Just another day!

We ended work late the other night, they poured concrete until we could not see anymore. It is wierd, they take forever to get shit done but once they set their minds to getting something done. They do it, in crazy ways too. The people here don't have all the nice tools and equipment here. If they do, most don't know how to us them properly. Electric drills - uhm, more like hand drills. Want to make a hole in a piece of plywood - drill a hole and use a hach saw blade to make the hole. Digging, they take as much off with the loader and then the rest by hand. Like I said they don't know how to work equipment. It takes time and effort, but it gets done. I am trying to let my NY pace not get the best of me. I would have thought Colorado would have slowed me down a little. Or wait maybe it's my Colorado pace is too fast. Either or, I am trying.

So, alot of crap has been going down from the other jub sites about the health and safety. So I had to push it here. We are trying to get them to wear safety boot (steel toe) and hard hats. Well, that would be over a weeks pay for these guys who are living below poverty here. The contractor wont buy for a lot of them, so he laid off like close to 20 temp. guys. I didn't think of that happening at all. I was just worried about the job. Sucks, because that was money they needed. I mean really needed. The people who work here have to support them thier family and then there whole family (mother, father, sisters, brother, aunts, and uncles). So the money goes along way. I found this our from a really nice gentleman that works at the job site. The regulars are pretty much nice to me. They call Mr. Patrick, besides some other names I am sure, but that is work. Well, at least no one got hurt because they couldn't afford health care (the only way I can look at it).

So back to leaving late after work. So I drive (well Mr. James drives) down the usual route and it is dark out. Now during the day, there is all kinds of people and delivery trucks doing the usual daily business. People walking to and form, school childern walk to/from school in their lime greenish uniforms - they don't look that bad, but close. Workers putting in a sewer or water line under a road by hand and machine - this took close to over four weeks. Get the picture. At night, even more people and the place is a live like I would have never thought. I drove past and was like "I want to get out and walk around and be a part of this". The bars, which I never seen during the day, were lit up and people playing pool and having fun. People walking around ready to get into the action. Little roadside food stand and I mean roadside. A lady, they are usually women, bring some sort of table and a grill and cook on the side of the road. Fires blazing and all. Little stands selling all kinds of stuff. It was pretty cool. A totally different look of the same old crappy road I go down twice a day.

Well, the rumor is that I am stuck here for an extra week. I hope to leave March 1st now and then hit Amsterdam for a week with my buddy. Then home, home sweet home to see my girls and Ro.