mission statement

this week i was notified that i was to report back to the casper bus garage by nov 1st . I was sent out to midwest bus garage almost two yrs ago by my boss, who since has retired, because i and the other assholes in the casper shop did not get along. These guys have been working together for almost 20 yrs. two of them are attached together at the u-joint, and the other is the shop foreman who has had his uncle, father, and currently soninlaw working under him, to secure thier retirement. I have had nothing but fucking problems with everyone of these fellow employees.  Im pissed, I do not want to go back. I have had a meeting with are new boss, who says he did not know of any of this history.  I explained to him the bullshit I've gone through with these fuckheads, asked him to go to bat for me with HR to try to keep me at Midwest shop and he basically  told me good luck.   My next meeting is with Steve (assistent superintendent of schools) to try and show him I'm needed and wanted in midwest.  Wish me luck and pray to the school bus god on my behalf.   I love my job , but i hate the thought of having to be in the same state with these pricks let alone sharing a break room with them.  I will admit though that all this shit over the last 6 yrs has really strengthened my resolve and patience. 

so far so good

i got my claim reviewed for my computer purchase, and they paid me the full amount. i was very shocked. especially after the hoops i jumped in and out of to get this all taken care of. truck runs great, and total out of pocket for a new trany and a new ECU  , deductible and sales tax, $168.50 . not to bad concidering i was without my truck for about 6 weeks  ,  I walked alot. Went to another funeral yesterday, my good friend joe and wife jerry, lost grandma wilma at 81 yrs (health issues) Wilma and mother had meet many yrs ago and hit it off well, both the same in age, both coming from a homested upbringing, and both gave birth to 7 children. They had loads to talk about. The services were nice, lots of tears,  saw old friends and shared  goob memories of Wilma.    She will be greatly missed. wished you could have known her.  Seems like lately I have gone to a great many funeral services. Funerals must be very important to us as humans, always waiting for the next one, paying our respects, traveling many hundreds of miles to attend, comforting the ones left behind. Funerals are so important that the last trip we will ever take will be to a funeral.

hello think its time to get with the ages and do the blog thing . I dont type or spell good and my grammer really sucks, but here goes.  I have been working 60 plus hrs a week,  have not seen  jordy in over a month, mostly because my truck has been in the tranny shop for the last month.  got a new tranny but could not achieve overdrive, was  told  it  was  a   ECM   problem  and  i needed to  take  it to a dealer to fix the problem.   dealer told me  it  was  in the tranny  and i  had  to take it back  to  tranny  shop.   took  it  back  to  tranny  shop  and  was  again  told it was the ECM (Electronic control module)  .   In the  mean  time  i have an extended  warranty  trying to get out of paying for this repair, they paid for the tranny but are balking hardcore at the ECM issue.  6 weeks i have been without my truck until today, I had to finally buy a remaned ECM on line and have the tranny shop install it ,,,,,,   It works  like a dream,   so now i have to battle the  warrenty outfit for to get my money back.   wish me luck.    hope to see my son soon.      On an other note  Donna and I are split up .  This has been hard for me , I miss my life with her and the puppies .  Am in a  small apt.  in midwest, wy. this is only a mile from my work.  Dont know what is going to happen  but as my dad told me things will get better  one way or another.  I would like very much to come to Emmett for Thanksgiving  see what happens.