If it Flies, it Dies: As a crane operator, we sometimes leave our cranes on the jobsites for weeks. Then every day we report to the job site. If the job is more than 50 miles from our yard, we get $65 a day subsistance. If it's 49.9 miles we get nothing, and have to drive on our own time. Now if the job was in the direction I live. I wouldn't complain. But of course it never is. And on days like the last two, for noise reasons. We can't start till 8 A.M. and work till 4:30 P.M.. This put me in the heaviest traffic. The job is only 35 miles form my house. And it takes 2 1/2 hours each way. I never get my truck out of second gear, and the traffic is stop and go the entire way. I'm so tired of California, and Los Angeles County. The deep dark woods sounds great.<P>Phil
