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Hold on to your hats. Make sure to brace yourselves. I actually did some work at my "real" job today. My brother makes signs, I install road signs on the contracts he wins. Yeah stop signs, yields, speed limit, all the way up to the big green ones that would tell you where to go if anyone actually bothered to read the things. We aren't too automated. Pounding a sign post in is done by brute force still (some day we will get the pneumatic pounder).

Anywho, its a physically brutal job, but not a daily job, and he pays me well because I am a brute, and have high tolerance for pain. We had to put in a whole seven signs today (a long, brutal day is about 30). Piece of cake...except that it was raining and 46 degrees. Ah well, just good misery training for the 100 degree days, and my favorite, the 20 degree days, chipping through the frost, and wading into the snowbanks.

The real busy time is November and December, when every contractor needs it done last month but forgot to call. Other than that...any heatwave is their favorite time to need their signs done immediately.

Well, for now back to Donkeytown (sing it like the song Funkytown "wont you take me to....donkeytown")