It's Thursday. I should be joining Dive in posting my own tragic attempts at music-making. I should also be firing up the old thursday tradition of posting arty Half-Nekkid Thursday shots.
But dammit, I'm too stuffed.
Eleven hours of dragging an industrial vacuum hose around a big-arse machine in the heat of a coal pit and I'm absolutely knackered. I'm covered in grease, dust, and layers of filthy sweat. If it's this hot now, how the hell am I going to handle the summer?
Mine regulations say that we have to wear long sleeved shirts and pants of a specific design. We also have to wear steel capped lace-up work boots, a hard hat and safety glasses. Over the top of this is the usual cleaner's uniform is the disposable chemical suit. Sperm suits. Those things are like little zip-up sauna body bags. You could sell them to quite a few women as a weight loss program and probably make a mint out of it.
My clothes were wet from head to toe with sweat. It was dripping from my lip and forehead which is so unattractive I get the shits with myself for being a sweaty pig. The mandatory safety glasses fog up every ten minutes, and by the end of the day it was so hard to lift my feet with the weight of the steel caps on them that I felt like just shuffling them along instead.
Is this so hard simply because I'm unfit? Do I sweat more because I'm fatter than I should be, and unfit?
Do I have to spend hours at the gym and lose all this weight? Become a little fitness junkie in bike pants and a sports top? Do I drink less water? How do I stop from sweating so much?
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"Over the top of this is the usual cleaner's uniform is the disposable chemical suit." - Ok, even that is a bit over the top, bit un-nessary to have the main clothes and the suit... anyway don't the sperm suits have vents?
And
"Do I drink less water?" - No? More Grog maby? Though maby more salt to retain water?
Boz.
Boz, it's necessary to have the suit for two reasons: You're around degreaser concentrate which burns the skin, and also you get grease all over you - there's no avoiding it in the spaces we go into. In order to stop spreading the grease elsewhere the suit is a method to keep it off your clothes.
You're right about the salt. After a big night on the grog, you actually sweat more!
Jack-of-all-trades
thats vic
i miss reading you...
oxox
nina
The amount of sweating you are doing you will loose weight!
More water to flush the system and less carbs... get rid of the ham and cheese croissant on the way to work!
How about half nekkid and covered in grease, dust and layers of filthy sweat, Vic?
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm …
"degreaser concentrate which burns the skin" - Ah, I see, I personally would rather sweat then have 1-2-3rd degree chemical burns come to think of it too...
Boz.
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