Good to hear Stump. That place has snakes and crawdads doesn't it? Something good and something bad no matter what. Pretty good music tho', down there in the bayous, I garontee.
I spent 20 some years in construction and only had a few jobs close enough to home to come home for dinner, had to move a few times, but I never had a problem finding a job or getting hired anytime I decided I had enough of the present job and quit. Sometimes the money wasn't as good as other times, I live out of tent's, campers, back of my pickup, motels, hotels and rented space in other workers homes, garages, etc sometimes and only got home a couple times a month sometimes...but that was what I wanted...I had enough 8 to 5, suck the d*** if you want a raise, "lifetime, then they fire you or steal your pension before you can collect it" BS, and I didn't have any use for Uncle Sam's lifers either.
The first thing out of the apprentice trainers mouth when I signed on was "This ain't no lifetime job, but it's a life times worth of work if you go where the work is"...He was right.
We humans never learned the lessons of nature because we can usually come up with a solution of sorts...always short term. The environment has been telling us the fat's in the fire but because we have the capacity to think and think we can control things we continue on mindlessly. Ozone holes, rain forests being cut down that change the worlds weather, and eating ourselves out of house and home...literally...will just make the world ready for the next species waiting in the wings for a chance. We were running around in the underbrush when the dinosaurs ruled the earth and there are things running around in the "brush" waiting for us to disappear. We are just one species and species have a finite time to spend living.
I have seen so many changes in the past 40 years that I think we have gone beyond the point of no return. I'm afraid I will live to see the final break and the beginning of the end...not a pretty thought, intellectually speaking or not.
Enough rant...Who am I to know the future?
