Saturday, June 04, 2005

I Would Pull Five Hundred Miles...

Hmmm. Current Mood, slightly frustrated.
I realize that a blog with no postings is pretty boring so here is something to keep you entertained. The other day at work we were unloading spools of wire into one of our box trucks for storage. There were several pallet loads, so out of curiousity I started counting how many rolls of wire we had in the truck. I just counted one of the piles (we were separating them neatly so we would have easy access later on) and we had fifty 1000 foot spools. Using this as an average I figured that we had over thirty miles of wire on the site. Not that much you say? Enough to lay out end to end and cover from Chestnut Hill to Fairwood. Also I don't think the average single family house uses hardly any more than a mile if even that. So then I started thinking about the cost. I saw at Home Depot that the cheapest most common wire gauge sold at 78 cents per foot with a few of the types of wire selling for several dollars per foot. If only I had had the keys,hehehe. I did get a couple of company t'shirts though so that more than made up for it. I guess I'll just make my money the good old fashioned way, scamming people out of their hard earned dollars

15 Comments:

At 8:41 PM, June 04, 2005, Blogger Booker said...

Hmm, wear some company clothes or steal some wire and get rich quick? Tough choice, ne?

 
At 5:43 AM, June 07, 2005, Blogger Kate said...

Wesley!!!!! Had no idea you had a blog. I saw your comments a few times, finally decided that it must be somebody I knew and came to investigate. Yay!

 
At 4:35 PM, June 07, 2005, Blogger Booker said...

I am guessing no one got the whole 500miles thing. Tho, I still say it comes to 1000 miles...

 
At 5:47 PM, June 07, 2005, Blogger Linds said...

Wes - loved the title & immediately got the song stuck in my head.
DJ - you are wrong & you KNOW it. You must needs listen to the song again with an OPEN heart or just give up... That's an order from the Popette! And everyone who was there that night is on my side :)
(This whole Popette thing is pretty cool - if only people would listen to me...)

 
At 6:03 PM, June 07, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I underestimate your sneakiness! Apparently one has to check Derrick's boring listofblogs blog every day to be informed about the latest victims of the blogdom craze. Glad you're on board! (and still glad I'm not!)

You are truly an electrician, Wes. I'm pretty sure it would never occur to me in a million years to think about the length, cost, blackmarket value or otherwise of spools of wire. More power to you :)

 
At 8:53 PM, June 07, 2005, Blogger drewey fern said...

I definitely got the 500 miles thing and thought it was quite clever... and accurate!

 
At 10:01 PM, June 07, 2005, Blogger drewey fern said...

1000 indeed.

 
At 4:00 AM, June 08, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Of course I get the five hundred miles thing! ;0)

 
At 4:59 PM, June 08, 2005, Blogger Booker said...

This is your blog Wes, so I wont say anything about cowards and anonymous and such. I know u like them. hehehehehee....

 
At 7:56 AM, June 09, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

for a young man, i hope you are, and nto a freak, your job thought life must really rock when your into spooling it aftr work hours, of course pumping spools of wires will help your pecturals/biceps and make the yl,s swoon, and keep them asking for forbiddenliquid refreashment, so you can do a reject. chiao

 
At 2:11 PM, June 09, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Okay, Derrick: I'm Anonymous. Your high school lunchtime entertainment was picking a fight with me, but it hardly ever worked.

 
At 3:22 PM, June 09, 2005, Blogger Booker said...

I'm anonymous too!!! Whoohooo...

 
At 8:30 AM, June 11, 2005, Blogger Kate said...

Derrick Robin Jones,
I only heard said song about THREE times, so I have absolutely no opinion on the intended distance. I was merely commenting to Wesley that I recognized his literary allusion. You are STILL picking fights for entertainment, and I am still anonymous! :o)

 
At 8:32 AM, June 11, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

*blush....forgot about the automatic thingy that identifies me. But I'm not Katie, really I'm not. I'm her mild-mannered older sister.

 
At 10:05 AM, June 11, 2005, Blogger Booker said...

Stirring things up is good. Gets lots of traffic on the comments side. So really, I am doing this for wesley! Aren't I so unselfish, trying to get more traffic for my brother? I am so NICE....

 

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