ooohhh yeah...

i bought it, just now... I've already pimped it, (second link provided in case you bypassed the first!) but to me it seemed worth adding to my collection... i wonder at what point i start removing lesser favorites from my collection... i have some earlier prints that i purchased years ago that no longer hold luster for me... several i could never look at again and not miss them. what is the protocol for that i wonder... do lame images have an impact on my collection? i mean its not like i have them in a gallery on display, then some ill showcased images might devalue my collection but mine are all plastic jacketed in a fire resistant case.

archived....

properly.....

for all of time....

(except perhaps some of the digital images... time will tell if their "archival paper" is really just that!)

anyway, i was thinking i should have a bloggallery showing of my favorite images that I've purchased... here's my question for some of you in the proverbial know... do i have to get permission from the artists to display their work? or since i now own a copy/original of it can i post it freely!?

so many what ifs and how to's make it not worth the while i think... meh...

other news? the brown Chevy blew a head gasket on the way to a concrete pour. called cheeses dad to come in on Monday and see what he can see... ugh.... i built that engine back in 2001 and don't want to do it again!

I'll be back kiddos. they are hollering for me in the yard...

THE LYRICAL BIRTHDAY SUIT OF "ROLLING JESUS UP HILL"

...yeah, birthday was yesterday.
I went as, um, a biker angel. From the song "1952 Vincent Black Lightning," lyric: "I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome..."

so "she" didn't take any of our lyrical suggestions and went with her instincts... feathers, leathers and lace.... sounds like a boyhood dream to me!!! thanks for the photo and the update sheshe!!!
sorry kids i haven't had time to post much. I'm back working on the crane. today i freed up the sticky four wheel drive control valve assembly and i think i figured out why we were having all those pesky transmission problems in the first place... (a hydraulic brake is seized, but the power of the engine will force fuck it into submission enough for it to move slowly.) also still fighting with that other mother fucking hydraulic leak. it will not obey my commands!!!! have a nice Wednesday all!!!

THANKS FOR HANGING IN THERE!!!

putafuck!!! look at this picture... "i think we should camp out here dear... wadda you think?!?!" what kind of folks gear up and get all pumped on spending the night sleeping out on the side of the mountain?! not outside on the mountain but OUT on the SIDE of the mountain....

anyways i showed up late to work today due to the fact we had another realtor coming today and we were trying to pimp the house out like we normally do... so i was late and the higher ups couldn't find their keys, tools, parts, head out of there ass, proper oil, etc... so they tried to pressure me into feeling like i was in trouble.

"you're late." one said.

"i called this morning, no one was here, so i left a detailed message. and besides i worked late on Friday, until seven."

"that was last week and it doesn't matter anyway. i made you a list and re-prioritized your week." he said

"okay, did you order me any parts for those jobs?"

"no you will have to do that! i cant do everything for you!" the other higher up responded.

"so until the parts i need to do those jobs arrive should i continue on the schedule i put forth last week? i have those parts and it seems more efficient to me do the jobs i have parts for."

"i want you to do the jobs i have laid out for you on the list."

i order the parts and check stock on the things he has listed. takes about twenty minutes...

"so I'm outta here, guess I'll be back Wednesday, those parts wont be here till then and i don't want to do anything that's not on your list of priorities..." i say as i put my sweat shirt on and leave the office. i had no intent of going home and was planning on starting my day as normal...

"get back here! what the fuck do you think-- oh, your not leaving, yeah... get to work!"

i reply in my best Donald duck voice(of which I'm not that bad at impersonating)..."dah, okay boss."

have a nice Monday kids!!!



BTW!!!! i took a late nineties 700 series dump truck that burned in half and not only started it, drove it to its new desitination, BUT left the keys (with fairly good feelings) with the owners....

the tally?

three new passenger side tires
one new rim
one bypassed auto-slack adjuster
four pairs of vise-grips
one broken specialty tool (am bummed about that one)
thirty feet of wire
one roll of duct tape
three knuckels with freshly removed skin
one roll of doublesided plumbers tape
eight cold coors lights (gotta love my fans!)
six brass air line fittings
two brass plugs
one busted up dash board (so i could see what left of the gauges)
hmmm... there more but who cares...



this truck was parked in front of an electrical building that had forty some odd cords of oak stacked next to it... needless to say, it burned fucking hot. HOT.... it took and brand new generator (still in the box, worth about twelve thousand bucks) and made a beautiful pool of metals swilling around one another.... the truck was burnt on the entire passenger side... to the ground... the interior of the cab look like a bad ren/stimpy movie on acid..... yeahbitch, i fix anything!!!!!

cant fucking spell, but i fix all, im am the man!!!


muwahahahahhaaaa!!!!!!


I AM A GOD!!!!!




FUCKING HELL YEAH!!!



ME!!!!!



wait, hello?







isnt anybody listening?!?!? hello???





*shuffles off to find another warm beer*

fucking busy

have to go back up the mountain again today to continue trying to resurrect the burnt dump truck! hae a great friday!

so....

so rolling Jesus uphill, who i have in my blog roll as "get her a beer", is having a birthday party where everyone is supposed to show up dressed as a song lyric... she is trying to cop out and wear "pasties and g-string..." its just the same outfit she wears to work everyday... i think we should give her some more ideas!!! anybody have any interesting ideas for a lyric themed outfit!?!? "hit me with your best shot... fire away!"

office shit

we got a lot of local people here in town who do a lot of different jobs... problem is some people don't like working with/for/around some of the others. some have had problems in the past, some don't like them, what ever the reasons this shit always comes up... a landowner calls in one company to do something and the next company comes in and talks shit and fucks shit up or whatnot and blames the other company... etc...

when our company comes in to a job, we like to recommend other businesses that we've worked with and are comfortable with their work and reputation... this doesn't always work out. we are currently on a job where the is millions of dollars in revenue to be made and the caretakers have requested that we work with a small time business owner/operator here. we said no. and brought our own guys that we like to work with along for the inspection and job rundown.... so did the property caretakers.... we walked from it. right there... said no thank you, when these people fuck up your job/fuck you over, call us up and we might come back up here and do it right for you....

sure as shit, that phone call has come and gone... and we are back up on the ridge and doing the job now for the second time. this landowner has not only paid to have the job done wrong, but a failed inspection and paying us to undo his work and redo the work again will now cost this landowner up to three times the original amount....

what the fuck do you care right!?!?! what the fuck do i care either, but I'm somehow stuck in the middle... I'm friends with everyone involved... and have to hear about all of it... i know party "a" is a total fuck up. and i know he is also very cheap and has very cheap labor....

party "b" is very expensive and kind of a jack ass. but his work is good and he has a licence and permits for the work and trucks he owns...

we are the most fucking expensive way to get things done in this town. but we show up, we do the work, we are also licenced and insured. we warranty the jobs we do. we wanted to work with party "b" because we are more of an asshole than him and we can control him and the work he does... not the party "a" guy who is a hack and a bit of a loose cannon...

so what...

well i have to go to the job today and fix the tractor and have been listening about this shit all morning.... i just wish they wouldn't make this all my business.... get out of my ass already!!!

so have a nice Thursday, I'm sure i haven't said anything you already don't know yourselves...

edit: funny, the caretaker just came in to talk about some of the jobs we are doing up there and told me..."i got that case of beer you wanted to have for working on the ranch today!"

right in front of the bosses... hahahahahaha... its good to be king....

hahahahahahaaa....

oh yeah i made this weeks motor mania!!! so stoked!

morning fun!

This is 739% MORE than other websites who took this test.

i was over at old bitter balls this morning and he had a link up for this cussing meter... i guess i fucking swear alot here....

SO CHECK THIS OUT AS WELL....

Ive been checking out this photography duo recently... i don't know how/when i came across them but their images definitely are appealing to me.... they have quite a few different varieties of photographic work. from architecture to the female form... and they quote helmut newton... huh... anyways, my birthday is coming up so you should start thinking about what photos i might want and start shipping them out for September!!! hahahahahaaa.... anyways enjoy.

EDIT: this is so wtf im talking about right here... yeah man, yeah...

WHAT TO DO....

its a bit of a dilemma... some folks i know have started blogging and just like newbies to anything they are blabbing on and on about it. much as i did when i popped the internetblogcherry. it somehow worked it self out that the few local people i told lost interest and forgot all about it except for the occasional, "you blog, don't you?"... now here is were I'm having an issue. I've checked out their blogs and have enjoyed them... photo blogs and bigsur blogs and shit... i want to comment, but don't necessarily want them coming back here and blasting the voices all over biggie sur... how much shit do i talk about people and how many things would be misconstrued... gah!!

anyways, i like the relative anonymity that this has and for the people "in the know" its a nice way to communicate those feelings that i don't tend to share with them normally.... and you know how much i love pimping blogs and bloggers...

that's all for today, I'm actually outside in the yard for most of the day busting ass...

I FUCKING HATE THIS NEW GENERATION OF HIPPIES

I just got off the phone with a buddy who has been having an interesting problem. ground squirrels. they live in the state park here in town. its been closed for weeks now from the fire to the tourists.... hundreds of campsites sit empty void of life....


sort of....



during normal operation hours and year long filled to capacity occupancy this park is filled with people and ground squirrels. all whom have lost the instinct and ability to find a natural food source. with the massive amount of overcrowding and unchecked breeding these little fuckers have bred themselves into a dilemma. with no campers there is no food. no oreos, chips, hot dogs and hamburgers, no marsh mellows, no cheesypoofs..... whatever... they are starving to death...


sort of....


they are now moving into the small residential neighborhoods that exist in the park. tearing into trash cans and moving into/underneath the permanent homes there.... buddy is not allowed to shoot them, as discharging a fire arm in the state park is a felony. so after several meetings with the supervisors there he is allowed to and encouraged to trap and kill as many as possible at their residence. they have a professional exterminator consulting with the park and will be doing a park wide program as well...

whats the big fucking deal you ask?!?! a few cute and furry ground squirrels?!?!? ha, I've witnessed some of their carnage first hand. but to that later. first, they destroy everything in their paths. the undermine trees and dwellings with their burrowing. they dig holes in trails and leave debris in the wake. personal property is lost and foundations are compromised...etc... fuck em.



but wait! did you know that they are also cannibalistic?!?!?! i would not have thought so either, but as i said a moment ago, I've witnessed this myself.
buddy has set out various styles of traps for these vermin. from buckets of water lined with peanut butter, to live traps, rat traps, poison, etc..... with amazing success. twenty five in an hour i believe was last weeks record. wtf? and they keep on coming, wave after wave. they have lost their entire years garden, every flower, pepper, tomato, mint, all of it to these buggers. so its war over there...

yesterday we were hanging out at their house with them and watched him snap one in a trap minutes after it was set. dead, neck broke and skull crushed... he said "watch this shit, the other ones will eat it!". he threw it over towards the wood pile at the neighbors (fifty feet away) and seconds later this mid sized squirrel started to drag it away into the wood pile. another came out and stole it from him and then tried to drag it off itself. so we walked over there and wire tied its foot to a cement post meant to keep residents from backing into one of the many propane tanks stored there. we watched in horrific glee as one after another came and filled its belly with brains and eye balls, neck meat and innards. crows and blue jays were swarming in minutes and were actually chased off by these voracious fuckers... they yanked and pulled and fought each other for half an hour for what was left of this little bit of meat.
we broke out the binoculars to get a closer look. remember we were only fifty feet away to begin with, so with high powered scopes we could really see it all.... nothing looks more out of place than a furry little ground squirrel covered in the blood of its potential mate.... covered in it!!!

WICKED... EVIL WICKED....


anyway, why the title to this post you might ask?!?!? well on the other side of their triplex resides a sweet and innocent gal from the south. who happen to have some transient guests spending several nights on the couch. fucking rich hippies. brand new car with a "TREE HUGGER" bumper sticker on the back. along with several other typical save the fucking planet type stickers... i think it was an 940 Volvo or something....a flat of wheat grass on the back dash... anyway, we could feel their disgust and disdain for our sick enjoyment of the squirrel disembowelment.... after the three showers they took, one at more than an hour... (someone noted how long they had been in there, due to the fact that the shower window sits right above where we were sitting....)they still looked dirty in the store bought "handmade" clothing from abercrombie and bitch... yeah by children in Bangladesh asswipes.....
so yesterday, buddy gets home from a birthday party we all attended to find out someone has thrown away ALL his traps. the ones behind the garage, the tanks, in his own back yard, etc.... he digs through the neighbors dumpster (some of the live traps are not cheap mind you) and retrieves a couple of them. some seemingly purposely smeared in cat shit from the house next door. and some smeared in the fire retardant gel that remains all over the place through out the park....

I've got to say what he did next wasn't enough to me.... i would have bagged up a bunch of carcases and deposited them under the seats of these planet saving gold diggers car, but he did what he did and it was still funny.... i understand that its a tough issue. but the fact of the matter is... if people wouldn't be there in the first place these animals wouldn't have had the sustainability to overpopulate in the first place... nature and natural selection would have taken care of its self... but since there are tens of thousands of these creatures now, they need to be dealt with.... happy Sunday folks.

i havent done shit all morning....

i was reading blogs I've never been to this morning. mostly photo blogs from this guys blogroll. anyway i stumbled upon this blog here. i didn't quite get it until i read her post about ten pages in what was going on there. it freaked me the fuck out when i went back through the pages i checked out and saw what there was to see the way it really was... yeah.

in other news cheeses other dog who has been staying with us decided to go on walk about last night. two trips up and down the road and two arguments later we went to bed on either side of the mattress. hrumpf.dog was found this morning.

i just realized that with this mornings links I'm now posting alot about rubber dolls... weird. i need another cup of coffee.

i think that when I'm done fucking off at work this morning I'm going to treat my self to breakfast at deetjens. yeah, that sounds real nice to me.

WTF?

I READ THIS COMMENT ON A COMMERCIAL BLOG TODAY ABOUT THE DEBUT OF A NEW BLACK BARBIE....

"The arrogance of white people never ceases to amaze me. Are you stupid or do you just not get that you DO NOT have a say so in what WE, African Americans, can call ourselves. You don't own us, you really don't give a sh*t about us, just here slummin' on a black blog. Mind your own business. Bet your silly ass would NOT stand toe to toe with any African Ameican and spew that sh*t."

wtf? is the ignorant one the doll maker, the sorority or the commenter... you decide.... i just noticed their wonderful spelling in their comment too... (Ameican...)

three pics.

THESE CAME OUT BACKWARDS, OH WELL... this is a dc-10 that bombed the ridge on the other side of the canyon from us.... imagine a passenger jet flying at eye level... that's not fire retardant... those are the ground up bits of the people who didn't pay for first class tickets...
this picture is of a twenty thousand dollar mistake... they dropped the stuff on the wrong side of the mountain....

this is a pic of some of our group that were having a couple of beers and showing some appreciation to the pilots who were bombing... that's all i found on the net to steal from my friends... anyway... yeah, that's us, that's how close they were and how much fun we managed to have during all that.

is it real or is it memorex?

IT TOOK ME ALMOST AN HOUR TO BROWSE AND RE COMMENT ON FOLKS BLOGS THIS MORNING!!! sheesh, the things i get paid to do....
things are back to stress level high here this morning and wtf? i don't miss this shit. we have all three office ladies in the house trying to catch up on the missed work, wrongly posted data and new computer hook-ups and Internet... hahahaaa....
i finishing the exhaust install on the crane and should have the bugs worked out of that by Thursday afternoon! we will see what we will see when we see it i suppose....
so i don't know if everyone got the joke from last night, but cheese is not pregnant... so don't start sending me baby shit and formula... whew... if we did ever have a kid though id want to name it Chaos... i think that would be a bitchin name and quite fitting. cheese does not agree. no one agrees with me on that one... Chaos, fuck yeah! "there goes zacks kid, what Chaos..."


what do you think?

SO FAR BEHIND

I HAVENT POSTED SHIT IN SO FUCKING LONG!!! WTF!!! im used to cranking out mulitiple posts in a day even! with fun pictures and jerk off thoughts about the world and people around me. i started reading back through this months "work" and how lame am i!!!


oh no the fire!
oh woah is me im tired and spent!!!
oh my ass wont stop running like a garden hose!
what ever will we do...



grow some balls asshole, where is the voices when hes needed eh?

so besides all the shit ive been bitching about theres more! can you believe it? hahahahaaaa, just fucking with ya'll!!! im finally back on the drinking and cant wait to start over doing it daily once again, i spent the weekend on the couch. literaly, you could hear my stomach fucking growling from across the room! i wallowed in it. i relished in the fact that i watched three asain movies with subtitiles AND the special fetures also in subtitiles on saturday. sunday i was even a bigger piece of shit and watched the worst videos in my collection on purpose... just to prove to my self how wicked lame and useless i had become...( i was in serious pain and hadnt eaten anything but yogurt in three days, but that is of no matter any more!!!)
i used to embrace the pain! love the misery! enjoy depression and all the good alcohol that came along with being a loser....


where did i go wrong?!?!



so now im back and ready to move forward and start sneaking in some blog time at work again and accually answer some of my bitchin fucking comments!!! you guys rock, but there is nothing sweeter than commentsie backsies!!! so as mj said a post or two ago, hmmm. well fuck...it been so long now i cant remember.... some thing about a zack attack, i'll re-up my commitment to you all and have a post a day this week with the aforementioned commentsies backsies and try to liven things back up around here... yeah...

new news you ask??? well cheese is pregnant with my child......








fucking got you with that one didnt i? hahahahahaaa....
we have mice in the kitchen as of late, sucks yeah, but we are killing them one at a time... they seem to like one trap in particular and go kamakazi on that shit every other night last week. we have cheeses old dog with us since the evac and have been rehabing this guy before we return him home... the lawn we put in is holding and doing well for the lack of attention we give it. we now also have nine foot tall tomato plants!!! no seriously! real tomato plants, not the OTHER tomato plants... remember those were called JAPANESE MAPLE TREES, sheeseh....we are slowly moving all our shit back in, and reloading all the fire arms and placing them behind doors and under pillows, next to the couch, back pocket, freezer, dresser drawer etc... like every good american should do right????

well i aint gonna bitch about the speel check shit, as you know at this hour im on the macdialupshit...so evening to you all and let the voices back in!!!!

YEAH, NORMAL.

so... computers are back up and almost operational. i am gonna have to de fucking bug this thing again. it wont let me load the pictures i want... anyway... its way after work and they were asking me to try the new faster Internet shit, so here i am writing a lame post. thanks for all being so patient with me and writing all kinds of nice things. I'll be back to normal postings soon and yes there will be more that assholish self here to share... (i know you all were getting sick of the woah is fucking me routine anyway... so yeah, this is what i have....

The days go wizzing by and as happy as i am to get back to work today the more nervouse i am about leaving my house. first day back and big sur is indeed a moon scape. its wild and the real fun will be this winter when the rain starts. these now unprotected hillsides will hammer down into the yalleys and unleash a torrent of rocks and mud... where will the government be then... the news crews...

i would post some links to some pages in the papers that have been of interest for me and all in big sur.. but its a mac top and as usuall im not mac savy.. one was written by cheeses mom in the herald. several were about the boys on apple pie ridge and another was on cnn.com..

anyways, im fucking beat and we still can see flames from our road and our house when the smoke blows in another direction than right over us. we have been working our asses off and taking days off inbetween. the other day we had a bit of a bbq and folks from our neighborhood all came up and swam in our pool, hung out on the grass naked and brought their kids, supplies, good vibes etc... i installed my pop up shade out on the point and folks have been watching the air show and flames at night. we had one of the biggest bombers helping out our fire brigade do their backburn and retardent. it was a dc-10, imagine a passenger jet flying by at eye level and dumping a quarter mile of bright red shit every where!!!

other things float around in our heads, how will the chemicals they are using affect our water, what kind of animals will be lurking around up here now... what will our creek do where we get our water... how will our road fare after all this fire clearance..etc. etc...

my landlord came up and helped for several days and gave me his chainsaw to keep for all my hard work. also knocked some rent off for the month, sweet! we have also been drinking non stop, our house guests for the last week, who were evaced from their homes, left this morning and even though its nice to have a slightly more empty, we miss them. the drinking will have to resume some time later, ive picked up that wonderful little anal themed bug and have been running to the bathroom to fart every hour on the hour it seems...

i wish i could post some of the wicked pics we have taken, but in the following weeks i hope to do some of that. our office is almost empty and operating at bare bones at the moment. the ladies have set up a temporary station in town at our number two guys house. i havent mentioned many specifcs here as im not wanting everyone and the fucking mom googleing shit about the fire and landing up here... but you all get the picture! have a great evening and as always i miss you all and love your comments....

NEWS?

GENERALLY IN MY LIFE NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS... the winds seem to be in our favor today and i believe they have started a back burn this morning a canyon away from us, so thats seems to be more good news... big sur is a fucking mess... the sherriffs have declared a sort of marshall law there and are arresting people on site... ??? the chp have been a bit more helpful and not as harsh. some people seem to be able to get supplies in and move around a bit while others are not being able to leave their properties for a split second... there are so many people in charge its like a cock fight. some members from our local fire crew have bee reported awol with equipment, fighting fires on their own ridges and homes i imagine. one land owner (where denim lives) lit his own back fire and they have been fighting it on the front lines of their own property for a couple of days now.. the sherriffs might try and make an example of him by arresting hime for felony arson when this is all over... wtf? others that have been evac'ed have had no contact with their loved ones who have stayed.... this is a painfull time for all. we are doing better than most, not as well as some but not in any danger as of yet... i should be able to get back here a little more often... i hope... be safe all and remember to wear your condoms!!!