Not So Fast

Father O'Malley answers the phone. Hello, is this Father O'Malley?
It is!
This is the IRS. Can you help us?
I can!
Do you know a Ted Houlihan?
I do!
Is he a member of your congregation?
He is!
Did he donate $10,000 to the church?

He will.

Hit The Off Button!

I just worked 23 of the last 48 hours and I hurt from the bottoms of my feet to the base of my skull.

Some of the things I have been doing involve holding 2"X3" solid copper bars 3 feet long up over my head so I could bolt them up to the bottom of something very large and very heavy, while standing on a fucking ladder.

That's just a taste of it, a small taste.

I have been on my feet so long they are literally throbbing right now.

I have shit to do this weekend too but for now it is lights out. Thanks fer stopping by, hit the Blogroll until I can come to again and actually form words in my head that are longer than two syllables.

Update;
The whole maintenance crew has been pulling twelves to get this piece of equipment back up and running. Days, swing and graveyard, 24 hours a day.

Everyone is burned out.
I just woke up to find that they had texted me looking for someone to go in again to help the weekend guy fix a compressor.

I'm not available.

Fuck that.

I have other shit to do.

Finally.

Thursday?

I'm pretty sure it is, been working my ass off.

It isn't going to end anytime soon, either.
I have a twelve hour shift tonight, 5 P.M. to 5 A.M., at least.
Then turn around and be back at 3 in the afternoon for the final push to get a piece of equipment back together.I'm talking serious physical labor here too.

Ah, yeah.
I'm freakin' beat already and now my sleep schedule is going to be all fucked up even more than it is already.

As you can imagine, posting will be light until I get this over with.

In the mean time;

Yet Another Sign That I'm Getting Old

When I had to explain to my younger supervisor and coworkers what "Turn It Up To Eleven" means.

Sigh.

I'm surrounded by young punks.

In case you still don't get it;

Fed Continues Tapering

Promises it will only hurt for a second....

Fed further cuts its bond-buying program, predicts higher interest rates

Los Angeles Times | March 19, 2014 | 11:22 AM

The Federal Reserve today further reduced its monthly bond buying to $55 billion as more central bank officials predicted their target interest rate would rise by the end of next year, Bloomberg News reported.

Fed officials predicted their target interest rate would be 1% at the end of 2015 and 2.25% a year later, higher than previously forecast, as they upgraded projections for gains in the labor market.

They also removed a provision they had earlier pinned to this that was dependent on the unemployment rate falling below 6.5%.

With the unemployment rate falling faster than anticipated, Fed officials revised their so-called forward guidance on interest rates.

The committee removed a reference in previous statements to keeping the central bank's benchmark interest rate near zero as long as the unemployment rate was above 6.5%.

Fed policymakers said in their statement that they took the step because the unemployment rate was nearing that point -- it was 6.7% in February.

But the statement said the revision "does not indicate any change in the committee's policy intentions."

I think we have all seen how they can pencil fuck that unemployment rate whenever they feel the need.
Does the term "Revised Estimates" ring a bell?

This is all just another attempt to stave off the inevitable.
They had a chance to fix this mess back in 2008 and 2009 when the financial shenagigans the Big Banks had been playing with finally caught up to them.

Instead, they jumped in bed with them, bailed their asses out, refused to prosecute one single instance of criminal fraud and the rest is history.
A World Wide Economic Meltdown.


Previously known a a Depression, now euphemistically known as "The Great Recession".

Spit.


With Russia and China actively laying the groundwork for economic warfare against the dollar, it is just a matter of time until the house of cards they have built collapses and takes every one of us with it.

The Fed can dick with this tapering business until they are blue in the face.

The fact is that they failed spectacularly when they didn't have the balls to straighten this mess out long ago.

Filler Material

Another long day.
I found a list of strange facts that you might think are outright lies and find as interesting as I did though.

Some strange ones like these for a sample;

Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid.

There’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.

This one should give you pause;

France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.

If that one made you feel a bit old, Star wars has been out awhile, this will definitely make you feel better,

Betty White is actually older than sliced bread!

There are 73 more over at Buzzfeed and by some miracle they are all on one page!

I'm Feeling A Little Rusty

I wonder why.

I just saw on the news that we have had 196% of our normal rain fall amount for this month.
Normal precipitation totals for Vancouver are 3.78 inches in March.

I bet I could get a little boat pretty cheap down in California these days.
I might just need one if this keeps up.

Worked Late Again, Tired, Have Some Boobage

It was a fucking Monday all right.

Peekaboo

My St. Patrick's Day Message

Be glad I quit drinking, I used to actually get rude, crude and socially unacceptable on this day.

More so than usual....

There is an old saying that has the ring of truth to it.

"God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world".



My advice is that if you are going out to celebrate on St. Paddy's day, avoid the rookies and for God's sake, drink real Irish whiskey.

Make no mistake, I am of Irish descent. My father's immediate side of the family is 100% Irish.
His Father and Mother's side both.


There seems to be a certain attitude that comes with that lineage,

Thanks Murph, You Dick.

I spent a good deal of the day yesterday doing some vehicle maintenance on both cars that were due for oil changes.
My wife's was only 75 miles overdue, mine?

4,000 miles.

Before I hear of bunch of people freaking out and calling me a lazy bastard, I had a pretty bad oil leak at one time and was dumping a quart of oil in the fucker on a regular basis until I got it fixed so that isn't a true picture of the condition of the oil.

As a matter of fact, it was still cleaner than the stuff in the wife's car.

So anyway, I like to do my own oil changes still, because I can.
It's not that much cheaper than some of those quickie oil change places and it's a hell of a lot messier, plus I'd like to get my hands on the asshole who designed the engine in my wife's car.
That one is a real bitch.

Besides all that, it gives me a chance to lay eyes on things, looking for problems that haven't manifested themselves yet.

So I get all done and pull mine out and move it over to get hers in.
No biggie.
Got all done and then had to snake a drain line for the washing machine.
After that it was kick back time.

I go out and get in my rig today to run down to the store real quick and when I get out, I see a trail of liquid behind my car.

I went in and when I came out I took a closer look. First I stuck my finger in it to make sure it wasn't just water.

Oh, hell no, it's fresh oil.

I slide under the thing enough to put my hand on the filter to make sure it's tight, which it is but there is oil just running off the fucker and there is already a puddle under it.

Shit.
I got home and see a trail leading out of the driveway into the street and a puddle in the driveway too.

I whipped in and snagged a drip pan to throw under it and a pair of channel locks.
The filter is tight.
I took it off anyway to look at the gasket. It's good too. I put the damn thing back on and opened the hood to start looking around.
Way in the back on top of the transmission bell housing is all wet.

I reached in and started the engine to be greeted by a fucking geyser spraying up underneath my distributor!

WTF?!

I know there is an oil sending unit for the gauge down on the side of the block because that was where one of the previous leaks was coming from and I replaced it.

I get a flashlight out and take a closer look and sure as shit, there is another sending unit for the oil pressure, this one must be for the idiot light.
They are called that because whatever went wrong bad enough to cause that light to come on means it's too late, idiot.

Just out of the blue it decided to take a shit when I started it up today.

Did I mention it's right directly under the distributor?

From experience, I happen to know that it takes a special socket to remove and install them too.
Yes, I have one.

This is because some clever fucking bastard engineer thought it was a good idea that some people not be able to take them out.

Just for good measure, they put it right under the distributor which means they want you to take that out, to use their special socket.

Fuck you, Mr. Asshole engineer, I have been to Grandma's house before.

Let me introduce you to my friend, Mr. Knipex Cobra Pliers.

I have two sizes of these wicked little units.Neither of which were cheap.

The big set was $75 and the little set was $40, twenty years ago when they first came out, from a Snap On Dealer.

They have saved my ass many times.

There was just barely enough room under the distributor and between it and the hump in the firewall for the bell housing, to get the little set in there and get the damn thing out.

I win.

Of course then I had to go get a new one and clean up a huge mess but I can check that one off the list.

I am just very thankful I didn't go to work today. I would have found this problem out on the freeway, when that little red Idiot Light came on.

Crimea Refrendum, Early Votes Overwhelmingly To Secede From Ukraine, Join Russia

Let this be an object lesson to every dickhead in this country who says it can't be done.

Early results show Crimean voters overwhelmingly back joining Russia

By Sergei L. Loiko

March 16, 2014, 2:08 p.m.

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Partial election results released late Sunday showed Crimean voters overwhelmingly supporting a referendum measure that would see their region break away from Ukraine and join Russia.

With half the ballots counted, Mikhail Malyshev, head of the Crimea Election Commission, said in televised remarks that more than 95% of voters approved the option of annexation with Russia over a second option offered, which called for seeking more autonomy within Ukraine.

The referendum was widely denounced by the United States, much of Europe and Ukraine's acting government, which came to power last month after protests drove pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovich from power, as an illegal seizure of Ukraine's territory.

“In this century, we are long past the days when the international community will stand quietly by while one country forcibly seizes the territory of another,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement earlier Sunday that called on the international community to “take concrete steps to impose costs” on Moscow.

I love that last part, Whitehouse mouthpiece throws empty threats into wind, unbridled laughter from around the world follows.

Impotent,ignorant and arrogant , that's what we have for an administration here.

There isn't a damn thing they can do about it, we know it, they know it and Russia knows it.

The whole world knows it.

The diplomatic skills this administration has borders on being non existent.

Empty threats is all they got.

They are so used to throwing their weight around at all these little piss ant countries around the world that they have forgotten that there are other Big Fish in the pond with sharp teeth.


You can also bet your ass the Ukrainian's are ruing the day they let us talk them into believing we would have their back against Russia.

Push Her Over The Top

Angel is looking to add another zero to her stats, her One Millionth Hit.

In only 16 months.

Damn, that's impressive.

Go visit her and push her over the top.

Makes Ya Wanna Play In The Dirt