Ho, hum...winter is glum & spine-less people suck

You know, I am at that point where I am sooooo sick of winter right now. Just enough snow falls to keep everything dirty & wet, but not enough to care. I had thought about skiing this year. I used to love it. I stopped for a few years due to the fact that I am getting older and I had no insurance, but now, well..... I am covered. I can tell you one thing, if I had been my size now when I raced on skis in high school, I would have been a "momentum machine". I would have won hands down on gravity alone.

Moving forward, I had a close friend get black-balled out of his job this past week. Here is a "brother" of mine that worked his ass off to get where he is, and was a the top of his field. This is a fellow lineman, and a man that inspired me to want to be a lineman myself. His only down fall is he calls it like he see's it and in this day & age people are afraid of the truth. I know, I see it in my job. People would rather take a peice of shit and put a bow on it and say "Isn't this lovely?", when in reality.....it's a piece of shit. You know? So these co-workers of my brother all turned tail and hung him out to dry, because I think someone wanted a leg up. Lets get him out, then we can move up quicker. In our trade, these are people that you need to trust your life with when working with the elements involved. I would be safe to say that I would deem none of his former co-workers trust worthy and would never rely on any of them for the slightest thing.
He did well though, I would have flown off the handle. I would not have been so.... so.... I guess you could say mature, about the whole thing. I would have choked a few people. I took a lot of crap from people when I was young, I tend to run a lot bolder now than I did as a teen. Meaning, my bullshit tolerance is zero. Someone, whether it made it worse or not, would be answering for their actions!

Anyway, he has come through it, and I feel deep down it was for the best and he will come out better off in the long run. Call it John Wayne-ism, but I still believe that honesty and hard work will prevail.

On a side note I am soooooooooooooooo ready for this:


“I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.” ---Frank Sinatra