Just be a head gasket......

So.......under the hood we go. Spud is assisting, pointing and shooting as I spin the wrenches. He has first hand knowledge and experience at what we are about to do. Funny how it turns around, rescuing the rescuer. This is a hard piece of work for me to do. There are more reasons not to do this than to proceed. Surprised I slept through the night. Yet I know when our two brains begin the job in a couple of hours, we will be magnificent.

Thirty years ago, I worked in a control fabrication shop. The owner's son and I were good friends. He worked one weekend on his old Ford pickup, changing head gaskets and the related items, which include exhaust manifold gasket, valve cover gaskets, draining and refilling fluids....it can get busy.

He showed up at work on Monday proud of his work. At lunchtime he was filling his truck at the company gas pump. A few men wandered over and he popped the hood to show off his workmanship. I snuck up and crawled under the engine and as he started it up, I began tapping on the frame rapidly with a rock. I could see their faces, they not mine. The best "Oh Shit" expressions I have ever seen. Mine looked that way yesterday I'm sure. Lot's of laughter at the relief of my prank. My turn now.

The timing of this so very much sucks for me, yet I know there are no accidents in life. I am grateful for the roof I am under, and the ability to sit here and write my life. I am in better shape than some, worse than others. Flloyd would say, "right where you're sposed to be".
For example, men were spanked on the staff list this morning for missing the phone bridge staff meeting. One man's excuse that I read a few minutes ago was that he was diagnosed with kidney cancer a few day ago. He checked out of the weekend. Pray for "Young Bear",
Perry Sims.

Perry had a man physically attack him a couple of months back as he used the man's driveway to turn around in while lost on his motorcycle. He told the man in court that he would drop the charges if the man does the NWTA. The man is coming to the weekend.
Fucking amazing how this thing we do reaches men.

Got to go light up the garage now and slip into something less comfortable. Coveralls.

Love and Laughter, with a few tears.

Loon




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If I can get through the day without condemning, criticizing or complaining, it's been a good day. If I don't give advice, it's been perfect. - Flloyd Ashcraft