Happy Labor Day, to all of the hard working people doing actual labor. I guess that included me this summer.

I worked hard out in the sweltering heat, the noise from the office conditioner along with the compressor was loud, it may take months to get the glue out from under my nails, and today it was over.

I never missed a shift, always there early, I even showed up a few days that we called off. Granted, I only worked three to four hours a day, until the immediate patching was done.

I could have pulled a full day shift if I wanted to, there were some tubes there that needed hours of surgery to bring them back to life. I consider that just running out the clock, cheaper for the company to just replace it.

So here's the status of my office on this last day. First off, it's cleaned up and organized. Towards the back there are three stacks of tubes:

 • On the left, the surgical repairs, tubes damaged badly or proven to not be quickly patched.

 • In the middle, the tubes whose new patches are curing for 24 hours. There are currently three. This new technique has worked great, btw.

 • On the right, behind the box of new green tubes, are the tubes that were killed in action and have become patch material, to cut out and make your own, depending on the color of the tube. I believe all colors are represented.

On the left shelf are the tools and cleaning supplies. I have contributed many of the items there, to the company, just to make my job easier. Ricky, consider this a gift to the next person who does this job! If they need training next season, hit me up.

So, job done...