31 Jan 2009

Yep you read that right. I knew it was going to be a close thing when a notice was put up Thursday afternoon that said the plant was going to go to 4 day week starting next week.

Then rumors were going around that the company was going to move some people from one plant to ours. Turns out it was true. They moved four people from the other plant to ours and laid-off seven in our plant. I was the second highest in seniority.

The absolute bitch of it is I had passed my 2 year anniversary back on the 15^th of January and I got my 10 days of vacation. Now 15 days later they lay me off and I lost all of it. Even if they call me back I have to start all over again.

The second bitch is that M and I both had taken the concealed handgun carry permit class this week and I bought a .38 Special revolver Thursday night along with a few boxes of ammo. So we have spent nearly $400 in classes, a gun, ammo and now to get the permit it will cost $115.

But tomorrow I’m headed out to the pistol range and I’m going to blast the shit outta some stuff. I’m going to go to the store and get a case of cheap ammo. I can get 50 rounds of the cheap stuff for the same price as 20 rounds of high end hollow points. Then my Minister, who helped out with the handgun class, has a set up in his basement to do hand loads. This is when you take the empty brass and re-load it. It’s a lot cheaper to do that than buy new. The 20 count box of hollow points cost $25 and I can re-load them for about $5.

The guy who taught the class is also in my church and he even casts his own hollow point bullets. So I can buy those off of him for even cheaper than buying them from a store.

Believe it or not, out of the 26 people in the handgun carry class, fully 23 of them were from my church! I really don’t think that some madman will ever think about coming to our church and surviving it! Nearly half the church will be packing heat!

In other news, M had to go up to Michigan on Thursday because her last Grandma passed away Tuesday morning. The funeral was today (er, Friday) so I’m home alone and feeling bad, and she’s up in Michigan feeling bad too. For both her loss and mine.

So wish me luck in finding a job. I already have a lead on something, but it will be a big step down I think, both in pay and working conditions. We’ll just have to see. I still haven’t heard from the Army about the job I applied for a few weeks ago, so I still have my hopes up for that one also. That would be a good job to have. And if it all goes to hell, I could always go and get my CDL back and go back to driving truck. Not exactly tickled about that idea ‘cause it could very well destroy my marriage if I went back running the roads for weeks at a time. It was really rough on us the last time, but we knew it was necessary to do it.

I’m Alive… So Far…