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16 hr day (including travel), no big deal.
Job more difficult than it needed to be due to supplier mismeasuring, no big deal.
Hoemowner’s teenaged kid smoking pot all day while we have to work around him, no big deal.
God damned glass, metal, and plastic cutting my hands, blood everywhere.
In addition to my contracting and subcontracting, I install replacement windows and doors with my old business partner for a major home improvement chain store. Easy enough work (for me, anyways), good pay, fairly steady production. Today, however was a pain in the ass.
After driving 129 miles to the pansy ass town where this wonderful customer lived (she really was a nice lady), we find that each window is slightly too small, meaning we have to trime inside and out every fucking one. Which we end up having to do from time to time anyways. We get to charge the company a little bit more doing it. It sucks up the time, though.
Today’s biggest problem was that I ended up cutting myself on almost every fucking window. Deep cuts. In my hands. Bleeding like a mutha fucker cuts, yo. It’s really annoying when I get cut and don’t notice it till I almost drop the window because of my slimy, slippery, sanguinary palms. Cut right through my leather gloves. Soaked 'em up, so I took them off. Then I cut my thumb. Then my other palm. (Maybe it’s my gloves that are sanguinary?)
At lunch, I pretended to be Jesus. (At least I didn’t cut my head.)
As we were leaving, I stepped on a nail.
Worship me.
Normally, our work is very safe and noninjurious. We have to be careful, working in people’s homes and what not. Today was just a bitingly bad day.
