Subject:
        lazySun
   Date:
        Sat, 03 Jul 1999 14:24:40 -0800
 
 

SUNSHINE!!

Hot, radioactive particles zapping through every cell of me body,
unzipping dna molecules and rearranging chromosones *laughs*

Feels Good *dreamy*

That should be enough, right?

*smirk*

So, yesterday I launched over 60,000 lbs into low earth orbit with me
bare hands, which, admittedly, isn'a alla that much ta lift, but I Felt
it, ya know? *laughs*

An' after work I bump into Ody *dreamy* an' she tells me she's gonna go
out the road with some friends an' go swimmin' and stuff which made me
feel pretty dam good considering she didn't have ta tell me Anything, ya
know?

So I came home an' ate like  a pig *blush* an' then took a long hot
shower *grin*

An' I got outta the shower an' dried off an' put on some cut offs an' I
opened the bathroom door and stepped out inta the rest of the house...

An' there's Ody walkin' Into my house *melts*

*giggles*

So what guy here Hasn't daydreamed about stepping out of the shower only
to find the cute chick sitting on the sofa waiting for you, hmmmm???

Tha's GOT to be a common motiff amoungst males...*laughs*

Only trouble is, it Never Happens, right??  yer showering... yer
thinkin' about it,,, ya git out, open the door and *poof!* Reality rears
it's ugly head and the sofa is empty *sigh*

And the daydream ends right then and there *shrugs*

But there she was *quivers*

I did what Any red blooded bozoboy would do:  I Freeked *laughs*

She offered to leave, and seventeen million little voices in the back of
me head let it be known that if I allowed that to happen they would each
take turns driving me crazy *giggles*

but she stayed... she wanted to read these emails she'd been hearing so
much about *blush*

So she read 'em *shrugs*

she sat down here at me machine, held my hand, and read them ALL... from
june 15th 'till the last one... read some of the replies, too...

for hours... reading... chatting... more reading...

and she held my hand the whole time *dreamy*

Then it was Today *sigh*  and she had to work today...

She told me what I wrote was okay *dreamy*

Then she kissed me goodnight *blush*

Needless to say, I couldn't sleep at All after that *giggles*

holding hands *giggles*

silly, huh?

*dreamy*

I gotta go
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazyblatentadvertisement
   Date:
        Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:17:59 -0800

Chapter Eleven is up *shrugs*

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/1561/solstice11.htm

day late and a dollar short, but it's there.

I gotta go
Torbjon
 

So, a while back Mr. Stitts spaced tallying two pallets of crab and sent
the van... First 40' van he did this season...76 boxes outta 1338 ain't
alla that bad... not great, I admit, he shouldn't have spaced Any, but
not bad for a first try, ya know?

But it was a Mistake and Tim and Tom and other bozos were all over ME
because Rob fucked up *sigh*  And I AM the vandock guy, it IS my
responsibility, so I took the fall for him *shrugs*

Some days later I finally get some shipping instructions on some herring
roe I've been trying to get rid of... So I tell me driver, hey! bring
back a 20' MOL... he brings back a 20' OCL  *sigh*

Just a little mistake, didn't hear me right, but it cost me a turn and
fucked ME last friday.

Get the van changed for the right one, start loading it on Saturday... I
git over halfway through the bloody thing when it becomes Painfully
Obvious that this shit just Ain't Gonna Fit *sigh*  Seems one of our
people up in the office made a mistake on the inventory and therefore
underreported the amount we really had...

Just a little mistake, nothing too major, only I was the Bozo that got
to restack those miserable pails Twice

The cute chick is chasing after some other guy now... which is Fine, she
never promised me anything too serious, but the few things she Did
promise me she just sorta spaced on, *shrugs*  Last night we talked
about it a bit... one of those "we were drunk, it just happened, I
didn't mean for it to happen" things... just a mistake *laughs*

Hey, Shit happens, right? *giggles*

only, ya, you guessed it, now she's a bit confused and what not
(understandable, I guess) and doesn't know how to deal with ME, an' I'm
the Bozo tha' gits ta deal with it *shrugs*

*sigh*

only gig is, My tallies are right.

I call in the right vans...

my inventory is pretty fucking accurate...

and I didn't do anything with anybody that makes me feel ashamed *sigh*

So why the hell am I the Bozo tha' gets stuck with alla this shit, hmmm?
*bursts out laughing!!*

And you thought all I did was fish *giggles*

I gotta go
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazyTIME
   Date:
        Thu, 08 Jul 1999 01:53:38 -0800
 

So yesterday was 14 hours on the clock fer me... first big day of the
season, an' since we are like 70 people short, well, you can imagine
*laughs*  things were stretched pretty thin...

I went to Whiteys first official salmon meeting yesterday... morning
meeting is where the boss sez ta the crew "okay folks, we got this much
fish, you bozos fucking up quit it, now let's git down there and git ta
work"... pep talk kinda thing...

Tom's meeting was "Welcome to the Machine.  We will finish in September"
*laughs*

The front dock is a maze of totes full of fish and slush ice stacked to
the sky...

Yesterday I spent the entire day back on the van dock all alone 'cause
Mr. Stitts was required elsewhere... EVERYBODY was required elsewhere
*laughs*

Kinda Twilightzoneish yesterday;  The Whole plant going crazy, buzzing
and hummin' along... and I'm back there all alone doin' my thing...

Today was 16 hours on the clock *sigh*  Hours, Nice;  Early Mornings,
Bad. *giggles*

And for the most part my gig was to stash certain flavors of fish
upstairs in the freezer because we don't ship Everything right away, and
because we don't have enough people we can't pack everything into the
right kind of box just now.

So everything goes into totes...

We have three kinds of totes... metal, plastic, and cardboard *shrugs*
an' it's the cardboard totes tha' I'm always playing with... cardboard
totes with 1000 pounds of frozen fish in them *shrugs*

Now, the thing is, we reuse these things.  You can fold it up when yer
not usin' it, an' when you need one, ya fold it back together and put a
Big plastic bag inside it, set the thing on a wooden pallet and ta-da,
there ya go, one big assed box.

But we never throw anything away, so ya, you guessed it, some of these
totes are old...

I mean OLD *laughs*

So I'm loading salmon totes into the elevator,  sending them up a floor,
and I'm unloading the elevator from the other side so I'm seein' the
backs of alla the totes I just loaded...

For salmon totes we use one big green or red sticker on the front to
lable 'em

For herring we just write on the box with a majik marker pen *shrugs*

So I'm all alone on the second floor of the freezer... haven't been up
there since we defrosted it, like... three weeks ago now *dreamy* (That
was a Good defrost *grin*)

Totally Silient.

Dead Calm.

Still.

Empty Frozen Space.

Sensory Deprivation at its Finest *giggles*

And when I look at the now backwards totes I see... Herring Totes!
*laughs*  Sitka 101... KS 308... lot 212... differant lots and codes and
net weights for herring...

So I'm stashing totes, humming the "oh, you think it's herring, but it's
not; it's...6 to 9!" and other equally goofy things you'd do too if you
hung out up there long enough *laughs*

an' a tote comes up scribed "Randy Mulford is King of the Assholes"
*laughs* How long ago was That??  another in Athenas handwriting saying
"Torb! It's Break Time!!" *giggles* that was written in  '95 I think...

there were messages from the Mexican Maffia scrawled here and there...

some of My notes saying "For gods sake Please don't use this tote
Again!" (Tape; gotta love it)

Timezoneish day...

I Gotta Sleep
twj
 

So tomorrow... um, today now... today, in a few more hours, it'll be
seiner day again... we still got about 300,000 pounds to do left over
from the Last seiner day *laughs*

The official word from the powers that be is "We're not going to make
it" *grin*

*shrugs*

Got to have lunch with the Her today *dreamy* It was fun...

and helpful...

...

and I do believe I am brain dead...

*ponders*

yep, completely Out Of It *laughs*

an' it's only been a couple of days

who else did I see today...?  um, Cap'n Flashback fer like a minute...

Scary Gary...

Party Tom...

Allison *dreamy* she's a Quality Assurance chick, hyper intelligent, way
cute... she worked here last year too... I think we've exchanged Maybe
thirty words Total since we met *laughs* ya, she ain't too talkitive
with me *shrugs*

Mr. Stitts, of course

Numerous two minute meetings with Whitey...

Bait Boy...twice.

Grumpy, each time he pulled a van...

Roland, over and over and over and over again as he's the dude tha's
bringing me the totes *laughs*  Rolands english isn't alla that good yet
(who's is?) so he always says 'Yes' to just about anything you say
*sigh* but we're workin' on it...

saw Everybody at least once fer a second or two...

I dunno

sleep
twj

 Subject:
        lazy
   Date:
        Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:01:07 -0800

There are too few people and we are stretched too thin for too much
bullshit this year *shrugs*

ya, sure, everything is just as messed up as it always is, but tha's
NORMAL, right?

They say they are going to can tomorrow... at least, tha's the theory,,,
as far as WHO is actually gonna fill out the lines, well *shrugs* yer
guesse is as good as mine *laughs*

too tired to type

seeya
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazyDEATH
   Date:
        Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:51:29 -0800
 

The Goat died

*sigh*

Right when we need it the most... Dead.

For those of you tha' don't know the Goat, it was me forklift:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/1561/psgpfi11.htm

Trina thinks it can be reserected, but the parts necassary arent on the
island *sigh*

Islands...*sigh*

I was One with the Goat... and now it's gone.
 

The Dream died today, too *mmph*

All Dreams come to an end, and...*sigh* the Dream girl was no exception
*shrugs*

Remember me writing about her? *dreamy sigh*

She Stormed into my life... made me feel pretty dam special there for a
little while...

Then some things happend around the Fourth *sigh*... with a friend of
mine...

Then fish came...

I talked to them about it... things seemed cool...

more fish came...

Today I see them spending a lot of time together *shrugs*

It's an Island, remember?

So tonight I ask him about it *shrugs* I mean, it's none of my business,
I know, but jeezus, I DO have feelings for this girl *sigh* I'm curious
what is going on,  ya know?

So I ask, "what's up with the cute chick? how's that going?"

To wit he replies "it's goin' great" and takes off his glove and shows
me a ring he's wearing... Her ring... *sigh*

I happen to know a lot about that ring, she and I talked about it quite
a bit one night a million years ago *sigh*

...

Inside I died.

*sigh*

Outside I smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said "ah, far out
man, tha's cool"

The whole time this was going on, her nightgown had been hanging here in
my house, where she left it *sigh*

forgotten.

*hmmph*

I don't have a Clue how I'm Supposed to feel about all of this.

I'm very uncomfortable about it *shrugs*

And it's an Island.

*sigh*

It's not like the fuckin' War isn't bad enough already, ya know??

I gotta go
Torbjon
 

BELIEVE

It's hard to believe
That somebody tricked you
Tried to deceive you
Before they could leave you

And it's hard to believe
That somebody kicked you
Came up behind you
And hit you and bit you

And it's hard to believe
That someone caressed you
Told you they loved you
Before they possessed you

And it's hard to believe
That somebody kissed you
Told you they missed you
Before they dismissed you

And it's hard to believe
That somebody killed you
Ripped you apart and then
Tried to refill you

And it's hard to believe
That we're still alive
After riding the ride
That's so hard to survive

And it's hard to believe
That somebody Loves you
 

TWJ
07/13/99
(while waiting for the elevator)

 Subject:
        lazylessons
   Date:
        Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:29:07 -0800

So I stayed up 'till 0300 this mornin' writin' ta me cousin Dean... keep
in mind I've been pullin' down some Hours at work this past... million
years or so *laughs* but I was possesed an' Dean was the target *shrugs*

So Rob... remember Rob? the incredible Mr. Stitts... Rob tells me tha'
Budda was 34 when he proclaimed enlightenment...an' Christ was 34 when
he did his thing, an' Zorastor was 34...an'...

An' okay so Rob was a little drunk *shrugs*

*giggles*

But I am too so it's no biggy, after all, it Is me birthday, an' ya, I'm
34 today.*grin*

Feels good.

Learned a lot these past months, too...

lot of things about meself, me Friends...life. *laughs*

Ody is still a dream.  She has yet to cease to amaze me... I am very
proud of her and the lessons she has taught me...

My Friends still amaze me too... the amount of Time and Energy they
spend on me...*blush*

Work is goin'

sun's shinin...

just had the Best meal I've had in two weeks...

Feelin' pretty dam good

*laughs*

but I still got a Lot ta learn.

I gotta go
Torbjon
 

So I've been working upstairs in the fridge these past days...eons.  Mr.
Stitts is pretty much runnin' the dock by himself as I seem to never
make it out the fridge fer very long *sigh*

An' it ain't that I don't dig it, it's just that... *sigh* it's SUMMER!
The SUN and the Cute Chicks are OUTSIDE an' I'm workin' alone in Hell's
Kitchen *mmmph*

Fer those of you tha' Never go up there, like say, the Plant Manager,
an' just about everybody else tha' comes lookin' fer me an' then says
"oh, he's in the freezer?  Well, I'll just talk to him later" *laughs*
this is what it looks like in my summer house;

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/1561/psgpfi13.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/1561/psgpfi12.htm

So I'm spending 10 to 16 hours a day in there *laughs* (and you wonder
why I'm weird *poke*) all alone fer the most part, except when the night
watchman comes up an' turns out alla the lights while I'm still workin'
*giggles*... an' I grew a year older... an' the cute chick thing... an'
the Fish that just Keep Coming... an' the batch of New Hires they flew
in from the worst back alley in the worst ghetto in the most fucked up
city in the states *shudders*  You know the type; the ones with Fuck You
tattooed on their foreheads, the ones whos main vocation in Life is to
stand on a street corner and ask Everybody for a cigarette... the ones
with track marks up and down their arms *sigh* The Dreggs.

I should be Sooooo bloody bum! *laughs*

An' ya, sure, it SUCKS, no doubts about that...

But then there are the Goddesses

The Sun Goddess (Karen) who always has the answer you Don't want to hear
yet turns out to be the right one 9 times outta 10 *laughs*  When the
cute chick was comin' at Me, it was Karen who noticed I hadn't been
eatin' an' forced me over to her house and made me eat a big dinner
*laughs* She never asked no questions or nuthin, just sorta Knew, ya
know?  Other things like that... the Detail things...

These past days I've been blessed not only with Mr. Stitts as an
assistant, but Athena too. *grin*

Athena is a Goddess by birth *shrugs* No, really, look it up *giggles*

She also happens to be the first woman I fell in love with...*dreamy*

She married the other guy *laughs*

Took a while but we're way good friends now.  It's Cool.

So I'm livin' upstairs in the fridge, Rob is runnin' the dock, and
Athena is loading the elevator with totes and acting as my liaison with
the Outside world...

And it's a dream crew *grin*

Nothing is melting.

Nothing is too clustered up yet...

Nothing broke...

when the cannery starts up we'll loose her, but right Now...*grin*

Right Now I got a lot o' Time ta think as I'm a doin' a gig I've done
once too often, an' I'm flashin' on the three women that have meant
somethin' special to me, an' I'm ponderin' the similarities and
differences of them and situations an' what nots...

An' alla this shit that never made any sense to me before for my whole
life just Clicked *laughs*  Those silly 'whys' and 'how comes' an' so
on... not All of 'em, but a Lot...

An' I got ta thinkin' about Rob was sayin' the other day on me birthday
about Budda an' what not...

...

then again, we were drunk *laughs*

I Gotta go
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazyWork
   Date:
        Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:49:59 -0800

So the new egg bitch is an idiot *sigh*

People kept tellin' me she was a bitch an' a pain an' so on... an'
havin' never actually having Worked with her before I thought I'd hold
off judgment on that one...

But after the past few days, well... I think it is safe to say that her
sphincter is of truly gargantuan proportions *laughs*

And she's about as smart as a rock... or rather just so horribly
inconsiderate that it comes across as gross negligence, *shrugs* I dunno
*laughs*

One of those people that acts like they Own you.

Nobody owns anybody.  Ody taught me that quite well just recently *grin*

Even Wage Slaves can say Fuck You.

She alienated John so badly tha' he quite the egg scene all together...
*sigh* John has been doin' eggs fer years, he's GOOD, an' he was a Good
driver, we worked well together *sigh*

So she has ta drive...

only she CAN'T drive *laughs*

*sigh*

Yesterday she came over to get a pallet of caviar to take it back to her
little world and do something weird to it... This stuff is packed into
these ten pound plastic pails an' there's like 150 of these pails on a
pallet, then they got some plastic wrap around 'em ta kind of hold 'em
together so they don't fall all over the place which is just a big drag
for everybody...

So she grabs this pallet of caviar, it starts ta lean like it's gonna
fall, she gits me trusty assistant Mr. Stitts, he has a look an' says
let's git the bloody thing Out of the freezer first 'cause if it goes
over in there it Is a Real Big Drag *brrrrr*

So she drags it outta the fridge an' sets down smack dab in the middle
of the van dock, an' there's me trusty assistant, Mr. Stitts, holding up
the leaning stack of caviar, keepin' a billion bucks worth of product
from crashin' ta the ground with the strength of his bare hands, just
like the little boy tha' stuck his finger in the dike, yes? *laughs*

Wham! van dock is Shut Down.  Shipping and Receiving comes to a Grinding
Halt.

Egg Bitch gits off her fork lift, lights a cigarette, looks at the
leaning pallet, sez, 'what should we do?'

Mr. Stitts, defying the laws of physics with pure brute Force, offers
the enlightening suggestion of 'you could HELP'

So she goes and Takes some people out of the packing room, which
happened to be running at the time, packing up some frozen soki
salmon...

now then, the packing room had already been having a fucked up day, an'
pullin' a couple of bozos outta there Didn't bring them to a grinding
halt, enstead it just generated a pallet of mislabeled product *shrugs*

So now there are bozos an' forklifts and pallets and caviar Everywhere
*sigh*

classic Kodak moment *laughs*

I left. *shrugs*

I went and sat with Athena over at the cannery and Waited...

and waited

and waited...

*sigh*

That is but one of Many Kodak moments

She's a highly paid professional

Mr. Stitts, on the other hand, git's Reamed Royally for spacing three
pallets of crab on his tallies... three pallets out of three thousand
pallets... tha' ain't too bad in my book, not Great, but not bad...

But tha's the ONLY thing the paper pushers see, they don't see the other
stuff, the incredible choreography, the outstanding driving...

I'm Sure the egg bitch excels at Something... Somewhere...

But I ain't seein' it *laughs*

I gotta go
Torbjon
 

So yesterday was a Bad Attitude day fer me...no One reason, just
basically Pissy, ya know?

The morning started off with me upstairs in the fridge, stashin' some
bait... that sucked and I had some time between lifts so I wrote a
rather morbid poem *shrugs*

The rest of work was going well, and me crew (Athena and Rob) were also
doing well... it was just ME... *laughs*

And seein' how I Knew it was just Me, and how things were pretty much
under control, I had a little meetin' with me crew and it was decided
that I could blow the rest of the day off *grin*

We all did lunch together, but I wasn't too talkitive... just wanted
them to split so I could shower and veg fer a while, ya know?

Gary came over... tha' frosted me some... Gary is the one Ody hooked up
with, which is Fine, but seein' her ring flash on his finger wasn't
helpin' me mood any, ya know? *laughs*

Finally they split and I wasted No Time gittin me sorry butt inta the
Shower *dreamy*

Unbeknownst to me, while I was draining the hot water tank, Athena
called...

When I finally did get outta the shower she was calling again *sigh*  I
figured it was some Work thing, ya know?

I pick up the phone "ya?" sez I

"YOU FUCKER!!" sez Athena

"huh??" sez I, wonderin' what the fuck could be THAT bad... the egg
bitch??  Cap'n Chaos??  Stress Fish???  what what what???

"THE NOTE!"  sez she...

"huh??" sez I wondering what the fuck kind of note Tom coulda left that
coulda caused such a reaction in me trusty comrade...

Finally, after MUCH miscomunication, it dawns on me tha' she found my
morbid poem, and based on me mood of the past days and various little
things here and there she figured it was a suicide note, then, when she
called and I was in the shower and didn't answer... *sigh* well, ya, she
FREEKED *sigh*

And ta be honest with ya, LOOKING at alla the little facts and past
history and what not, I can't say that I blame her one bit *sigh*  I
woulda freeked too

Only thing is, I AIN'T suicidal... not even a little bit *shrugs*  Bum,
sure, but not That Bum *laughs*

On the one hand I see the whole thing as painfully hillarious *giggles*
but on the other I feel like shit fer freekin' her out so badly *sigh*

Needless to say, the time I blew off was Less than relaxing *Laughs!!*

So today I go in, an Ody plows into me an' walks with me fer a bit an'
we chat... a Good chat.  Been a while since we actually Communicated
about Anything... resolved some stuff *shrugs* I know I felt a Hell of a
lot better afterwards... she Obviously did too because fer the first
time ever she started hanging out around Me with Him... *sigh* felt
really Funny but... but intresting *shrugs*

*laughs*

silly, huh?  I guesse most folks learn ta deal with shit like this when
they are 16, huh? *shrugs* I was doing... other things then.

Athena was working over in the cannery today, said Hey to her a couple
times but fer the most part gave her some space, ya know?

Work is going Well *shudders*

I think tha's a first.

no

I KNOW tha's a first *laughs*

So this evening I strolled down to the Homestead Cafe an' ordered me up
a bacon lettuce and tomatoe sandwich ta go, knowing full well I could
blow off those fifteen minutes and things would still be cool when I got
back *grin*

An' I'm standin' there waitin' ta place me order when Wham! there's the
Sunset Girl!!  Remember the Sunset Girl?? *dreamy*  well, I remember her
*giggles* she came over an' stood next ta me an' we chatted fer about
ten minutes or so *grin*

felt Real Good *blush*  just gossipy stuff, still *shrugs*

Then the cute watiress took me order an' chatted with me fer a bit...
then chatted some more, then apologized fer it takin' so long and
chatted some more.  I let her know that a shop guy was making a god
awful racket with some wicked power tool on one of me steel ramps and
tha' Raul was sending me some pretty fucked up totes, so sittin' there
waitin' an' watchin' her work was Really Okay *laughs*

it was a good blt

I gotta go
Torbjon
 
 

 Subject:
        lazyfish
   Date:
        Sat, 24 Jul 1999 02:44:30 -0800
 

So, 150 people were highlighted ta show up at the cannery this
morning... um, Yesterday morning *sigh*

39 showed up *Laughs*

The Dreggs they dredged up this season aren't too keen on showing up on
time *shrugs* an' from what the one office chick was tellin' me, the
excuses these bozos came up with fer bein' late where as lame as
"somebody unplugged my alarm clock" to as twisted as "the dog ate my
raingear" but the best by Far came from Scary Gary; "I took too many
drugs last night" *Bursts out laughing!!*

*shrugs* he took some pain pills before goin' ta bed, an' then Slept
*laughs*

*sigh*

I'm having a problem with Gary... my loathing of him is six years in the
making, ya know?  I've had a Long Time ta form my opinions of the
dude... an' I Can't say tha' what went down with the cute chick hasn't
influenced my opinion of him more... But I still have ta ask myself
everytime I want ta throttle 'im (which is Often) if it ain't 'cause of
the cute chick or simply because he Really Is a stoopid fucking moron
*sigh*

An' it's givin' me a headache *sigh*

On the other hand, Larry, one of the cooler shop guys, is fixin' me
ramps *dreamy*  Been worried about a couple of 'em fer a while now, so I
Bitched ta Whitey, Whitey went ta The Man, The Man came and looked...
some days later there's Larry with a shit load of really wicked tools
and cables and hoses and stuff *laughs*

An' so, fer the last 30 million years or so, Larry has set up house out
there an' has been poundin' and grindin' an' blastin' an' weldin' an'
hammerin' on me ramps...

Metal ramps.

Heavy Metal.

Hard Heavy Metal with No decibel restrictions *laughs*

Slipping totes in a haze of slagged steel and gritty metal vapor to the
glorious tune of Jack Hammer on Steel Plate *giggles*

Givin' me a headache

So at like 2:30 this afternoon Whitey comes ta me an' sez should be a
mellow day fer my world, slow glazeline, little caviar lidding....
okay.  Cool.

So at like 3:00 o'clock this afternoon Whitey comes ta me an' sez "we
got an order for a van load of 6-9 green tag Dark Chum for tomorrows
barge; Can we do it?"

I thought about it

Darks are THE one flavor of fish that Everybody told me would NEVER go.
We weren't even supposed to be producing the bloody things *laughs* but
we did *shrugs* and they came to me and I was told to make them go
away... So I buried them *sigh*  I took the most fucked up holding
upstairs in the fridge an' just shoved totes of Darks in there as they
came ta me, no rhyme nor reason to it *laughs*  An' when that holding
was full we started making rows of the stuff downstairs in holding
five....

Darks were startin' ta pile up... had like three vans worth of 'em so I
was actually Glad ta git the order ta ship some of 'em, but ya, you
guessed it, we had ta pick through pretty much every single tote ta git
enough Dark 6-9 Green Tag Chum totes ta fill a van

At 3:00 o'clock we made the decision ta Do It...

At 11:30 Rob sealed the van

one van, eight and a half hours *sigh*  (keep in mind that we finished
Seven vans today between six a.m. an' midnight, an' it was a "slack" day
*laughs*)

We pulled it off, but it gave me a headache

BUT

in the past couple of days it seems like ALL the cute chicks have been
Way Cool *dreamy*

THAT does Not give me a headache *wink*

I gotta go
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazygrin
   Date:
        Sat, 24 Jul 1999 21:17:32 -0800
 

Took the day off...

So I slept like a rock, only ta have Brenda an' Athena come wake me up
at noon (two cute chicks) *grin*

nice way ta wake up, ya know? *laughs*

Rob showed up shortly there after an' we all did lunch, discussed
business... gossip...

Very Mellow and Much needed day...

*dreamy*

it gets better *wink*

I gotta go
Torbjon
 

So I look back at last years Lazies and ponder the changes between Now
and Then *laughs*

A year ago at this time is when the the List reached Critical Mass an'
alla you suddenly realized there Was a List and YOU were on it *giggles*

It was the story 'bout that chick that was... um... Very Friendly out at
the company picnic whilest Mr. Stitts, the Mighty Whitey an' meself was
stuck back at the factory stashin' totes upstairs tha' got the ball
rolling... someone did the reply to all thingy, someone else replied to
that... ad infinitum

Tha's when this became a Scene...

Tha's when this stopped being just Me...

It was Us now *sigh*

An' it took a while, but We're cool, I'm fine with that...

An' the list continues to grow... *shrugs*

An' I don't have a CLUE why, either *bursts out laughing!!!*

Today Gill an' Sally signed on.. (welcome aboard, by the way *poke*)

They were me neighbors down south an' are Still me folks neighbors...
they raise goats and poison oak and make wine an' have a buncha
grandkids and are basically the way cool type of folk you'd Want fer a
neighbor if havin' a neighbor is yer type of thing *grin*

I don't know what they are expecting though... a lot of folks just hear
about it, or get some of the 'good' ones forwarded to them before
signing on...

Hell, I never know what to expect myself *laughs*  I just sit down and
start typing, ya know?  Pausing occasionally to smoke and drink...
sometimes nibble *shrugs*

Usually, though, there is some Thing or some One on my mind when I do
this...

now, however...

now there are a LOT of Things...

an' a LOT of people... female people *blush*

floating around up there *rolls eyes*

*shrugs*

A year ago Lazies were a bitch fest... work sucked and my life lacked...

ya know something?

It Does get better *laughs*

I gotta go
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazymorning
   Date:
        Mon, 26 Jul 1999 07:32:08 -0800

*yawn*

*sip*

mmph

So I slept in me bed last night... actually, the past couple of
nights...

And whereas that may seem like the Normal place fer a bozoboy ta crash
out, truth is that since the cute chick split I haven't been able to
sleep in me bed... too big and empty *sigh* full of fresh memories...

So I'd been sleepin' on me sofa *shrugs*

Only I don't Have a sofa *laughs*

I have this loveseat thingy... ya, it's TINY *giggles*

an' I'm TALL *shrugs*

So, fer the past Month now.... *sigh*, ya a whole Month ago...

*shrugs*

fer the past month I've been crashin' out on me sofa, scrunchin' up in
some godawful position...

but not the past couple of nights...

Past couple of nights I slept in My bed...

my Big Comfy Bed *dreamy*

An' ya, sure, I can't Help but think about it...

An' ya, sure, I Cry...

But I slept in me bed *dreamy*

An' it was kinda fun thinking about Her.... and... Others *blush*

*laughs*

an' since I'm in a pretty good mood this morning I fully expect today to
go hell *bursts out laughing!!*

"Wake up to a good day; but prepare yourself for a bad one"

I gotta go
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazylink
   Date:
        Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:51:21 -0800
 
 

If yer Really Bored, check out what a couple o' weeks in the fridge did
ta My head *laughs*

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/1561/poemindex.htm

An' fer the rest of ya *shrugs* it's Rainin' here *sigh*

An' there's Fish

An' Karens forklift blew up whilest she was on it... keep in mind it was
Karen tellin' me about it so ya, she's fine but yet another trusty
forklift bites the dust, this time almost takin' it's Master with it...
*sigh*

I DO miss the Goat (MY trusty steed)  greatly... even other people who
used to complain about the Goat now agree tha' she wasn't so bad
*dreamy*

The cute chick?

Well, the one tha' was drivin' me bonkers a while a back hasn't spoken
to me in so long she's like a Total Stranger ta me now, ya know?
*shrugs*  So it goes...

The others though... *blush*

... won't get written about for quite sometime *laughs*

And Time slips past...

Dig it while you can

I gotta go
Torbjon
 

Chapter Twelve is up, if yer Really Bored:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/1561/solstice12.htm

So, Work *shudders* About what you'd expect.

My world has been a dream because somebody other than ME fucked up big
time, the result bein' we ran out of these nifty bits of cardboard
called slip sheets.

Why am I a minor deity, you may wonder?  Why do I git da big bucks an'
git away wit murder? *smirk*

One of the reasons is Slip Sheets.

Somebody Somewhere decided it was cheaper to drive a person stark raving
bonkers than to simply pay the freight charges on pallet boards and
invented Slip Sheets and a funky forklift with the Highly technical name
of Slip Sheet Puller (thus dubbed and hence forth forever known as, The
Pullcat)

A slip sheet is just a big sheet of thick cardboard *shrugs*  The
Pullcat is an electric forklift that has forks on it that are about a
foot wide and this funky pincher thingy that reaches out and grabs
stuff...

In Theory it's supposed ta reach out, grab the edge of the cardboard
slip sheet, then pull the slip sheet and what ever is sitting on top of
it onto the super wide forks, leaving the wooden pallet behind, ya drive
sheet and load inta the van, push sheet an' load offa the super wide
forks, leavin' them in the van as you drive out ta do it again an' again
an' again an'... till the bloody thing is Full, ship it south, an' then
some Bozo down there gits ta slip the stuff outta the van an' put it
Back on to a wooden pallet so They can move it around an' do stuff with
it *laughs*

This saves money *sigh*

no, it really does... at least in a company our size... pallets add up
Fast.

But even the Densest of you should be able ta foresee some of the
problems inherent with this Slip Sheet Theory;

Whaddya do when the little cardboard flap tha' yer suppose ta grab onto
gets bent up?

Or Mangled?

Or *gasps* what if it RIPS??

*laughs*

no biggy, right?

Let's throw some industrial shit inta the mix...

What if it's sitting on a broken pallet board?

What if said broken pallet had a Lot of nail heads sticking up through
it?

What if said pallet was Sopping Wet (because it RAINS here A LOT) before
it had a sheet of cardboard put on it, followed by a big cardboard box
which was then filled with 1000 pounds of Frozen Fish, and then the
whole shebang got stashed in the freezer for a month before some Bozo in
Seattle sez "okay, dig it out and ship it Now" ??

*giggles*

alla tha' is NORMAL *sigh*

How 'bout this one;

Whaddya do when Rauls pretty boys don' even PUT a fucking slip sheet
under the tote, hmm? *bursts out laughing!!*

at the moment, the point is moot, 'cause we don't even Have any of the
accursed little buggers an' alla the product has been goin' out ON
pallets *dreamy*

There's more on the way *sigh*

Our life is gonna suck Big Time real soon...

But now

*dreamy*

The past is missing
The future is hoped for
But NOW is the moment in which you are

an' it's pretty fuckin' Awesome *laughs*

Life, *shrugs* continues to suprise me every day *laughs*

I gotta go
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazy
   Date:
        Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:03:17 -0800
 

so Gary decided to blow off six years of being comrades with me.
*shrugs*

Some chick fucks him an' tha's it, to hell with Anybody tha' might not
be too cool with it.

Sex First. *shrugs*

Fine.  That I can handle.

But apparently the Girl isn't Enough for him, 'cause Gary also wants my
dope, and my coffee, and my cigarettes, and my stereo, and...

*sigh*

ya, he's a userous fucker *shrugs*

An' it's a Personallity Flaw, he's ALWAYS been tha' way, this ain't NEW

An' whereas the Girl was NEVER mine ta give, the Other Stuff IS...

So I said NO.  No More, git away from My Shit.  *sigh*

An' he decided to cop Massive Attitude at me, about My stuff, on My van
dock *shrugs*

An' he wouldn't back down, kept pushin' and pushin'

An' no way in Hell was I gonna back down *laughs*

So we met in the parking lot an' had Words *sigh*  which didn't solve
nuthin...

I talked ta Tom about it, but tha' didn't seem ta solve nuthin' either
*sigh*

She's leaving in about four weeks (thank gods)  maybe he'll leave then
too...

Things were going Too Well *laughs*

This is more like it,

totally Fucked Up

With a lot of Hurting

*laughs*

I gotta go
Torbjon
 

what went down

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/1561/poem4.htm

*shrugs*
twj

 Subject:
        lazydinner
   Date:
        Fri, 30 Jul 1999 17:35:42 -0800
 

Just in case I fail totally to mention it...

THE SUN IS SHINING!!!!!

an' ya, sure, yer all droppin dead from the heat down south *shrugs* I
for one, am Digging the sudden change in weather *dreamy*  alla the
local girls bring out their short shorts and tight tank tops *blush*
It's nice...

Very Nice.

I gotta git back ta work
Seeya
Torbjon
 

a short one *shrugs*  found it crumpled up in me pocket from some days
ago *laughs*

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/1561/poem6.htm
 

So, the egg bitch just found out today that she Was the egg bitch
*laughs*  She's been a workin' fool... or just a fool, I dunno *shrugs*
an' has yet ta read the less than flattering write up I gave her
performance on the van dock some days... weeks... ago now. *laughs*

Have no fear, Bait Boy is Bored an' decided ta stir thing up bit
*giggles*

He forwarded it to her (like she'd have time ta Read it *Laughs*) before
he realized tha' she's On the bloody list *giggles*  So he Told her
*shrugs*

Keep in mind that since That Day, my Work relationship with Judy has
been pretty good... not Outstanding, but she annoys me less than Gary
does so tha's Something, at least *laughs*

No.

Judys Primary concern was the title 'egg bitch' *laughs*  She worried
that that might be her Nickname! *bursts out laughing!!*

it's just a Title...

Titles Ain't Nicknames...

Titles are... Generic.

nicknames are Specific;  Bait Boy = Charlie, Cap'n Flashback = Mike, and
so on...

Titles are Positions...

like, the Person that runs the ice and bait shack (which, admittedly,
90% of the time tha's Charlie, but it could be Ed, or Terry, or Bill...
or...) tha's the MasterBaiter.

The Person tha' pulls totes Out of the hopper an' washes 'em up an'
stacks 'em an' stuff is a ToteBoy

A Slimer is any Person tha' works on the line and wears yellow
raingear...

People that put fish on trays are TrayMasters.

People that put tags on trays are TagBitches

People that run eggs from the fish house to the egg room are BuggyBoys

an' there's Titles within Titles... like, ALL of Rauls crew are called
Glazers, but the Glazers have Breakers, and Graders, an' a TagBitch, a
couple of Drivers...

Fer the most part, titles ain't nick names... we're All Bozoboys
*laughs* But there are exceptions, like, the chicks on beach crew are
BeachBabes, but Laurel is THE BeachBabe *swoons*

but Nicknames aren't just Given, they are Earned.

They can be Changed.

And they can be taken away completely...

Just like everything else worth having *laughs*

I gotta go
Torbjon

 Subject:
        lazydinner
   Date:
        Sat, 31 Jul 1999 17:29:28 -0800
 

So most of our Drivers either quit, got fired, didn't show up, or
wrecked *laughs*

Seiner day with no forklift drivers *rolls eyes*

ya, Intresting is a word for it...

A BuggyBoy was runnin' eggs from the fishhouse out ta the egg room...  a
driver whacked a stack of metal totes (full of fish) Totes came Down and
crushed the Buggy... BuggyBoy leaped outta the way and Into Garys way,
nearly gittin' clipped again *laughs*

In the cannery a driver whacked into a buggy cans so hard that they had
to peel him offa his stearing wheel... the BuggyRunner survived
intact...

I got drafted ta drive fer the Glazeline... which means I git ta weave
me way through the bozo drivers and ALLA the BOZO PEOPLE whilest
carrying a stack of very tippy totes back ta the van dock...

*sigh*

Funky day...

*grin*

BUT

it's SUNNY *grin*