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Driving around town today, I saw a truck with a sign that said “There is but one god and Allah is his name” and under that was another sticker “Only follow the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of Mary”.

I just got the call. Even though I knew it was coming, I’d still like to have more then a week off.

It feels like I haven’t had anytime to myself for the past few months. I come home for about a week and then I am off again.

At least it isn’t Bakersfield and maybe I will have Christmas off.

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I got the call to leave Bakersfield and go home. I may be going to Mexico soon, but for now I am home.

On the flight back I noticed this sign. It is actually, pretty hard to take a picture of this sort of sign. And I have no idea why the camera on my phone is worse then a 1 megapixel camera ever was.

Before I left Georgia, I took the truck to get the yearly emissions test. But the Emissions testing computer couldn’t talk to the truck computer. So I just asked Margo to handle it. Take it to our regular mechanic and if that didn’t work, take it to the dealer for service.

The dealer comes back and says there is a broken wire somewhere and possibly a bad computer. So, 700 dollars later, they come up with roughly 5 grand worth of repairs. I tell Margo to just fix what we need to do to get the truck legal and as long as parts aren’t falling off of it, we can wait on the other repairs.

A few hours after that, I get a call from the dealer. A salesman is telling me that I have an awful lot of expensive repairs to be made on a truck with 75,000 miles on it and I really should consider getting a new truck. And if I came in today, he would give me a great deal.

I have no idea who decided automobile dealerships need to be as sleazy as possible, but I hope he is in an extra warm spot of hell.

Somehow, I found Dr. Steel.

I like his music and find most of his tunes very catchy. I’m not too fond of his singing. Reminds me of the group Type O Negative. I liked their music until they gayed it up by pretending to be vampires.

I want to build an animatronic bird(Finally) and I’m looking at servo controllers. The large bulk of them use RS232 to talk to the computer.

Why won’t it die? I don’t think I have a computer with 9 pin serial ports.

The last rig I was on, the crew was either Retarded or on meth. At least, the retard was easy to spot. The meth guys seemed a little tweaked and told jokes that are the kinds of jokes that are only funny when you are drunk.

My new goal for work is to not get killed.

and I have noticed I probably wouldn’t do very well out here. I don’t have any sleeve tattoos.

After almost a year of gallivanting around the world and being dropped, crushed, folded, spindled and mutilated, my Canon SD1000 died. I took it apart and found out the plastic was cracked around where the gears made the lens move.

So I need a new camera.

I just happened to see this for the Sony Ericsson C905. It takes great pictures and will automatically geotag. I considered just getting the Ericsson half so I don’t give money to Sony, but it looks like the Nokia N96 can do the same thing.

This Halloween I was asked to be on call for a job that might come up. The guy that did most of the job couldn’t be on call because he had plans.

I also had plans for the night that got cancelled to come here. But I guess my plans didn’t matter.

One of the guys that likes to play supervisor does this real irritating thing to ride the clock. He has been in charge since I’ve gotten here, which has meant 16 hour days. Yesterday at 7 pm he handed me an email printed out for a job that just came up and he needed me to be there at 6 in the morning. He knew about it since 2 that day according to the email header.

The guys here aren’t big on cleaning. So things just get dirty. Trucks get filled with food wrappers and cups. In the staff house (and in the trucks) are piles of chewing tobacco tins and used spit cups. Because it is too hard to keep a bag in the truck for trash.

They are also afraid to say something is broken. I don’t know why they do that. I’ve had problems on jobs because I’ve picked a tool up and it turns out to be unusable. But nobody decided to say anything about it. Until later and it is all “You know, I picked it up and noticed it was broken, so I put it back”.