return of the muhndaze

actually, today wasn’t bad at all.  Just flippin’ COLD,,,

Working on one of the work trucks,   Bed rotted out of it so they had me pull it but haven’t been able to find a decent replacement, (that was several months ago, been sitting since)

Bossman asked me to figure something out, Son of Bossman had made this suggestion awhile back, but the Dad always has last words, 

and now, Son of Bossman is getting his choice.

Making it into a flatbed, metal sheeted (dunno what sort of sheeting yet, they haven’t bought it.  I’m hoping for diamond plate, but will just as, if not more likely, to be flat,,, that $$$$ thing,,  And I do understand with the price of steel these days.)

But I made the frame for it, have it bolted ot the truck frame, and will be working on the ‘headboard’ tomorrow, along with the pesky fill tube that is not in a good location and requires the mouth to be 4 inches higher than the bed.   May have to do some serious alterations to make that work and not create a bigger problem (we have another flatbed with two fuel tanks, only, one of the tanks is completely unusable because the fill tube drops below the top of the tank and won’t ‘fill’,,,)

These are the projects where I like my job.   Get to flex the gray matter and give it a good workout, and the occasional busted knuckle to boot.   Don’t mind a little blood on the project: I figure it as a sacrifice to the small gods.  Hell, I had a Fiat, that if I didn’t bleed at least a little, while doing repairs, she wouldn’t RUN,,,,   Blood thirsty little EYE-tallian $(#)#__@#!!    But she would run like a bat out of hell, never leave her lane, and smoke tires in first and second and that was on a stock engine,,,(at least I believe it was stock, it may have had cam work done before it came to me, and I suspected that the whole time I owned her since tune-ups were as regular as oil changes.  But, I can’t say for certain and she is long gone from my world.)

And I have to go play with a powered gate tomorrow,,,   Cripes,,,,   Need to do that before I forget about it again.  I was told of it this morning and the truck bed distracted me (and yah, maybe a little bit of selective memory going on,,,,  shuush!)

as for weekend recovery mode,,,,   Sunday night I was out almost as soon as the sun dropped below the horizon.   Slept like the dead until 4 am when I woke up with a cold nose, stoked the fire and went back to bed till 6.   I ain’t 20 anymore, and between the partying, the cold today, I has some achy joints,,,  Feeling a little creaky in the old vehicle today.    Moving more like I am 70, than 54.   BUT, I am moving and thats a goodness.

Tonights forcast is for 31 straight through to daybreak.  I saw the clouds moving in as the sun was setting, so we have a blanket to keep our warmth (if you want to call one point below freezing ‘warm’) in.  

Its January, i’s supposed to be cold right?   *sigh*.   

more tomorrow, (may even take some pics of my work to share,,, If I remember,,,)