Re: Those Who Have Come and Gone

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On Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:56:32 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
> I have been working on a modestly large network cabling job the last few=
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> days.  Usually for the larger jobs I just buy the wire I am going to need=
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> and for the smaller jobs I use the wire I have on the shelf.  Well, thing=
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> haven't been that busy for network cable jobs, and I decided to go throug=
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> the shelves and see what I had in partial boxes.  Turns out I had more th=
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> enough for the job.  I have Cat 5e cable from a range of years,=20
> distributors, and manufacturers.  Some of them aren't even in business=20
> anymore.  Seems in this business I have outlasted a lot of distributors. =
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> think I'm going to go in the house and pour myself a cold one in my King=
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> Alarm beer mug.  Now if I only had an Arius shot glass I'ld toast my luck=
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> and survival with a boiler maker.  LOL.

It is amazing in 35+ years I have been doing  how many distributors and com=
pany's have come and gone at one time in Pittsburgh  we had over 50 electri=
cal supply houses and 6 alarm distributors we now have less than a dozen el=
ectrical and 2 alarm suppliers left and so many manufacturers either gone o=
r bought out renamed can not even keep track of them