Coffee 5-11-13

The AA is cold, but the coffee is hot. Come on in, pull up a stool & coffee will slide your way. If you don't want coffee, raise a finger & we'll serve up tea....or if you are rude, we'll serve an appropriate finger back. I'm thinking egg in the hole and a few strips of crisp bacon.

Busy, busy time of year. I'm telling people with large projects that I'm booked for the year. Smaller things get done fast & pay better.

Oh my gosh.... my old boss taught me "You get into good habits and good things happen". That saved my butt BIG time this week. I finished upholstering a chair....a complete down to the frame rebuild. The invoice was just over $1,000. When it was finished I wrote the bill, called the client, and then...and then.... I unrolled a $.55 plastic cover from the rollof 100 and put it over the chair. The next morning we get up, have breakfast, feed & water the dogs, eventually go to work, which for me is down in the lower level. I get in the shop & see water on the floor. What the? As I walk closer I see water drops on the cover. When I get to the chair, &%$@ ME BUFFY! There is 2 or 3 quarts of water IN the chair, being held by the cover. I move the chair and remove the cover....carefully... not one drop on the fabric. Giant relief! Even now my heart pitter patters. I can't imagine if I had neglected the cover. So, now I spend half an hour finding the leak. Come to find out, it wasn't a leak per se, it was the dog's water bowl. It's a 3 gallon jug that sits upside down. As the dogs drink it glug, glug glugs & keeps the bowl full. Well, it developed a tiny crack, air entered and all the water leaked out. It found it's way through the floor and into the chair. OK.... it's toilet water for them from now on! Noooooo, Poor dogs. Speaking of poor dogs.... Corky got left out one night & happily spent the whole night on the steps LOL. Goofy guy...he loved it!

Enjoy the weekend!

I knew the cool dreary weather had to come back,....but the weekend always seems to be it's target ! Seems like a good time to do some under roof projects that the late winter delayed. You know the kind,Smitty Stuff ! PE,that seems to be one hell of a narrow corridor right of way for Transmission Voltage (138 & 345 KV 3 Phase). I know with the Dullard's War On Coal,most Utility Producers are decommissioning the old line fleet coal plants,and as a Band-Aid are installing more Tranmission Tie Lines to move bulk power around to where it's needed. The sad fact is we're way down on Industrial usage that's not coming back. These are the "New Days" for the Power Industry,and Projects like the one threatening your area will be more frequent. Good Luck with your endeavors. I feel a breaker bar calling with a chaser of PB Blaster to loosen those old bolts. Maybe after lunch,I'll have a hot date with a torque wrench.........Damn !!! Take Care,Gang !!