The Longest Hour

[Strychnine]

Or longest three days, as it were.


Wednesday is a holiday full of pools, lakes, beer, fireworks, etc.

I'm taking off next Thursday and Friday to do some stuff around the house...

And then we're headed to Land's End (Cabo) for 8 days of fucking nooooothing.



But right now it's Saturday night, I'm sick, and I'm stuck in Alice, Tx. Posting from the bar at a fucking Chilis. And I'm here working until Tuesday PM (fingers crossed). FML.


Seriously, these could be the shittiest three days in recent memory.

[Unicorn Jeff]

Alice isn't too far from corpus

[Mysticcobrakilla]

At least you don't work for scaterpillar. Lol.

[SMKR]

Alice, lol

[Nash B.]

I've seen your Facebook posts and threads. It's hard to feel sorry for you, you fucking douche.

[idrivea4banger]

First world problems.

[talisman]

Fuck you, Matt.

[bcoop]

I've seen your Facebook posts and threads. It's hard to feel sorry for you, you fucking douche.

Lol. Right now is about the time of year I start to hate my job. But really, in the grand scheme of things... I love it.


Of course, right this very second, I'm on the first "real" vacation I've had in over 5 years. (my own problem, not the job).

Have a blast man.

[Big A]

Good for you man, you've earned it.

I busted my ass to get through June, kicked ass, and will be on cruise control through July. My vacation in August will be spent in Galveston, which is no Cabo, but the family and kids will be there.

Then I head to Dallas for a week, for the first two week vacation of my life. I "can't" be away from work for two weeks, but the way June finished says I can.

[OrangeChevyII]

I love Cabo!! My wife and I were there on April, best vacation ever.

[jluv]

Nice!

I am likely to be starting a new job around October, and if I get it all confirmed soon, I'll probably quit my current one at the end of July and have two months off. I plan to spend at least two weeks of that camping in the Colorado wilderness, just me and my dog.

[mstng86]

Jluv's dog, watch your cornohle

[Strychnine]

Fuck you, Matt.

Lol. Fuck you too.

I need more beer to make it through this one.


So we're here:





When a storm rolls in from the coast. It's raining so hard that the roof joints between the three SCR units arent doing a damn thing.




And then the lightning starts. HUGE hits. VERY close. Close enough that more than once multiple people would instinctively yell (mostly things like "FUUUUUUCK!" or "God DAAAAMMit!")

Then I remembered that not only were we standing in metal, with metal roofs over our head, surrounded by water, that we were sitting next to a 10,000 gallon tank of fuel.

These lightning hits were so big, close, and frequent that I actually thought, "I wonder if this is what an incoming artillery strike sounds like?"




I'm earning that fucking vacation.