PLANNING TECORE VIII - April 12th-14th

[NC_IslandRunner]

Mike/JorDanee, it'll be great to meet you guys and see the truck in person! Rory is a good fella, you'll like him. That should take the edge off a 13 hour ride.

I wish Cody was coming with Moots and I, we're gonna have to leave at 2 am. It'll be alright though. It's getting close and I can't wait. I need a few days away from this city.

James was crazy riding up through there at night... and lets not forget his rush to "catch the train" when we were leaving lol.

Getting excited, can't wait!

I just changed jobs so asking for personal or sick time would have been inappropriate by my own standards. Only down fall of this job is I never know if I have a full weekend off till Friday afternoon, and I only get to request vacation in the fall. Perhaps this fall I'll be able to swing it and can take a personal day and sick day if I need to. Lately I've been having to work Sundays, and even this Easter I have to head up to Maine. Oh well, I'll get together with everyone soon.

The key is not to just ask off, tell them it was planned months before you started.

[JorDaneeKey]

The key is not to just ask off, tell them it was planned months before you started.

This is true! Who do you work for?

[Trail X]

Any idea what the weather should be like up there during TECORE?

Its always about 20 degrees colder on the mountains. Plan for a 0 degree windy night. Days could be pleasant with an ocaisional 60 degree peak, but I highly doubt 70 in the mountains unless we hit some odd warm spell. For instance, I'm bringing my ski pants and ski coat as backups, in-case it gets really cold. Be sure that your cold gear is wind proof, as that's one of the biggest issues up there. It can get windy - especially on Friday night.

[NC_IslandRunner]

The key is not to just ask off, tell them it was planned months before you started.

This is true! Who do you work for?

A r c l i n, we make industrial resins.

[v7guy]

Another question. What's the food setup? Everyone on their own or do we all chip in and make a group chow line?

And does anyone know why the bearmanpig molested James' TB last time? Hope to avoid that situation.....

I'll look for the hotdogs and being em on down for you guys.

and yeah, it was a Bigfoot, and that bear didn't help matters either. Crazy shit happens in the mountains.

[NC_IslandRunner]

Bigfoot in a fight with a bear and the bear got thrown onto James windshield.

[JorDaneeKey]

The key is not to just ask off, tell them it was planned months before you started.

This is true! Who do you work for?

A r c l i n, we make industrial resins.

Sorry, I meant Opeth.

[JorDaneeKey]

Any idea what the weather should be like up there during TECORE?

Its always about 20 degrees colder on the mountains. Plan for a 0 degree windy night. Days could be pleasant with an ocaisional 60 degree peak, but I highly doubt 70 in the mountains unless we hit some odd warm spell. For instance, I'm bringing my ski pants and ski coat as backups, in-case it gets really cold. Be sure that your cold gear is wind proof, as that's one of the biggest issues up there. It can get windy - especially on Friday night.

Hmm, guess I better buy a real coat then.

[dvanbramer88]

Another question. What's the food setup? Everyone on their own or do we all chip in and make a group chow line?

And does anyone know why the bearmanpig molested James' TB last time? Hope to avoid that situation.....

It was definatly the bag of Hostess powdered doughnuts James had.

I was going to bring along a few manly treats (chocolate covered bacon for one) to share, but potlucks are always a blast. Can someone from NY/NJ bring some Hoffman hotdogs?!?!? Don't worry bout sharing with anyone but me.

I'm bringing enough porkroll for the whole class. Ever have that? I believe Rory and MDB had porkroll for their first time last TECORE.

[Opeth]

The key is not to just ask off, tell them it was planned months before you started.

This is true! Who do you work for?

I worked for DOT FOODS up till December of last year working in the warehouse and then transferred over to DOT Transportation which is the same company, but now I drive for them. ( Its literally more than doubling my old income) I carried all my benefits over with me and took a week of vacation last week too. If we take vacation January - March they pay us an extra $200/ week and couldn't really pass up free cash.

I have the benefit time available but I don't want to start off on the wrong foot with my dispatchers, they could make my life hell and so far I'm on their good side.

[JorDaneeKey]

The key is not to just ask off, tell them it was planned months before you started.

This is true! Who do you work for?

I worked for DOT FOODS up till December of last year working in the warehouse and then transferred over to DOT Transportation which is the same company, but now I drive for them. ( Its literally more than doubling my old income) I carried all my benefits over with me and took a week of vacation last week too. If we take vacation January - March they pay us an extra $200/ week and couldn't really pass up free cash.

I have the benefit time available but I don't want to start off on the wrong foot with my dispatchers, they could make my life hell and so far I'm on their good side.

Good for you! That's a pretty decent company to work for, and they're definitely not going to lose business. I wouldn't want to jeopardize a great job like that in the Syracuse area, that's for sure!

[onelow1ton]

Well it saddens me to have to back out but , especially with my truck almost done but work just sammed me with tons of OT so I'm not going to have time to finish up the minor details on my truck and test it before this trip hopefuly ill catch a summer or fall run with you guys though

Definite:

NC_IslandRunner(Rory)
v7guy (Jason) + (James-never been offroad)
Moots1288(Matt)
JamesDowning(James)
dirty anton(Mike)
JorDaneeKey(JorDanee) +1 mikekey(Mike)
dvanbramer88(Dave) + 1
TheVoy(Kevin)
bartonmd(Mike) + Regulator (Matt)

Maybe:

JCrayton99(John)
steveroche(Steve)
darring70(Darring)

[dvanbramer88]

Just realized how many Mikes will be on this trip....

[bartonmd]

Just realized how many Mikes will be on this trip....

You shut your whore mouth!

[JCrayton99]

I am still not going. And Steve no longer has a tb so he's a no as well.

[dvanbramer88]

Definite:

NC_IslandRunner(Rory)
v7guy (Jason) + (James-never been offroad)
Moots1288(Matt)
JamesDowning(James)
dirty anton(Mike)
JorDaneeKey(JorDanee) +1 mikekey(Mike)
dvanbramer88(Dave) + 1
TheVoy(Kevin)
bartonmd(Mike) + Regulator (Matt)

Maybe:
darring70(Darring)

Just waiting on Darring! After talking to him a bit after the past few days, I know he is really trying to make this.

[JorDaneeKey]

Is it time yet? I'm getting bored with all these palm trees, beaches, and flat lands as far as you can see......I need me some mountain air!

[dvanbramer88]

8 days for the Indiana guys and the Keys leaving on thursday night. 9 days for everyone else.

[v7guy]

That's not much time to do all the stupid shit I leave till the last possible minute to do. This makes me happy though.

[mikekey]

You got like 9 whole days dude. Plenty of time to do stuff.