj_tg
Let It Die - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9fQhEHw2o&playnext=1&list=PL4F6B46F1F86E8AE5
But, Honestly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOu6uYE7ig
I even have a link to the first single off of Wasting Light. Its called "Rope"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3rZUgQsh8
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Double Post
I was getting pretty late to make an entry of my day yesterday, so i'm gonna post yesterday and today in the same post, starting with yesterday...
February 28th
woke up at 4:30 this morning, tried to get back to sleep since i usually wake up at 5:30. Didn't end up falling asleep and ended up waking up half hour earlier than usual.
We finally got around to finishing up the loader that has been in the shop since i started working for the company. There were moments I was afraid that the couple of us didn't do the job right and we would be stuck on it for a few more days. The quick attach cylinder head exploding and oil spilling all over was one instance why i would think that. In the end we checked it out and realized that the machinists who we sent it out to didn't do a good job at repairing it and one of the grooves where a snap ring was rounded so it would not sit in properly. Plus the bores where the locking pins slide in needed to be honed out some more which probably caused the cylinder to blow due to excessive pressure in the cylinder from too much resistance.
After honing out the pin bores and reassembling the cylinder, everything started working the way it should have. As for the rest of the day, i cleaned a few parts on another machine and touched up the paint on the bucket we fixed up.
After work, i stopped by to visit my daughter and to pick up my laptop. I really didn't want to go another day without a computer in my small living space. I went out to grab a few groceries afterward. I ran out of supplies to make my simple affordable chili. Seems like the perfect food for me to survive on when i don't have much for funds. I also picked up some yogurt, strawberries and granola. I've had the thoughts go through my head that i wanted to start eating granola with yogurt and fruit for breakfast, i decided now would be the time to start.
March 1st
So I started off the morning by eating that granola, yogurt and fruit mixture i talked about earlier, its was pretty awesome, i was hoping it would be filling enough, but after working for an hour i was starting to feel a little peckish, maybe i'll try having some peanut butter toast to go along with it tomorrow morning. I don't like feeling hungry when i'm working, don't feel like i can perform as well on an empty stomach.
Friggen cold and icy out this morning, checking the thermometer on the dash it was -29 C outside. Almost got into a couple of accidents on the way to work as well because some people love to follow way too close behind me and when i have to make a sudden stop they don't know what to do when they can't come to a complete stop on an icy road. Thank god i didn't get rear ended because i really don't wanna stand outside and exchange information with someone else when its that cold :-S.
To start off my work day i had to get the loader all squeaky clean for the customer. I washed the outside and cleaned the cab out. Since we still had a lot more time till the customer would come to grab his loader, my service manager wanted me to put another coat on the entire bucket. After doing all of this painting i've gotten the nickname "Da Vinchi" in the shop now lol.
Later in the day, a couple of us had to go out to one of the machines in the yard and remove a drive line from one of the trucks in the yard. There were no spare parts of that kind in the building for the customer so we had to steal one from one of the machines. The job wasn't too bad besides having to work out in -30. Sure made the day go by pretty fast to. There are times the day goes by so slow when all your doing is sweeping the floor or picking up garbage. Can be frustrating sometimes.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Did You Miss Me?
This is gonna be one hell of a make up blog for not having my laptop for 3 days. I'll start with Friday..
February 25th
So the welder that has been working at my workplace for the past 2 weeks, this whole time i thought he was an employee there, but he was a contractor. He was hired basically to do all of the tough parts of making the mounting brackets for the bucket, once all that was done they told him one of the other employees could take it from there. He wasn't too pleased about that, i wouldn't be either. Before he left he hung around for coffee and showed us this photo album of all of the projects that his business had worked on over the many years. And i guess it wasn't fraud that made his company go broke it was dishonest customers he did work for and they never paid him. Talk about a kick in the nuts :-S
Was pretty exhausted after work was going to head over and see my daughter and drop off my laptop after i cleaned up, ended up napping for 2 hours. Got lucky though, no was home anyway, they had to take off to one side of the city to a computer store to get a computer problem fixed. Ended up dropping my laptop off at my ex's parents house. My daughter was over there so i ended up staying 20 minutes to hang out before taking off to a friends to watch the 2nd Trailer Park Boys movie. Friggen hilarious movie :-)
February 26th
My phone woke me up this morning. Guess one of my friends wanted me to help her run a few errands since she didn't have any means of transportation. In return she bought me lunch and paid me 20 bucks for gas :-). I was planning on just staying in and playing guitar for a few hours for my day off, but for me being broke, i needed all the money i could get.
We went out for dinner at Moxies, just ate a burger there, but decided to try it with avocado on it. I never had it before besides guacamole it was pretty awesome. Afterward we went out to grab a few groceries, read in a magazine while we were there that there will soon be new episodes of Beavis and Butthead. Can't wait for that :-).
We stopped my Marks work warehouse afterward to grab some work boots for her new job this week. She just needed a cheap pair of steel toes and they had basically every kind you could possibly want. She didn't end up buying any because there were no PINK steel toes in stock and the tan colored ones looked icky. Are u serious.... its a friggen shop your working in, dressing up in that kind of work is not a fashion statement, i don't care if your going to be one of the only women working there... geez :-S
After all that shopping was taken care of, i finally got around to practicing some guitar. Just played some of the usual songs i've been playing over the past couple of weeks and tweaking some of the effect pedals to find some awesome sounds. While playing around with the effects i figured out how to play part of the song "One In The Same" by Audioslave. Stuck at one part now to look up the tab on the internet...... Oh right, temporarly don't have my laptop, really goes to show i shouldn't be so reliant on a computer.
Went to a house party later that night, brought my guitar along to entertain a few people. The guy who lived at the place drank a little too much and ended up passing out early, as for the rest of the party, the one friend who i took out earlier to do some shopping, got a little too drunk and was really starting to annoy the bunch of us. Got to the point where i didn't want to be at that party anymore. Ended up taking a few people home and made 80 bucks for driving people around that nite.
February 27th
Not really eventful today, just like any other sunday. Buddy called me up this morning apologizing for getting really drunk and making an ass of himself. He wasn't the reason i left though it was that chick there that was getting all emotional.
Finally cleaned the garbage out of my car today, almost got a full garbage bag of trash, around 10-15 pop cans and someones cell phone probably from one of the people from last nite because it wasn't dead. Guess i'm gonna have to remember whos phone it was and where they are living at :-S
Was hoping to get my laptop back today, turned out my ex wasn't finished with transferring her photos over to her computer so guess i gotta wait another day for it. Weel i went 2 days without one, one more won't hurt.
Playing around on the guitar later on that evening, tweaked my tremolo pedal in a way that when i played the notes to "Like A Stone" by Audioslave, its sounded almost identical. Now when i get my laptop back i'm definatley gonna haveta look up a bunch of these audioslave songs and master them. It sucks i won't be able to do a few of the solos without a whammy pedal though, goona have to wait till i have money to get that one. It's between that one and a delay pedal for next effects on my list.
February 25th
So the welder that has been working at my workplace for the past 2 weeks, this whole time i thought he was an employee there, but he was a contractor. He was hired basically to do all of the tough parts of making the mounting brackets for the bucket, once all that was done they told him one of the other employees could take it from there. He wasn't too pleased about that, i wouldn't be either. Before he left he hung around for coffee and showed us this photo album of all of the projects that his business had worked on over the many years. And i guess it wasn't fraud that made his company go broke it was dishonest customers he did work for and they never paid him. Talk about a kick in the nuts :-S
Was pretty exhausted after work was going to head over and see my daughter and drop off my laptop after i cleaned up, ended up napping for 2 hours. Got lucky though, no was home anyway, they had to take off to one side of the city to a computer store to get a computer problem fixed. Ended up dropping my laptop off at my ex's parents house. My daughter was over there so i ended up staying 20 minutes to hang out before taking off to a friends to watch the 2nd Trailer Park Boys movie. Friggen hilarious movie :-)
February 26th
My phone woke me up this morning. Guess one of my friends wanted me to help her run a few errands since she didn't have any means of transportation. In return she bought me lunch and paid me 20 bucks for gas :-). I was planning on just staying in and playing guitar for a few hours for my day off, but for me being broke, i needed all the money i could get.
We went out for dinner at Moxies, just ate a burger there, but decided to try it with avocado on it. I never had it before besides guacamole it was pretty awesome. Afterward we went out to grab a few groceries, read in a magazine while we were there that there will soon be new episodes of Beavis and Butthead. Can't wait for that :-).
We stopped my Marks work warehouse afterward to grab some work boots for her new job this week. She just needed a cheap pair of steel toes and they had basically every kind you could possibly want. She didn't end up buying any because there were no PINK steel toes in stock and the tan colored ones looked icky. Are u serious.... its a friggen shop your working in, dressing up in that kind of work is not a fashion statement, i don't care if your going to be one of the only women working there... geez :-S
After all that shopping was taken care of, i finally got around to practicing some guitar. Just played some of the usual songs i've been playing over the past couple of weeks and tweaking some of the effect pedals to find some awesome sounds. While playing around with the effects i figured out how to play part of the song "One In The Same" by Audioslave. Stuck at one part now to look up the tab on the internet...... Oh right, temporarly don't have my laptop, really goes to show i shouldn't be so reliant on a computer.
Went to a house party later that night, brought my guitar along to entertain a few people. The guy who lived at the place drank a little too much and ended up passing out early, as for the rest of the party, the one friend who i took out earlier to do some shopping, got a little too drunk and was really starting to annoy the bunch of us. Got to the point where i didn't want to be at that party anymore. Ended up taking a few people home and made 80 bucks for driving people around that nite.
February 27th
Not really eventful today, just like any other sunday. Buddy called me up this morning apologizing for getting really drunk and making an ass of himself. He wasn't the reason i left though it was that chick there that was getting all emotional.
Finally cleaned the garbage out of my car today, almost got a full garbage bag of trash, around 10-15 pop cans and someones cell phone probably from one of the people from last nite because it wasn't dead. Guess i'm gonna have to remember whos phone it was and where they are living at :-S
Was hoping to get my laptop back today, turned out my ex wasn't finished with transferring her photos over to her computer so guess i gotta wait another day for it. Weel i went 2 days without one, one more won't hurt.
Playing around on the guitar later on that evening, tweaked my tremolo pedal in a way that when i played the notes to "Like A Stone" by Audioslave, its sounded almost identical. Now when i get my laptop back i'm definatley gonna haveta look up a bunch of these audioslave songs and master them. It sucks i won't be able to do a few of the solos without a whammy pedal though, goona have to wait till i have money to get that one. It's between that one and a delay pedal for next effects on my list.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
America, F**K YEA!!!
So another exciting 8 hour work day of trying to properly weld new lugs onto a loader bucket. My mind wandered quite a bit during the work day. A lot of the time i had that "America F**K YEA" theme song from Team America stuck in my head along with a lot of other funny things that i have seen or read on the internet over the past week. I decided that when i got home from work i would sit down with my guitar and try to learn that song. I was able to get it down in 15 minutes, now i just need to memorize the lyrics.
A lot of talk going around with the co workers during coffee break in the morning. I learned that the welder in the past ran a very successful business and actually had made over 1 million from it. He mentioned something about taken to court over some kind of fraud and because of that his business came crumbling down. If it wasn't for that he said he wouldn't even be working he'd be long retired. talked about this crisis in Libya to and how one of the causes of the price of a barrel of oil increasing was because of that. I heard one of the techs mention that gas prices were going to hit 114.9 per liter by the end of the week and probably won't be much better come the summer time. When i drove home from work, sure enough i passed by a gas station and it was at 109.9 per liter.
A lot of talk going around with the co workers during coffee break in the morning. I learned that the welder in the past ran a very successful business and actually had made over 1 million from it. He mentioned something about taken to court over some kind of fraud and because of that his business came crumbling down. If it wasn't for that he said he wouldn't even be working he'd be long retired. talked about this crisis in Libya to and how one of the causes of the price of a barrel of oil increasing was because of that. I heard one of the techs mention that gas prices were going to hit 114.9 per liter by the end of the week and probably won't be much better come the summer time. When i drove home from work, sure enough i passed by a gas station and it was at 109.9 per liter.
Appeal To Reason
Appeal to Reason was probably one of my favorite albums and probably was this album that really got me more interested in Rise Against. A couple of their big singles off of this album are "Re-Education (Through Labor)" and "Audience of One". Some of my personal favorites off this album are "Long Forgotten Sons", "Savior" and "From Heads Unworthy". Posted below are some links if you haven't heard these tracks yet. Enjoy...
Long Forgotten Sons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYuSHn4iYU4
From Heads Unworthy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-4bana7wBk
Savior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qhry7ufxno
And if you haven't heard the new Rise Against song, its called "Help Is On The Way" and i have a link to that song to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVE7OPKoVtQ
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
I hate these kinds of days
Basically all throughout the day i have been really tired, there were a few moments at work where i almost felt like falling asleep. Maybe if i was a little more productive at work and it wasn't so slow maybe that would help out a little bit, but for the past couple work days i haven't really done a lot and its really getting frustrating.
One of the managers came and socialized with us during the first coffee break today. He brought up the subject about how he knew someone who over a period of time had collected all sorts of antiques and when his wife got really sick he sold his entire collection of antiques for 5 million. I asked the manager if this guy collected any antique guitars. He didn't but supposedly the managers hobby was collecting all sorts of antique guitars, so we talked about guitars for a good 10 minutes before coffee was over and afterward he showed me a picture of one of his latest guitars in his collection. It was an old strat, but what made it so rare was the particular shade of blue in the body color, there were few made with that body color, it would usually be around 10 grand, but since there were modifications made to it, the value was cut down by at least half.
When i got home after work i basically slept for a couple of hours. Afterward didn't have much motivation to do much of anything. Was gonna have a chili for dinner, couldn't work up the motivation to make that, ended up eating spaghetti instead. Didn't do much on the guitar either, just played with a few of the effect pedal i have. I did manage though to get my Boss Phase Shifter set up to sounds pretty descent, was pretty happy about that.
Maybe its just this cold weather thats keeping me boxed up inside my place. If it were nicer outside i know i would go out at some point and go for a walk around the block to clear my head, but i feel like i'm trapped in this tiny shoebox and i'm losing my mind. Maybe by the fall i'll move out and find a bigger place, the renting a room situation is alright in some areas, but i don't think i could do this for another year.
One of the managers came and socialized with us during the first coffee break today. He brought up the subject about how he knew someone who over a period of time had collected all sorts of antiques and when his wife got really sick he sold his entire collection of antiques for 5 million. I asked the manager if this guy collected any antique guitars. He didn't but supposedly the managers hobby was collecting all sorts of antique guitars, so we talked about guitars for a good 10 minutes before coffee was over and afterward he showed me a picture of one of his latest guitars in his collection. It was an old strat, but what made it so rare was the particular shade of blue in the body color, there were few made with that body color, it would usually be around 10 grand, but since there were modifications made to it, the value was cut down by at least half.
When i got home after work i basically slept for a couple of hours. Afterward didn't have much motivation to do much of anything. Was gonna have a chili for dinner, couldn't work up the motivation to make that, ended up eating spaghetti instead. Didn't do much on the guitar either, just played with a few of the effect pedal i have. I did manage though to get my Boss Phase Shifter set up to sounds pretty descent, was pretty happy about that.
Maybe its just this cold weather thats keeping me boxed up inside my place. If it were nicer outside i know i would go out at some point and go for a walk around the block to clear my head, but i feel like i'm trapped in this tiny shoebox and i'm losing my mind. Maybe by the fall i'll move out and find a bigger place, the renting a room situation is alright in some areas, but i don't think i could do this for another year.
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