We had prints for a welding project for over a month... During that time the weather was beautiful... Mid 60's to low 70's... Pretty much perfect for welding in terms of comfort...
When did we get approval?... Last Thursday for delivery tomorrow... That meant that we ended up getting the material late Friday, and coming in Monday on the holiday to cut it up and start welding... Monday hit 91 in the shop... I was melting in the welding gear... Today was in the upper 80's, and tomorrow looks to be the same...
How bloody annoying...
Ya know, I love my truck... I always have, and I continue to do so... To me I got lucky and got the right model year in terms of looks, as following my year, Dodge started trying too hard to make the truck look "tough" instead of simply letting it speak for itself...
That's not the point though...
Sadly, tomorrow morning, I will be dropping said truck off at my tire/brake/suspension place... (I won't let anyone near the engine anymore...) I pulled a tire this afternoon to check the brakes, and general health of front suspension, and damn if one of the ball joints isn't a friggin disaster... Its bad enough that I really don't want to drive very far, but fortunately, this place is less than a mile up the road, and I'm sure I won't have any issue making it that far in a straight line over smooth roads...
This is definitely a love hate thing with my truck at this point...
Yes, it has in fact been forever since I posted... Doesn't matter, as everyone has given up on checking here by now... So why post?... Somehow I just can't stand the thought of giving up completely...
So I was driving back to NJ yesterday from a weekend with my girlfriend outside DC, and something hit and chipped my windshield that I can only explain in my mind as a meteorite... I know, that's nuts, and it was probably a road rock... What led me to this conclusion, was that there were no other vehicles around on either side of the Turnpike (which is weird in itself), there were no bridges, light poles, or trees that could have dropped something... Hell there wasn't even a sinister looking flight of birds up above looking to bomb me... Also when I saw the thing before it hit, it was falling straight at me, not arcing in like a stone from a vehicle in front would have...
Doesn't much matter what it was though as now I have a chipped windshield, dead straight in front of me that I need to get fixed....
I make the drive to DC and back fairly frequently, and my girlfriend does it almost every weekend I can't... So I have gotten to see more of I-95 than anyone should have to... This raises a question... What the hell is wrong with Delaware?... Delaware represents 15 out of 180 miles of the trip... That should take all of about 20 minutes, including tolls... It routinely takes 45 minutes to an hour, because for some reason the traffic is constantly packed... Yes, the speed limit is 55 as opposed to 65.... That's not the sinister reason behind this... Its like some attention deprived child throwing a tantrum... For some reason that state simply will not let you just cruise through...
You should never dread crossing a state line unless you are running from the law... I dread Delaware....
One the work side of life, we're in the calm between storms... We have 2 shows on June 15, in two different states. Currently we are trying to get material in to re-do a recent project that a client didn't like, but it is a 3-4 week lead time with a huge minimum charge for the material... We didn't screw the pooch here, they specified the wrong material... Personally I wanted what we will be using now... They of course want everything done yesterday... Had they given us the time in the first place, it wouldn't be a panic now... There is also a build project for another rental shop... We do an occasional job for them if they're over-committed, or like now, they don't have a staff welder... Of course I don't have a time table on the project, but you can bet it will be mid June...
And that's it from here... Will I post again?... Hell I don't know... My internet is down at my house (for a bloody week now mind you) so I can't do so from there, and I only come in here now if there is something to do (which is most days, but we keep them short...).