Loss, More Tales From Ready Labor
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Hello kids. Pretty tired today because I was up at 3:30AM to goto Ready Labor to try to make some paper. Not much of any real interest to report from the last day or so. Springfield is not a very nice town, for being the capital of the state. Have not got around to visiting the 'tourist traps' or Lincoln Tomb yet. May take tomorrow to go around town and take pictures of the city and its sites. Do not think I will be staying here as long as I planned at first. Not much day labor opportunity here. May move on to St. Louis after x-mas.

The most noteworthy thing to happen to me is a sad tale. Last night when arriving back at the Salvation Army emergency shelter, one of the residents was greeted with earth shattering, life altering bad news. The mother of his two children, and both kids where killed in a car accident on Monday. He is the man in the background of the picture in the tan shirt. I do not know much about his story, or situation. He seems to be a kind man, who will now carry a deep sadness in his eyes like a heavy chain of despair. I noticed several people try to tell him they knew how he felt. That seemed a bit offensive to me. Unless you had lost your family in such a manner how could you possibly be able to grasp the depths of his loss? I just told him that I would keep him in my thoughts and offered to let him use Blackie to call family or anyone else he needed to get in touch with. It was heartwarming to see everyone trying their best to comfort him in what ways they can. I have noticed that the Homeless tend to be a tight net community that really does their best to support each other. The weight of his loss hangs on me like a shadow of gloom.

I have a very love hate relationship with Labor Ready. They are all over this mighty, nation we worked so hard to steal from the Native Americans. That means I'll always be able to have a source of income as long as I'm in any decent size town. Also I find it great that you never know what the next assignment will be. You could be shoveling a sidewalk of snow one day, washing dishes the next, and doing factory work the following. However I feel that temporary agencies like them and Manpower are bad for the American worker in the long run. In fact the way they do business reminds me a bit of organized crime. Sure they put people to work, but in return they take a good size cut of whatever you make. It stinks of a pay to play or protection racketeering scheme, to a big pro labor guy like myself. The Labor Ready here in Springfield seems to not have nearly as many 'contracts' as the one I worked for in Bloomington. I've went three days so far and only been able to get work on one of them. Today I was just about ready to give up for the day when a job came in for me. I was sent to a medical office building to unload and move some items. However when I got there it had already been done. The good news is they still paid me for four hours of labor. Not often you get free money :) Took some of my day labor booty and did a much needed load of laundry.

Updates will be slow over the holidays as I'll have a hard time finding a PC to use. Hopefully I can get out of Springfield in early January. I have a kid who claims to be a Vampire who is willing to do a video interview with me. Should make for some worthwhile viewing. Hopefully I can get that taken care of tomorrow.

"Go then there are other worlds then these" - Jake Chambers

I'm reading Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' Good reading material for any hobo. Why not donate a few bucks to my paypal to help me buy a small travel version of the book?





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