You can't drink beer from a gold watch...

Sunday, I received a longevity award for putting 6000 hours in at Unitrans.

6000 hours is 8.5 months of straight 24 hour days.

It's also just over 3 years working full time (40 hours a week).

6000 hours @ $8.75 -my base driving wage in 2006, without any longevity increases, and not including any of the other supervisory positions- is about $52,500 (most likely it's closer to 60k, and I don't know where it all went)

It's also about 1/10th of all my life since coming to Davis,

10% of all my time since Fall, 2002; eating, sleeping, playing with the band, goofing off, going to class... 10% is on the books at Unitrans.

To recognize this, they gave me a 6 pint pitcher with a Uni Logo on it.

Cheers!