First Cup Diner!

[Just Plain Dave]

Nothing good happened yesterday. They won't even call or email to tell me no thanks.
Got a really good mug.

[treefarmer]

Good Mornin'.
Nice mornin' here in LA, 64 degrees, a little foggy.
I was out checkin' to see if the good fairy had fixed our mower over night. It seems to be falling apart right before my eyes. I replaced the solenoid yesterday, checked the oil, filled the thing with gas and for some unknown reason now the right steering control lever has no "control", it'll only turns to the right as the left wheel is the only one pulling . Tried all the procedures I could find on the internet to clear trapped air from the hydraulic system. Got to get it on the trailer and take it to the doctor.
Miss Joy has had the coffee ready for awhile, I better go get my cup and quit bein' aggravated with something I don't know how to fix!
Y'all have a wonderful day!
Treefarmer

[royal0014]

Mornin' Y'all

[jmh58]

Well.. Got my painting job done yesterday!!! Now gonna try this retirement thing once more... John

[gsmith7158]

Good morning fellas!
All is well on the western front this morning. Hopefully I will get headed in the other direction later today. Got plenty of sleep last night and the coffee is good and plentiful this morning so I'm starting to rustle around a bit.
Y'all have a good Tuesday!

[Quick Steel]

Off to a late start today having had an exceptionally long deep sleep. I'm not complaining, the dreams were interesting: coherent, logical. So I had an interesting night. May my day dreams be as good. Had some rain with thunder and lightning last night but I think southern Indiana caught the worst of it.

Hope you all have a day you will appreciate.

[Old Hunter]

Well, that was a first; woke up to tornado sirens outside my hotel in Fort Worth TX 20 minutes ago. They've stopped now, gonna try to go back to sleep - I'll have that coffee later on. OH

[Paladin]

Mornin' OH. The same little storm system came thru here and the lightning woke me up. Tried to get back to sleep but it isn't happening right now.
I'll go ahead and make coffee, fire up the grill and sweep up just a little.
Hope you all have a good day.

Ray

[royal0014]

Mornin' Y'all

Colonal, Ray , not a great start to the day. Hope all is well.

Otherwise, welcome to the last March edition of Wednesday . .. ... ....

[montemojo]

Good morning everybody, another day another dollar. Ya'll have a great day!!
Monte

[Paladin]

Good morning everybody, another day another dollar. Ya'll have a great day!!
Monte

You know what, Monte, and not to get caught up in reminiscing but that is exactly what I got paid on my 1st job. I was sweeping floor boards and gassing up cars.

Ray

[montemojo]

Yea, I know I miss the 70's and 80's. I was making 2.50 an hr in 84 (first job) putting in AC and furnaces. Would work 40 hrs bring home 80 bucks. Things shure have changed!

Monte

[Quick Steel]

Well good morning to all. Supposed to be dry today then rain to finish the week. Hope to get a knife or two in the mail today. Glad you missed the tornado OH.

[TripleF]

Pretty early to have the diner this active!

Worked at a grocery store in 76, I think my pay was $1.65 an hour. Wow, crazy....I make about the same today!

[djknife13]

Good morning. First jobs appears to be the topic of the day. Back around 1956 or 57 I mowed a large church lawn, the school lawn next door and a cemetery for about a buck each along with two paper routes. First job working for a business was to clean a gas station (big front oily greasy windows were the worst part) and was paid about $5 for that and hated it. Then I moved up to packing groceries and carry out for a grocery store. Met my first girlfriend carrying out her Mom's groceries. Have a great day. I gotta get to work. ___Dave

[Just Plain Dave]

I can't remember what I got paid in 1979-1980. But it was obviously enough.
Yesterday Academy informed me they took on a better applicant.
Haven't checked all my emails today so far but holding out some hope.

[treefarmer]

Good Mornin', Men!
Overcast this am, weather folks said last night it would be foggy, it just ain't close to the ground .
I guess my 1st job not at home was loading hay for a local cow man. He would gather up several of us young boys and we would load bales of hay till we couldn't hardly wiggle. Pay was a dollar an hour, he provided sandwich material and cold water for dinner, that was in the early 60's.
Y'all have a great hump day!
Treefarmer

[bighomer]

Morning fellers, the bunn is dunn the java like I like it. First job other than farm work was pumping gas and grease monkey$.50 per hour. A pack of Camels were a quarter , RC and a moon pie $.20 good days fur sur. Yawl have a great day and be careful out there.

[Paladin]

A very early good mornin' fellers. I woke up early and couldn't quite get back to sleep mostly because I am in the midst of doing some sort of treatment to rid my old bald head of sun damaged skin. I been putting this salve of some sort on my head at the dermatologist's direction for about 10 days now. I'll tell you what! My old head looks like raw hamburger meat and itches something fierce. I wake up in the middle of the night scratching. If I didn't need this so bad, I guarantee I'd quit it right now and try to get back to normal.
On the weather front, we had some nice rain yesterday and the temp is 59º here this mornin'. Sorry to make so much noise stirring around here in the FCD but I gotta do something to get my mind off this mess. I'll plug the coffee pot in and fire up the grill.
Hope you all have a good day.

Ray

[TripleF]

Mornin' Ray!

Man, I got me a bald head.....but ain't goin' to the doctor to check the spot on it....not now anyhow.

It's hot here......only 8 more months

[montemojo]

Good morning Ray and Scott, looks like we're going to have good weather in Lebanon Va. with a little luck we will be going home today. We have alot of work to finish though siding and tile on one house and tile and baseboard on another. A good bit of cleaning up also. Wish us luck . Hope everybody has a great day!!

Monte

[jerryd6818]

Morning all. I'm still basking in the glow of those knives Mike and John gave me. Lunch with my buddies today. Since we've started doing this, I look forward to Thursdays. Rain off and on all day. Baseball tonight. Y'all try to be happy and be safe out there.

[djknife13]

Good morning. We are having a cool cloudy day but still above normal so I'll take it. I'm not sure we can put together some work for today or not. A batch of windows came in yesterday but we have to get them to the job site. My big trailer is full of scaffolding. The lady that ordered them didn't set up a delivery so here's still hoping. I'd love the day off to work on taxes but my son Jason wants to do windows today. We'll see. Have a great Thursday. _____Dave

[philco]

Good morning all. I'm still up to my neck in wind claims from the storm that came through on the first of this month. Trying to get them all resolved before I leave on vacation a week from tomorrow, but that's not likely to happen. They just keep coming. I guess at least that's job security.

[Just Plain Dave]

Will wonders never cease? Got a call to interview today at 10am.
Shortly thereafter a call for Friday at 10am.
It's for a driver/warehouse position at a fairly large company.
Here's hoping for a good interview!