01-14-2017, 08:28 PM | #1 |
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I'm Pooped
Five, count 'em, five airplane rides in 24 hours. Chicago to Phoenix to Oakland just so I could stand on the BART tracks at 1:30 this morning for an hour. Oakland to Phoenix to Minneapolis and back Chicago. On the plus side, if there is one, I got two first class upgrades on the way home.
I will never, ever, do this again.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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01-14-2017, 09:00 PM | #2 |
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More of California dept. of transportation dollars down the drain? Or did they get their money's worth. I know your company didn't do it for free unless it was a warranty call.
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01-15-2017, 08:10 AM | #3 | |
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Customer service at its' finest.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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01-15-2017, 12:38 PM | #5 |
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Cool! I like the details.
I remember they "said" they lost a Mars Lander due to a metric/Sae snafu (situation normal all f#^%ked up ) What was travel time vs job time, we could use a laugh. I've done on several occasions, health club warranty calls where I had to show the lovely operator where the facility circuit breakers were. (CHA-CHING $$$)
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***************************************** 2015 Bashan"Blaze" BS250GY-31 (DB-07K-250) GONE 2017 Suzuki V Strom 650 XT "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~Benjamin Franklin~
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01-15-2017, 09:00 PM | #6 | |
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Got to the jobsite at 11 pm. Sat on my ass until 1 am when I could leave to get on track with the crew. Twenty minutes to and from track MP. Was on track until 2am and back in my rental at 2:30. So, about 40 minutes of work and 40 minutes of commuting. Napped in the rental for an hour. Turned it back in at 4am. Left Oakland at 6 am PST and back to O'hare at 6 pm CST, back home at 7:00 CST, so 11 hrs there. About 25 hours of travel, including commuting. 7 hours of scratching my backside. 40 minutes of work. This was the first flight of the year and I've racked up 4000 miles already. 46000 more until I hit AA Platinum for 2018. I only did 28000 last year, enough for AA Gold for this year. Gold is okay, Platinum is better. Executive Platinum is the "I have no life outside of work" card.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts Last edited by cheesy; 01-15-2017 at 09:03 PM. Reason: I can't math. |
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01-15-2017, 11:11 PM | #7 |
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wow! :-/
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01-17-2017, 12:45 AM | #8 |
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Never, ever is a long time, Queso. Here's hoping you don't have to go through that again.
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