It’s turnaround time. We started heavy overtime this week. I arrive at 3AM and leave at 6PM, that’s the way it will be for the next 3 to 4 weeks.
In my craft it’s feast or famine much like a sharecropper… make the money all at once or don’t make it at all.
The refinery I’m working this time is quite unique, we make an extremely high grade of diesel from McDonald’s french fry oil. Our “feed stock” is truly food not crude… lol. Most of the fuel products in the world are refined from crude oil, ours here at Diamond Green Diesel is a byproduct of the best french fries on the market. As you can imagine, this plant smells much different than most refineries.
This part of Louisiana is a unique place. LaPlace and Norco are just West of New Orleans along the Southwest shore of lake Pontchartrain. The culture is as diverse in this area as any European enclave, New Orleans being the dominant cultural center in this part of the world, our native sons range from Fats Domino and Louis Armstrong, to the Swamp People discovered by TV land a few years back. I guess civilized America finds hunting alligators and living along the swamps and rivers of Acadia amazing on some level. The thing is… Troy Landry and Shelby the swamp man are just real people doing what we do here in the deep south.
I was talking with the lead refinery operator this morning and come to find out, Shelby is his cousin…. he said if I wanted to get on the pirate ship Shelby lives on let him know… lol. I think I might! My family knows the Landry’s, while I guess they are unique in some ways because Hollywood picked them to represent the local lifestyle, I see people walking in the grocery store that could been the same magnitude star as anything you see on reality TV.
I enjoy this area… not too many free handout / gimme grabbing Democrats around here.. most people actually earn their own living and are proud of it. Self sufficiency is a deeply seated, time honored tradition in “these parts”. Maybe that integrity is what’s missing in America. Honor and self reliance is a rare commodity around the inner city porch dwellers the “give me” politics helped create. I mean think about it… as long as Jessie Jackson and that Sharpton idiot can maintain a division to squeal about.. the longer they have a job. Much like the political parties we have in America today.. as long as one can make the other look stupid.. the more power they have regardless of how it effects the American people. I guess you can tell where my “political” (for the lack of a better word) boots are.
Hey, I’ve got an idea, lets tax everybody half their wages.. (but only the ones that work of course) then “give” them part of it back (the part we can’t steal) and get re-elected by telling the dummies that don’t work we will send their kids to college “for FREE” Hell of a deal. Wish I had thought of that…. As you can tell I HATE politics and politicians. Donald Trump may be the Anti-Christ.. he might be… but if he will go to Washington and clean house I’ll vote for him. Lots of people say he is un-electable… lol… OK, look who the american people sent to Washington last time. During the gulf wars did you ever think America would elect a guy named Barrack Hussein Obama? OK, then add oh yeah, he’s a black man with questionable ancestry. NO way! right? point made.
What America needs is statesmen not power hungry lawyers that get “made” by lying his way into the ultimate golden parachute of power. I know how to solve this.. I know how to delete political cronyism – favor for favor politics. It’s easy, we don’t have to send a representative to vote for us these days.. we could manage our whole government on facebook. Why pay those idiots to play power games in Washington? In a single minute everybody could push the button and elect his enabler. Notice I didn’t say leader. What we need is somebody to do real research, find out what America needs as a nation, present it well to the public and lets vote on it. NO AGENDAS!
Yeah I know.. that makes too much sense so it will never happen. Hmmmm maybe we do need to send a non-politico to Washington… Trumps the closest thing to an advocate we may have to dance down those halls. I’m so disgusted with politics it makes my skin crawl.. fire em all and hire us some good analysts and honest reporters… man would that be a change huh? How much do you pay politicians out of your wages? We could get by on 1/4 of that if all we did was pay for the federal work of building infrastructure and armies. OH, wait.. you don’t work? OK…. that’s why you want to keep the Democrats in power so they can rob from those that do work, steal all they can steal for their self serving motives…. then give you some of my crumbs so you can sit on your butt and cry about “economic equality”. Awesome idea. Is that the American dream? We are a country guided by self serving power mongers.
Where’s my boat…. I’m leaving… lol.
I’m through ranting now…. I’m really not an activist or somebody that is willing to actually stop what I’m doing to make a difference…. the silent majority… I’ll shut up and keep polishing Sharpton’s chair at the white house. What an idiot. What people do for power………….