The World Cup of GADCO

GADCO stands for General American Door Company if you need to know. They have their own "World Cup" going on there. I'll tell you a story. As it unfolded in real life a while back it made my hair stand on end but its sort of funny now. My company pulls loads of doors out of GADCO. One day around noon I was hooking a trailer there when to my surprise a raging horde of 30 or so GADCO employees begins to charge out of the building directly toward me. I thought I'd better put in a call to the undertaker while wondering what I had ever done to deserve this fate. Within 30 seconds however the horde was running right past me to the noon break soccor game to commence in a open lot just beyond the row of trailers. Apparently they do this at noon every nice summer day. While driving around other parts of the Chicago area where many Hispanics work one can see many soccor games in progress during break times. Later that summer I was at GADCO again and they must have had their World Cup tournament play happening because I saw even some of the factory shirts out there in their little golf carts observing the action!

Will They Use Sticks and Brooms?

Could it be that soon the U S forces in Iraq will be driven out of the country with sticks and brooms manned by the common folk who no longer want our troops killing their neighbors, friends and relatives?
Look out Mr. President! Sooner or later they will have had enough!

Sometimes Lots of Wheels are Involved

Folks who haven't travelled in Michigan probably haven't seen trucks like these. Six, seven and eight axles carry the weight of their loads. These trucks gross weight loaded to the maximum legal limit is in the area of 170,000 pounds. They carry more than one and a half times the cargo a typical 18 wheeler can carry. Michigan and neighboring Canadian provinces allow these trucks on their major highways.

Two Years Have Gone with Two Years To Go

Seems like yesterday when I got the call from Julia's Daddy declaring her birth. Now she is according to her Mommy "the sweetest, smartest, most lovable sweetheart baby in the entire universe, and she's having a birthday!" My how time flies. But now in less than two years into the future I will be able to visit her and her sibling(s) and the third Grandchild (wherever in the world that one might be living) for weeks if not months at a time and be sure that they all have plenty of trips to McDonalds for Fun Meals and other "grandfatherly excursions". I truly look forward to spending time with them rather than with Volvo and a load of paper!