List something good about your day today. Then list something bad. The next person that follows, list something bad about your day, then good!
Here's mine:
Good - I have plenty of work to output and it does feel pretty good.
Bad - I have absolutely no motivation to carry any of it through today. It's somewhat sunny out and attempting to snow (strange but true) and all I can think about is waiting for Cody to come home and then we're off ice skating. I just wana play today!
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Our little horse is still lust getting bigger every day... we've lost a lot of sleep waiting for the foal to arrive.
On the plus side I am up to my ears in work. Deadlines loom on Monday which is bound to keep me motivated!
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8740 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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bad: my scanner pooped out, so I had to order a new one (or maybe that's the good as well!)
-------------------- Catharine C. Kennedy CCK Graphics 1511 Route 28 Chatham Center, NY 12184 cck1620@taconic.net "Look at me, Look at me, Look at me now! I't's fun to have fun, But you have to know how!" Posts: 2173 | From: downtown Chatham Center, NY | Registered: Feb 2004
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Good: I woke up this morning and it's a beautiful day outside.
Bad: Got a letter saying we're being sued. We've been making these free standing sculpture markers for a local art museum for many years. Apparently a little girl was running around the scuplture garden while with her mom. The girl ran into one of the markers and fell and cut her leg on the plaque. Now the museum's insurance company concluded that it's our fault because the marker was sharp enough to get cut on. The face was .080 alum with radius corners mounted on a 2" square tube on a 45 degree angle. We never installed the signs and only built them according to the museum curators specs. They placed them in the garden. To make it worse the mother says the girl was a very talented ballerina (at 8 years old) Apparently she'll never make it to the big time.
I feel bad for the girl but where is the mom's responsibility in all of this. The other irony here is that this piece of sculpture was a double ended canon that worked as a see saw and the museum was afraid of getting sued by someone falling off the see saw. Never figured on getting sued because someone ran into the sign.
Outside of that I'm having a wonderful day and I'm on my way to pick up my precious 8 yr. old daughter, Emma from school and we're going out for ice cream.
-------------------- Lou Pascuzzi www.economysigns.com Fine Hand Lettering since 1973 Danbury, Ct 203-748-4580 "IOAFS" Posts: 341 | From: Danbury, Ct | Registered: Feb 2000
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Good: Brushes I ordered came in today, and I had time to pick them up. Bad: I am in a training course with the Fire Dept all weekend so I have to wait till monday to use them.
Bad is now I have no excuse NOT to go look for work.
-------------------- Leaper of Tall buildings.. If you find my posts divisive or otherwise snarky please ignore them. If you do not know how then PM me about it and I will demonstrate. Posts: 5274 | From: Im a nowhere man | Registered: Jul 2001
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Good: Sold a faux 12' tall (like a old steam donkey) steam engine to a theme park. Sold 4 2'x8' "fancy" carved and raised lettering with some gold stuff to a theme park. Sold a 20' cube truck that wil be a "carny" mobile when I get done with it (like the old days) to people with more money than sense.
Bad.. All needs to be done by April 1st. Yea...
Edited to say. Did I mention that I have no help at the present time?
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Bad - I have a helmet paint job due TOMORROW. I am just now getting primer on it. looks like a long night again.
Good - I have sold enough work yesterday and today to keep my in the shop a month.
-------------------- Jerry VanHorn, Pres. Pure Sports Designs, LLC Pro Sign Design / United Wholesale Signs www.prosigndesign.comwww.unitedwholesalesigns.com West Liberty, OH 937-465-0595 866-942-3990 Since 1990 Posts: 925 | From: West :Liberty, OH | Registered: May 2004
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GOOD..being in Mexico for 3 months, and affording it because the sign business IS a business not a hobby.
BAD..having not figured out this lucrative business out 20 years before I did.
(BTW..it IS a lucrative business if you want it to be!)
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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Bad- sorry I haven't considered it- except that maybe it's just that I'm exhausted!
Good- we had our local agricultural show today- I entered a heap of photos in different classes, got several firsts, a few seconds, and champion print of the show, also first with an airbrushed portrait of Sarah our youngest daughter, Hannah our oldest won most points if the Junior photography classes, plus several 1sts, 2nds & 3rds with various horses in different classes, Nicholas (who's 10) got a 2nd with a drawing of his (out of 25 entries of all ages 16 and under), plus a first in a ridden class (his first time riding at a show), and we took out Champion Stallion, Ch. Mare, Reserve Champion Mare, and half a dozen other firsts is stud classes with the clydesdales (there were 22 to compete against), so it was a tiring but successful day, and the kids did really well. Oh, & Andrew got a 2nd for some marshmallows he cooked.
So, no negatives except for exhaustion!
-------------------- "Stewey" on chat
"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Today's Bad: I have to do an install today that'll take over an hour and a half round trip, but will (hopefully) only take 5 minutes on site.
Today's Good: I'll be paid well AND be appreciated for the effort. Also, it's in a trendy section of town, so I'll get to sight-see abit while I'm there.
-------------------- "When Love and Skill Work Together ... Expect a Masterpiece"
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Good - it's SNOWING!!!!! And it's soooo beautiful! I have my firewood safely by my stove and am throwing it in as needed so we are toasty warm. Does it get any better?
Bad - I just came from my mom's and forgot my glasses, I can't see a thing up close without them. I have had it with those things. I'm going to look into lazer surgery. As soon as the snow clears of course.
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Good: Finished metalwork on '37 Ford truck cab, straight as an arrow...very good, customer will be pleased immensely....
Bad: Cab must be polished Porsche Red by noon Monday...or customer will be irrigated(****ed) immensely...
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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Good: made a lot of money last week printing Mardi Gras t-shirts Bad: poured down rain all day yesterday Good: it's halfway through our Mardi Gras holiday and the sun is shining and I still have a pulse
[ February 26, 2006, 11:44 AM: Message edited by: Mark Perkins ]
-------------------- Mark Perkins Performance Signs & Graphics Eunice, Louisiana "The heart of Cajun Country" Posts: 506 | From: Eunice Louisiana 70535 | Registered: Nov 1998
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Good: Middle daughter got 100% for her homework (well deserved)
Bad: Immediate need to figure out a more profittable way tomorrow to handle incoming calls to stop wasted time.
-------------------- David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com Trying out a new tag: "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth Peter Ustinov Posts: 1450 | From: Brisbane Queensland Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3490 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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Bad: Brother in law's youngest twin son had life support turned off. Harry Malone: TOD 5:30pm 27/02/06
Good: Twin brother on life support, prognosis good so far.
Although I'm not usually prone to this sort of thing, I cannot think of anything harder for a parent to bear.
DF
-------------------- David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com Trying out a new tag: "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth Peter Ustinov Posts: 1450 | From: Brisbane Queensland Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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