What did you do today?

[highup]

I went to price a sheet of 4x8 3/4" sign board.
.....almost $140.
While there I looked inside where they keep some of their plywood and Sheetrock.
Proudly made in the USA.
It's not a heated area, but it's indoors and connects to the part of the building that is.

 

[C.J.]

...a roll around clamp rack. Now I get your excitement. Nice.
Did the guys at the shop in AZ starve to death or did anyone commit Hara Kari when you moved back home? Must have been like a divorce.
...... suddenly, ......nobody to cook.
Looks like they've accepted you back into the family.

I left on good terms with plenty of notice so coming back wasn’t an issue. As far as lunch goes, I’ve been eating so good at the old folks home that I’ve been skipping breakfast and lunch to try and make up for the excess calories I get at night. I’m good for a full dinner and 2 desserts a night. Last night’s first dessert was chocolate cake with a scoop of ice cream and I had a few cookies for my second dessert. Wait, I just remembered some ice cream with sprinkles I had as well. 3rd dessert??

Then I gotta watch it because you know a bunch of these old broads have candy dishes outside their door in the hallway. I got caught by a dish of Tootsie Rolls more than once this week. This is bullshit! I gotta seriously watch myself around here.

 

[C.J.]

Fabbed up some countertops yesterday for a simple build out I’m working on. Got the tops set today and routed it flush to the undermount sink. I saved the sink cutout and glued some feet on it to make a cutting board for the customer. The rest of the sheet of countertop material made a nice top and bottom shelf for my clamp rack. Damn Good Friday if I do say so myself.

 

[C.J.]

Got a couple kittens to cheer the old man up. Here’s one of them. 8 weeks old now, who doesn’t love kittens. They’re already litter box trained.

Brought my magnifying glass light home to use cus I bought one of those laser cutout wooden thingies to assemble. This light is the hot ticket at work. Thinking about ordering another one. Everybody wants to use it. So far we’ve used it to either read instructions or dig out splinters. It’s worth the money just for those two reasons alone.

 

[highup]

Fabbed up some countertops yesterday for a simple build out I’m working on. Got the tops set today and routed it flush to the undermount sink. I saved the sink cutout and glued some feet on it to make a cutting board for the customer. The rest of the sheet of countertop material made a nice top and bottom shelf for my clamp rack. Damn Good Friday if I do say so myself.

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Where the heck did you get your skill set from... By Gosh and by Golly? I mean, there aren't schools for all the different things you can tackle. I'd love working at a place like where you are at. How many people work there? ...half a dozen?

 

[highup]

Got a couple kittens to cheer the old man up. Here’s one of them. 8 weeks old now, who doesn’t love kittens. They’re already litter box trained.

Brought my magnifying glass light home to use cus I bought one of those laser cutout wooden thingies to assemble. This light is the hot ticket at work. Thinking about ordering another one. Everybody wants to use it. So far we’ve used it to either read instructions or dig out splinters. It’s worth the money just for those two reasons alone.


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Cute kitty. He'd love to hang out when I feed the chickadees every morning.
Seen those magnifiers but never peered through them.

 

[C.J.]

Where the heck did you get your skill set from... By Gosh and by Golly? I mean, there aren't schools for all the different things you can tackle. I'd love working at a place like where you are at. How many people work there? ...half a dozen?

I learned it all by laying floors cus I built that entire trailer out of modified transition pieces .

It’s a smaller shop, there’s only 4 full time fabricators. Pretty laid back environment. We put on some tunes and have at it. Been listening to jam bands lately. Makes me laugh listening to it cus all I can think about is Gumby and the Clayboys rockin out and Lowbelly is crying Pearl tears.

 

[C.J.]

I finished it, and it works! The wife is kinda impressed that I didn’t smash it. I still might.

I’m undecided what to think of these 3D wooden puzzle contraptions. They seem like they would be fun to put together but at the end of the day, not so much. I just finished it and I’m slightly irritated. Prolly need to adjust my attitude before I buy another one.

If you’re 50 or older you absolutely need one of these magnifying glass lamps!

 

[highup]

I learned it all by laying floors cus I built that entire trailer out of modified transition pieces .

It’s a smaller shop, there’s only 4 full time fabricators. Pretty laid back environment. We put on some tunes and have at it. Been listening to jam bands lately. Makes me laugh listening to it cus all I can think about is Gumby and the Clayboys rockin out and Lowbelly is crying Pearl tears.

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Wow. You stuck a dream environment.
We're you going door to door when you first looked for work down there?
whatever......everyone benefitted.

 

[highup]

I finished it, and it works! The wife is kinda impressed that I didn’t smash it. I still might.

I’m undecided what to think of these 3D wooden puzzle contraptions. They seem like they would be fun to put together but at the end of the day, not so much. I just finished it and I’m slightly irritated. Prolly need to adjust my attitude before I buy another one.

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If you’re 50 or older you absolutely need one of these magnifying glass lamps!

Holy smokes.....CNC laser cut puzzles I'm guessing?
Cool, but if I can't sniff glue, count me out.

 

[C.J.]

Wow. You stuck a dream environment.
We're you going door to door when you first looked for work down there?
whatever......everyone benefitted.

Definitely a dream job. I knew when I walked through the door the first time, saw the shop and met the guys, that this job was meant to be for me.

This brings up a good question: what is a dream job to you? 20 years ago if I had this exact same job I wouldn’t have been in the mental space to appreciate it for the dream job that it is. That makes me think that an employer providing a dream environment is only half of the equation. We, individually, are responsible for bringing our own half of the dream to the table and combining it with the employers half of the dream, thereby turning both of those things (self and environment) into a dream job.

 

[C.J.]

Holy smokes.....CNC laser cut puzzles I'm guessing?
Cool, but if I can't sniff glue, count me out.

Don’t need much glue for these things. My buddy started one of these contraptions and was using wood glue. Took too long to set up as well as it glued parts together that were meant to move. I believe he said F it and threw the darn thing away. I get it.

I got some Starbond (CA) with the tiny assed applicator tips so I can precisely place a half of a drop of adhesive here n there as necessary. Makes things a bit easier when smaller pieces aren’t coming apart when you’re assembling things in the bigger picture of the contraption.

I’ve decided these things are like women. They seem easy enough, maybe even fun, but they will irk you after dealing with them for a while. Then when you look at it again the next day you think to yourself that wasn’t so bad, maybe I should get another one

 

[MSLI]

Cool what’s the cost per collection bag ?

 

[C.J.]

Cool what’s the cost per collection bag ?

I think the one I built was $50ish on sale on Amazon. I just spent another $150 for 2 more of those damn things (they’re like women, remember) and another magnifying glass lamp. I need one for the shop and one for home. After putting together the first one I think I got it figured out.

 

[zannej]

I had to clean on and around Mom's desk to clear space for her new PC and to reduce the number of roaches infesting the area. Roaches have killed her UPS and killed her last computer. I think they also killed the microwave. Mom did some of the cleaning on her desk and got about 1/4 of a bag filled.. Maybe not even that much. I went in after she went to bed and filled the rest of a 55 gallon bag. Had to move her chair, swept up junk from the floor, picked out stuff that wasn't trash (coins, butter knives, batteries, & random stuff). Found all sorts of things. Vacuumed with shopvac-- can't seem to find the other vacuum anyway. Moved the monitor & riser off the desk-- cleaned them both and rubbed Zevo roach spray on them. Vacuumed off the desk after I cleared enough stuff out of the way, wiped it with disinfectant wipes, and hit it with Zevo and a mist of diluted peppermint spray. There was so much roach excrement. Ugh. Before I vacuumed I had to dig through the tangled mess of cords under the desk and eliminate ones that were no longer in use. Marked the ones that were in use with blue tape. Got them pushed out of the way.

Set up the organizer and then taped dust screen over all of the vents on the pc and put silicone plugs in any unused ports. Hooked it all up and turned it on. Got Mom to see it and left her to put in her password and try to set it up. She messed up on naming the account so its just our surname twice. It took me hours of work to get that done. This morning I finished setting it up and had to troubleshoot a problem with the internet. flushed dns, release/renew ipconfig, turned of ipv6, rebooted several times. Eventually had to reboot the modem. Synced up her headset to bluetooth. Now she's watching videos on it.

Took Mom to see the diabetes specialist today and was hoping she could show Mom how to use the dexcom g7, but the sensor I brought was either defective or had been tampered with. It arrived with the box already open,ed, but I thought Mom had opened it to look at it, but she hadn't. Specialist said to request a free replacement since it was sent that way. Guy who called back after I left a message did so while I was loading groceries. I finally got him to agree to just message me or something so I could call about the problem.

Got home and unloaded groceries and cooked for Mom. Wrists are hurting so I need to stop typing and take a nap. But first, pics of the new pc.

 

[Incognito]

So I'm working in my garage and there's a guy across the street doing some carpentry on my friend Bob's house. Turns out he's one of Bob's kids----mid 50s and grew up in that home directly across the street. So he's telling me the history of the home I bought in 2016 from his perspective. "Oh, that was the PARTY house." he says. Hey dont tell my wife, there's already too many skeletons in these closets. According to this guy the original band members from Motley Crew used MY garage as their studio when they were in high school here in Covina, well before the official band was established.

Honestly, I never liked their music. But I'm pretty cool about working in the garage these days knowing who it was that exactly used roofing nails to hammer up padding and shag carpet to the studs/joists and beams. What a dirty, dusty job it is to de-nail and vacuum all that.

 

[Tile Tom]

This dude fought hard and finished strong at his fight the other night and won jr fight of the night!

Very proud of the man he’s turning into!

 

[MSLI]

Old man MSli. Delivered a 12 x 28’ with a 4x14 cut out, all by myself

 

[highup]

Old man MSli. Delivered a 12 x 28’ with a 4x14 cut out, all by myself

I've moved big rolls using 16"x 8' strips of Masonite. I layed one across the park strip, another from there and up the homes walkway, then another into the doorway. Mostly sliding not lifting..... And the was 20 years ago.
Gotta think easier, not dumber. As we age, we gotta think smart.

 

[Csason]

I use a lot of custom dollies I have built for carpet but mostly for plank and tile . I built them so I don’t have to move material very much. A lot of commercial jobs I have to move pallets of plank around so I can’t be putting it on the slab that’s a bad move . lol

We started a sports floor job those are 30 foot rolls and they weigh a ton son