When it all goes bad

Sometimes it all comes back.

So yesterday I was having one of those days where I was 3 steps behind myself and I couldn't seem to catch up. Let me begin with how my morning started. I got into work early, a rare thing to happen. I am diligently doing what I do in the office when it begins to rain that cold nasty wet rain we had yesterday and I thought to myself... I sure am glad I'm inside today and not working in the field. Just as I complete this thought I get a page from our admin. Someone wants me to do an Underground Storage Tank Survey this afternoon. I try to reason with the man citing the ridiculous cold and weather that would certainly hinder my progress. He does not listen.

So I get together all my equipment and stroll on to downtown Atlanta. I get to site and its luckily under a building on the sidewalk so I am shielded from the rain, but not the cold. Luckily it was not as cold yesterday as it is today (wind chill in low 20's wtf?). So I get to doing my survey and 4 hours later I complete it. I gather all my equipment but during these surveys you must place a probe rod at the bottom of the tank to make an electrical connection. This rod is sitting in about 4' of Diesel in a tank with a 3" wide hole at the top. It's about 10' deep total. Now carrying around a 10' pole would be silly. So we use a painters pole and just collapse it when we are done so we can transport the thing. So I pull up the pole and its separates. That's right, we now have a 5' chunk of aluminum pole sitting in a tank with a 3" wide hole at the top. This qualifies as bad. You don't want extra metal in your metal tank, much less one that will eventually corrode based on the galvanic system.

So that's all for now. The day only got worse. I broke and lost a few more items. Luckily I recovered most of them, like my $350 voltmeter, thank god.

I do other stuff than ride bikes believe it or not. Speaking of bikes, Tribble Mill is the shit. It was fun riding there on Sunday. Wish it was a bit dryer, mud makes me anxious when I slip in a front wheel skid.

Here is a short Video CK made