You are retired then? Good for you, that was enough standing out in the cold and the rain for anyone and you deserve to sit where it’s warm.
I entered the business 10 years ago. I started with shacks and town homes digging ditches. I dug for a year strait, eight hours a day. I ran a crew of four most of the time in my second year doing townhouses. They must have liked me because I did rough in in the summer and I finished in the winter. Fourth year I learned light commercial, fifth year I learned big commercial. By my sixth year I was running crew in medium commercial buildings. That is when I hit the office. They threw me on a computer (which I knew nothing about) with a $15,000.00 estimation program. The place I am now hired me to set up their computer estimation system and knock down some big jobs (schools, high-rises, homes, what ever) which we are now doing. I busted my ass to get out of that ditch. I miss it!
Originally posted by rapalla7Ain't the evil "american" system wonderful?
You are retired then? Good for you, that was enough standing out in the cold and the rain for anyone and you deserve to sit where it’s warm.
I entered the business 10 years ago. I started with shacks and town homes digging ditches. I d ...[text shortened]... ow doing. I busted my ass to get out of that ditch. I miss it!
You can do anything you want. Including nothing.
I'm glad you did good. I got my General Building Contractor license when I turned 21... and immeditely went broke by building five houses the first year that cost me 40 thousand more to build than I received for doing them.
Six years later... the last of those debts were paid off.
I built cabinets on site for a year. Me and my two brothers would move our two unisaws and planers into a garage... build the kitchen, the two bath vanities and two hall wardrobes... hang twelve doors. Trim them... do baseboard and finish three bedroom closets. Every day.
Then I went to the framing business, with a couple years out as contract project managers for US Homes and Pulte Corp. Then back to framing in the "golden years". I had a 92 ft. Bantam crane and five to six hired men. We turned out a 1200 to 1400 sq. ft. rambler with full basement and double garage... every 65 man hours. That is where the 2400 houses came in.
Then my knees gave out. From 1988 to 1996 I remodeled two to three entry doors a day on contract. Then in 1996 I moved to programming full time. More and more bad knees.
Speaking of estimation programs... I marketed my first product nationwide in 1987. It was a house estimation system that let you fill in three values and then set up a budget for 69 cost categories. You could then enter actual costs and print checks against the estimates... thus letting you know at any moment where you stood with the budget. It had fancy things like change order contracts... etc. It was a fancy Visicalc before anyone knew what Visicalc was. I still to this day get calls wanting an upgrade. Sorry. I dont do Apple and Atari anymore. <grin>
I now use Trade Powers Estimation http://www.estimation.com/home.asp
I learned on quick pen. They beat the hell out of pencil, paper, and a scale ruler. I do use an excell I made that is probobly simular to your old system for doing budget estimating (it is within 10%.).
I did pulte townhouses for a year. Just loved the supers😛 Although their quality was alot better than Rotlund homes (framing with glued board ends and alot of shims for poorly sloping floors)🙄
Slap and Dash!
uhm....boys....guys??? good plumbing? ...the topic???? *snaps fingers in front of faces... focus!
oooooooh! What is the most lovely thing after a day working hard in the South Texas dust and heat? a day at the beach when you come home covered in sand and your are all sun burned and sweaty? or after a weekend camping out in the mountains??
What else but a long hot shower or a soak in a nice hot tub.......mmmmm then stretching out on nice freshly washed sheets...
ahhh the sensual pleasures of modern plumbing 😀
Originally posted by elvendreamgirlI guess I never thought of it that way? Plumbing is kinda sexy aint it!😀
uhm....boys....guys??? good plumbing? ...the topic???? *snaps fingers in front of faces... focus!
oooooooh! What is the most lovely thing after a day working hard in the South Texas dust and heat? a day at the beach when you come home covered in sand and your are all sun burned and sweaty? or after a weekend camping out in the mountains??
What else ...[text shortened]... tretching out on nice freshly washed sheets...
ahhh the sensual pleasures of modern plumbing 😀
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have laid criminal charges against two brothers involved in the contamination of the water supply in Walkerton Ontario in 2000. Charges were laid April 23, 2003 in Sarnia against Stan Koebel, former manager of the Walkerton Public Utilities Commission, and Frank Koebel, a Walkerton Public Utilities Commission foreman.
E Coli and Campylobacter jejuni bacteria in the water supply of the small south-western Ontario town of Walkerton resulted in the death of seven people and left hundreds sick in May 2000.
Judicial Inquiry
A judicial inquiry into the tragic water contamination in Walkerton released two reports in 2002 with hundreds of findings and recommendations. Among the findings of the inquiry were that
• proper chlorination of the Walkerton water supply could have prevented the water contamination
• Public Utilities Commision operators engaged in a host of improper operating practices
• Ontario provincial government cutbacks contributed to the tragedy.
Police Investigation
A massive police investigation into the Walkerton tragedy lasted for three years.
Charges against Stan Koebel
The seven charges laid against Stan Koebel, former manager of the Walkerton Public utilities Commission, are:
• public endangerment for operating Well 7 without a chlorinator
• public endangerment for failing to monitor, sample and test the well water supplying the town of Walkerton
• forgery for falsifying the Daily Operating Sheet for Well 7 for May 2000
• using the false Daily Operating Sheet for Well 7 for May 2000 as if it were real
• breach of trust
• public endangerment for failing to notify the Ministry of the Environment of the adverse sample results as reported to him by a lab on May 17, 2000
• public endangerment for failing to notify the Medical Officer of Health and the Public Utilities Commission of those results.
Charges against Frank Koebel
Frank Koebel, former foreman of the Walkerton Public Utilities Commission, faces five charges:
• public endangerment for operating Well 7 without a chlorinator
• public endangerment for failing to monitor, sample and test the well water supplying the town of Walkerton
• forgery for falsifying the Daily Operating Sheet for Well 7 for May 2000
• using the false Daily Operating Sheet for Well 7 for May 2000 as if it were real
• breach of trust.
Originally posted by rapalla7Actually, it was a solo venture, as my love lives in Wales.....
oooops, forgot about the mandatory 10 minut foreplay.
Is there foreplay in masterbation? Or would that just be considered part of the process?
Inquiring minds want to know!😛
Originally posted by elvendreamgirlI suppose it would be foreplay, after all \, you do need to get yourself in the mood. 😵
Actually, it was a solo venture, as my love lives in Wales.....
Is there foreplay in masterbation? Or would that just be considered part of the process?
Inquiring minds want to know!😛