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looks like we're gonna get some flurries today...good day to finish up some projects..2-8ft banners, 4-3'x4' signs, paint some boards and do some layouts...a no pressure mello day but it's always nice to finish up things so they can be billed out..cha ching! i love the weekend because i don't feel obligated to answer my business phone.
-------------------- Karyn Bush Simply Not Ordinary, LLC Bartlett, NH 603-383-9955 www.snosigns.com info@snosigns.com Posts: 3516 | From: Bartlett, NH USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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Yes, I was working Saturday and Today (Sunday) as well....I have 35.. 18 x 24 Real Estate Signs with Frames to deliver Monday..as Karyn says "Cha-Ching". Also Cutting some Sandblast Resist for a 36" x 72" x 2" HDU Single Face Sign......and trying to Quote an unusal request.."Sandblasting and Staining a Logo in Concrete......the size is 18' x 41'....(Hughe) Yes that is FEET !!!!
(And also good to see your smile again Linda.I hope all is going well for you.)
-------------------- Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep' -------- " Those who dance are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music " Posts: 1281 | From: Mt Airy NC | Registered: Mar 2001
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I came into the shop early to build a signfoam model for a sign I need to present to the review board next week. It's almost daylight and I'll take the dog for a walk on the beach and call the day's work done.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6807 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Early Sunday mornings are BB time. Then a little bill paying, bookkeping(ugh!) Daylight arrived on the heels of some big snowflakes got bout 1 1/2 new snow & stillcomin down. Real purty to look at and thats all I'm gonna do, ain't no need to go out in it today. Did some weedin-n-tapin this mornin for a couple trucks coming this week. Nice thing about home/office/shop is I'm always at work and never at work ifyaknowhatimean!
-------------------- Bill Dirkes Cornhole Art LLC Bellevue, Ky. Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are. Posts: 591 | From: Bellevue,Ky. US | Registered: Aug 1999
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Well, I guess you would call it working, I finally got a chance to start on my panel for the Panel Jam that Terry started. It is nasty outside here, though not cold it is raining and windy. 44 degrees in Texas, on the gulf, is not a pretty sight. I Take my cell phone to the shop when I am there on Sat or sun. That way I don't have to answer the business phone at all. Bill
-------------------- Bill & Barbara Biggs Art's Sign Service, Inc. Clute, Texas, USA Home of The Great Texas Mosquito Festival Proud 10 year Supporter of the Letterheads Website www.artssigns.com "MrBill-" on the chat page MailTo:biggsbb@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1020 | From: Lake Jackson,Tx | Registered: Nov 1998
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I am going to do a bit on my panel too. Then I have to finish two signs with lots of little tiny letters (EWWW) so I can deliver them tomorrow. I am out of coffee (shucks) so I can't do anything til I get some of that.
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I spent Friday finishing up a demo job jackhammering some concrete I poured for my shed last year. Decided to make a 10' x 40' concrete patio where my cottage backs up 10 ft. from the conc. block retaining wall on the uphill property line here on the sloaps of Haleakala.
Most of yesterday was spent with a pick, shovel & a rake when not "spotting" for the bobcat guy. I finally gave in & hired him to finish my excavation after 2 months of intermittant attempts to do it all by hand. After dark I was able to get the second load of rubble out of my truck, & pick up the plumbing supplies needed to replace our water line in time for evening showers.
That kind of works lends itself to turning in early & getting a good rest, so I got up well before the sun for a hottub, stout cup of french roast & a good book. Karyn's reminder of the slow phones & lack of walk-ins has me thinking I'll head down hill to catch up on the work I missed by excercising my owners priviledge & closing Friday. Looks like a bit of a grey day on the horizon anyway. (Yeah, we get 'em too)
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Let's see......got up early, finished carving a mirror frame, stained it, laquered it...2nd coat is drying now....it's noon. In about an hour, I'll rub it out and put it together. At two pm, "Ca Ching" !
It's starting to flurry....could use a coat of white on the dirty, roadside snow. Then I'm gonna watch the commercials and a little of "the game"
Joe, Makin Chips and Havin Fun!
-------------------- Joe Cieslowski Connecticut Woodcarvers Gallery P.O.Box 368 East Canaan CT 06024 jcieslowski@snet.net 860-824-0883 Posts: 2345 | From: East Canaan CT 06024 | Registered: Nov 2001
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to Suelynn...add Keeblers coconut chocolate chip cookies to the treat and you will move your Bailys and coffee from nirvana to absolute heaven. (thats how I got my wife)
Yep I too am working ...coating out some reverse panels on 3 4'x8' signs for the city.will letter tomorrow and deliver tuesday.
Isn't life grand, there's enough work for all 7 days now...what more could you ask for. (alittle vacation maybe) thats what we'll use the money from all the over time work.
"werks fer me, it'll werk fer you"
p.s. I wouldn't have to add somany edits if I could just type without leaving out letters.
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It is snowing outside and I've got Fox News on the TV! Working on a design for Corning, Inc. Security Vehicles. Figured I would do it today as I am going to a Super Bowl party later and the possibility of a "Hang Over" looms on the horizon!!!! My be a late start tomorrow, so I did it today!
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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I got here @ 9:00 this morning so I could start spraying a Kandy Violette to Kandy Magenta fade on a custom bike I'm doing the graphics on. Since I usually allow 30 to 45 minutes for each color to dry, I've also been working on my new pet project, my mountain bike workshop. I've moved tools, set up stands. I'm going to go on e-bay in a little while to see what deals I can find on some parts.
I'm considerin' working on some other projects: finishing the flames on one bike, or pinstriping a graphic on a talgate. I just can't get motivated to do them just yet...
I usually post something everyday. Ever since I bought my digital camera, I take 10-20 shots a day, not counting the videos of our 'practice' runs on the bikes in the back of the shop...
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Gotta go through a pile of diskettes. See what the heck if anything is on them. Then going to the shop to work on the construction of a new work bench...yes more storage
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I'm doing a little work myself trying to finish up a 5x12 real estate sign in all reflective. I did a few for one realator and another saw it and loved it. Gotta love the referrals.
Warm and windy here in Everett, WA
-------------------- Brian Diver PDQ Signs Everett, Wa
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I'm working on a design for a softball team. Not your "run of the mill" sign job. The team Mascot is a CoonCat. Is this sort of like a Jackallope? Who Knows? Anyway it will help pay the bills!
-------------------- Lee McKee McKee Studios Birmingham, Al Planet Earth (sometimes) Posts: 277 | From: Birmingham, Al | Registered: Jan 2003
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Unloading the trucks from yesterday's bike show. "SKIN AND STEEL" is always the first bike show we set up at, in a looooooooooong season of bike shows.
So, we kicked off the show season with freezing temperatures, snow, slippery loading docks at the Greater Rochester Convention Center, short tempers, marginally edible show-burgers and $5 Pepsis; all on 4 hours of sleep after thrashing all night getting bikes put back together, cleaned, digging out the trailer and eating marginally edible fast-food burgers.
And I musta told 100 people yesterday what a big advantage I have, loving what I do for a living...
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Little bit of updating for a client's web site and a bit of fart'n around with a bike run logo that I was originaly suppose to have ready for the "skin and steel" show yesterday ... but we're not starting run meetings for a few weeks.
relaxing type working Sunday
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Just got home from installing two 5'x4' sandblasted HDU signs on a concrete monument that was really awful! The concrete monument was really screwed up and it made the sign bow out in the middle. Never an easy day doing installs for us. But at least I'll get paid tomorrow!! Once again Cha-ching!!
-------------------- Amy Brown Life Skills 101 Private Address Posts: 3502 | From: Lake Helen, FL, USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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No matter how much I tell Sign Makers that if we price your work properly we can rest on the Sabbath, here we are either working, or thinking about it, or finishing up or preparing for tomorrow. I just dragged off the Interstate coming home as soon as possible this morning from Asheville, after driving there yesterday from Atlanta. I had been to a Sign Show that was held in Atlanta over Friday and Saturday. I had to leave early to escape the incoming snow and put off a job til today, that the customer just could not wait for til Monday. Now I’m gathering vinyl letters and graphics, my trusty old Signkit and a ladder to head out to Wake Forest University to letter the indoor windows and doors of the newly remodeled print and copy shop. I came home to a burst pipe and I have temporarily no water. So much for the shower I was going to take before heading out into polite company….…… at least nobody will come too close long enough to linger and to ask this weary traveler any really obvious questions, or –God forbid- act like they were catching me misspelling something…….
I know all of you know what I mean Back to work
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
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I just came home from the beach.. yep, temps near 80 again today, had to take the jetski out.
Before I left for the beach this morning though I shot some clear gelcoat into a few fiberglass molds in preparation for some carbon-graphite parts I'll be laying up later on this evening... making some trick looking truck parts.
Yesterday I put another 60 pounds of sound deadening material into a Toyota Matrix I'm building for car audio competition.
-------------------- "If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."
Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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