Well it snowed, we have to head to the airport about noon or a little before to pu Gdaughter and Great Grandson. Oh boy life in the house again. Still undecided about snow tires. Like I was saying it did this last winter, snowed early and stuck but then it warmed up and didn't get any where near normal amounts of snow. We haven't had a bad winter in probably 10 years. Since we've been here we had one really bad one we had 6 or 8' of snow. That was when I was still working. It was about 45miles each way to work, we were supposed get 2 hour calls but rarely got em more like 90 minutes they would just say get there when you can. The callers were in Texas so they had no idea what the weather was here. The trains were never on time so you'd end up sitting around drinking coffee and waiting for them to get there then they had to pull up to the fuel pumps and fill er up. 4 or 5 engines 4000 gallons each so that took 45 minutes maybe. Then you were off and running. Those were the days. If I hadn't lost my legs I could still be working, damn those guys on the job I was holding are making $120K a year now days. That would've been nice. I had planned on working till I was at least 63 or 4 even tho we could retire, if you were one of the older guys hired on before 1978 at 60 with 30 years service with full retirement, but when you are making that kind of dough and having to take a cut from $10K a month to 5 is kind of a tough decision. Everybody would say the day I turn 60 I'm gone then when that time came and went it would be maybe 61 then more and more. We could work till we were 70 then it was mandatory. It was tough because the older you got the better the job you could hold. But now they have gotten rid of all the really good jobs where you would be home every night and still make as much as working a road job or more. Nowadays they just don't have the really good jobs like they used to. I used to work the highest paid job on the division but it was a killer, 12 hours a day 6 days a week and around 8 on Sunday but it paid like a slot machine. Plus you were home every night but about all you did at home was sleep and get ready for tomorrow. The only way you got time off was to do something that most jobs don't have, You just call in and tell them to lay you off and take 3 or 4 days off. You had to do that occasionally or you would burn out. There were guys that would work for a couple of months at a time before they would lay off, I wasn't one, I could make it for maybe a month and take a few days off.
