Wasn't sure where I'd post this. And this will be a long read.
Most of you know that Donna and I are getting close to, and seriously contemplating, retirement. Donna has had to work from home for the past several months. she will tell you that this has "enlightened" her and got her thinking.
Then, last week, she went back into the office and had to deal with the "junk". I'll leave this at that.
Me, I absolutely love my job and I work from home..............for the most part. So up until recently I wasn't in any rush to pull the trigger. We have done our do-diligence and saved so we can basically retire when we want, not having to do it when "they" want us to, or worse, having to work late into our lives just to make ends meet.
Anyway, today I worked a jobsite up in northern NY, near Potsdam, at a paper company. Stairs, ladders, MANY times in the day. Many!!!
And it was around 120F; and being a paper plant, it was about 101% humidity.
I'm typing this from my hotel room in Watertown and my clothes are in a ball on the floor and will go home in a plastic bag. Donna will do miracles with them and make them non-hazardous material, but they really should be burned.
I love the heat. Seriously I do; as does Donna. Hence, our decision to move to Florida. But it's getting really tough for me to keep working in it at jobsites like this. In a few days I will turn 64. The guys I was on the jobsite with today were in their 30's and early 40's. I really tried to keep up with them. Really, I did. But today it was finally obvious that I'm not 18-20 anymore.
OK, the meat of this post.
We had an "issue" when the job was complete.
One of the burners started burning backwards into the piping back upstream. Not good. Actually, really bad. We had a fire.
I was outside in one of the guys' SUV answering emails, etc.; and they sent a "runner" to get me. He was quite convincing! lol
I went up a few ladders and stairs again to get up where the burners on this particular oven were, for like the bazzilionth time, and listened to everyone screaming and carrying on.
After listening to them I ascertained that we had a blowback and it was caused by not enough air pressure to the burner.
This story is already too long so I won't bore the "eff" out of you with want happened and why.
But they needed me!
Nobody else, LOCALLY, could have fixed this problem.
Nobody!!!!
It took about 1.5-2 hrs of measurements, thinking, mental calculations and adjustments, but I figured it out and got this paper plant back up into production.
I feel good for this.
I have also taken 800 mg of ibuprofen!!!
But the world still need this old piece of nuts.
So for now, Donna and I will contemplate when to pull the trigger.
Tonight, I feel sore but good,
Thanks for reading.
Mac