It feels like its time for an update.
Well, of course, the world has gone all topsy turvy with the new administration in America taking a wrecking ball to the status quo on all fronts internal and international alike... And Canada seems to be one of their particular international targets at present, so things are pretty interesting here at the moment.
Ill leave the political stuff out of it though and get down to my world...
On the work front, things have continued to not go well for my employer now that the covid-demand peak has gone and its stayed bad so long now that the company couldnt hide from taking action any longer and they did a "reduction in force"and fired about 10% of the employees... but it didnt include me!.
Im not quite sure how I feel about that though, Id certainly have been happy taking a package (though it would have been small), working on my truck project here in Canada for the summer and then heading off on another big tour for the winter for a year or so and then deciding if I was fully retired at that point or wanted to get another job again. But, as described above, times are vey uncertain and now is probably not the right time to walk away from a well paying job.
So, it is what it is and Im still employed and being payed, so Ill take it as it is and Ill work through to the end of the summer at least and work on my truck project on the weekends... I still may head off at the end of the year to the south (if America is still letting us Canadians across the boarder by then??)
How about the truck status?
Well its been a typical Vancouver winter here with fairly mild temperatures, not much snow, but lots of rain most of the time. As such, Ive bee virtually unable to do anything on the truck for months.
So, Ive spent the past six months internet shopping and accumulating vast amounts of bits and pieces for the truck and pilling them up throughout my house while I wait for better weather.
Pictures of all the boxes of stuff:
I did manage to get a couple of big jobs done on the outside of the truck though... It now has a large 4.5m x 2.5m awning, and its also got proper heavy duty aluminium rear mug guards which Im glad to have gotten done.
So, whats next... as soon as it stops raining and I can do shop work in the driveway, Im going to uninstall the 2x4 wooden framed interior and convert it from temporary to final form with aluminium extrusion framing and nice panel work.
