My good friend Hillbilliy...crap I love him and will do anything for him cause his is just simply GOOD HUMAN BEING.  god knows I will be there for any need and god knows I surely believe the same about him.   Well crap I can say the same about serveral folks here........hello. 

Heck we are all welders ehh?  That really is a brotherhood of some sort.  Something to wrap around and bond too.

Just saying folks lets stick together a bit.  I love ya just cause your in the trade and suppporting your family from it......jeez if your lucky your 9-5 and making bank, or your 9-5 and satisfied and your family is doing ok.  OR your a rig welder and taking your chances, going home and loving your kids no less then anyone else.   Or your a spec doing the same dang gig the welders are more or less....sending checks home and wishing like heck you were there to hug them.   DOES not matter if your a spec, a weldor of whatever kind, an engineer, project manager.......we all make our living off this metal joining, we are all tied to it somehow........lets treat each other accordingly please.   Heck some of my most respected friends are retired old schooll mo fos runnning a  vo-tech program.   We are all in this crazy and I MEAN CRAZY business together....we can all benefit each other....lets stick it out cause we are all better for it in the long run.