I Think

I was asked yesterday can I work more hours. "You wouldn't have to do much. Just supervise the temp and putter around." Well, I already come back in a crisis and answer after hours emergency calls. I was at the job for forty five minutes last night after nine, determining that I need to replace an A/C condenser in the morning. I think not. Oh. Just thought I'd ask.

It's early to call it Dog Days of Summer. Right? Maybe after I adjust it will be more tolerable.

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Well. It seems that their interpretation of what you would have to do is more than what you would do.

I guess you have to ascertain of the stress is worth it, pay is worth it, life with your wife is worth it to give that...........

I guess, what do you think?

I THINK.

Imagine power walking in the heat for four hours, plus up and down stairs often carrying heavy loads. Then coming back almost every day a time or two and taking late night calls. Then being asked to do more. Make me ten years younger and I will answer the call.

Well, I'd say I'm a bit older than you are, and I'm going to Cuba where the temp is now over 90 degrees. We'll be walking in that heat, drinking and eating, listening to some live music, meeting new people, and stay up until midnight to visit our favorite cigar smoking room to have a santiago and cigar.

And we'll be repeating that routine for most of our stay in Cuba.

It is because you are such a nice and obliging bloke ed.

I think people use charm offences in order to build up credit before they hit you with the big one and you feel you can't refuse them.

General belligerence and gruff grumpiness is more in keeping in a man at your time of life.

The charmers get a double prize you know. Not only do they set you up for the big one but they satisfy themselves that they are charming and polite persons of delicate sensibilities and imbued with a gracious goodwill towards their fellow man. I find it particularly obnoxious when the target is of a lower social status than themselves.

I'm going to jump off a bridge this evening. For the most part, I agree with Spendius. First time for everything.

Seriously, I sense they're taking advantage of you. They know your weak spot.

I haven't agree to more hours. But there is a minimum of action necessary to keep a place like this going, so I have been taking on more load. I just can't do more hours, however.

Tell them you need an assistant. Give them a list of what needs doing and appeal for their mercy. They actually like the idea because they get to extend their mini-bureaucracy and have more people under their control.

Limp a bit and rub your back with a trace of agony. You're too valuable to lose because of your knowledge of the structures and the social dynamics of the tenants, and your known good and honest service. Hint at retiring.

And if they are thinking of another investment in the same line you could be appointed General Maintenance Supervisor, on account of your trustworthiness and experience, and have an assistant at each site which would, in the nature of things, require an office.

I shouldn't think the maintenance staff of the Empire State Building is smaller than it was when the building started taking money despite the increasing efficiency of our times.

Oh dear... I can visualise but I can't imagine. Sounds too much to me.. I also agree with Spendius, sounds as if "ah, he'll do it".. I don't think any amount of pay is worth breaking your back for and not enjoying being at home once work is over.

CI.............I am going to Phuket for 6 days for our birthdays in June, I'll be doing what you be doing except the cigar

If I act all broke down and suffering, how long before you think they will terminate me for being too old? As for getting an assistant, they want there to be three of us. But every time we get a good man like we just lost, we lose him way too soon. In the meantime, our ad in the media for an assistant goes unanswered. Unemployment may be a problem elsewhere, but apparently nobody around here needs a job. I have three more years to pay off my home. I can make it.

It isn't only the heat, but pressure to keep moving very fast while working. Friday we have a refrigerator to move up the stairs. The stairs has a landing midway that turns sharply and at that point the refrigerator has to be taken off the dolly and squeezed into position to be restrapped in for the second flight. Today - I had to take down an air conditioner from atop a stack of three and drag it to the other end of the parking lot before exchanging it for the old one. Not the same as smoking one of Fidel's best while strolling down the street, I think.

What you need ed is a strong young man who hums "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more" all day long but is stuck with a demand for a diamond ring appropriate to an up-coming $20,000 wedding festivity.

The discipline of logic.

We have had any number of workers who could have been excellent but had to leave for a variety of reasons. None of them listened to Dylan at all.

I hear ya. I use a manual lawn mower for a strip of lawn that's only 7.5 x 18 feet, and I'll be huff'n and puff'n when I'm finished.

I hate mowing the yard, so I am gradually doing away with as much grass as I can.

I got rid of most of our lawn - in both our front and back yards to a low-maintenance "garden." I had 3 tons of pebbles delivered over twenty years ago that I manually hauled to my back yard by a pail. I still get weeds, so I have to spray vegetation/weed killer a couple times a year.

That's what I'm talkin about.

Smart move for both of you, getting rid of your lawns. They are a gigantic pox upon Mother Earth.

After weeks trying to get a pool light measuring nine inches across, having a 100' cord, we got the right one yesterday. I and a long gone coworker replaced the last one and I recall the old line had lain inside the tube so long it actually was stuck to the bottom. It took considerable effort to make it move. I have already tested the current line and it is stuck as well. Once it moves, however, it pulls right out.

Besides making a disc of my book, I print it at different stages. Anything to keep from losing it. Got to do that today. It uses lots of paper and ink, but I don't care.

My best growing moringa tree has flowers atop it. After trying for a few months it succeeded. Until now it seems either birds or bugs were taking the buds.