Another Sad Friday...

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Sapper..
I feel your pain..
As a past Construction Engineer ,RCAF,many of our paths crossed with our engineering brothers,especially with the Feild Engineers in Edmonton...
You know you are buddys when you are both in the bucket truck bucket,inspecting and repairing the cable system and trollys ,looking down at them ,from the bucket,from ABOVE the mock tower at Greisbach...
And the wind suddenly comes up...
80-90 Feet in the air in a swinging bucket makes one's past flash before their eyes...
Or trying to pry a buddy loose from a radar antenna because he ,after years of climbing,suddenly looses his nerve and is struck by his fear of heights and freezes to the antenna..and while only 40-50 feet in the air..is enough...
Or your swim buddy get caught in some kelp and panics and tears off his mask and trys to tear yours off too when you start cutting him loose...and you are 40 feet under water..
Or your buddys hand is pinned between the jack and the truck body when the jack slips while he is jacking up the truck with his hand on top of the jack to steady it..
Just some of the incidents that occurred with my engineering buddies that stand out ,that make you lifelong friends..
I'll save the other stories til we can tip a glass and tell the stories properly ,with a crying towel or rolling around on the floor laughing...