I think my dayshifts start too early. Actually I KNOW my days start too early because when I woke up this morning at 5:20 I had overslept by half an hour. Damn! So I had to drive all the way out to the mine (50 kms or so) rather than take the sleep bus. And I really had to speed, too. It didn't help that in the dark I took a wrong turn on a road that didn't exist last time and wound up driving in circles in some new subdivision. Tearing off LGJ's catalytic converter in the process. That's twice in less than a month that driving to work has caused battle damage to my peaceful little Civic. Grr!
But the rest of the day wasn't so bad. I had to run shovel 5, which is almost as old as I am and in not nearly as good shape. (But then, what is?) But what I was doing was low on the priority list so my foreman took away my trucks at about the halfway point in the shift, leaving me with 6 hours to doze and read. I finished off a 70s SF novel called The Overman Culture and got a hundred pages into another 70s SF novel called Enchanted Pilgrimage, by Simak. Sweet!



Anyways, for walking machines that aren't 30 years old and decrepit, check out Zooillogix for some amazing vids.