Saga said: "Just helped my neighbor's friend jump her truck."
And I had two, totally unrelated images appear in my head. One of them was seeing two people on a Goldwing, wearing Evel Knieval suits...
The other I will NOT talk about...
And I'm not certain which is worse!!! :-D
So, I'm fighting a respiratory infection... have been for almost a week now... between moments of fever and chills, and doctor has me taking Doxocycline Monohydrate, which is... I THINK... what they mix into high-strength concrete as a plasticiser... I dunno...
But bein's that there was a job that HAD to be done, I towed the band truck out to the company shop on Friday, parked the trailer, and sat at the phone desk from 2pm 'till almost midnight. Shift is USUALLY 'till 10pm, but when there's systems down, I gotta stay at the console.
Anyway, after that, I unhitched the trailer, and used company forklift to modulate that trailer and it's beastly-looking load into the truck-bay to thaw out and dry off.
7:45am Saturday morning, I was back, pulling same OUT of the shop, affixing ramps, and about the time I had it all unstrapped, my trombone player Tony showed up, hopped into the driver's seat, and I picked up the tongue of the trailer far 'nuff for him to release the brakes and coast off onto the ground. Trailer parked in it's storage space, then I used the forklift to bump the big P30 step-van into the shop nose-first.
Drummer Bill showed up shortly after, with replacement ("Blue")engine, tools, and supplies, I carried the new engine in with forklift, and within an hour, he, Tony, and I had the 'Red' engine out. It took us a little fussing to get some parts transferred over and popped back into the chassis, and we took about 2.5hrs to get everything all connected back together, filled with coolant, etc., and running. She started up nice, and after a little adjustment of the vacuum advance, pulled it out, packed up all our tools, and drove it home. I ventured back over this morning with a bag of kitty litter to clean up the floors (not too bad), then came back home. I'm hoping that by mid-day tomorrow, the rest of this crud will be mostly gone, and returned to my normal 250% by Tuesday evening's annual band rehearsal... ten new tunes for the repertoire, a rather big corporate event coming up on Friday the 17th over in DesMoines... so it's a 2.5hr trip each way with the BigWhiteTruck carrying 3300lbs of stage gear...
Aside from that, I'm friggin' dead... Next assignment will be Smith's Station, Alabama the week of the 26th... last fall I was HOPING that I'd have that trailer done in time for a winter assignment south, so I could take the Wing along for some warm winter cruises... dunno if I'll be able to make that happen, as it still needs plenty of work...
