Continuation
The Gate.
Yes that is what this post shall be focused on, the gate of hell... Well I should say, the SECOND gate of hell, but I believe I've explained the fun of the first one... If not,
The first gate happened before Christmas, and in fact it was two gates that hate us... but I'll start with the story rather than confuse people with the number of uber-pain-in-the-ass gates... You see, and I think I've posted about this before but I'm not 100% sure, one of the sites had the automatic gate that lets you onto it and at the lockers broken when someone was moving in and it closed between the vehicle and the trailer with his shit in it, and it warped it way out of shape, so it wouldn't close anymore. The new gate was ordered but they needed a temporary gate, to make it safe and all... So there's this like 12 ft one, I think it was 12 feet, something like that, though I'm not sure of the exact length, lying around at the site I've been at for like a moth or so, Arrow, and they ordered a truck to come and carry it out to Maple, which is like across the road almost from Wonderland, Arrow is near York. We get the gate there and lo and behold the gate is about 10 ft too short, and better yet, the movable arm connection is on the wrong side. So after much fucking around, we have it all hooked up with a temporary bolt in place. We turn it on and the gate flys up as it's 10ft worth of steel lighter than the old one, and breaks the moveable arm bolt at some point too... It was really annoying, a whole day, in a snow storm, to accomplish nothing.
The Gate from hell, part deux. It was a loverly day at the Maple site, when we recieved the order for our new gate. Now you see, when we had repaired, at least TRIED to repair, the old one with a temporary solution, we found that the 4 labourers, 1 foreman, and 1 supervisor were a few people too many, it was almost like a union job, 1 or 2 people worked, and everyone else stood around and watched, I had spent most of my day standing on the gate to hold it down... Well this time we had 5 labourers, 1 foreman, and 1 supervisor, and it was no different than before, except that this time there were even more peopole standing around watching the rest of them work... It was actually kind of boring, just like before, except for the fact that Shawn (the jerk) and young Mike (fun Pickering boy) kept singing random songs and few other things, which I'll mention in a moment.
So we took the gate off the arm (the temp gate that we had actually cut off cause it didn't work properly and all...) and we attached the new one but the cross bolt, and then found that we couldn't get the bottom one bolted in cause the holes wouldn't line up, we couldn't push it back far enough. So we un-bolted the top and bolted in the bottom, only to find out that, like the bottom before, the top bolt holes wouldn't line up. The fun of this is that we took until lunch time (approximately) to get the gate this far, from 7 am... So we got a new bit for the hammer drill and decided that we'd drill a new hole and then bolt it in there so that it'd fit through and we could go home. That was a lark and a half... You see, the drill ended up burning out, so much so that we were joking about what the smoke smelled like and there was so much at one point that we were coughing and choking as we moved away from it. So we took out the second drill to work on the other half of the top arm. Eventually we did break through and we left the site, but man it was hilarious. We left the site shortly after 12, prolly close to 12:30 but I'm not sure, and I was on the road home back to Arrow to waste time by 1:30. It was a good day. When I wasn't smoking I was standing around watching people work or standing on the gate to weight it down while the guys were putting bolts in or taking them out or whatever. And often, I was doing a combination of all three, or at least two of them... It was a good day.
Since then I've finished off the god damned hurricane clips, and I've finished putting up the 1x4 under the roof, only to find out the roof isn't long enough from the building, so we now need to put up more 1x4... joyous... I spent today picking up garbage and filled 5 bags with it. My hand hurt by the end of the day from carrying them... The last bag went 400 feet on my back. But I mean, I had a good day, and the hot chick is reading my story, she says it's good so far, but that's only one page of the old version, and I mean, that's not that much, and that's the 2nd best chapter I've written, it's just that the best one I've written needs to be re-written, and it's not even typed yet.
So that's about it...
Later Days,
Spair
You are Wolverine (Logan)!
What X-men 2: X-men united Character are you?
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Your Life Path Number is 8
Your purpose in life is to help others succeed
You are both a natural leader and a natural success. You are also a great judge of character.
You have a head for business and finance. You know how to make money.
A great visionary, you can see gold where other people see nothing.
In love, you are very generous - with gifts, time, and guidance.
You love to inspire people, but it can be frustrating when they don't understand your vision.
Great success comes easily for you. But so does great failure, as you are very reckless.
You are confident, and sometimes this confidence borders on arrogance.
What Is Your Life Path Number?
You Should Drive a Ford Shelby Mustang Cobra
You have an extreme need for speed, even when you're not in a hurry.
And while your flying by, you don't want to look like every other car on the road!
What 2007 Car Should You Drive?
How You Life Your Life
You have a good sense of self control and hate to show weakness.
You're laid back and chill, but sometimes you care too much about what others think.
Your friends tend to be a as quirky as you are - which is saying a lot!
You tend to always dream of things within reach - and you usually get them.
How Do You Live Your Life?
Your Stipper Song Is
Closer by Nine Inch Nails
"You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you, you let me complicate you
Help me I broke apart my insides, help me I?ve got no
Soul to tell"
When you dance, it's a little scary - and a lot sexy.
What Song Should You Strip To?
Your Eyes Should Be Brown
Your eyes reflect: Depth and wisdom
What's hidden behind your eyes: A tender heart
What Color Should Your Eyes Be?
You Were a Rabbit
You are fast thinking and tend to live by your wits.
Getting over fears is important to you, as is strengthening intuition.
What Animal Were You In a Past Life?
You Were Naughty This Year
You Were 65% Naughty, 35% Nice
You may not have been good this year...
But you sure had a really good time.
And nothing from Santa could top that!
How Naughty (Or Nice) Were You This Year?
Yes that is what this post shall be focused on, the gate of hell... Well I should say, the SECOND gate of hell, but I believe I've explained the fun of the first one... If not,
The first gate happened before Christmas, and in fact it was two gates that hate us... but I'll start with the story rather than confuse people with the number of uber-pain-in-the-ass gates... You see, and I think I've posted about this before but I'm not 100% sure, one of the sites had the automatic gate that lets you onto it and at the lockers broken when someone was moving in and it closed between the vehicle and the trailer with his shit in it, and it warped it way out of shape, so it wouldn't close anymore. The new gate was ordered but they needed a temporary gate, to make it safe and all... So there's this like 12 ft one, I think it was 12 feet, something like that, though I'm not sure of the exact length, lying around at the site I've been at for like a moth or so, Arrow, and they ordered a truck to come and carry it out to Maple, which is like across the road almost from Wonderland, Arrow is near York. We get the gate there and lo and behold the gate is about 10 ft too short, and better yet, the movable arm connection is on the wrong side. So after much fucking around, we have it all hooked up with a temporary bolt in place. We turn it on and the gate flys up as it's 10ft worth of steel lighter than the old one, and breaks the moveable arm bolt at some point too... It was really annoying, a whole day, in a snow storm, to accomplish nothing.
The Gate from hell, part deux. It was a loverly day at the Maple site, when we recieved the order for our new gate. Now you see, when we had repaired, at least TRIED to repair, the old one with a temporary solution, we found that the 4 labourers, 1 foreman, and 1 supervisor were a few people too many, it was almost like a union job, 1 or 2 people worked, and everyone else stood around and watched, I had spent most of my day standing on the gate to hold it down... Well this time we had 5 labourers, 1 foreman, and 1 supervisor, and it was no different than before, except that this time there were even more peopole standing around watching the rest of them work... It was actually kind of boring, just like before, except for the fact that Shawn (the jerk) and young Mike (fun Pickering boy) kept singing random songs and few other things, which I'll mention in a moment.
So we took the gate off the arm (the temp gate that we had actually cut off cause it didn't work properly and all...) and we attached the new one but the cross bolt, and then found that we couldn't get the bottom one bolted in cause the holes wouldn't line up, we couldn't push it back far enough. So we un-bolted the top and bolted in the bottom, only to find out that, like the bottom before, the top bolt holes wouldn't line up. The fun of this is that we took until lunch time (approximately) to get the gate this far, from 7 am... So we got a new bit for the hammer drill and decided that we'd drill a new hole and then bolt it in there so that it'd fit through and we could go home. That was a lark and a half... You see, the drill ended up burning out, so much so that we were joking about what the smoke smelled like and there was so much at one point that we were coughing and choking as we moved away from it. So we took out the second drill to work on the other half of the top arm. Eventually we did break through and we left the site, but man it was hilarious. We left the site shortly after 12, prolly close to 12:30 but I'm not sure, and I was on the road home back to Arrow to waste time by 1:30. It was a good day. When I wasn't smoking I was standing around watching people work or standing on the gate to weight it down while the guys were putting bolts in or taking them out or whatever. And often, I was doing a combination of all three, or at least two of them... It was a good day.
Since then I've finished off the god damned hurricane clips, and I've finished putting up the 1x4 under the roof, only to find out the roof isn't long enough from the building, so we now need to put up more 1x4... joyous... I spent today picking up garbage and filled 5 bags with it. My hand hurt by the end of the day from carrying them... The last bag went 400 feet on my back. But I mean, I had a good day, and the hot chick is reading my story, she says it's good so far, but that's only one page of the old version, and I mean, that's not that much, and that's the 2nd best chapter I've written, it's just that the best one I've written needs to be re-written, and it's not even typed yet.
So that's about it...
Later Days,
Spair
You are Wolverine (Logan)!
What X-men 2: X-men united Character are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
Your Life Path Number is 8
Your purpose in life is to help others succeed
You are both a natural leader and a natural success. You are also a great judge of character.
You have a head for business and finance. You know how to make money.
A great visionary, you can see gold where other people see nothing.
In love, you are very generous - with gifts, time, and guidance.
You love to inspire people, but it can be frustrating when they don't understand your vision.
Great success comes easily for you. But so does great failure, as you are very reckless.
You are confident, and sometimes this confidence borders on arrogance.
What Is Your Life Path Number?
You Should Drive a Ford Shelby Mustang Cobra
You have an extreme need for speed, even when you're not in a hurry.
And while your flying by, you don't want to look like every other car on the road!
What 2007 Car Should You Drive?
How You Life Your Life
You have a good sense of self control and hate to show weakness.
You're laid back and chill, but sometimes you care too much about what others think.
Your friends tend to be a as quirky as you are - which is saying a lot!
You tend to always dream of things within reach - and you usually get them.
How Do You Live Your Life?
Your Stipper Song Is
Closer by Nine Inch Nails
"You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you, you let me complicate you
Help me I broke apart my insides, help me I?ve got no
Soul to tell"
When you dance, it's a little scary - and a lot sexy.
What Song Should You Strip To?
Your Eyes Should Be Brown
Your eyes reflect: Depth and wisdom
What's hidden behind your eyes: A tender heart
What Color Should Your Eyes Be?
You Were a Rabbit
You are fast thinking and tend to live by your wits.
Getting over fears is important to you, as is strengthening intuition.
What Animal Were You In a Past Life?
You Were Naughty This Year
You Were 65% Naughty, 35% Nice
You may not have been good this year...
But you sure had a really good time.
And nothing from Santa could top that!
How Naughty (Or Nice) Were You This Year?