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Ah, our did too then somehow a date showed up, hurry up and wait, and it did arrive when they said it would. She did confirm on the first Wednesday that you could, the banking details which put us on the radar. A week of nothing and finally a date which was the 30th of the munth!
 
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Ah, our did too then somehow a date showed up, hurry up and wait, and it did arrive when they said it would. She did confirm on the first Wednesday that you could, the banking details which put us on the radar. A week of nothing and finally a date which was the 30th of the munth!
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I just checked and...wait for it...we have a date for the direct deposit...May 6th! Took long enough, but it is free money after all.

...well not FREE, I know my taxes paid for it in the first place and they will most likely go up now!
 
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I've always used one of two illuminated magnifiers when soldering. You can really see much more detail. Found em round 1980 in someone's garage and asked do you want these things, Nah trash them … I been using them to this day. I have one at my feet underneath the 'puter desk and one in the amp room. The one under the desk I use every day to read " The small print " which seems to get smaller every day especially if it's on a product from that " C " place!
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Hank, I am right there with you. I am really hating the ever smaller print on packages. And even need mag glasses at work now.
 
I know, within 5 minutes of meetin ya if you were to sneeze I'd have the hank-erckief arm hand stretched out! LOL Our days and interactions w/clients were exactly the same. I hope you can physically handle the load as I've just experienced my first give it up. I can send ya pics but after I tarped the dormer roofs I said to the guy just gimmie me $80 bucks I can do roofs anymore. There's more …. after the deal was made as I held the simplex between my fingers, as I moved the hammer, I pushed the dormer roof up about 3 feet! Immediately let go and knew he needed "cane ties all over the place " , insulation shot, and the # with 3/4 Plywood shot the price more than he was willin to pay and much less that I needed to hire help. That combined with how I felt even walking the steep roof sealed my decision, as I couldn't even consider doing anything like that! Do you like lifting 3/4 CCA plywood up tp the roof? Both dormers were 13'x9'. I'd have to tarp the dormer sides and put ladder cups on the lower legs of the ladder, on each side to even do the job. And I always do a psychology profile on each customer and he was a structural and civil engineer w/ a masters in each so he would be up my arse the whole procedure and as he didn't do residential, he did NASA rocket towers! .. I got pic's too but good bye Irene on that last one. Time to reinvent oneselves. Give it hell chilli ….. even with the cordless nail guns there wasn't a chance! I do like that reinventing part but I'm not so sure at this age I'll be good at it. All is well though …. as I learned the Melodic Minor scale, arps, modes, and how they work w/ altered chords, if the even matters at all! LOL
 
Voxy. I knew we spoke the same language the moment we met,. EVEN though you are a New Yorker.

That psychological profiling is no BS. OH and Dormers. I did ONE retro, practically solo and under time constraints of impending Christmas at my pastor's house and with new carpet needed and texture swirled plaster ceiling needing to be matched.

Oh yeah, my good buddy who helped me get started with the demo and planning gave me about 1 day help, then it was up to me to do the rest.
As soon as I opened up the roof, it was like giving the house a skylight to the night sky that November/Dec night. I basically had the balls to the walls scenario. Got the doghouse framed in and plywood on the roof, and lo and behold a rain/sleet storm rolls in. Tarping as fast as my little self could do, on a 11/12 working off scaffolding and planks and roof jacks to ensure no falls to ground 0.

It was me vs Mom Nature after that. Rain is bad enough, but slippy snow, roofs, tarps, Installing new window, relocated plumbing vents, and toothing in architectural shingles without a ground man. And to find ANYONE who can still do plaster, let alone match a texture, and finally hire a carpet man who wasn't booked solid due to Christmas. In the end, except for snow, the stars aligned for me. What a job though. So glad I was saved from any water damage to the rest of the house.
Sadly, now my back is killing me even on the ground, I am not able to feel safe climbing ladders to a roof and I am only 56 LOL
 
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well eSGEe I did mention it but I believe it was through two bottoms, facing each other, of pints of Guinness! Technically I was born just south of the Mason–Dixon line in Maryland! But most folks in South America say that ain't south enough. But in retrospect I busted my arse and made a lot of $ in NY. Growing up there I was always in the woods and I watched all woods go to all houses, over my time there. And when there was not many lots left everybody had to do second story dormers and basement conversions, … right up my alley. There was lean times too but it took moving to realize what I had. My 1st mortgage was $700 and I owned rentals that easily covered that! I got out of the very stressful Rat Race to go to the " Right To Work State " which pretty much takes one's will to work away. Not very smart that, as Yoda would say. But, there's a lot more freedom in a constitutional state ! This state is turning Blue from all the Northerners moving here with their large pensions, IRA's and retirements, though I came to live in a Red state!
 
You know Grant, Calif comes with a lot of excess baggage while on a flight the extra baggage fee's always hits you over the head. But I'm sure a lot of other states are in the same predicament but they keep it under their hat! We're all hoping the economy starts up again. First we had 9-11 then the 2nd great depression, that really hurt me, and now we have this, whatever this really is. I got used to taking a beating, getting up, brushing myself off, a few bandaids and continue on my journey, or horse & pony show or clown show or whatever it is. bounce.gif
 
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