tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21844627.post4018937439920134775..comments2023-09-04T08:11:52.674-04:00Comments on UNCIVIL: Uncivilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165556927641960341noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21844627.post-56186770684926623042007-04-23T13:10:00.000-04:002007-04-23T13:10:00.000-04:00Ms.mammaLOL!........You've done this before? How d...Ms.mamma<BR/><BR/>LOL!........You've done this before? How did you know that it smelled when you put the water to it?<BR/>It has that rotten egg smell? Must be the sulphur in the aggregate?<BR/><BR/>I have actually had co-workers walk up and ask me if I broke wind? I just point to the wash pot and they say "Damn I forgot how bad that smelled?"<BR/><BR/>I started and quit smoking when I was 11.LOL!<BR/>I'm not a smoker or drug user (except for occasional prescription valium). It keeps me from being so anal!LOL<BR/><BR/>I hope I can do this until I retire in 10 years!Uncivilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03165556927641960341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21844627.post-185477930297229052007-04-23T12:37:00.000-04:002007-04-23T12:37:00.000-04:00Do you have to wear a gas mask? Are you a smoker?...Do you have to wear a gas mask? Are you a smoker? This could be the kitchen of a crazy anal crack cook too. Fascinating post, Jimmy! I was wondering what you did. Must be kind of fun. Cool photo essay!Ms. Mammahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17489066744543467834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21844627.post-78797814885442885092007-04-22T23:58:00.000-04:002007-04-22T23:58:00.000-04:00Hi ChrissyI'm not getting rich, but it's a decent ...Hi Chrissy<BR/><BR/>I'm not getting rich, but it's a decent living for a redneck.LOL!Uncivilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03165556927641960341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21844627.post-73074299046536805522007-04-22T23:35:00.000-04:002007-04-22T23:35:00.000-04:00Wow! I actually think that's very fascinating! Ver...Wow! I actually think that's very fascinating! Very cool, Jimmy! Oh, and to think that you get <I>paid</I> to do all this!!! Awesome!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09251507898309184477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21844627.post-81486000132404515142007-04-22T09:41:00.000-04:002007-04-22T09:41:00.000-04:00Hey JulieA "leaf sandwich"? I don't remember makin...Hey Julie<BR/><BR/>A "leaf sandwich"? I don't remember making any of them? Ingenious!....Which reminds me....<BR/><BR/>I'll never forget when I was a teenager. A good friend and I were supposed to go on an early morning trail ride with our horses and my little sister and her friend were going along with us.<BR/>To my surprize Kathy had made sandwiches for all of us to take on the trail.<BR/><BR/>I had woke up starving and decided to eat mine early. Kathy reached in her saddle bag and pulled out one just for me.<BR/><BR/>I was just about to bite into it when I noticed her and her friend with that nervous look of anticipation.<BR/><BR/>So I got my hunger pangs under control, and lifted the top slice to see what kind of sandwich it was?<BR/>Well Kathy and her friend gooched their horses and hauled ass!<BR/><BR/>Cause I almost bit into a "Horse Shit Sandwich"!!!!!<BR/><BR/>It's funny as hell now, but I was ready to kill her back then. I don't know what would have happened if I had bit into that thing?<BR/><BR/>Damn...this would be a good post. "Horse Shit Sandwich"<BR/><BR/>My little sister had a hell of an imagination! Gotta Love Her!!!!!Uncivilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03165556927641960341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21844627.post-9445918012172352592007-04-21T07:32:00.000-04:002007-04-21T07:32:00.000-04:00Cool! I remember making mud pies. I love making m...Cool! I remember making mud pies. I love making mud pies (or the memories of making them.) I can even remember what the mud would begin to smell like (kind of bad) after a few days sitting around in cans and jars in the sun - just hanging out, waiting for us to make ANOTHER "leaf sandwich" or mud pie to serve to our friends or our pets :) Where did those fun days go? I know I know - don't rub it in -- YOU STILL HAVE THEM at WORK! LOL! Happy Weekend!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21844627.post-25469247239463058812007-04-20T20:05:00.000-04:002007-04-20T20:05:00.000-04:00I actually get paid to make "Mud Pies" on a daily ...I actually get paid to make "Mud Pies" on a daily basis. Remember making mud pies as a kid? I think I made my first one when I was about 5 years old.<BR/><BR/>I work in a lab testing asphalt, and I've always wondered what a child would think of me getting paid to make a mud pie. I know I never dreamed as a kid that I would one day be getting paid to make them.<BR/><BR/>The sample in the picture is a 1200 gram sample of hot asphalt surface mix already heated near 300 degrees.<BR/><BR/>It's weighed and put into a 1000 degree furnace to burn the liquid asphalt off the sample to check the actual percentage of liquid asphalt in the mix. This particular sample has about a 6.5% asphalt content.<BR/>This leaves us with the coarse and fine aggregates to be run through a series of seives to check the percentages per sieve.<BR/><BR/>But before I do that, I have to wash the sample to remove a portion of the dust (that passes the 75 micrometer No. 200 sieve) from the mix. I put the washed matrial (Mud) in a frying pan when I'm done<BR/><BR/>Now it's time to cook my mud pie. I put my frying pan on a burner and cook all the moisture out of the mix, and let it cool. <BR/><BR/>Then I pour the sample into my stack of seives and put it in a sieve shaker for 10 minutes.<BR/><BR/>Now I'm ready to weigh each portion of the sample from each seive.<BR/><BR/>Then I get out my calculator and the number crunching begins. Now I can determine the percentage of each size coarse and fine aggregate in the mix.<BR/><BR/>Isn't this boring. It's just one of the many different kinds of tests I do daily.Uncivilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03165556927641960341noreply@blogger.com