I am all fired up!!! Hoppin’ mad. Furious. Pissed off!!!
I recently watched a CNN report about a highly decorated Green Beret, Staff Sgt Ryan Maseth who was electrocuted and died while serving in Iraq. This didn’t happen on the front line. This didn’t happen while he was engaging the enemy. This happened while he was……taking [...]

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It was 95 degrees today…in SW Washington….in May!!! Unbelievable. These temps have me reminiscing about “the good ole days”. The two years I spend in Baghdad. My hottest day there was 137 degrees. But it was a dry heat. Ha Ha. That’s hot by any standard. Summer days in the 120’s & 130’s was the [...]

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I am a journeyman electrician and have been since 1984. It was a rough go back then but I made it and have no regrets.
I have met some amazing women construction workers along the way. One of them Marjie, another journeyman electrician, is a riot. She is 54, just barely 5′ tall and ALWAYS says [...]

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Well I’ve finally given in and decided to join the blogger community. I am 47, a journeyman electrician (hence the nickname Ms Sparky), a wife, a mother and a grandmother. I have worked in Antarctica, Iraq and China. I have traveled to Chile, Thailand, Turkey and Egypt. I have tons of pics. So I will [...]

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