Railroad

I am a freight conductor on the Union Pacific Railroad. I go from Rawlins to Green River every day. I was talking to a guy at the hardware store the other day who wondered why my job even existed. He assumed the train ran itself and there was no work to be done. He was smug and I wanted to smack him. The engineer is like the pilot of a plane, and I'm like the co-pilot. He runs the train and I do everything else.

Every once in a while the train's air brake system will break and It's my job to get it fixed and get the train moving again. This usually entails a 2 or 3 mile walk no matter if it's hot and sunny or cold and snowy. sometimes I'll be in between trains as they move by. I've almost been run over several times. That's scary, especially when the other train is going 60 or 70 miles per hour.

I could relate some stories where I am not sure how i survived but my wife will probably read this.

Working on the railroad also means memorizing hundreds of rules. Most of them I use every day. If you don't follow these rules and you get caught, you could get fired.

I love my job. I'm gone a little too much from home, but it's a job.

my blog

I am now a blogger. I don't have anything to blog about, but here it is, my blog. I was jealous that my wife had a blog that everyone read, but now I have my own. Da** if I know how to blog or what to put in my blog. I guess I will just go along and reinvent the blogging phenomenon for myself, thereby alienating my friends and making myself look like a boo*. Can you say the words "da**" and "boo*" on a blog? Are they going to take my blog away from me? I will try not to think about that. This is the first blog I have ever had, so please don't laugh at me and negatively blog about my blog to other bloggers.

I've heard of other people flaming other people's blogs and demonstrating their discontent with those blogs. Please don't flame me or make fun of my ill attempt at blogging.

Now that we have gotten that out of the way, I would like to talk about...

Oh heck. I'll think of something later.