Sunday - night

Air leaking out of the top of the tanker after hooking up the air hose to the fitting at the bottom. I climbed up there to find out what it is.  Coming out of the seal on the dome lid, gag. 

I went in and asked them if it would be ok to climb up there? The guy just couldn't commit one way or the other and even tried calling his boss to ask him, who didn't answer the phone.  This went back and forth for a while until he offered to get a support you wear with a lanyard on it for fall protection. 

Well, I guess.  "or just do it without it, it's up to you, I'm not your boss".  That's all I needed to hear. The plant has a policy of having fall protection over 4 feet. Yea, that's well over 4 feet, thanks. It's almost all geared to truckers coming in and out of the plant on the scale road, likely someone did something stupid, hurt themselves and sued the plant for it.  

So, I unhooked the air hose, opened the tank valve and let out the air pressure. Yea, just go ahead and try to open a cap like that under pressure, you'll be lucky to come out alive.  Sure enough, there were clumps of hardened glue that were obviously allowing air to pass by them.  I cleaned the gasket and resealed it and walaah: no more leak.

I would have been there much longer than I was. 2 hours and 45 minutes? Would have been 4 hours anyway with pressure that low.  

I have not finished the taxes.  I am not doing it tonight, either. I am going to Lufkin tomorrow and whenever I get home, I will finish it and send it off. I have several things I want to change after giving some thought about things I have read, info from Turbotax and just - thinking about it. It will be what it will be, I guarantee you I will send that thing off tomorrow regardless of how I feel about it and let the chips fall where they may. 

The conspiracy theorists called me again today. This time? Complete strangers that have nothing to do with them are not only shooting lasers at them, now they have radiation.  I couldn't make  this stuff up in a thousand years on my own.  It went on and on and he said he has pics.  I have seen his pics, they just look like light fragments likely caused by the lense or some other thing that has nothing to do with....lasers.  Pretty sure they won't stay another month, but, in their minds, the government is doing this to them and paying people who are near them to shoot them.

I just have to stop myself from laughing, it's way too far out there.  If the government really wanted to "get them", they wouldn't be here.  

No, I got home today from the run and just did much of nothing.  It is my thing on Sundays.  I mean, I got up at 5:30 am for work, not like I sat around on my @$$ all day long.   

Anyway, I'm not going to linger on this post.  I'm tired, it's getting late and I have to get up at? You guessed it: 5:30 am, along with the rest of the house.