Gloat?

Randy wrote:
> Got a new job and moved from Las Vegas to a small town in Idaho last August,
> six-hundred miles, and it's a whole new culture. Same planet, different
> world as an old friend of mine says.
>
> The engineer I replaced had been gone for seven months when I got here, and
> I was slammed trying to catch up the backlog for months. I caught up about
> a month ago and am starting to have some "free" time to work on fixing up
> the thirty-year-old "new" house.
>
> I bought a used U-haul truck for the move. I didn't have time to house shop
> before I moved, and the truck was only two thousand more than they wanted to
> rent a truck one way to here. I figured by the time I found a place, and
> had time to move in, the difference would be made up in storage fees, and I
> didn't have to unpack everything into a storage unit and then repack it to
> move to the new place, once I bought a new place. Plus, I should be able to
> sell it for about what I paid for it. As an aside, if you ever buy a used
> truck from U-haul, do it on the last working day of the month. The sales
> staff has quotas they need to meet, and if they haven't met them, they will
> cut good deals.
>
> The majority of my tools ended up buried in the front of the truck,
> stationary tool all the way in the front, and I haven't dug that deep yet.
> So, I'm: trying to cut plywood straight and true with a battery powered
> skill saw, and a straight edge; working on thirty year old plumbing with one
> pipe wrench and some pump pliers; tracking down what wiring runs where
> without my tracer, or even a meter. It has really been frustrating working
> with out my tools, but I don't want to spend the money to buy more tools,
> when I own all the tools I need. Kind of a Catch 22: if I had my tools out
> things would go lots faster; I can't make much progress towards getting the
> tools out and set up, with out the tools.
>
> I was talking to the boss today, about what I did this weekend, and
> mentioned that it was driving me nuts trying to fix up things around the
> house (closet units, cedar line a closet, fix the pressure regualtor on the
> plumbing), and set up my new shop, (new house has a dedicated detached 24X35
> shop building), build cabinets, shelves, and equipment bases, etc., with out
> all my tools unpacked.
>
> He gave me a funny look, and said, "I guess I never did really give you a
> full tour of the shop."
>
> He then took me out and showed me around the parts of the shop I've never
> seen: There's a 12-inch Powermatic table saw, with a 24 left 62 right
> fence; an older 16-inch Dewalt RAS, with infeed tables about twenty feet
> long; a couple of drill presses; an eight inch jointer with a bed longer
> than any I've ever seen, and a tool room with more hand and portable power
> tools (including, five routers, three random orbit sanders, two belt
> sanders, and something I looked all over trying to buy, a Makita impact
> wrench with a cord on it), than a good store keeps in stock. There is even
> a spry booth, and car wash.
>
> He gave me a quick safety check out on the power tools, and turned me loose.
> It turns out that the mysterious round key on the key ring they gave me
> when I started opens all the shops, and tool rooms, and I have free access
> to any of the tools during the craftsmen's nonwork hours. I can check out
> any of the hand or portable power tools and take them home evenings and
> weekends. Wish I had known that earlier, I might have gotten a lot more
> done.
>
> It will be nice to be able to cut things true and square again. I hope that
> I can finish the closet units I've been fighting with this weekend.
>
> I still won't have my own shop set up for another month or so, but
> realistically the shops at work, are better than anything I can afford to
> set up.

Welcome to Heaven!
Bugs

>Got a new job......

Snip


If you tell us that they also PAY you to work for them, well, I bet you
could suck a golf ball through a garden hose!

They do pay me, but it's is a lot less than I made in Vegas. But the
environment is a lot more relaxed, and I'm not building subdivisions in
Vegas. Like, Vegas needs more subdivisions.

"darkon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Randy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It turns out that the mysterious round key on the key ring they
>> gave me when I started opens all the shops, and tool rooms, and
>> I have free access to any of the tools during the craftsmen's
>> nonwork hours. I can check out any of the hand or portable power
>> tools and take them home evenings and weekends. Wish I had
>> known that earlier, I might have gotten a lot more done.
>
> No-one else has said it yet, so I will:
>
> You suck.
>
No one else has asked this question either.

Uhhhhh....................., Randy, where can we get one of those mysterious
round keys?

Randy <[email protected]> wrote:

> It turns out that the mysterious round key on the key ring they
> gave me when I started opens all the shops, and tool rooms, and
> I have free access to any of the tools during the craftsmen’s
> nonwork hours. I can check out any of the hand or portable power
> tools and take them home evenings and weekends. Wish I had
> known that earlier, I might have gotten a lot more done.

No-one else has said it yet, so I will:

You suck.



(Sounds like a good job. Congratulations.)

"Randy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Got a new job.....

Snip.

Normally, if you have to ask, it's probably not a gloat. But I think you've
got agood one there.

Congrats.

-Steve


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On Tue, 9 May 2006 15:28:26 -0400, "Lee Michaels"
<leemichaels*nadaspam*@comcast.net> wrote:


>No one else has asked this question either.
>
>Uhhhhh....................., Randy, where can we get one of those mysterious
>round keys?

I'd prefer the keys to his uhaul...

I mean it's not like he needs his tools anymore anyway, we'd be doing
him a favor.


-Leuf

Stupid question: Why didn't you unload the uhaul contents into the
dedicated shop so you could get to your tools?


"Randy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Got a new job and moved from Las Vegas to a small town in Idaho last
> August,
> six-hundred miles, and it's a whole new culture. Same planet, different
> world as an old friend of mine says.
>
> The engineer I replaced had been gone for seven months when I got here,
> and
> I was slammed trying to catch up the backlog for months. I caught up
> about
> a month ago and am starting to have some "free" time to work on fixing up
> the thirty-year-old "new" house.
>
> I bought a used U-haul truck for the move. I didn't have time to house
> shop
> before I moved, and the truck was only two thousand more than they wanted
> to
> rent a truck one way to here. I figured by the time I found a place, and
> had time to move in, the difference would be made up in storage fees, and
> I
> didn't have to unpack everything into a storage unit and then repack it to
> move to the new place, once I bought a new place. Plus, I should be able
> to
> sell it for about what I paid for it. As an aside, if you ever buy a used
> truck from U-haul, do it on the last working day of the month. The sales
> staff has quotas they need to meet, and if they haven't met them, they
> will
> cut good deals.
>
> The majority of my tools ended up buried in the front of the truck,
> stationary tool all the way in the front, and I haven't dug that deep yet.
> So, I'm: trying to cut plywood straight and true with a battery powered
> skill saw, and a straight edge; working on thirty year old plumbing with
> one
> pipe wrench and some pump pliers; tracking down what wiring runs where
> without my tracer, or even a meter. It has really been frustrating
> working
> with out my tools, but I don't want to spend the money to buy more tools,
> when I own all the tools I need. Kind of a Catch 22: if I had my tools
> out
> things would go lots faster; I can't make much progress towards getting
> the
> tools out and set up, with out the tools.
>
> I was talking to the boss today, about what I did this weekend, and
> mentioned that it was driving me nuts trying to fix up things around the
> house (closet units, cedar line a closet, fix the pressure regualtor on
> the
> plumbing), and set up my new shop, (new house has a dedicated detached
> 24X35
> shop building), build cabinets, shelves, and equipment bases, etc., with
> out
> all my tools unpacked.
>
> He gave me a funny look, and said, "I guess I never did really give you a
> full tour of the shop."
>
> He then took me out and showed me around the parts of the shop I've never
> seen: There's a 12-inch Powermatic table saw, with a 24 left 62 right
> fence; an older 16-inch Dewalt RAS, with infeed tables about twenty feet
> long; a couple of drill presses; an eight inch jointer with a bed longer
> than any I've ever seen, and a tool room with more hand and portable power
> tools (including, five routers, three random orbit sanders, two belt
> sanders, and something I looked all over trying to buy, a Makita impact
> wrench with a cord on it), than a good store keeps in stock. There is
> even
> a spry booth, and car wash.
>
> He gave me a quick safety check out on the power tools, and turned me
> loose.
> It turns out that the mysterious round key on the key ring they gave me
> when I started opens all the shops, and tool rooms, and I have free access
> to any of the tools during the craftsmen's nonwork hours. I can check out
> any of the hand or portable power tools and take them home evenings and
> weekends. Wish I had known that earlier, I might have gotten a lot more
> done.
>
> It will be nice to be able to cut things true and square again. I hope
> that
> I can finish the closet units I've been fighting with this weekend.
>
> I still won't have my own shop set up for another month or so, but
> realistically the shops at work, are better than anything I can afford to
> set up.