Re: What's up?

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 10/28/2020 9:15 AM, Jim Davis wrote:
> Is everybody as busy as I am?
>
> Can't seem to catch up.
>
> I'm scheduled out about 3 to 4 weeks now and no sign of letting up.
>
> All kinds of things.
>
> Right now I'm working on a system that was originally installed in the 90's.
> I don't understand how this alarm company was thinking. They've got 10 motion detectors, only two out of seven doors with contacts on them. Only one casement window in each room with an alarm screen. One keypad situated between the two entry doors with a Fifty second delay. Pull traps across the basement windows. And one zone on the keypad zone list labeled as fire but there are no smoke detectors.
>
> They want to keep the motion detectors only because the end user is used to them causing (in my opinion) the customer to never arms the system when they are home (against my advice)  I've disconnected the alarm screens and replaced them with wireless glass break detectors. Put wireless xmters on the remaining doors. added six wireless smoke detectors. (It's really a rambling laid out house) Finding the transformer took at least a half hour. it was buried above the drop ceiling in a closet in the basement.
>
> Problem is, The lady is a practicing psychologist, and I can only get in the house when she doesn't have patients. This is my second week on the job. Can't leave any gear on the job. Each time I return I have to set up all over again. It takes me about an hour to switch gears from the job I was at the day before to get my head back into where I left off.
>
> Other than that, I'm changing out 3G radios. People moving from one house to another. New people moving in. The real estate business is just going wild in this area. Houses are selling in just a few days after being put on the market. Cuomo and De Blasio have screwed up New York City and anyone who can afford it is moving out.
>
> And with the defunding of police, every one wants a firearm and an alarm system.


For a grand total of half a day I had cleared every job off my board.
That day I got 3 custom jobs in and a recut.  One of the new custom jobs
was for nine (9) unique custom molds each one requiring some time doing
CAD.  Since then another recut, and a couple more customs have come in
and I am back up to about 8 weeks minimum to start new jobs.

In my "spare" time I have been working on "Yet Another Boat Project That
May Never Get Finished."

Another Boat Project That May Never Get Finished - Part 1
https://youtu.be/Rvwb3HSshaU

Another Boat Project That May Never Get Finished - PART 2
https://youtu.be/l6XYbnkSltE

Another Boat Project That May Never Get Finished Part 3a - Is 10+ Year
Old Foam Any Good
https://youtu.be/gmnsMYJME9Q

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