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Stop Harper
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1999
Discovered on the corner of Ogden and (...74th?)...a modified Calgary Traffic Sign.
Work Gloves
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1907
A pair of my work gloves, dollar store gloves and separate liners, worn from first break to lunch. New at first break, condition as pictured by lunch.
The Labyrinth of the Minotaur
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1803
Beneath decks, wandering, to ascend the scaffolding in the stair or elevator shafts, to wind up or lay extension cords, in pursuit of a hundred mislaid tools...
The Deck, pours 1, 2 and 3 complete, hoarding still up for the next, there are endless pours scheduled, and one is sometimes called to venture beneath the deck on various errands, run power, tarp shafts, check upon pumps, find an endless variety of misplaced tools...
It's a labyrinth. There are the rows of scaffolds, joists, beams, pillars, the countless 2 X 4's to trip you up, the piles of forgotten rebar, the Stygian gloom, even the safety inspectors won't venture here, there are the countless tripping hazards, the crashing of loads above decks, the coming upon huddled groups of Filipinos and Mexicans pale with cement dust crowded about the wobble lights, here to escape the and cold sop up the heat from the propane heaters...the landscape of dreams...
Wandering around construction site, aimless
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
- Hits: 1775
(Overtired, day off today. 8 hours broken up by repetitions of the same dream...not quite a nightmare, but not a pleasure either)
Awoke several times in the night, always the same dream, wandering around the construction site, always dark, evening or early morning, beneath the scaffolding, stepping over two by fours, rebar, countless obstacles and hazards, wandering the site, lost, in the dead of night. Awake, try and shake dream, fall asleep, it repeats...
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