Re: Well, it's been a while

[Jim Davis <Madno@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 10:41:38=E2=80=AFPM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wro=
te:

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> Well, I actually took today off. Sorta. No big mistakes made me have=20
> to work at my day job anyway. I slept in... an extra hour. Screwed=20
> around most of the morning waiting for the other shoe to drop, and=20
> finally headed out to the shop to work on me projects.=20
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> ITS TO FREAKING HOT to work outside, and its not much better inside the=
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> main area of the shop. I've been working on a boat that used to belong=20
> to a friend. I sat with him a few hours and held his hand the day he=20
> died kind of friend. I need to get his boat river worthy do do=20
> something that was among his last wishes. I want to do it for me too=20
> since its my boat now. Anyway, I was told that the deed is ready to be=20
> done when I am ready to go. I'm not ready to go, but I'm working on it.=
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> I'd had enough of burning my hands on my tools every time I picked one=20
> up, so I decided to make some room inside the shop to work on it. My=20
> shop is full of stuff for/from past, current, and future projects. One=20
> of those projects was a new winch bumper for my Jeep. I bought the jeep=
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> in 2017 and I think it was probably early 2018 when I bought the bumper.=
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> I thought to myself, that a giant box I can get out of the way if I=20
> just get off my tucas and install the damned thing. I can throw the=20
> stock bumper out back for metal and plastic recycling. So that's what I=
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> worked on today... after I dragged things around and made room to pull=20
> the Jeep inside the shop. LOL.=20
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> It would be done, but being an after market bumper the bumper mounted=20
> fog lights don't just plug into the wiring harness the way the stock=20
> ones did. Well, that and while it is better inside the shop than out in=
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> the sun... ITS NOT VERY DAMN MUCH BETTER.=20
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> P.S. The office and the machine room where the main CNC machines are=20
> located is air conditioned so most regular work days I get by just fine.=
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> In any case. I did actually take the day off today.=20
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> Saturday and Sunday are when I get the most paying work done in the shop=
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> most weeks. Tomorrow I might take the afternoon off and finish that new=
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> bumper install. Then cruise down to the tackle store and pose the Jeep=20
> with one wheel up on a parking bumper to show off its new bumper.
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> Bob La Londe=20
> CNC Molds N Stuff


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