one for me and one for my homeys.......homies?.....no, homeys

hey everybody,

Well, it's been a fun week, if not exhausting, week. Here's a couple things that happened.

Randy hired a new guy who was coming out of a 7th month stretch of not working, getting divorced, having a nervous breakdown, blah blah blah. Too bad right? Well sure, at first, but then after working with him for the third day I started to not feel so sorry for the guy. He decides to grab some smokes during our afternoon break. I need some gatorade so we both head to the gas station. Did I mention that he needed to borrow money to get his cigarettes? Anyway, so I go and grab my gatorade and some cornnuts and get in line. I notice that he's decided to get some soda as well not just smokes. ' Hmmm', I think, I don't remember him asking to borrow money for soda as well, but whatever. So anyway he gets in line and within seconds says, 'hey do mind if I grab a six pack of beer too?' So, although I think it's a little weird to get beer at 4 in the afternoon I was really too tired to care. All I wanted to do was get this job done and head home. I had one hell of a headache. I say, 'sure whatever man.' He grabs the beer and we head back. As we drive the 5 minutes back to the jobsite I am surprised to look over and see has cracked open one of the beers and is happily sipping away. So I start to think that maybe the fact that his recent problems weren't just bad luck. He downs three of them in the next hour and a half. The next day he overslept 2 hours and then didn't get much work done because he had to go to a meeting with his probation officer. A rescheduled meeting that he missed the day before. Hey, guess what he was arrested for? C'mon, guess. That's right, it was a DUI! Anyway, I wasn't too surprised when Randy got rid of him the next day.

The other little excitement happened on Friday. I got in a little fender bender. Nothing serious. I was following one of the lead guys to a jobsite and the car in front of him slammed on its brakes for some reason. I was in the middle of accelerating and didn't see that he had stopped until it was too late. I hit the back of his trailer and left a perfect imprint of my liscense plate in the back door. Thankfully that seemed to be the extent of the damage. We'll see though. He's going to take it and get it checked out this weekend. Blah, I hate that feeling. I felt sheepish the whole rest of the day. He was really cool about the whole thing. He's a really easy going guy, but still you feel like such a moron after something like that happens.

However despite running into someone, and my interesting work partner for the beginning of the week, the week itself actually went really well. I'm really starting to get a hang of the job, and things are looking good.

that's all for now.

-kaz