Indiana Survival Jamboree??????

[Ken]

I'll stop by to watch. I can watch folks run all day as long as I'm in the shade.

Lot's of big trees. Still trying to figure out what some of them are.

[hoosierarcher]

I actually lost weight over the weekend but then I was way too much a tub of lard when I got there and 5.7 pounds is hardly noticable when that is the case. But see I am every bit as fugly as I warned you I was.
Oh and just so those who couldn't attend don't feel too bad about it.....You know it's hot and humid when you drink 3 cups of coffee, 3 1.5L bottles of water, a 12 ounce glass of orange juice, 4 cans of Coke, a bottle of Foster's and make 15 - 20 trips to the water fountain and never pee all day; but have to wring your shirt out several times. I know now what a self basting turkey feels like.

[oldsoldier]

I forgot to tell you all last night, I want to plan another jamboree NEXT MONTH!! I went back to work yesterday morning and my Boss told me that starting yesterday they were adding 1 "extra" stop on my transport run each day. So when I get back from ST. Louis each day. ( 6-7 hours round trip) I drop the trailer I have hook to another one drive out to the East side of town ( 10-15 minute drive) drop 5-6 stacks of bread at the new Wal-mart ( 15-20 minutes) and drive back to bakery. All totaled about 1 extra hour a day X 5 days a week. An extra 5 hours a week...... Bummer?? WELL...........................
Under the new union contract. Extra trailer move with load $ 32.00, Wal-mart delivery
$10.00 Mileage $9.20 Extra stop $ 7.00 in other words.......................................
5 hours a week extra..........................$281.00 a week extra money on my pay check....................
I think I'll tell them Yes I'll keep the extra stop NO PROBLEM!!!!!

[Ken]

5 hours a week extra..........................$281.00 a week extra money on my pay check....................

Soldier, you remember this post when you first joined?

WOW I'm ashamed of what I do for a living now..... i drive an 18 wheeler for the local bread Co.

AT $56.20 AN HOUR!????? Got any job applications with you?

[oldsoldier]

AT $56.20 AN HOUR!????? Got any job applications with you? [/QUOTE]

Ken suprizinglly enough we have a pretty good/bad turnover especially in new hire "relief drivers, and some in regular drivers june of last year I started as 5th. relief now I am # 21 in seniority out of 25 full time contract drivers, and we have 3 more retiring this year. So as Bob Barker says "Come on Down"......

[Ken]

Paid Benefits. Paid vacations. Retirement plan. Sick leave. NO OVERHEAD. No crisis phone calls at 2:00 a.m. That don't sound bad AT ALL!

[Ken]

Up my way, the court-appointed lawyers (some of them are real good) get paid $50.00/hour. And from that, they cover ALL of their own overhead, secretary's salary, etc., etc., etc. and even get to keep a little bit for themselves.

[pgvoutdoors]

Hi Everyone, I just got back from Indiana. I spent two more nights camping in Ohio. I'm going to read the posts from the camporee now. Talk to you later...

[2dumb2kwit]

Up my way, the court-appointed lawyers (some of them are real good) get paid $50.00/hour. And from that, they cover ALL of their own overhead, secretary's salary, etc., etc., etc. and even get to keep a little bit for themselves.

You'd be hard pressed, to get me to crank-up a piece of equipment for less than $100 an hour. (And that doesn't include the mobilization.)

(...and all that does, is pay the overhead)

[oldsoldier]

Paid Benefits. Paid vacations. Retirement plan. Sick leave. NO OVERHEAD. No crisis phone calls at 2:00 a.m. That don't sound bad AT ALL!

Not to shabby up until the last contract we had free 100 % company paid insurance. Under the new contract due to rising health care costs we now have to pay $10.00 a month for the family plan,$5.00 for individual. Not bad at all considering.

[Ken]

Health insurance family plan - $1,634.00/month.

[2dumb2kwit]

Health insurance family plan - $1,634.00/month.

What the.....
I thought Mass. had "free healthcare".
(You know, like they want for all of us.)

[oldsoldier]

Health insurance family plan - $1,634.00/month.

After due deliberation the jury finds.................. Ken I'm sorry to say ...... you are in the wrong business and in the wrong state.

[Ken]

Ya' think?

[pgvoutdoors]

Sorry it's taken so long to check-in but I took my time getting back. I decided to do a bit more camping. I had a great time and everyone was friendly and fun to be around. I believe we all had a good time and would highly recommend doing it again.

I'll post more about the trip later, I want to get cleaned up.

[pocomoonskyeyes]

Boy am I glad to hear from you!! I was starting to get a little worried, had already started PM-ing to see if anyone had heard from you. GLAD to see you made it OK. Now I'll breath a little easier. Have fun on your side trip? Looking forward to hearing from you.

[oldsoldier]

Well H#@@ I tried to post some more jamboree pics even asked Rick for help I just ain't computer savvy enough. So if you want to see em until I can get help posting. Try going to s634.photobucket.com/albums/uu66/specops_01_2009
Maybe you can see em there and if you can post em' Then your a whole lot smarter than I am !!!!!!

[pocomoonskyeyes]

Well let's give it a try...Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum. All I did Don was run my cursor over the pic... a drop down appeared... I went down to Image - clicked on it(L click) then R clicked on it, hit copy came here and hit paste and voile' it appeared! I'll leave the rest for you since they are your pics. It may help if you have 2 windows open as I did.

[Ken]

Good thing I wasn't there. I woulda' split that slab of log in half on my first throw.

[pocomoonskyeyes]

Yeah right Ken, did you see how thick they are? Almost as thick as that stuff you're slinging!!!