A Janitors Day

  Like I already said, I am a Janitor at a factory. Even though that's the case, I rarely clean toilets. In fact, I'm more of a grounds keeper because my primary job is to mow and take care of the outside of the building.
  There are three Janitor positions where I work. One person takes care of the restrooms and empties the trash cans throughout the building. At last count there were over thirty cans. It takes all day and it stinks to high heaven! The next man drives a floor scrubber. It's his job to keep the floor clean in the entire building and to maintain the scrubber. The last one is my job, grounds keeper. I do a lot more than that though. I fill propane tanks, clean the cafeteria, sweep the parking lot, etc.
  I've worked there for 30 years. I have only been a janitor for the past three years. I worked production just like the other 400 people there.I love my job as a janitor! I get to spent most of my work day outside.
  I have two good supervisors. I say good because I rarely see them. They pretty much leave the janitors alone as long as no one complains about the restrooms or the cafeteria being dirty.
  My day starts with filling up propane tanks for the fork trucks. Sometimes I fill up 15, sometimes it's 32. It all depends on  how many jobs were running on the prior shifts. That takes around an hour. Then I clean the cafeteria. That takes another hour. By then it's first break. After break I start my mowing at around 9:30. I mow all day for two days straight. Then on the third day I start the weed- eating. It takes two days to do all the weeding. By Friday I have time to spray weed killer and pick up trash outside. This is a typical week for me in the summer month's. That's not accounting for rainy days which throw me behind.

Introductions and stuff...

  Hey Y'all! My name is Jerry and I am a Janitor. I live and work in East Tennessee at a big old stinking factory. I've been married for 30 years and my wife Vicki and I have two grown boys. They both are still living at home and sucking all the wi-fi out of the house.
   I've been thinking about doing a blog for a long time and just decided to get busy with it! I've tried to write a few times and have a computer full of half written books that will probably end up dying with the hard drive. I want to write a blog about my daily life at home and at work. I meet a lot of interesting people and I love to listen to their stories. I hope I will be able to record and share a few of those with you in the near future. Here's an example of just such a stories a guy named Johnny told us men at the lunch table today...
  "I had an old stubborn bull one time that was always getting out. I got a call one night from a neighbor that he was in his pasture after a hot heifer he had. I went and got him back home and put a ring in his nose. He hated that, boy! He shook his head and snored something awful! Then I took a rope and tied it to the ring and the other end to a mule. I figured that would take care of things. I got a call the next morning from the same man saying he had my bull and a mule in his pasture." I hear stuff like that everyday and if I don't tell you about it, how are you going to hear it?
  I don't just want to share funny stuff I also want to tell about some of the little things I've did over time to make my life better. I'm serious, I know you're thinking, oh no! I want to talk about how I got out of debt and how I turned my health around by changing my diet. Just stuff like that. You might find some of it inspiring and helpful.