tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post115340280373355268..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: Hydraulic License RockSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1153435299704083202006-07-20T18:41:00.000-04:002006-07-20T18:41:00.000-04:00I once worked a few weeks in road construction. (T...I once worked a few weeks in road construction. (The time was cut short by severe injuries received in a car accident, not because I quit or was fired. I would have loved to have worked there longer.) I had the opportunity a few times to work one of the front-end loaders. That job looks <I>so</I> easy when you're working in the trench with a shovel. <BR/><BR/>But I could not do the job well with the loader! I couldn't seem to get the bucket more than half full, while the other guy had heeping loads every scoop. The guys on site had a good-natured laugh at my expense.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the other guy had been in the business for almost 50 years at that point. He had built a construction company from scratch, turned it into a large multi-national business, and then sold it when he retired as a very wealthy man. After about a month of retirement, his wife threatened to kill him if he didn't get out of her hair. So he went back to work as a site foreman and grader operator for a small company. He was ecstatic to be working again.<BR/><BR/>Lesson Learned: The easy looking jobs can be really damned hard! <BR/><BR/>Bonus Lesson: Those old guys can run rings around the young guys.Icepickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09616554052707230326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1153411139083509562006-07-20T11:58:00.000-04:002006-07-20T11:58:00.000-04:00"White Room" was originally released in 1968 or 19..."White Room" was originally released in 1968 or 1969 on the "Wheels of Fire" album. I was in high school then and remember Steven Piper, a wanna be guitarist whose Dad was a diplomat in Boliva, telling me that it was the greatest rock and roll song ever, best drums, best guitar. Funny how you remember details like that, but ask me what classes I took that year and I couldn't answer you.David53https://www.blogger.com/profile/12583911948694096916noreply@blogger.com