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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:33 pm
by flowjoe
I was counting the days up to christmas, looking forward to a few mornings in bed till after 6.00am, a couple of small projects around the house and plenty of stella with the lads.
Ive watched what iv`e eaten, tried to keep busy and so far ive not been falling over drunk. however i feel like shiiiite.
Ive had a couple of days on jobs this week but i think it is the general lack of physical and just as importantly mental excercise, i`m not ill just, you know uuuurgh :p
How people cope in the clink, hospital or driving a roller all day 
i do not know.
How are you guys going on, ready for wednesday yet
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:17 pm
by seanandruby
Iwas ready last week flow. I have another week of sitting on my Rs scratching my b***s and watching the inside of my eyelids. not a drinker really so am being a good boy for "er indoors". roll on the 7th. is it that time already ....got go to bed zzzzzz. :laugh:
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:15 am
by lutonlagerlout
going stircrazy joe
i swore never to spend another xmas in the uk and here i am again bored sh!teless
not interested in tv other than deadliest catch,read 3 books ,been to the pub twice in 10 days(its strange the thought of it sounds good but the reality is pants)
and to round it off after the throat infection leading up to xmas i have the winter vomiting bug now
next year its spain for me
LLL
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:21 am
by Stuarty
glad to know im not the only one thats bored out their nut. Ive done all the wee oddjobs round the house i had to do, that took a whole morning, if that lol
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:30 am
by matt h
too many jobs to do round the house and bloody tax returns...dont you just hate them.
panicking to ensure jobs get paid before 31 jan so i can start the new year without them breathing down my kneck for a change.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:59 am
by Dave_L
Got plenty to be doing, done well so far.
Can't lie-in though, I'm programmed to be wide awake at 6am latest.
LLL - you have my sympathy mate. Not nice.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:01 am
by Dave_L
flowjoe wrote:How people cope in the clink, hospital or driving a roller all day i do not know.
Any more than 2hrs on a roller gets boring. Agreed.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:27 am
by seanandruby
my wifes got that bug now. i was hoping to get it before going back to work next week, if im going to get it. can understand now why people on the dole get used to it as it just seams to take over if you dont fight it a? you sit there not really watching the box thinking...i'll do summet after this programme, then the next. before you know it your snoring. what a horrible way of life. gonna shake myself out of it today and go shopping, wash the cars, fill the dishwasher, just generally get in the wifes way aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!! might even have a bath. :laugh:
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:42 am
by Dave_L
I'd stay out of the wifes way if she is ill Sean! But I guess if you are gonna get it, you'll get it.....
Trouble is with our job, if you are ill, you've got to go to work - if we have 80t of tarmac booked, we've got to be there to deal with it - you can't just ring up and cancel it like you "could" with a load of 'crete. Our first loads are usually delivered to us on-site at 7.30-8am, so that means it is being mixed at 5-5.30am, you simply just can't bell them up.
Then, if you are on a machine hire job to another contractor some distance away - that's where ti could get very messy if you didn't turn up......it just can't happen.
It's come close before, we snapped a shaft in the hi/low box on Birdlip Hill (Steep hill in the Cotswolds) and still made it there (with another tractor unit) just an hour late!
Our material come from 35 miles distant, so it's at least 2.5hrs in front of us, so there's a lot of forward thinking to be done at times when it comes to ordering.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:02 am
by seanandruby
....same as Dave. cant have time off for illness, unless you work in the office etc as those poor wimps need their mothers a? :laugh: we never cancel concrete Dave we just chase it along the shutters and if you ain't ready ...tuf. I've been in a metre deep reinforced cage fixing pop ups with concrete coming towards me like lava from a volcano. if you've got 3 4 or 500 cube ordered m8 its going in no matter what. there could be two pumps, crane and skip, bunnion tubes, power floats etc; all ready and waiting. 
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:23 am
by Dave_L
The only time I physically haven't been able to go to work recently was when I had vertigo. That was horrible, I couldn't even get out of bed without throwing up, the disorientation was so bad. Nasty stuff indeed.
Doctor had to come out to me and administer an anti-emetic drug and I was on pills for the next two weeks.
That episode was a week off work. Bored sh!tless at home on me tod. Not good.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:28 am
by flowjoe
lutonlagerlout wrote:not interested in tv other than deadliest catch,
Thank god for the Discovery channel
Deadliest Catch, Time Team, American Chopper and big f%$k off machinery everywhere, but after a couple of hours and half a box of quality street you are brain dead for the rest of the day.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:43 am
by seanandruby
Do you remember the days when you could read a book of facts and tell people stuff and they would think you where a genius? now because of programmes like discovery plus t'internet we are just mere mortals. you tell someone something interesting now and they say " i know". 
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:56 am
by Dave_L
"Deadliest Catch"
These guys are awesome, we think we've got dangerous jobs!!!! :p
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:05 am
by flowjoe
They had Deadleist Catch day earlier in the week, 12 hours of blokes catching crabs (if you excuse the pun) but strangely addictive.
I was up till 2am last night watching Tony Robinson and chums scratting about in a cave full of silt and mud and finding jack S$£t, Brilliant TV, But why :O
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