If it doesn’t play in Peoria
Well, shit. Who would play in Peoria?
When the machine I am working on arrived here, there was five feet of water in the facility. they waited with the machine on high ground until they could get it into position.
Now I’m adding some minor parts that make the system run a bit better and will, I hope, end my involvement. And then home. Living on the road, even for one day, becomes a chore quickly.
It’s a bad sign to install factory equipment in five feet of water. If there is that much water there now, there will be again. Flood zones are great places to let cattle graze. Not to build a factory.
This is the home base of this company. It’s been here for a hundred years.
Yeah, but 5 feet of water? The company must have a real dolt for an insurance agent.
My wife was born in Peoria, when her father was working for Caterpillar. (She was, in fact, nearly born in a Steak n Shake. Or at least that is how the family legend goes.)
Emulating Isaac Asimov (who said that finding himself born in Soviet Russia, he moved quickly to rectify that situation), when she was two they moved to Lombard, where her brother was born two years after that. Then here when she was seven.
In the late 1960’s, early 1970’s, I traveled for Toledo Scale Co. Believe it or not, they were the largest employer of electronics-oriented people in the City at that time. The work was great, got to meet many interesting people, saw lots of intriguing factories, but hated being gone from home. Sure was nice to get a different job that didn’t require traveling.
Mind you, this was way before all this TSA crap; arriving at the airport 30 minutes before flight time was enough if I had the ticket in hand, otherwise 45 minutes was required. Get on the airplane, light up a cigarette, and relax with my book.
I hope to never, ever fly commercial again.
I used to fly around the USA a lot too. Somethings I miss, somethings I don’t. People always interested me and eating on someone elses dime was good.
Flying sucked. Hotels were not much better.
I respect the guys who like to be on the road. But I think I will stay a little closer to home.