Wednesday, November 14, 2001
speaking of traffic, hot damn. i left early because i knew it was going to be bad, and i was still 35 min late. it took me over an hour to get from wedgewood to rainier beach, fuuuucked. the entire stretch of I-5 was stopped. normally it is only the ship canal bridge that is stop and go, then it clears up when you get to downtown, but not this morning. oh well.
god, it was pouring today. i got soaked. last night and this morning, it rained so much that the park i was working at flooded. god damn that sucks. we had all these plants placed out, and we get there today, and they are sitting around, some of them floating, some of them completely submerged in knee deep water. i was the lucky guy who got to go fish them all out of the new pond created. so yeah, i go to the shed and pull out these hip waders that are 3 sizes too small. they weren't even hip waders, they were those chap kind of things that go up to your crotch or so, but they are too big to put rain pants on with. turns out, one of them has a hole in it. fuuuuck. so yeah, i'm walking through, just kicking around in muddy water looking for plants, with water streaming into my boot, and my crotch soaked because it is unprotected from the rain. whenever i pick up a plant, water drains out the bottom onto my crotch and into the top of my boots. walking around, i step DIRECTLY into a flat of little 4 inch square pots. this scatters them, and sends them floating all around the new lake. i found 22 of them, so 3 are still missing. oh well, thats the breaks. anyways, i managed to fish out all the pots, i am completely soaked, and i still have 3 hours to work out in the rain. oh joy. not that i am bitter or anything. at least it wasn't windy or cold
working in the rain and mud and wet is getting easier and easier. i don't really mind it that much today, because i usually manage to stay dry enough. i also bought wool socks, so my feet are always warm :) it can actually be kind of fun wading around places trying to weed or plant or whatever. monday, i was planting in the rain. it was really muddy, so i got done and took off my hood so people could see my face, and i was just covered in mud. it looked like war paint apparently.
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alright, so one of the nastiest things ever just happened. it looks like the toilet/shower/sink output pipe here is leaking, so it made this huge pool of water/sewage/other stuff in our basement. my boss told me to go clean it up, and i was just like... uhhhhhh.... and so then she was like yeah, just bucket it. i was like, you sure? so i went and looked at the puddle again, then went back upstairs and asked what she wanted me to do with it. she was like, just put it in that downstairs sink. i was like ok.... so i ran into my coworker downstairs, before i started, and took him to the basement to look at it. i showed it to him, and was like, i really don't want to be touching this stuff. he was like, "on one hand, she is our boss, and we have to do what she tells us, but on the other hand, that is really nasty." so he went upstairs and talked to her, and she came back down and was like, maybe you shouldn't be cleaning that up... i was just like yeah, good idea. gah, that would have sucked. i am used to getting all the shat jobs at work that no one else wants, but that was a little too much shat for me ;)
god, it was pouring today. i got soaked. last night and this morning, it rained so much that the park i was working at flooded. god damn that sucks. we had all these plants placed out, and we get there today, and they are sitting around, some of them floating, some of them completely submerged in knee deep water. i was the lucky guy who got to go fish them all out of the new pond created. so yeah, i go to the shed and pull out these hip waders that are 3 sizes too small. they weren't even hip waders, they were those chap kind of things that go up to your crotch or so, but they are too big to put rain pants on with. turns out, one of them has a hole in it. fuuuuck. so yeah, i'm walking through, just kicking around in muddy water looking for plants, with water streaming into my boot, and my crotch soaked because it is unprotected from the rain. whenever i pick up a plant, water drains out the bottom onto my crotch and into the top of my boots. walking around, i step DIRECTLY into a flat of little 4 inch square pots. this scatters them, and sends them floating all around the new lake. i found 22 of them, so 3 are still missing. oh well, thats the breaks. anyways, i managed to fish out all the pots, i am completely soaked, and i still have 3 hours to work out in the rain. oh joy. not that i am bitter or anything. at least it wasn't windy or cold
working in the rain and mud and wet is getting easier and easier. i don't really mind it that much today, because i usually manage to stay dry enough. i also bought wool socks, so my feet are always warm :) it can actually be kind of fun wading around places trying to weed or plant or whatever. monday, i was planting in the rain. it was really muddy, so i got done and took off my hood so people could see my face, and i was just covered in mud. it looked like war paint apparently.
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alright, so one of the nastiest things ever just happened. it looks like the toilet/shower/sink output pipe here is leaking, so it made this huge pool of water/sewage/other stuff in our basement. my boss told me to go clean it up, and i was just like... uhhhhhh.... and so then she was like yeah, just bucket it. i was like, you sure? so i went and looked at the puddle again, then went back upstairs and asked what she wanted me to do with it. she was like, just put it in that downstairs sink. i was like ok.... so i ran into my coworker downstairs, before i started, and took him to the basement to look at it. i showed it to him, and was like, i really don't want to be touching this stuff. he was like, "on one hand, she is our boss, and we have to do what she tells us, but on the other hand, that is really nasty." so he went upstairs and talked to her, and she came back down and was like, maybe you shouldn't be cleaning that up... i was just like yeah, good idea. gah, that would have sucked. i am used to getting all the shat jobs at work that no one else wants, but that was a little too much shat for me ;)
